Medieval category: 3965 books
by T. Tinkle
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
After establishing a feminist-historicist perspective on the tradition of biblical commentary, Tinkle develops in-depth case studies that situate scholars reading the bible in three distinct historical moments, and in so doing she exposes the cultural pressures that medieval scholars felt as they interpreted the bible.
by Robert S. Rait
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
A fascinating look at University life in the Medieval era, written by Scottish historian, Historiographer Royal and Principal of the University of Glasgow Sir Robert Sangster Rait Kt. CBE DL.
by Steele Nowlin
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
In this book, Steele Nowlin examines the process of poetic invention as it is conceptualized and expressed in the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) and John Gower (ca. 1330–1408). Specifically, it examines how these two poets present invention as an affective force, a process characterized...
Fleas, Flies, and Friars
Children's Poetry from the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Medieval children lived in a world rich in poetry, from lullabies, nursery rhymes, and songs to riddles, tongue twisters, and nonsensical verses. They read or listened to stories in verse: ballads of Robin Hood, romances, and comic tales. Poems were composed to teach them how to behave, eat at meals,...
Author, Reader, Book
Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
The current focus on the theme of authorship in Medieval and Early Modern studies reopens questions of poetic agency and intent. Bringing into conversation several kinds of scholarship on medieval authorship, the essays in Author, Reader, Book examine interrelated questions raised by the relationship...
Babylon Under Western Eyes
A Study of Allusion and Myth
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Babylon under Western Eyes examines the mythic legacy of ancient Babylon, the Near Eastern city which has served western culture as a metaphor for power, luxury, and exotic magnificence for more than two thousand years.
Sifting through the many references to Babylon in biblical, classical,...
Textual and Visual Representations of Power and Justice in Medieval France
Manuscripts and Early Printed Books
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Thoroughly interdisciplinary in approach, this volume examines how concepts such as the exercising of power, the distribution of justice, and transgression against the law were treated in both textual and pictorial terms in works produced and circulated in medieval French manuscripts and early printed...
The King's Two Bodies
A Study in Medieval Political Theology
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
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 monarchy, as epitomized by the statement, "The king...
by Karina Marie Ash
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Drastic changes in lay religiosity during the High Middle Ages spurred anxiety about women forsaking their secular roles as wives and mothers for religious ones as nuns and beguines. This anxiety and the subsequent need to model an ideal of feminine behavior for the laity is particularly expressed...
Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book
Gender and the Making of Textual Authority
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Sometime around 1230, a young woman left her family and traveled to the German city of Magdeburg to devote herself to worship and religious contemplation. Rather than living in a community of holy women, she chose isolation, claiming that this life would bring her closer to God. Even in her lifetime,...
by Frances Courtney Kneupper
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In this book, Frances Courtney Kneupper examines the apocalyptic prophecies of the late medieval Empire, which even within the sensational genre of eschatological prophecy stand out for their bitter and violent nature. In addition to depicting the savage chastisement of the clergy and the forcible...
by Hunt Janin, Ursula Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
In medieval and Renaissance Europe, mercenaries--professional soldiers who fought for money or other rewards--played violent, colorful, international roles in warfare, but they have received relatively little scholarly attention. In this book a large number of vignettes portray their activities in...
The Friars
The Impact of the Mendicant Orders on Medieval Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
The mendicant friars of the Franciscan and Dominican orders played a unique and important role in medieval society. In the early thirteenth century, the Church was being challenged by a confident new secular culture, associated with the growth of towns, the rise of literature and articulate laity,...
Her Father’s Daughter
Gender, Power, and Religion in the Early Spanish Kingdoms
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
"In Her Father’s Daughter, Lucy K. Pick looks to a much-neglected aspect of the history of the Spanish kingdoms in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Her book is novel and original."—Teofilo Ruiz, author of A King Travels
"Her Father’s Daughter will contribute to and enrich ongoing discussions...