Medieval category: 3965 books
Piety in Pieces
How Medieval Readers Customized their Manuscripts
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Medieval manuscripts resisted obsolescence. Made by highly specialised craftspeople (scribes, illuminators, book binders) with labour-intensive processes using exclusive and sometimes exotic materials (parchment made from dozens or hundreds of skins, inks and paints made from prized minerals, animals...
Through the Daemon's Gate
Kepler's Somnium, Medieval Dream Narratives, and the Polysemy of Allegorical Motifs
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This book tells the story of the early modern astronomer Johannes Kepler’s Somnium, which has been regarded by science historians and literary critics alike as the first true example of science fiction. Kepler began writing his complex and heavily-footnoted tale of a fictional Icelandic astronomer...
The Psychedelic Gospels
The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Reveals evidence of visionary plants in Christianity and the life of Jesus found in medieval art and biblical scripture--hidden in plain sight for centuries
• Follows the authors’ anthropological adventure discovering sacred mushroom images in European and Middle Eastern churches, including...
by John Marenbon
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002
An introduction to philosophy in the Latin West (1150-1350) combines an historical approach with philosophical analysis of thirteenth and fourteenth-century writing in terms comprehensible to the modern reader.
Contingency and Freedom
Lectura I 39
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
During the seventies, there was a revival of systematic philosophy in general and of ontology in particular. At the same time, especially in Anglo-Saxon thinking, systematic philosophy interacted very creatively with the history of medieval philosophy. It seems to us that the work of John Duns Scotus...
Margery Kempe
and her world
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Daughter of a mayor of King's Lynn, wife of a burgess there and mother of fourteen children, Margery Kempe (c. 1373-post 1438) was also a religious mystic and hysteric, who dictated her 'autobiography' to a scribe at the end of her life. In this history of her life, Anthony Goodman examines "The...
by Paul Vinogradoff
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2015
Within the whole range of history there is no more momentous and puzzling problem than that connected with the fate of Roman Law after the downfall of the Roman State. How is it that a system shaped to meet certain historical conditions not only survived those conditions, hut has retained its vitality...
by Elaine Treharne
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
This Very Short Introduction provides a compelling account of the emergence of the earliest literature in Britain and Ireland, including English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman. Introducing the reader to some of the greatest poetry, prose and drama ever written, Elaine Treharne...
The Gnostic Paradigm
Forms of Knowing in English Literature of the Late Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
No study has been carried out examining the gnostic undercurrents in medieval England. For the first time, Natanela Elias investigates the existence of these gnostic traces, using prominent late medieval English literary works such as Piers Plowman and Confessio Amantis and ultimately shedding light on a previously overlooked religious dimension.
by Catherine E. Léglu
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
The Occitan literary tradition of the later Middle Ages is a marginal and hybrid phenomenon, caught between the preeminence of French courtly romance and the emergence of Catalan literary prose. In this book, Catherine Léglu brings together, for the first time in English, prose and verse texts that...
The Book of Emperors
A Translation of the Middle High German Kaiserchronik
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The Kaiserchronik (c.1152–1165) is the first verse chronicle to have been written in a language other than Latin. This story recounts the exploits of the Roman, Byzantine, Carolingian, and Holy Roman kings and rulers, from the establishment of Rome to the start of the Second Crusade. As an early...
Russian Tales of Demonic Possession
Translations of Savva Grudtsyn and Solomonia
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Russian Tales of Demonic Possession: Translations of Savva Grudtsyn and Solomonia is a translation from the Russian of two stories of demonic possession, of innocence lost and regained. The original versions of both tales date back to the seventeenth century, but the feats of suffering and triumph...
by Henry Morley
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
This volume of "Mediæval Tales" is in four parts, containing severally, (1) Turpin's "History of Charles the Great and Orlando," which is an old source of Charlemagne romance; (2) Spanish Ballads, relating chiefly to the romance of Charlemagne, these being taken from the spirited...
Interpreting Avicenna
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Avicenna is the greatest philosopher of the Islamic world. His immense impact on Christian and Jewish medieval thought, as well as on the subsequent Islamic tradition, is charted in this volume alongside studies which provide a comprehensive introduction to and analysis of his philosophy. Contributions...