Medieval category: 3965 books
by Shannon McSheffrey
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Awarded honorable mention for the 2007 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize sponsored by the Canadian Historical Association
How were marital and sexual relationships woven into the fabric of late medieval society, and what form did these relationships take? Using extensive documentary evidence from both...
Through A Classical Eye
Transcultural & Transhistorical Visions in Medieval English, Italian, and Latin Literature in Honour of Winthrop Wetherbee
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
As students and scholars of Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Dante know, late medieval writers were influenced greatly by the work of peers that crossed historical, national, cultural, linguistic boundaries. Through a Classical Eye contains first-rate essays that demonstrate a range of strategies for undertaking...
The Cistercian Order in Medieval Europe
1090-1500
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
The Cistercian Order in Medieval Europe offers an accessible and engaging history of the Order from its beginnings in the twelfth century through to the early sixteenth century. Unlike most other existing volumes on this subject it gives a nuanced analysis of the late medieval Cistercian experience...
Voice in Later Medieval English Literature
Public Interiorities
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
David Lawton approaches later medieval English vernacular culture in terms of voice. As texts and discourses shift in translation and in use from one language to another, antecedent texts are revoiced in ways that recreate them (as 'public interiorities') without effacing their history or future....
Animal Encounters
Contacts and Concepts in Medieval Britain
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Traces of the living animal run across the entire corpus of medieval writing and reveal how pervasively animals mattered in medieval thought and practice. In fascinating scenes of cross-species encounters, a raven offers St. Cuthbert a lump of lard that waterproofs his visitors' boots for a whole...
Marrying Jesus in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe
Popular Culture and Religious Reform
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
The first full-length study of the notion of marriage to Jesus in late medieval and early modern popular culture, this book treats the transmission and transformation of ideas about this concept as a case study in the formation of religious belief and popular culture. Marrying Jesus in Medieval and...
Imprisoning Medieval Women
The Non-Judicial Confinement and Abduction of Women in England, c.1170-1509
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
The non-judicial confinement of women is a common event in medieval European literature and hagiography. The literary image of the imprisoned woman, usually a noblewoman, has carried through into the quasi-medieval world of the fairy and folk tale, in which the 'maiden in the tower' is one of the...
by Dr Michelle M. Sauer
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Gender in Medieval Culture provides a detailed examination of medieval society's views on both gender and sexuality, and shows how they are inextricably linked. Sex roles were clearly defined in the medieval world although there were exceptions to the rules, and this book examines both the commonplace...
by William Calin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
he French presence in English literary history in the centuries following the Conquest has to some extent been glossed over or treated as an interlude. During this period, roughly 1100-1420, French, like Latin, was the language of the educated; in the courts of England, and for nobles, clerics, and...
Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz
Men, Women, and Everyday Religious Observance
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In the urban communities of medieval Germany and northern France, the beliefs, observances, and practices of Jews allowed them to create and define their communities on their own terms as well as in relation to the surrounding Christian society. Although medieval Jewish texts were written by a learned...
by Christian Raffensperger
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Conflict, Bargaining, and Kinship Networks in Medieval Eastern Europe takes the familiar view of Eastern Europe, families, and conflicts and stands it on its head. Instead of a world rife with civil war and killing, this book presents a relatively structured environment where conflict is engaged in...
Mapping the Medieval City
Space, Place and Identity in Chester c.1200-1600
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
This ground-breaking volume brings together contributions from scholars across a range of disciplines (including literary studies, history, geography and archaeology) to investigate questions of space, place and identity in the medieval city. Using Chester as a case study – with attention to its...
The Cambridge Medieval History - Book I
From the Rise of Constantine to the Death of Julian
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
THE first question that has to be considered in laying down the plan of a Medieval History is, Where to begin? Where shall we draw the line that separates it from Ancient History? Some would fix it at the death of Domitian, others at that of Marcus. Some would come down to Constantine, to the death...
Women's Lives in Medieval Europe
A Sourcebook
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Praise for the first edition:
'It is difficult to imagine another book in which one could find all this diverse material, and no doubt Amt's collection, in its richness, and in its genuine clarity and simplicity will takes prominent place in our expanded, diversified medieval curriculum, a...