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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
It is commonly supposed that certain elements of medieval philosophy are uncharacteristically preserved in modern philosophical thought through the idea that mental phenomena are distinguished from physical phenomena by their intentionality, their intrinsic directedness toward some object. The many...
The Medieval Motion Picture
The Politics of Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Providing new and challenging ways of understanding the medieval in the modern and vice versa, this volume highlights how medieval aesthetic experience breathes life into contemporary cinema. Engaging with the subject of time and temporality, the essays examine the politics of adaptation and our contemporary entanglement with the medieval.
A Medieval Manor House Rediscovered
Excavations at Longforth Farm, Wellington, Somerset by Simon Flaherty, Phil Andrews and Matt Leivers
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Excavations in advance of housing development at Longforth Farm, Wellington revealed limited evidence for late prehistoric settlement, but the principal discovery was the remains of a previously unknown high status medieval building complex. This is thought to have been a manor house and though heavily...
by James B. Tschen-Emmons Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Specifically intended for high school readers and junior college students, 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...
Fifty Early Medieval Things
Materials of Culture in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Fifty Early Medieval Things introduces readers to the material culture of late antique and early medieval Europe, north Africa, and western Asia. Ranging from Iran to Ireland and from Sweden to Tunisia, Deborah Deliyannis, Hendrik Dey, and Paolo Squatriti present fifty objects—artifacts, structures,...
The Liber legis Scaniae
The Latin Text with Introduction, Translation and Commentaries
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
The Liber legis Scaniae: The Latin Text with Introduction, Translation and Commentaries forms the second volume of The Danish Medieval Laws and is dedicated to the Latin text based on the Danish medieval Law of Scania.
Also known as the "Old laws of Scania", the Liber legis Scaniae...
Medieval 'Artes Praedicandi'
A Synthesis of Scholastic Sermon Structure
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
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...
Forgotten Queens in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Political Agency, Myth-Making, and Patronage
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Forgotten Queens in Medieval and Early Modern Europe examines queens dowager and queens consort who have disappeared from history or have been deeply misunderstood in modern historical treatment.
Divided into eleven chapters, this book covers queenship from 1016 to 1800, demonstrating the influence...
Seals and Society
Medieval Wales, the Welsh Marches and their English Border Region
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Seals and Society arises from a major project investigating seals and their use in medieval Wales, the Welsh March and neighbouring counties in England. The first major study of seals in the context of one part of medieval Western European society, the volume also offers a new perspective on the history...
Early Medieval Monetary History
Studies in Memory of Mark Blackburn
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Mark Blackburn was one of the leading scholars of the numismatics and monetary history of the British Isles and Scandinavia during the early medieval period. He published more than 200 books and articles on the subject, and was instrumental in building bridges between numismatics and associated disciplines,...
The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity
Volume 2: Medieval Meets Medievalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to...
The Welsh and the Medieval World
Travel, Migration and Exile
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
How did the Welsh travel beyond their geographical borders in the Middle Ages? What did they do, what did they take with them in their baggage, and what did they bring back? This book seeks for the first time to capture the medieval Welsh on the move, and core to its purpose is the exploration of...
Revisiting the Medieval North of England
Interdisciplinary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
The medieval north of England has been underexplored to date, and this volume may be seen as an invitation for further exploration. It brings together scholars with shared interests in language, literature, culture, history and manuscript studies, viewed from different disciplinary perspectives such...
by Nat Alcock, Dan Miles
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
The aim of this lavishly illustrated book is to provide an in-depth study of the many medieval peasant houses still standing in Midland villages, and of their historical context. In particular, the combination of tree-ring and radiocarbon dating, detailed architectural study and documentary research...