Medieval category: 3965 books
Scotus for Dunces
An Introduction to the Subtle Doctor
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2003
This book is a simple guide to theological and philosophical aspects of the thought of the medieval Franciscan, John Duns Scotus. Known as the Subtle Doctor, Scotus has a reputation for intricate and technical reasoning. Ingham provides an insightful and creative introduction to his thought in this...
by Israel Abrahams
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Highly readable social history comprehensively examines life of European Jews, from approximately the late 10th-century to the early 1500s. Topics include social functions of the synagogue, communal organizations, love, courtship and marriage, monogamy and home life, trades and occupations, medieval pastimes and personal relations between Christians and Jews.
by Laura Varnam
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
This book presents an exciting new approach to the medieval church by examining the role of literary texts, visual decorations, ritual performance and lived experience in the production of sanctity. The meaning of the church was intensely debated in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and the...
The Book of Gladness / Le Livre de Leesce
A 14th Century Defense of Women, in English and French, by Jehan Le Fevre
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
The Book of Gladness (ca. 1380) contains one of the most powerful, original, and influential pro-feminine voices of the late Middle Ages. In a spirited riposte to the misogynist tradition, Le Fèvre (with the help of Gladness, his lady-persona) boldly reinterprets the Bible while questioning ancient...
Debating the Roman de la Rose
A Critical Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Around the year 1400, the poet Christine de Pizan initiated a public debate in France over the literary "truth" and merit of the Roman of the Rose, perhaps the most renowned work of the French Middle Ages. She argued against what she considered to be misrepresentations of female virtue and...
The Age of Reform, 1250-1550
An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 1980
The seeds of the swift and sweeping religious movement that turned great numbers of Europeans into Protestants in the early 1500s had been sown far back in the late Middle Ages. In this book, Steven Ozment traces the growth and dispersal of dissenting ideologies through three centuries to their...
Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life
The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
The Devotio Moderna, or Modern Devout, puzzled their contemporaries. Beginning in the 1380s in market towns along the Ijssel River of the east-central Netherlands and in the county of Holland, they formed households organized as communes and forged lives centered on private devotion. They lived on...
Patron Saint and Prophet
Jan Hus in the Bohemian and German Reformations
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The Bohemian preacher and religious reformer Jan Hus has been celebrated as a de facto saint since being burned at the stake as a heretic in 1415. Patron Saint and Prophet analyzes Hus's commemoration from the time of his death until the middle of the following century, tracing the ways in which both...
The Formation of the English Common Law
Law and Society in England from King Alfred to Magna Carta
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
The Formation of English Common Law provides a comprehensive overview of the development of early English law, one of the classic subjects of medieval history. This much expanded second edition spans the centuries from King Alfred to Magna Carta, abandoning the traditional but restrictive break at...
by Jean Dangler
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Nonmodern Iberia was a fluid space of shifting political kingdoms and culturally diverse communities. Scholars have long used a series of obsolete investigative frameworks such as the Reconquista, along with modern ideas of nation-states, periodization, and geography that are inadequate to the study...
Saracens and the Making of English Identity
The Auchinleck Manuscript
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This book explores the ways in which discourses of religious, racial, and national identity blur and engage each other in the medieval West. Specifically, the book studies depictions of Muslims in England during the 1330s and argues that these depictions, although historically inaccurate, served to...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984
The medieval English allegorical poem, The Court of Sapience, was written in the middle of the fifteenth century by an unknown author. It is best described as an encyclopaedia: in the allegory the poet describes the nature and activities of wisdom in all its aspects. He includes a moving account of...
Fallible Authors
Chaucer's Pardoner and Wife of Bath
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Can an outrageously immoral man or a scandalous woman teach morality or lead people to virtue? Does personal fallibility devalue one's words and deeds? Is it possible to separate the private from the public, to segregate individual failing from official function? Chaucer addressed these perennial...
The Romance of Tristran by Beroul and Beroul II
A Diplomatic Edition and a Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Written in the late-twelfth century, the Old French Romance of Tristran by Beroul is one of the earliest surviving versions of the story of Tristran and Iseut. Preserved in only one manuscript, the poem records the tragic tale that became one of the most popular themes of medieval literature, in several...