Medieval category: 3965 books
Positively Medieval
Life and Society in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
What was life like in the Middle Ages? Is it true that everyone was middle-aged? (Short answer, No.)
In this social history of the Middle Ages, written in a witty and engaging manner by an eminent scholar and illustrated with photographs, you will learn about everything from medieval farm animals...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003
Interdisciplinary in approach, Tolkien the Medievalist provides a fresh perspective on J. R. R. Tolkien's Medievalism. In fifteen essays, eminent scholars and new voices explore how Professor Tolkien responded to a modern age of crisis - historical, academic and personal - by adapting his scholarship...
Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 35
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international...
The Talents of Jacopo da Varagine
A Genoese Mind in Medieval Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Jacopo da Varagine (c. 1228–1298) is remembered today primarily for his immensely popular work The Golden Legend, a massive collection of stories about the saints. Compiled over the years 1260–67, The Golden Legend quickly eclipsed earlier collections of saints’ lives. One indication of its...
Routledge Revivals: Medieval Italy (2004)
An Encyclopedia - Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
First published in 2004, Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia provides an introduction to the many and diverse facets of Italian civilization from the late Roman empire to the end of the fourteenth century. It presents in two volumes articles on a wide range of topics including history, literature, art,...
Medieval Lives
Eight Charismatic Men and Women of the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
A fascinating look at life in the Middle Ages that focuses on eight extraordinary medieval men and women through realistically invented conversations between them and their counterparts.
Holy Matter
Changing Perceptions of the Material World in Late Medieval Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2014
A magnificent proliferation of new Christ-centered devotional practices—including affective meditation, imitative suffering, crusade, Eucharistic cults and miracles, passion drama, and liturgical performance—reveals profound changes in the Western Christian temperament of the twelfth century and...
The Hanged Man
A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Seven hundred years ago, executioners led a Welsh rebel named William Cragh to a wintry hill to be hanged. They placed a noose around his neck, dropped him from the gallows, and later pronounced him dead. But was he dead? While no less than nine eyewitnesses attested to his demise, Cragh later proved...
God's Heretics
The Albigensian Crusade
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2005
Believing in a radical separation of good and evil, flesh and spirit, the heretical medieval Cathar sect separated themselves from the rest of the world, often in soaring castles or fortified churches. The full power of the Church was unleashed against these heretics, but after an Inquisition failed...
by Daibhi O Croinin
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This impressive survey covers the early history of Ireland from the coming of Christianity to the Norman settlement. Within a broad political framework it explores the nature of Irish society, the spiritual and secular roles of the Church and the extraordinary flowering of Irish culture in the period....
by Danièle Cybulskie
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Funny, informative, and down-to-earth, this ebook features thirteen of the most popular articles from Medievalist.net's Five-Minute Medievalist, Danièle Cybulskie. Readers will learn about everything from the Templars, to popular movie myths, to love and lust advice from a 12th-century priest....
by Caroline Walker Bynum
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
A classic of medieval studies, The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200–1336 traces ideas of death and resurrection in early and medieval Christianity. Caroline Walker Bynum explores problems of the body and identity in devotional and theological literature, suggesting that medieval...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
This volume offers original studies on the subject of medieval education, not only in the formal academic
sense typical of schools and universities but also in a broader cultural sense that includes law, liturgy, and the new religious orders of the high Middle Ages. Its essays explore the transmission...
Righteous Persecution
Inquisition, Dominicans, and Christianity in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Righteous Persecution examines the long-controversial involvement of the Order of Preachers, or Dominicans, with inquisitions into heresy in medieval Europe. From their origin in the thirteenth century, the Dominicans were devoted to a ministry of preaching, teaching, and pastoral care, to "save...