Medieval category: 3965 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Far from the oral society it was once assumed to have been, early medieval Europe was fundamentally shaped by the written word. This book offers a pioneering collection of fresh and innovative studies on a wide range of topics, each one representing cutting-edge scholarship, and collectively setting...
by Robert R. Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
From the twelfth century onwards, medieval English writers adapted the conventions of high literary culture to establish themselves as recognized authors and claim a significant place for works of imagination beside those of doctrine and instruction. Their efforts extended over three languages—Latin,...
Living Letters of the Law
Ideas of the Jew in Medieval Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 1999
In Living Letters of the Law, Jeremy Cohen investigates the images of Jews and Judaism in the works of medieval Christian theologians from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas. He reveals how—and why—medieval Christianity fashioned a Jew on the basis of its reading of the Bible, and how this hermeneutically...
God's Philosophers
How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2009
This is a powerful and a thrilling narrative history revealing the roots of modern science in the medieval world. The adjective 'medieval' has become a synonym for brutality and uncivilized behavior. Yet without the work of medieval scholars there could have been no Galileo, no Newton and no Scientific...
On the Margins of a Minority
Leprosy, Madness, and Disability among the Jews of Medieval Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
In medieval Europe, the much larger Christian population regarded Jews as their inferiors, but how did both Christians and Jews feel about those who were marginalized within the Ashkenazi Jewish community? In On the Margins of a Minority: Leprosy, Madness, and Disability among the Jews of Medieval Europe,...
by Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
In this concise and balanced survey of heresy and inquisition in the Middle Ages, Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane explores the increasingly bitter encounters between piety, reform, dissent, and the institutional Church between 1100 and 1500. Although the loaded terms of "heresy" and "orthodoxy"...
Medieval Monasticism
Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Medieval Monasticism traces the Western Monastic tradition from its fourth century origins in the deserts of Egypt and Syria, through the many and varied forms of religious life it assumed during the Middle Ages. Hugh Lawrence explores the many sided relationship between monasteries and the secular...
Later Medieval Europe
1250-1520
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
From the divine right of kings to the political philosophies of writers such as Machiavelli, the medieval city-states to the unification of Spain, Daniel Waley and Peter Denley focus on the growing power of the state to illuminate changing political ideas in Europe between the thirteenth and sixteenth...
by Katherine Ludwig Jansen
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Medieval Italian communes are known for their violence, feuds, and vendettas, yet beneath this tumult was a society preoccupied with peace. Peace and Penance in Late Medieval Italy is the first book to examine how civic peacemaking in the age of Dante was forged in the crucible of penitential religious...
Feeling Persecuted
Christians, Jews and Images of Violence in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
In Feeling Persecuted, Anthony Bale explores the medieval Christian attitude toward Jews, which included a pervasive fear of persecution and an imagined fear of violence enacted against Christians. As a result, Christians retaliated with expulsions, riots, and murders that systematically denied Jews...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
After the Roman empire fell, medieval Europe continued to be fascinated by Rome itself, the 'chief of cities'. Once the hub of empire, in the early medieval period Rome became an important centre for western Christianity, first of all as the place where Peter, Paul and many other important early Christian...
Medieval Crossover
Reading the Secular against the Sacred
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
In Medieval Crossover: Reading the Secular against the Sacred, Barbara Newman offers a new approach to the many ways that sacred and secular interact in medieval literature, arguing that the sacred was the normative, unmarked default category against which the secular always had to define itself and...
Historia medieval del sexo y del erotismo
La desconocida historia de la querella del esperma femenino y otros pleitos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Contra la creencia generalizada, la Edad Media fue un periodo en donde el goce sexual fue considerado una prioridad médica y se escribieron numerosos tratados sobre erotismo. Persiste la idea de que la Edad Media fue una época oscura y puritana, pero lejos de esa idea, el Medievo fue una época...
by Sherri Olson
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
A study of life inside medieval monasteries that explores monastic spirituality, daily routines, contact with the outside world, and the historical impact of these foundational institutions on the Western world.
• Surveys the history of the monastery, describing its origins, purpose, geographic...