Medieval category: 3965 books
by Margaret Bent
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The Speculum musicae of the early fourteenth century, with nearly half a million words, is by a long way the largest medieval treatise on music, and probably the most learned. Only the final two books are about music as commonly understood: the other five invite further work by students of scholastic...
Genoa's Freedom
Entrepreneurship, Republicanism, and the Spanish Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
This book investigates the economic, intellectual and political history of late medieval and early modern Genoa and the historical origins of the Genoese presence in the Spanish Atlantic. Salonia describes Genoa’s late medieval economic expansion and commercial networks through several case studies,...
The Roman de la rose in its Philosophical Context
Art, Nature, and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
The Roman de la rose in its Philosophical Context offers a new interpretation of the long and complex medieval allegorical poem written by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun in the thirteenth century, a work that became one of the most influential works of vernacular literature in the European Middle...
Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 37
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture: Literary Appropriations
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Volume 37— Literary Appropriations—examines medieval literature in a different light. This volume features six original articles, focusing on the art of appropriation, as well as fourteen reviews of recent scholarly publications.
The first article “The Oldest Manuscript Witness of the...
by A. S. Turberville
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
The aim of this book is to provide, within a short space, and primarily for the general reader, an account of the heresies of the Middle Ages and of the attitude of the Church towards them. The book is, therefore, a brief essay in the history not only of dogma, but, inasmuch as it is concerned with...
by Anthony Cassell
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984
Dante's Fearful Art of Justice deals primarily with the symbolic significance of 'the state of souls after death' in various episodes of the Inferno, the first canticle of Dante's Divina Commedia. The fruitlessness of the Auerbach-Singleton approach to the poem is demonstrated by Professor Cassell's...
Speculative Grammar and Stoic Language Theory in Medieval Allegorical Narrative
From Prudentius to Alan of Lille
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
In his Plaint of Nature (De planctu Naturae), Alan of Lille bases much of his argument against sin in general and homosexuality in particular on the claim that both amount to bad grammar. The book explores the philosophical uses of grammar that were so formative of Alan’s thinking in major writers...
Mental Language
From Plato to William of Ockham
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The notion that human thought is structured like a language, with a precise syntax and semantics, has been pivotal in recent philosophy of mind. Yet it is not a new idea: it was systematically explored in the fourteenth century by William of Ockham and became central in late medieval philosophy. Mental...
Prophecy
The History of an Idea in Medieval Jewish Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
More than any other topic, prophecy represents the point at which the Divine meets the human, the Absolute meets the relative. How can a human being attain the Word of God? In what manner does God, when conceived as eternal and transcendent, address corporeal, transitory creatures? What happens to...
by A. Gerber
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Ovid's Metamorphoses played an irrefutably important role in the integration of pagan mythology in Christian texts during the Middle Ages. This book is the only study to consider this Ovidian revival as part of a cultural shift disintegrating the boundaries between not only sacred and profane literacy but also between academic and secular politics.
The Arguments of Aquinas
A Philosophical View
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
The Arguments of Aquinas is intended for readers with philosophical interests, who may not be specialists in medieval philosophy. Some think that a medieval saint must be, as such, wrong, dated, and boring; others feel that a saint, any saint, must be right, relevant, and inspirational. Both groups...
The Sephardic Frontier
The "Reconquista" and the Jewish Community in Medieval Iberia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
No subject looms larger over the historical landscape of medieval Spain than that of the reconquista, the rapid expansion of the power of the Christian kingdoms into the Muslim-populated lands of southern Iberia, which created a broad frontier zone that for two centuries remained a region of warfare...
Forging a Region
Sultans, Traders, and Pilgrims in Gujarat, 1200–1500
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
Gujarat lies at the confluence of communities, commerce, and cultures. As the modern Indian state of Gujarat marks its fiftieth year in 2010, this book charts its coalescence into a distinct political and linguistic unit roughly five hundred years ago. From the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries,...
Dante on View
The Reception of Dante in the Visual and Performing Arts
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Dante on View opens an important new dimension in Dante studies: for the first time a collection of essays analyses the presence of the Italian Medieval poet Dante Alighieri in the visual and performing arts from the Middle Ages to the present day. The essays in this volume explore the image of Dante...