Medieval category: 3965 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
These essays, selected from papers presented at the International Symposium on Crusade Studies in February 2006, represent a stimulating cross-section of this vibrant field. Organized under the rubric of "medieval worlds" the studies in this volume demonstrate the broad interdisciplinary...
Medieval England, 500-1500
A Reader, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
The new edition of Medieval England, 500-1500, edited by Emilie Amt and Katherine Allen Smith, spans several centuries in 102 documents that present the social and political history of England. The documents include constitutional highlights and records such as the Magna Carta and Froissart's Chronicles,...
by Martina Sprague
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
If you are looking for an instructional manual full of step-by-step illustrations for learning Japanese and European swordsmanship, do not buy this book! This book does not tell you everything you need to know about specific techniques and does not contain hundreds of pictures detailing each step...
by Claudia Yaghoobi
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Adopting an empirical and systematic approach, this interdisciplinary study of medieval Persian Sufi tradition and ʿAttār (1145-1221) opens up a new space of comparison for reading and understanding medieval Persian and European literatures. The book invites us on an intellectual journey that reveals...
Sea of Silk
A Textile Geography of Women's Work in Medieval French Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
The story of silk is an old and familiar one, a tale involving mercantile travel and commercial exchange along the broad land mass that connects ancient China to the west and extending eventually to sites on the eastern Mediterranean and along sea routes to India. But if we shift our focus from economic...
Contesting Christendom
Readings in Medieval Religion and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2007
The pervasiveness of the Christian religion has long been treated as one of the key features of medieval society. Indeed, Europe in the Middle Ages is often described simply as a Christian culture. Yet what do we mean when we say that medieval Europe was a Christian society, and what did it mean to...
Later Middle English Literature, Materiality, and Culture
Essays in Honor of James M. Dean
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
The essays in this volume consider the ways in which material and intellectual culture both shaped and were shaped by the literature of late medieval England. The first section, “Textual Material,” reflects on cultural and social issues generally referred to as the History of Ideas, and how those...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
This collection examines gender and Otherness as tools to understand medieval and early modern art as products of their social environments. The essays, uniting up-and-coming and established scholars, explore both iconographic and stylistic similarities deployed to construct gender identity. The...
Medieval Religion and its Anxieties
History and Mystery in the Other Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
This book examines the broad varieties of religious belief, religious practices, and the influence of religion within medieval society. Religion in the Middle Ages was not monolithic. Medieval religion and the Latin Church are not synonymous. While theology and liturgy are important, an examination...
Aristotle's Ethics and Medieval Philosophy
Moral Goodness and Practical Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics had a profound influence on generations of later philosophers, not only in the ancient era but also in the medieval period and beyond. In this book, Anthony Celano explores how medieval authors recast Aristotle's Ethics according to their own moral ideals. He argues...
Literatures of Medieval France
Inaugural Lecture delivered on Friday 24 March 1995
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
This long tradition would certainly not be a reason in itself to keep or restore the subject, had it not something to do with the subject itself. All of the associations between the past and literature, all of the signs that point towards an essential link between the notion of literature and a feeling...
by Annie Abram
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Annie Abram was born in London in 1869 and died in Sussex in 1930. As an historian, she contributed significantly to the twentieth-century historiography of late medieval England, researching the social, cultural and religious mores of the English laity and clergy. This title, first published in 1919,...
Outsiders
The Humanity and Inhumanity of Giants in Medieval French Prose Romance
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Giants are a ubiquitous feature of medieval romance. As remnants of a British prehistory prior to the civilization established, according to the Historium regum Britannie, by Brutus and his Trojan followers, giants are permanently at odds with the chivalric culture of the romance world. Whether they...
Saving the Souls of Medieval London
Perpetual Chantries at St Paul's Cathedral, c.1200-1548
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
St Paul's Cathedral stood at the centre of religious life in medieval London. It was the mother church of the diocese, a principal landowner in the capital and surrounding countryside, and a theatre for the enactment of events of national importance. The cathedral was also a powerhouse of commemoration...