Medieval category: 3965 books
Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind
Medieval Constructions of a Disability
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
"Bold, deeply learned, and important, offering a provocative thesis that is worked out through legal and archival materials and in subtle and original readings of literary texts. Absolutely new in content and significantly innovative in methodology and argument, Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind...
Reading Medieval Anchoritism
Ideology and Spiritual Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Medieval anchorites willingly embraced the most extreme form of solitude known to the medieval world, so they might forge a closer connection with God. Yet to be physically enclosed within the same four walls for life required strength far beyond most medieval Christians. This book explores the English...
by M J Toswell
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Just how medieval is the modern university? From their medieval beginnings in Western Europe, universities have remained monolithic and static entities, renovating themselves just enough to avoid massive interventions by the state or the church. Like parliamentary democracies, they function just well...
When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans
A Study of Identity in Pre-Nationalist Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slavonia in the Medieval and Early-Modern Periods
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
"This is history as it should be written. In When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans, a logical advancement on his earlier studies, Fine has successfully tackled a fascinating historical question, one having broad political implications for our own times. Fine's approach is to demonstrate...
The Medieval Filmscape
Reflections of Fear and Desire in a Cinematic Mirror
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
This book is an attempt at defining the genre of medieval film by describing its features and analyzing its effects and their significance, there being few works presently available that work toward such definition. There are three parts: the introduction enters the medieval film world, describing...
by Ivan G. Marcus
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Composed in Germany in the early thirteenth century by Judah ben Samuel he-hasid, Sefer Hasidim, or "Book of the Pietists," is a compendium of religious instruction that portrays the everyday life of Jews as they lived together with and apart from Christians in towns such as Speyer, Worms,...
The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture
Reflections on Medieval Sources
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture is an introduction to medieval Europe unlike any other. These 26 essays, written by accomplished scholars all trained at the University of California, Berkeley, reflect on medieval texts and the opportunities they present for exploration of the Middle Ages. Introduced...
Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters, The
Arabic Knowledge Construction
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
In The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters: Arabic Knowledge Construction, Muhsin J. al-Musawi offers a groundbreaking study of literary heritage in the medieval and premodern Islamic period. Al-Musawi challenges the paradigm that considers the period from the fall of Baghdad in 1258 to the collapse...
Samson and Delilah in Medieval Insular French
Translation and Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
Samson and Delilah in Medieval Insular French investigates several different adaptations of the story of Samson that enabled it to move from a strictly religious sphere into vernacular and secular artworks. Catherine Léglu explores the narrative’s translation into French in medieval England, examining...
by Christine Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
St Katherine of Alexandria was one of the most popular saints in both the Orthodox and Latin Churches in the later Middle Ages, yet there has been little study of how her cult developed before c. 1200. This book redresses the balance, providing a thorough examination of the way the cult spread from...
The Medieval Military Engineer
From the Roman Empire to the Sixteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
The results of medieval engineering still surround us - cathedrals, castles, stone bridges, irrigation systems. However, the siege artillery, siege towers, temporary bridges, earthwork emplacements and underground mines used for war have left little trace behind them; and there is even less of the...
Affections of the Mind
The Politics of Sacramental Marriage in Late Medieval English Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Affections of the Mind argues that a politicized negotiation of issues of authority in the institution of marriage can be found in late medieval England, where an emergent middle class of society used a sacramental model of marriage to exploit contradictions within medieval theology and social hierarchy....
Social Memory in Late Medieval England
Village Life and Proofs of Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
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...
Reading the Middle Ages
An Introduction to Medieval Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Medieval literature is separated from us by so many centuries that it may seem completely foreign, both in its concerns and its techniques. However, this literature has much to say to 21st century readers and Steinberg’s book demonstrates its continuing relevance and appeal. This introduction to...