Medieval category: 3965 books
by Francesco Ciabattoni
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
In Dante's Journey to Polyphony, Francesco Ciabattoni's erudite analysis sheds light on Dante's use of music in the Divine Comedy. Following the work's musical evolution, Ciabattoni moves from the cacophony of Inferno through the monophony of Purgatory, to the polyphony of Paradise and argues that...
Queer Iberia
Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 1999
Martyred saints, Moors, Jews, viragoes, hermaphrodites, sodomites, kings, queens, and cross-dressers comprise the fascinating mosaic of historical and imaginative figures unearthed in Queer Iberia. The essays in this volume describe and analyze the sexual diversity that proliferated during the period...
History in the Comic Mode
Medieval Communities and the Matter of Person
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
In this groundbreaking collection, twenty-one prominent medievalists discuss continuity and change in ideas of personhood and community and argue for the viability of the comic mode in the study and recovery of history. These scholars approach their sources not from a particular ideological viewpoint...
Infirmity in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Social and Cultural Approaches to Health, Weakness and Care
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This volume discusses infirmitas (’infirmity’ or ’weakness’) in ancient and medieval societies. It concentrates on the cultural, social and domestic aspects of physical and mental illness, impairment and health, and also examines frailty as a more abstract, cultural construct. It seeks to...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Examines a range of texts commemorating European holy women from the ninth through fifteenth centuries. Explores the relationship between memorial practices and identity formation. Draws upon much of the recent scholarly interest in the nature and uses of memory.
Between Christian and Jew
Conversion and Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250-1391
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
In 1341 in Aragon, a Jewish convert to Christianity was sentenced to death, only to be pulled from the burning stake and into a formal religious interrogation. His confession was as astonishing to his inquisitors as his brush with mortality is to us: the condemned man described a Jewish conspiracy...
by Ildar Garipzanov
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Graphic Signs of Authority in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages presents a cultural history of graphic signs and examines how they were employed to communicate secular and divine authority in the late antique Mediterranean and early medieval Europe. Visual materials such as the sign of the...
The Lithic Garden
Nature and the Transformation of the Medieval Church
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
The Lithic Garden offers innovative perspectives on the role of ornament in medieval church design. Focusing on the foliate friezes articulating iconic French monuments such as Amiens Cathedral, it demonstrates that church builders strategically used organic motifs to integrate the interior and exterior...
Shards of Love
Exile and the Origins of the Lyric
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 1993
With the Spanish conquest of Islamic Granada and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, the year 1492 marks the exile from Europe of crucial strands of medieval culture. It also becomes a symbolic marker for the expulsion of a diversity in language and grammar that was disturbing to the Renaissance...
Heresy and the Making of European Culture
Medieval and Modern Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Scholars and analysts seeking to illuminate the extraordinary creativity and innovation evident in European medieval cultures and their afterlives have thus far neglected the important role of religious heresy. The papers collected here - reflecting the disciplines of history, literature, theology,...
by A. G. Little
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
IN the following lectures no attempt will be made to give a systematic account of a political development, which is the ordinary theme of history. History is "past politics" in the wide sense of the word. It has to do with the growth and decay of states and institutions, and their relations to each other...
The Use of Hereford
The Sources of a Medieval English Diocesan Rite
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The Use of Hereford, a local variation of the Roman rite, was one of the diocesan liturgies of medieval England before their abolition and replacement by the Book of Common Prayer in 1549. Unlike the widespread Use of Sarum, the Use of Hereford was confined principally to its diocese, which helped...
Jankyn's Book of Wikked Wyves
Seven Commentaries on Walter Map's "Dissuasio Valerii"
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
In volume 1 of Jankyn’s Book of Wikked Wyves (Georgia, 1997), Ralph Hanna and Traugott Lawler presented authoritative versions of three medieval texts invoked by Jankyn (fifth husband of the Wife of Bath) in The Canterbury Tales. In Jankyn’s Book, volume 2, Lawler and Hanna revisit one of those...
Arabic Literary Salons in the Islamic Middle Ages
Poetry, Public Performance, and the Presentation of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Arabic literary salons emerged in ninth-century Iraq and, by the tenth, were flourishing in Baghdad and other urban centers. In an age before broadcast media and classroom education, salons were the primary source of entertainment and escape for middle- and upper-rank members of society, serving also...