Medieval category: 3965 books
A Cloister on Trial
Religious Culture and Everyday Life in Late Medieval Hungary
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
In 1517, the usually tranquil friary in the Hungarian town of Körmend found itself at the centre of controversy when its Augustinian friars, charged with drunkenness, sexual abuses and liturgical negligence, were driven out and replaced with observant Franciscans. The agent of change in this conflict,...
by Henry Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2015
The Middle Ages! They seem so far away; intellectually so preposterous, spiritually so strange. Bits of them may touch our sympathy, please our taste; their window-glass, their sculpture, certain of their stories, their romances,—as if those straitened ages really were the time of romance, which...
Old-Time Makers of Medicine
The Students and Teachers of Medicine During the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Looking back from the vantage-point of the 21st century, medieval medicine seems hopelessly antiquated and even alarmingly ignorant. But today's advanced medical technology wouldn't be possible without those distant historical foundations. In this comprehensive survey of medieval medicine from James J. Walsh, a fascinating picture emerges of the brave and intrepid pioneers who helped pave the way.
Medieval Herbal Remedies
The Old English Herbarium and Anglo-Saxon Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This book presents for the first time an up-to-date and easy-to-read translation of a medical reference work that was used in Western Europe from the fifth century well into the Renaissance. Listing 185 medicinal plants, the uses for each, and remedies that were compounded using them, the translation will fascinate medievalist, medical historians and the layman alike.
Pious and Rebellious
Jewish Women in Medieval Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
This volume, an amazing act of historical recovery and reconstruction, offers a comprehensive examination of Jewish women in Europe during the High Middle Ages (1000–1300). Avraham Grossman covers multiple aspects of women’s lives in medieval Jewish society, including the image of woman, the structure...
The War On Heresy
Faith and Power in Medieval Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
The great war on heresy obsessed medieval Europe in the centuries after the first millennium. R. I. Moore's vivid narrative focuses on the motives and anxieties of those who declared and conducted the war: what were the beliefs and practices they saw as heretical? How might such beliefs have arisen?...
The Sleep of Behemoth
Disputing Peace and Violence in Medieval Europe, 1000–1200
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In The Sleep of Behemoth, Jehangir Yezdi Malegam explores the emergence of conflicting concepts of peace in western Europe during the High Middle Ages. Ever since the early Church, Christian thinkers had conceived of their peace separate from the peace of the world, guarded by the sacraments and shared...
St. Francis of Assisi and Nature
Tradition and Innovation in Western Christian Attitudes toward the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 1988
One of the best-loved saints of all time, Francis of Assisi is often depicted today as a kind of proto-hippie or early environmentalist. This book, the most comprehensive study in English of Francis's view of nature in the context of medieval tradition, debunks modern anachronistic interpretations,...
by W. P. Barrett
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
First published in 1931, this is the first unabridged English translation of the documents pertaining to the trial of Joan of Arc. The basis of the translation is drawn from an edition of the text published in 1841 by Jules Quicherat, but elements are also derived from a number of the manuscripts...
by Ramon Llull, Noel Fallows
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Ramon Llull (1232-1316) composed The Book of the Order of Chivalry between 1274 and 1276 as both an instrument of reform and an agent for change. His aim was to create and codify the rules for a unilateral Order of Chivalry. Loyalty to the Order, coupled with common sense, religious faith, education,...
Living Together, Living Apart
Rethinking Jewish-Christian Relations in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
This book challenges the standard conception of the Middle Ages as a time of persecution for Jews. Jonathan Elukin traces the experience of Jews in Europe from late antiquity through the Renaissance and Reformation, revealing how the pluralism of medieval society allowed Jews to feel part of their...
Furta Sacra
Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages - Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
To obtain sacred relics, medieval monks plundered tombs, avaricious merchants raided churches, and relic-mongers scoured the Roman catacombs. In a revised edition of Furta Sacra, Patrick Geary considers the social and cultural context for these acts, asking how the relics were perceived and why the thefts met with the approval of medieval Christians.
by Justin Steinberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2013
In Dante and the Limits of the Law, Justin Steinberg offers the first comprehensive study of the legal structure essential to Dante’s Divine Comedy. Steinberg reveals how Dante imagines an afterlife dominated by sophisticated laws, hierarchical jurisdictions, and rationalized punishments and rewards....
by Ronald G. Witt
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
This book traces the intellectual life of the Kingdom of Italy, the area in which humanism began in the mid thirteenth century, a century or more before exerting its influence on the rest of Europe. Covering a period of over four and a half centuries, this study offers the first integrated analysis...