Medieval category: 3965 books
Out of the East
Spices and the Medieval Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
The demand for spices in medieval Europe was extravagant and was reflected in the pursuit of fashion, the formation of taste, and the growth of luxury trade. It inspired geographical and commercial exploration ,as traders pursued such common spices as pepper and cinnamon and rarer aromatic products,...
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The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture
Ninth-Twelfth Century AD
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
Contrary to the monolithic impression left by postcolonial theories of Orientalism, the book makes the case that Orientals did not exist solely to be gazed at. Hermes shows that there was no shortage of medieval Muslims who cast curious eyes towards the European Other and that more than a handful of them were interested in Europe.
by Heather Webb
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Drawing from the works of Dante, Catherine of Siena, Boccaccio, Aquinas, and Cavalcanti and other literary, philosophic, and scientific texts, Heather Webb studies medieval notions of the heart to explore the “lost circulations” of an era when individual lives and bodies were defined by their extensions into the world rather than as self-perpetuating, self-limited entities.
by David Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
The field known as "medievalism studies" concerns the life of the Middle Ages after the Middle Ages. Originating some thirty years ago, it examines reinventions and reworkings of the medieval from the Reformation to postmodernity, from Bale and Leland to HBO's Game of Thrones. But what exactly...
Routledge Revivals: Medieval Italy (2004)
An Encyclopedia - Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
First published in 2004, Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia provides an introduction to the many and diverse facets of Italian civilization from the late Roman empire to the end of the fourteenth century. It presents in two volumes articles on a wide range of topics including history, literature, art,...
by Kathleen Walker-Meikle
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Animals in the middle ages have often been discussed - but usually only as a source of food, as beasts of burden, or as aids for hunters. This book takes a completely different angle, showing that they were also beloved domestic companions to their human owners, whether they were dogs, cats, monkeys,...
Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 42
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture: New Series
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower reviews the most current scholarship on the late medieval poet and opens doors purposefully to research areas of the future. It is divided into three parts. The first part, "Working theories: medieval and modern," is devoted to the main theoretical...
Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 43
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture: New Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
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...
Fortune's Faces
The Roman de la Rose and the Poetics of Contingency
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Arguably the single most influential literary work of the European Middle Ages, the Roman de la Rose of Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun has traditionally posed a number of difficulties to modern critics, who have viewed its many interruptions and philosophical discussions as signs of a lack of...
by Robert Mills
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
During the Middle Ages in Europe, some sexual and gendered behaviors were labeled “sodomitical” or evoked the use of ambiguous phrases such as the “unmentionable vice” or the “sin against nature.” How, though, did these categories enter the field of vision? How do you know a sodomite when...
The Keys of Middle-earth
Discovering Medieval Literature Through the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
A comprehensive introduction to the medieval languages and texts that inspired Tolkien's Middle-earth. Using key episodes in The Silmarillion , The Hobbit , and The Lord of the Rings , medieval texts are presented in their original language with translations. Essential for those who wish to delve deeper into the background to Tolkien's mythology.
Tropologies
Ethics and Invention in England, c.1350-1600
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Tropologies is the first book-length study to elaborate the medieval and early modern theory of the tropological, or moral, sense of scripture. Ryan McDermott argues that tropology is not only a way to interpret the Bible but also a theory of literary and ethical invention. The “tropological imperative”...
Epistolary Acts
Anglo-Saxon Letters and Early English Media
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
As challenging as it is to imagine how an educated cleric or wealthy lay person in the early Middle Ages would have understood a letter (especially one from God), it is even harder to understand why letters would have so captured the imagination of people who might never have produced, sent, or received...