Routledge, 2012. — 344 p. The Middle Ages was a critical and formative time for Western approaches to our natural surroundings. "An Environmental History of the Middle Ages" is a unique and unprecedented cultural survey of attitudes towards the environment during this period. Humankind s relationship with the environment shifted gradually over time from a predominantly...
Greenwood Press, 2004. — 284 p. New light is shed on everyday life in the Middle Ages in Great Britain and continental Europe through this unique survey of its food culture. Students and other readers will learn about the common foodstuffs available, how and what they cooked, ate, and drank, what the regional cuisines were like, how the different classes entertained and...
Greenwood Press, 2006. — 200 p. Ever get a yen for hemp seed soup, digestive pottage, carp fritters, jasper of milk, or frog pie? Would you like to test your culinary skills whipping up some edible counterfeit snow or nun's bozolati? Perhaps you have an assignment to make a typical Renaissance dish. The cookbook presents 171 unadulterated recipes from the Middle Ages,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. - 262 p. This book presents waste as an aesthetic category that introduces an arsy-versy world where detritus is precious. This aesthetic is applied in the second part to etymology, poking through the "paternal dungheaps" of words, and tracing their origins not to Eden but to Babel, puns, and word play. Finally, in the case of Roland the Farter, who...
Routledge, 2010. — 296 p. Long considered to be a definitive and truly groundbreaking collection of sources, Women' s Lives in Medieval Europe uniquely presents the everyday lives and experiences of women in the Middle Ages. This indispensible text has now been thoroughly updated and expanded to reflect new research, and includes previously unavailable source material. A Note...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. - 290 p. The Reading Public The Image of the Book: Mediating the Aesthetics of Reader Response Authorized Readers, or, Reading Authority The Ethics of Reading Textual Subjects
University of Toronto Press, 2011. — 280 p. In Myths, Legends, and Heroes , editor Daniel Anzelark has brought together scholars of Old Norse-Icelandic and Old English literature to explore the translation and transmission of Norse myth, the use of literature in society and authorial self-reflection, the place of myth in the expression of family relationships, and recurrent...
Cornell University Press, 2021. — 282 p. In Souls under Siege , Nicole Archambeau explores how the inhabitants of southern France made sense of the ravages of successive waves of plague, the depredations of mercenary warfare, and the violence of royal succession during the fourteenth century. Many people, she finds, understood both plague and war as the symptoms of spiritual...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. — 295 p. Incest was a social problem in the Middle Ages, and also a popular literary theme. This wide-ranging study is the first survey of medieval incest stories in their cultural context. Did they reflect real life situations? How was incest defined in the Middle Ages? How were classical incest stories treated by medieval writers? Why...
Paris: Librairie de J. Renouard, 1858. — XIX + 209 p. Dédicace. Avant-propos. Les mystères de la chevalerie. Jauffre et Brunissens. Roman de Ferbrace (Fierabras). Aucassin et Nicolette. Tristan de Léonnois. Troubadours et chevaliers. La Massenie du Saint-Graal. Les Cours d'amour. Influence de Palbigéisme sur les événements politiques. — Les croisades. — Éléonore de Guienne....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 251 p. Introduction: Now and Then The YouTube Prioress: Anti-Semitism and Twenty-First Century Participatory Culture Animated Conversations in Nottingham: Disney’s Robin Hood (1973) Virginia Woolf’s Middle Ages Dario Fo’s Mistero Buffo and the Left-Modernist Reclamation of Medieval Popular Culture Acephalic History: A Bataillian Reading of Monty...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 268 p. Andalusian Iberias: From Spanish to Iberian Literature Using Feminist Pedagogy to Explore Connectivity in the Medieval Mediterranean A Journey through the Silk Road in a Cosmopolitan Classroom Teaching English Travel Writing from 1500 to the Present Stranger Than Fiction: Early Modern Travel Narratives and the Antiracist Classroom Different...
Cornell University Press, 2013. — 313 p. Superstitions are commonplace in the modern world. Mostly, however, they evoke innocuous images of people reading their horoscopes or avoiding black cats. Certain religious practices might also come to mind-praying to St. Christopher or lighting candles for the dead. Benign as they might seem today, such practices were not always...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. — 251 p. In 1372 a French knight compiled a book of stories to teach his daughters how to be good wives and good Christians. The book was popular in his own century and the next, in France, in Germany, and in England. In the fifteenth century, William Caxton translated it into Middle English and used the technology he had recently introduced to...
Walter de Gruyter, 1976. — 396 p. Einleitung Die ersten Grabbilder Anfänge in Frankreich Das Nischengrab Hochgotik Englische Grabsteine Geistliche und weltliche Fürsten im Reichsgebiet Frauengestalten des 13. Jahrhunderts Doppelgrabsteine Krieger Italien Trecento Das Standbild über dem Grab Reitergrabmäler Epitaphien Wandlungen des 14. Jahrhunderts in Frankreich Wandlungen des...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 296 p. This collection of essays explores a variety of perspectives on Jewish and Christian life in northern France during the thirteenth century. The incentive for this volume was the changing paradigms within the field of medieval studies connected with Jewish-Christian relations and the growing understanding that has characterized the past decade...
NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985 If you have walked through a wood of wild ginger, forget-me-nots, and unfurling ferns, or wandered in a meadow of strawberries, yarrow, and oxeye daisies, you have had the opportunity to admire medieval plants. Sweet Herbs and Sundry Flowers is an introduction to medieval plants and gardening practices by way of the gardens of The...
Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England Pages: 285 Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Second Edition (2003) Quality: good Katherine Scarfe Beckett is concerned with representations of the Islamic world in Anglo-Saxon England. Using a variety of literary, historical and archaeological evidence, Beckett argues that the first perceptions of Arabs, Ismaelites and Saracens were...
Weiser Books, 1999. — 128 p. A compilation from a number of sources by an anonymous author who, according to editors Best and Brightman, probably was one of Albertus Magnus' followers. A collector's item, it has a more colloquial voice than the writing of the true Albertus Magnus and provides an accurate portrayal of the magical culture that predominated in the 16th century....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. - 303 p. Introduction: Medieval Vision in Perspective Flesh The Eye of the Flesh Scientific Visions The Optical Body The Custody of the Eyes Ocular Communion
New Word City, 2015. — 257 p. In this indispensable volume, one of America's ranking scholars combines a life's work of research and teaching with the art of lively narration. Both authoritative and beautifully told, The Middle Ages is the full story of the thousand years between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance - a time that saw the rise of kings and emperors, the...
The University of Chicago Press, 1992. — 308 p. Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation from — or antidote to — ten centuries of misogyny. In this major contribution to gender studies, R. Howard Bloch demonstrates how similar the ubiquitous antifeminism of medieval times and the romantic idealization of woman actually are.Through analyses of...
Brepols Publishers, 1999. — 264 p. How did people in the late medieval period perceive and express social status? This volume brings together multi-disciplinary perspectives on representations of social difference in the Low Countries during a time of dynamic social change. The premise of the volume is that medieval social change may only be fully understood if hierarchies of...
Brepols Publishers, 2003. - 448 p. This versatile collection of essays sets out to underline the new visual agenda in today’s research into history and the history of art. The impact of alternative imagery, of image databases and of computer-generated material has effectively revealed a separate resource-category, offering further definitions of meaning and information and...
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1980. — 460 p. Truly groundbreaking work. Boswell reveals unexplored phenomena with an unfailing erudition." — Michel Foucault John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the...
Routledge, 2015. — 352 p. The legend of Prester John has received much scholarly attention over the last hundred years, but never before have the sources been collected and coherently presented to readers. This book now brings together a fully-representative set of texts setting out the many and various sources from which we get our knowledge of the legend. These texts,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 202 p. Introduction: Narrating Sexuality, Sociality, and Cosmology in Medieval Texts The Whore as Imago Dei: Being and Abjection in Hrotsvit’s Rewriting of Thais Alan of Lille on the Little Bits that Make a Difference Queer Hermeneutics and Redemption in the Cosmology of the Zohar Born Under the Sign of Venus: Phantasmatic Desire and the...
Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition. 2007. 688 p. ISBN: 0631219730. A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350-c.1500 challenges readers to think beyond a narrowly defined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries. A ground-breaking collection of newly-commissioned essays on medieval literature and culture. * Encourages students to think beyond a narrowly...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 228 p. Silence and Sign Language in Medieval Monasticism explores the rationales for religious silence in early medieval abbeys and the use of nonverbal forms of communication among monks when rules of silence forbade them from speaking. After examining the spiritual benefits of personal silence as a form of protection against the perils of...
Boydell & Brewer, 2017. — 392 p. Cantors made unparalleled contributions to the way time was understood and history was remembered in the medieval Latin West. The men and women who held this office in cathedrals and monasteries were responsible for calculating the date of Easter and the feasts dependent on it, for formulating liturgical celebrations season by season, managing...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. — 405 p. — (The Northern World 24). The Brendan Legend: Texts and Versions deals with the vast textual tradition relating to the Irish Saint Brendan, known as 'The Navigator'. Stories about Brendan have been popular in the whole of Western Europe, from the seventh to the twentieth century. The themes of the book are the interrelated problems of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 283 p. — (The New Middle Ages). The varied cultural functions of dress, textiles, and clothwork are used in this collection of essays to examine long-standing assumptions about the Middle Ages. At one end of the spectrum, questions of dress call up feminist theoretical investigations into the body and subjectivity, while broadening those inquiries to...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 432 p. The Familiar Enemy re-examines the linguistic, literary, and cultural identities of England and France within the context of the Hundred Years War. During this war, two profoundly intertwined peoples developed complex strategies for expressing their aggressively intimate relationship. This special connection between the English and the...
Cornell University Press, 2016. — 382 p. Simultaneously real and unreal, the dead are people, yet they are not. The society of medieval Europe developed a rich set of imaginative traditions about death and the afterlife, using the dead as a point of entry for thinking about the self, regeneration, and loss. These macabre preoccupations are evident in the widespread popularity...
América Ibérica, 2011. — 220 p. ¿Cómo era la gastronomía en la Edad Media?, ¿y la receta del Hypocrás? ¿Cómo se fabricaba el acero de Damasco?… Una visión de la historia distinta a la que nos ofrecen las grandes fechas, batallas, señores y reyes: una visión de cotidianidad, curiosidades y misterios. Jesús Callejo realiza un apasionante repaso de la época: desde el Codex Gigas,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 242 p. Troubled Vision is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that explores the interface between gender, sexuality and vision in medieval culture. The volume represents an exciting array of scholarship dealing with visual and textual cultures from the Eleventh to the Fifteenth centuries. Bringing together a range of theoretical approaches that...
Free Press, 2015. — 201 p. A New York Times bestseller, "In the Wake of the Plague" is a fascinating study of the cultural and religious consequences of one of the deadliest tragedies to befall humanity: the black plague. Though rigorously scientific in his approach, Norman F. Cantor has produced an unforgettable narrative that in many ways employs the novelist’s skill for...
Harper Perennial, 2015. — 633 p. In 1963 Norman F. Cantor published his breakthrough narrative history of the Middle Ages, "Medieval History: The Life and Death of a Civilization". Now revised and expanded, this edition of the splendidly detailed and lively history of the Middle Ages contains more than 30 percent new material. The Civilization of the Middle Ages incorporates...
Columbia University Press, 1990. - 218 p. After becoming popularized by the troubadours of southern France in the twelfth century, the social system of 'courtly love' soon spread. Evidence of the influence of courtly love in the culture and literature of most of western Europe spans centuries. This unabridged edition of codifies life at Queen Eleanor's court at Poitiers between...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. — 280 p. — (Material Texts). — ISBN10: 0812218817. — ISBN13: 978-0812218817. In antiquity and the Middle Ages, memory was a craft, and certain actions and tools were thought to be necessary for its creation and recollection. Until now, however, many of the most important visual and textual sources on the topic have remained untranslated...
University of Chicago Press, 2018. — 304 p. — ISBN: 978-0-226-54818-0. For premodern audiences, poetic form did not exist solely as meter, stanzas, or rhyme scheme. Rather, the form of a poem emerged as an experience, one generated when an audience immersed in a culture of dance encountered a poetic text. Exploring the complex relationship between medieval dance and medieval...
Fordham University Press, 2014. — 296 p. Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond shines light on traditional divisions of Old Norse–Icelandic poetry and awakens the reader to work that blurs these boundaries. Many of the texts and topics taken up in these enlightening essays have been difficult to categorize and have consequently been overlooked or undervalued. The boundaries between genres...
De Gruyter, 2014. — 744 p. — (Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture 15). This volume continues the critical exploration of fundamental issues in the medieval and early modern world, here concerning mental health, spirituality, melancholy, mystical visions, medicine, and well-being. The contributors, who originally had presented their research at a symposium at The...
De Gruyter, 2012. — 935 p. — (Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture). In the wake of the Spatial Turn and the emergence of ecocritical theory, rural space proves to be a highly fertile ground for the reexamination of medieval and early modern literature, history, and art history. This volume combines critical articles that examine the way how rural space was...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. - 230 p. The Chastity Belt: Fiction and Truth According to Scholarship and Popular Opinion. A Case Study of the History of Myth-Making: Introduction Modern and Medieval Myth-Making Another Myth: the Jus Primae Noctis, or the Droit Du Cuissage (Droit Du Seigneur) The Nature of Myths Revisited
Walter de Gruyter, 2005. — 444 p. Although many researchers have taken a critical stance towards the theses on the history of childhood developed by Philippe Ariès in 1960, this volume is the first comprehensive collection of studies with a psychological and emotional historical orientation to demonstrate convincingly the extent to which the relationship between parents and...
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. — 370 p. Some readers of this book may be surprised by its claim that the foundations of western intellectual history were laid in the Middle Ages and not in classical Greece and Rome or the Judea-Christian tradition. In defense of that claim we argue that the thought of western Europe acquired its particular character not only...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 242 p. Insular Sources for a Carolingian Debate Amalarius of Metz and the Meaning of Place Topography and Meaning in Carolingian Monastic Thought Place, Penance, and Asylum in Alcuin’s Tours Conclusion: Two Churches
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. - 416 p. - (The Middle Ages Series). In Dark Age Bodies Lynda L. Coon reconstructs the gender ideology of monastic masculinity through an investigation of early medieval readings of the body. Focusing on the Carolingian era, Coon evaluates the ritual and liturgical performances of monastic bodies within the imaginative landscapes of...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 1545 p. Medieval Grammar and Rhetoric: Language Arts and Literary Theory, AD 300-1475 contributes to two fields, the history of the language arts and the history of literary theory. It brings together essential sources in the disciplines of grammar and rhetoric which were used to understand literary form and language and teach literary...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. - 285 p. Nuns on Parade: Memorializing Women in Karolus Magnus et Leo Papa Mnemonic Sanctity and the Ladder of Reading: Notker’s “in Natale Sanctarum Feminarum” Envisioning a Saint: Visions in the Miracles of Saint Margaret of Scotland Secret Designs/Public Shapes: Ekphrastic Tensions in Hildegard’s Scivias Imitating the Imagined: Clemence of Barking’s...
Facts on File, 2008. - 1280 p. The four-volume "Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Medieval World" provides readers with comprehensive coverage of the medieval world, from the fall of Rome to the European Renaissance, including Western and non-Western cultures and civilizations. Following an introduction that outlines the history of the major centers of civilization,...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. — 280 p. — ISBN: 9780812244588; 9780812206302. Traces of the living animal run across the entire corpus of medieval writing and reveal how pervasively animals mattered in medieval thought and practice. In fascinating scenes of cross-species encounters, a raven offers St. Cuthbert a lump of lard that waterproofs his visitors' boots for a...
Enitharmon Press, 2008. — 120 p. The ninety-six Anglo-Saxon riddles in the eleventh-century "Exeter Book" are poems of great charm, zest, and subtlety. Ranging from natural phenomena (such as icebergs and storms at sea) to animal and bird life, from the Christian concept of the creation to prosaic domestic objects (such as a rake and a pair of bellows), and from weaponry to the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 257 p. Setting the Stage Mine’s Taller: On Steeple Distortions in City Depictions Mental Topography and the Viennese Medieval Past Foundation Stories: The Heroes of Viennese Monasticism Virgin Intercessor and Other Monastic Miracles Conclusion: The Persistence of the Medieval
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 263 p. Medievalism — the creative interpretation or recreation of the European Middle Ages — has had a major presence in the cultural memory of the modern West, and has grown in scale to become a global phenomenon. Countless examples across aesthetic, material and political domains reveal that the medieval period has long provided a fund of...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1973. - 193 p. - (The Middle Ages Series). The scientists of the twelfth century were daring, original, inventive, and above all determined to discover purely rational explanations of natural phenomena. Their intense interest in the natural world for its own sake, their habits of precise observation, and the high value they place on man as a...
Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1982. — 121 p. Censures of Homosexuality Prior to 1048 Early Reform Movements Peter Damian Book of Gomorrah Concerns of the Book of Gomorrah Damian's Arguments Pastoral Concern Was Homosexuality a Problem? The Translation Book of Gomorrah Letter of Pope Leo IX to Peter Damian Biblical References
Praeger, 2011. - 218 p. - (Praeger Series on the Middle Ages). Nancy van Deusen's The Cultural Context of Medieval Music addresses the mental landscape surrounding music that, especially, was sung and experienced in the Middle Ages. Largely anonymous in its composition, and apparently lacking the motivation of fame and commerce, music within a well thought-out system of...
Walter de Gruyter, 2012. — 432 S. — ISBN: 978-3-023138 — 1. This volume provides a contemporary overview of texts, images, phenomena and personalities of Christian mysticism during the Western Middle Ages. The material is primarily approached from literary, history of mentality and psychology of religion perspectives. Basic knowledge is communicated through critical analysis...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. — 248 p. The scribes of early medieval England wrote out their vernacular poems using a format that looks primitive to our eyes because it lacks the familiar visual cues of verse lineation, marks of punctuation, and capital letters. The paradox is that scribes had those tools at their disposal, which they deployed in other kinds of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 208 p. This book explores the growing importance of prisons, both lay and ecclesiastical, in western Europe between 1000 and 1300. It attempts to explain what captors hoped to achieve by restricting the liberty of others, the means of confinement available to them, and why there was an increasingly close link between captivity and suspected criminal...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. - 270 p. Inscriptions convey meaning not just by their contents but also by other means, such as choice of script, location, scale, spatial organisation, letterform, legibility and clarity. The essays in this book consider these visual qualities of inscriptions, ranging across the Mediterranean and the Near East from Spain to Iran and beyond,...
BÖHLAU, 2006. — 481 p. Dieses Buch über das städtische Leben im Mittelalter ist Quellenwerk und Darstellung zugleich. Der Leser erfährt, wie der Stadtbewohner lebte und sich versorgte, welche Rechte und Pflichten er hatte, welche Regeln und Ordnungen seinen Alltag bestimmten, ob er Bildung erwerben konnte und wie Frömmigkeit und Kirche sein Leben prägten. Viele städtische...
Oldenbourg Verlag, 2002. — 654 p. Das Werk von Brigitte Englisch ist eine Mentalitätsgeschichte des frühen und hohen Mittelalters, die kartographische Quellen unter methodisch neuen Aspekten erschließt. Die mittelalterlichen Aussagen zur Erschaffung der Welt lassen keinen Zweifel über Urheber und Gestaltungsprinzip. Die Erschaffung der aus Himmel, Erde und Meeren bestehenden...
Blackwell Pub, 1990. — 347 p. Frontmatter Introduction The Middle Ages and Ourselvespage The Early Middle Ages 500- 1050 The High Middle Ages 1050-1250 The Late Middle Ages 1250- 1500 Conclusion Constants and Variables, and Continuity in Changepage Sources and Bibliographypage Indexpage
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 208 p. This book examines the relationship between humans and nature that evolved in medieval Europe over the course of a millennium. From the beginning, people lived in nature and discovered things about it. Ancient societies bequeathed to the Middle Ages both the Bible and a pagan conception of natural history. These conflicting legacies...
Brill, 2017. — 276 p. In Chosen Places: Constructing New Jerusalems in Slavia Orthodoxa , Jelena Erdeljan focuses on the Old Testament topic of the divinely-chosen status of Jerusalem and translatio Hierosolymi, including the history, process and media of formulating and disseminating this idea and its spatial-visual matrix in Christian visual culture. Firstly the study...
Boydell & Brewer, 2015. — 578 p. Introduction: A ‘Healthfull and Pleasant’ City Health and Place in Texts and Images Air and Smell: Hygiene and Networks of Authority in an Urban Context An Epitome of Hygiene: William Cuningham’s Prospect Plan Health and the Landscape Placing Disease in the Urban Landscape: The Osteoarchaeological Evidence Placing Health in the Urban Landscape:...
Arc Humanities Press, 2017. — x, 121 p. — (Past Imperfect). — ISBN: 978-1942401278. True PDF The medieval world was full of malicious demons: fallen angels given a mission to tempt humans away from God. From demons disguised as beautiful women to demons that took frightening animal-like forms, this book explores the medieval history of thought about demons: what they were, what...
Pegasus Books, 2017. — 520 p. Ghost Empire is a rare treasure — an utterly captivating blend of the historical and the contemporary, narrated by a master storyteller. The story is a revelation: a beautifully written ode to a lost civilization combined with a warmly observed father-son adventure far from home. In 2014, Richard Fidler and his son Joe made a journey to Istanbul....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 251 p. Women’s Secrets and Men’s Interests: Rituals of Childbirth and Northern Octavian “That Moder Ever Hym Fed”: Nursing and Other Anthropophagies in Sir Gowther “Youre Owene Thyng”: The Clerk’s Tale and Fantasies of Autonomous Male Reproduction “A Mooder He Hath, but Fader Hath He Noon”: Maternal Transmission and Fatherless Sons: The Man of Law’s...
Princeton University Press, 2011. — 400 p. — ISBN: 978-0-691-14312-5. In The Axe and the Oath, one of the world's leading medieval historians presents a compelling picture of daily life in the Middle Ages as it was experienced by ordinary people. Writing for general readers, Robert Fossier vividly describes how these vulnerable people confronted life, from birth to death,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 253 p. Little attention has been focused on the representation of Muslims in medieval Germany. Proceeding from a grounded use of contemporary cultural theory and close textual analysis, this study analyzes the role of Muslims in several core texts representing drama, epic, and lyric written by the most important writers of medieval Germany. Far from...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. — 353 p. This volume examines the influence of R. I. Moore and the nature of heresy and its repression in the Middle Ages. The volume considers the vexing question of the origins of medieval heresy and the possible influence of Bogomil missionaries. Geographic areas not usually examined for the growth of heresy are examined, and a new...
Knopf Publishing, 2009. — 320 p. "Aladdin’s Lamp" is the fascinating story of how ancient Greek philosophy and science began in the sixth century B.C. and, during the next millennium, spread across the Greco-Roman world, producing the remarkable discoveries and theories of Thales, Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Archimedes, Galen, Ptolemy, and many others....
Routledge, 2017. — 318 p. Postcolonial theories have transformed literary, historical and cultural studies over the past three decades. Yet the study of medieval art and visualities has, in general, remained Eurocentric in its canon and conservative in its approaches. 'Postcolonising', as the eleven essays in this volume show, entails active intervention into the field of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 247 p. The Metropolis and Its Languages: Baghdad and Venice Reorientations: The Worlding of Marco Polo Between Islam and Christendom: Ibn Battuta’s Travels in Asia Minor and the North Medieval Religious Cosmopolitanisms: Truth and Inclusivity in the Literature of Muslim Spain Worldly Unease in Late Medieval European Travel Reports The One Kingdom...
Cornell University Press , 1994. — 284 p. ISBN: 0-8014-2856-4. Whereas modern societies tend to banish the dead from the world of the living, medieval men and women acccorded them a vital role in the community. The saints counted most prominently as potential intercessors before God, but the ordinary dead as well were called upon to aid the living, and even to participate in...
Central European University Press, 2011. — 338 p. — (CEU Medievalia 12). The studies in this volume concentrate on a complex set of socio-cultural phenomena, the cult of saints, in a variety of regions from Egypt to Poland, with a focus on Italy and Central Europe. The subjects of the contributions range in time from the fourth until the eighteenth century. The diversity of...
Boydell Press, 2012. — 362 p. The aim of this book is to explore how medieval life was actually lived - how people were born and grew old, how they dressed, how they inhabited their homes, the rituals that gave meaning to their lives and how they prepared for death and the afterlife. Its fresh and original approach uses archaeological evidence to reconstruct the material...
Pantheon, 1991. — 363 p. Ecstasies is the culmination of Ginzburg's longstanding fascination with popular myths that are shared across different cultures and eras. Here he follows the accounts given by those accused of witchcraft centuries ago, gradually weaving them together into a startling pattern, revealing evidence of a hidden shamanistic culture that flourished across...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 242 p. Alice De Rouclif: an Eventful Childhood William Pottell: Stories and Storytellers Ellen Taliour: Gender and the Remembrance of Times Past Robert Thewed: The Ties of Tenure and Locality Anabilla Wascelyne: The Ties of Kinship Dom. William Marrays: Stories and Readers Alice Through the Looking Glass Brewing Trouble: the Devout Widow’S Tale...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 240 p. — (The New Middle Ages). Byzantine Ecocriticism: Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance applies literary ecocriticism to the imaginative fiction of the Greek world from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. Through analyses of hunting, gardening, bride-stealing, and warfare, Byzantine Ecocriticism exposes the attitudes and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. - 219 p. Introduction: Icons of Irishness Visualizing Antiquity Classifying Taste Meet Me at the Fair Keepsakes and Souvenirs Proclaiming Independence, Expressing Solidarity Afterword: Specters and Apparitions
I. B. Tauris, 2015. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 1845118510; ISBN13: 9781845118518. Our understanding of medieval Central and Eastern Europe is being revitalized by new directions in cultural history. Careful and detailed portraits of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century life in the region shed new light on the city, the court, the school and university, the economy, and prevailing ideas,...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. - 320 p. - (The Middle Ages Series). The Trotula was the most influential compendium on women's medicine in medieval Europe. Scholarly debate has long focused on the traditional attribution of the work to the mysterious Trotula, said to have been the first female professor of medicine in eleventh- or twelfth-century Salerno, just south of...
Leicester University Press, 1997. — 237 p. This text outlines developments in the archaeological study of standing building, showing how they have contributed to our understanding of medieval domestic dwellings. Evidence from the buildings themselves, from excavation and from documentary sources is combined to provide an outline of the development of building techniques in the...
Boydell Press, 2011. — 202 p. Misericord carvings present a fascinating corpus of medieval art which, in turn, complements our knowledge of life and belief in the late middle ages. Subjects range from the sacred to the profane and from the fantastic to the everyday, seemingly giving equal weight to the scatological and the spiritual alike. Focusing specifically on England -...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1992. - 323 p. - (New Studies in Medieval History). Masters of Those Who Know — Plato, Aristotle and the Neoplatonists From Ancient World to Middle Ages: Adaptation and Transmission The Central Middle Ages — Logic, Theology and Cosmology New Sources and New Institutions Aristotelian Philosophy in the University — the First Phase of Assimilation Aristotelian...
Cornell University Press, 2011. — 336 p. For centuries, the Feast of Fools has been condemned and occasionally celebrated as a disorderly, even transgressive Christian festival, in which reveling clergy elected a burlesque Lord of Misrule, presided over the divine office wearing animal masks or women's clothes, sang obscene songs, swung censers that gave off foul-smelling...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2019. — 352 p. Medieval beliefs about the body were drastically different from ours today: Hair was thought to be a condensation of fumes emitted from the pores, ideas were supposedly committed to memory by being directly imprinted on the brain, and the womb of a goat was believed to function as a contraceptive. But while this medieval medicine now seems...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 360 p. This is a study of the place of patron saints in Frankish society during the Carolingian and early Capetian periods. The book focuses on the composition of works in praise of dead holy people - hagiography - and the veneration of their physical remains - the cult of saints. It examines the patrons of a single diocese, Orl?ans, because...
D.S.Brewer, 2007. — 220 p. How are we to distinguish between a culture organized around fashion, and one where the desire for novel adornment is latent, intermittent, or prohibited? How do fashion systems organize social hierarchies, individual psychology, creativity, and production? Medieval French culture offers a case study of "systematic fashion", demonstrating desire for...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. — 352 p. — (The Middle Ages Series) Widely recognized by contemporaries as the most powerful theologian of his generation, Jean Gerson (1363-1429) dominated the stage of western Europe during a time of plague, fratricidal war, and religious schism. Yet modern scholarship has struggled to define Gerson's place in history, even as it...
D.S. Brewer , 2009. - 258 p. From the late-medieval period through to the seventeenth century, English theatrical clowns carried a weighty cultural significance, only to have it stripped from them, sometimes violently, by the close of the Renaissance when the famed "license" of fooling was effectively revoked. This groundbreaking survey of clown traditions in the period looks...
Routledge, 2017. — 580 p. Sometimes enjoying considerable favor, sometimes less, iconography has been an essential element in medieval art historical studies since the beginning of the discipline. Some of the greatest art historians – including Mâle, Warburg, Panofsky, Morey, and Schapiro – have devoted their lives to understanding and structuring what exactly the subject...
NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975 In all eras, objects of everyday life are taken for granted: they are used and discarded, rarely discussed or preserved. It is, generally, a period's extraordinary works of art and architecture that have been preserved for our examination, rather than the pots, games, and other ordinary objects. But the focus of this exhibition, The...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. - 319 p. - (The Middle Ages Series). "Richard, Duke of Aquitaine, son of the King of England, remained with Philip, the King of France, who so honored him for so long that they ate every day at the same table and from the same dish, and at night their beds did not separate them. And the King of France loved him as his own soul; and they...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985. — 340 p. Courts And Courtiers The Courtier Bishop Representative Figures (I): Otto of Bamberg Criticism of the Court Representative Figures (II): Adalbert of Bremen The Defense of the Courtier From Court Ideal to Literary Ideal: Metamorphoses of the Courtier Courtesy Ancient Urbanity And The Spirit Of Revival In The German Empire The...
Central European University Press, 2009. — 151 p. In the Middles Ages, the edges of one s world could represent different meanings. On the one hand, they might have been situated in far-away regions, mainly in the east and north, that one most often only knew from hearsay and which were inhabited by strange beings: humans with their faces on their chest, without a mouth, or...
Central European University Press, 2011. — 218 p. — (CEU Medievalia). Supernatural phenomena and causalities played an important role in medieval society. Religious practice was relying upon a set of cult images and the sacral status of these depictions of divine or supernatural persons became the object of heated debates and provoked iconoclastic reactions. The miraculous...
University of Toronto Press, 2009. — 360 p. Conduct literature is a term used to identify writings that address how one should 'conduct' oneself in social situations. In the medieval period conduct literature was essential reading for nearly all literate children and adolescents to educate them in the expected social behaviours for their culture, gender, and status. Using a...
Routledge, 2015. — 318 p. Research into the emotions is beginning to gain momentum in Anglo-Saxon studies. In order to integrate early medieval Britain into the wider scholarly research into the history of emotions (a major theme in other fields and a key field in interdisciplinary studies), this volume brings together established scholars, who have already made significant...
Princeton University Press, 2016. — 632 p. — (With a new introduction by Conrad Leyser and a preface by William Chester Jordan). Originally published in 1957, this classic work has guided generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. Throughout history, the notion of two bodies has permitted the post mortem continuity of monarch and...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1946. — 310 p. A Legend on Coins, and Its Origin The Gallo-Frankish Laudes The Franco-Roman Form of Laudes The Laudes of the Hierarchy Dalmatian and Venetian Laudes The Laudes in the Norman Realms The Laudes in Modern Times The Music of the Laudes, by Manfred F. Bukofzer Notes on the Diffusion of the Christus vincit Legend on Coins The...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 298 p. In Figuring Racism in Medieval Christianity , M. Lindsay Kaplan expands the study of the history of racism through an analysis of the Christian concept of Jewish hereditary inferiority. Imagined as a figural slavery, this idea anticipates modern racial ideologies in creating a status of permanent, inherent subordination. Unlike other...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 298 p. In Figuring Racism in Medieval Christianity , M. Lindsay Kaplan expands the study of the history of racism through an analysis of the Christian concept of Jewish hereditary inferiority. Imagined as a figural slavery, this idea anticipates modern racial ideologies in creating a status of permanent, inherent subordination. Unlike other...
Routledge, 2012. — 248 p. Challenging the way the Middle Ages have been treated in general histories of sexuality, Sexuality in Medieval Europe shows how views at the time were conflicted and complicated; there was no single medieval attitude towards sexuality any more than there is one modern attitude. Focusing on marital sexual activity, as well as behavior that was seen as...
3rd Rev. Edition. — Routledge, 2017. — 268 p. Challenging the way the Middle Ages have been treated in general histories of sexuality, "Sexuality in Medieval Europe" shows how views at the time were conflicted and complicated; there was no single medieval attitude towards sexuality any more than there is one modern attitude. Focusing on marital sexual activity, as well as...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. - 472 p. - (The Middle Ages Series). The love songs of Occitan troubadours inspired a rich body of courtly lyric by poets working in neighboring languages. For Sarah Kay, these poets were nightingales, composing verse that is recognizable yet original. But troubadour poetry also circulated across Europe in a form that is less well known...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2019. — 205 p. — ISBN10: 0393285030, 13 978-0393285031. A beautifully illustrated, full-color guide to scrolls and their uses in medieval life. Scrolls have always been shrouded by a kind of aura, a quality of somehow standing outside of time. They hold our attention with their age, beauty, and perplexing format. Beginning in the fourth century, the...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015 — 340 p. — ISBN10: 1107082137; ISBN13: 978-1107082137. Dreams and visions played important roles in the Christian cultures of the early middle ages. But not only did tradition and authoritative texts teach that some dreams were divine: some also pointed out that this was not always the case. Exploring a broad range of narrative...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. — 294 p. If we cannot see God with our own eyes, for what purpose do we picture God in art? During the Middle Ages, the Second Commandment's warning against idolatry was largely set aside as the power of images became boldly and visibly evident. By the twelfth century, one Byzantine authority could even offer his own revision of the...
Routledge, 2011. — 201 p. — (Routledge Library Editions: Witchcraft). In popular tradition witches were either practitioners of magic or people who were objectionable in some way, but for early European courts witches were heretics and worshippers of the Devil. This study concentrates on the period between 1300 and 1500 when ideas about witchcraft were being formed and...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. - 240 p. How was magic practised in medieval times? How did it relate to the diverse beliefs and practices that characterised this fascinating period? In Magic in the Middle Ages Richard Kieckhefer surveys the growth and development of magic in medieval times. He examines its relation to religion, science, philosophy, art, literature and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 268 p. Editor’s Introduction Language Without Voice: Locutio Angelica as a Political Issue Mimicry, Subjectivity, and the Embodied Voice in Anglo-Saxon Bird Riddles Ritual Voices and Social Silence: Funerary Lamentations in Byzantium Viva Voce: Voice and Voicelessness Among Twelfth-Century Clerics Abelard and Heloise Between Voice and Silence The...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. - 233 p. - (Early Modern History: Society and Culture). Death, Ritual and the Reformation Souls: the Death of Purgatory and the Reformation Bodies: Placing the Dead in the German Reformation The Formation of the Lutheran Funeral Ritual Honour and Violence: Funerals in the Confessional Age From Disgrace to Distinction: Nocturnal Burial in...
University of Minnesota Press, 2001. — 343 p. The essays in this volume present new work that, in one way or another, “queers” stabilized conceptions of the Middle Ages, allowing us to see the period and its systems of sexuality in radically different, off-center, and revealing ways. Contributors: Kathleen Biddick, Michael Camille, Marilynn Desmond, Garrett P. J. Epp, Gregory...
Brill, 2013. — 360 p. Many students of memory assume that the practice of memory changed dramatically around 1800; this volume shows that there was much continuity as well as change. Premodern ways of negotiating memories of pain and loss, for instance, were indeed quite different to those in the modern West. Yet by examining memory practices and drawing on evidence from early...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — 300 p. — (Early Modern History: Society and Culture). Offering the first comparative survey of public houses in pre-industrial Europe and drawing on a vast range of primary sources, this study establishes inns and taverns as principal communication sites in local communities. Contested and continuously renegotiated, they catered for basic human needs...
The Pennsylvania State University, 2008. — 350 p. During the Middle Ages, the Western world translated the incredible Arabic scientific corpus and imported it into Western culture: Arabic philosophy, optics, and physics, as well as alchemy, astrology, and talismanic magic. The line between the scientific and the magical was blurred. According to popular lore, magicians of the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 272 p. The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages. Uniting a diverse set of emerging and established scholars, Animal Languages questions the assumed medieval distinction between humans and other animals. The...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 272 p. The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages. Uniting a diverse set of emerging and established scholars, Animal Languages questions the assumed medieval distinction between humans and other animals. The...
University of Minnesota Press, 2004. — 390 p. — (Medieval Cultures, Volume 37). — ISBN 0-8166-3734-2; 0-8166-3735-0. The first comprehensive analysis of English national identity in the late Middle Ages. During the late Middle Ages, the increasing expansion of administrative, legal, and military systems by a central government, together with the greater involvement of the...
McFarland, 2008. — 406 p. — ISBN10: 0786432535. — ISBN13: 978-0786432530 Most people have heard of Lady Godiva and her horseback tax protest in the 11th century and Joan of Arc who in the 15th century fought against the English for the French gaining sainthood in 1920. Many know of Eleanor of Aquataine, 12th century Queen of France and England, and powerful manipulator and...
Routledge, 2015. — 318 p. "Medieval Monasticism" traces the Western Monastic tradition from its fourth century origins in the deserts of Egypt and Syria, through the many and varied forms of religious life it assumed during the Middle Ages. Hugh Lawrence explores the many sided relationship between monasteries and the secular world around them. For a thousand years, the great...
Routledge, 2014. — 178 p. Magic and Medieval Society presents a thematic approach to the topic of magic and sorcery in Western Europe between the eleventh and the fifteenth century. It aims to provide readers with the conceptual and documentary tools to reach informed conclusions as to the existence, nature, importance and uses of magic in medieval society. Contrary to some...
University of Chicago Press, 1980. — 384 p. Jacques Le Goff is a prominent figure in the tradition of French medieval scholarship, profoundly influenced by the Annales school, notably, Bloch, Febvre, and Braudel, and by the ethnographers and anthropologists Mauss, Dumézil, and Lévi-Strauss. In building his argument for "another Middle Ages" (un autre moyen âge), Le Goff...
Brill Academic Pub, 2008. - 320 p. - (The Northern World). Following from themes explored during the 2005 International Medieval Congress on 'Youth and Age', this interdisciplinary volume focuses upon social, cultural and biological aspects of being young and old in the medieval north. The contributors progress definitions of young and old in the north, taking into account...
Verlag J.B. Metzler, 1999. — 2108 S. Das Lexikon des Mittelalters (LMA, LexMA o. ä.) ist ein deutschsprachiges Nachschlagewerk zur Geschichte und Kultur des Mittelalters in 9 Bänden. Es wurde von internationalen Autoren erstellt und umfasst über 36.000 Artikel. Zeitlich reicht der Rahmen von der Spätantike bis etwa 1500, wobei auch Byzanz und die arabische Welt berücksichtigt...
Verlag J.B. Metzler, 1999. - 2218 S. Das Lexikon des Mittelalters (LMA, LexMA o. ä.) ist ein deutschsprachiges Nachschlagewerk zur Geschichte und Kultur des Mittelalters in 9 Bänden. Es wurde von internationalen Autoren erstellt und umfasst über 36.000 Artikel. Zeitlich reicht der Rahmen von der Spätantike bis etwa 1500, wobei auch Byzanz und die arabische Welt berücksichtigt...
Verlag J.B. Metzler, 1999. — 2218 S. Das Lexikon des Mittelalters (LMA, LexMA o. ä.) ist ein deutschsprachiges Nachschlagewerk zur Geschichte und Kultur des Mittelalters in 9 Bänden. Es wurde von internationalen Autoren erstellt und umfasst über 36.000 Artikel. Zeitlich reicht der Rahmen von der Spätantike bis etwa 1500, wobei auch Byzanz und die arabische Welt berücksichtigt...
Verlag J.B. Metzler, 1999. — 2220 S. Das Lexikon des Mittelalters (LMA, LexMA o. ä.) ist ein deutschsprachiges Nachschlagewerk zur Geschichte und Kultur des Mittelalters in 9 Bänden. Es wurde von internationalen Autoren erstellt und umfasst über 36.000 Artikel. Zeitlich reicht der Rahmen von der Spätantike bis etwa 1500, wobei auch Byzanz und die arabische Welt berücksichtigt...
Verlag J.B. Metzler, 1999. - 2220 S. Das Lexikon des Mittelalters (LMA, LexMA o. ä.) ist ein deutschsprachiges Nachschlagewerk zur Geschichte und Kultur des Mittelalters in 9 Bänden. Es wurde von internationalen Autoren erstellt und umfasst über 36.000 Artikel. Zeitlich reicht der Rahmen von der Spätantike bis etwa 1500, wobei auch Byzanz und die arabische Welt berücksichtigt...
Verlag J.B. Metzler, 1999. - 2220 S. Das Lexikon des Mittelalters (LMA, LexMA o. ä.) ist ein deutschsprachiges Nachschlagewerk zur Geschichte und Kultur des Mittelalters in 9 Bänden. Es wurde von internationalen Autoren erstellt und umfasst über 36.000 Artikel. Zeitlich reicht der Rahmen von der Spätantike bis etwa 1500, wobei auch Byzanz und die arabische Welt berücksichtigt...
Verlag J.B. Metzler, 1999. - 2220 S. Das Lexikon des Mittelalters (LMA, LexMA o. ä.) ist ein deutschsprachiges Nachschlagewerk zur Geschichte und Kultur des Mittelalters in 9 Bänden. Es wurde von internationalen Autoren erstellt und umfasst über 36.000 Artikel. Zeitlich reicht der Rahmen von der Spätantike bis etwa 1500, wobei auch Byzanz und die arabische Welt berücksichtigt...
Verlag J.B. Metzler, 1999. - 2220 S. Das Lexikon des Mittelalters (LMA, LexMA o. ä.) ist ein deutschsprachiges Nachschlagewerk zur Geschichte und Kultur des Mittelalters in 9 Bänden. Es wurde von internationalen Autoren erstellt und umfasst über 36.000 Artikel. Zeitlich reicht der Rahmen von der Spätantike bis etwa 1500, wobei auch Byzanz und die arabische Welt berücksichtigt...
Verlag J.B. Metzler, 1999. - 1828 S. Das Lexikon des Mittelalters (LMA, LexMA o. ä.) ist ein deutschsprachiges Nachschlagewerk zur Geschichte und Kultur des Mittelalters in 9 Bänden. Es wurde von internationalen Autoren erstellt und umfasst über 36.000 Artikel. Zeitlich reicht der Rahmen von der Spätantike bis etwa 1500, wobei auch Byzanz und die arabische Welt berücksichtigt...
Reaktion Books, 2009. — 258 p. In City and Cosmos, Keith D. Lilley argues that the medieval mind considered the city truly a microcosm: much more than a collection of houses, a city also represented a scaled-down version of the very order and organization of the cosmos. Drawing upon a wide variety of sources, including original accounts, visual art, science, literature, and...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 350 p. Mapping Medieval Geographies explores the ways in which geographical knowledge, ideas and traditions were formed in Europe during the Middle Ages. Leading scholars reveal the connections between Islamic, Christian, Biblical and Classical geographical traditions from Antiquity to the later Middle Ages and Renaissance. The book is...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 238 p. Introduction: Silence and Women’s Authority Property’s History, Property’s Literature Silence, Language, Sexuality Medieval Women Reject Marriage: Heloise and Marie de France Sexual Purity as Property: Vie Seinte Audree and The Book of Margery Kempe Property and Propriety in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England: Burney, Austen, Eliot...
University of Wales Press, 2019. — 432 p. This is the first comprehensive authoritative survey of Arthurian literature and traditions in the Celtic languages of Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Irish and Scottish Gaelic. With contributions by leading and emerging specialists in the field, the volume traces the development of the legends that grew up around Arthur and have been...
B. T. Batsford, 1972. - 198 p. Social organization, crafts, religion, and warfare of the Germanic tribes in the days of Roman Empire. Drawings by Eva Wilson. 88 illustrations, including maps. Chronological table. Index. Malcolm Todd FSA (27 November 1939 – 6 June 2013) was an English archaeologist. Born in Durham, England, the son of a miner, Todd was educated in classics and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. - 211 p. - (Early Modern History: Society and Culture). Women and Alcohol Sex and Alcohol Alehouses, Taverns, and Prostitutes Sexual Encounters Unruly Women and Violent Men Husbands and Wives
Brill Academic Pub, 2012. - 1280 p. These volumes propose a renewed way of framing the debate around the history of medieval art and architecture to highlight the multiple roles played by women. Today’s standard division of artist from patron is not seen in medieval inscriptions — on paintings, metalwork, embroideries, or buildings — where the most common verb is 'made'...
Routledge, 2003. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0415307465; ISBN13: 978-0415307468. The emotional state of love, the physical act of sex and the social institution of marriage were central issues of medieval life. Conor McCarthy brings together a wide array of writings as well as informative introductions and explanations, to give a vivid impression of how love, sex and marriage were...
Routledge, 2003. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0415307465; ISBN13: 978-0415307468. The emotional state of love, the physical act of sex and the social institution of marriage were central issues of medieval life. Conor McCarthy brings together a wide array of writings as well as informative introductions and explanations, to give a vivid impression of how love, sex and marriage were...
Columbia University Press, 1990. — 494 p. Recommendations for medieval clerics on the assignment of appropriate penances for specific sins. A selection of translations with detailed introductions. Frontmatter Penance in the Ancient Church The Penitentials The condition of the texts Documents Early Irish penitential documents Early Welsh penitential documents Penitentials of the...
Cistercian Publications, 2016. — 462 p. This book surveys the full panorama of ten centuries of Christian monastic life. It moves from the deserts of Egypt and the Frankish monasteries of early medieval Europe to the religious ruptures of the eleventh and twelfth centuries and the reforms of the later Middle Ages. Throughout that story the book balances a rich sense of detail...
Köln, 1998. — 427 p. Die Untersuchung behandelt mit der mittelalterlichen Predigt einen Gegenstand, der die deutsche Mediävistik derzeit weniger als die französische, englische, italienische und amerikanische beschäftigt. Die Predigten werden unter der Fragestellung betrachtet, wie in ihnen mit geschichtlichen Stoffen umgegangen wird. Das Phänomen taucht seit dem 12....
Routledge, 2013. — 347 p. What was it like to be disabled in the Middle Ages? How did people become disabled? Did welfare support exist? This book discusses social and cultural factors affecting the lives of medieval crippled, deaf, mute and blind people, those nowadays collectively called "disabled." Although the word did not exist then, many of the experiences disabled people...
Manchester University Press, 2016. - 257 p. - (Disability History, 6) Fools and idiots? is the first book devoted to the cultural history in the pre-modern period of people we now describe as having learning disabilities. Using an interdisciplinary approach, including historical semantics, medicine, natural philosophy and law, Irina Metzler considers a neglected field of social...
München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1987. — XLIV S. Mehr als bei vielen anderen Publikationen wird man bedauern, daß der hohe Ladenpreis dieses Bandes seiner Verbreitung als Handbuch und Nachschlagewerk in privaten Bibliotheken von Mediävisten im Wege stehen dürfte: Auf Grundlage der wichtigsten lateinischen Bibelkommentare bis zum 12. Jh. sind hier die allegorischen Auslegungen von...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. - 247 p. Introduction: Writing Medieval Women’s Biographies Growing Up as a Marshal, Marriage, and Motherhood (1230–58) War, Rebellion, and Recovery (1258–85) Success, Conflict, Death, and Bereavement (1285–96) Widow, Lord, and Countess (1297–1307) Conclusion: The Legacies of Joan de Valence The Family Connections of Joan de Valence Joan de Valence’s...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. - 384 p. - (The Middle Ages Series). Stephen A. Mitchell here offers the fullest examination available of witchcraft in late medieval Scandinavia. He focuses on those people believed to be able — and who in some instances thought themselves able — to manipulate the world around them through magical practices, and on the responses to these...
Translated by Beth Archer Brombert. — New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. — 280 p. — ISBN10: 0231167865; ISBN13: 978-0231167864. In his new history of food, acclaimed historian Massimo Montanari traces the development of medieval tastes — both culinary and cultural — from raw materials to market and captures their reflections in today's food trends. Tying the ingredients...
Book House, 2010. — 192 p. — ISBN10: 1907184481, ISBN13: 978-1907184482 From building a moat to planning a siege: this fascinating book is filled with stories about castle life. How were castles built, fought over, lived in? This engaging book tells all! Learn the difference between donjeons and dungeons (it's important), the best time of year for a siege, and how 40 pigs...
New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008. — 288 p. — ISBN-13: 978–1–4039–8488–3; ISBN-10: 1–4039–8488–3. This interdisciplinary book integrates the historical practices regarding material excrement and its symbolic representation, with special focus on fecopoetics and Chaucer’s literary agenda. Filth in all its manifestations — material (including privies, dung on fields, and as...
Walter de Gruyter, 2010. — 316 p. This book examines vernacular literary texts of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age from a cultural studies perspective, focusing on the context of their origin and effect, their media preconditions, their concepts of cultural systems and the discussion and transformation of social norms. A wide spectrum of texts is covered from the 12th...
Oxbow Books, 2011. — 130 p. This volume examines conceptions, ideas and habits connected with children in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, focusing on the "dark sides of childhood" in the pre-modern world. The authors investigate the long-term attitudes of people, as well as ruptures in habits and customs. The book is divided into three parts. "Unwanted" deals with parents who...
Boydell & Brewer, 2012. — 207 p. Reading, writing and the prosecution of warfare went hand in hand in the fifteenth century, demonstrated by the wide circulation and ownership of military manuals and ordinances, and the integration of military concerns into a huge corpus of texts; but their relationship has hitherto not received the attention it deserves, a gap which this book...
Brill, 2007. - 325 p. This volume presents a selection of essays undertaken by participants in an NEH Summer Seminar in 2004 on the topic of the seven deadly sins, viewed individually and as a whole, as part of the "Begriffsgeschichte" of the Middle Ages and beyond in which concepts are constructed within the cultural milieus in which they function. The essays in the first part...
Boydell and Brewer, 2012. — 360 p. The tradition of the seven deadly sins played a considerable role in western culture, even after the supposed turning-point of the Protestant Reformation, as the essays collected here demonstrate. The first part of the book addresses such topics as the problem of acedia in Carolingian monasticism; the development of medieval thought on...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2000. — 273 p. This is a study of the appearances of the Knights Templar, Knights Hospitaller and Teutonic Knights in the French, German and English epic and romance literature of the Middle Ages. It examines their religious roles, such as caring for the sick, their warrior role of fighting Muslims, and examines the role of 'Templars' in the Grail...
University of Chicago Press, 2015. — 242 p. To read accounts of late medieval banquets is to enter a fantastical world where live lions guard nude statues, gilded stags burst into song, and musicians play from within pies. We can almost hear the clock sound from within a glass castle, taste the fire-breathing roast boar, and smell the rose water cascading in a miniature...
University of Toronto Press, 2016. — 480 p. The twelfth century was a time of new ideas and creative innovation spurred on by patron-monarchs like King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, poets like Marie de France and Chrétien de Troyes, lovers and intellectuals like Abelard and Heloise, and religious thinkers like Bernard of Clairvaux and Hildegard of Bingen. In his thoughtful...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. - 336 p. - (The Middle Ages Series). Through hundreds of published and unpublished sources, Alex J. Novikoff traces the evolution of disputation from its ancient origins to its broader influence in the scholastic culture and public sphere of the High Middle Ages.
Manchester University Press, 2018. — 256 p. John of Salisbury (c. 1120–80) is a key figure of the twelfth-century renaissance. As a student at the cosmopolitan schools of medieval Paris, an associate of Thomas Becket, and an acute commentator on society and rulership, he provides unique insights into the political culture of the period. This volume reassesses the influence of...
De Gruyter, 2010. — 382 s. Auf etwa 130 schwedischen Runensteinen der Wikingerzeit taucht neben der Gedenkinschrift ein stilisierter Vierfüßler auf. "Das große Tier" ist meist als christlich-aristokratisches Herrschaftszeichen, als Löwe, Drache oder Greif angesprochen worden. Impressionistische Deutungsvorschläge und differierende Herkunftstheorien prägen die...
Routledge, 2004. — 210 p. "Strange Histories" presents a serious account of some of the most extraordinary occurrences of European and North American history and explains how they made sense to people living at the time. From grisly anecdotes about ghosts, to stories of witches and werewolves, the book uses case studies from the Middle Ages and the early modern period and...
Women in Culture and Society A Series Edited by Catharine R. Stimpson The University of Chicago Press. Chicago and London. Otis Leah Lydia currently lectures in economic history at the University of Montpellier I, and in southern French history and civilization for the University of Minnesota's Montpellier Program. Prostitution in Medieval Society, a monograph about Languedoc...
Penn State University Press, 2013. — 246 p. During the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries a group of monks with occult interests donated what became a remarkable collection of more than thirty magic texts to the library of the Benedictine abbey of St. Augustine’s in Canterbury. The monks collected texts that provided positive justifications for the practice of magic...
Oxford University Press, 2014. - 346 p. Terence Parsons presents a new study of the development and logical complexity of medieval logic. Basic principles of logic were used by Aristotle to prove conversion principles and reduce syllogisms. Medieval logicians expanded Aristotle's notation in several ways, such as quantifying predicate terms, as in 'No donkey is every animal',...
Le leopard D'Or, 1986. — 218 p. 16 études s'ordonnant autour de 3 axes : l'histoire des couleurs envisagée dans une perspective anthropologique, les usages emblématiques de la société occidentale, l'imaginaire des hommes du Moyen Age. Cet ouvrage fait suite à L'Hermine et le sinople.
Sismel Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2013. — 390 p. La vision des couleurs au XIII e siècle, l'histoire de l'arc-enciel, la composition des ménageries princières, l'iconographie de l'arche de Noé, le bestiaire des cinq sens et des sept péchés capitaux, l'obésité à l'époque féodale, l'identité dans les romans de chevalerie, les rituels de la main et du gant, les empreintes digitales,...
Le Seuil, 2011. — 238 p. — ISBN: 9782021022865, 2021022862. Le cerf vit mille ans. Le sanglier porte ses cornes dans sa bouche. Les papillons sont des fleurs qui volent. L'écureuil est un animal diabolique, paresseux, lubrique, avaricieux. La zoologie médiévale n'est pas la zoologie moderne. Plusieurs notions qui nous sont aujourd'hui familières, sont alors inconnues. Le Moyen...
Gallimard, 1989. — 291 p. Table des matieres Presentation Vers une histoire sociale des couleurs La conleur : un probleme cThistoire culturelle Une civilisation du bleu Geographie de la couleur Couleur gaie, couleur triste Oil est le vert, d’ou vient le gris? Le travail de I’historien Du rouge au bleu : etoffes et colorants L’heritage antique : blanc, rouge, noir La revolution...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 260 p. Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature constitutes the first collection that explores the depth and breadth of games in medieval literature and culture. With geographical and methodological diversity of interdisciplinary scholarship, this volume presents fresh critical discussions of medieval games as vehicles for cultural signification, and...
Manchester University Press, 2017. — 272 p. "Nonhuman voices in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture" uncovers the voice and agency possessed by nonhuman things across Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture. It makes a new contribution to 'thing theory' and rethinks conventional divisions between animate human subjects and inanimate nonhuman objects in the early...
Columbia University Press, 2001. — 552 p. Imagine a dreamland where roasted pigs wander about with knives in their backs to make carving easy, where grilled geese fly directly into one's mouth, where cooked fish jump out of the water and land at one's feet. The weather is always mild, the wine flows freely, sex is readily available, and all people enjoy eternal youth. Such is...
Boydell Press, 2006. — 248 p. The wolf, a common metaphor for vice in medieval Christian literature, is today an iconic symbol of the intense fear and insecurity that some associate with the middle ages. In reality, responses to wolves varied across medieval Europe. Although not dependent on the wilderness, wolves were conceptually linked to this environment - which although on...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. - 320 p. - (The Middle Ages Series). Ptolemy, considered a proto-Humanist by some, combined the principles of Northern Italian republicanism with Aristotelian theory in his De Regimine Principum, a book that influenced much of the political thought of the later Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the early modern period. He was the first to...
Brepols Publishers, 2016. — 355 p. — (Bilingual edition - English, Old Norse). The compelling world of the Vikings and their descendants - preserved in the sagas, poetry, and mythology of medieval Iceland - has provided inspiration for centuries to artists and writers across Europe as well as to scholars devoted to editing and interpreting the manuscript texts. Imagining this...
University Press of Florida, 2016. — 190 p. Bringing far-removed time periods into startling conversation, this book argues that certain attitudes and practices present in Europe’s Middle Ages were foundational in the development of the western concept of race. As early as the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, society was already preoccupied with skin color. Using historical,...
Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 256 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature). This book investigates how people learned to read in the Middle Ages. It uses glosses--medieval teachers' notes--on classical Latin texts to show how these complex works were used in a very basic and literal way in the classroom, and argues that this has profound implications for our...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 269 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs). Magic and Impotence in the Middle Ages investigates the common medieval belief that magic could cause impotence, focusing particularly on the period 1150-1450. The subject has never been studied in detail before, but there is a surprisingly large amount of information about it in four kinds of source:...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 269 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs). Magic and Impotence in the Middle Ages investigates the common medieval belief that magic could cause impotence, focusing particularly on the period 1150-1450. The subject has never been studied in detail before, but there is a surprisingly large amount of information about it in four kinds of source:...
D.S.Brewer, 23017. — 224 p. Authors throughout history have relied on the emotional make-up of their readers and audiences to make sense of the behaviours and actions of fictive characters. But how can a narrative voice contained in a text evoke feelings that are ultimately never real or actual, but a figment of a text, a fictive reality created out of words? How does one...
Routledge, 2014. — 219 p. This book examines the sustained interest in legends of the pagan and peripheral North, tracing and analyzing the use of an ‘out-of-Scandinavia’ legend (Scandinavia as an ancestral homeland) in a wide range of medieval texts from all over Europe, with a focus on the Anglo-Saxon tradition. The pagan North was an imaginative region, which attracted a...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2004. — 332 p. This volume of essays considers specific examples of literature and art in medieval Castile, problematizing the idea of comparative methodology when studying the cultural production of a place with such an intensely multi-linguistic and multi-religious profile. Contributions have been solicited from an equal number of specialists in the...
The British Museum, 2014. — 206 p. A landmark publication exploring the relationship between sacred matter and precious materials in the Middle Ages. This book is the outcome of the conference ‘Matter of Faith’, held to accompany the British Museum’s exhibition Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe, which brought together over thirty international...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. - 229 p. Reading the Religious Life of Margaret Paston Margaret Paston’s Calendar and Her Saints Margaret Paston in Context: Things Said, Done, and Owned Family Wills: Margaret Paston and the Rest What Did Margaret See?
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 124 p. — (The New Middle Ages). This concise and unique volume explores the vital relationship between testimony, memory, and the community in medieval society. Joel T. Rosenthal assembles various categories of testimonies to illuminate how “ordinary” Late Medieval people saw themselves as units of their community, their awareness of the issues...
Jan Thorbecke Verlag GmbH & Co, 1996. — 803 p. Die Schriftenreihe veröffentlicht Monographien und Aufsatzsammlungen aus allen Bereichen der historischen Hilfswissenschaften des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit, sofern sie von allgemeinem Interesse und methodisch innovativ sind. Sie trägt damit den neuen Fragestellungen und Methoden Rechnung, die in den letzten Jahren zu einer...
Brepols Publishers, 2007. — 364 p. Christianity is a religion of clothing. To become a priest or a nun is to take the cloth. The Christian liturgy is intimately bound with veiling objects and revealing them. Cloths hide the altar, making it all the more spectacular when it is revealed. Fragments of imported silk cradle the relic, thereby giving identity to the dessicated bone....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. - 236 p. - (Early Modern History: Society and Culture). Marriage and Patriarchy Public Office and the Public Sphere Sociability and Social Structure Death and Confession
Marburg, 2009. — 278 p. Schwarzes Kreuz auf weißem Mantel ist ein Synonym fur den Deutschen Orden geworden. In seinem Bekanntheitsgrad hat dieses Synonym trotz aller Rückschlage politischer Art und inneren Wandlungen vom Ritter- zum klerikalen Orden, die der Deutsche Orden in seiner über 800jährigen Geschichte erlebt hat, nichts von seiner Faszination eingebüßt. Die...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. - 232 p. Julian of Norwich the best-known of the medieval mystics today. The text of her Revelation has circulated continually since the fifteenth century, but the twentieth century saw a massive expansion of her popularity. Theological or literary-historical studies of Julian may remark in passing on her popularity, but none have attempted a detailed...
University Press of Florida, 2002. — 368 p. "Domestic Violence in Medieval Texts" addresses a topic critical to our understanding of the medieval past--its notions of childhood and marital relations, its attitudes toward corporal punishment, and its contribution to the shaping of our present-day notions of family values. Using a wide range of late medieval narratives, including...
Gallimard, 2002. — 401 p. Il est devenu banal de dire que nous sommes entrés dans la «civilisation de l'image». Les images animées, numériques, virtuelles façonnent notre monde avec une force sans précédent. Mais elles s'enracinent aussi dans une longue histoire, où la chrétienté médiévale a joué un rôle décisif : en osant - contre le vieil interdit biblique - faire et «adorer»...
Editions Gallimard, 2001. - 446 p. Qui veut comprendre le Moyen Âge doit le tenir à distance : poser sur lui le regard de l'anthropologue étudiant une société étrangère à sa propre culture et à ses habitudes de pensée. C'est la première ambition de ce livre : mettre en garde contre l'usage de catégories - la «religion» par exemple, ou l'«individu», - dont il convient de saisir...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 248 p. For the Time Being: Interpretive Consolation in Augustinian Time “Quanto Minorem Consider as”: Abelard’s Proportional Consolation Three Figures of the Church: Piers Plowman and the Quest for Consolation Augustine and Arthur: The Stanzaic Morte and the Consolation of Elegy Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale: Consolations at War The Tower and the Turks:...
Primus Verlag GmbH, Darmstadt, 2008. Seit dem 11. Jahrhundert entstanden aus Siedlungen rund um Burgen und Klöster neue Städte. Immer mehr Leibeigene aus der Umgebung setzen sich in diese Orte ab. Dort waren sie für ihre Grundherren meist unauffindbar. Es entstand der Rechtsbrauch: Ein Leibeigener in einer Stadt konnte nach Jahr und Tag nicht mehr von seinem Grundherrn...
Ashgate Publishing, 2014. — 258 p. Private and public relationships between individuals or groups - frequently labelled as friendships - have played a central role in human societies. Yet, over the centuries ideas and meanings of friendship transformed, adapting to the political and social climate of a period, and consequently resisting rigid definitions. Changing concepts and...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 400 p. Perceptions of the Prehistoric in Anglo-Saxon England represents an unparalleled exploration of the place of prehistoric monuments in the Anglo-Saxon psyche, and examines how Anglo-Saxon communities perceived and used these monuments during the period AD 400-1100. Sarah Semple employs archaeological, historical, art historical, and...
York Medieval Press, 2016. — 341 p. Cathars have long been regarded as posing the most organised challenge to orthodox Catholicism in the medieval West, even as a "counter-Church" to orthodoxy in southern France and northern Italy. Their beliefs, understood to be inspired by Balkan dualism, are often seen as the most radical among medieval heresies. However, recent work has...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 225 p. Travelers and Settled Folk: Women, Honor, and Shame in Medieval Ireland Sex in the Civitas: Early Irish Intellectuals and their Vision of Women Looking for “Mr. Right” in Tochmarc Becfhola Playing for Power: Macha Mongrúad’s Sovereign Performance Feasts for the Eyes: Visuality and Desire in the Ulster Cycle They Kept their Skirts on:...
Fordham University Press, 2011. — 285 p. Sanctuary and Crime rethinks the history of sanctuary protections in the Western legal tradition. Until the sixteenth century, every major medieval legal tradition afforded protections to fugitive criminals who took sanctuary in churches. Sanctuary-seeking criminals might have been required to perform penance or go into exile, but they...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. - 237 p. Archipelago and Otherworld Reading the Otherworld Environmentally Paradise in the Sea: An Early Geography of Desire Colors of the Winds, Landscapes of Creation A Cosmic Imaginarium Archipelago and Empire
Böhlau Köln, 2015. — 346 s. Heutzutage bevölkern Monster aller Art viele Szenerien in Literatur, Film, Kunst und Werbung. Das Spektrum reicht von Aliens über Krümelmonster bis zu Zombies. Das war im Mittelalter nicht anders. Auch dort begegnet man den Monstern allenthalben – etwa an Kirchenportalen, auf Kapitellen, in Gemälden und Buchillustrationen oder in Romanen,...
De Gruyter, 1995. - 510 p. Der TPMA enthält ca. 90.000 Sprichwörter, Sprüche, Maximen und sprichwörtliche Redensarten aus literarischen Quellen des lateinischen, romanischen und germanischen Mittelalters mit ihren antiken Quellen. Die Sprichwörter sind in Artikeln geordnet, deren Titel (im Lexikon alphabetisch) jeweils mit dem Hauptbegriff der darunter vereinigten Sprichwörter...
De Gruyter, 2000. - 448 p. Der TPMA enthält ca. 90.000 Sprichwörter, Sprüche, Maximen und sprichwörtliche Redensarten aus literarischen Quellen des lateinischen, romanischen und germanischen Mittelalters mit ihren antiken Quellen. Die Sprichwörter sind in Artikeln geordnet, deren Titel (im Lexikon alphabetisch) jeweils mit dem Hauptbegriff der darunter vereinigten Sprichwörter...
De Gruyter, 2001. - 464 p. Der TPMA enthält ca. 90.000 Sprichwörter, Sprüche, Maximen und sprichwörtliche Redensarten aus literarischen Quellen des lateinischen, romanischen und germanischen Mittelalters mit ihren antiken Quellen. Die Sprichwörter sind in Artikeln geordnet, deren Titel (im Lexikon alphabetisch) jeweils mit dem Hauptbegriff der darunter vereinigten Sprichwörter...
De Gruyter, 1995. - 292 p. Der TPMA enthält ca. 90.000 Sprichwörter, Sprüche, Maximen und sprichwörtliche Redensarten aus literarischen Quellen des lateinischen, romanischen und germanischen Mittelalters mit ihren antiken Quellen. Die Sprichwörter sind in Artikeln geordnet, deren Titel (im Lexikon alphabetisch) jeweils mit dem Hauptbegriff der darunter vereinigten Sprichwörter...
De Gruyter, 2010. - 480 p. Der TPMA enthält ca. 90.000 Sprichwörter, Sprüche, Maximen und sprichwörtliche Redensarten aus literarischen Quellen des lateinischen, romanischen und germanischen Mittelalters mit ihren antiken Quellen. Die Sprichwörter sind in Artikeln geordnet, deren Titel (im Lexikon alphabetisch) jeweils mit dem Hauptbegriff der darunter vereinigten Sprichwörter...
De Gruyter, 1995. - 510 p. Der TPMA enthält ca. 90.000 Sprichwörter, Sprüche, Maximen und sprichwörtliche Redensarten aus literarischen Quellen des lateinischen, romanischen und germanischen Mittelalters mit ihren antiken Quellen. Die Sprichwörter sind in Artikeln geordnet, deren Titel (im Lexikon alphabetisch) jeweils mit dem Hauptbegriff der darunter vereinigten Sprichwörter...
De Gruyter, 1996. - 500 p. Der TPMA enthält ca. 90.000 Sprichwörter, Sprüche, Maximen und sprichwörtliche Redensarten aus literarischen Quellen des lateinischen, romanischen und germanischen Mittelalters mit ihren antiken Quellen. Die Sprichwörter sind in Artikeln geordnet, deren Titel (im Lexikon alphabetisch) jeweils mit dem Hauptbegriff der darunter vereinigten Sprichwörter...
De Gruyter, 1996. - 500 p. Der TPMA enthält ca. 90.000 Sprichwörter, Sprüche, Maximen und sprichwörtliche Redensarten aus literarischen Quellen des lateinischen, romanischen und germanischen Mittelalters mit ihren antiken Quellen. Die Sprichwörter sind in Artikeln geordnet, deren Titel (im Lexikon alphabetisch) jeweils mit dem Hauptbegriff der darunter vereinigten Sprichwörter...
De Gruyter, 1997. - 480 p. Der TPMA enthält ca. 90.000 Sprichwörter, Sprüche, Maximen und sprichwörtliche Redensarten aus literarischen Quellen des lateinischen, romanischen und germanischen Mittelalters mit ihren antiken Quellen. Die Sprichwörter sind in Artikeln geordnet, deren Titel (im Lexikon alphabetisch) jeweils mit dem Hauptbegriff der darunter vereinigten Sprichwörter...
De Gruyter, 1998. - 480 p. Der TPMA enthält ca. 90.000 Sprichwörter, Sprüche, Maximen und sprichwörtliche Redensarten aus literarischen Quellen des lateinischen, romanischen und germanischen Mittelalters mit ihren antiken Quellen. Die Sprichwörter sind in Artikeln geordnet, deren Titel (im Lexikon alphabetisch) jeweils mit dem Hauptbegriff der darunter vereinigten Sprichwörter...
De Gruyter, 1998. - 496 p. Der TPMA enthält ca. 90.000 Sprichwörter, Sprüche, Maximen und sprichwörtliche Redensarten aus literarischen Quellen des lateinischen, romanischen und germanischen Mittelalters mit ihren antiken Quellen. Die Sprichwörter sind in Artikeln geordnet, deren Titel (im Lexikon alphabetisch) jeweils mit dem Hauptbegriff der darunter vereinigten Sprichwörter...
De Gruyter, 1999. - 488 p. Der TPMA enthält ca. 90.000 Sprichwörter, Sprüche, Maximen und sprichwörtliche Redensarten aus literarischen Quellen des lateinischen, romanischen und germanischen Mittelalters mit ihren antiken Quellen. Die Sprichwörter sind in Artikeln geordnet, deren Titel (im Lexikon alphabetisch) jeweils mit dem Hauptbegriff der darunter vereinigten Sprichwörter...
De Gruyter, 1999. - 480 p. Der TPMA enthält ca. 90.000 Sprichwörter, Sprüche, Maximen und sprichwörtliche Redensarten aus literarischen Quellen des lateinischen, romanischen und germanischen Mittelalters mit ihren antiken Quellen. Die Sprichwörter sind in Artikeln geordnet, deren Titel (im Lexikon alphabetisch) jeweils mit dem Hauptbegriff der darunter vereinigten Sprichwörter...
De Gruyter, 2001. - 456 p. Der TPMA enthält ca. 90.000 Sprichwörter, Sprüche, Maximen und sprichwörtliche Redensarten aus literarischen Quellen des lateinischen, romanischen und germanischen Mittelalters mit ihren antiken Quellen. Die Sprichwörter sind in Artikeln geordnet, deren Titel (im Lexikon alphabetisch) jeweils mit dem Hauptbegriff der darunter vereinigten Sprichwörter...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 297 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs). Medieval Violence provides a detailed analysis of the practice of medieval brutality, focusing on a thriving region of northern France in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. It examines how violence was conceptualised in this period, and uses this framework to investigate street violence,...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 398 p. — ISBN: 0-19-924427-8. This is the first single-author study in over fifty years to offer an integrated appraisal of the early Middle Ages as a dynamic and formative period in European history. Written in an attractive and accessible style, it makes extensive use of original sources to introduce early medieval men and women at all levels...
D.S. Brewer, 2011. — 276 p. Local and imperial, insular and expansive, both English yet British: geographically and culturally, the sea continues to shape changing models of Englishness. This volume traces the many literary origins of insular identity from local communities to the entire archipelago, laying open the continuities and disruptions in the sea's relationship with...
Ohio State University Press, 2015. — 322 p. In the medieval period, as in the media culture of the present, learned and popular forms of talk were intermingled everywhere. They were also highly mobile, circulating in speech, writing, and symbol, as performances as well as in material objects. The communication through and between different media we all negotiate in daily life...
Ohio State University Press, 2011. — 328 p. How to Make a Human: Animals and Violence in the Middle Ages tracks human attempts to cordon humans off from other life through a wide range of medieval texts and practices, including encyclopedias, dietary guides, resurrection doctrine, cannibal narrative, butchery law, boar-hunting, and teratology. Karl Steel argues that the human...
Boydell Press, 2009. — 224 p. The officers of arms (kings of arms, heralds and pursuivants) have often been overlooked by scholars of late medieval elite society. Yet as officers of the crown, ducal courts or noble families, they played important parts in a number of areas. They were crucial to foreign and domestic relations, and chivalric culture; and, of course, they were to...
Princeton University Press, 1987. — 616 p. This book explores the influence of literacy on eleventh and twelfth-century life and though on social organization, on the criticism of ritual and symbol, on the rise of empirical attitudes, on the relationship between language and reality, and on the broad interaction between ideas and society. Medieval and early modern literacy,...
University of Toronto Press, 2016. — 296 p. In the Middle Ages, the life story of Alexander the Great was a well-traveled tale. Known in numerous versions, many of them derived from the ancient Greek Alexander Romance, it was told and re-told throughout Europe, India, the Middle East, and Central Asia. The essays collected in "Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages" examine...
Brill, 2007. — 271 p. Assembled on the occasion of Gary Dickson's retirement from the University of Edinburgh following a distinguished career as an internationally acclaimed scholar of medieval social and religious history, this volume contains contributions by both established and newer scholars inspired by Dickson’s particular interests in medieval popular religion,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. - 240 p. Introduction: Power, History, Drama The Body: Bare Life in the Passion Plays Things: Objects and Agency in the Trial and Crucifixion Plays Gender/Politics: Motherhood in the Innocents Plays and the Planctus Mariae Economics: Money, Labor, and Ideology in Four Towneley Plays Law: Obligation and Legal Parody in the Cain and Abel Plays...
Brepols Publishers, 2018. — 782 p. Annotations in modern books are a phenomenon that often causes disapproval: we are not supposed to draw, doodle, underline, or highlight in our books. In many medieval manuscripts, however, the pages are filled with annotations around the text and in-between the lines. In some cases, a ‘white space’ around the text is even laid out to contain...
Stanford University Press, 1996. — 294 p. Medieval Venuses and Cupids analyzes the transformations of the love deities in later Middle English Chaucerian poetry, academic Latin discourses on classical myth (including astrology, natural philosophy, and commentaries on classical Roman literature), and French conventions that associate Venus and Cupid with Ovidian arts of love....
Columbia University Press, 2002. — 372 p. In the first century of Islam, most of the former Christian Roman Empire, from Syria to Spain, was brought under Muslim control in a conquest of unprecedented proportions. Confronted by the world of Islam, countless medieval Christians experienced a profound ambivalence, awed by its opulence, they were also troubled by its rival claims...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. - 126 p. The Germanic Medievalism of Borges’ Life Borges the Poet Borges the Scholar and Writer Borges the Fabulist Borges’ Medievalism
Boydell & Brewer Publishers, 2013. — 365 p. Castration and castrati have always been facets of western culture, from myth and legend to law and theology, from eunuchs guarding harems to the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century castrati singers. Metaphoric castration pervades a number of medieval literary genres, particularly the Old French fabliaux - exchanges of power...
Brill, 2015. — 645 p. The spectacle of the wounded body figured prominently in the Middle Ages, from images of Christ’s wounds on the cross, to the ripped and torn bodies of tortured saints who miraculously heal through divine intervention, to graphic accounts of battlefield and tournament wounds - evidence of which survives in the archaeological record - and literary episodes...
Leuven University Press , 2006. — 254 p. Church buildings dominated medieval towns. The faithful flocked to the parish and monastic churches and chapels to attend masses, to receive the Sacraments, to offer up their prayers. However, secular authorities, from the ruler to the town government, the trades or guilds, also made use of these ecclesiastical buildings for storage and...
ABC-Clio, 2015. — 316 p. This new addition to the Daily Life through Artifacts series provides not only the full benefit of a reference work with its comprehensive explanations and primary sources, but also supplies images of the objects, bringing a particular aspect of the medieval world to life. Each entry in Artifacts from Medieval Europe explains and expands upon the...
Brill, 2010. - 270 p. The idea for this volume grew out of a series of panels on ‘madness’ over the course of three years’ International Congresses on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan and the International Medieval Congresses at the University of Leeds in Leeds, England. The panels ranged from defining mental illnesses in law, to legal...
University of Toronto Press, 2017. — 464 p. In "England in Europe, Elizabeth "Muir Tyler focuses on two histories: the "Encomium Emmae Reginae", written for Emma the wife of the Aethelred II and Cnut, and "The Life of King Edward", written for Edith the wife of Edward the Confessor. Tyler offers a bold literary and historical analysis of both texts and reveals how the two...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1999. — 234 p. — (Early Modern History: Society and Culture). Introduction: Historical Laughter Land of Cockaigne Laughter Embodied A Cure for the Civilized The Politics of Joking Entremets: Turning Bakhtin upside down Censoring Lies Jestbooks in the Spanish Netherlands Counter Reformation Humour Postscript: Hispanic Flemish Hotchpotch
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 207 p. The Gregorian Reform, Pastoral Power, and Subjection The Courtly Fold: The Subjectivation of Pastoral Power and the Invention of Modern Eroticism Chrétien de Troyes’s Diagram of Power: Perceval
BÖHLAU, 1964. — 268 p. Inhalt Die Landschaft Der Bauer Der Ritter Der König und die Fürsten Geistliche und Mönche Der Bürger Fahrende Leute Schluß Die wichtigste Literatur Register
Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. — 244 p. Ficino and music Ficino's Magic Pletho, Lazaretti & Ficino Ficino's magic in the 16th century Telesians Campanella
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 240 p. Wondrous Skins and Tactile Affection: The Blemmye’s Touch Noli me Tangere: The Enigma of Touch in Middle English Religious Literature and Art for and About Women Havelok’s Bare Life and the Significance of Skin The Medieval Werewolf Model of Reading Skin Cutaneous Time in the Late Medieval Literary Imagination The Form of the Formless:...
Boydell and Brewer, 2016. — 265 p. The livery collar had a pervasive presence in late-medieval England. Worn about the neck to denote service to a lord, references to the collar abound in government records, contemporary chronicles and correspondence, and many depictions of the collar can be found in illuminated manuscripts and on church monuments. From the fifteenth century...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 298 p. This book presents the first full-length study in English of monumental bronzes in the Middle Ages. Taking as its point of departure the common medieval reception of bronze sculpture as living or animated, the study closely analyzes the practice of lost-wax casting (cire perdue) in western Europe and explores the cultural...
Torun: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikolaja Kopernika, 2008. — 625 s. Venta J., Hartmann Z., Vollmann-Profe G. Medieval culture and literature in the state of the German Order in Prussia: life and succession. Torun: Scientific Publishing House of the Nicolaus Copernicus University, 2008. - 625 p. Dieser Band bildet den Auftakt der neuen Reihe Sacra bella septentrionalia....
University of Toronto Press, 2015. - 152 p. Between the early thirteenth and late fifteenth centuries, theologians and preachers in Western Europe adopted a distinct and rigidly structured sermon format. The scholastic sermon, as it was known, was taught through technical treatises known as artes praedicandi, of which approximately 230 survive. A dense and complicated...
York Medieval Press, 2004. — 174 p. Medieval castles have traditionally been explained as feats of military engineering and tools of feudal control, but Abigail Wheatley takes a different approach, looking at a range of sources usually neglected in castle studies. Evidence from contemporary literature and art reveals the castle's place at the heart of medieval culture, as an...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2004. — 165 p. — (The Northern World 11). This volume includes selected papers from an interdisciplinary symposium in Norse Studies held at the University of St Andrews. The symposium brought together scholars with a shared interest in medieval Scandinavian history and culture, especially the sagas, from a variety of disciplines, and this diversity is...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. - 296 p. Introduction: Setting the Scene The Foundation Legend of Godstow Abbey: A Holy Woman’s Life in Anglo-Norman Verse Remembering Countess Delphine’s Books: Reading as a Means to Shape a Holy Woman’s Sanctity The Letters of Princess Sophia of Hungary, a Nun at Admont The Missing Rusian Women: The Case of Evpraksia Vsevolodovna Leaving Warboys:...
Geneve, 2013. — 107 p. Les travaux de Jean Wirth sur l’histoire de l’image médiévale se sont accompagnés dès le début d’une réflexion théorique sur la sémantique de l’image dont il livre les résultats dans ce petit ouvrage. Après avoir montré combien la notion d’image est devenue floue, il reprend le problème là où l’avaient laissé les penseurs du passé, comme saint Thomas,...
Bremer Landesmuseum für Kunst, 1982. — 230 p. Handbuch zur Sonderausstellung vom 5. Dezember 1982 bis 24. April 1983 im Bremer Landesmuseum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte (Focke-Museum). Beiträge u.a. von Hartmut Boockmann (Die Lebensverhältnisse in spätmittelalterlichen Städten), Heiko Steuer (Zum Lebensstandard in der mittelalterlichen Stadt), Hans-Georg Stephan (Die...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 288 p. Poetry’s Old War The Broken Flood of the Miller’s Tale The Runaway Gods of the Manciple’s Tale The Lost World of the Nun’s Priest’s Tale
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 270 p. During the early medieval period, crusading brought about new ways of writing about the city of Jerusalem in Europe. By creating texts that embellished the historical relationship between the Holy City and England, English authors endowed their nation with a reputation of power and importance. In Jerusalem in Medieval Narrative,...
Palgrave, 2003. — 220 p. — (The New Middle Ages 35). Zeikowitz explores both affirming and denigrating discourses of male same-sex desire in diverse fourteenth-century chivalric texts and describes the sociopolitical forces motivating those discourses. He attempts to dethrone traditional heteronormative views by drawing attention to culturally normative 'queer' desire....
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