Medieval category: 3965 books
by Kisha G. Tracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2017
This book argues that the traditional relationship between the act of confessing and the act of remembering is manifested through the widespread juxtaposition of confession and memory in Middle English literary texts and, furthermore, that this concept permeates other manifestations of memory as written...
by Daniel Donoghue
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The scribes of early medieval England wrote out their vernacular poems using a format that looks primitive to our eyes because it lacks the familiar visual cues of verse lineation, marks of punctuation, and capital letters. The paradox is that scribes had those tools at their disposal, which they...
Inhabited Spaces
Anglo-Saxon Constructions of Place
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
We tend to think of early medieval people as unsophisticated about geography because their understandings of space and place often differed from ours, yet theirs were no less complex. Anglo-Saxons conceived of themselves as living at the centre of a cosmos that combined order and plenitude, two principles...
Le Bone Florence of Rome
A Critical Edition and Facing Translation of a Middle English Romance Analogous to Chaucers Man of Laws Tale
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Le Bone Florence of Rome is a Middle English tail-rhyme romance whose unique copy dates to the late fifteenth century. An analogue of Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Tale, it* follows the adventures of a heroine who survives multiple exiles, sexual harassments and false accusations. At the same time,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Scholarship on premodern Japan has grown spectacularly over the past four decades, in terms of both sophistication and volume. A new approach has developed, marked by a higher reliance on primary documents, a shift away from the history of elites to broader explorations of social structures, and a...
Monastic Wales
New Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Monastic Wales – new approaches is an interdisciplinary collection of essays written by some of the leading scholars working on aspects of medieval Welsh history. The chapters in this volume consider the history, archaeology, architecture and wider cultural, social, political and economic context...
Consuming Passions
The Uses of Cannibalism in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Evil Lords
Theories and Representations of Tyranny from Antiquity to the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
Evil Lords uses the prism of bad rule or tyranny to enhance our understanding of political discourse from the ancient world to the Renaissance, elucidating premodern notions of sovereignty as well as the relation between ethics and politics, the individual and society, power, and propaganda. Eleven...
by Leonora Neville
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
This handy reference guide makes it easier to access and understand histories written in Greek between 600 and 1480 CE. Covering classicizing histories that continued ancient Greek traditions of historiography, sweeping, fast-paced 'chronicle' type histories, and dozens of idiosyncratic historical...
by Simon MacLean
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
This is the first major study in English of the queens of the Ottonian dynasty (919-1024). The Ottonians were a family from Saxony who are often regarded as the founders of the medieval German kingdom. They were the most successful of all the dynasties to emerge from the wreckage of the pan-European...
Life in Words
Essays on Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet, and Malory
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
This volume collects fifteen landmark essays published over the last three decades by the distinguished medievalist Jill Mann. Bringing together her essays on Chaucer, the Gawain-poet, and Malory, the collection foregrounds the common interest in the semantic implications of key vocabulary such as...
Joachim of Fiore and the Influence of Inspiration
Essays in Memory of Marjorie E. Reeves (1905-2003)
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
Joachim of Fiore and the Influence of Inspiration. Essays in Memory of Marjorie E. Reeves (1905-2003) is a title that is deliberately reminiscent of the title of Marjorie Reeves’ opus magnum: her book ’The Influence of Prophecy in the Later Middle Ages’ has been fundamental in the field of Joachimist...
Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia
A Study of Manuscript Transmission and Monastic Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia, a groundbreaking study of the intellectual and monastic culture of the Main Valley during the eighth century, looks closely at a group of manuscripts associated with some of the best-known personalities of the European Middle Ages, including Boniface of...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
Many more documents survive from the early Middle Ages than from the Roman Empire. Although ecclesiastical archives may account for the dramatic increase in the number of surviving documents, this new investigation reveals the scale and spread of documentary culture beyond the Church. The contributors...