Medieval category: 3965 books
The Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World
Medieval Cosmopolitanism and Images of Islamthirteenth to Fourteenth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
In the third volume of the trilogy, Seta B. Dadoyan focuses on social and cultural aspects, rather than the core political focus exhibited in her first two volumes. Her objective is to suggest political readings of these themes and related texts by revealing hitherto unstudied and novel interactions...
Medieval Christian Perceptions of Islam
A Book of Essays
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
For medieval Christians, Islam presented a series of disquieting challenges, and individual Christians portrayed Muslim culture in varied ways, according to their interests and prejudices. These fifteen original essays focus on unfamiliar texts that reflect the wide range of medieval Christianity's...
Routledge Revivals: Medieval Islamic Civilization (2006)
An Encyclopedia - Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Islamic civilization flourished in the Middle Ages across a vast geographical area that spans today's Middle and Near East.
First published in 2006, Medieval Islamic Civilization examines the socio-cultural history of the regions where Islam took hold between the 7th and 16th centuries. This...
The Histories of a Medieval German City, Worms c. 1000-c. 1300
Translation and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Germany was the most powerful kingdom in the medieval West from the mid-tenth to the mid-thirteenth century. However, its history remains largely unknown outside of the German-speaking regions of modern Europe. Until recently, almost all of the sources for medieval Germany were available only in the...
An Atlas of Northamptonshire
The Medieval and Early-Modern Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
An Atlas of Northamptonshire presents an historical atlas of the greater part of Northamptonshire (the first quarter having been published as An Atlas of Rockingham Forest). It presents in map form the results of fieldwork and documentary research undertaken since the mid-1960s to map the landscape...
Garrisoning the Borderlands of Medieval Siena
Sant'Angelo in Colle: Frontier Castle under the Government of the Nine (1287–1355)
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Through a close study of local demographies and topographies, this study considers patterns of piety, charity and patronage, and by extension, the development of art and architecture in Siena's southern contado during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Garrisoning the Borderlands of Medieval...
Poet Heroines in Medieval French Narrative
Gender and Fictions of Literary Creation
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Examining French literature from the medieval period, Findley revises our understanding of medieval literary composition as a largely masculine activity, suggesting instead that writing is seen in these texts as problematically gendered and often feminizing.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Late medieval and early modern cities are often depicted as cradles of artistic creativity and hotbeds of new material culture. Cities in renaissance Italy and in seventeenth and eighteenth-century northwestern Europe are the most obvious cases in point. But, how did this come about? Why did cities...
by Jennifer Welsh
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Dr Jennifer Welsh received her M.A. in Medieval Studies from Cornell University in 2000, and her M.A. and PhD in History from Duke University in 2004 and 2009. Her dissertation dealt with the cult of St. Anne in late medieval and early modern Europe. After four years as a Visiting Assistant Professor...
by William D. Phillips, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
The enslaved population of medieval Iberia composed only a small percentage of the general populace at any given point, and slave labor was not essential to the regional economy during the period. Yet slaves were present in Iberia from the beginning of recorded history until the early modern era,...
by Luciano de Crescenzo
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: August 16, 2012
A Idade Média é conhecida como um período de trevas, durante o qual a investigação científica e filosófica que florescera na Grécia antiga ficou estagnada por mais de um milênio. Mas será verdadeira essa tendenciosa visão, difundida após o renascimento e repetida incansavelmente ao longo...
Composing the World
Harmony in the Medieval Platonic Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
"We can hear the universe!" This was the triumphant proclamation at a February 2016 press conference announcing that the Laser Interferometer Gravity Observatory (LIGO) had detected a "transient gravitational-wave signal." What LIGO heard in the morning hours of September 14, 2015 was the vibration...
Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 36
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international...
Nothing Natural Is Shameful
Sodomy and Science in Late Medieval Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
In his Problemata, Aristotle provided medieval thinkers with the occasion to inquire into the natural causes of the sexual desires of men to act upon or be acted upon by other men, thus bringing human sexuality into the purview of natural philosophers, whose aim it was to explain the causes of objects...