Medieval category: 3965 books
Ekphrastic Medieval Visions
A New Discussion in Interarts Theory
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Explores the transformative power of ekphrasis in high and late medieval dream visions and mystical visions. Demonstrates that medieval ekphrases reveal ekphrasis as a process rather than a genre and shows how it works with cultural memory to transform, shift, and revise composition.
Denmark and Europe in the Middle Ages, c.1000–1525
Essays in Honour of Professor Michael H. Gelting
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Where medieval Denmark and Scandinavia as a whole has often been seen as a cultural backwater that passively and belatedly received cultural and political impulses from Western Europe, Professor Michael H. Gelting and scholars inspired by him have shown that the intellectual, religious and political...
by W. P. Ker
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2015
The title of Epic, or of "heroic poem," is claimed by historians for a number of works belonging to the earlier Middle Ages, and to the medieval origins of modern literature. "Epic" is a term freely applied to the old school of Germanic narrative poetry, which in different dialects...
The Lily and the Thistle
The French Tradition and the Older Literature of Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
In The Lily and the Thistle, William Calin argues for a reconsideration of the French impact on medieval and renaissance Scottish literature. Calin proposes that much of traditional, medieval, and early modern Scottish culture, thought to be native to Scotland or primarily from England, is in fact...
by Margaux Baum, Andrea Hopkins, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Throughout Europe, medieval forces were either engaged in conflict or preparing for it through training. Arising from the need to keep the skills of warriors sharp and battle-ready, medieval jousting for knights on horseback became a widespread pastime. This book details how the culture of medieval...
The Witches' Ointment
The Secret History of Psychedelic Magic
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
An exploration of the historical origins of the “witches’ ointment” and medieval hallucinogenic drug practices based on the earliest sources
• Details how early modern theologians demonized psychedelic folk magic into “witches’ ointments”
• Shares dozens of psychoactive...
Medieval Handgonnes
The first black powder infantry weapons
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
In the early 14th century, a new weapon entered the arsenals of European armies. This first generation of black powder weapons put fear into the heart of the enemy and in 1453 Ottoman cannon succeeded in pummelling the once-impregnable walls of Constantinople. But cannons, which are both slow and...
Early Medieval Europe 300–1050
A Guide for Studying and Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Early Medieval Europe 300–1050: A Guide for Studying and Teaching empowers students by providing them with the conceptual and methodological tools to investigate the period. Throughout the book, major research questions and historiographical debates are identified and guidance is given on how to...
Emotions, Communities, and Difference in Medieval Europe
Essays in Honor of Barbara H. Rosenwein
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
This book of eleven essays by an international group of scholars in medieval studies honors the work of Barbara H. Rosenwein, Professor emerita of History at Loyola University Chicago. Part I, “Emotions and Communities,” comprises six essays that make use of Rosenwein’s well-known and widely...
by J.b. Bury, Norman Baynes, Louis Halphen
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
The Cambridge Medieval History Collection is a fantastic and comprehensive history of medieval Europe.
Featuring:
Volume 1 - THE CHRISTIAN ROMAN EMPIRE AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE TEUTONIC KINGDOMS
Volume 2 - THE RISE OF THE SARACENS AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE
Volume...
Forbidden Rites
A Necromancer’s Manual of the Fifteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 1998
Preserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich is a manuscript that few scholars have noticed and that no one in modern times has treated with the seriousness it deserves. Forbidden Rites consists of an edition of this medieval Latin text with a full commentary, including detailed analysis of the...
How Soon Is Now?
Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
How Soon Is Now? performs a powerful critique of modernist temporal regimes through its revelatory exploration of queer ways of being in time as well as of the potential queerness of time itself. Carolyn Dinshaw focuses on medieval tales of asynchrony and on engagements with these medieval temporal...
Pluralism in the Middle Ages
Hybrid Identities, Conversion, and Mixed Marriages in Medieval Iberia
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
The challenges of cultural and religious diversity that face European and American societies today are not a new phenomenon. People in the Middle Ages lived in pluralistic societies, and they found highly interesting ways of dealing with religious and cultural diversity. While religious and political...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
This volume, the first dedicated and comprehensive companion to medieval logic, covers both the Latin and the Arabic traditions, and shows that they were in fact sister traditions, which both arose against the background of a Hellenistic heritage and which influenced one another over the centuries....