Medieval category: 3965 books
The Medieval Python
The Purposive and Provocative Work of Terry Jones
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
This is a collection of essays by diverse hands engaging, interrogating, and honoring the medieval scholarship of Terry Jones. Jones' life-long engagement with the Middle Ages in general, and with the work of Chaucer in particular, has significantly influenced contemporary understanding of the period...
Nicholas Love's Mirror and Late Medieval Devotio-Literary Culture
Theological politics and devotional practice in fifteenth-century England
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Surviving in 59 complete manuscript versions, few English texts of the late medieval period seem to have achieved the popularity of Nicholas Love's fifteenth-century translation and adaptation of the Latin Meditationes Vitae Christi - The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ. The Mirror has...
Medieval Tales and Stories
108 Prose Narratives of the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Ranging from half-page morality tales to hilarious bawdy stories several pages long, these centuries-old narratives offer revealing glimpses into many elements of medieval culture. Witchcraft, magic, Crusaders, astrology, alchemy, pacts with the Devil, chivalry, and trial by torture are here, along...
by Kelly Robert DeVries, Robert Douglas Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
First published in 1992, Medieval Military Technology has become the definitive book in its field, garnering much praise and a large readership. This thorough update of a classic book, regarded as both an excellent overview and an important piece of scholarship, includes fully revised content, new...
Readings in Medieval History, Volume II
The Later Middle Ages, Fifth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Patrick J. Geary's highly acclaimed collection of source materials on the medieval period is well-known for offering an excellent selection of substantial excerpts—or whole documents wherever possible—from the most widely studied historical texts.
This much-anticipated fifth edition features...
by Guy Windsor
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
The term 'medieval martial arts' conjures images of armour-clad knights wielding sword, lance and axe. While the image is correct, at the foundation of knightly combat was a sophisticated form of close quarter combat, instantly recognizable to students of classical Asian arts such as jujutsu or practitioners...
by M. James Ziccardi
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013
The following is one in a series of reviews that has been extracted in its
entirety from M. James Ziccardi’s The Essence of Medieval Philosophy.
It is intended to serve as a primer for students of medieval philosophy with an emphasis on some of the more important works of William of Ockham.
by Xavier Musquera Moreno
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Los Maestros constructores conocían un saber arcano y misterioso que inmortalizaron en cada rincón de los templos y catedrales medievales. Cuando en la Edad Media se levantaba una catedral, una iglesia o una ermita, se realizaba primero un ritual de purificación, un simulacro de sacrificio que...
Where is Medieval Philosophy going?
Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 13 February 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Where is medieval philosophy going? It is going to where philosophy is. And it is there where philosophy is going. It became medieval once the Middle Ages were over. It was only philosophy when the Middle Ages were still saeculum modernorum, the “century of the Moderns”, for those living in it....
Crafting Jewishness in Medieval England
Legally Absent, Virtually Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Miriamne Ara Krummel challenges the accepted history of the English Middle Ages as a monolithic age of Christian faith. By cataloguing and explicating the complex depictions of semitisms to be found in medieval literature and material culture, this volume argues that Jews were always present in medieval England.
Living in the Future
Sovereignty and Internationalism in the Canterbury Tales
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Nationalism, like medieval romance literature, recasts history as a mythologized and seamless image of reality. Living in the Future analyzes how the anachronistic nationalist fantasies in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales create a false sense of England’s historical continuity that in turn...
The Complete Story of the Grail
Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval and its continuations
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The mysterious and haunting Grail makes its first appearance in literature in Chrétien de Troyes' I>Perceval at the end of the twelfth century. But Chrétien never finished his poem, leaving an unresolved story and an incomplete picture of the Grail. It was, however, far too attractive an idea...
by Murielle Gaude-Ferragu
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
This book examines the power held by the French medieval queens during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and their larger roles within the kingdom at a time when women were excluded from succession to the throne. Well before Catherine and Marie de’ Medici, the last medieval French queens played...
Political Appetites
Food in Medieval English Romance
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
*Political Appetites: Food in Medieval English Romance *is the first book-length examination of the cultural and theoretical resonances of food and cooking in medieval English literature, offering a new assessment of the vexed and critically underappreciated genre of romance. Aaron Hostetter moves...