Routledge, 2012. — 344 p.
The Middle Ages was a critical and formative time for Western approaches to our natural surroundings. "An Environmental History of the Middle Ages" is a unique and unprecedented cultural survey of attitudes towards the environment during this period. Humankind s relationship with the environment shifted gradually over time from a predominantly...
De Gruyter, 2021. — 586 p. The presence of gold, silver, and other metals is a hallmark of decorated manuscripts, the very characteristic that makes them “illuminated.” Medieval artists often used metal pigment and leaf to depict metal objects both real and imagined, such as chalices, crosses, tableware, and even idols; the luminosity of these representations contrasted...
De Gruyter, 2021. — 586 p. The presence of gold, silver, and other metals is a hallmark of decorated manuscripts, the very characteristic that makes them “illuminated.” Medieval artists often used metal pigment and leaf to depict metal objects both real and imagined, such as chalices, crosses, tableware, and even idols; the luminosity of these representations contrasted...
University of Michigan Press, 2016. — 304 p. The essays gathered in this volume present multifaceted considerations of the intersection of objects and gender within the cultural contexts of late medieval France and England. Some take a material view of objects, showing buildings, books, and pictures as sites of gender negotiation and resistance and as extensions of women’s...
University of Michigan Press, 2016. — 304 p. The essays gathered in this volume present multifaceted considerations of the intersection of objects and gender within the cultural contexts of late medieval France and England. Some take a material view of objects, showing buildings, books, and pictures as sites of gender negotiation and resistance and as extensions of women’s...
Greenwood Press, 2004. — 284 p.
New light is shed on everyday life in the Middle Ages in Great Britain and continental Europe through this unique survey of its food culture. Students and other readers will learn about the common foodstuffs available, how and what they cooked, ate, and drank, what the regional cuisines were like, how the different classes entertained and...
Reaktion Books, 2023. — 248 p. Alle Thyng Hath Tyme recreates medieval people’s experience of time as continuous, discontinuous, linear, and cyclical - from creation through judgment and into eternity. Medieval people measured time by natural phenomena such as sunrise and sunset, the motion of the stars, or the progress of the seasons, even as the late-medieval invention of the...
Reaktion Books, 2023. — 248 p. Alle Thyng Hath Tyme recreates medieval people’s experience of time as continuous, discontinuous, linear, and cyclical - from creation through judgment and into eternity. Medieval people measured time by natural phenomena such as sunrise and sunset, the motion of the stars, or the progress of the seasons, even as the late-medieval invention of the...
Brill, 2022. — 850 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, Vol. 86). The artistic and literary maze of Latin-occupied Greece cannot be analysed by a conventional approach. Follow the author and the historical protagonists of his tales in a journey through a fragmentary shape-shifting corpus, from the medieval translations of Aristotle to pornographic...
University of Toronto Press, 2013. — 344 p. Drawing on Arabic, English, French, Irish, Latin and Spanish sources, the essays share a focus on the body's productive capacity - whether expressed through the flesh's materiality, or through its role in performing meaning. The collection is divided into four clusters. 'Foundations' traces the use of physical remnants of the body in...
University of Toronto Press, 2013. — 344 p. Drawing on Arabic, English, French, Irish, Latin and Spanish sources, the essays share a focus on the body's productive capacity - whether expressed through the flesh's materiality, or through its role in performing meaning. The collection is divided into four clusters. 'Foundations' traces the use of physical remnants of the body in...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 255 p. Food and attitudes toward it were transformed in Renaissance Europe. The period between 1300 and 1600 saw the discovery of the New World and the cultivation of new foodstuffs, as well as the efflorescence of culinary literature in European courts and eventually in the popular press, and most importantly the transformation of the economy on a...
Greenwood Press, 2006. — 200 p. Ever get a yen for hemp seed soup, digestive pottage, carp fritters, jasper of milk, or frog pie? Would you like to test your culinary skills whipping up some edible counterfeit snow or nun's bozolati? Perhaps you have an assignment to make a typical Renaissance dish. The cookbook presents 171 unadulterated recipes from the Middle Ages, Renaissance,...
Routledge, 2022. — 256 p. The modern concept of passing leisure hours pleasantly would, in the Middle Ages, have fallen under the rubric of Sloth, a deadly sin. Yet aristocrats of past centuries were not always absorbed in affairs of state or warfare. What did they do in moments of peace, "downtime" as we might call it today? In this collection of essays, scholars from various...
Routledge, 2022. — 256 p. The modern concept of passing leisure hours pleasantly would, in the Middle Ages, have fallen under the rubric of Sloth, a deadly sin. Yet aristocrats of past centuries were not always absorbed in affairs of state or warfare. What did they do in moments of peace, "downtime" as we might call it today? In this collection of essays, scholars from various...
University of Wales Press, 2014. — 312 p. The Arthurian legend reached all levels of society in medieval and Renaissance Italy, from princely courts, with their luxury books and frescoed palaces, to the merchant classes and popular audiences in the piazza, who enjoyed shorter retellings in verse and prose. The Arthur of the Italians offers an overview of the Arthurian fiction...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 262 p. This book presents waste as an aesthetic category that introduces an arsy-versy world where detritus is precious. This aesthetic is applied in the second part to etymology, poking through the "paternal dungheaps" of words, and tracing their origins not to Eden but to Babel, puns, and word play. Finally, in the case of Roland the Farter, who...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. - 262 p.
This book presents waste as an aesthetic category that introduces an arsy-versy world where detritus is precious. This aesthetic is applied in the second part to etymology, poking through the "paternal dungheaps" of words, and tracing their origins not to Eden but to Babel, puns, and word play. Finally, in the case of Roland the Farter, who...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. — 197 p. Where was the line between pleasure and irritation in the sensory overload caused by the sounds, colours, and smells of a medieval market? How could pain and suffering be relieved by hoping for, and desiring to experience, an intimate, almost familiar, contact with Christ? This volume shows the different aspects of sensory...
Routledge, 2023. — 350 p. This book offers a study of what and how people ate in the Iberian Peninsula between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries. It has long been recognized that Mediterranean cultures attach great importance to communal meals and food cooked with great refinement. However, whilst medieval feasting in England, France and Italy has been thoroughly studied,...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011. — 622 p. — (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Universität Greifswald 10.1). Das Editionsprojekt bietet eine umfassende Sammlung der Quellen zur Verfassungsgeschichte der Universität Greifswald aus deutschen, polnischen, schwedischen und dänischen Archiven. Die Dokumente werden hier erstmals auf gesicherter Textgrundlage für die Forschung zugänglich gemacht...
Routledge, 2010. — 296 p. Long considered to be a definitive and truly groundbreaking collection of sources, Women' s Lives in Medieval Europe uniquely presents the everyday lives and experiences of women in the Middle Ages. This indispensible text has now been thoroughly updated and expanded to reflect new research, and includes previously unavailable source material. A Note...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. - 290 p. The Reading Public The Image of the Book: Mediating the Aesthetics of Reader Response Authorized Readers, or, Reading Authority The Ethics of Reading Textual Subjects
Mohr Siebeck, 2024. — 368 p. — (Studies in Education and Religion in Ancient and Pre-Modern History in the Mediterranean and Its Environs (SERAPHIM), 23). Der südgallische Erzbischof Caesarius von Arles († 542) zählt zu den einflussreichsten Predigern seiner Zeit. Mit innovativen Strategien bringt er sein Publikum in Kontakt mit christlichen Inhalten und gestaltet auf...
University of Toronto Press, 2011. — 280 p. In Myths, Legends, and Heroes , editor Daniel Anzelark has brought together scholars of Old Norse-Icelandic and Old English literature to explore the translation and transmission of Norse myth, the use of literature in society and authorial self-reflection, the place of myth in the expression of family relationships, and recurrent motifs...
Manchester University Press, 2006. — 416 p. Noah’s Flood is one of the Bible’s most popular stories, and flood myths survive in many cultures today. This book presents the first comprehensive examination of the incorporation of the Flood myth into the Anglo-Saxon imagination. Focusing on literary representations, it contributes to our understanding of how Christian Anglo-Saxons...
Brill, 2014. — 468 p. — (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 51). John of Ruusbroec (1293-1381) is one of the most important mystical authors in the Christian tradition. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of Ruusbroec studies, including a survey of the mystical tradition in the Low Countries before Ruusbroec, a discussion of his life and works, the...
Cornell University Press, 2021. — 282 p. In Souls under Siege , Nicole Archambeau explores how the inhabitants of southern France made sense of the ravages of successive waves of plague, the depredations of mercenary warfare, and the violence of royal succession during the fourteenth century. Many people, she finds, understood both plague and war as the symptoms of spiritual...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. — 295 p. Incest was a social problem in the Middle Ages, and also a popular literary theme. This wide-ranging study is the first survey of medieval incest stories in their cultural context. Did they reflect real life situations? How was incest defined in the Middle Ages? How were classical incest stories treated by medieval writers? Why...
Brepols, 2006. — 328 p. When viewed retrospectively, the period between the eleventh and the fifteenth centuries was a phase of European history that was characterized by a radical and fundamental media transformation. Before this time, the vast majority of the population had never encountered the written word in their day-to-day activities. From the beginning of the second...
Brepols Publishers, 2015. — 324 p. Through case studies of a broad variety of medieval and early modern sources, this volume discusses whether the roots of modern notions of individuality can be found in pre-modern Europe. ‘Individuality’ is one of the central categories of modern society. Can the roots of modern individuality be found in pre-modern times? Or is our way of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 201 p. List of Figures Game and Performance: A Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge in Context Concepts of Performance in A Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge Street Scenes: Epic Acting, Total Acting, and Performance Appendix: A Treatise of Miraclis Playing: A Modern English Version of A Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge Notes
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 248 p. How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? Spanning the years from 900 to 1500 and traversing geographical borders, from England to France and India to China, this book uniquely examines the tales told, translated, adapted and circulated during the period...
Евгений Аро. Тайны рыцарства и платонической любви в Cредние века. — Paris: Librairie de J. Renouard, 1858. — XIX + 209 p. Dédicace. Avant-propos. Les mystères de la chevalerie. Jauffre et Brunissens. Roman de Ferbrace (Fierabras). Aucassin et Nicolette. Tristan de Léonnois. Troubadours et chevaliers. La Massenie du Saint-Graal. Les Cours d'amour. Influence de Palbigéisme sur...
Boydell Press, 2018. — 262 p. — (Anglo-Saxon Studies 32). A re-evaluation of the mysterious "charms" found in Anglo-Saxon literature, arguing for their place in mainstream Christian rites. Since its inception in the nineteenth century, the genre of Anglo-Saxon charms has drawn the attention of many scholars and appealed to enthusiasts of magic, paganism, and popular religion....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 251 p. Introduction: Now and Then The YouTube Prioress: Anti-Semitism and Twenty-First Century Participatory Culture Animated Conversations in Nottingham: Disney’s Robin Hood (1973) Virginia Woolf’s Middle Ages Dario Fo’s Mistero Buffo and the Left-Modernist Reclamation of Medieval Popular Culture Acephalic History: A Bataillian Reading of Monty Python...
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2022. — 442 p. — (Studies in Old English Literature 1). Across three thematically-linked sections, this volume charts the development of competing geographical, national, and imperial identities and communities in early medieval England. Literary works in Old English and Latin are considered alongside theological and historical texts from...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 268 p. Andalusian Iberias: From Spanish to Iberian Literature Using Feminist Pedagogy to Explore Connectivity in the Medieval Mediterranean A Journey through the Silk Road in a Cosmopolitan Classroom Teaching English Travel Writing from 1500 to the Present Stranger Than Fiction: Early Modern Travel Narratives and the Antiracist Classroom Different...
University of Wales Press, 2019. — 240 p. — (Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages). The medieval north of England has been underexplored to date, and this volume may be seen as an invitation for further exploration. It brings together scholars with shared interests in language, literature, culture, history and manuscript studies, viewed from different disciplinary...
University of Wales Press, 2019. — 240 p. — (Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages). The medieval north of England has been underexplored to date, and this volume may be seen as an invitation for further exploration. It brings together scholars with shared interests in language, literature, culture, history and manuscript studies, viewed from different disciplinary...
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2020. — 368 p. — (Bibliothèque de la Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique 107). This volume contains twenty-two articles that colleagues and friends of Mathijs Lamberigts, Dean of the Faculty of Theology at KULeuven and Director of the Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique - Louvain Journal Church History, offer him for his 65th birthday. These...
Brill, 2021. — 317 p. — (Mediterranean Art Histories 4). Dedicated to Erica Cruikshank Dodd, Art and Material Culture in the Byzantine and Islamic Worlds offers new perspectives on the Christian and Muslim communities of the east Mediterranean from medieval to contemporary times. The contributors examine how people from diverse religious backgrounds adapted to their changing...
Harvey Miller Pub., 2023. — 350 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History). This book explores the viewing and sensorial contexts in which the bodies of kings and queens were involved in the premodern societies of Europe, Asia, and Africa, relying on a methodology that aims to overcoming the traditional boundaries between material studies, art history,...
Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2018. — 284 p. — (Scrinium Friburgense 41). Situated between the mountain ranges of the Caucasus, the country of Georgia was constantly exposed to contacts with both nearby cultures and such far-away realities as the Eastern Mediterranean and Western Europe. Constant political changes, including relations to and occupations by the neighboring empires...
Brill, 2022. — 602 p. — (The Medieval Mediterranean. Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400-1500. № 130). The book proposes a reassessment of royal portraiture and its function in the Middle Ages via a comparative analysis of works from different areas of the Mediterranean world, where images are seen as only one outcome of wider and multifarious strategies for the public...
Leiden: Brill, 2022. — 602 p. — (The Medieval Mediterranean. Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400-1500. № 130). The book proposes a reassessment of royal portraiture and its function in the Middle Ages via a comparative analysis of works from different areas of the Mediterranean world, where images are seen as only one outcome of wider and multifarious strategies for the public...
Penn State University Press, 2023. — 264 p. This volume examines Saint George’s intertwined traditions in the competing states of the eastern Mediterranean and Transcaucasia, demonstrating how rival conceptions of this well-known saint became central to Crusader, Eastern Christian, and Islamic medieval visual cultures. Saint George Between Empires links the visual cultures of...
Tamesis Books, 2016. — 386 p. Ramon Llull (1232-1316), mystic, missionary, philosopher and author of narrative and poetry, wrote both in Latin and in the vernacular claiming he had been given a new science to unveil the Truth. This book shows why his Latin andvernacular books cannot be read as if they had been written in isolation from one another. Llull was an atypical...
ARC Humanities Press, 2023. — 212 p. Exploring the work of writers, illuminators, and craftspeople, this volume demonstrates the pervasive nature of architecture as a category of medieval thought. The architectural remnants of the past - from castles and cathedrals to the lowliest village church - provide many people with their first point of contact with the medieval period...
Cornell University Press, 2013. — 313 p.
Superstitions are commonplace in the modern world. Mostly, however, they evoke innocuous images of people reading their horoscopes or avoiding black cats. Certain religious practices might also come to mind-praying to St. Christopher or lighting candles for the dead. Benign as they might seem today, such practices were not always...
D. S. Brewer, 2016. — 218 p. The historical point of departure for this volume is Charlemagne's ill-fated incursion into Spain in 778. After an unsuccessful siege of Zaragoza, the king of the Franks directed his army north and on his passage through the Pyrenees, he turned his wrath on Pamplona, destroying the Basque city and its walls. The Basques subsequently ambushed the...
Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2014. — 475 p. — (Collection d'études médiévales de Nice 16), Heureux, vous les pauvres : le Royaume des cieux est à vous. […] Mais malheureux, vous les riches : vous tenez votre consolation (Luc, 6, 20 et 24). Les appels à la pauvreté et au partage, les mises en garde contre les richesses s'avèrent extrêmement fréquents dans les textes...
De Gruyter, 2020. — 312 p. The medieval and early modern English imaginary encompasses a broad range of negative and positive dismemberments, from the castration anxieties of Turk plays to the elite practices of distributive burial. This study argues that representations and instances of bodily fragmentation illustrated and performed acts of exclusion and inclusion, detaching...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 352 p. This specially commissioned collection of thirteen essays explores the life and works of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), monastic founder, leader of a community of nuns, composer, active correspondent, and writer of religious visions, theological treatises, sermons, and scientific and medical texts. Aimed at advanced university...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 284 p. This interdisciplinary study explores images of Jews and Judaism in late medieval English literature and culture. Using four main categories - history, miracle, cult and Passion - Anthony Bale demonstrates how varied and changing ideas of Judaism coexisted within well-known anti-semitic literary and visual models, depending on context,...
Brepols Publishers, 2023. — 284 p. — (Hagiologia 19). The sixteenth century was the time of greatest religious effervescence in Europe, in which the critical positions with the Catholic Church tensed until the break between Christians, the consequent persecutions and wars between Protestants and Catholics; a conflict of such magnitude that it defines the Modern Age. Part of the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. — 251 p.
In 1372 a French knight compiled a book of stories to teach his daughters how to be good wives and good Christians. The book was popular in his own century and the next, in France, in Germany, and in England. In the fifteenth century, William Caxton translated it into Middle English and used the technology he had recently introduced to...
University of Michigan Press, 2020. — 260 p. Intimate Reading: Textual Encounters in Medieval Women’s Visions and Vitae explores the ways that women mystics sought to make their books into vehicles for the reader’s spiritual transformation. Jessica Barr argues that the cognitive work of reading these texts was meant to stimulate intensely personal responses, and that the very...
Citadelles & Mazenod, 2020. — 256 p. La Tapisserie de Bayeux relève de deux "miracles": son exceptionnelle richesse visuelle et son remarquable état de conservation près d'un millénaire après sa réalisation. Longue de près de 70 mètres, elle appartient aux histoires nationales de la France et de l'Angleterre, et figure depuis 2007 auregistre "Mémoire du monde" de l'Unesco....
Brepols, 2001. — 180 p. This study comprises a critical edition, using all the five extant MSS, of the most popular of the Middle English gynaecological texts deriving from the Latin Trotula-text. 'The Knowing of Woman's Kind in Childing' is a short fifteenth-century prose treatise which claims to be translated from Latin texts (or Latin and French, according to some...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 320 p. How did medieval people define themselves? And how did they balance their identities as individuals with the demands of their communities? Lives, Identities and Histories in the Central Middle Ages intertwines the study of identities with current scholarship to reveal their multi-layered, sometimes contradictory dimensions. Drawing on...
Amsterdam University Press, 2018. — 188 p. — (The Early Medieval North Atlantic). Representations of shapeshifters are prominent in medieval culture and they are particularly abundant in the vernacular literatures of the societies around the North Sea. Some of the figures in these stories remain well known in later folklore and often even in modern media, such as werewolves,...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 544 p. Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia is a study of the functions and conceptions of writing and reading, documentation and archives, and the role of literate authorities in the Christian kingdoms of the northern Iberian Peninsula between the Muslim conquest of 711 and the fall of the Islamic caliphate at Córdoba in 1031. Based on...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 544 p. Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia is a study of the functions and conceptions of writing and reading, documentation and archives, and the role of literate authorities in the Christian kingdoms of the northern Iberian Peninsula between the Muslim conquest of 711 and the fall of the Islamic caliphate at Córdoba in 1031. Based on...
University of Wales Press, 2001. — 422 p. — (Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages). The English think of Arthur as their own - stamped on the landscape in scores of place-names, echoed in the names of their princes even today. Yet if the English had anything to do with a historical Arthur, it was as his bitterest enemies and hi-jackers of the British heritage. This book,...
Brill, 2015. — 376 p. — (Visualising the Middle Ages 11). Between Jerusalem and Europe: Essays in Honour of Bianca Kühnel analyses how Jerusalem is translated into the visual and material culture of medieval, early modern and contemporary Europe, and in what ways European encounters with the city have shaped its holy sites. The volume also demonstrates methodological shifts in...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005. — 836 p. Der "Liber illuministarum", um 1500 im Benediktinerkloster Tegernsee entstanden, ist ein Lehrbuch für Buchmaler. Tegernseer Mönche, allen voran der Bibliothekar Konrad Sartori, sammelten und kopierten Anweisungen und Rezepturen unterschiedlicher Herkunft für die damals bekannten Kunst- und Werktechniken und bündelten sie zu einer...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 182 p. How did people of the medieval period explain physical phenomena, such as eclipses or the distribution of land and water on the globe? What creatures did they think they might encounter: angels, devils, witches, dogheaded people? This fascinating book explores the ways in which medieval people categorized the world, concentrating on...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 182 p. How did people of the medieval period explain physical phenomena, such as eclipses or the distribution of land and water on the globe? What creatures did they think they might encounter: angels, devils, witches, dogheaded people? This fascinating book explores the ways in which medieval people categorized the world, concentrating on...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 208 p. This book investigates relations between humans and animals over several centuries with a focus on the Middle Ages, since important features of our perceptions regarding animals have been rooted in that period. Elucidating various aspects of medieval human-animal relationships requires transdisciplinary discourse, and so this book aims to...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 208 p. This book investigates relations between humans and animals over several centuries with a focus on the Middle Ages, since important features of our perceptions regarding animals have been rooted in that period. Elucidating various aspects of medieval human-animal relationships requires transdisciplinary discourse, and so this book aims to...
Brepols Publishers, 2018. — 484 p. From the end of the thirteenth century onwards, European towns exhibited a significant increase in the use of writing as a tool for administrative and economic purposes, as well as for social communication. The medieval towns of Poland are no exception to this pattern. This book surveys the development of the literacy of Polish burghers in the...
Walter de Gruyter, 1976. — 396 p. Einleitung Die ersten Grabbilder Anfänge in Frankreich Das Nischengrab Hochgotik Englische Grabsteine Geistliche und weltliche Fürsten im Reichsgebiet Frauengestalten des 13. Jahrhunderts Doppelgrabsteine Krieger Italien Trecento Das Standbild über dem Grab Reitergrabmäler Epitaphien Wandlungen des 14. Jahrhunderts in Frankreich Wandlungen des...
L. Reichert, 2004. — 252 S. — (Palilia 14). Das Bild der Stadt Rom im Frühmittelalter gründete nicht nur auf dem sichtbaren Rom, den Kirchen, Palästen, Mosaiken und Malereien, welche die damaligen Bewohner und Besucher umgaben. Die Vorstellung von der Ewigen Stadt beruhte auch auf Texten, in denen der Reichtum an Bauten, Bildern und Prunkobjekten anschaulich wird. Eine solche...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 296 p.
This collection of essays explores a variety of perspectives on Jewish and Christian life in northern France during the thirteenth century. The incentive for this volume was the changing paradigms within the field of medieval studies connected with Jewish-Christian relations and the growing understanding that has characterized the past decade...
Gneckow Daniel, Hollenbach Anna, Landgrebe Phillip (eds.). — Berlin; Boston: Medieval Institute Publications, 2022. — 400 p. — (Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture 34). This volume offers the author’s central articles on the medieval and early modern history of cartography for the first time in English translation. A first group of essays gives an overview of medieval...
NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985 If you have walked through a wood of wild ginger, forget-me-nots, and unfurling ferns, or wandered in a meadow of strawberries, yarrow, and oxeye daisies, you have had the opportunity to admire medieval plants. Sweet Herbs and Sundry Flowers is an introduction to medieval plants and gardening practices by way of the gardens of The...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 232 p. Comedy and humor flourished in manifold forms in the Middle Ages. This volume, covering the period from 1000 to 1400 CE, examines the themes, practice, and effects of medieval comedy, from the caustic morality of principled satire to the exuberant improprieties of many wildly popular tales of sex and trickery. The analysis includes the most...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 232 p. Comedy and humor flourished in manifold forms in the Middle Ages. This volume, covering the period from 1000 to 1400 CE, examines the themes, practice, and effects of medieval comedy, from the caustic morality of principled satire to the exuberant improprieties of many wildly popular tales of sex and trickery. The analysis includes the most...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 194 p. The single woman is a troubling and disruptive category. Does it denote all unmarried women, therefore creating a group which every female was part of at some stage in her life? Or, were the categories "maiden" and "widow" so culturally significant in late medieval England that "single woman" was a residual category for women seen as...
De Gruyter, 2013. — 312 S. — (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 85). Der isländische Historiker, Dichter und Politiker Snorri Sturluson war eine Ausnahmegestalt des nordischen Mittelalters. Die Beiträge international renommierter Forscher diskutieren den aktuellen Stand der Forschung und bringen selbst neue Ansätze ein. Dabei werden neben...
Walter de Gruyter, 2015. — 314 S. — (Materiale Textkulturen 4). Die wichtigsten Akteure im Transfer antiken Wissens ins Frühmittelalter sind die karolingischen Klöster. Die klösterlichen Skriptorien sorgten durch ihre Tätigkeit für die Weitergabe von patristischem und paganem Wissen sowie im Sinne der karolingischen renovatio für die Präsenz korrekter und eindeutiger...
Walter de Gruyter, 2015. — 314 S. — (Materiale Textkulturen 4). Die wichtigsten Akteure im Transfer antiken Wissens ins Frühmittelalter sind die karolingischen Klöster. Die klösterlichen Skriptorien sorgten durch ihre Tätigkeit für die Weitergabe von patristischem und paganem Wissen sowie im Sinne der karolingischen renovatio für die Präsenz korrekter und eindeutiger...
Second Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 285 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 33). — ISBN 10 0-521-82940-2; ISBN 13 978-0-521-82940-3. Katherine Scarfe Beckett is concerned with representations of the Islamic world in Anglo-Saxon England. Using a variety of literary, historical and archaeological evidence, Beckett argues that the first perceptions of...
Arc Humanities Press, 2019. — 208 p. Translation played an essential role throughout the Middle Ages, bridging the gap between literate and lay, and enabling intercourse between languages in multi-lingual Europe. Because of its universality and its vitality, and because it unlocked the door to antiquity's cultural heritage, medieval translation was extremely diverse, ranging...
Boydell Press, 2019. — 378 p. The precedent of empire and the promise of return lay at the heart of King Arthur's appeal in the Middle Ages. Both ideas found fullness of expression in the twelfth century: monarchs and magnates sought to recreate an Arthurian golden age that was as wondrous as the biblical and classical worlds, but less remote. Arthurianism, the practice of...
Brill, 2020. — xxvii, 352 p. — (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 72). Sacred Skin offers the first systematic evaluation of the dissemination and development of the cult of St. Bartholomew in Spain. Exploring the paradoxes of hagiographic representation and their ambivalent effect on the observer, the book focuses on literary and visual testimonies produced from the...
De Gruyter, 2022. — 186 p. — (Studia Augustana 21). This study deals with the topic of the willingness to sacrifice oneself and become a martyr within the context of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century ecclesiastical reform efforts. It makes use of case studies dealing with renowned representatives of late medieval scholarship to link two topic areas that have largely been viewed...
Brepols, 2014. — 624 p. — (Bibliothèque d'histoire culturelle du Moyen Âge 13). L'idée d'un pouvoir ou d'une efficacité des paroles émerge de la lecture de sources fort différentes au Moyen Age, qu'il s'agisse de textes doctrinaux ou d'ouvrages à vocation pratique. Ce livre se veut une confrontation la plus large possible, sur ce thème, dans une perspective d'histoire...
Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2017. — 866 p. — (Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia 74). En hommage à Paul Mattei, Professeur de langue et littérature latines à l’Université Lyon-II – Lumière, ce volume rassemble quarante-huit contributions consacrées à la patristique, au christianisme antique, ainsi qu’à la littérature tardoantique et médiévale. Divisé en huit sections, le...
Princeton University Press, 2019. — 312 p. The Sahara Desert was a thriving crossroads of exchange for West Africa, North Africa, the Middle East, and Europe in the medieval period. Fueling this exchange was West African gold, prized for its purity and used for minting currencies and adorning luxury objects such as jewelry, textiles, and religious objects. Caravans made the...
University of Wales Press, 2021. — 256 p. In the medieval Low Countries (nowadays Belgium and the Netherlands), Arthurian romance flourished in the 13th and 14th centuries. The Middle Dutch poets translated French material), but also created romances of their own. The Arthur of the Low Countries provides a ‘state of the art’ overview of the Dutch Arthurian material and the...
Weiser Books, 1999. — 128 p.
A compilation from a number of sources by an anonymous author who, according to editors Best and Brightman, probably was one of Albertus Magnus' followers. A collector's item, it has a more colloquial voice than the writing of the true Albertus Magnus and provides an accurate portrayal of the magical culture that predominated in the 16th century....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. - 303 p.
Introduction: Medieval Vision in Perspective
Flesh
The Eye of the Flesh
Scientific Visions
The Optical Body
The Custody of the Eyes
Ocular Communion
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. — 233 p. — (Beiträge zur Hagiographie 23). Heiligkeit hat viele Dimensionen: Sie ist ethisches Ideal, numinose Kraft, kostbares Gut, rituelle Handlung und transzendente Größe. Sie konstituiert sich durch kulturelle Praktiken und Diskurse rings um heilige Personen, Ideen, Objekte, Orte und Institutionen und manifestiert sich in besonderen...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2023. — 459 p. — (Beiträge zur Hagiographie 25). Offenbarungen, Visionen und Jenseitsreisen interessieren nicht nur mittelalterliche Schreiber, sondern auch die moderne Forschung. Die Beiträge erschließen dieses vielfältige Quellenkorpus anhand hermeneutischer, überlieferungs- und medienhistorischer Zugänge und fragen insbesondere nach dem Zusammenhang von...
Brepols Publishers, 2000. — 248 p. — (Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe 3). This book is based on fresh and original research from archives in France and the Low Countries, concerning customs and beliefs practised around the midsummer solstice. The information has never previously been considered and it reveals a festive treatment of divisiveness, which might also...
Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2015. — 218 p. — (Études Renaissantes 16). Inscrite dans un programme de recherche sur la diffusion du livre italien en langue vulgaire - tant en langue originale qu'en traduction française - dans l'espace francophone. depuis le début du XVIe siècle jusqu'aux premières années du XVIIe siècle, cette étude entend explorer cette terre encore incognita...
Boydell & Brewer Ltd., 2015. — 295 p. — (Anglo-Saxon Studies 29). For people in the early Middle Ages, the earth, air, water and ether teemed with other beings. Some of these were sentient creatures that swam, flew, slithered or stalked through the same environments inhabited by their human contemporaries. Others were objects that a modern beholder would be unlikely to think of...
York Medieval Press, 2010. — 344 p. Jocelin of Furness (fl.1175x1214), the Cistercian hagiographer, composed four substantial and significant saints' lives; varying widely in both subject and patron, they offer a rich corpus of medieval hagiographical writing. Jocelin's Vita S. Patricii and Vita S. Kentegerni provide updated versions of each saint's legend and are carefully...
Routledge, 2017. — 224 p. "Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry" is the first book-length study to compare responses to runic heritage in the literature of Anglo-Saxon England and medieval Iceland. The Anglo-Saxon runic script had already become the preserve of antiquarians at the time the majority of Old English poetry was written down, and the Icelanders...
Cambridge University Press, 1994. — 220 р. Bernhard Bischoff (1906-1991) was one of the most renowned scholars of medieval palaeography of the twentieth century. In this book seven of his classic essays on aspects of eighth and ninth century culture appear for the first time in English. They include an investigation of the role of books in the transmission of culture from the...
New Word City, 2015. — 257 p. In this indispensable volume, one of America's ranking scholars combines a life's work of research and teaching with the art of lively narration. Both authoritative and beautifully told, The Middle Ages is the full story of the thousand years between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance - a time that saw the rise of kings and emperors, the...
Brill, 2006. — vi, 218 p. — (Brill's Series in Church History 25). This volume examines the world of the medieval monk. The first section of the volume is organized around the theme of monks and the world and explores the intersections between the secular and sacred. The second section is concerned with the ideological or intellectual lives of medieval monks. These essays...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014. — 320 p. — (Beiträge zur Hagiographie 14). In zahlreichen Glaubenskontexten gilt das individuelle oder kollektive Selbstopfer als unüberbietbarer Weg, Grundüberzeugungen durch das Blut als Opferleistung zu besiegeln. Im Christentum werden so die Märtyrer zu wichtigen Zeugen vor Gott, stehen sie doch in der Schar der Heiligen an erster Stelle. Die...
The University of Chicago Press, 1992. — 308 p.
Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation from — or antidote to — ten centuries of misogyny. In this major contribution to gender studies, R. Howard Bloch demonstrates how similar the ubiquitous antifeminism of medieval times and the romantic idealization of woman actually are.Through analyses of...
Brepols Publishers, 1999. — 264 p. — (Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe 2). How did people in the late medieval period perceive and express social status? This volume brings together multi-disciplinary perspectives on representations of social difference in the Low Countries during a time of dynamic social change. The premise of the volume is that medieval social...
Brepols Publishers, 1999. — 264 p. — (Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe 2). This publication brings together multi-disciplinary perspectives on representations of social difference in the Low Countries during a time of dynamic social change. How did people in the late medieval period perceive and express social status? This volume brings together multi-disciplinary...
Brepols Publishers, 2003. — 448 p. — (Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe 5). This versatile collection of essays sets out to underline the new visual agenda in today’s research into history and the history of art. The impact of alternative imagery, of image databases and of computer-generated material has effectively revealed a separate resource-category, offering...
Routledge, 2018. — 270 p. This book examines commercial and personal connections in the early modern book trade in Paris and northwestern France, ca. 1450–1550. The book market, commercial trade, and geo-political ties connected the towns of Paris, Caen, Angers, Rennes, and Nantes, making this a fertile area for the transference of different fields of knowledge via book...
Polity Press, 2018. — 350 p. What do we know of the emotional life of the Middle Ages? Though a long-neglected subject, a multitude of sources – spiritual and secular literature, iconography, chronicles, as well as theological and medical works – provide clues to the central role emotions played in medieval society. In this work, historians Damien Boquet and Piroska Nagy delve...
Polity Press, 2018. — 350 p. What do we know of the emotional life of the Middle Ages? Though a long-neglected subject, a multitude of sources – spiritual and secular literature, iconography, chronicles, as well as theological and medical works – provide clues to the central role emotions played in medieval society. In this work, historians Damien Boquet and Piroska Nagy delve...
De Gruyter, 2014. — 588 p. — (Europa im Mittelalter 24). The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and globalization have forced national history to yield place to European and global history. In medieval studies, Michael Borgolte has taken up the new challenge as no other German historian, encouraging the development of transcultural research on the Middle Ages. This volume includes...
Vorträge und Workshops einer internationalen Frühlingsschule. — Akademie Verlag, 2012. — 342 S. — (Europa im Mittelalter 16). Kulturen sind keine monolithischen Blöcke. Sie sind hybrid, setzen sich also aus Elementen verschiedenster Herkunft zusammen und bringen aus ihnen Neues hervor. Das DFG-Schwerpunktprogramm "Integration und Desintegration der Kulturen im europäischen...
Penn State University Press, 2022. — 240 p. In 1256, the countess of Provence, Beatrice of Savoy, enlisted her personal physician to create a health handbook to share with her daughters. Written in French and known as the Régime du corps, this health guide would become popular and influential, with nearly seventy surviving copies made over the next two hundred years and...
Penn State University Press, 2022. — 240 p. In 1256, the countess of Provence, Beatrice of Savoy, enlisted her personal physician to create a health handbook to share with her daughters. Written in French and known as the Régime du corps, this health guide would become popular and influential, with nearly seventy surviving copies made over the next two hundred years and...
Penn State University Press, 2022. — 240 p. In 1256, the countess of Provence, Beatrice of Savoy, enlisted her personal physician to create a health handbook to share with her daughters. Written in French and known as the Régime du corps, this health guide would become popular and influential, with nearly seventy surviving copies made over the next two hundred years and...
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1980. — 460 p.
Truly groundbreaking work. Boswell reveals unexplored phenomena with an unfailing erudition." — Michel Foucault John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 342 p. For the affluent merchant class of fifteenth-century Florence, the education of future generations was a fundamental matter. Together with texts, images played an important role in the development of the young into adult citizens. In this book, Federico Botana demonstrates how illustrated manuscripts of vernacular texts read by the...
Cornell University Press, 2003. — 170 p. In high medieval France, men and women saw the world around them as the product of tensions between opposites. Imbued with a Christian culture in which a penniless preacher was also the King of Kings and the last were expected to be first, twelfth-century thinkers brought order to their lives through the creation of opposing categories....
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. — 384 p. Thinkers in medieval France constantly reconceptualized what had come before, interpreting past events to give validity to the present and help control the future. The long-dead saints who presided over churches and the ancestors of established dynasties were an especially crucial part of creative memory, Constance Brittain...
Brepols, 2022. — 324 p. — (Bibliothèque d'histoire culturelle du Moyen Âge 22). À l’époque médiévale, en Orient et en Occident, se conjuguent sur la figure mythique du roi Salomon des aspects variés et parfois contradictoires touchant aussi bien au secret qu’à une diffusion d’idées et de représentations visant à un consensus social et politique. Les contributions ici réunies...
D. S. Brewer, 2015. — 392 p. — (Gallica 38). A study of the immensely popular "lives" of Christ and the Virgin in medieval France. The story of the life of Christ and his mother was told in many texts in various French vernaculars (Anglo-Norman and Old Occitan, as well as Old and Middle French) between the middle of the twelfth century and the end of the fifteenth; there are...
Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2024. — 155 p. — (Book Cultures). This study uses a series of medieval texts to address a set of urgent critical issues in Humanities centring on categories of L/literature, history, periodization, languages, and descriptions of script. These categories are inherited from the foundation of modern disciplines and fields of study, superimposed on what...
Brill, 2022. — xii, 474 p. — (Reading Medieval Sources 6). This volume contains work by scholars actively publishing on origin legends across early medieval western Europe, from the fall of Rome to the high Middle Ages. Its thematic structure creates a dialogue between texts and regions traditionally studied in isolation. Part 1 (Regions) introduces the corpus of origin texts...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 284 p. — ISBN 9781009225632. The inhabitants of early medieval Britain and Ireland shared the knowledge that the region held four peoples and the awareness that they must have originally come from 'elsewhere'. The Origin Legends of Early Medieval Britain and Ireland studies these peoples' origin stories, an important genre that has shaped...
Brill, 2025. — x, 306 p. — (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 108). The many crises of the high and late Middle Ages in Europe saw a resurgence of interest in apocalypticism and millenarianism. Pious Christians who feared the coming judgement day but found the established Church lacking in an adequate response, sought out leadership and direction from thinkers who...
Walter de Gruyter, 2018. — 245 p. Every known society wears some form of clothing. It is central to how we experience our bodies and how we understand the sociocultural dimensions of our embodiment. It is also central to how we understand works of literature. In this innovative study, Brazil demonstrates how medieval writers use clothing to direct readers’ and spectators’...
University of Chicago Press, 2021. — 375 p. In Machines of the Mind , Katharine Breen proposes that medieval personifications should be understood neither as failed novelistic characters nor as instruments of heavy-handed didacticism. She argues that personifications are instead powerful tools for thought that help us to remember and manipulate complex ideas, testing them...
Ashgate, 2015. — 351 p. — (Crusade Texts in Translation 27). The legend of Prester John has received much scholarly attention over the last hundred years, but never before have the sources been collected and coherently presented to readers. This book now brings together a fully-representative set of texts setting out the many and various sources from which we get our knowledge...
Routledge, 2015. — 352 p. — (Crusade Texts in Translation 27). The legend of Prester John has received much scholarly attention over the last hundred years, but never before have the sources been collected and coherently presented to readers. This book now brings together a fully-representative set of texts setting out the many and various sources from which we get our...
Boydell & Brewer, 2019. — 322 p. — (Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages, vol. 3). The question of the relationship between humanity and the non-human world may seem a modern phenomenon; but in fact, even in the early medieval period people actively reflected on their own engagement with the non-human world, with such reflections profoundly shaping their literature. This...
Harvard University Press, 2010. — 159 р. In this first comprehensive study of the effect of Lucretius's De rerum natura on Florentine thought in the Renaissance, Alison Brown demonstrates how Lucretius was used by Florentine thinkers―earlier and more widely than has been supposed―to provide a radical critique of prevailing orthodoxies. To answer the question of why ordinary...
Fordham University Press, 2023. — 342 p. — (Fordham Series in Medieval Studies). — ISBN13 9780823298914. — ISBN10 0823298914. Remember the Hand studies a body of articulate manuscript books from the Christian monasteries of northern Iberia in the tenth and eleventh centuries. These exceptional, richly illuminated codices have in common an urgent sense of scribal...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 202 p. Introduction: Narrating Sexuality, Sociality, and Cosmology in Medieval Texts The Whore as Imago Dei: Being and Abjection in Hrotsvit’s Rewriting of Thais Alan of Lille on the Little Bits that Make a Difference Queer Hermeneutics and Redemption in the Cosmology of the Zohar Born Under the Sign of Venus: Phantasmatic Desire and the...
Brill, 2016. — 292 p. — (Visualising the Middle Ages 10). In Imagining the Text, James Brown examines ekphrasis – the verbal representation of a visual representation – in Wirnt von Gravenberg’s thirteenth-century Arthurian romance Wigalois, one of the most popular and enduring stories in the Middle High German literary tradition. Through close reading of the text and examining...
Toronto; Buffalo; London: University of Toronto Press, 2024. — 629 p. — (Toronto Studies in Medieval Law). Saint Antoninus of Florence was a Dominican friar and archbishop of Florence from 1446 to 1459. He composed one of the most comprehensive manuals of moral theology, the Summa, which has long been counted among the more copious, influential, and rewarding medieval sources....
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2021. — 244 p. — (Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 47). The essays in this collection explore the motives and methods of marginalization throughout pre-modern Europe, Japan, the Ottoman Empire, and areas that are now Mexico, Iran, Peru, Syria, and Costa Rica. The authors offer a rich variety of perspectives on...
The Boydell Press, 2017. — 320 p. — (Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture 11). Examinations of the use of diagrams, symbols etc. found as commentary in medieval texts. In our electronic age, we are accustomed to the use of icons, symbols, graphs, charts, diagrams and visualisations as part of the vocabulary of communication. But this rich ecosystem is far from a...
Brill, 2018. — xiv, 358 p.; 98 color ills. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 278/25; Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 278/25). In The Riddle of Jael, Peter Scott Brown offers the first history of the Biblical heroine Jael in medieval and Renaissance art. Jael, who betrayed and killed the tyrant Sisera in the Book of Judges by hammering a...
D. S. Brewer, 2020. — 302 p. New essays examining Bohemia as a key European context for understanding Chaucer's poetry. Chaucer never went to Bohemia but Bohemia came to him when, in 1382, King Richard II of England married Anne, daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV. Charles's splendid court in Prague was renowned across Europe for its patronage of literature, art and...
Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition. 2007. 688 pages. ISBN: 0631219730. A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350-c.1500 challenges readers to think beyond a narrowly defined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries. A ground-breaking collection of newly-commissioned essays on medieval literature and culture. * Encourages students to think beyond a narrowly...
Brill, 2013. — 414 p. — (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 34). Hrotsvit, a canoness in the German convent Gandersheim, wrote Latin poems, stories, plays, and histories during the reign of Emperor Otto the Great (962-973). She expresses a strong sense of authorial mission in letters, prefaces, and dedications. These personal writings, as well as her full literary...
Columbia University Press, 2017. — 656 p. Would you like to learn to pray like a medieval Christian? In Mary and the Art of Praye r, Rachel Fulton Brown traces the history of the medieval practice of praising Mary through the complex of prayers known as the Hours of the Virgin. More than just a work of comprehensive historical scholarship, the book asks readers to immerse...
Columbia University Press, 2017. — 656 p. Would you like to learn to pray like a medieval Christian? In Mary and the Art of Praye r, Rachel Fulton Brown traces the history of the medieval practice of praising Mary through the complex of prayers known as the Hours of the Virgin. More than just a work of comprehensive historical scholarship, the book asks readers to immerse...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 244 p. Christine de Pizan's Livre de la Cité des Dames (1405) is justly renowned for its full-scale assault on the misogynist stereotypes which dominated the culture of the Middle Ages. Rosalind Brown-Grant locates the Cité in the context of Christine's defence of women as it developed over a number of years and through a range of different...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 304 p. While French romances of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries have long enjoyed a privileged place in the literary history of France, romances from the later middle ages have been largely neglected by modern scholars, despite their central role in the chivalric culture of the day. In particular, although this genre has been seen as...
Routledge, 2020. — 344 p. Thoroughly interdisciplinary in approach, this volume examines how concepts such as the exercising of power, the distribution of justice, and transgression against the law were treated in both textual and pictorial terms in works produced and circulated in medieval French manuscripts and early printed books. Analysing texts ranging from romances,...
Medieval Institute Publications, 2020. — 394 p. This collection of essays examines how the paratextual apparatus of medieval manuscripts both inscribes and expresses power relations between the producers and consumers of knowledge in this important period of intellectual history. It seeks to define which paratextual features – annotations, commentaries, corrections, glosses,...
Medieval Institute Publications, 2020. — 394 p. This collection of essays examines how the paratextual apparatus of medieval manuscripts both inscribes and expresses power relations between the producers and consumers of knowledge in this important period of intellectual history. It seeks to define which paratextual features – annotations, commentaries, corrections, glosses,...
Brepols Publishers, 2020. — 388 p. — (Burgundica 29). This is the first monograph devoted to manuscripts illuminated by the mid-fifteenth-century artist known as the Wavrin Master, so-called after his chief patron, Jean de Wavrin, chronicler and councillor at the court of Philip the Good of Burgundy. Specializing in the production of pseudo-historical prose romances featuring...
Ithaca; London: Cornell University, 2015. — 176 p. In the summer of 972 a group of Muslim brigands based in the south of France near La Garde-Freinet abducted the abbot of Cluny as he and his entourage crossed the Alps en route from Rome to Burgundy. Ultimately, the abbot was set free, but the audacity of this abduction outraged Christian leaders and galvanized the will of...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 228 p. Silence and Sign Language in Medieval Monasticism explores the rationales for religious silence in early medieval abbeys and the use of nonverbal forms of communication among monks when rules of silence forbade them from speaking. After examining the spiritual benefits of personal silence as a form of protection against the perils of...
Brill, 2022. — xvi, 394 p. — (Brill's Companions to European History 27). Founded in 910 by Duke William of Aquitaine, the abbey of Cluny rose to prominence in the eleventh century as the most influential and opulent center for monastic devotion in medieval Europe. While the twelfth century brought challenges, both internal and external, the Cluniacs showed remarkable...
Brill, 2019. — x, 641 p. — (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 55). In Kreative Gegensätze Marcel Bubert analyses the debates among medieval scholastics on the social usefulness of learned knowledge in their specific social and cultural contexts. In particular, he shows how the skepticism towards the scholars as well as the tensions between the University...
Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2024. — 406 p. — (Crusading in Context, 5) — ISBN-10: 1783277335; ISBN-13: 978-1783277339. This collection offers a holistic understanding of the impact of both crusading and settlement on the literary cultures of Latin Christendom. The period between the First Crusade and the collapse of the "crusader states" in the eastern Mediterranean was a...
Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2024. — 406 p. — (Crusading in Context, 5) — ISBN-10: 1783277335; ISBN-13: 978-1783277339. This collection offers a holistic understanding of the impact of both crusading and settlement on the literary cultures of Latin Christendom. The period between the First Crusade and the collapse of the "crusader states" in the eastern Mediterranean was a...
Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2010. — 702 p. «Honorary Professor» de Français à l’Université de Birmingham, et Professeur Émérite à Queen Mary and Westfield, Université de Londres, Peter T. Ricketts a mené une carrière longue et remarquable dans le domaine de la Philologie Romane, et dans les études occitanes en particulier. Outre son rôle majeur dans l’animation de...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. — 272 p. What is the body when it performs music? And what, conversely, is music as it reverberates through or pours out of a performing body? Tekla Bude starts from a simple premise - that music requires a body to perform it - to rethink the relationship between music, matter, and the body in the late medieval period. Progressing by way...
Boydell & Brewer, 2017. — 392 p. — (Writing History in the Middle Ages 3). Cantors made unparalleled contributions to the way time was understood and history was remembered in the medieval Latin West. The men and women who held this office in cathedrals and monasteries were responsible for calculating the date of Easter and the feasts dependent on it, for formulating liturgical...
Brill, 2017. — 470 p. — (Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe 8). Space, Place, and Motion: Locating Confraternities in the Late Medieval and Early Modern City offers the first sustained comparative examination of the relationship between confraternal life and the spaces of the late medieval and early modern city. By considering cities large (Rome) and...
Manchester University Press, 2019. — 288 p. This collection of essays investigates how the late-medieval household acted as a sorter, user and disseminator of different kinds of ready information, from the traditional and authoritative to the innovative and newly made. Building on work on the noble and bourgeois medieval household, it considers bourgeois, gentry and collegiate...
Manchester University Press, 2019. — 288 p. This collection of essays investigates how the late-medieval household acted as a sorter, user and disseminator of different kinds of ready information, from the traditional and authoritative to the innovative and newly made. Building on work on the noble and bourgeois medieval household, it considers bourgeois, gentry and collegiate...
York Medieval Press, 2008. — 312 p. Secular colleges stand as the most characteristic late medieval religious foundation, with hundreds established across fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Europe; but they remain by far the least studied. This volume provides the first scholarly overview of the late medieval college and its place in English religion, society and culture. The...
Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2018. — 493 p. — (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 47). In the two centuries preceding the Reformation in England, economic, political and spiritual conditions combined with constructive effect. Endemic plague prompted a demonstrative piety and, in a world enjoying rising disposable incomes, this linked with current teachings - especially...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. — 405 p. — (The Northern World 24).
The Brendan Legend: Texts and Versions deals with the vast textual tradition relating to the Irish Saint Brendan, known as 'The Navigator'. Stories about Brendan have been popular in the whole of Western Europe, from the seventh to the twentieth century. The themes of the book are the interrelated problems of...
Brill, 2016. — 430 p. — (Intersections 47). This book explores the dynamic relationships between sites, peoples, objects, and images during the first age of globalization in early modern Europe. It investigates interactions, interconnections, and entanglements on both micro and macro levels, and aims to understand the specific dynamics of processes of translocal and...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 370 p. A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Middle Ages covers the period from 600 to 1500 in European and Islamic cultures. Arabic theories and terminology for the science of matter were introduced into the West and became known as 'alchemy'. Based in experiment and innovation – and bound up in networks of mining, manufacturing, trade and...
Routledge, 2016. — 210 p. After discussing the terminology of talismanic magic (or necromancy) and its position in divisions of science in the Middle Ages, this book traces the history of talismanic texts from the Classical period through the Arabic world to the Latin Middle Ages. The principal authorities are Hermes and Aristotle, and the search for the ’secret knowledge’ of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 283 p. — (The New Middle Ages).
The varied cultural functions of dress, textiles, and clothwork are used in this collection of essays to examine long-standing assumptions about the Middle Ages. At one end of the spectrum, questions of dress call up feminist theoretical investigations into the body and subjectivity, while broadening those inquiries to...
Brill, 2007. — 304 p. — (Later Medieval Europe 2). The Language of Abuse provides the first comprehensive examination of marital violence in later medieval England. Drawing from a wide variety of legal and literary sources, this book develops a nuanced perspective of the acceptability of marital violence at a time when social expectations of gender and marriage were in...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 432 p. The Familiar Enemy re-examines the linguistic, literary, and cultural identities of England and France within the context of the Hundred Years War. During this war, two profoundly intertwined peoples developed complex strategies for expressing their aggressively intimate relationship. This special connection between the English and the...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 338 p. — (Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought. Fourth Series 107). The construction of a church was undoubtedly one of the most demanding events to take place in the life of a medieval parish. It required a huge outlay of time, money and labour, and often a new organisational structure to oversee design and management. Who took...
Brepols, 2019. — 340 p. — (Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe 30). Explores cultural connections between and across Britain, Ireland, and Iceland from the high to late Middle Ages, with a particular focus on literary transmission and translation. This volume offers an in-depth exploration of the cultural connections between and across Britain, Ireland, and Iceland...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 240 p. This book offers a new perspective on the "otherworlds" of medieval literature. These fantastical realms are among the most memorable places in medieval writing, by turns beautiful and monstrous, alluring and terrifying. Passing over a river or sea, or entering into a hollow hill, heroes come upon strange and magical realms. These places...
Cornell University Press, 2016. — 382 p. Simultaneously real and unreal, the dead are people, yet they are not. The society of medieval Europe developed a rich set of imaginative traditions about death and the afterlife, using the dead as a point of entry for thinking about the self, regeneration, and loss. These macabre preoccupations are evident in the widespread popularity...
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2022. — 488 p. — (Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin 15). Danuta Shanzer is a scholar of international caliber, and this volume honors her career on the occasion of her sixtyfifth birthday (or thereabouts). Most of the contributors are current or former students, colleagues, collaborators and friends, from Oxford, Berkeley,...
América Ibérica, 2011. — 220 p.
¿Cómo era la gastronomía en la Edad Media?, ¿y la receta del Hypocrás? ¿Cómo se fabricaba el acero de Damasco?… Una visión de la historia distinta a la que nos ofrecen las grandes fechas, batallas, señores y reyes: una visión de cotidianidad, curiosidades y misterios. Jesús Callejo realiza un apasionante repaso de la época: desde el Codex Gigas,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 242 p.
Troubled Vision is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that explores the interface between gender, sexuality and vision in medieval culture. The volume represents an exciting array of scholarship dealing with visual and textual cultures from the Eleventh to the Fifteenth centuries. Bringing together a range of theoretical approaches that...
Brepols, 2021. — xxix + 266 p. — (Textes et Etudes du Moyen Âge 97). In the almost twenty years between the two international conferences on John Wyclif organised by the University of Milan, the most recent of which (September 2016) lies to some extent at the origin of the present volume, an increasing number of studies have been devoted to this great English thinker,...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 232 p. Through a focused and systematic examination of late medieval scholastic writers - theologians, philosophers and jurists - Joseph Canning explores how ideas about power and legitimate authority were developed over the 'long fourteenth century'. The author provides a new model for understanding late medieval political thought, taking...
Free Press, 2015. — 201 p. A New York Times bestseller, "In the Wake of the Plague" is a fascinating study of the cultural and religious consequences of one of the deadliest tragedies to befall humanity: the black plague. Though rigorously scientific in his approach, Norman F. Cantor has produced an unforgettable narrative that in many ways employs the novelist’s skill for...
Harper Perennial, 2015. — 633 p. In 1963 Norman F. Cantor published his breakthrough narrative history of the Middle Ages, "Medieval History: The Life and Death of a Civilization". Now revised and expanded, this edition of the splendidly detailed and lively history of the Middle Ages contains more than 30 percent new material. The Civilization of the Middle Ages incorporates...
Harper Perennial, 1993. — 633 p. — ISBN 0-06-017033-6 In 1963 Norman F. Cantor published his breakthrough narrative history of the Middle Ages, "Medieval History: The Life and Death of a Civilization". Now revised and expanded, this edition of the splendidly detailed and lively history of the Middle Ages contains more than 30 percent new material. The Civilization of the Middle...
Université de Montréal, 2023. — 203 p. Romance language lyric poetry, also known as courtly lyric, is a literary genre that was developed in the aristocratic courts of southern France, between the 12th and 13th centuries, by the troubadour poets. These feudal lords from the southern courts composed lyrical texts, meant to be sung in public, in the Occitan language (also known...
Columbia University Press, 1990. - 218 p. After becoming popularized by the troubadours of southern France in the twelfth century, the social system of 'courtly love' soon spread. Evidence of the influence of courtly love in the culture and literature of most of western Europe spans centuries. This unabridged edition of codifies life at Queen Eleanor's court at Poitiers between...
Brepols Publishers, 2006. — 595 p. — (Textes et Etudes du Moyen Âge 38). The papers presented in this volume in honour of Alfonso Maierù cover some of the major topics of his research area. The institutional and intellectual life of university training in the Middle Ages, including the peculiar tradition of related works, is the focus of the papers by Louis Jacques Bataillon,...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. — 280 p. — (Material Texts). — ISBN10: 0812218817. — ISBN13: 978-0812218817. In antiquity and the Middle Ages, memory was a craft, and certain actions and tools were thought to be necessary for its creation and recollection. Until now, however, many of the most important visual and textual sources on the topic have remained untranslated...
2nd Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 540 p. Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material and conclusions of the first....
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 248 p. This book articulates a new approach to medieval aesthetic values, emphasizing the sensory and emotional basis of all medieval arts, their love of play and fine craftsmanship, of puzzles, and of strong contrasts. Written for a general educated audience as well as students and scholars in the field, it offers an understanding of medieval...
University of Chicago Press, 2018. — 304 p. — ISBN: 978-0-226-54818-0. For premodern audiences, poetic form did not exist solely as meter, stanzas, or rhyme scheme. Rather, the form of a poem emerged as an experience, one generated when an audience immersed in a culture of dance encountered a poetic text. Exploring the complex relationship between medieval dance and medieval...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2024. — 220 p. This book traces the history of encounter between Eastern and Western cultures by closely examining a body of medieval travel writings penned or related by Europeans and by inhabitants of East Asia. Whilst these texts are usually considered in the context of kindred European or Chinese literature, this study will make a case for...
Fordham University Press, 2014. — 296 p. Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond shines light on traditional divisions of Old Norse–Icelandic poetry and awakens the reader to work that blurs these boundaries. Many of the texts and topics taken up in these enlightening essays have been difficult to categorize and have consequently been overlooked or undervalued. The boundaries between genres...
Fordham University Press, 2014. — 296 p. Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond shines light on traditional divisions of Old Norse–Icelandic poetry and awakens the reader to work that blurs these boundaries. Many of the texts and topics taken up in these enlightening essays have been difficult to categorize and have consequently been overlooked or undervalued. The boundaries between genres...
Brill, 2019. — 662 p. — (Commentaria 10). The Codex Amiatinus and its “Sister” Bibles examines the full Bibles (Bibles containing every scriptural text that producers deemed canonical) made at the northern English monastery of Wearmouth–Jarrow under Abbot Ceolfrith (d. 716) and the Venerable Bede (d. 735), and the religious, cultural, and intellectual circumstances of their...
Brill, 2012. — 314 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 157). In recent years, historians have questioned the notion that belief was central to the Reformation’s success, arguing rather for a variety of social, political, economic, and psychological forces. This study examines one of the intra-Lutheran doctrinal debates, the Flacian controversy over original...
Routledge, 2022. — 228 p. The Latin Middle Ages were characterised by a vast array of different representations of nature. These conceptualisations of the natural world were developed according to the specific requirements of many different disciplines, with the consequent result of producing a fragmentation of images of nature. Despite this plurality, two main tendencies...
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection, 1989. — 238 p. — ISBN 978-0812230918. The medieval bestiary, or moralized book of beasts, has enjoyed immense popularity over the centuries and it continues to influence both literature and art. This collection of essays aims to demonstrate the scope and variety of bestiary studies and the ways in which the...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. — 246 p. — (Studies in Manuscript Cultures 24). Manuscripts provide rich documentary evidence for understanding the history of cultural life across the breadth of Europe and Asia down through the Middle Ages. Many illustrate engagement between and across languages, in both similar and contrasting ways from east to west. The demarcation of...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. — 246 p. — (Studies in Manuscript Cultures 24). Manuscripts provide rich documentary evidence for understanding the history of cultural life across the breadth of Europe and Asia down through the Middle Ages. Many illustrate engagement between and across languages, in both similar and contrasting ways from east to west. The demarcation of...
Brepols, 2024. — 440 p. — (Brepols Collected Essays in European Culture 8). Patrick Zutshi is a leading authority on the later medieval Western Church and papacy and internationally recognised as an expert in papal diplomatic and the Avignon Curia. This volume brings together essays by over twenty of Patrick's colleagues and friends, all distinguished scholars in medieval...
John Donald, 2016. — 190 p. Who was Merlin? Is the famous wizard of Arthurian legend based on a real person? In this book, Merlin's origins are traced back to the story of Lailoken, a mysterious 'wild man' who is said to have lived in the Scottish Lowlands in the sixth century AD. The book considers the question of whether Lailoken belongs to myth or reality. It looks at the...
John Donald, 2016. — 190 p. Who was Merlin? Is the famous wizard of Arthurian legend based on a real person? In this book, Merlin's origins are traced back to the story of Lailoken, a mysterious 'wild man' who is said to have lived in the Scottish Lowlands in the sixth century AD. The book considers the question of whether Lailoken belongs to myth or reality. It looks at the...
De Gruyter, 2014. — 744 p. — (Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture 15). This volume continues the critical exploration of fundamental issues in the medieval and early modern world, here concerning mental health, spirituality, melancholy, mystical visions, medicine, and well-being. The contributors, who originally had presented their research at a symposium at The...
De Gruyter, 2012. — 935 p. — (Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture). In the wake of the Spatial Turn and the emergence of ecocritical theory, rural space proves to be a highly fertile ground for the reexamination of medieval and early modern literature, history, and art history. This volume combines critical articles that examine the way how rural space was perceived,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — 230 p. Conrad Kyeser was the first to present an image of a chastity belt in his illustrated book on war machinery, Bellifortis (1405), and some fifteenth- and sixteenth-century poets and artists referred to this object as well. Yet, there is no firm evidence that chastity belts were ever used in reality. By contrast, modern writers have often...
De Gruyter, 2017. — 702 p. — ( Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture). While most people today take hygiene and medicine for granted, they both have had their own history. We can gain deep insights into the pre-modern world by studying its health-care system, its approaches to medicine, and concept of hygiene. Already the early Middle Ages witnessed great interest...
De Gruyter, 2017. — 702 p. — (Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture 19). While most people today take hygiene and medicine for granted, they both have had their own history. We can gain deep insights into the pre-modern world by studying its health-care system, its approaches to medicine, and concept of hygiene. Already the early Middle Ages witnessed great interest...
De Gruyter, 2015. — 706 p. A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies , this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture. Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over the last decades. Particularly our understanding of medieval culture, of the basic living conditions, and the specific value system prevalent at that time...
De Gruyter, 2015. — 706 p. A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies , this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture. Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over the last decades. Particularly our understanding of medieval culture, of the basic living conditions, and the specific value system prevalent at that time...
De Gruyter, 2015. — 814 p. A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies , this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture. Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over the last decades. Particularly our understanding of medieval culture, of the basic living conditions, and the specific value system prevalent at that time...
De Gruyter, 2015. — 814 p. A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies , this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture. Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over the last decades. Particularly our understanding of medieval culture, of the basic living conditions, and the specific value system prevalent at that time...
De Gruyter, 2015. — 814 p. A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies , this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture. Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over the last decades. Particularly our understanding of medieval culture, of the basic living conditions, and the specific value system prevalent at that time...
De Gruyter, 2014. — 744 p. — (Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture 15). This volume continues the critical exploration of fundamental issues in the medieval and early modern world, here concerning mental health, spirituality, melancholy, mystical visions, medicine, and well-being. The contributors, who originally had presented their research at a symposium at The...
De Gruyter, 2019. — 766 p. Jan Huizinga and Roger Caillois have already taught us to realize how important games and play have been for pre-modern civilization. Recent research has begun to acknowledge the fundamental importance of these aspects in cultural, religious, philosophical, and literary terms. This volume expands on the traditional approach still very much focused on...
Walter de Gruyter, 2005. — 444 p. Although many researchers have taken a critical stance towards the theses on the history of childhood developed by Philippe Ariès in 1960, this volume is the first comprehensive collection of studies with a psychological and emotional historical orientation to demonstrate convincingly the extent to which the relationship between parents and...
Routledge, 2020. — 332 p. Every human being knows that we are walking through life following trails, whether we are aware of them or not. Medieval poets, from the anonymous composer of Beowulf to Marie de France, Hartmann von Aue, Gottfried von Strassburg, and Guillaume de Lorris to Petrarch and Heinrich Kaufringer, predicated their works on the notion of the trail and...
Walter de Gruyter, 2018. — 728 p. — (Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture 22). The contributions to this volume explore the intellectual approaches to time and space through literary and historical reflections upon the self and its space from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Age. No longer simply defined by travelogues, travel itself is here recognized as a...
Brepols Publishers, 2020. — 184 p. — (Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 45). From shape-shifting Merlin to the homunculi of Paracelsus, the nine fascinating essays of this collection explore the contested boundaries between human and non-human animals, between the body and the spirit, and between the demonic and the divine. From shape-shifting Merlin to the...
Brill, 2020. — 504 p. — (Library of the Written Word - The Manuscript World 79). The twenty-eight essays in this collection showcase cutting-edge research in manuscript studies, encompassing material from late antiquity to the Renaissance. The volume celebrates the exceptional contribution of John Lowden to the study of medieval books. The authors explore some of the themes and...
Boydell Press, 2016. — 248 p. — (Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture 8). On the facade of Chartres cathedral serene personifications of the arts of grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, music, arithmetic, geometry and astronomy present passers-by with a vision of education as an improving process leading to greater knowledge of God. The arts proved a popular subject in...
Routledge, 2015. — 408 p. A selection of essays that discuss the concept of masculinity in the middle ages. Becoming and Unbecoming Jeffrey - Jerome Cohen and Bonnie Wheeler Body Doubles: Producing the Masculine Corpus - D. Vance Smith Becoming Christian, Becoming Male? - Steven F. Kruger Where the Boys Are: Children and Sex in the Anglo-Saxon Penitentials - Allen J. Frantzen...
Brill, 2017. — 250 p. — (The Medieval Mediterranean 110). Caring for the Living Soul identifies the fundamental role emotions played in the development of learned medicine and in the formation of the social role of the "physicians of the body" in the western Mediterranean between 1200 and 1500. The book explores theoretical debates and practical advice concerning the treatment...
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. — 370 p. Some readers of this book may be surprised by its claim that the foundations of western intellectual history were laid in the Middle Ages and not in classical Greece and Rome or the Judea-Christian tradition. In defense of that claim we argue that the thought of western Europe acquired its particular character not only...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 242 p. Insular Sources for a Carolingian Debate Amalarius of Metz and the Meaning of Place Topography and Meaning in Carolingian Monastic Thought Place, Penance, and Asylum in Alcuin’s Tours Conclusion: Two Churches
Ithaca; London: Cornell University Press, 2009. — 336 p. Representations of Muslims have never been more common in the Western imagination than they are today. Building on Orientalist stereotypes constructed over centuries, the figure of the wily Arab has given rise, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, to the "Islamist" terrorist. In Idols in the East, Suzanne Conklin...
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2015. — 216 p. — (Essays and Studies 68). Medieval Europe was characterized by a sophisticated market for the production, exchange and sale of written texts. This volume brings together papers on a range of topics, centred on manuscript studies and textual criticism, which explore these issues from a pan-European perspective. They examine the prolonged...
2nd Edition. — Oxford University Press, 2003. — 352 p. The Medieval World View, 2/e , is an engaging introduction to the people, places, and ideas that shaped the intellectual world of the Middle Ages. The book presents the presuppositions of medieval society in a systematic fashion by integrating brief, self-contained selections from primary texts and carefully captioned...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. - 416 p. - (The Middle Ages Series).
In Dark Age Bodies Lynda L. Coon reconstructs the gender ideology of monastic masculinity through an investigation of early medieval readings of the body. Focusing on the Carolingian era, Coon evaluates the ritual and liturgical performances of monastic bodies within the imaginative landscapes of...
Reaktion Books, 2021. — 224 p. The first popular biography of a pioneering feminist thinker and writer of medieval Paris. The daughter of a court intellectual, Christine de Pizan dwelled within the cultural heart of late-medieval Paris. In the face of personal tragedy, she learned the tools of the book trade, writing more than forty works that included poetry, historical and...
Reaktion Books, 2021. — 224 p. The first popular biography of a pioneering feminist thinker and writer of medieval Paris. The daughter of a court intellectual, Christine de Pizan dwelled within the cultural heart of late-medieval Paris. In the face of personal tragedy, she learned the tools of the book trade, writing more than forty works that included poetry, historical and...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 1545 p. Medieval Grammar and Rhetoric: Language Arts and Literary Theory, AD 300-1475 contributes to two fields, the history of the language arts and the history of literary theory. It brings together essential sources in the disciplines of grammar and rhetoric which were used to understand literary form and language and teach literary...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 432 p. Rhetoric is an engine of social discourse and the art charged with generating and swaying emotion. The history of rhetoric provides a continuous structure by which we can measure how emotions were understood, articulated, and mobilized under various historical circumstances and social contracts. This book is about how rhetoric in the...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 432 p. Rhetoric is an engine of social discourse and the art charged with generating and swaying emotion. The history of rhetoric provides a continuous structure by which we can measure how emotions were understood, articulated, and mobilized under various historical circumstances and social contracts. This book is about how rhetoric in the...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 288 p. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola has been a beacon of progress in modern times, and the Oration on the Dignity of Man has been the engine of his fame. But he never wrote a speech about the dignity of man. The prince's speech announced quite different projects: persuading Christians to become Kabbalists in order to annihilate themselves in...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 288 p. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola has been a beacon of progress in modern times, and the Oration on the Dignity of Man has been the engine of his fame. But he never wrote a speech about the dignity of man. The prince's speech announced quite different projects: persuading Christians to become Kabbalists in order to annihilate themselves in...
Brepols, 2021. — 336 p. — (Bibliothèque d'histoire culturelle du Moyen Âge 20). La Légende dorée de Jacques de Voragine constitue à n'en pas douter une oeuvre centrale et incontournable de la littérature européenne. Le nombre considérable de ses témoins manuscrits dans toutes les langues de l'Occident médiéval permet largement de le mesurer, tout autant que la foule des oeuvres...
Brill, 2016. — 266 p. — (Intersections 42). In Women and Curiosity in Early Modern England and France, the rehabilitation of female curiosity between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries is thoroughly investigated for the first time, in a comparative perspective that confronts two epistemological and religious traditions. In the context of the early modern blooming...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. - 285 p. Nuns on Parade: Memorializing Women in Karolus Magnus et Leo Papa Mnemonic Sanctity and the Ladder of Reading: Notker’s “in Natale Sanctarum Feminarum” Envisioning a Saint: Visions in the Miracles of Saint Margaret of Scotland Secret Designs/Public Shapes: Ekphrastic Tensions in Hildegard’s Scivias Imitating the Imagined: Clemence of Barking’s...
Brill, 2013. — 1166 p. — (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 44). This volume continues the edition of the rotuli, or lists of benefice supplications, sent to the papacy by masters, bachelors, and students at the University of Paris in the fourteenth century. It specifically covers the pontificate of the Avignon pope Clement VII (1378-1394). It also...
Brill, 2006. — 565 p. — (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 2). This multi-authored volume, by an authoritative team of international scholars, examines the transmission of Ciceronian rhetoric in medieval and early Renaissance Europe, concentrating on the fortunes, in particular, of the two dominant classical rhetorical textbooks of the time, Cicero’s early De...
Brill, 2019. — xii, 377 p. — (Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe 13). The Shroud at the Court analyses, through various essays characterized by a multidisciplinary and diachronic perspective, the strict ties created between the Shroud and the Savoy court from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries. Presented as proof of the divine legitimacy of Savoy...
Facts on File, 2008. - 1280 p.
The four-volume "Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Medieval World" provides readers with comprehensive coverage of the medieval world, from the fall of Rome to the European Renaissance, including Western and non-Western cultures and civilizations. Following an introduction that outlines the history of the major centers of civilization,...
Oxford University Press, 1999. — 54 p. This edition makes more widely available the handbook of descriptive reference that accompanies each volume of the corpus. To meet the demands of the first comprehensive catalogue of Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture, Professor Cramp, the series editor, has devised a new system of description capable of dealing with the complex ornament of the...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. — 280 p. — ISBN: 9780812244588; 9780812206302. Traces of the living animal run across the entire corpus of medieval writing and reveal how pervasively animals mattered in medieval thought and practice. In fascinating scenes of cross-species encounters, a raven offers St. Cuthbert a lump of lard that waterproofs his visitors' boots for a...
Enitharmon Press, 2008. — 120 p.
The ninety-six Anglo-Saxon riddles in the eleventh-century "Exeter Book" are poems of great charm, zest, and subtlety. Ranging from natural phenomena (such as icebergs and storms at sea) to animal and bird life, from the Christian concept of the creation to prosaic domestic objects (such as a rake and a pair of bellows), and from weaponry to the...
Brepols Publishers, 2018. — 206 p. — (Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 41). This volume is a contribution to the cross-cultural study of theater and performance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The studies gathered here examine material from Austria, England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, and Spain from the thirteenth to the...
Brill, 2021. — xii, 224 p. — (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History). In this biography of Reformed theologian Francis Turretin (1623–87), Nicholas A. Cumming provides critical context for the life and theology of this important seventeenth-century theologian and his impact on the Reformed tradition as a whole. Turretin has commonly been identified as a strict scholastic...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 257 p.
Setting the Stage
Mine’s Taller: On Steeple Distortions in City Depictions
Mental Topography and the Viennese Medieval Past
Foundation Stories: The Heroes of Viennese Monasticism
Virgin Intercessor and Other Monastic Miracles
Conclusion: The Persistence of the Medieval
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 263 p. Medievalism—the creative interpretation or recreation of the European Middle Ages—has had a major presence in the cultural memory of the modern West, and has grown in scale to become a global phenomenon. Countless examples across aesthetic, material and political domains reveal that the medieval period has long provided a fund of...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 340 p. The scholarship and teaching of manuscript studies has been transformed by digitisation, rendering previously rarefied documents accessible for study on a vast scale. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts orientates students in the complex, multidisciplinary study of medieval book production and contemporary display...
Lexington Books, 2022. — 182 p. Unique in its cultural and religious makeup, medieval Iberia represented a crossroads of cultures. This crossroads was reflected in large and small ways. On a grand scale, we see the convergence of intellectual ideas and great innovations in agriculture and science. On a more intimate level, we see an intersection of cultures as reflected in...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 360 p. Saint Thecla was one of the most prominent figures of early Christianity who provided a model of virginity and a role-model for women in the early Church. She was the object of cult and of pilgrimage and her tale in the Acts of Paul and Thecla made a tremendous impact on later hagiographies of both female and male saints. This volume...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1973. — 193 p. — (The Middle Ages Series). — ISBN 978-0812210576, 0812210573. The scientists of the twelfth century were daring, original, inventive, and above all determined to discover purely rational explanations of natural phenomena. Their intense interest in the natural world for its own sake, their habits of precise observation, and the...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1973. — 193 p. — (The Middle Ages Series). — ISBN 978-0812210576, 0812210573. The scientists of the twelfth century were daring, original, inventive, and above all determined to discover purely rational explanations of natural phenomena. Their intense interest in the natural world for its own sake, their habits of precise observation, and the...
Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1982. — 121 p. Abbreviations Censures of Homosexuality Prior to 1048 Early Reform Movements Peter Damian Book of Gomorrah Concerns of the Book of Gomorrah Damian's Arguments Pastoral Concern Was Homosexuality a Problem? The Translation Book of Gomorrah Appendix Letter of Pope Leo IX to Peter Damian Biblical References
Brill Academic Pub, 2021. — 295 p. This edition of John Lydgate’s Dance of Death offers a detailed comparison of the different text versions, a new scholarly edition and translation of Guy Marchant’s 1485 French Danse Macabre text, and an art-historical analysis of its woodcut illustrations. It addresses the cultural context and historical circumstances of Lydgate’s poem and...
Manchester University Press, 2018. — 240 p. This book is a study of cultural memory both in and of the British Middle Ages. Working with materials drawn from across the medieval period, alongside modern translations, reworkings and appropriations, it examines how images of the past have been created, adapted and shared. The book interrogates how cultural memory both formed and...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2017. — 594 p. Das Schreiben über Universitätsgeschichte geht immer einher mit intensiver Quellenarbeit. Was wie eine Binsenweisheit anmutet, erweist sich in der Praxis nicht selten als Herausforderung: Die für die jeweilige Fragestellung relevanten Quellen müssen ausfindig gemacht, die Methoden zur Auswertung ausgewählt werden. Hier schaffen die...
Paris: Albin Michel, 1998. — 815 p. — (Bibliothèque de l'évolution de l'humanité). En 1946, un professeur de philosophie de l'université de Gand jetait les bases de ce qu'on appellera plus tard l'histoire des sensibilités esthétiques. Se consacrant au Moyen Âge, de Boèce aux grandes sommes théologiques du XIIIe siècle, Edgar De Bruyne a cherché, en exposant les diverses...
Routledge, 2022. — 430 p. Perversion, Pedagogy and the Comic studies how the idea-of-theater shaped western consciousness during the Christian Middle Ages. It analyses developments within western philosophy, Christian theology and theater history to show how this idea realized itself primarily as a metaphor circulating through various discursive domains. Beginning with Plato’s...
Brill, 2017. — 564 p. — (Commentaria 9). In the Mirror of the Prodigal Son provides a comprehensive history of the function of the parable of the prodigal son in shaping religious identity in medieval and Reformation Europe. By investigating a wealth of primary sources, the book reveals the interaction between commentaries, sermons, religious plays, and images as a decisive...
Routledge, 2020. — 440 p. Between the late seventh and the mid-ninth centuries, a debate about sacred images - conventionally addressed as "Byzantine iconoclasm" - engaged monks, emperors, and popes in the Mediterranean area and on the European continent. The importance of this debate cannot be overstated; it challenged the relation between image, text, and belief. A series of...
Brepols, 2014. — 286 p. — (Texte, Codex & Contexte 15). Les manuscrits autographes en français médiéval constituent un champ d'étude fécond, mais qui n'a guère fait l'objet de synthèses et de mises au point historiques, documentaires ou méthodologiques. L'objectif de ce volume est de baliser la recherche sur les manuscrits français du Moyen Age entièrement ou partiellement...
Brill, 2017. — 255 p. — (Intersections 52). Over the course of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, as more and more vernacular commentaries on the Decalogue were produced throughout Europe, the moral system of the Ten Commandments gradually became more prominent. The Ten Commandments proved to be a topic from which numerous proponents of pastoral and lay catechesis drew...
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2022. — 349 p. — (Collection d’études médiévales de Nice 21). Cet ouvrage rassemble dix contributions qui proposent des perspectives originales pour l’analyse conjointe des modes d’expression figurée de l'Occident médiéval. Menées tant par des « historiens de l’art » que par des « historiens », elles abordent la question de l’image-objet,...
Praeger, 2011. - 218 p. - (Praeger Series on the Middle Ages).
Nancy van Deusen's The Cultural Context of Medieval Music addresses the mental landscape surrounding music that, especially, was sung and experienced in the Middle Ages. Largely anonymous in its composition, and apparently lacking the motivation of fame and commerce, music within a well thought-out system of...
Walter de Gruyter, 2012. — 432 S. — ISBN: 978-3-023138—1. This volume provides a contemporary overview of texts, images, phenomena and personalities of Christian mysticism during the Western Middle Ages. The material is primarily approached from literary, history of mentality and psychology of religion perspectives. Basic knowledge is communicated through critical analysis and...
University of Toronto Press, 2017. — 275 p. 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 in a constant state of...
University of Toronto Press, 2017. — 280 p. 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 in a constant state of...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 84 p. The early medieval English were far more diverse and better connected to a broader world. Their writings reveal substantial interest in Europe, Asia, and Africa while they situated themselves firmly within Christian Europe. They drew many ideas from textual sources and filled out their conceptions from their own travels and interactions...
Brepols, 2005. — 356 p. This book examines the social and cultural conditions that governed performance art in the German Middle Ages from 1170 to 1400. Poet-performers are central to understanding both literature and performance art because these entertainers, more than any other group, influenced the creation, dissemination, and interpretation of the medieval poetic oeuvre....
Brill, 2010. — 524 p. — (Later Medieval Europe 4). Memory in the Middle Ages has received particular attention in recent decades; yet; the topic remains difficult to grasp and the research on it rather fragmented. This book gathers particular case studies on memory in different parts of medieval Europe and in a variety of fields including literatures, languages, manuscript...
Köln; Weimar; Wien: Böhlau Verlag, 2017. — 470 S. — (Quellen und Studien zur baltischen Geschichte 25). Für Gelehrte der Frühen Neuzeit war die Frage nach der Genealogie und den Ursprüngen eines Volkes von zentraler Bedeutung. Livland stellt dabei keine Ausnahme dar: Zwischen 1550 und 1700 bemühten sich deutsche und schwedische Gelehrte, die "origines Livonorum", die Herkunft...
D.S.Brewer, 2022. — 354 p. A new look at how reading was practised and represented in England from the seventh century to the beginnings of the print era, finding many kinships between reading cultures across the medieval longue durée. Even as it transforms human cultures, routines, attention spans, and the wiring of our brains, the media revolution of the last few decades also...
D.S.Brewer, 2022. — 354 p. A new look at how reading was practised and represented in England from the seventh century to the beginnings of the print era, finding many kinships between reading cultures across the medieval longue durée. Even as it transforms human cultures, routines, attention spans, and the wiring of our brains, the media revolution of the last few decades also...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. — 248 p. 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 deployed in other kinds of writing,...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. — 248 p. 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 deployed in other kinds of...
ARC Humanities Press, 2023. — 266 p. — (Premodern Ecosystems — Climate, Environment, People). This book is a new cultural and intellectual history of the natural world in the early medieval Latin West. It examines the complex relationships between language, texts, and the physical world they describe, focusing on the manuscripts of the Physiologus - the foundation of the...
D.S. Brewer, 2007. — 342 p. — (Gallica 5). This collection of essays pays tribute to Nancy Freeman Regalado, a ground-breaking scholar in the field of medieval French literature whose research has always pushed beyond disciplinary boundaries. The articles in the volume reflect the depth and diversity of her scholarship, as well as her collaborations with literary critics,...
Brepols Publishers, 2021. — 274 p. Exemplifies the international societal and artistic contexts of book production in medieval Scandinavia and beyond. This book examines a cultural revolution that took place in the Scandinavian artistic landscape during the medieval period. Within just one generation (c. 1340–1400), the Augustinian monastery of Helgafell became the most...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 208 p.
This book explores the growing importance of prisons, both lay and ecclesiastical, in western Europe between 1000 and 1300. It attempts to explain what captors hoped to achieve by restricting the liberty of others, the means of confinement available to them, and why there was an increasingly close link between captivity and suspected criminal...
D. S. Brewer, 2015. — 282 p. New examinations of the role storytelling played in medieval life. The storyteller stands at the crossroads of orality and performance, surrounded by a circle of rapt listeners. Evelyn Birge Vitz has challenged a generation of scholars to join the circle, listen as they read, and exchange pen forperformance. A tribute to her work, the fifteen essays...
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2022. — 268 p. — (Ritus et Artes 10). Readers and Hearers is a broad, multi-disciplinary treatment of the chanting of the Scriptures (epistle and gospel) at Mass in the Middle Ages. This form of chanting followed a procedure that continued to be used in the western Latin liturgy until the mid-twentieth century and in the traditional Latin...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 243 p. The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue in literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political, jurisprudential, and...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. - 270 p.
Inscriptions convey meaning not just by their contents but also by other means, such as choice of script, location, scale, spatial organisation, letterform, legibility and clarity. The essays in this book consider these visual qualities of inscriptions, ranging across the Mediterranean and the Near East from Spain to Iran and beyond,...
Ohio State University Press, 2017. — 272 p. From the twelfth century onwards, medieval English writers adapted the conventions of high literary culture to establish themselves as recognized authors and claim a significant place for works of imagination beside those of doctrine and instruction. Their efforts extended over three languages - Latin, French, and English - and across...
Finnish Academy Of Science And Letters, 2018. — 324 p. Much of both lcelandic and medieval lrish literature is, in one way or another, storytelling about places, reflecting a deep engagement with the concept of 'place' and the creation of a 'sense of place’. This book takes as its starting point the shared interest that lcelandic and lrish storytelling have in 'place' and asks...
Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2024. — 170 p. — (Beyond Medieval Europe). During the Middle Ages, many Europeans imagined that there existed a powerful and marvel-filled Christian realm beyond the lands of Islam ruled by a devout emperor they called “Priest John,” or “Prester John.” Spurred by a forged letter that mysteriously appeared around 1165 and quickly “went viral” in...
Walter de Gruyter, 2021. — 334 p. The eleven chapters in this international volume draw on a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to focus our attention on medieval and early modern things (ca. 700-1600). The range of things includes actual objects (the Altenburg Crucifixion, a copy of Hieronymus Brunschwig's Liber de arte distillandi , a pilgrim's letter),...
Walter de Gruyter, 2021. — 334 p. The eleven chapters in this international volume draw on a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to focus our attention on medieval and early modern things (ca. 700-1600). The range of things includes actual objects (the Altenburg Crucifixion, a copy of Hieronymus Brunschwig's Liber de arte distillandi , a pilgrim's letter),...
BÖHLAU, 2006. — 481 p.
Dieses Buch über das städtische Leben im Mittelalter ist Quellenwerk und Darstellung zugleich. Der Leser erfährt, wie der Stadtbewohner lebte und sich versorgte, welche Rechte und Pflichten er hatte, welche Regeln und Ordnungen seinen Alltag bestimmten, ob er Bildung erwerben konnte und wie Frömmigkeit und Kirche sein Leben prägten. Viele städtische...
Oldenbourg Verlag, 2002. — 654 p.
Das Werk von Brigitte Englisch ist eine Mentalitätsgeschichte des frühen und hohen Mittelalters, die kartographische Quellen unter methodisch neuen Aspekten erschließt. Die mittelalterlichen Aussagen zur Erschaffung der Welt lassen keinen Zweifel über Urheber und Gestaltungsprinzip. Die Erschaffung der aus Himmel, Erde und Meeren bestehenden...
Blackwell Pub, 1990. — 347 p. Frontmatter Introduction The Middle Ages and Ourselvespage The Early Middle Ages 500- 1050 The High Middle Ages 1050-1250 The Late Middle Ages 1250- 1500 Conclusion Constants and Variables, and Continuity in Changepage Sources and Bibliographypage Indexpage
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 208 p. This book examines the relationship between humans and nature that evolved in medieval Europe over the course of a millennium. From the beginning, people lived in nature and discovered things about it. Ancient societies bequeathed to the Middle Ages both the Bible and a pagan conception of natural history. These conflicting legacies shaped...
Cornell University Press, 2016. — 312 p. Jacopo da Varagine (c. 1228–1298) is remembered today primarily for his immensely popular work The Golden Legend , a massive collection of stories about the saints. Compiled over the years 1260–67, The Golden Legend quickly eclipsed earlier collections of saints’ lives. One indication of its popularity is the fact that so many manuscript...
Brill, 2017. — 276 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, Volume 45). In Chosen Places: Constructing New Jerusalems in Slavia Orthodoxa , Jelena Erdeljan focuses on the Old Testament topic of the divinely-chosen status of Jerusalem and translatio Hierosolymi, including the history, process and media of formulating and disseminating this idea and its...
Brepols, 2016. — 457 p. This book investigates the nature of intellectual activity in the Middle Ages from the perspective of medieval Scandinavia by discussing how a multimodal and multilingual Scandinavian culture emerged through the dynamic interchange of foreign and local impulses in the minds of creative intellectuals. By deploying cognitive theory, this volume...
De Gruyter, 2020. — 338 p. The main aim of this book is to discuss various modes of studying and defining the medieval self, based on a wide span of sources from medieval Western Scandinavia, c. 800-1500, such as archeological evidence, architecture and art, documents, literature, and runic inscriptions. The book engages with major theoretical discussions within the humanities...
Berlin; Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2005. — 472 S. — (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 49). After the Second World War, the question of the religious character of Germanic kingship was no longer prominent - not least because previously excessively hybrid views had been developed on the existence of a Germanic religious kingship. Now that in the...
Routledge, 2021. — 238 p. This book examines the arts and artistic exchanges at the ‘Christian Oriental’ fringes of Europe, especially Armenia. It starts with the architecture, history and inhabitants of the lesser known pilgrim compounds at the Vatican in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, of Hungary, Germany, but namely those of the most ancient of Churches, the Churches of the...
University of Cambridge, 2018. — 358 p. The historians writing in the Carolingian Empire, with a few important exceptions, frequently ascribed events in recent history to God. Where they have been noticed at all, these statements of God’s agency have usually been explained as political propaganda, to demonstrate God’s favour towards the reigning dynasty. Alternatively, they...
D.S.Brewer, 2022. — 258 p. Domestic animals played a range of roles in the imaginative world of medieval Icelanders: from partners in settlement and household allies, to violent offenders, foster-kin and surrogate wives, they were vital and effective members of the multispecies communities established from the ninth century onwards. This book examines the domestic animals of...
Fordham University Press, 2018. — 312 p. Can ecstatic experiences be studied with the academic instruments of rational investigation? What kinds of religious illumination are experienced by academically minded people? And what is the specific nature of the knowledge of God that university theologians of the Middle Ages enjoyed compared with other modes of knowing God, such as...
Fordham University Press, 2018. — 312 p. Can ecstatic experiences be studied with the academic instruments of rational investigation? What kinds of religious illumination are experienced by academically minded people? And what is the specific nature of the knowledge of God that university theologians of the Middle Ages enjoyed compared with other modes of knowing God, such as...
Brepols, 2014. — 586 p. — (Texte, Codex & Contexte 18). Rédigée dans la première moitié du XIIIe siècle, la Suite Vulgate du Merlin en prose constitue la dernière pièce du cycle du Graal. Partagée entre le déroulement de la vie de Merlin, qui lui donne une unité de type biographique, et la peinture de la jeunesse héroïque du roi Arthur, cette suite rétrospective sert de...
Routledge, 2020. — 672 p. Originally published in 1993, 'The Medieval Charlemagne Legend' is a selective bibliography for the literary scholar, of historical and literary material relating to Charlemagne. The book provides a chronological listing of sources on the legend and man is split into three distinct sections, covering the history of Charlemagne, the literature of...
Boydell & Brewer, 2015. — 578 p. List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: A ‘Healthfull and Pleasant’ City Health and Place in Texts and Images Air and Smell: Hygiene and Networks of Authority in an Urban Context An Epitome of Hygiene: William Cuningham’s Prospect Plan Health and the Landscape Placing Disease in the Urban Landscape: The...
York Medieval Press, 2014. — 328 p. — (Manuscript Culture in the British Isles 5). The Yorkshire landowner Robert Thornton (c.1397- c.1465) copied the contents of two important manuscripts, Lincoln Cathedral, MS 91 (the "Lincoln manuscript"), and London, British Library, MS Additional 31042 (the "London manuscript") in the middle decades of the fifteenth century. Viewed in...
Routledge, 2019. — 344 p. Traditional histories of medieval art and architecture often privilege the moment of a work's creation, yet surviving works designated as 'medieval' have long and expansive lives. Many have extended prehistories emerging from their sites and contexts of creation, and most have undergone a variety of interventions, including adaptations and...
Routledge, 2019. — 344 p. Traditional histories of medieval art and architecture often privilege the moment of a work's creation, yet surviving works designated as 'medieval' have long and expansive lives. Many have extended prehistories emerging from their sites and contexts of creation, and most have undergone a variety of interventions, including adaptations and...
Brepols, 2024. — xvii + 594 p. — (Textes et Etudes du Moyen Âge 102). Assembling the contributions of twenty-two authors, this volume aims at revisiting the question of the choice of burial sites throughout the Middle Ages, in their political, emotional, and devotional dimensions, across a wide chronology and in a vast palette of different social statuses. The choice of a...
Arc Humanities Press, 2017. — x, 121 p. — (Past Imperfect). — ISBN: 978-1942401278. True PDF The medieval world was full of malicious demons: fallen angels given a mission to tempt humans away from God. From demons disguised as beautiful women to demons that took frightening animal-like forms, this book explores the medieval history of thought about demons: what they were, what...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 240 p. Marriage in Europe became a central pillar of society during the medieval period. Theologians, lawyers, and secular and church leaders agreed on a unique outline of the institution and its legal framework, the essential features of which remained in force until the 1980s. The medieval Western European definition of marriage was unique: before...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 240 p. Marriage in Europe became a central pillar of society during the medieval period. Theologians, lawyers, and secular and church leaders agreed on a unique outline of the institution and its legal framework, the essential features of which remained in force until the 1980s. The medieval Western European definition of marriage was unique: before...
Brill, 1998. — 422 p. — (Cultures, Beliefs and Traditions: Medieval and Early Modern Peoples 6). The study of heresy and heterodoxy and of belief in magic, witchcraft and the devil has in the past 25 years made significant advances in our understanding of art and iconography, ideas, mentality and belief, and ordinary life and popular imagination in the patristic and medieval...
Pegasus Books, 2017. — 520 p. Ghost Empire is a rare treasure ― an utterly captivating blend of the historical and the contemporary, narrated by a master storyteller. The story is a revelation: a beautifully written ode to a lost civilization combined with a warmly observed father-son adventure far from home. In 2014, Richard Fidler and his son Joe made a journey to Istanbul....
Bern und Frankfurt und Main, 1982. — 169 р.
Сопоставление примерно 26 латинских, английских, французских и немецких сонников X - XVI веков. Интерпретации конкретных сновидений - Медведь, Людоедство, Совокупление, Землетрясение, Луна, Нагота, и т.д. (в общей сложности 403 топоса) перечислены в алфавитном порядке.
Manchester University Press, 2019. — 376 p. — (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture, Book 26). Over six hundred years before John Milton’s Paradise Lost , Anglo-Saxon authors told their own version of the fall of the angels. This book brings together various cultural moments, literary genres and relevant comparanda to recover that version, from the legal and social world...
Manchester University Press, 2019. — 376 p. — (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture, Book 26). Over six hundred years before John Milton’s Paradise Lost , Anglo-Saxon authors told their own version of the fall of the angels. This book brings together various cultural moments, literary genres and relevant comparanda to recover that version, from the legal and social world...
Brepols Publishers, 2019. — 280 p. A collection of essays exploring how medieval theories of emotion and cognition inform the creation and reception of various artefacts, and how attention to a variety of media can reshape the study of medieval emotion. Text is one of the most valuable and plentiful sources of information available to scholars interested in medieval emotion....
Brepols Publishers, 2019. — 280 p. Text is one of the most valuable and plentiful sources of information available to scholars interested in medieval emotion. The medieval world may have vanished centuries ago, and its human subjects with it, but a wealth of textual traces remains: sermons, romances, poems, plays, treatises, songs, inscriptions, graffiti, and much more. But how...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. — 350 p. — (Early Modern Literature in History). This book makes newly visible the sustained engagement of the English and the Dutch throughout a critical century in their cultural and national development. It reads a broad selection of early modern literary texts, some never before treated in Anglophone scholarship, in which the Dutch and the English...
Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2011. — 444 p. — (Orbis mediaevalis. Vorstellungswelten des Mittelalters 14). Leben, Religiosität und Verehrung von Heiligen waren im Mittelalter überwiegend an feste Räume gebunden. Eine Analyse dieser biographischen und hagiographischen Kontexte erlaubt es, die Einbindung dieser Räume in das mittelalterlich-lateinische Europa zu bewerten. Hagiographie...
Reaktion Books, 2021. — 220 p. An eye-opening, engrossing look at the central role of monsters in the Anglo-Saxon worldview. This book addresses a simple question: why were the Anglo-Saxons obsessed with monsters, many of which did not exist? Drawing on literature and art, theology, and a wealth of firsthand evidence, Basilisks and Beowulf reveals a people huddled at the edge...
Reaktion Books, 2021. — 220 p. An eye-opening, engrossing look at the central role of monsters in the Anglo-Saxon worldview. This book addresses a simple question: why were the Anglo-Saxons obsessed with monsters, many of which did not exist? Drawing on literature and art, theology, and a wealth of firsthand evidence, Basilisks and Beowulf reveals a people huddled at the edge...
D.S. Brewer, 2024. — 248 p. Situates Celtic languages and literatures in relation to European movements, in the tradition of Helen Fulton's groundbreaking research. Professor Helen Fulton's influential scholarship has pioneered our understanding of the links between Welsh and European medieval literature. The essays collected here pay tribute to and reflect that scholarship, by...
D.S. Brewer, 2024. — 248 p. Situates Celtic languages and literatures in relation to European movements, in the tradition of Helen Fulton's groundbreaking research. Professor Helen Fulton's influential scholarship has pioneered our understanding of the links between Welsh and European medieval literature. The essays collected here pay tribute to and reflect that scholarship, by...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 251 p. Women’s Secrets and Men’s Interests: Rituals of Childbirth and Northern Octavian “That Moder Ever Hym Fed”: Nursing and Other Anthropophagies in Sir Gowther “Youre Owene Thyng”: The Clerk’s Tale and Fantasies of Autonomous Male Reproduction “A Mooder He Hath, but Fader Hath He Noon”: Maternal Transmission and Fatherless Sons: The Man of Law’s...
De Gruyter, 2014. — 520 p. — (Scrinium Friburgense 26). Peter of Auvergne (+1304) is one of the most productive and most influential commentators of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Paris, At the end of the 13th century Peter actually moved to the upper theological faculty, where he argued a number of quodlibeta. This volume of conference proceedings represents the...
De Gruyter, 2009. — 235 p. — (Scrinium Friburgense 23). The volume presents a collection of papers by well-known scholars from a variety of disciplines. It is based on the findings of the 2006 Freiburg Colloquium, which concerned itself for the first time with the long tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins and medieval catalogues of vices. A systematic account is given of the...
Boydell Press, 2016. — 180 p. Written around 1430, Duarte of Portugal's remarkable treatise on chivalric horsemanship, the Livro do Cavalgar (Book on Riding), is the sole substantial contemporary source to survive on the definitive physical skill of themedieval knight. It also stands out from the body of technical writings of the Middle Ages for its intelligence, insight, and...
Princeton University Press, 2011. — 400 p. — ISBN: 978-0-691-14312-5. In The Axe and the Oath, one of the world's leading medieval historians presents a compelling picture of daily life in the Middle Ages as it was experienced by ordinary people. Writing for general readers, Robert Fossier vividly describes how these vulnerable people confronted life, from birth to death,...
Penn State University Press, 2021. — 264 p. Framed by evocative inscriptions, tumultuous historical events, and the ambiguities of Christian death, Romanesque tomb effigies were the first large-scale figural monuments for the departed in European art. In this book, Shirin Fozi explores these provocative markers of life and death, establishing early tomb figures as a coherent...
Penn State University Press, 2021. — 264 p. Framed by evocative inscriptions, tumultuous historical events, and the ambiguities of Christian death, Romanesque tomb effigies were the first large-scale figural monuments for the departed in European art. In this book, Shirin Fozi explores these provocative markers of life and death, establishing early tomb figures as a coherent...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 253 p.
Little attention has been focused on the representation of Muslims in medieval Germany. Proceeding from a grounded use of contemporary cultural theory and close textual analysis, this study analyzes the role of Muslims in several core texts representing drama, epic, and lyric written by the most important writers of medieval Germany. Far from...
The University of Chicago Press, 2012. — 473 p. — ISBN- 13: 978–0- 226–26068–6 The thirteenth century saw such a proliferation of new encyclopedic texts that more than one scholar has called it the “century of the encyclopedias.” Variously referred to as a speculum , thesaurus , or imago mundi —the term encyclopedia was not commonly applied to such books until the eighteenth...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. — 353 p. — (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 129). This volume examines the influence of R. I. Moore and the nature of heresy and its repression in the Middle Ages. The volume considers the vexing question of the origins of medieval heresy and the possible influence of Bogomil missionaries. Geographic areas not usually examined for...
Knopf Publishing, 2009. — 320 p. "Aladdin’s Lamp" is the fascinating story of how ancient Greek philosophy and science began in the sixth century B.C. and, during the next millennium, spread across the Greco-Roman world, producing the remarkable discoveries and theories of Thales, Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Archimedes, Galen, Ptolemy, and many others....
Yale University Press, 2012. — 324 p. Relics were everywhere in medieval society. Saintly morsels such as bones, hair, teeth, blood, milk, and clothes, and items like the Crown of Thorns, coveted by Louis IX of France, were thought to bring the believer closer to the saint, who might intercede with God on his or her behalf. In the first comprehensive history in English of the...
Yale University Press, 2012. — 324 p. Relics were everywhere in medieval society. Saintly morsels such as bones, hair, teeth, blood, milk, and clothes, and items like the Crown of Thorns, coveted by Louis IX of France, were thought to bring the believer closer to the saint, who might intercede with God on his or her behalf. In the first comprehensive history in English of the...
Yale University Press, 2012. — 324 p. Relics were everywhere in medieval society. Saintly morsels such as bones, hair, teeth, blood, milk, and clothes, and items like the Crown of Thorns, coveted by Louis IX of France, were thought to bring the believer closer to the saint, who might intercede with God on his or her behalf. In the first comprehensive history in English of the...
Akademie Verlag, 2005. — 476 p. — (PASSAGEN/PASSAGES 11). Thema des Bandes sind die höfischen Inszenierungen im Spätmittelalter und ihre innere Kohärenz. Die spezifischen Repräsentationsmuster einzelner Höfe werden insbesondere auf ihre Zielsetzung befragt. Neben der Analyse einzelner Phänomene der höfischen Kultur widmen sich die Beiträge vor allem dem Zusammenwirken von...
Walter de Gruyter, 2024. — 306 S. — (Materiale Textkulturen 42). Die Bildlichkeit von Schrift steht in der internationalen Forschung seit einigen Jahren hoch im Kurs. Ob nun die Rede von „Iconicity of Script", „Épinographie" oder von „Schriftbildlichkeit" ist – stets geht es darum, den analytischen Blick weg vom reinen Textbezug und hin auf die ikonischen Qualitäten von Schrift...
Walter de Gruyter, 2024. — 306 S. — (Materiale Textkulturen 42). Die Bildlichkeit von Schrift steht in der internationalen Forschung seit einigen Jahren hoch im Kurs. Ob nun die Rede von „Iconicity of Script", „Épinographie" oder von „Schriftbildlichkeit" ist – stets geht es darum, den analytischen Blick weg vom reinen Textbezug und hin auf die ikonischen Qualitäten von Schrift...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. — 199 p. — (Collegium Beatus Rhenanus 8). Dans le cadre d'un projet INTERREG IV Rhin Supérieur, "Patrimoine Humaniste du Rhin Supérieur" / "Humanistisches Erbe am Oberrhein" (2011-2015), réunissant des latinistes et hellénistes des Universités de Freiburg i.B., Strasbourg, Bâle et Mulhouse, nous avons voulu étudier les sources humanistes conservées...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. — 208 p. As portraits, private diaries, and estate inventories make clear, elite families of the Italian Renaissance were obsessed with fashion, investing as much as forty percent of their fortunes on clothing. In fact, the most elaborate outfits of the period could cost more than a good-sized farm out in the Mugello. Yet despite its...
De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2019. — 454 p. — (Cultures and Practices of Knowledge in History 2). How did historians research the past in the early modern era? How did historians, genealogists, and scholars of antiquity “create” relevant knowledge and position themselves in courts, toward benefactors, and to an academic audience? This volume examines academic practices in the fields...
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008. — 440 S. — (Historische Semantik 5). Ein zeitloses Thema der Kulturgeschichte Die Grenze zwischen Mensch und Tier gehört zu den zeitlosen Themen der Kulturgeschichte. Diese Studie untersucht Szenarien der Grenzziehung und Grenzüberschreitung in literarischen Texten des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts. Die Grenze zwischen Mensch und Tier gehört zu den...
Routledge, 2017. — 318 p. Postcolonial theories have transformed literary, historical and cultural studies over the past three decades. Yet the study of medieval art and visualities has, in general, remained Eurocentric in its canon and conservative in its approaches. 'Postcolonising', as the eleven essays in this volume show, entails active intervention into the field of medieval...
De Gruyter, 2014. — 601 p. — (Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte des Dominikanerordens – Neue Folge 14). This anthology examines the relationship between Dominicans and Jews from the beginnings of the religious order in the 13th century to the era of the Second World War. In addition to inquisitors and anti-Jewish sermonizers, the essays also present theologians and...
York Medieval Press, 2018. — 224 p. Between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, the rise of international trade, the growth of towns and cities, and the politics of diplomacy all helped to foster productive and far-reaching connections and cultural interactionsbetween Britain and Italy; equally, the flourishing of Italian humanism from the late fourteenth century onwards...
Columbia University Press, 2007. — 408 p. 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 but with an understanding that all...
Columbia University Press, 2007. — 408 p. 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 but with an understanding that all...
Brepols Publishers, 2023. — 520 p. — (Sermo 18). By supporting the Christianization process within their realm, Carolingian rulers not only served matters of faith, obedience, and healing of the soul; they also intended to unify the conquered tribes, remove their pagan traditions, and strengthen royal power. Carolingian sermon collections provide significant insights into the...
University of Chicago Press, 2015. — 296 p. Today we usually think of a book of poems as composed by a poet, rather than assembled or adapted by a network of poets and readers. But the earliest European vernacular poetries challenge these assumptions. Medieval songbooks remind us how lyric poetry was once communally produced and received - a collaboration of artists,...
University of Chicago Press, 2015. — 296 p. Today we usually think of a book of poems as composed by a poet, rather than assembled or adapted by a network of poets and readers. But the earliest European vernacular poetries challenge these assumptions. Medieval songbooks remind us how lyric poetry was once communally produced and received - a collaboration of artists,...
University of Chicago Press, 2020. — 280 p. In the Middle Ages, religious crusaders took up arms, prayed, bade farewell to their families, and marched off to fight in holy wars. These Christian soldiers also created accounts of their lives in lyric poetry, putting words to the experience of personal sacrifice and the pious struggle associated with holy war. The crusaders...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 247 p. The Metropolis and Its Languages: Baghdad and Venice Reorientations: The Worlding of Marco Polo Between Islam and Christendom: Ibn Battuta’s Travels in Asia Minor and the North Medieval Religious Cosmopolitanisms: Truth and Inclusivity in the Literature of Muslim Spain Worldly Unease in Late Medieval European Travel Reports The One Kingdom...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 372 p. This volume analyses the importance of history, the textual resources of the past and the integration of Christian and imperial Rome into the cultural memory of early medieval Europe within the wider question of identity formation. The case studies in this book shed new light on the process of codification and modification of cultural...
Cornell University Press, 2008. — 330 p. Canonized in 1297 as Saint Louis, King Louis IX of France (r. 1226–1270) was one of the most important kings of medieval history and also one of the foremost saints of the later Middle Ages. As a saint, Louis became the centerpiece of an ideological program that buttressed the ongoing political consolidation of France and underscored...
Oxbow Books, 2023. — 528 p. Old Norse literature abounds with descriptions of magic acts that allow ritual specialists of various kinds to manipulate the world around them, see into the future or the distant past, change weather conditions, influence the outcomes of battles, and more. While magic practitioners are known under myriad terms, the most iconic of them is the völva....
Brepols N.V., 2023. — 206 p. — (New Approaches in Archaeology 1). Since time immemorial, animals have played crucial roles in people's lives. In Continental and Northern Europe, especially in the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages, animals were both feared and revered. Varying and often ambivalent perceptions of fauna were expressed through everyday practices, religious...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 232 p. Work was central to medieval life. Religious and secular authorities generally expected almost everyone to work. Artistic and literary depictions underlined work's cultural value. The vast majority of medieval people engaged in agriculture because it was the only way they could obtain food. Yet their work led to innovations in technology and...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 232 p. Work was central to medieval life. Religious and secular authorities generally expected almost everyone to work. Artistic and literary depictions underlined work's cultural value. The vast majority of medieval people engaged in agriculture because it was the only way they could obtain food. Yet their work led to innovations in technology and...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 232 p. Work was central to medieval life. Religious and secular authorities generally expected almost everyone to work. Artistic and literary depictions underlined work's cultural value. The vast majority of medieval people engaged in agriculture because it was the only way they could obtain food. Yet their work led to innovations in technology and...
Cornell University Press, 2009. — 336 p. Despite the wealth of scholarship in recent decades on medieval women, we still know much less about the experiences of women in the early Middle Ages than we do about those in later centuries. In "Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World", Valerie L. Garver offers a fresh appraisal of the cultural and social history of...
Brepols, 2012. — 464 p. — (Alexander redivivus 4). L’Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César, dédiée vers 1210 au châtelain de Lille Roger IV, constitue la plus ancienne histoire universelle écrite en langue française. Son auteur, Wauchier de Denain, y consacre un long récit à la Macédoine et à Alexandre le Grand, qui n’a encore jamais été édité. Il est alors le premier à écrire en...
Cornell University Press , 1994. — 284 p. ISBN: 0-8014-2856-4. Whereas modern societies tend to banish the dead from the world of the living, medieval men and women acccorded them a vital role in the community. The saints counted most prominently as potential intercessors before God, but the ordinary dead as well were called upon to aid the living, and even to participate in...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 424 p. Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism is a cross-cultural analysis of the role that alcohol consumption played in literature, social and cultural history, and gender roles in the Middle Ages. The volume also seeks to correct or offer new insights into historical beer production. By drawing on the expertise of...
Central European University Press, 2011. — 338 p. — (CEU Medievalia 12).
The studies in this volume concentrate on a complex set of socio-cultural phenomena, the cult of saints, in a variety of regions from Egypt to Poland, with a focus on Italy and Central Europe. The subjects of the contributions range in time from the fourth until the eighteenth century. The diversity of...
Brill, 2016. — 446 p. — (Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe 6). The ubiquity of references to dogs in medieval and early modern texts and images must at some level reflect their actual presence in those worlds, yet scholarly consideration of this material is rare and scattered across diverse sources. This volume addresses that gap, bringing together...
Routledge, 2021. — 668 p. The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Medieval Iberia: Unity in Diversity draws together the innovative work of renowned scholars as well as several thought-provoking essays from emergent academics, in order to provide broad-range, in-depth coverage of the major aspects of the Iberian medieval world. Exploring the social, political, cultural,...
Routledge, 2013. — 350 p. — (Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture 10). Sacred and profane, public and private, emotive and ritualistic, internal and embodied, medieval weeping served as a culturally charged prism for a host of social, visual, cognitive, and linguistic performances. Crying in the Middle Ages addresses the place of tears in Jewish, Christian, and...
Penn State University Press, 2021. — 256 p. Guided by Aristotelian theories, medieval philosophers believed that nature abhors a vacuum. Medieval art, according to modern scholars, abhors the same. The notion of horror vacui - the fear of empty space - is thus often construed as a definitive feature of Gothic material culture. In The Absent Image , Elina Gertsman argues that...
Brill, 2016. — 330 p. — (Brill’s Series on the Early Middle Ages, v. 24). Writing the Barbarian Past examines the presentation of the non-Roman, pre-Christian past in Latin and vernacular historical narratives composed etween c.550 and c.1000: the Gothic histories of Jordanes and Isidore of Seville, the Fredegar chronicle, the Liber Historiae Francorum , Paul the Deacon’s...
Mango, 2020. — 336 p. An inside look at sexual practices in medieval times. Were medieval women slaves to their husband's desires, jealously secured in a chastity belt in his absence? Was sex a duty or could it be a pleasure? Did a woman have a say about her own female sexuality, body, and who did or didn’t get up close and personal with it? No. And yes. It’s complicated....
Boydell Press, 2012. — 362 p. The aim of this book is to explore how medieval life was actually lived - how people were born and grew old, how they dressed, how they inhabited their homes, the rituals that gave meaning to their lives and how they prepared for death and the afterlife. Its fresh and original approach uses archaeological evidence to reconstruct the material...
Rutgers University, 2015. — 281 p. This dissertation examines a series of seven chroniclers and a diarist of L’Aquila, who wrote about local events in verse and in prose between the early fourteenth and the early sixteenth centuries. The city is located in central Italy, but was at the northern end of the kingdom of Naples (the Regno). L’Aquila’s first chronicler, Buccio di...
Brepols Publishers, 2022. — 298 p. Carolingian Experiment s presents essays exploring how the Carolingians (ca. 700–ca. 900 CE) — a regime known especially for concerns over imperial power, order, and moral correction — fostered a remarkable era of experimentation in medieval Europe. The scholars featured here ask new questions and conduct their own methodological experiments...
Pantheon, 1991. — 363 p.
Ecstasies is the culmination of Ginzburg's longstanding fascination with popular myths that are shared across different cultures and eras. Here he follows the accounts given by those accused of witchcraft centuries ago, gradually weaving them together into a startling pattern, revealing evidence of a hidden shamanistic culture that flourished across...
Translator: Ignacio Duran. — Brill, 2019. — 344 p. — (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 88). This Companion to Twelfth-Century Schools provides a comprehensive update and new synthesis of the last three decades of research. The fruit of a contemporary renewal of cultural history among international scholars of medieval studies, this collection draws on the discovery...
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2021. — 405 p. — (Medieval Monastic Studies 7). The Order of Preachers has famously bred some of the leading intellectual lights of the Middle Ages. While Dominican achievements in theology, philosophy, languages, law, and sciences have attracted much scholarly interest, their significant engagement with liturgy, the visual arts, and music...
Brill, 2023. — 163 p. — (Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts 27). In this work Jeffrey Glodzik argues that Vergil played a central role in the prevailing discourse of Renaissance Rome. Roman humanists associated with the papacy employed the language of Vergil to express a vision for Rome and its divinely-ordained destiny. Using the transformation methodology...
Brill, 2021. — 480 p. — (Explorations in Medieval Culture 14). In Law | Book | Culture in the Middle Ages fifteen contributions are brought together, each taking a detailed view on the role of manuscripts and the written word in legal cultures and literate representations thereof. Four broad thematic approaches exploring the manuscript contexts and reception, of law and legal...
Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2011. — 332 p. — (Orbis mediaevalis. Vorstellungswelten des Mittelalters 13.1). Die Vorstellungswelten bilden einen eminent wichtigen Bestandteil historischer Forschung, weil bei kaum einem anderen Gegenstand die Menschen selbst so deutlich in den Mittelpunkt des Interesses treten wie bei menschlichen Vorstellungen, mit denen die Menschen sich selbst...
Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2012. — 360 p. — (Orbis mediaevalis. Vorstellungswelten des Mittelalters 13.2). Die Vorstellungswelten bilden einen eminent wichtigen Bestandteil historischer Forschung, weil bei kaum einem anderen Gegenstand die Menschen selbst so deutlich in den Mittelpunkt des Interesses treten wie bei menschlichen Vorstellungen, mit denen die Menschen sich selbst...
Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2016. — 623 S., 59 Abb. — (Orbis mediaevalis 16). The third volume of the series of religious concepts in the Early and High Middle Ages analyses the medieval concepts of God's creatures from a historical perspective. In three comprehensive chapters the image of the angels, the devil with his demons and of the human beings is investigated and presented...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 242 p. Alice De Rouclif: an Eventful Childhood William Pottell: Stories and Storytellers Ellen Taliour: Gender and the Remembrance of Times Past Robert Thewed: The Ties of Tenure and Locality Anabilla Wascelyne: The Ties of Kinship Dom. William Marrays: Stories and Readers Alice Through the Looking Glass Brewing Trouble: the Devout Widow’S Tale...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 240 p. — (The New Middle Ages). Byzantine Ecocriticism: Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance applies literary ecocriticism to the imaginative fiction of the Greek world from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. Through analyses of hunting, gardening, bride-stealing, and warfare, Byzantine Ecocriticism exposes the attitudes and behaviors...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. - 219 p.
Introduction: Icons of Irishness
Visualizing Antiquity
Classifying Taste
Meet Me at the Fair
Keepsakes and Souvenirs
Proclaiming Independence, Expressing Solidarity
Afterword: Specters and Apparitions
I. B. Tauris, 2015. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 1845118510; ISBN13: 9781845118518. Our understanding of medieval Central and Eastern Europe is being revitalized by new directions in cultural history. Careful and detailed portraits of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century life in the region shed new light on the city, the court, the school and university, the economy, and prevailing ideas,...
ICI Berlin Press, 2022. — 365 p. This volume challenges the persistent association of the Middle Ages with closure and fixity. Bringing together a range of disciplines and perspectives, it identifies and uncovers forms of openness which are often obscured by modern assumptions, and demonstrates how they coexist with, or even depend upon, enclosure and containment in paradoxical...
Bloomsbury Academic, 1992. — 378 p. In this collection of essays, Antonia Gransden brings out the virtues of medieval writers and highlights their attitudes and habits of thought. She traces the continuing influence of Bede, the greatest of early medieval English historians, from his death to the 16th century. Bede's clarity and authority were welcomed by generations of...
Cornell University Press, 2009. — 384 p. In the closing years of the fourteenth century, an anonymous French writer compiled a book addressed to a fifteen-year-old bride, narrated in the voice of her husband, a wealthy, aging Parisian. The book was designed to teach this young wife the moral attributes, duties, and conduct befitting a woman of her station in society, in the...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. - 320 p. - (The Middle Ages Series).
The Trotula was the most influential compendium on women's medicine in medieval Europe. Scholarly debate has long focused on the traditional attribution of the work to the mysterious Trotula, said to have been the first female professor of medicine in eleventh- or twelfth-century Salerno, just south of...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. — 304 p. In Elf Queens and Holy Friars Richard Firth Green investigates an important aspect of medieval culture that has been largely ignored by modern literary scholarship: the omnipresent belief in fairyland. Taking as his starting point the assumption that the major cultural gulf in the Middle Ages was less between the wealthy and the...
Leicester University Press, 1997. — 237 p.
This text outlines developments in the archaeological study of standing building, showing how they have contributed to our understanding of medieval domestic dwellings. Evidence from the buildings themselves, from excavation and from documentary sources is combined to provide an outline of the development of building techniques in the...
Leicester University Press, 1997. — 237 p. This text outlines developments in the archaeological study of standing building, showing how they have contributed to our understanding of medieval domestic dwellings. Evidence from the buildings themselves, from excavation and from documentary sources is combined to provide an outline of the development of building techniques in the...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. — 254 p. — ISBN 0-8122-3650-5 In this book Valentin Groebner addresses the notions and practices of gift giving in late medieval and early modern Europe between 1400 and 1550. Focusing on the prosperous cities of the Upper Rhine, it explores the uses of gifts in political ritual and the different functions of these donations....
University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. — 476 p. Medievalists, historians, and women's studies specialists will welcome this translation of Herbert Grundmann's classic study of religious movements in the Middle Ages because it provides a much-needed history of medieval religious life--one that lies between the extremes of doctrinal classification and materialistic analysis--and...
De Gruyter, 2020. — 290 p. A crucial question throughout the Middle Ages, the relationship between body and spirit cannot be understood without an interdisciplinary approach – combining literature, philosophy and medicine. Gathering contributions by leading international scholars from these disciplines, the collected volume explores themes such as lovesickness, the five senses,...
Oxbow Books, 2020. — 416 p. Late Antique artifacts, and the images they carry, attest to a highly connected visual culture from ca. 300 to 800 C.E. On the one hand, the same decorative motifs and iconographies are found across various genres of visual and material culture, irrespective of social and economic differences among their users – for instance in mosaics, architectural...
Oxbow Books, 2020. — 416 p. Late Antique artifacts, and the images they carry, attest to a highly connected visual culture from ca. 300 to 800 C.E. On the one hand, the same decorative motifs and iconographies are found across various genres of visual and material culture, irrespective of social and economic differences among their users – for instance in mosaics, architectural...
Cambridge: D.S.Brewer, 2023. — 332 p. — (Gender in the Middle Ages 21). Essays on women and devotional literature in the Middle Ages in commemoration and celebration of the respected feminist scholar Catherine Innes-Parker. Silence was a much-lauded concept in the Middle Ages, particularly in the context of religious literature directed at women. Based on the Pauline...
Amsterdam University Press, 2022. — 250 p. — (The Early Medieval North Atlantic). The making, eating, and sharing of food throughout society represents an important and exciting area of study with the potential to advance the field of scholarship, particularly in the context of Scandinavian Studies. This book analyses the historical, legal, and literary sources of the region...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 288 p. This volume presents a comprehensive and collaborative survey of how people, individually and within collective entities, thought about, experienced, and enacted racializing differences. Addressing events, texts, and images from the 5th to the 16th centuries, these essays by ten eminent scholars provide broad, multi-disciplinary analyses of...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 288 p. This volume presents a comprehensive and collaborative survey of how people, individually and within collective entities, thought about, experienced, and enacted racializing differences. Addressing events, texts, and images from the 5th to the 16th centuries, these essays by ten eminent scholars provide broad, multi-disciplinary analyses of...
Brill, 2022. — 210 p. — (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 82). This book brings together translation and multilingualism, underlining their connection while addressing their evolving history in medieval and early modern Iberia and the Mediterranean. Herein lies its novelty and importance: bringing together translation and multilingualism and studying them from a...
Bast Robert (ed.). — Brill Academic Pub, 2003. — 324 p. — (Studies in the History of Christian Thought 110). This book comprises the first major collection of articles in English translation by University of Erlangen Professor Dr. Berndt Hamm, one of the most important and innovative scholars of the intellectual history of late-medieval and Reformation Germany. The articles...
Edinburgh University Press, 2020. — 386 p. Early Readers presents a number of innovative ways through which we might capture or infer traces of readers in cultures where most evidence has been lost. It begins by investigating what a close analysis of extant texts from 6th-century BCE China can tell us about contemporary reading practices, explores the reading of medieval...
Brepols, 2018. — 410 p. This volume explores the diverse manifestations and uses of pleasure in medieval culture. Pleasure is a sensation, an affirmation, a practice, and is at the core of the medieval worldview, no less than pain. Applying a variety of methodological perspectives, the essays collected here analyse the role of pleasure in relation to a variety of subjects such...
Brill, 2021. — x, 277 p. — (Ludus 16). Staging History unites essays by nine specialists in the field of late medieval and early Renaissance drama. Their focus is on English, Dutch and Humanist German drama, as well as on a modern Swiss adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V. Featuring prominently in this book are plays by, among others, John Bale, Jacob Schoepper, Johannes...
Boydell Press, 2011. — 202 p. — (Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture 2). A comprehensive survey of the intriguing misericord carvings, setting them in their religious context and looking at their different themes and motifs. Misericord carvings present a fascinating corpus of medieval art which, in turn, complements our knowledge of life and belief in the late...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1992. - 323 p. - (New Studies in Medieval History). Masters of Those Who Know — Plato, Aristotle and the Neoplatonists From Ancient World to Middle Ages: Adaptation and Transmission The Central Middle Ages — Logic, Theology and Cosmology New Sources and New Institutions Aristotelian Philosophy in the University — the First Phase of Assimilation Aristotelian...
Brill, 2016. — 498 p. — (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 73). The biblical book of Job is a timeless text that relates a story of intense human suffering, abandonment, and eventual redemption. It is a tale of profound theological, philosophical, and existential significance that has captured the imaginations of auditors, exegetes, artists, religious leaders,...
Tempus, 2003. — 176 p. The legacy of the late Roman western empire laid the foundations for relationships that developed and continued during the 5th to 7th century. Harris considers the role and influence of the Byzantine east in the west, following the fragmentation of the Roman Empire, to be both significant and purposeful. In this book, she discusses aspects of political...
Amsterdam University Press, 2018. — 266 p. The role played by women in the evolution of religious art and architecture has been largely neglected. This study of upper-class women in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries corrects that oversight, uncovering the active role they undertook in choosing designs, materials, and locations for monuments, commissioning repairs and...
Cornell University Press, 2011. — 336 p.
For centuries, the Feast of Fools has been condemned and occasionally celebrated as a disorderly, even transgressive Christian festival, in which reveling clergy elected a burlesque Lord of Misrule, presided over the divine office wearing animal masks or women's clothes, sang obscene songs, swung censers that gave off foul-smelling...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2019. — 352 p. Medieval beliefs about the body were drastically different from ours today: Hair was thought to be a condensation of fumes emitted from the pores, ideas were supposedly committed to memory by being directly imprinted on the brain, and the womb of a goat was believed to function as a contraceptive. But while this medieval medicine now seems...
Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 320 p. — ISBN 978-0521470261. This study by Debra Hassig integrates the bestiary into the social history of art through an examination of twenty-eight manuscripts produced in England during the twelfth, thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. The analysis of the reception of the bestiary by different types of readers - religious and lay,...
Ohio State University Press, 2016. — 272 p. The Medieval Risk-Reward Society offers a study of adventure and love in the European Middle Ages focused on the poetry of authors such as Marie de France, Chrétien de Troyes, Wolfram von Eschenbach, and Gottfried von Strassburg—showing how a society based on sacrifice becomes a society based on wagers and investments. Will Hasty’s...
Princeton University, 2014. — 338 p. This dissertation reconsiders the relationship between art and knowledge in thirteenth-century Italy. It examines two encyclopedic fresco cycles: the crypt of the cathedral of Anagni (ca. 1235-50) and the newly recovered wall paintings in Santi Quattro Coronati in Rome (ca. 1245-50). Both murals were painted by the same anonymous painters...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. — 310 p. This collection of essays in two volumes explores patterns of medieval society and culture, spanning from the close of the late antique period to the beginnings of the Renaissance. In the first volume, the articles unravel the complexities of authority and community, and then turn to the multiple rubrics of behavior which bound and defined...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. — 312 p. This collection of essays in two volumes explores patterns of medieval society and culture, spanning from the close of the late antique period to the beginnings of the Renaissance. Volume 2 analyzes of forms of devotion, both popular movements and those practices and ceremonies limited to elite groups. The exploration of medieval paradigms...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 360 p.
This is a study of the place of patron saints in Frankish society during the Carolingian and early Capetian periods. The book focuses on the composition of works in praise of dead holy people - hagiography - and the veneration of their physical remains - the cult of saints. It examines the patrons of a single diocese, Orl?ans, because...
Brill, 2024. — 726 p. — (The Northern World, Vol. 97). Ever since the publication of Saxo Grammaticus’ Gesta Danorum at the beginning of the thirteenth century, scholars and laymen have grappled with the complex and marvellous chronicle. As much specialized scholarship has been published in Danish, this companion breaks new ground by giving a comprehensive and up-to-date tour...
Brill, 2021. — 408 p. — (Later Medieval Europe 22). Time in the Eternal City: Perceiving and Controlling Time in Late Medieval and Renaissance Rome is a major contribution to the study of time and its numerous aspects in late medieval and Renaissance Rome. The authors offer a versatile view on the variety of ways time could be perceived. Individual chapters concentrate on the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 256 p. During the medieval period, people invested heavily in looking good. The finest fashions demanded careful chemistry and compounds imported from great distances and at considerable risk to merchants; the Church became a major consumer of both the richest and humblest varieties of cloth, shoes, and adornment; and vernacular poets began to...
Routledge, 2013. — 154 p. Drawing together social and medical history and literary studies, 'The Reproductive Unconscious in Late Medieval and Early Modern England' studies the social practices and metaphorical representations of childbirth in medieval and early modern texts and argues for the existence of a reproductive unconscious. Discussing midwifery treatises, obstetrical...
Brill, 2020. — 596 p. — (Brill's Companions to European History 22). A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to provide an updated scholarly introduction to all aspects of his work. Arguably the most influential secular writer of medieval Britain, Geoffrey (d. 1154) popularized Arthurian literature and left an indelible mark on...
Brill, 2022. — 413 p. — (Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe 17). Bringing together the work of scholars from disparate fields of enquiry, this volume provides a timely and stimulating exploration of the themes of transmission and translation, charting developments, adaptations and exchanges – textual, visual, material and conceptual – that reverberated...
Brill, 2022. — 324 p. — (Prognostication in History 10). A great number of historical examples show how desperate people sought to obtain a glimpse of the future or explain certain incidents retrospectively through signs that had occurred in advance. In that sense, signs are always considered a portent of future events. In different societies, and at different times, the...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019. — 70 p. — (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Geistes- und sozialwissenschaftliche Klasse 2). Die Abhandlung unterstreicht, wie vielfältig und wichtig den Menschen im Mittelalter auch die Sorge um ihre Zukunft war. Dabei standen Verfahren der Prognostik – die in der Antike sehr gängig waren – seit den Kirchenvätern in der...
Uppsala University. — Uppsala, Sweden. — 2018 — 211 p. — ISBN 978-91-506-2709-1 The purpose of this book is straightforward. It aims at comparing two texts, the Eddic poem Skírnismál—‘Skírnir’s speech’ or Fǫr Skírnis—‘Skírnir’s Journey’ and two scenes from the Latin play Pafnutius. In this book I argue that staged drama existed in the 10th century, since, irrespective of their...
Fordham University Press, 2022. — 288 p. Viking Mediologies is a study of pre-modern multimedia rooted in the embodied poetic practice of Viking Age skalds. Prior study of the skaldic tradition has focused on authorship - distinctions of poetic style, historical contexts, and attention to the oeuvres of the skalds whose names are preserved in the written tradition. Kate Heslop...
Brepols Publishers, 2013. — 365 p. — (Studies in the Early Middle Ages 39). Rouen, one of the leading cities of medieval Western Europe, has long awaited detailed consideration in English by modern scholars. This book presents exciting new research on the society and culture of medieval Rouen by British and Continental historians. Divided into three sections, addressing space...
Brepols Publishers, 2013. — 365 p. — (Studies in the Early Middle Ages 39). Rouen, one of the leading cities of medieval Western Europe, has long awaited detailed consideration in English by modern scholars. This book presents exciting new research on the society and culture of medieval Rouen by British and Continental historians. Divided into three sections, addressing space...
Brill, 1992. — 183 p. — (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 1). This study explores one means of imparting Latin literacy in early medieval society: the so-called "external school," often presumed to have been a common feature of medieval monastic education. It questions the prevalence of this institution and whether the external school can be used as...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. — 352 p. — (The Middle Ages Series) Widely recognized by contemporaries as the most powerful theologian of his generation, Jean Gerson (1363-1429) dominated the stage of western Europe during a time of plague, fratricidal war, and religious schism. Yet modern scholarship has struggled to define Gerson's place in history, even as it searches...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016. — 314 p. — (Hamburger Studien zu Gesellschaften und Kulturen der Vormoderne 1). In der Apostelgeschichte beschreibt der Evangelist Lukas das Gemeinschaftsleben der ersten Christen in Jerusalem. Als Zeichen ihrer vollendeten Eintracht schildert er die Gütergemeinschaft. Die Gläubigen hätten ihre Habe verkauft und die Erlöse in die Gemeinde...
Wien; Köln; Weimar: Böhlau Verlag, 2020 — 442 S. Die Wiener Genesis (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Codex Theologicus graecus 31) ist eine fragmentarisch erhaltene griechische Handschrift des Buches Genesis, die mit Silbertinte auf Purpurpergament geschrieben wurde. Man vermutet, dass das Buch in der ersten Hälfte des 6. Jahrhunderts im Nahen Osten entstand. 24 Folios mit...
Routledge, 2006. — 280 p. The Sibylla Tiburtina is a Latin prophecy attributed to a prophetess from classical antiquity. It concludes with an account of the End of History, involving the coming of the Antichrist and his battle with a Last World Emperor. Approximately 100 manuscripts, written between the mid-11th and the 16th centuries, survive which testify to the Tiburtina's...
De Gruyter, 2019. — 336 p. In the Middle Ages, rolls were ubiquitous as a writing support. While scholars have long examined the texts and images on rolls, they have rarely taken the manuscripts themselves into account. This volume readdresses this imbalance by focusing on the materiality and various usages of rolls in late medieval England and France. Researchers from England,...
Boydell Press, 2013. — 206 p. A powerful exploration of trees in both the real and the imagined Anglo-Saxon landscape. Trees played a particularly important part in the rural economy of Anglo-Saxon England, both for wood and timber and as a wood-pasture resource, with hunting gaining a growing cultural role. But they are also powerful icons in many pre-Christian religions, with...
Walter de Gruyter, 2021. — 232 p. The book highlights aspects of mediality and materiality in the dissemination and distribution of texts in the Scandinavian Middle Ages important for achieving a general understanding of the emerging literate culture. In nine chapters various types of texts represented in different media and in a range of materials are treated. The topics...
Walter de Gruyter, 2021. — 232 p. The book highlights aspects of mediality and materiality in the dissemination and distribution of texts in the Scandinavian Middle Ages important for achieving a general understanding of the emerging literate culture. In nine chapters various types of texts represented in different media and in a range of materials are treated. The topics...
D.S. Brewer , 2009. - 258 p.
From the late-medieval period through to the seventeenth century, English theatrical clowns carried a weighty cultural significance, only to have it stripped from them, sometimes violently, by the close of the Renaissance when the famed "license" of fooling was effectively revoked. This groundbreaking survey of clown traditions in the period looks...
Routledge, 2017. — 580 p.
Sometimes enjoying considerable favor, sometimes less, iconography has been an essential element in medieval art historical studies since the beginning of the discipline. Some of the greatest art historians – including Mâle, Warburg, Panofsky, Morey, and Schapiro – have devoted their lives to understanding and structuring what exactly the subject...
University of California Press, 2024. — 320 p. A spectacular, vivid, groundbreaking work of history which takes us into the minds and lives of medieval women. What was life really like for women in the medieval period? How did they think about sex, death and God? Could they live independent lives? And how can we hear their stories? Few women had the luxury of writing down their...
Bloomsbury, 2024. — 320 p. A spectacular, vivid, groundbreaking work of history which takes us into the minds and lives of medieval women. What was life really like for women in the medieval period? How did they think about sex, death and God? Could they live independent lives? And how can we hear their stories? Few women had the luxury of writing down their thoughts and...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. — 288 p. The Middle Ages was an era of dynamic social transformation, and notions of disability in medieval culture reflected how norms and forms of embodiment interacted with gender, class, and race, among other dimensions of human difference. Ideas of disability in courtly romance, saints' lives, chronicles, sagas, secular lyrics, dramas, and...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. — 288 p. The Middle Ages was an era of dynamic social transformation, and notions of disability in medieval culture reflected how norms and forms of embodiment interacted with gender, class, and race, among other dimensions of human difference. Ideas of disability in courtly romance, saints' lives, chronicles, sagas, secular lyrics, dramas, and...
Brill, 2023. — viii, 226 p. — (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 204). Tempting the Tempter considers how far fifteenth-century Italian mystics would go to imitate Christ, even in his encounters with the Devil in the desert. Elena of Udine, Caterina of Bologna, and Colomba of Rieti created their own desert experience through their austere devotional practices, and...
De Gruyter, 2018. — 402 p. — (Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte des Dominikanerordens – Neue Folge 22). Zealots for souls draws attention to the impact of the Observant reforms within the Order of Preachers, and ambitiously stirs up a broad scope of questions pertaining to the institutional narratives produced within the order between c. 1388 and 1517. Through the...
Oxbow Books, 2014. — 264 p. Spiral stairs, galleries and upper chambers in medieval cathedrals, abbeys and parish churches have been an enduring source of fascination to scholars since the eighteenth century. But what were these secret stairs, mysterious galleries and hidden upper rooms actually used for – and how can we know? This book presents the evidence for the practical...
In: Johan Huizinga, Verzamelde werken. Deel 3 (ed. L. Brummel). — H.D. Tjeenk Willink & Zoon, Haarlem 1949. — p. 3-345. — 2007 dbnl / erven Johan Huizinga & L. Brummel. Studie over levens- en gedachtenvormen der veertiende en vijftiende eeuw in Frankrijk en de Nederlanden.
D. S. Brewer, 2012. — 254 p. Chaucer's preoccupation with love and marriage has been a focus of criticism for more than a century. Here, the love relationships and marriages in six of the Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, and the Legend of Good Women are reappraised from a fresh direction, using late medieval letter collections and advice literature for women to shed new...
NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975 In all eras, objects of everyday life are taken for granted: they are used and discarded, rarely discussed or preserved. It is, generally, a period's extraordinary works of art and architecture that have been preserved for our examination, rather than the pots, games, and other ordinary objects. But the focus of this exhibition, The Secular...
Brill, 2015. — 362 p. — (Mediterranean Art Histories 2). In The Wandering Throne of Solomon: Objects and Tales of Kingship in the Medieval Mediterranean Allegra Iafrate analyzes the circulation of artifacts and literary traditions related to king Solomon, particularly among Christians, Jews and Muslims, from the 10th to the 13th century. The author shows how written sources and...
Brill, 2016. — 291 p. — (Brill’s Series in Church History and Religious Culture 72). Throughout the history of mankind religion has been a creative and innovative factor of great strength, able to change societies, create new cultures, and shape strong identities. In Religion as an Agent of Change leading historians and Church historians discuss religion as a driving force in...
Brepols, 2023. — 408 p. — (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy 56). This volume proposes a framework for reflection on practices of writing personal names in medieval sacred spaces, uniting historians, art historians, and specialists in written culture (both epigraphers and palaeographers). It traces the forms and functions of names that can be found within the space of early...
Brill, 2022. — 392 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, Vol. 88). Inside Christian churches, natural light has long been harnessed to underscore theological, symbolic, and ideological statements. In this volume, twenty-four international scholars with various specialties explore how the study of sunlight can reveal essential aspects of the design,...
Jagiellonian University Press, 2014. — 310 p. — (Byzantia et Slavica Cracoviensia). This volume offers a collection of thirteen studies on the subject of intercultural contact and exchange in the medieval and early modern periods. The aim of the authors was to approach this phenomenon as broadly as possible, and the resulting volume is, therefore, a fusion of different...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. - 319 p. - (The Middle Ages Series).
"Richard, Duke of Aquitaine, son of the King of England, remained with Philip, the King of France, who so honored him for so long that they ate every day at the same table and from the same dish, and at night their beds did not separate them. And the King of France loved him as his own soul; and they...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985. — 340 p. Abbreviations Courts And Courtiers The Courtier Bishop Representative Figures (I): Otto of Bamberg Criticism of the Court Representative Figures (II): Adalbert of Bremen The Defense of the Courtier From Court Ideal to Literary Ideal: Metamorphoses of the Courtier Courtesy Ancient Urbanity And The Spirit Of Revival In The German...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 228 p. History writing in the Middle Ages did not belong to any particular genre, language or class of texts. Its remit was wide, embracing the events of antiquity; the deeds of saints, rulers and abbots; archival practices; and contemporary reportage. This volume addresses the challenges presented by medieval historiography by using the...
De Gruyter, 2021. — 458 p. — (The Northern Medieval World). This anthology of international scholarship offers new critical approaches to the study of the many manifestations of the paranormal in the Middle Ages. The guiding principle of the collection is to depart from symbolic or reductionist readings of the subject matter in favor of focusing on the paranormal as human...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2023. — 272 p. Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by The Millions. A vibrant and illuminating exploration of medieval thinking on women’s beauty, sexuality, and behavior. What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages, the era that bridged...
Central European University Press, 2009. — 151 p.
In the Middles Ages, the edges of one s world could represent different meanings. On the one hand, they might have been situated in far-away regions, mainly in the east and north, that one most often only knew from hearsay and which were inhabited by strange beings: humans with their faces on their chest, without a mouth, or...
Central European University Press, 2011. — 218 p. — (CEU Medievalia).
Supernatural phenomena and causalities played an important role in medieval society. Religious practice was relying upon a set of cult images and the sacral status of these depictions of divine or supernatural persons became the object of heated debates and provoked iconoclastic reactions.
The miraculous...
Arc Humanities Press, 2020. — 148 p. This book argues that the impressive range of belongings that can be connected to Duchess Matilda Plantagenet - textiles, illuminated manuscripts, coins, chronicles, charters, and literary texts - allows us to perceive elite women’s performance of power, even when they are largely absent from the official documentary record. It is especially...
Arc Humanities Press, 2020. — 148 p. This book argues that the impressive range of belongings that can be connected to Duchess Matilda Plantagenet - textiles, illuminated manuscripts, coins, chronicles, charters, and literary texts - allows us to perceive elite women’s performance of power, even when they are largely absent from the official documentary record. It is especially...
University of Toronto Press, 2009. — 360 p.
Conduct literature is a term used to identify writings that address how one should 'conduct' oneself in social situations. In the medieval period conduct literature was essential reading for nearly all literate children and adolescents to educate them in the expected social behaviours for their culture, gender, and status. Using a...
Routledge, 2023. — 325 p. This collection of essays, written by leading experts, showcases historiographical problems, fresh interpretations, and new debates in medieval and Renaissance history and political thought. Recent scholarship on medieval and Renaissance political thought is witness to tectonic movements. These involve quiet, yet considerable, re-evaluations of key...
Routledge, 2015. — 318 p. Research into the emotions is beginning to gain momentum in Anglo-Saxon studies. In order to integrate early medieval Britain into the wider scholarly research into the history of emotions (a major theme in other fields and a key field in interdisciplinary studies), this volume brings together established scholars, who have already made significant...
Routledge, 2015. — 318 p. Research into the emotions is beginning to gain momentum in Anglo-Saxon studies. In order to integrate early medieval Britain into the wider scholarly research into the history of emotions (a major theme in other fields and a key field in interdisciplinary studies), this volume brings together established scholars, who have already made significant...
Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2008. — 446 p. — (Orbis mediaevalis. Vorstellungswelten des Mittelalters 9). Wie entstehen Fremdbilder? Welche Faktoren prägen sie, welche Wirkungen erzielen sie? Dienen sie vor allem der gegenseitigen Abgrenzung? Lassen sie sich politisch funktionalisieren und manipulieren? Im "Laboratorium" des europäischen Mittelalters werden diese modern anmutenden...
The Boydell Press,, 2001. — xiv, 216 p. — ISBN 978 184383 269 0. Stories of spirits returning from the afterlife are as old as storytelling: accounts of ghosts and revenants which have crossed the mysterious border between the living and the dead are a dominant theme in many cultures, and in medieval Europe ghosts, nightstalkers, wild hunts and unearthly visitors from parallel...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016. — 320 p. — (Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte Beihefte 235). Over the last twenty years research on guilds has freed itself from traditional clichés, such as the guilds' supposed backwardness and seclusion, and has thus paved the way for a new and more differentiated assessment of these historical institutions. Yet the subject...
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2019. — 501 p. — (Rencontres de Philosophie Médiévale 19). Die Studie liefert im ersten Teil erstmalig eine umfassende historisch-systematische, monographische Aufarbeitung der Rolle Epikurs in der Philosophie-, Kultur- und Ideengeschichte des lateinischen Mittelalters (von Isidor von Sevilla bis zum Ende des 15. Jahrhunderts). Quellennah...
Amsterdam University Press, 2021. — 342 p. — (Social worlds of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages 9). A narrative of decline punctuated by periods of renewal has long structured perceptions of Rome’s late antique and medieval history. In their probing contributions to this volume, a multi-disciplinary group of scholars provides alternative approaches to understanding the...
Amsterdam University Press, 2023. — 308 p. This book situates Alfred the Great in his hagiographic context. For 150 years, the fables told in the ninth century about Alfred’s childhood have posed interlocking disciplinary challenges to historians committed to evicting romance from history. Blending current Hagiography Studies with historical, literary, and biblical hermeneutics...
Princeton University Press, 2016. — 632 p. — (With a new introduction by Conrad Leyser and a preface by William Chester Jordan). Originally published in 1957, this classic work has guided generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. Throughout history, the notion of two bodies has permitted the post mortem continuity of monarch and monarchy,...
Princeton University Press, 2016. — 632 p. — (With a new introduction by Conrad Leyser and a preface by William Chester Jordan). Originally published in 1957, this classic work has guided generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. Throughout history, the notion of two bodies has permitted the post mortem continuity of monarch and...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1946. — 310 p. A Legend on Coins, and Its Origin The Gallo-Frankish Laudes The Franco-Roman Form of Laudes The Laudes of the Hierarchy Dalmatian and Venetian Laudes The Laudes in the Norman Realms The Laudes in Modern Times Appendices The Music of the Laudes, by Manfred F. Bukofzer Notes on the Diffusion of the Christus vincit Legend on...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 298 p. In Figuring Racism in Medieval Christianity , M. Lindsay Kaplan expands the study of the history of racism through an analysis of the Christian concept of Jewish hereditary inferiority. Imagined as a figural slavery, this idea anticipates modern racial ideologies in creating a status of permanent, inherent subordination. Unlike other studies...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 298 p. In Figuring Racism in Medieval Christianity , M. Lindsay Kaplan expands the study of the history of racism through an analysis of the Christian concept of Jewish hereditary inferiority. Imagined as a figural slavery, this idea anticipates modern racial ideologies in creating a status of permanent, inherent subordination. Unlike other studies...
Routledge, 2012. — 248 p. Challenging the way the Middle Ages have been treated in general histories of sexuality, Sexuality in Medieval Europe shows how views at the time were conflicted and complicated; there was no single medieval attitude towards sexuality any more than there is one modern attitude. Focusing on marital sexual activity, as well as behavior that was seen as...
4th Rev. Edition. — Routledge, 2023. — 274 p. Now in its fourth edition, Sexuality in Medieval Europe provides a lively account of a society whose attitudes toward sexuality both were ancestral to, and differed from, contemporary ones. The volume is structured not by types of sexual interactions or deviance, but to reflect the difference in gendered experiences when sex is seen...
4th Rev. Edition. — Routledge, 2023. — 274 p. Now in its fourth edition, Sexuality in Medieval Europe provides a lively account of a society whose attitudes toward sexuality both were ancestral to, and differed from, contemporary ones. The volume is structured not by types of sexual interactions or deviance, but to reflect the difference in gendered experiences when sex is seen...
Routledge, 2012. — 248 p.
Challenging the way the Middle Ages have been treated in general histories of sexuality, Sexuality in Medieval Europe shows how views at the time were conflicted and complicated; there was no single medieval attitude towards sexuality any more than there is one modern attitude. Focusing on marital sexual activity, as well as behavior that was seen as...
3rd Rev. Edition. — Routledge, 2017. — 268 p. Challenging the way the Middle Ages have been treated in general histories of sexuality, "Sexuality in Medieval Europe" shows how views at the time were conflicted and complicated; there was no single medieval attitude towards sexuality any more than there is one modern attitude. Focusing on marital sexual activity, as well as...
3rd Rev. Edition. — Routledge, 2017. — 268 p. Challenging the way the Middle Ages have been treated in general histories of sexuality, "Sexuality in Medieval Europe" shows how views at the time were conflicted and complicated; there was no single medieval attitude towards sexuality any more than there is one modern attitude. Focusing on marital sexual activity, as well as...
University of Toronto Press, 1988. — 273 p. Editor's Preface Abbreviations Author's Preface Biblical Exegesis The Liturgy Hymns Sermons Visual Arts Mythography
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 222 p. — (Oxford Studies in Medieval European History). Demonic possession was a spiritual state that often had physical symptoms; however, in Demonic Possession and Lived Religion in Later Medieval Europe, Sari Katajala-Peltomaa argues that demonic possession was a social phenomenon which should be understood with regard to the community and...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. - 472 p. - (The Middle Ages Series).
The love songs of Occitan troubadours inspired a rich body of courtly lyric by poets working in neighboring languages. For Sarah Kay, these poets were nightingales, composing verse that is recognizable yet original. But troubadour poetry also circulated across Europe in a form that is less well known...
Brill, 2016. — 274 p. — (Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe 5). In Material Culture and Queenship in 14th-century France: The Testament of Blanche of Navarre (1331-1398) Marguerite Keane considers the object collection of the long-lived fourteenth-century French queen Blanche of Navarre, the wife of Philip VI (d. 1350). This queen’s ownership of works...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 296 p. "But the Bible says" is a common enough refrain in many conversations about Christianity. The written verses of the four canonical Gospels are sometimes volleyed back and forth and taken as fact while the apocryphal and oral accounts of the life of Jesus are taken as mere oddities. Early thinkers inside and outside the community of...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 296 p. "But the Bible says" is a common enough refrain in many conversations about Christianity. The written verses of the four canonical Gospels are sometimes volleyed back and forth and taken as fact while the apocryphal and oral accounts of the life of Jesus are taken as mere oddities. Early thinkers inside and outside the community of...
D. S. Brewer, 2014. — 382 p. — (Gallica 35). A close examination of an important theme in Machaut's works. A milestone in Machaut studies and in late-medieval French literature in general. Machaut, already considered the seminal figure in late-medieval poetics and music, here comes across in these respects more clearly than ever. Kelly also further contextualises him within...
The Catholic University of America Press, 2009. — 320 p. The Hero's Place presents an innovative study of how the spaces described in a literary work contribute dynamically and profoundly to that work's meaning. Three seminal works of the Middle Ages - The Life of Saint Alexis , The Song of Roland , and Tristan and Iseut - are closely analyzed from the vantage point of two...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2019. — 205 p. — ISBN10: 0393285030, 13 978-0393285031. A beautifully illustrated, full-color guide to scrolls and their uses in medieval life. Scrolls have always been shrouded by a kind of aura, a quality of somehow standing outside of time. They hold our attention with their age, beauty, and perplexing format. Beginning in the fourth century, the...
Brill, 2016. — 312 p. — (Intersections 44). The essays collected in The Five Senses in Medieval and Early Modern England examine the interrelationships between sense perception and secular and Christian cultures in England from the medieval into the early modern periods. They address canonical texts and writers in the fields of poetry, drama, homiletics, martyrology and early...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015 — 340 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series 99). — ISBN10: 1107082137; ISBN13: 978-1107082137. Dreams and visions played important roles in the Christian cultures of the early middle ages. But not only did tradition and authoritative texts teach that some dreams were divine: some also pointed out that...
Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2010. — 412 p. — (Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte des Dominikanerordens – Neue Folge 17). Ausgangspunkt und Zentrum der Arbeit bilden sieben liturgische Handschriften aus der Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, die größtenteils zwischen Mitte des 13. und Anfang des 14. Jahrhunderts entstanden. Es handelt sich um durchwegs für die dominikanische...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. — 294 р.
If we cannot see God with our own eyes, for what purpose do we picture God in art? During the Middle Ages, the Second Commandment's warning against idolatry was largely set aside as the power of images became boldly and visibly evident. By the twelfth century, one Byzantine authority could even offer his own revision of the...
Routledge, 2011. — 201 p. — (Routledge Library Editions: Witchcraft).
In popular tradition witches were either practitioners of magic or people who were objectionable in some way, but for early European courts witches were heretics and worshippers of the Devil. This study concentrates on the period between 1300 and 1500 when ideas about witchcraft were being formed and...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. - 240 p.
How was magic practised in medieval times? How did it relate to the diverse beliefs and practices that characterised this fascinating period? In Magic in the Middle Ages Richard Kieckhefer surveys the growth and development of magic in medieval times. He examines its relation to religion, science, philosophy, art, literature and...
Arc Humanities Press, 2019. — 336 p. This book presents, for the first time, a coherent, tightly argued history of medieval mediality, which also casts a new light on modern thinking about the medial. Abundance and lack constitute the defining feature of all media forms. These forms always undertake to preserve, transmit, or give access to something that might otherwise be...
Brill, 2013. — 320 p., 68 ill. — (Visualising the Middle Ages 9). In Imago Mortis: Mediating Images of Death in Late Medieval Culture, Ashby Kinch argues for the affirmative quality of late medieval death art and literature, providing a new, interdisciplinary approach to a well-known body of material. He demonstrates the surprising and effective ways that late medieval artists...
Penn State University Press, 2014. — 228 p. Few works of art better illustrate the splendor of eleventh-century painting than the manuscript often referred to as the “precious gospels” of Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim, with its peculiar combination of sophistication and naïveté, its dramatically gesturing figures, and the saturated colors of its densely ornamented surfaces. In...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 390 p. The German mystic Gertrude the Great of Helfta (c.1256–1301) is a globally venerated saint who is still central to the Sacred Heart Devotion. Her visions were first recorded in Latin, and they inspired generations of readers in processes of creative rewriting. The vernacular copies of these redactions challenge the long-standing idea...
Fordham University Press, 2021. — 192 p. Five hundred years before “Jabberwocky” and Tender Buttons , writers were already preoccupied with the question of nonsense. But even as the prevalence in medieval texts of gibberish, babble, birdsong, and allusions to bare voice has come into view in recent years, an impression persists that these phenomena are exceptions that prove the...
Fordham University Press, 2021. — 192 p. Five hundred years before “Jabberwocky” and Tender Buttons , writers were already preoccupied with the question of nonsense. But even as the prevalence in medieval texts of gibberish, babble, birdsong, and allusions to bare voice has come into view in recent years, an impression persists that these phenomena are exceptions that prove the...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 234 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series 114). This interdisciplinary study explores how classical ideals of generosity influenced the writing and practice of gift giving in medieval Europe. In assuming that medieval gift giving was shaped by oral 'folk models', historians have traditionally followed in the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 268 p.
Editor’s Introduction
Language Without Voice: Locutio Angelica as a Political Issue
Mimicry, Subjectivity, and the Embodied Voice in Anglo-Saxon Bird Riddles
Ritual Voices and Social Silence: Funerary Lamentations in Byzantium
Viva Voce: Voice and Voicelessness Among Twelfth-Century Clerics
Abelard and Heloise Between Voice and Silence...
Brill, 2024. — 294 p. — (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 106). The works of Titus Flavius Josephus ben Matthias on biblical history and the Jewish war were read and studied throughout the Latin west during the Middle Ages. Each generation of Christian scholars had to contend with the Jewish writer’s text, reputation, and content. This volume demonstrates the...
St. Edmundsbury Press, 1997. — 232 p. The essays in this volume explore ways in which plays and public spectacles mirrored the beliefs and values of the late medieval world. Topics covered include seasonal festivals, trade gilds, stagecraft, and the role played by the municipal governments in fostering and controlling dramatic productions. The geographic range takes in all...
Stockholm University, 2019. — 212 p. Shapeshifting narratives appear in cultures all over the world, throughout human history. At each point, these narratives give expression to culturally contingent anxieties and preoccupations. This study examines shapeshifting narratives in early medieval England and Ireland in order to uncover what preoccupations informed the meaning of...
Boydell Press, 2020. — 510 p. Christopher Page is one of the most influential and distinguished scholars and performers of medieval music. His first book, Voices and Instruments of the Middle Ages (1987), marked the beginning of what might be called the"Page turn" in the study and performance of medieval music. His many subsequent publications, radio broadcasting (notably the...
Brill, 2016. — 807 p. — (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 52). The first fully developed history of the University of Cracow in this period in over a century, “A Pearl of Powerful Learning.” The University of Cracow in the Fifteenth Century places the school in the context of late medieval universities, traces the process of its foundation, analyzes its...
Brepols, 2018. — 338 p. Throughout the Middle Ages, fictional frameworks could be used as imaginative spaces in which to test or play with ideas without asserting their truth. The aim of this volume is to consider how intellectual problems were approached - if not necessarily resolved - through the kinds of hypothetical enquiry found in poetry and in other texts that employ...
Medieval Institute Publications, 2019. — 284 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture 63). One of the most challenging problems in the history of Western ideas stems from the emergence of Modernity out of the preceding period of the Latin Middle Ages. This volume develops and extends the insights of the noted scholar Thomas M. Izbicki into the so-called...
De Gruyter, 2018. — 293 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture 63). One of the most challenging problems in the history of Western ideas stems from the emergence of Modernity out of the preceding period of the Latin Middle Ages. This volume develops and extends the insights of the noted scholar Thomas M. Izbicki into the so-called medieval/modern divide. The...
Cothen, 2001. — 512 p. — ISBN: 9090148817. Хендрик Ян Энгельберт ван Бёнинген - вдохновитель изучения и публикации инсигний позднего средневековья. В коллекции его семьи - более 4000 знаков и их фрагментов, она является крупнейшей и наиболее репрезентативной в мире. В двух изданных томах описаны 2200 религиозных и мирских знаков. На нидерландском языке.
Cothen, 1993. — 342 p. — ISBN10: 9090067698; ISBN13: 9789090067698. Хендрик Ян Энгельберт ван Бёнинген - вдохновитель изучения и публикации инсигний позднего средневековья. В коллекции его семьи - более 4000 знаков и их фрагментов, она является крупнейшей и наиболее репрезентативной в мире. В двух изданных томах описаны 2200 религиозных и мирских знаков. На нидерландском языке.
Routledge, 2025. — 242 p. This edited volume discusses images that bleed, speak, cry, move, and behave in ways we usually attribute to living creatures. Living images have been the object of devotion as well as targets of destruction, and they have been marginalised in both culture and cultural studies for their ambivalence as well as their transgressive nature. But what is it...
Routledge, 2025. — 242 p. This edited volume discusses images that bleed, speak, cry, move, and behave in ways we usually attribute to living creatures. Living images have been the object of devotion as well as targets of destruction, and they have been marginalised in both culture and cultural studies for their ambivalence as well as their transgressive nature. But what is it...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. - 233 p. - (Early Modern History: Society and Culture).
Death, Ritual and the Reformation
Souls: the Death of Purgatory and the Reformation
Bodies: Placing the Dead in the German Reformation
The Formation of the Lutheran Funeral Ritual
Honour and Violence: Funerals in the Confessional Age
From Disgrace to Distinction: Nocturnal Burial in...
University of Minnesota Press, 2001. — 343 p.
The essays in this volume present new work that, in one way or another, “queers” stabilized conceptions of the Middle Ages, allowing us to see the period and its systems of sexuality in radically different, off-center, and revealing ways.
Contributors: Kathleen Biddick, Michael Camille, Marilynn Desmond, Garrett P. J. Epp, Gregory...
University of Michigan Press, 2022. — 284 p. The Medieval Postcolonial Jew, In and Out of Time studies violent temporal clashes that are written into the medieval vision of annus domini [the year of our Lord]. Christian temporality represents Jewish time as queerly oddly outmoded and advocating uncivil and socially disruptive behavior. Jewish temporality, in turn, records a...
Brill, 2013. — 360 p.
Many students of memory assume that the practice of memory changed dramatically around 1800; this volume shows that there was much continuity as well as change. Premodern ways of negotiating memories of pain and loss, for instance, were indeed quite different to those in the modern West. Yet by examining memory practices and drawing on evidence from early...
Brepols, 2024. — 409 p. — (Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia 91). Shortly after 1317, Nicholas Trevet, an English Dominican friar and Oxford master, was commissioned by his provincial prior to write a literal commentary on the Psalter. He chose as his reference version the less commonly used Latin translation by Jerome from the Hebrew, and delivered his work before 1321/22....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — 300 p. — (Early Modern History: Society and Culture).
Offering the first comparative survey of public houses in pre-industrial Europe and drawing on a vast range of primary sources, this study establishes inns and taverns as principal communication sites in local communities. Contested and continuously renegotiated, they catered for basic human needs...
Routledge, 2017. — 356 p. This book compares the cultures of the different social groups living in the Low Countries in the early Middle Ages. Clergy, nobility, peasants and townsmen greatly varied in their attitudes to labor, property, violence, and the handling and showing of emotions. Künzel explores how these social groups looked at themselves as a group, and how they...
Routledge, 2017. — 356 p. This book compares the cultures of the different social groups living in the Low Countries in the early Middle Ages. Clergy, nobility, peasants and townsmen greatly varied in their attitudes to labor, property, violence, and the handling and showing of emotions. Künzel explores how these social groups looked at themselves as a group, and how they...
De Gruyter, 2016. — 460 p. — (Trends in Medieval Philology 31). Bodies and their role in cultural discourse have been a constant focus in the humanities and social sciences in recent years, but comparatively few studies exist about Old Norse-Icelandic or early Irish literature. This study aims to redress this imbalance and presents carefully contextualised close readings of...
Amsterdam University Press, 2020. — 236 p. Bodily suffering and patient, Christlike attitudes towards that suffering were among the key characteristics of sainthood throughout the medieval period. Saints, Infirmity, and Community in the Late Middle Ages analyses the meanings given to putative saints’ bodily infirmities in late medieval canonization hearings. How was an...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 434 p. The "long twelfth century" (1075–1225) was an era of seminal importance in the development of the book in medieval Europe and marked a high point in its construction and decoration. This comprehensive study takes the cultural changes that occurred during the "twelfth-century Renaissance" as its point of departure to provide an overview of...
Arc Humanities Press, 2018. — 304 p. — (Medieval Media and Culture). This beautifully illustrated book provides an accessible introduction to the medieval manuscript and what it can tell us about the world in which it was made and used. Captured in the materiality of manuscripts are the data enabling us to make sense of the preferences and habits of the individuals who made up...
D.S. Brewer, 2005. — 260 p. Chrétien de Troyes is arguably the creator of Arthurian romance, and it is on his work that later writers have based their interpretations. This book offers both crucial information on, and a comprehensive coverage of, all aspects of the work of Chrétien de Troyes - the literary and historical background, patronage, his influence on other writers,...
D.S. Brewer, 2005. — 261 p. Chrétien de Troyes is arguably the creator of Arthurian romance, and it is on his work that later writers have based their interpretations. This book offers both crucial information on, and a comprehensive coverage of, all aspects of the work of Chrétien de Troyes - the literary and historical background, patronage, his influence on other writers,...
Oxford University Press, 2025. — 260 p. — (Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture). The Welsh Marches, a name that today refers to the borderland regions between England and Wales, are often coupled with images of idealized rusticity, of ‘blue remembered hills’. Yet, in the Middle Ages, the Marches stretched from the borders into much of modern-day Mid and South...
The Pennsylvania State University, 2008. — 350 p.
During the Middle Ages, the Western world translated the incredible Arabic scientific corpus and imported it into Western culture: Arabic philosophy, optics, and physics, as well as alchemy, astrology, and talismanic magic. The line between the scientific and the magical was blurred. According to popular lore, magicians of the...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. — 727 p. — (Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte. Beihefte 248). Im frühen 16. Jahrhundert zählten die europaweit agierenden Florentiner Salviati und Augsburger Welser zu den bedeutendsten Handels- und Bankhäusern. Heinrich Lang stellt nicht nur deren Unternehmensgeschichten dar, sondern charakterisiert auch die engmaschig...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 272 p. The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages. Uniting a diverse set of emerging and established scholars, Animal Languages questions the assumed medieval distinction between humans and other animals. The...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 272 p. The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages. Uniting a diverse set of emerging and established scholars, Animal Languages questions the assumed medieval distinction between humans and other animals. The...
Routledge, 2021. — 368 p. This book is about the Old Norse god Odin. It includes references to all occurrences of Odin in the Old Norse/Icelandic texts, including Saxo’s Gesta Danorum , the eddic poems, Snorri’s Edda, and Ynglinga saga and analyses the high medieval reception and literary representations of Odin rather than the religious character of the god. This is the only...
Routledge, 2021. — 368 p. This book is about the Old Norse god Odin. It includes references to all occurrences of Odin in the Old Norse/Icelandic texts, including Saxo’s Gesta Danorum , the eddic poems, Snorri’s Edda, and Ynglinga saga and analyses the high medieval reception and literary representations of Odin rather than the religious character of the god. This is the only...
Brill, 2016. — 202 p. — (Commentaria 6). In Out of the Cloister, Suzanne LaVere uncovers a particular strain of interpretation of the biblical Song of Songs in and around 12th and 13th-century Paris that champions an active life of preaching and reform for the secular clergy.
University of Minnesota Press, 2004. — 390 p. — (Medieval Cultures, Volume 37). — ISBN: 0-8166-3734-2; 0-8166-3735-0. The first comprehensive analysis of English national identity in the late Middle Ages. During the late Middle Ages, the increasing expansion of administrative, legal, and military systems by a central government, together with the greater involvement of the...
McFarland, 2008. — 406 p. — ISBN10: 0786432535. — ISBN13: 978-0786432530 Most people have heard of Lady Godiva and her horseback tax protest in the 11th century and Joan of Arc who in the 15th century fought against the English for the French gaining sainthood in 1920. Many know of Eleanor of Aquataine, 12th century Queen of France and England, and powerful manipulator and...
Fifth Edition. — Routledge, 2022. — 368 p. — (The Medieval World). "Medieval Monasticism" traces the Western Monastic tradition from its fourth century origins in the deserts of Egypt and Syria, through the many and varied forms of religious life it assumed during the Middle Ages. Hugh Lawrence explores the many sided relationship between monasteries and the secular world...
4th Edition. — Routledge, 2015. — 318 p. — (The Medieval World). "Medieval Monasticism" traces the Western Monastic tradition from its fourth century origins in the deserts of Egypt and Syria, through the many and varied forms of religious life it assumed during the Middle Ages. Hugh Lawrence explores the many sided relationship between monasteries and the secular world around...
Routledge, 2014. — 178 p.
Magic and Medieval Society presents a thematic approach to the topic of magic and sorcery in Western Europe between the eleventh and the fifteenth century. It aims to provide readers with the conceptual and documentary tools to reach informed conclusions as to the existence, nature, importance and uses of magic in medieval society.
Contrary to some...
Сремски Карловци, Нови Сад: Издавачка књижарница Зорана Стојановића, 1992. — 351 с. Треће место. Онај свет пре чистилишта. Античке маштарије. Оци чистилишта. Рани средњи век: доктринарни развој и процват визионарства. XII век: настанак чистилишта. Огањ очишћења. "Locus purgatorius": место за очишћење. Чистилиште између Сицилије и Ирске. Логика чистилишта. Победа чистилишта....
Reaktion Books, 2020. — 224 p. Heroes and Marvels of the Middle Ages is a history like no other: it is a history of the imagination, presented between two celebrated groups of the period. One group consists of heroes: Charlemagne, El Cid, King Arthur, Orlando, Pope Joan, Melusine, Merlin the Wizard, and also the fox and the unicorn. The other is the miraculous, represented here...
University of Chicago Press, 1980. — 384 p.
Jacques Le Goff is a prominent figure in the tradition of French medieval scholarship, profoundly influenced by the Annales school, notably, Bloch, Febvre, and Braudel, and by the ethnographers and anthropologists Mauss, Dumézil, and Lévi-Strauss. In building his argument for "another Middle Ages" (un autre moyen âge), Le Goff...
Western Michigan University / Medieval Institute Publications, 2018. — 352 p. Offering a broad overview of memorialization practices across Europe and the Mediterranean, this book examines local customs through particular case studies. These essays explore complementary themes through the lens of commemorative art, including social status; personal and corporate identities; the...
Cornell University Press, 2020. — 248 p. Between late antiquity and the fifteenth century, theologians, philosophers, and poets struggled to articulate the correct relationship between sound and sense, creating taxonomies of sounds based on their capacity to carry meaning. In World of Echo , Adin E. Lears traces how medieval thinkers adopted the concept of noise as a mode of...
Cornell University Press, 2020. — 248 p. Between late antiquity and the fifteenth century, theologians, philosophers, and poets struggled to articulate the correct relationship between sound and sense, creating taxonomies of sounds based on their capacity to carry meaning. In World of Echo , Adin E. Lears traces how medieval thinkers adopted the concept of noise as a mode of...
University of Chicago Press, 2017. — 304 p. Over the course of the Middle Ages, the economies of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa became more closely integrated, fostering the international and intercontinental journeys of merchants, pilgrims, diplomats, missionaries, and adventurers. During a time in history when travel was often difficult, expensive, and fraught with danger,...
Manchester University Press, 2021. — 296 p. — (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture). Middle English literature is intimately concerned with sleep and the spaces in which it takes place. These concerns about sleep, and the intersecting medical and moral discourses with which they engage, have been overlooked by studies more interested in what sleep can enable (dreams and...
Manchester University Press, 2021. — 296 p. — (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture). Middle English literature is intimately concerned with sleep and the spaces in which it takes place. These concerns about sleep, and the intersecting medical and moral discourses with which they engage, have been overlooked by studies more interested in what sleep can enable (dreams and...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. — 392 p. Embodying the Soul explores the possibilities and limitations of human intervention in the body's health across the ninth-century Carolingian Empire. Early medieval medicine has long been cast as a superstitious, degraded remnant of a vigorous, rational Greco-Roman tradition. Against such assumptions, Meg Leja argues that...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 288 p. The Middle Ages was a time of great upheaval - the period between the seventh and fourteenth centuries saw great social, political and economic change. The radically distinct cultures of the Christian West, Byzantium, Persian-influenced Islam, and al-Andalus resulted in different responses to the garden arts of antiquity and different...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 288 p. The Middle Ages was a time of great upheaval - the period between the seventh and fourteenth centuries saw great social, political and economic change. The radically distinct cultures of the Christian West, Byzantium, Persian-influenced Islam, and al-Andalus resulted in different responses to the garden arts of antiquity and different...
Brill Academic Pub, 2008. — 320 p. — (The Northern World 42). Following from themes explored during the 2005 International Medieval Congress on 'Youth and Age', this interdisciplinary volume focuses upon social, cultural and biological aspects of being young and old in the medieval north. The contributors progress definitions of young and old in the north, taking into account...
Verlag J.B. Metzler, 1999. — 2108 Sp. Das Lexikon des Mittelalters (LMA, LexMA o. ä.) ist ein deutschsprachiges Nachschlagewerk zur Geschichte und Kultur des Mittelalters in 9 Bänden. Es wurde von internationalen Autoren erstellt und umfasst über 36.000 Artikel. Zeitlich reicht der Rahmen von der Spätantike bis etwa 1500, wobei auch Byzanz und die arabische Welt berücksichtigt...
Verlag J.B. Metzler, 1999. — 2218 Sp. Das Lexikon des Mittelalters (LMA, LexMA o. ä.) ist ein deutschsprachiges Nachschlagewerk zur Geschichte und Kultur des Mittelalters in 9 Bänden. Es wurde von internationalen Autoren erstellt und umfasst über 36.000 Artikel. Zeitlich reicht der Rahmen von der Spätantike bis etwa 1500, wobei auch Byzanz und die arabische Welt berücksichtigt...
Verlag J.B. Metzler, 1999. — 2218 Sp. Das Lexikon des Mittelalters (LMA, LexMA o. ä.) ist ein deutschsprachiges Nachschlagewerk zur Geschichte und Kultur des Mittelalters in 9 Bänden. Es wurde von internationalen Autoren erstellt und umfasst über 36.000 Artikel. Zeitlich reicht der Rahmen von der Spätantike bis etwa 1500, wobei auch Byzanz und die arabische Welt berücksichtigt...
Verlag J.B. Metzler, 1999. — 2220 Sp. Das Lexikon des Mittelalters (LMA, LexMA o. ä.) ist ein deutschsprachiges Nachschlagewerk zur Geschichte und Kultur des Mittelalters in 9 Bänden. Es wurde von internationalen Autoren erstellt und umfasst über 36.000 Artikel. Zeitlich reicht der Rahmen von der Spätantike bis etwa 1500, wobei auch Byzanz und die arabische Welt berücksichtigt...
Verlag J.B. Metzler, 1999. — 2220 Sp. Das Lexikon des Mittelalters (LMA, LexMA o. ä.) ist ein deutschsprachiges Nachschlagewerk zur Geschichte und Kultur des Mittelalters in 9 Bänden. Es wurde von internationalen Autoren erstellt und umfasst über 36.000 Artikel. Zeitlich reicht der Rahmen von der Spätantike bis etwa 1500, wobei auch Byzanz und die arabische Welt berücksichtigt...
Verlag J.B. Metzler, 1999. — 2220 Sp. Das Lexikon des Mittelalters (LMA, LexMA o. ä.) ist ein deutschsprachiges Nachschlagewerk zur Geschichte und Kultur des Mittelalters in 9 Bänden. Es wurde von internationalen Autoren erstellt und umfasst über 36.000 Artikel. Zeitlich reicht der Rahmen von der Spätantike bis etwa 1500, wobei auch Byzanz und die arabische Welt berücksichtigt...
Stuttgart; Weimar: Verlag J.B. Metzler, 1999. — 2220 Sp. Das Lexikon des Mittelalters (LMA, LexMA o. ä.) ist ein deutschsprachiges Nachschlagewerk zur Geschichte und Kultur des Mittelalters in 9 Bänden. Es wurde von internationalen Autoren erstellt und umfasst über 36.000 Artikel. Zeitlich reicht der Rahmen von der Spätantike bis etwa 1500, wobei auch Byzanz und die arabische...
Verlag J.B. Metzler, 1999. — 2220 Sp. Das Lexikon des Mittelalters (LMA, LexMA o. ä.) ist ein deutschsprachiges Nachschlagewerk zur Geschichte und Kultur des Mittelalters in 9 Bänden. Es wurde von internationalen Autoren erstellt und umfasst über 36.000 Artikel. Zeitlich reicht der Rahmen von der Spätantike bis etwa 1500, wobei auch Byzanz und die arabische Welt berücksichtigt...
Verlag J.B. Metzler, 1999. — 1828 Sp. Das Lexikon des Mittelalters (LMA, LexMA o. ä.) ist ein deutschsprachiges Nachschlagewerk zur Geschichte und Kultur des Mittelalters in 9 Bänden. Es wurde von internationalen Autoren erstellt und umfasst über 36.000 Artikel. Zeitlich reicht der Rahmen von der Spätantike bis etwa 1500, wobei auch Byzanz und die arabische Welt berücksichtigt...
Ohio State University Press, 2021. — 252 p. People in medieval England talked, and yet we seldom talk or write about their talk. People conversed not within literary texts, but in the world in which those texts were composed and copied. The absence of such talk from our record of the medieval past is strange. Its absence from our formulation of medieval literary history is...
Reaktion Books, 2009. — 258 p.
In City and Cosmos, Keith D. Lilley argues that the medieval mind considered the city truly a microcosm: much more than a collection of houses, a city also represented a scaled-down version of the very order and organization of the cosmos. Drawing upon a wide variety of sources, including original accounts, visual art, science, literature, and...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 350 p.
Mapping Medieval Geographies explores the ways in which geographical knowledge, ideas and traditions were formed in Europe during the Middle Ages. Leading scholars reveal the connections between Islamic, Christian, Biblical and Classical geographical traditions from Antiquity to the later Middle Ages and Renaissance. The book is...
Brill, 2025. — xviii, 736 p. — (Explorations in Medieval Culture 27). This sourcebook serves both as an introduction and a wide-ranging reference work for human attitudes to nonhuman animals in Latin Europe during the Middle Ages. Under twelve headings, it includes numerous translated passages from Latin and vernacular texts that reflect human conceptions and uses of other...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. — 208 p. Like other compilations of medieval urban drama, the plays that were performed in the streets of York on the Feast of Corpus Christi from the late fourteenth century until the third quarter of the sixteenth have most frequently been discussed in the context of the devotional cultures and practices of the later Middle Ages. The...
Columbia University, 2022. — 422 p. The Glossa ordinaria compiled by Bernard of Parma (d. 1266) on Pope Gregory IX’s 1234 Decretales, commonly known as the Liber extra, is among the most influential canon law commentaries during the High and Late Middle Ages. Interrogating this source, this dissertation examines the legal status of selected marginal religious groups in medieval...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 238 p. Introduction: Silence and Women’s Authority Property’s History, Property’s Literature Silence, Language, Sexuality Medieval Women Reject Marriage: Heloise and Marie de France Sexual Purity as Property: Vie Seinte Audree and The Book of Margery Kempe Property and Propriety in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England: Burney, Austen, Eliot...
University of Wales Press, 2019. — 432 p. This is the first comprehensive authoritative survey of Arthurian literature and traditions in the Celtic languages of Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Irish and Scottish Gaelic. With contributions by leading and emerging specialists in the field, the volume traces the development of the legends that grew up around Arthur and have been...
Ohio State University Press, 2022. — 312 p. In Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature , Karma Lochrie and Usha Vishnuvajjala bring together established scholars and new voices to illuminate a previously understudied but consequential element of life in the Middle Ages. Contributors focus on representations of women’s friendships in medieval European literature and their...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. — 304 p. In Covert Operations , Karma Lochrie brings the categories and cultural meanings of secrecy in the Middle Ages out into the open. Isolating five broad areas - confession, women's gossip, medieval science and medicine, marriage and the law, and sodomitic discourse - Lochrie examines various types of secrecy and the literary texts...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. — 264 p. Karma Lochrie demonstrates that women were associated not with the body but rather with the flesh, that disruptive aspect of body and soul which Augustine claimed was fissured with the Fall of Man. It is within this framework that she reads The Book of Margery Kempe, demonstrating the ways in which Kempe exploited the gendered...
D.S. Brewer, 2021. — 228 p. Translations of French romances into other vernaculars in the Middle Ages have sometimes been viewed as "less important" versions of prestigious sources, rather than in their place as part of a broader range of complex and wider European text traditions. This consideration of how French romance was translated, rewritten and interpreted in medieval...
University of Rochester Press, 2021. — 376 p. Starting in the fourteenth century, northern France saw the rise of confraternities and other lay communities of men and women, organized around trades and religious devotions dedicated to specific patron saints. The composition of new plainchant for masses and offices in honor of saints thought to have healing powers occupied an...
Böhlau Verlag, 2013. — 340 S. Um Textgeschichte und Gebrauch der sogenannten "Summa Iovis" (entstanden um 1300) zu ergründen, eines vor allem im süddeutschen Sprachraum des 15. Jahrhunderts verbreiteten Lehrtextes in Versen über die "ars dictaminis" (Briefrhetorik), werden in diesem Buch zwei Ansätze gewählt. Auf der Basis philologisch-text kritischer Methodik wird der Text...
Brill, 2023. — 242 p. — (Commentaria 15). In the 14th century, hypotheses about a lying God, deceived Christ, and the changeability of the past circulated. At the new University of Vienna, three German masters attempted in their lectures on the Old Testament to counter them. Their commentaries are the longest, the most influential, and perhaps even the most inspiring...
Routledge, 2019. — 468 p. The Routledge History of Emotions in Europe: 1100–1700 presents the state of the field of pre-modern emotions during this period, placing particular emphasis on theoretical and methodological aspects of current research. This book serves as a reference to existing research practices in emotions history and advances studies in the field across a range...
Manchester University Press, 2020. — 200 p. — (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture). This book provocatively argues that much of what English writers of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries remembered about medieval English geography, history, religion and literature, they remembered by means of medieval and modern Scandinavia. These memories, in turn,...
Manchester University Press, 2020. — 304 p. — (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture). This volume investigates the reception of a small historical fact with wide-ranging social, cultural and imaginative consequences. Inspired by Leif Eiriksson’s visit to Vinland in about the year 1000, novels, poetry, history, politics, arts and crafts, comics, films and video games have...
Manchester University Press, 2020. — 304 p. — (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture). This volume investigates the reception of a small historical fact with wide-ranging social, cultural and imaginative consequences. Inspired by Leif Eiriksson’s visit to Vinland in about the year 1000, novels, poetry, history, politics, arts and crafts, comics, films and video games have...
Brepols, 2019. — 272 p. Presents case studies of the uses of etymology and wordplay in a number of medieval literatures. In modern scholarship, etymology and wordplay are rarely studied in tandem. In the Middle Ages, however, they were intrinsically related, and both feature prominently in medieval literature. Their functions are often at variance with the expectations of the...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. — 221 p. When Muslim invaders conquered Sicily in the ninth century, they took control of a weakened Greek state in cultural decadence. When, two centuries later, the Normans seized control of the island, they found a Muslim state just entering its cultural prime. Rather than replace the practices and idioms of the vanquished people with...
Oxbow Books, 2019. — 280 p. This study reconstructs twelfth-century sculptural and architectural finds, found during the restoration of the Perpendicular Great Cloister of Christ Church, Canterbury, as architectural screens constructed around 1173. It proposes that the screens provided monastic privacy and controlled pilgrimage to the Altar of the Sword's Point in the Matrydom,...
Amsterdam University Press, 2024. — 254 p. In this book readers will find stories about medieval heresies and “magic” from an unusual perspective: that of food studies. The time span ranges from Late Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages, while the geographical scope includes regions as different as North Africa, Spain, Ireland, continental Europe, the Holy land, and Central Asia....
Brill, 2021. — viii, 232 p. — (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 056). This collection looks at the disciplines and their context in the late thirteenth and fourteenth-century universities. Cambridge University, usually forgotten, is made the starting point, from which the essays look out to Oxford and Paris. 1317, when the King’s Scholars (later King’s...
Routledge, 2019. — 544 p. The aim of this Companion volume is to provide scholars and advanced graduate students with a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of current research work on Anglo-Italian Renaissance studies. Written by a team of international scholars and experts in the field, the chapters are grouped into two large areas of influence and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. - 211 p. - (Early Modern History: Society and Culture). Women and Alcohol Sex and Alcohol Alehouses, Taverns, and Prostitutes Sexual Encounters Unruly Women and Violent Men Husbands and Wives
Brill Academic Pub, 2012. — 1280 p. — (Visualising the Middle Ages 12). These volumes propose a renewed way of framing the debate around the history of medieval art and architecture to highlight the multiple roles played by women. Today’s standard division of artist from patron is not seen in medieval inscriptions—on paintings, metalwork, embroideries, or buildings—where the...
Brill, 2020. — 320 p. The Medieval Iberian Treasury in the Context of Cultural Interchange - expanded beyond the special issue of Medieval Encounters from which it was drawn - centers on the magnificent treasury of San Isidoro de León to address wider questions about the meanings of cross-cultural luxury goods in royal-ecclesiastical settings during the central Middle Ages. Now...
Brepols, 2009. — 218 p. — (Texte, Codex & Contexte 6). Laurent de Premierfait (vers 1370-1418) a connu une brillante carrière de traducteur. De sa Champagne natale à la cour de Charles VI, cet érudit et fin latiniste fréquente les milieux humanistes de l'époque, participe à la vie littéraire de la cour avignonnaise, compose des vers latins qui font sa renommée. D'influents...
Brill, 2019. — 263 p. — (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 191). In The Song of Songs in the Early Middle Ages, Hannah W. Matis examines how the Song of Songs, the collection of Hebrew love poetry, was understood in the Latin West as an allegory of Christ and the church. This reading of the biblical text was passed down via the patristic tradition, established by...
Columbia University, 2021. — 480 p. With the collapse of the Visigothic kingdom, the judges of Catalonia and southern France worked to keep the region’s traditional judicial system operable. Drawing on records of judicial proceedings and church dedications from the ninth century to the end of the eleventh, this dissertation explores how judges devised a liturgically-influenced...
Brill, 2014. — XX+360 p. — (Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 45). This volume provides an introduction to Hildegard and her works, with a focus on the historical, literary, and religious context of the seer's writings and music. Its essays explore the cultural milieu that informs Hildegard's life and various compositions, and examine understudied aspects of the...
Brill, 2010. — 405 p. — (Later Medieval Europe 5). Aron Gurevich was a towering figure of twentieth century medieval historical research. This extraordinarily rich and multifaceted volume presents provides a comprehensive introduction to this great scholar’s life and work. These thoughtful essays demonstrate not only the deep Russian roots of Aron Gurevich’s thought but how he...
Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1993. — 248 p. — ISBN 0-691-06966-2. In a masterly synthesis of historical and literary analysis, Giuseppe Mazzotta shows how medieval knowledge systems--the cycle of the liberal arts, ethics, politics, and theology--interacted with poetry and elevated the Divine Comedy to a central position in shaping all other forms of discursive...
D.S. Brewer, 2021. — 406 p. During the Middle Ages, the arresting motif of the walled garden - especially in its manifestation as a sacred or love-inflected hortus conclusus - was a common literary device. Usually associated with the Virgin Mary or the Lady of popular romance, it appeared in myriad literary and iconographic forms, largely for its aesthetic, decorative and...
D.S. Brewer, 2021. — 406 p. During the Middle Ages, the arresting motif of the walled garden - especially in its manifestation as a sacred or love-inflected hortus conclusus - was a common literary device. Usually associated with the Virgin Mary or the Lady of popular romance, it appeared in myriad literary and iconographic forms, largely for its aesthetic, decorative and...
University of Wales Press, 2010. — 256 p. Until recently, the figure of the medieval anchorite and the underlying ideological concepts that framed her day-to-day existence have escaped detailed examination, despite the anchorite’s importance to the study of medieval culture. This collection brings together leading scholars in the field of gender and anchoritic studies in order...
2nd Edition. — Routledge, 2022. — 354 p. This updated edition collects an extensive range of evidence for how people in the European Middle Ages thought about the emotional state of love, the physical act of sex, and the social institution of marriage. Included are extracts from literary and theological works, medical and legal writings, conduct books, chronicles, and letters....
Routledge, 2003. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0415307465; ISBN13: 978-0415307468. The emotional state of love, the physical act of sex and the social institution of marriage were central issues of medieval life. Conor McCarthy brings together a wide array of writings as well as informative introductions and explanations, to give a vivid impression of how love, sex and marriage were...
Routledge, 2003. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0415307465; ISBN13: 978-0415307468. The emotional state of love, the physical act of sex and the social institution of marriage were central issues of medieval life. Conor McCarthy brings together a wide array of writings as well as informative introductions and explanations, to give a vivid impression of how love, sex and marriage were...
Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications; Western Michigan University, 2018. — 305 p. — (Richard Rawlinson Center Series). In The Third Gender, McDaniel addresses the idea of the "third gender" in early hagiography and Latin treatises on virginity and then examines Aelfric's treatment of gender in his translations of Latin monastic Lives for his non-monastic audiences. She...
2nd Edition — Routledge, 2019. — 278 p. Originally published in 1992, Margery Kempe looks at one of the most appealing mystics and pilgrims of 15th-century England. The book looks at Margery Kempe, and her book The Book of Margery Kempe , thought to be the first vernacular autobiography in medieval Britain. Original essays in the book examines Kempe's spirituality, cultural...
Indiana University Press, 2014. — 194 p. In Europe the tradition of secular dance has continued unbroken until the present. In the late Middle Ages it was an important and frequent event - for the nobility a gracious way to entertain guests, for the peasantry a welcome relaxation from the toils of the day. Now back in print, this collection presents compositions that are known...
Indiana University Press, 2014. — 194 p. In Europe the tradition of secular dance has continued unbroken until the present. In the late Middle Ages it was an important and frequent event - for the nobility a gracious way to entertain guests, for the peasantry a welcome relaxation from the toils of the day. Now back in print, this collection presents compositions that are known...
Walter de Gruyter, 2018. — 228 p. — (The Northern Medieval World. On the Margins of Europe). The Eddic poem Vafþrúðnismál serves as a representation of early pagan beliefs or myths and as a myth itself; the poem performs both of these functions, acting as a poetic framework and functioning as sacred myth. In this study, the author looks closely at the journey of the Norse god...
Brill, 2023. — 194 p. — (Nature, Culture and Literature 18). Equine Medicine and Popular Romance in Late Medieval England explores a seldom-studied trove of English veterinary manuals, illuminating how the daily care of horses they describe reshapes our understanding of equine representation in the popular romance of late medieval England. A saint removes a horse's leg the more...
Brill, 2011. — 424 p. — (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 25). Bernard of Clairvaux is perhaps the most controversial figure of Western Europe's vibrant twelfth century. Unlike Abelard, who is seen as a proponent of modern thinking, Bernard is often relegated to the darkest corner of the Middle Ages. Nothing is easy with Bernard, but these fresh evaluations of him...
Edited by Donata Kick and John D. Shafer. — University of Toronto Press, 2014. — 392 p. Essays on Eddic Poetry presents a selection of important articles on Old Norse literature by noted medievalist John McKinnell. While McKinnell’s work addresses many of the perennial issues in the study of Old Norse, this collection has a special focus on the interplay between heathen and...
Edited by Donata Kick and John D. Shafer. — University of Toronto Press, 2014. — 392 p. Essays on Eddic Poetry presents a selection of important articles on Old Norse literature by noted medievalist John McKinnell. While McKinnell’s work addresses many of the perennial issues in the study of Old Norse, this collection has a special focus on the interplay between heathen and...
Routledge, 2022. — 328 p. This book presents a range of approaches to the study of Old Norse poetry in performance. The contributors examine both eddic and skaldic poems and consider the surviving evidence for how they were originally recited or otherwise performed in medieval Scandinavia, Iceland and at royal courts across Europe. This study also engages with the challenge of...
Routledge, 2022. — 328 p. — (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies). This book presents a range of approaches to the study of Old Norse poetry in performance. The contributors examine both eddic and skaldic poems and consider the surviving evidence for how they were originally recited or otherwise performed in medieval Scandinavia, Iceland and at royal courts...
Routledge, 2022. — 328 p. — (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies). This book presents a range of approaches to the study of Old Norse poetry in performance. The contributors examine both eddic and skaldic poems and consider the surviving evidence for how they were originally recited or otherwise performed in medieval Scandinavia, Iceland and at royal courts...
Columbia University Press, 1990. — 494 p. Рекомендации для средневековых клириков о назначении соответствующих епитимий для конкретных грехов. Подборка переводов с подробными введениями. Frontmatter Abbreviations Penance in the Ancient Church The Penitentials The condition of the texts Documents Early Irish penitential documents Early Welsh penitential documents Penitentials of...
Routledge, 2008. — 264 p. The fourteen papers collected in this volume explore the medieval art, architecture and archaeology of King's Lynn and the Fens. They arise out of the Association's 2005 conference, and reflect its concern to engage with a broad range of monuments and themes, rather than focusing on a single major building. Within King's Lynn contributors consider the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. — 200 p. The Carolingian period represented a Golden Age for the abbey of St Gall, an Alpine monastery in modern-day Switzerland. Its bloom of intellectual activity resulted in an impressive number of scholarly texts being copied into often beautifully written manuscripts, many of which survive in the abbey's library to this day. Among these books are...
Brill, 2007. — Vol. 1: xii, 348 p.; Vol. 2: 428 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 154). This book deals with public debate during the Investiture Contest (ca. 1040-1122). During this revolutionary struggle between the secular and the religious powers, polemical writers contributed to the arguably first 'public debate' in medieval Europe. A close reading of a...
Cistercian Publications, 2016. — 462 p. This book surveys the full panorama of ten centuries of Christian monastic life. It moves from the deserts of Egypt and the Frankish monasteries of early medieval Europe to the religious ruptures of the eleventh and twelfth centuries and the reforms of the later Middle Ages. Throughout that story the book balances a rich sense of detail with...
Oxford University Press, 1990. — 363 p. — ISBN 0-19-504916-0 This book provides a general assessment of the role of communications in medieval Europe. It covers the church and its ecclesiastical goals; the monarchies and their political goals, heresies and popular movements - non-establishment goals; all as achieved through the available means of communication from c.1100 to...
Köln, 1998. — 427 p. Die Untersuchung behandelt mit der mittelalterlichen Predigt einen Gegenstand, der die deutsche Mediävistik derzeit weniger als die französische, englische, italienische und amerikanische beschäftigt. Die Predigten werden unter der Fragestellung betrachtet, wie in ihnen mit geschichtlichen Stoffen umgegangen wird. Das Phänomen taucht seit dem 12. Jahrhundert...
Routledge, 2013. — 347 p.
What was it like to be disabled in the Middle Ages? How did people become disabled? Did welfare support exist? This book discusses social and cultural factors affecting the lives of medieval crippled, deaf, mute and blind people, those nowadays collectively called "disabled." Although the word did not exist then, many of the experiences disabled people...
Manchester University Press, 2016. - 257 p. - (Disability History, 6)
Fools and idiots? is the first book devoted to the cultural history in the pre-modern period of people we now describe as having learning disabilities. Using an interdisciplinary approach, including historical semantics, medicine, natural philosophy and law, Irina Metzler considers a neglected field of social...
2nd Edition — Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 420 p. In this book, Constant Mews and Neville Chiavaroli examine a medieval text long neglected by most scholars. The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard looks at the earlier correspondence between these two famous individuals, revealing the emotions and intimate exchanges that occurred between them. The perspectives presented...
Amsterdam University Press, 2023. — 402 p. Justice and injustice were subjects of ongoing debate in medieval Europe. Received classical and biblical models both influenced how these qualities of moral and political life were perceived, discussed and acted upon. Important among these influences was the anonymous seventh-century Irish text, On The Twelve Abuses of the Age, a...
München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1987. — XLIV S. Mehr als bei vielen anderen Publikationen wird man bedauern, daß der hohe Ladenpreis dieses Bandes seiner Verbreitung als Handbuch und Nachschlagewerk in privaten Bibliotheken von Mediävisten im Wege stehen dürfte: Auf Grundlage der wichtigsten lateinischen Bibelkommentare bis zum 12. Jh. sind hier die allegorischen Auslegungen von...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012. — 393 p. — (Beiträge zur Hagiographie 10). Das Phänomen des Märtyrers hat in den letzten Jahren verstärktes Interesse gefunden. Damit rücken die Christenverfolgungen im Römischen Reich, die die heutige Sicht des Martyriums prägen, in den Blick. Unter den frühchristlichen Märtyrern kommt Vinzenz von Zaragoza ( wohl 304) ein besonderer Stellenwert zu....
Princeton University Press, 2010. — 296 p. — (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World). — ISBN 0-691-11749-7, 978-1-400-83258-3. This book significantly revises the conventional view that the Jewish experience in medieval Spain - over the century before the expulsion of 1492 - was one of despair, persecution, and decline. Focusing on the town of...
Princeton University Press, 2010. — 296 p. — (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World). — ISBN 0-691-11749-7, 978-1-400-83258-3. This book significantly revises the conventional view that the Jewish experience in medieval Spain - over the century before the expulsion of 1492 - was one of despair, persecution, and decline. Focusing on the town of...
De Gruyter, 2011. — 326 s. Die Reihe "Historische Dialogforschung" eröffnet ihre Publikationen mit einem Tagungsband, der mit seiner methodischen Ausrichtung nicht nur an der Schnittstelle von Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft steht, sondern auch interdisziplinär komparatistisch ausgerichtet ist. Der Tagungsband bietet eine vergleichende Sicht auf Formen und Funktionen von...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. — 228 p. The Middle Ages were a time of great innovation, artistic vigor, and cultural richness. Appearances mattered a great deal during this vibrant era and hair was a key marker of the dynamism and sophistication of the period. Hair became ever more central to religious iconography, from Mary Magdalen to the Virgin Mary, while vernacular poets...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. — 228 p. The Middle Ages were a time of great innovation, artistic vigor, and cultural richness. Appearances mattered a great deal during this vibrant era and hair was a key marker of the dynamism and sophistication of the period. Hair became ever more central to religious iconography, from Mary Magdalen to the Virgin Mary, while vernacular poets...
Reaktion Books, 2006. — 248 p. When Marsellus in the film PulpFiction asserts, "I'm gonna git medieval on your ass," we know that he is about to bring down a fierce and exacting punishment. Yet is the violence of the Middle Ages that far removed from our modern society? Suspended Animation argues that not only is the stereotype of uncontrolled violence in the Middle Ages...
Reaktion Books, 2006. — 248 p. When Marsellus in the film PulpFiction asserts, "I'm gonna git medieval on your ass," we know that he is about to bring down a fierce and exacting punishment. Yet is the violence of the Middle Ages that far removed from our modern society? Suspended Animation argues that not only is the stereotype of uncontrolled violence in the Middle Ages...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. - 247 p. List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction: Writing Medieval Women’s Biographies Growing Up as a Marshal, Marriage, and Motherhood (1230–58) War, Rebellion, and Recovery (1258–85) Success, Conflict, Death, and Bereavement (1285–96) Widow, Lord, and Countess (1297–1307) Conclusion: The Legacies of Joan de Valence The Family...
Reprint edition. — Routledge, 2011. — 424 p. This is the book that teachers of courses on women in the Middle Ages have been wanting to write-or see written-for years. Essays written by specialists in their respective fields cover a range of topics unmatched in depth and breadth by any other introductory text. Depictions of women in literature and art, women in the medieval...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. - 384 p. - (The Middle Ages Series).
Stephen A. Mitchell here offers the fullest examination available of witchcraft in late medieval Scandinavia. He focuses on those people believed to be able—and who in some instances thought themselves able—to manipulate the world around them through magical practices, and on the responses to these...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 200 p. Our period opens at the end of the Roman Empire when intellectual currents are indebted to the Greek philosophical inheritance of Plato and Aristotle, as well as to a Romanized Stoicism. Into this mix entered the new, and from 313CE imperially sanctioned, religion of Christianity. In art, literature, music, and drama, we find an increasing...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 200 p. Our period opens at the end of the Roman Empire when intellectual currents are indebted to the Greek philosophical inheritance of Plato and Aristotle, as well as to a Romanized Stoicism. Into this mix entered the new, and from 313CE imperially sanctioned, religion of Christianity. In art, literature, music, and drama, we find an increasing...
Brill, 2022. — 372 p. — (Faux Titre 455). This is the first study to apply the results of modern cognitive science to medieval love literature. Covering the entire corpus of Occitan, French and Latin love literature of twelfth- and thirteenth-century France, it explores the universal and the culturally specific in medieval poetic attitudes towards love, the cognitive structure...
Translated by Beth Archer Brombert. — New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. — 280 p. — ISBN10: 0231167865; ISBN13: 978-0231167864. In his new history of food, acclaimed historian Massimo Montanari traces the development of medieval tastes―both culinary and cultural―from raw materials to market and captures their reflections in today's food trends. Tying the ingredients of...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2012. — 245 p. Europe was formed in the Middle Ages. The merging of the traditions of Roman-Mediterranean societies with the customs of Northern Europe created new political, economic, social and religious structures and practices. Between 500 and 1300 CE, food in all its manifestations, from agriculture to symbol, became ever more complex and integral to...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2012. — 245 p. Europe was formed in the Middle Ages. The merging of the traditions of Roman-Mediterranean societies with the customs of Northern Europe created new political, economic, social and religious structures and practices. Between 500 and 1300 CE, food in all its manifestations, from agriculture to symbol, became ever more complex and integral to...
York Medieval Press, 2009. — 560 p. England was more widely and enduringly francophone in the middle ages than many standard accounts of its history, culture and language allow. The development of French in England, whether known as "Anglo-Norman" or "Anglo-French", is deeply interwoven both with medieval English and with the spectrum of Frenches, insular and continental, used...
University of Toronto Press, 2014. — 200 p. Charting important new territory within medieval gender studies, Megan Moore explores the vital role that women played in transmitting knowledge and empire within Mediterranean cross-cultural marriages. Whereas cross-cultural exchange has typically been understood through the lens of male-centered translation work, this study, which...
Cornell University Press, 2021. — 204 p. The Erotics of Grief considers how emotions propagate power by exploring whose lives are grieved and what kinds of grief are valuable within and eroticized by medieval narratives. Megan Moore argues that grief is not only routinely eroticized in medieval literature but that it is a foundational emotion of medieval elite culture. Focusing...
Cornell University Press, 2021. — 204 p. The Erotics of Grief considers how emotions propagate power by exploring whose lives are grieved and what kinds of grief are valuable within and eroticized by medieval narratives. Megan Moore argues that grief is not only routinely eroticized in medieval literature but that it is a foundational emotion of medieval elite culture. Focusing...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 402 p. — (A Cultural History of Education. Vol. 2) — ISBN 9781350035034, 1350035033. A Cultural History of Education in the Medieval Age presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowledge, media and communications; children and childhood; family, community and sociability; learners and...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 402 p. — (A Cultural History of Education Vol. 2) — ISBN 9781350035034, 1350035033. A Cultural History of Education in the Medieval Age presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowledge, media and communications; children and childhood; family, community and sociability; learners and...
Brepols, 2006. — 296 p. Perhaps no author of the Latin Middle Ages has been the subject of so much controversy and even vitriol than Marsilius of Padua (ca. 1275-1342/43). As author of the notorious heretical tract, the 'Defensor Pacis', Marsilius became an infamous figure throughout the intellectual and political centres of Europe during his own lifetime. His magnum opus, a...
Book House, 2010. — 192 p. — ISBN10: 1907184481, ISBN13: 978-1907184482 From building a moat to planning a siege: this fascinating book is filled with stories about castle life. How were castles built, fought over, lived in? This engaging book tells all! Learn the difference between donjeons and dungeons (it's important), the best time of year for a siege, and how 40 pigs...
Brill, 2022. — 457 p. — (The Iberian Religious World 8). In Alfonso de Cartagena’s 'Memoriale virtutum' (1422), María Morrás and Jeremy Lawrance offer a critical edition of an anthology of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, compiled and significantly altered by the major Castilian intellectual of the day, Bishop Alfonso de Cartagena, and addressed to the heir to the throne of...
New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008. — 288 p. — ISBN13: 978–1–4039–8488–3; ISBN10: 1–4039–8488–3. This interdisciplinary book integrates the historical practices regarding material excrement and its symbolic representation, with special focus on fecopoetics and Chaucer’s literary agenda. Filth in all its manifestations—material (including privies, dung on fields, and as...
Bloomsbury, 2020. — x, 242 p. — ISBN 1-5013-6433-2, 978-1-5013-6433-4, 978-1-5013-6435-8, 978-1-5013-6434-1. The Metaphor of the Monster offers fresh perspectives and a variety of disciplinary approaches to the ever-broadening field of monster studies. The eclectic group of contributors to this volume represents areas of study not generally considered under the purview of...
Brill, 2016. — 390 p. — (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 51). In Corporate Jurisdiction, Academic Heresy, and Fraternal Correction at the University of Paris, 1200-1400, Gregory S. Moule explains how the theological faculty acquired independent jurisdiction over cases of academic heresy among its membership. He convincingly demonstrates that the...
Routledge, 2016. — 172 p. The carole was the principal social dance in France and England from c. 1100 to c. 1400 and was frequently mentioned in French and English medieval literature. However, it has been widely misunderstood by contributors in recent citations in dictionaries and reference books, both linguistic and musical. The carole was performed by all classes of society...
Walter de Gruyter, 2010. — 316 p.
This book examines vernacular literary texts of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age from a cultural studies perspective, focusing on the context of their origin and effect, their media preconditions, their concepts of cultural systems and the discussion and transformation of social norms. A wide spectrum of texts is covered from the 12th...
Routledge, 2021. — 188 p. This book, first published in 1987, looks at the culture of the masses and at the political language and actions of the crowd. It examines the enduring traits of a European demotic culture that was largely non-literate, and it then goes on to show how the political outlook of the lower classes arose from the moral attitudes contained in their culture,...
Manchester University Press, 2019. — 264 p. In recent decades, spatiality the consideration of what it means to be situated in space and place has become a key concept in understanding human behavior and cultural production. Texts by and about the medieval Irish contain perhaps the highest concentration of spatial writing in the medieval European milieu, and only in Ireland...
Brepols Publishers, 2019. — 356 p. — (Acta Scandinavica 8). The culmination of over a decade’s research on verbal culture in the pre- and post-Conversion medieval North at Bergen’s Centre for Medieval Studies, this volume traces the movement of words and texts temporally, geographically, and intellectually across different media and genres. The contributions gathered here begin...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. — 1354 p. — (Quellen und Forschungen zur sächsischen und mitteldeutschen Geschichte 45). Im späten Mittelalter befand sich der Adel unter steigendem Veränderungsdruck: Durch Kriege, Konjunkturen, neue Vorstellungen und soziale Gruppen wurde der Adel als Herrschaftsklasse kritisch hinterfragt. Der Humanismus schließlich bot Anlass zu dem Gedanken,...
Brill, 2022. — 456 p. — (Armenian Texts and Studies 5). Though references to Greek myths will hardly surprise the reader of western European literature, the reception history of Greek mythology is far richer and includes such lesser known traditions as the Armenian one. Greek myths were known to medieval Armenians through translations of late classical and early Christian...
Oxford University Press, 1978. — 528 p. The Middle Ages are remembered as an age of faith; but they were also an age of reason. This book concentrates on the 250 years between the late 11th and early 14th centuries and studies two key facets of the rationalistic tradition: mathematics, and the broader current represented by a literary education. The final section considers...
Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2008. — 563 p. — (Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia 49 (Subs. Lull. 3)) This volume brings together the contributions delivered at the International Seminar held in Palermo and Castelvetrano-Selinunte in Sicily on 17-19 November 2005. The Seminar was organized by the Officina di Studi Medievali in collaboration with the Dipartimento di Civiltà...
Springerр, 2023. — 216 p. - Offers historical anecdotes and scientific curiosities concerning Dante Alighieri and Marco Polo - Paints a detailed picture of the world in which its two protagonists lived - Enhances its narrative with beautiful, richly illustrated drawings 700 years after Dante Alighieri's death, this book intertwines the voice of the great poet with that of an...
Springerр, 2023. — 216 p. - Offers historical anecdotes and scientific curiosities concerning Dante Alighieri and Marco Polo - Paints a detailed picture of the world in which its two protagonists lived - Enhances its narrative with beautiful, richly illustrated drawings 700 years after Dante Alighieri's death, this book intertwines the voice of the great poet with that of an...
Oxbow Books, 2011. — 130 p. This volume examines conceptions, ideas and habits connected with children in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, focusing on the "dark sides of childhood" in the pre-modern world. The authors investigate the long-term attitudes of people, as well as ruptures in habits and customs. The book is divided into three parts. "Unwanted" deals with parents who...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. — 214 p. Money provides a unique and illuminating perspective on the Middle Ages. In much of medieval Europe the central meaning of money was a prescribed unit of precious metal but in practice precious metal did not necessarily change hands and indeed coinage was very often in short supply. Money had economic, institutional, social, and cultural...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. — 214 p. Money provides a unique and illuminating perspective on the Middle Ages. In much of medieval Europe the central meaning of money was a prescribed unit of precious metal but in practice precious metal did not necessarily change hands and indeed coinage was very often in short supply. Money had economic, institutional, social, and cultural...
Boydell & Brewer, 2012. — 207 p. Reading, writing and the prosecution of warfare went hand in hand in the fifteenth century, demonstrated by the wide circulation and ownership of military manuals and ordinances, and the integration of military concerns into a huge corpus of texts; but their relationship has hitherto not received the attention it deserves, a gap which this book...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 280 p. Offering a broad exploration of the cultural history of democracy in the medieval age, this volume claims that, though not generally associated with the term, the Middle Ages deserve to be included in a general history of democracy. The term was never widely employed during this period, the dominant attitude towards democracy was outright...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 280 p. Offering a broad exploration of the cultural history of democracy in the medieval age, this volume claims that, though not generally associated with the term, the Middle Ages deserve to be included in a general history of democracy. The term was never widely employed during this period, the dominant attitude towards democracy was outright...
Lisboa: BN, 1999. — 396 p. — ISBN 972-565-266-5. Ao abrirmos a exposição A Iluminura em Portugal: Identidade e influências c ao iniciarmos o colóquio internacional que a assinala, estamos a cumprir, com honestidade intelectual e com sentido de responsabilidade, o nosso dever institucional; mostramos alguma coisa do que são os valiosos fundos da Biblioteca Nacional; completamos...
Routledge, 2023. — 205 p. The essays collected in this volume represent many years of Professor Nauert's research and teaching on the history of Renaissance humanism, and more particularly on humanism north of the Alps. Much of the early work involved the significant but often-overlooked history of humanism at the University of Cologne, notoriously the most anti-humanist of the...
Harvard University Press, 1945. — 212 p. Foreword. Préface. Historical Survey: Armenia and the Byzantine Empire. Religious Controversies. Armenian Architecture. Armenian Sculpture. Armenian Painting. Selected Bibliography.
Boydell & Brewer, 2019. — 218 p. The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines. The usual wide range of approaches to garments and fabrics appears in this tenth volume. Three chapters focus on practical matters: a description of the medieval vestments surviving at Castel Sant'Elia in Italy; a survey of the spread of silk...
Boydell and Brewer, 2012. — 360 p.
The tradition of the seven deadly sins played a considerable role in western culture, even after the supposed turning-point of the Protestant Reformation, as the essays collected here demonstrate. The first part of the book addresses such topics as the problem of acedia in Carolingian monasticism; the development of medieval thought on...
Brill, 2007. — 325 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 123). This volume presents a selection of essays undertaken by participants in an NEH Summer Seminar in 2004 on the topic of the seven deadly sins, viewed individually and as a whole, as part of the "Begriffsgeschichte" of the Middle Ages and beyond in which concepts are constructed within the cultural...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. — 280 p. — (The Cultural Histories Series 2). Understanding the senses is indispensable for comprehending the Middle Ages because both a theoretical and a practical involvement with the senses played a central role in the development of ideology and cultural practice in this period. For the long medieval millennium, the senses were not limited to the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. — 280 p. — (The Cultural Histories Series 2). Understanding the senses is indispensable for comprehending the Middle Ages because both a theoretical and a practical involvement with the senses played a central role in the development of ideology and cultural practice in this period. For the long medieval millennium, the senses were not limited to the...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. — 440 p. How, Barbara Newman asks, did the myth of the separable heart take such a firm hold in the Middle Ages, from lovers exchanging hearts with one another to mystics exchanging hearts with Jesus? What special traits gave both saints and demoniacs their ability to read minds? Why were mothers who died in childbirth buried in...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. — 440 p. How, Barbara Newman asks, did the myth of the separable heart take such a firm hold in the Middle Ages, from lovers exchanging hearts with one another to mystics exchanging hearts with Jesus? What special traits gave both saints and demoniacs their ability to read minds? Why were mothers who died in childbirth buried in...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2000. — 273 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 4). This is a study of the appearances of the Knights Templar, Knights Hospitaller and Teutonic Knights in the French, German and English epic and romance literature of the Middle Ages. It examines their religious roles, such as caring for the sick, their warrior role of fighting Muslims, and examines the...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. — 496 p. In the year 726 C.E., the Byzantine emperor Leo III issued an edict declaring images to be idols, forbidden by Exodus, and ordering all such images in churches to be destroyed. Thus commenced the first wave of Byzantine iconoclasm, which ran its violent course until 787, when the underlying issues were temporarily resolved at the...
Brepols Pub, 2021. — 320 p. — (Medieval and Post-medieval Mediterranean Archaeology 4). This book offers new and innovative perspectives on long-distance trade between Europe, the Mediterranean area, the Middle East, Africa, India and China during the Early Medieval period. The archaeological data and historical insights presented in this volume are without exception of great...
Cornell University Press, 2024. — 342 p. Monstrous Fantasies asks why medieval romances reimagining the crusades ending in a Christian victory circulated in England with such abundance after the 1291 Muslim reconquest of Acre, the last of the Latin crusader states in the Holy Land, and what these texts reveal about the cultural anxieties of late medieval England. Leila K....
Cornell University Press, 2024. — 342 p. Monstrous Fantasies asks why medieval romances reimagining the crusades ending in a Christian victory circulated in England with such abundance after the 1291 Muslim reconquest of Acre, the last of the Latin crusader states in the Holy Land, and what these texts reveal about the cultural anxieties of late medieval England. Leila K....
University of Chicago Press, 2015. — 242 p. To read accounts of late medieval banquets is to enter a fantastical world where live lions guard nude statues, gilded stags burst into song, and musicians play from within pies. We can almost hear the clock sound from within a glass castle, taste the fire-breathing roast boar, and smell the rose water cascading in a miniature...
Brill, 1991. — 214 p. An evolution of attitudes towards pre-Christian custom in, North-West Europe, as shown in early .medieval word-fields and texts in Old English and Old Icelandic literature, is represented in six variously focussed studies. The first three chapters, Pagan Words , form a network of research on pre-Christian concepts of mind and soul as they survived, still...
University of Toronto Press, 2016. — 480 p. The twelfth century was a time of new ideas and creative innovation spurred on by patron-monarchs like King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, poets like Marie de France and Chrétien de Troyes, lovers and intellectuals like Abelard and Heloise, and religious thinkers like Bernard of Clairvaux and Hildegard of Bingen. In his thoughtful...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. - 336 p. - (The Middle Ages Series).
Through hundreds of published and unpublished sources, Alex J. Novikoff traces the evolution of disputation from its ancient origins to its broader influence in the scholastic culture and public sphere of the High Middle Ages.
Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. — 284 p. — (Beiträge zur Hagiographie 26). Das Wunder bildet in der christlich-europäischen Vormoderne Gegenstand und Anlass immenser Textproduktion. Die Skripte biblischer Wunder werden immer wieder fort- und umgeschrieben; neue Wundererzählungen entstehen in Zusammenhang mit Frömmigkeitspraktiken, in Historiographie und Hagiographie...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2013. — 262 p. — (Beiträge zur Hagiographie 12). Welche Eigenschaften sind es, die aus einem Menschen einen Heiligen machen? Außergewöhnliche Begabungen, ein tugendhafter Lebenswandel oder die Macht, Wunder zu wirken? In den spätantiken Märtyrerpassionen und mittelalterlichen Heiligenleben wurde diese Frage zwar unzählige Male beantwortet, doch häufig...
De Gruyter, 2018. — 280 p. Owing to its relatedness to parchment as the primary writing matter of the Middle Ages, human skin was not only a topic to write about in medieval texts, it was also conceived of as an inscribable surface, both in the material and in the figurative sense. This volume explores the textuality of human skin as discussed by Geoffrey Chaucer and other...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 534 p. This volume offers a comprehensive study of all the known manuscripts and incunables of two works: the history of Alexander the Great written by Quintus Curtius Rufus, probably in the first century AD, and the translation into Latin by Lucius Septimius of the spoof history of the Trojan War, allegedly written at the time of that war by a...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 332 p. Platonic love is a concept that has profoundly shaped Western literature, philosophy and intellectual history for centuries. First developed in the Symposium and the Phaedrus, it was taken up by subsequent thinkers in antiquity, entered the theological debates of the Middle Ages, and played a key role in the reception of Neoplatonism...
Manchester University Press, 2018. — 256 p. John of Salisbury (c. 1120–80) is a key figure of the twelfth-century renaissance. As a student at the cosmopolitan schools of medieval Paris, an associate of Thomas Becket, and an acute commentator on society and rulership, he provides unique insights into the political culture of the period. This volume reassesses the influence of...
Amsterdam University Press, 2020. — 242 p. — (The Early Medieval North Atlantic). Fosterage was a central feature of medieval Irish society, yet the widespread practice of sending children to another family to be cared for until they reached adulthood is a surprisingly neglected topic. Where it has been discussed, fosterage is usually conceptualised and treated as a purely...
Brill, 2021. — 208 p. — (Explorations in Medieval Culture 17). This volume explores a core medieval myth, the tale of an Arthurian knight called Wigalois, and the ways it connects the Yiddish-speaking Jews and the German-speaking non-Jews of the Holy Roman Empire. The German Wigalois / Viduvilt adaptations grow from a multistage process: a German text adapted into Yiddish...
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2010. — 382 S. — (Ergänzungsbände Zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 72). Auf etwa 130 schwedischen Runensteinen der Wikingerzeit taucht neben der Gedenkinschrift ein stilisierter Vierfüßler auf. "Das große Tier" ist meist als christlich-aristokratisches Herrschaftszeichen, als Löwe, Drache oder Greif angesprochen worden....
Routledge, 2004. — 210 p. "Strange Histories" presents a serious account of some of the most extraordinary occurrences of European and North American history and explains how they made sense to people living at the time. From grisly anecdotes about ghosts, to stories of witches and werewolves, the book uses case studies from the Middle Ages and the early modern period and...
Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2012. — 433. — (Erudiri Sapientia 8). The romances of the Old French Grail-cycle are often represented in literary history as a homogenous corpus, the focus concentrating mostly on aesthetic and poetological issues. The social and cultural disruptions of their time of origin remain largely neglected. Religious motives are usually relegated to the...
Brepols Publishers, 2017. — 252 p. — (Medieval Identities: Socio-Cultural Spaces 6). Despite the prominence of conflicts in all mythological and heroic literature, perceptions of these conflicts and their participants are shaped by different cultural influences. Socio-economic, political, and religious factors all influence how conflict is perceived and depicted in literary...
Reprint Edition. — Cornell University Press, 2019. — 246 p. This book studies attitudes toward secular literature during the later Middle Ages. Exploring two related medieval justifications of literary pleasure - one finding hygienic or therapeutic value in entertainment, and another stressing the psychological and ethical rewards of taking time out from work in order to...
University of Toronto Press, 2014. — 240 p. In Courtesy Lost , Kristina M. Olson analyses the literary impact of the social, political, and economic transformations of the fourteenth century through an exploration of Dante’s literary and political influence on Boccaccio. The book reveals how Boccaccio rewrote the past through the lens of the Commedia , torn between nostalgia...
Brepols Pub, 2023. — 518 p. — (Sermo 17). This volume concentrates on how the sermon, a pivotal element in mass communication, aimed to shape the people of Europe. Rather than setting up the usual binary divides, it highlights the linguistic complications, the textual inter-relationships, the confessional cross-currents, and the variations between public and private sermon...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 312 p. This book addresses a critical era in the history of the city of Rome, the eighth century CE. This was the moment when the bishops of Rome assumed political and administrative responsibility for the city's infrastructure and the physical welfare of its inhabitants, in the process creating the papal state that still survives today. John...
De Gruyter, 2023. — 263 p. — (Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte des Dominikanerordens – Neue Folge 27). Observanz bzw. Reform war im 14. und 15. Jahrhundert das beherrschende Thema innerhalb der gesamten Ordenslandschaft. In diesem, seit einigen Jahren intensivierten Forschungskontext, ist der vorliegende Band einzuordnen. Im Mittelpunkt stehen eine exemplarische Analyse...
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Routledge, 2012. — 374 p. This collection of fifteen papers ranges from the author's initial interest in the Tapestry as a source of information on early medieval dress, through to her startling recognition of the embroidery's sophisticated narrative structure. Developing the work of previous authors who had identified graphic models for some of the images, she argues that not...
Routledge, 2012. — 374 p. This collection of fifteen papers ranges from the author's initial interest in the Tapestry as a source of information on early medieval dress, through to her startling recognition of the embroidery's sophisticated narrative structure. Developing the work of previous authors who had identified graphic models for some of the images, she argues that not...
Boydell Press, 2019. — 310 p. All those who work with historical dress and textiles must in some way re-fashion them. This fundamental concept is developed and addressed by the articles collected here, ranging over issues of gender, status and power. Topics include: the repurposing and transformation of material items for purposes of religion, memorialisation, restoration and...
Boydell Press, 2019. — 310 p. All those who work with historical dress and textiles must in some way re-fashion them. This fundamental concept is developed and addressed by the articles collected here, ranging over issues of gender, status and power. Topics include: the repurposing and transformation of material items for purposes of religion, memorialisation, restoration and...
Penn State University Press, 2013. — 246 p. During the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries a group of monks with occult interests donated what became a remarkable collection of more than thirty magic texts to the library of the Benedictine abbey of St. Augustine’s in Canterbury. The monks collected texts that provided positive justifications for the practice of magic...
Edited by P. R. Robinson and Rivkah Zim. — Routledge, 2017. — 400 p. In the present collection of articles by Malcolm Parkes two overarching concerns emerge: the palaeography of manuscript books in relation to what Parkes has previously called the 'grammar of legibility'; and the importance of considering the circumstances in which medieval books were produced, copied and read....
Edited by P. R. Robinson and Rivkah Zim. — Routledge, 2017. — 400 p. In the present collection of articles by Malcolm Parkes two overarching concerns emerge: the palaeography of manuscript books in relation to what Parkes has previously called the 'grammar of legibility'; and the importance of considering the circumstances in which medieval books were produced, copied and read....
Oxford University Press, 2014. - 346 р.
Terence Parsons presents a new study of the development and logical complexity of medieval logic. Basic principles of logic were used by Aristotle to prove conversion principles and reduce syllogisms. Medieval logicians expanded Aristotle's notation in several ways, such as quantifying predicate terms, as in 'No donkey is every animal',...
Le leopard D'Or, 1986. — 218 p.
16 études s'ordonnant autour de 3 axes : l'histoire des couleurs envisagée dans une perspective anthropologique, les usages emblématiques de la société occidentale, l'imaginaire des hommes du Moyen Age. Cet ouvrage fait suite à L'Hermine et le sinople.
Sismel Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2013. — 390 p.
La vision des couleurs au XIII e siècle, l'histoire de l'arc-enciel, la composition des ménageries princières, l'iconographie de l'arche de Noé, le bestiaire des cinq sens et des sept péchés capitaux, l'obésité à l'époque féodale, l'identité dans les romans de chevalerie, les rituels de la main et du gant, les empreintes digitales,...
Le Seuil, 2011. — 238 p. — ISBN: 9782021022865, 2021022862. Le cerf vit mille ans. Le sanglier porte ses cornes dans sa bouche. Les papillons sont des fleurs qui volent. L'écureuil est un animal diabolique, paresseux, lubrique, avaricieux. La zoologie médiévale n'est pas la zoologie moderne. Plusieurs notions qui nous sont aujourd'hui familières, sont alors inconnues. Le Moyen...
Torino: Giulio Einaudi editore s.p.a., 2012. — 314 p. Titolo originale "Bestiaires du Moyen Àge". — Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2011 "A differenza di quanto generalmente si creda, gli uomini del Medioevo sapevano osservare assai bene la fauna e la flora, ma non pensavano affatto che ciò avesse un rapporto con il sapere, né che potesse condurre alla verità. Quest'ultima non...
Gallimard, 1989. — 291 p. Table des matières Présentation Vers une histoire sociale des couleurs La couleur : un problème d'histoire culturelle Une civilisation du bleu Géographie de la couleur Couleur gaie, couleur triste Où est le vert, d’où vient le gris? Le travail de I’historien Du rouge au bleu : étoffes et colorants L’héritage antique : blanc, rouge, noir La révolution...
Reaktion Books, 2024. — 256 p. — (Medieval Lives). An engaging and accessible introduction to the music, poetry, and lives of the medieval singer-songwriters. Composing songs of love and war in medieval Western and Southern Europe, troubadours spanned the social spectrum from powerful nobles to penniless minstrels. This book delves into the everyday worlds of these remarkable...
Reaktion Books, 2024. — 256 p. — (Medieval Lives). An engaging and accessible introduction to the music, poetry, and lives of the medieval singer-songwriters. Composing songs of love and war in medieval Western and Southern Europe, troubadours spanned the social spectrum from powerful nobles to penniless minstrels. This book delves into the everyday worlds of these remarkable...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 260 p.
Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature constitutes the first collection that explores the depth and breadth of games in medieval literature and culture. With geographical and methodological diversity of interdisciplinary scholarship, this volume presents fresh critical discussions of medieval games as vehicles for cultural signification, and...
Manchester University Press, 2017. — 272 p. "Nonhuman voices in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture" uncovers the voice and agency possessed by nonhuman things across Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture. It makes a new contribution to 'thing theory' and rethinks conventional divisions between animate human subjects and inanimate nonhuman objects in the early Middle...
Brill, 2022. — x, 562 p. — (Reading Medieval Sources 7). Why devote a Companion to the "mirrors for princes", whose very existence is debated? These texts offer key insights into political thoughts of the past. Their ambiguous, problematic status further enhances their interest. And although recent research has fundamentally challenged established views of these texts, until...
Trivent Publishing, 2024. — 166 p. Simultaneously pervasive and evasive, rebellious and oppressive, transgressive and socially specific, humour is a vast and interdisciplinary field of research. Seeking to rethink this quintessentially human expression, this volume is bringing together established and emerging directions of medieval humour research. Each contribution explores...
Ohio State University Press, 2023. — 214 p. — (Interventions: New Studies Medieval Cult). While critical discourse about falconry metaphors in premodern literature is dominated by depictions of women as unruly birds in need of taming, women in the Middle Ages claimed the symbol of a hawking woman on their personal seals, trained and flew hawks, and wrote and read poetic texts...
ARC Humanities Press, 2023. — 312 p. The study of medieval and early modern geographic space, literary cartography, and spatial thinking at a time of rapid digitization in the Humanities offers new ways to investigate spatial knowledge and world perceptions in pre-modern societies. Digitization of cultural heritage collections, open source databases, and interactive resources...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 352 p. The medieval era has been described as 'the 'Age of Chivalry' and 'the Age of Faith' but also as 'the Dark Ages'. Medieval women have often been viewed as subject to a punishing misogyny which limited their legal rights and economic activities, but some scholars have claimed they enjoyed a 'rough and ready equality' with men. The contrasting...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 352 p. The medieval era has been described as 'the 'Age of Chivalry' and 'the Age of Faith' but also as 'the Dark Ages'. Medieval women have often been viewed as subject to a punishing misogyny which limited their legal rights and economic activities, but some scholars have claimed they enjoyed a 'rough and ready equality' with men. The contrasting...
Academic Studies Press, 2022. — 302 p. A fascinating study that will appeal to both culinarians and readers interested in the intersecting histories of food, Sephardic Jewish culture, and the Mediterranean world of Iberia and northern Africa. In the absence of any Jewish cookbook from the pre-1492 era, it requires arduous research and a creative but disciplined imagination to...
Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2006. — 460 p. — (Orbis mediaevalis. Vorstellungswelten des Mittelalters 7). Die Herkunftserzählungen der früh- und hochmittelalterlichen Geschichtsschreiber, die man traditionellerweise als Origo gentis bezeichnet, werden erstmals im Gesamtkontext des Geschichtswerkes untersucht. So kann man Mustern der Identitäts- und Legitimitätsstiftung, die in den...
Columbia University Press, 2001. — 552 p. Imagine a dreamland where roasted pigs wander about with knives in their backs to make carving easy, where grilled geese fly directly into one's mouth, where cooked fish jump out of the water and land at one's feet. The weather is always mild, the wine flows freely, sex is readily available, and all people enjoy eternal youth. Such is...
Boydell Press, 2006. — 248 p. The wolf, a common metaphor for vice in medieval Christian literature, is today an iconic symbol of the intense fear and insecurity that some associate with the middle ages. In reality, responses to wolves varied across medieval Europe. Although not dependent on the wilderness, wolves were conceptually linked to this environment - which although on...
Boydell Press, 2019. — 288 p. — (Anglo-Saxon Studies 33). How did Anglo-Saxons reflect on the experience of growing old? Was it really a golden age for the elderly, as has been suggested? This first full survey of the Anglo-Saxon cultural conceptualisation of old age, as manifested and reflected in the texts and artwork of the inhabitants of early medieval England, presents a...
Brill, 2017. — 275 p. — (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 54). One of the leading historians of medieval universities in the last generation, Gaines Post published less than a quarter of his 1931 dissertation on the role of the papacy in the rise of universities. The entire work merits publication, both because of the remaining content and because it...
Roma; Bari: Editori Laterza 2004. — 502, x p. Abate cistercense e riformatore monastico, Gioacchino da Fiore è l’apocalittico che più ha influito su tendenze e movimenti profetici e millenaristici dell’Occidente medievale e moderno. La sua visione della storia si fissa nelle immagini e nei calcoli di una rigorosa teologia simbolica. Figure come l’alfa e l’omega, il triangolo e...
Roma; Bari: Editori Laterza 2004. — 502, x p. Abate cistercense e riformatore monastico, Gioacchino da Fiore è l’apocalittico che più ha influito su tendenze e movimenti profetici e millenaristici dell’Occidente medievale e moderno. La sua visione della storia si fissa nelle immagini e nei calcoli di una rigorosa teologia simbolica. Figure come l’alfa e l’omega, il triangolo e...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 764 p. — (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine). — ISBN 978-3-030-52659-7. This book examines how the experiences of hearing voices and seeing visions were understood within the cultural, literary, and intellectual contexts of the medieval and early modern periods. In the Middle Ages, these experiences were interpreted according to...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 326 p. This book examines how the experiences of hearing voices and seeing visions were understood within the cultural, literary, and intellectual contexts of the medieval and early modern periods. In the Middle Ages, these experiences were interpreted according to frameworks that could credit visionaries or voice-hearers with spiritual knowledge,...
Arc Humanities Press, 2020. — 434 p. The twelfth century witnessed the birth of modern Western European literary tradition: major narrative works appeared in both French and in German, founding a literary culture independent of the Latin tradition of the Church and Roman Antiquity. But what gave rise to the sudden interest in and legitimization of literature in these “vulgar...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 276 p. - Discusses social mobility, travel, pilgrimage, migration and diaspora in the Middle Ages - Considers the gendered implications of movement in the global Middle Ages - Furthers medieval gender studies from cross-temporal and cross-cultural perspectives This collection explores the intersection of gender and mobility across the Global Middle...
Brill, 2018. — xxiv, 260 p. — (Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700). Justice Blindfolded gives an overview of the history of “justice” and its iconography through the centuries. Justice has been portrayed as a woman with scales, or holding a sword, or, since the fifteenth century, with her eyes bandaged. This last symbol contains the idea that justice is both impartial and blind,...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. - 320 p. - (The Middle Ages Series).
Ptolemy, considered a proto-Humanist by some, combined the principles of Northern Italian republicanism with Aristotelian theory in his De Regimine Principum, a book that influenced much of the political thought of the later Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the early modern period. He was the first to...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012. — 228 p. — ( Beiträge zur Hagiographie 11). Heiligkeit ist heute zumeist mit einer moralisch vorbildlichen Lebensführung verbunden; ihre Konstruktion mittels physischer Zeichen ist selten geworden. Im Rahmen von Konzeptionen, in denen körperliche und spirituelle Zustände eine Einheit bilden, können somatische Erscheinungen als Gnadenerweise begriffen...
D. S. Brewer, 2011. — 208 p. — (Studies in Medieval Romance 14). This volume developed from a selection of the forty-odd papers presented at the 11th Biennial "Romance in Medieval Britain" conference hosted by the School of English at the University of St Andrews in March 2008. The essays in this volume take a representative selection of English and Scottish romances from the...
Brepols Publishers, 2016. — 355 p. — (Acta Scandinavica 6). The compelling world of the Vikings and their descendants - preserved in the sagas, poetry, and mythology of medieval Iceland - has provided inspiration for centuries to artists and writers across Europe as well as to scholars devoted to editing and interpreting the manuscript texts. Imagining this distant'hyperborean'...
Brill, 2023. — 430 p. — (Medieval Mediterranean, vol. 136). Rafał Quirini-Popławski offers here the first panorama of the artistic phenomena of the Genoese outposts scattered around the Black Sea, an area whose cultural history is little known. The artistic creativity of the region emerges as extraordinarily rich and colorful, with a variety of heterogeneous, hybrid and...
Boydell and Brewer, 2013. — 254 p. Although the anonymous pious Middle English romances and Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur have rarely been studied in relation to each other, they in fact share at least two thematic concerns, vocabularies of suffering and genealogical concerns, as this book demonstrates. By examining a broad cultural and political framework stretching from...
Routledge, 2022. — 364 p. What did medieval authors know about their world? Were they parochial and focused on just their monastery, town, or kingdom? Or were they aware of the broader medieval Europe that modern historians write about? This collection brings the focus back to medieval authors to see how they described their world. While we see that each author certainly had...
University Press of Florida, 2016. — 190 p. Bringing far-removed time periods into startling conversation, this book argues that certain attitudes and practices present in Europe’s Middle Ages were foundational in the development of the western concept of race. As early as the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, society was already preoccupied with skin color. Using historical,...
Reprint ed. — Routledge, 2013. — 134 p. — (Studies in Medieval History and Culture, Book 3). First published 2001. This book explores the historical and imaginary representation of the Saracen, or Muslim, in French writings from 1100 to 1500. Discovery, Desire, and Destruction: East Meets West Songs of Desire: Encounters through Crusade New Songs with New Rhythms: The Romance...
Boydell Press, 2023. — 708 p. A major new study piecing together the intriguing but fragmentary evidence surrounding the lives of minstrels to highlight how these seemingly peripheral figures were keenly involved with all aspects of late medieval communities. Minstrels were a common sight and sound in the late Middle Ages. Aristocrats, knights and ladies heard them on great...
Boydell Press, 2023. — 708 p. A major new study piecing together the intriguing but fragmentary evidence surrounding the lives of minstrels to highlight how these seemingly peripheral figures were keenly involved with all aspects of late medieval communities. Minstrels were a common sight and sound in the late Middle Ages. Aristocrats, knights and ladies heard them on great...
Brill, 2017. — 263 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 261/16; Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History 261/16). Robin Raybould's The Sibyl Series of the Fifteenth Century examines the startling and sudden change that occurred in the representation of the sibyls throughout Europe during the early Renaissance. Raybould describes how and why during...
Brill, 2015. — 232 p. — (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 50). In Religious Education in Thirteenth-Century England, Andrew Reeves examines how laypeople in a largely illiterate and oral culture learned the basic doctrines of the Christian religion. Although lay religious life is often assumed to have been a tissue of ignorance and superstition, this...
University of Notre Dame Press, 2017. — 609 p. Since the original publication of this title, the twelfth-century Calabrian Abbot Joachim of Fiore has been accorded an increasingly central position in the history of medieval thought and culture. In this classic work Marjorie Reeves shows the wide extent of Joachimist influence from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries and...
Brill, 2009. — Vol. 1: xxii, 1-378 p.; Vol. 2: viii, 379-800 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 139). This study reconstructs for the first time Marguerite of Navarre’s leadership of a broad circle of nobles, prelates, humanist authors, and commoners, who sought to advance the reform of the French church along evangelical (Protestant) lines. Hitherto...
Brill, 2023. — 241 p. — (Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts 28). In this book, Katie Reid argues that the late antique author Martianus Capella was a significant influence in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance: his Marriage of Philology and Mercury was a source of inspiration for allegory, classicising poetry, mythography and humanist writing.
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 224 p. In this book, Lisa Reilly establishes a new interpretive paradigm for the eleventh and twelfth-century art and architecture of the Norman world in France, England, and Sicily. Traditionally, scholars have considered iconic works like the Cappella Palatina and the Bayeux Embroidery in a geographically piecemeal fashion that prevents us...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 528 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series 101). This pioneering study explores early medieval Frankish identity as a window into the formation of a distinct Western conception of ethnicity. Focusing on the turbulent and varied history of Frankish identity in Merovingian and Carolingian historiography, it offers a...
Paderborn: Brill Schöningh, 2025. — 289 p. — (Contexts of Ancient and Medieval Anthropology 11). Die Aussicht auf den individuellen Tod, die universale Endzeit und das Jüngste Gericht stiftete in der Karolingerzeit den Sinn dafür, die eigene Gegenwart kritisch zu betrachten, Zustände auf ihre Korrekturbedürftigkeit hin zu überprüfen und reformorientiert zu regieren. Die...
Manchester University Press, 2019. — 336 p. Featuring essays from some of the most prominent voices in early medieval studies, Dating Beowulf playfully redeploys the word "dating", which usually heralds some of the most divisive critical impasses in the field, to provocatively phrase a set of new relationships with an Old English poem. The volume argues for the relevance of the...
Boydell Press, 2022. — 354 p. A lively exploration of the medieval and early modern attitudes towards dance, as the perception of dancers changed from saints dancing after Christ into cows dancing after the devil. The devil's cows, impudent camels, or damsels animated by the devil: late medieval and early modern authors used these descriptors and more to talk about dancers,...
Boydell Press, 2022. — 354 p. A lively exploration of the medieval and early modern attitudes towards dance, as the perception of dancers changed from saints dancing after Christ into cows dancing after the devil. The devil's cows, impudent camels, or damsels animated by the devil: late medieval and early modern authors used these descriptors and more to talk about dancers,...
Routledge, 2021. — 186 p. The Cursed Carolers in Context explores the interplay between the forms and contexts in which the tale of the cursed carolers circulated and the meanings it had for medieval and early modern authors and audiences. The story of the cursed carolers has circulated in Europe since the eleventh century. In this story, a group of people in a village in...
Routledge, 2021. — 186 p. The Cursed Carolers in Context explores the interplay between the forms and contexts in which the tale of the cursed carolers circulated and the meanings it had for medieval and early modern authors and audiences. The story of the cursed carolers has circulated in Europe since the eleventh century. In this story, a group of people in a village in...
Columbia University, 2011. — 572 p. The Decretals of Gregory IX, promulgated in 1234, was the first collection of canon law for the Catholic Church invested with universal and exclusive authority, and was the culmination of a century and a half process by which the a now papal-led Church came to be the leading institution within medieval European society. The Decretals, also...
Berg Publishers, 2009. — 278 p. A Cultural History of Animals in the Medieval Age investigates the changing roles of animals in medieval culture, economy and society in the period 1000 to 1400. The period saw significant changes in scientific and philosophical approaches to animals as well as their representation in art. Animals were omnipresent in medieval everyday life. They...
Berg Publishers, 2009. — 278 p. A Cultural History of Animals in the Medieval Age investigates the changing roles of animals in medieval culture, economy and society in the period 1000 to 1400. The period saw significant changes in scientific and philosophical approaches to animals as well as their representation in art. Animals were omnipresent in medieval everyday life. They...
Brill, 2023. — 289 p. — (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 206). In Political Theology the "Modern Way" The Case of Jacques Almain (d. 1515), Shaun Retallick provides the first monograph on this late medieval philosopher-theologian and conciliarist, and his thought. He demonstrates that Almain's political theology, of which ecclesiology is a sub-discipline, is...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 300 p. Music played an essential part in raising the city of Venice and in founding the empire on which its fortunes would depend. This book focuses on a set of musical projects - played out in liturgy and civic ritual - that formed the city's history and framed and interpreted its unique material culture as it was in the process of taking...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. — 400 p. A radical shift took place in medieval Europe that still shapes contemporary intellectual life: freeing themselves from the fixed beliefs of the past, scholars began to determine and pursue their own avenues of academic inquiry. In Knowledge True and Useful, Frank Rexroth shows how, beginning in the 1070s, a new kind of knowledge...
Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 256 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature).
This book investigates how people learned to read in the Middle Ages. It uses glosses--medieval teachers' notes--on classical Latin texts to show how these complex works were used in a very basic and literal way in the classroom, and argues that this has profound implications for our...
Brepols, 2004. — 312 p. Il y a mille ans, le 13 novembre 1004, à la Réole, sur les bords de la Garonne, mourait un abbé de Fleury, Abbon. Sa mort violente pour la cause de la réforme monastique le fit vénérer d'emblée comme un martyr. Aujourd'hui nous nous apprêtons à célébrer le millénaire de cet événement.Abbon, né vers 950 à Orléans, fut un des grands moines de son siècle,...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978. — 336 p. In the growth of towns and the revival of commerce, historians have seen the development of a bourgeois and capitalist Europe, but Pierre Riché reminds us that Carolingians saw a world of forest and wasteland, in which scattered castles and villages were outposts against the savagery of nature, bands of outlaws, and a myriad of...
Brill, 2015. — 675 p. — (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 49). The four Livres des procurateurs de la nation germanique de l’Université d’Orléans (1444-1602) are a unique source for the history of European universities. The quarterly reports of the presidents of the association of law students allow us to reconstitute in detail the everyday life of...
Brill, 2013. — 824 p. — (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 45). The four Livres des procurateurs de la nation germanique de l’Université d’Orléans (1444-1602) are a unique source for the history of European universities. The quarterly reports of the presidents of the association of law students allow us to reconstitute in detail the everyday life of...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 269 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs).
Magic and Impotence in the Middle Ages investigates the common medieval belief that magic could cause impotence, focusing particularly on the period 1150-1450. The subject has never been studied in detail before, but there is a surprisingly large amount of information about it in four kinds of source:...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 269 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs). Magic and Impotence in the Middle Ages investigates the common medieval belief that magic could cause impotence, focusing particularly on the period 1150-1450. The subject has never been studied in detail before, but there is a surprisingly large amount of information about it in four kinds of source:...
D.S. Brewer, 2017. — 224 p. — (Studies in Old Norse Literature 1). Authors throughout history have relied on the emotional make-up of their readers and audiences to make sense of the behaviours and actions of fictive characters. But how can a narrative voice contained in a text evoke feelings that are ultimately never real or actual, but a figment of a text, a fictive reality...
D.S.Brewer, 2012. — 212 p. Throughout the middle ages, many Francophone texts - chansons de geste, medieval romance, works by Chrétien de Troyes and Marie de France - were widely translated in north-western Europe. In the process, these texts were frequently transformed to reflect the new cultures in which they appeared. This book argues that such translations, prime sites for...
Routledge, 2014. — 219 p.
This book examines the sustained interest in legends of the pagan and peripheral North, tracing and analyzing the use of an ‘out-of-Scandinavia’ legend (Scandinavia as an ancestral homeland) in a wide range of medieval texts from all over Europe, with a focus on the Anglo-Saxon tradition. The pagan North was an imaginative region, which attracted a...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2004. — 332 p. — (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 22). This volume of essays considers specific examples of literature and art in medieval Castile, problematizing the idea of comparative methodology when studying the cultural production of a place with such an intensely multi-linguistic and multi-religious profile. Contributions have been...
Brill, 2002. — 491 p. — (Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 15). Robinson Cynthia. In Praise of Song - The Making of Courtly Culture in al-Andalus and Provence, 1005-1134 A.D. by Cynthia Robinson offers a reconstruction of the court culture of the taifa kings of al-Andalus (11th century A.D.), using both visual and textual evidence. A focus of particular attention is the...
The British Museum, 2014. — 206 p. A landmark publication exploring the relationship between sacred matter and precious materials in the Middle Ages. This book is the outcome of the conference ‘Matter of Faith’, held to accompany the British Museum’s exhibition Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe, which brought together over thirty international...
Routledge, 2019. — 228 p. Odors, including those of incense, spices, cooking, and refuse, were both ubiquitous and meaningful in central and late medieval Western Europe. The significance of the sense of smell is evident in scholastic Latin texts, most of which are untranslated and unedited by modern scholars. Between the late eleventh and thirteenth century, medieval scholars...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 363 p. — (Cambridge Companions to Religion). Francis of Assisi (1181/82–1226) was one of the most vibrant and colourful personalities in the Middle Ages. The life of this remarkable reformer of the medieval Church was celebrated in art, drama, poetry, music, the new vernacular literature and architecture. His ideal was to enter into a...
Brepols, 2009. — 704 p. — (Bibliothèque d'histoire culturelle du Moyen Âge 7). Que peut-on vraiment lire dans les récits médiévaux relatant les émanations et les perceptions des "odeurs de sainteté"? Cette expression elle-même fut-elle jamais pleinement signifiante, non pas sublimée en une métaphore toute spirituelle, mais au contraire bien charnelle, et donc partie intégrante...
Brill, 2021. — 260 p. — (The Medieval Mediterranean 121). In ten essays authored by an international team of scholars, this volume explores queer readings of Western and Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Northern Africa, Islam and Arabic traditions. The contributors enter into a dialogue, comparing cases from opposite sides of the Mediterranean, in order to analyze the forgotten...
Brill, 2021. — 260 p. — (The Medieval Mediterranean 121). In ten essays authored by an international team of scholars, this volume explores queer readings of Western and Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Northern Africa, Islam and Arabic traditions. The contributors enter into a dialogue, comparing cases from opposite sides of the Mediterranean, in order to analyze the forgotten...
University of Canterbury, 2018. — 118 p. The late-thirteenth century Chronicon Pontificum et Imperatorum of the Dominican friar Martin of Opava, also known as Martin of Troppau, proved to be one of the most popular and influential universal chronicles of the later Middle Ages. It was produced at a time when the practical authority of the western empire had collapsed and the...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. — 264 p. The life of an aristocratic Carolingian man involved an array of behaviors and duties associated with his gender and rank: an education in arms and letters; training in horsemanship, soldiery, and hunting; betrothal, marriage, and the virile production of heirs; and the masterful command of a prominent household. In Be a Perfect...
Brill, 2015. — xxiv, 942 p. — (Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science 24). Martin Lister (1639–1712) was a consummate virtuoso, the first arachnologist and conchologist, and a Royal physician. As one of the most prominent corresponding fellows of the Royal Society, many of Lister’s discoveries in natural history, archaeology, medicine, and chemistry were printed in...
De Gruyter, 2020. — 265 p. This volume provides a unique introduction to the most topical issues, advances, and challenges in medieval horse history. Medievalists who have a long-standing interest in horse history, as well as those seeking to widen their understanding of horses in medieval society will find here informed and comprehensive treatment of chapters from disciplines...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. - 229 p.
Reading the Religious Life of Margaret Paston
Margaret Paston’s Calendar and Her Saints
Margaret Paston in Context: Things Said, Done, and Owned
Family Wills: Margaret Paston and the Rest
What Did Margaret See?
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 124 p. — (The New Middle Ages). This concise and unique volume explores the vital relationship between testimony, memory, and the community in medieval society. Joel T. Rosenthal assembles various categories of testimonies to illuminate how “ordinary” Late Medieval people saw themselves as units of their community, their awareness of the issues...
Cornell University, 2006. — 249 p. — ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-7416-3 This is a book about the history of emotions. The topic is paradoxically very old-historians have always talked about emotions - and almost entirely unexplored, since for the most part such tallc has been either unfocused or misguided. For the unfocused varJety, consider Tacitus, who, when describing the condition...
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2018. — 488 p. — (Lectio 7). Ancient works On Kingship have received a lot of attention in recent scholarship, where the main focus is usually on classic works such as Seneca’s On Clemency, Isocrates’ Cyprian Orations or Dio of Prusa’s Kingship Orations. In this volume, we deliberately turn to the periphery, to the grey zone where matters...
Penguin Classics, 1077. — 704 p. In their introduction to this anthology, James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin remind us that "no area of the past is dead if we are alive to it. The variety, the complexity, the sheer humanity of the middle ages live most meaningfully in their own authentic voices". The Portable Medieval Reader assembles an entire chorus of those voices -...
De Gruyter, 2021. — 520 p. This volume builds upon the new worldwide interest in the global Middle Ages. It investigates the prismatic heritage and eclectic artistic production of Eastern Europe between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries while challenging the temporal and geographic parameters of the study of medieval, Byzantine, post-byzantine and early-modern art....
Amsterdam University Press, 2021. — 196 p. — (Social worlds of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages 11). Gregory of Tours, the sixth-century Merovingian bishop, composed extensive historiographical and hagiographical corpora during the twenty years of his episcopacy in Tours. These works serve as important sources for the cultural, social, political and religious history of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 310 p. — (The New Middle Ages). Medieval Considerations of Incest, Marriage, and Penance focuses on the incest motif as used in numerous medieval narratives. Explaining the weakness of great rulers, such as Charlemagne, or the fall of legendary heroes, such as Arthur, incest stories also reflect on changes to the sacramental regulations and practices...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 310 p. — (The New Middle Ages). Medieval Considerations of Incest, Marriage, and Penance focuses on the incest motif as used in numerous medieval narratives. Explaining the weakness of great rulers, such as Charlemagne, or the fall of legendary heroes, such as Arthur, incest stories also reflect on changes to the sacramental regulations and practices...
York Medieval Press, 2020. — 252 p. — (Writing History in the Middle Ages 7). Historical texts of all kinds were written in the community of St Cuthbert c.700-1130, from short annals to extended narrative history, political tracts and works on the lives and miracles of saints.At the same time, scribes in the community worked to copy and procure notable classics of...
Turnhout: Brepols, 2024. — 301 p. — (Interdisciplinary Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 3). The essays in this collection were presented at the 2020 Symposium on Apocalypticism, sponsored by the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Tennessee. The authors offer new readings of medieval and Renaissance Apocalypticism in quotidian...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 302 p. In 1099, the soldiers of the First Crusade took Jerusalem. As the news of this victory spread throughout Medieval Europe, it felt nothing less than miraculous and dream-like, to such an extent that many believed history itself had been fundamentally altered by the event and that the Rapture was at hand. As a result of military conquest,...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 302 p. In 1099, the soldiers of the First Crusade took Jerusalem. As the news of this victory spread throughout Medieval Europe, it felt nothing less than miraculous and dream-like, to such an extent that many believed history itself had been fundamentally altered by the event and that the Rapture was at hand. As a result of military conquest,...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 234 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series 110). Did the Crusades trigger significant intellectual activity? To what extent and in what ways did the Latin residents of the Crusader States acquire knowledge from Muslims and Eastern Christians? And how were the Crusader states influenced by the intellectual...
Jan Thorbecke Verlag GmbH & Co, 1996. — 803 p.
Die Schriftenreihe veröffentlicht Monographien und Aufsatzsammlungen aus allen Bereichen der historischen Hilfswissenschaften des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit, sofern sie von allgemeinem Interesse und methodisch innovativ sind. Sie trägt damit den neuen Fragestellungen und Methoden Rechnung, die in den letzten Jahren zu einer...
Brepols Publishers, 2007. — 364 p. — (Medieval Church Studies 12). Christianity is a religion of clothing. To become a priest or a nun is to take the cloth. The Christian liturgy is intimately bound with veiling objects and revealing them. Cloths hide the altar, making it all the more spectacular when it is revealed. Fragments of imported silk cradle the relic, thereby giving...
Brepols, 2007. — 380 p. — (Medieval Church Studies 12). Christianity is a religion of clothing. To become a priest or a nun is to take the cloth. The Christian liturgy is intimately bound with veiling objects and revealing them. Cloths hide the altar, making it all the more spectacular when it is revealed. Fragments of imported silk cradle the relic, thereby giving identity to...
Östergötland County Administration, 2019. — 140 p. Östergötland is one of Sweden’s original core provinces and has 25 Medieval strongholds. This book is a study of lifestyles at these sites, based on new excavations and finds, a survey of previous ones as well as the relevant written sources.
Brill, 2023. — 990 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 345/28). Antonio da Rho’s Three Dialogues against Lactantius (1445) followed the lead of Jerome and Augustine yet went well beyond patristic concerns. During the Middle Ages Lactantius’ works, while largely neglected, had enjoyed moments of intense interest and study. From the death of Lactantius (325) to his...
Ossolinum, 1978. — 400 s. Opracowanie niniejsze składa się z trzech zasadniczych części: w pierwszej przedstawiamy przemiany warunków społecznych i gospodarczych. leżących u podstaw wytwarzania dóbr materialnych, omówionych w części drugiej, w trzeciej zajmuje my się sposobem ich użytkowania. [...] Staraliśmy się objąć naszym "Zarysem", i ole to było możliwe, całość ziem...
Brill, 2025. — xxiv, 375 p. — (Later Medieval Europe 27). In order to have a constructive discussion about feelings in the late Middle Ages, it is beneficial to first evaluate how the feelings of individual men and women were defined. As such, the purpose of this book is to explore the words used by late medieval men and women to refer to their feelings and to examine their...
Brill, 2018. — xvi, 255 p.; 111 color ills. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 279/26; Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 279/26). In Touching the Passion — Seeing Late Medieval Altarpieces through the Eyes of Faith, Donna Sadler explores the manner in which worshipers responded to the carved and polychromed retables adorning the altars of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. - 236 p. - (Early Modern History: Society and Culture). Marriage and Patriarchy Public Office and the Public Sphere Sociability and Social Structure Death and Confession
Marburg, 2009. — 278 p. Schwarzes Kreuz auf weißem Mantel ist ein Synonym für den Deutschen Orden geworden. In seinem Bekanntheitsgrad hat dieses Synonym trotz aller Rückschlage politischer Art und inneren Wandlungen vom Ritter- zum klerikalen Orden, die der Deutsche Orden in seiner über 800jährigen Geschichte erlebt hat, nichts von seiner Faszination eingebüßt. Die...
Routledge, 2021. — 300 p. This volume fluctuates between conceptualizations of movement; either movements that buildings in the medieval Mediterranean facilitated, or the movements of the users and audiences of architecture. From medieval Anatolia to Southern France and the Genoese colony of Pera across Constantinople, The Fluctuating Sea investigates how the relationship...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. - 232 p.
Julian of Norwich the best-known of the medieval mystics today. The text of her Revelation has circulated continually since the fifteenth century, but the twentieth century saw a massive expansion of her popularity. Theological or literary-historical studies of Julian may remark in passing on her popularity, but none have attempted a detailed...
University Press of Florida, 2002. — 368 p.
"Domestic Violence in Medieval Texts" addresses a topic critical to our understanding of the medieval past--its notions of childhood and marital relations, its attitudes toward corporal punishment, and its contribution to the shaping of our present-day notions of family values. Using a wide range of late medieval narratives, including...
3rd Edition. — Routledge, 2022. — 234 p. The third edition of The Beast Within has been updated throughout to include current scholarship, new discussion of definitions, and fresh perspectives on critical animal theory that places animals, rather than humans, at the center of the discourse. Organized thematically, Salisbury incorporates many new sections and subsections to...
3rd Edition. — Routledge, 2022. — 234 p. The third edition of The Beast Within has been updated throughout to include current scholarship, new discussion of definitions, and fresh perspectives on critical animal theory that places animals, rather than humans, at the center of the discourse. Organized thematically, Salisbury incorporates many new sections and subsections to...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. — 360 p. What did it mean to keep a secret in early medieval England? It was a period during which the experience of secrecy was intensely bound to the belief that God knew all human secrets, yet the secrets of God remained unknowable to human beings. In Bonds of Secrecy, Benjamin A. Saltzman argues that this double-edged conception of...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 288 p. - Interprets nature imagery in trouvère song using a critical framework informed by environmental history, architectural history, archaeology, and ecocriticism - Offers a significant new context for the exploration of identity formation - Provides a richly textured image of medieval northern French culture in an approachable style Song,...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 288 p. - Interprets nature imagery in trouvère song using a critical framework informed by environmental history, architectural history, archaeology, and ecocriticism - Offers a significant new context for the exploration of identity formation - Provides a richly textured image of medieval northern French culture in an approachable style Song,...
Smashwords Edition, 2020. — 154 p. The book presents a semiotic approach to the study of power relations in the symbolic space of medieval culture. A critical analysis of medieval texts was carried out in accordance with the methodology of European structuralist and poststructuralist tradition (Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Umberto Eco, Jean Baudrillard), as well as Russian...
Brill, 2013. — xx, 312 p. — (Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture, 28). — ISBN 978-90-04-25354-4, 978-90-04-25355-1. Do heads excite a desire to chop them off; a desire to decapitate and take a human life, as anthropologists have suggested? The contributors to this book are fascinated by disembodied heads, which are pursued in their many medieval and...
D.S. Brewer, 2001. — 352 p. This work explores and untangles the theme of rape, and its counterpart ravishment, in Anglo-French cultural tradition between the disintegration of the classical world and the Renaissance. Tracing debate and dialogue across intellectual and literary discourses, Corinne Saunders places Middle English literary portrayals of rape and ravishment in the...
Amsterdam University Press. 2018. — 244 p. — (Visual and Material Culture, 1300–1700). In the fifteenth century, the Oblates of Santa Francesca Romana, a fledgling community of religious women in Rome, commissioned an impressive array of artwork for their newly acquired living quarters, the Tor de'Specchi. The imagery focused overwhelmingly on the sensual, corporeal nature of...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. — 229 p. Organised in 2008 by four medievalists from the University of Sheffield, Locating the Voice: Expressions of Identity in the Middle Ages provided a theatre for dialogue between postgraduates and early career researchers from around the world. This collection of articles, born out of the conference, forms an intriguing and interesting...
R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1994. — 548 p. — (Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 32). Dieser Band ist das Ergebnis des Zwettler Symposions V, das von der Kommission für Frühmittelalterforschung der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und dem Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung abgehalten wurde. Der Versuch, in der heutigen...
Routledge, 2023. — 264 p. — (Routledge Research in Art History). Examining the history of altar decorations, this study of the visual liturgy grapples with many of the previous theoretical frameworks to reveal the evolution and function of these ritual objects. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book uses traditional art-historical methodologies and media technology...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014. — 100 p. — (Jenaer mediävistische Vorträge 2). Zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts wurde durch keinen Geringeren als Johann Wolfgang von Goethe eine "Geschichte der drei Könige" ( Historia trium regum ) wieder entdeckt, die seither dem Karmelitermönch Johannes von Hildesheim ( 1375) zugeschrieben wird und eine früh in zahllose Volkssprachen übersetzte...
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2020. — 2190 p. The product of an international interdisciplinary team, the History and Structures strand of the Pre-Christian Religion of the North series aims to approach the subject by giving equal weight to archaeological and textual sources, taking into consideration recent theories on religion within all the disciplines that are...
Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2019. — 770 S. — (Orbis mediaevalis 17). Rule succeeds if it generates conceptions of feelings in the dominated person. Only in this way rule can be accepted and respected. It is part of the conception that the ruler spreads terror as well as love. This controversial pair and its connection with rule were used in texts of ruler instructions,...
Gallimard, 2002. — 401 p.
Il est devenu banal de dire que nous sommes entrés dans la «civilisation de l'image». Les images animées, numériques, virtuelles façonnent notre monde avec une force sans précédent. Mais elles s'enracinent aussi dans une longue histoire, où la chrétienté médiévale a joué un rôle décisif : en osant - contre le vieil interdit biblique - faire et «adorer»...
Gdansk; Warszawa: Marabut, 2002. — 236 s. Umarli mają tylko takie istnienie, jakie wymyślą im żywi. Zależnie od epoki, kultury, wierzeń, ludzie przypisują zmarłym jakieś życie w zaświatach, przedstawiają miejsca ich pobytu i w ten sposób wyobrażają sobie swój los, którego pragną lub się lękają. Wyobrażenia o śmierci stanowią wszędzie istotną część wierzeń religijnych […] w...
Editions Gallimard, 2001. - 446 p. Qui veut comprendre le Moyen Âge doit le tenir à distance : poser sur lui le regard de l'anthropologue étudiant une société étrangère à sa propre culture et à ses habitudes de pensée. C'est la première ambition de ce livre : mettre en garde contre l'usage de catégories - la «religion» par exemple, ou l'«individu», - dont il convient de saisir...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 248 p. For the Time Being: Interpretive Consolation in Augustinian Time “Quanto Minorem Consider as”: Abelard’s Proportional Consolation Three Figures of the Church: Piers Plowman and the Quest for Consolation Augustine and Arthur: The Stanzaic Morte and the Consolation of Elegy Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale: Consolations at War The Tower and the Turks:...
Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2009. — 459 p. — (Orbis mediaevalis. Vorstellungswelten des Mittelalters 11). Die spätmittelalterlichen Reisebeschreibungen über die Wallfahrt nach Jerusalem sind einzigartige Zeugnisse der Kulturbegegnung. Ausführlich berichten die Verfasser über ferne Städte und exotische Länder, detailliert schildern sie die fremdartigen Verhaltensweisen ihrer...
Brill, 2013. — 300 p. — (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 47). Aneignungen des Humanismus describes the reception and adaptation of new educational ideas at the University of Ingolstadt in the later Middle Ages. Based on manuscript research, this study explains how the process of adopting new educational procedures relates to the broader contexts for...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. — 344 p. Winner of the 1994-95 MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for studies in Germanic languages and literatures James A Schultz has brought a historiographic approach to nearly two hundred Middle High German texts - narrative, didactic, homiletic, legal, religious, and secular. He explores what they say about the nature of the child,...
Berlin; Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2011. — 828 S. — (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 74). The image of eating and drinking in the middle ages is mainly determined by vernacular poetry. However, it not only imparts a very fragmented but also ideal concept of past conditions. The analogy with contemporary illustrations and statues as with...
Brill, 2017. — 492 p. — (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 53). In Medizin im Konflikt, Jana Madlen Schütte analyses the status of medical doctors between university and market in the Middle Ages and at the beginning of the early modern period. Their positon initially at the universities as well as on the medical market was precarious. As the smallest...
Cambridge University Press, 2024. — 270 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature). Exploring debt's permutations in Middle English texts, Anne Schuurman makes the bold claim that the capitalist spirit has its roots in Christian penitential theology. Her argument challenges the longstanding belief that faith and theological doctrine in the Middle Ages were inimical to the...
Brill, 2013. — 945 p. — (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 46). Amongst the oldest universities that of the Roman curia is the Great Unkown; little is known of the university of Rome (and of Avignon till 1378). To compensate the loss of sources materials mainly from the Vatican were intensively analysed and a prosopography of the dons and students (694...
Primus Verlag GmbH, Darmstadt, 2008. Seit dem 11. Jahrhundert entstanden aus Siedlungen rund um Burgen und Klöster neue Städte. Immer mehr Leibeigene aus der Umgebung setzen sich in diese Orte ab. Dort waren sie für ihre Grundherren meist unauffindbar. Es entstand der Rechtsbrauch: Ein Leibeigener in einer Stadt konnte nach Jahr und Tag nicht mehr von seinem Grundherrn...
Ashgate Publishing, 2014. — 258 p. Private and public relationships between individuals or groups - frequently labelled as friendships - have played a central role in human societies. Yet, over the centuries ideas and meanings of friendship transformed, adapting to the political and social climate of a period, and consequently resisting rigid definitions. Changing concepts and...
Manchester University Press, 2021. — 296 p. — (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture). Objects of affection recovers the emotional attraction of the medieval book through an extended engagement with a single fifteenth-century literary collection known as Oxford, Bodleian Library Manuscript Ashmole 61. Exploring how the inhabitants of the book’s pages - human and non-human,...
Manchester University Press, 2021. — 296 p. — (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture). Objects of affection recovers the emotional attraction of the medieval book through an extended engagement with a single fifteenth-century literary collection known as Oxford, Bodleian Library Manuscript Ashmole 61. Exploring how the inhabitants of the book’s pages - human and non-human,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 292 p. — (Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions). - Use the history of emotions to explore the interconnectedness of societies in the medieval North Sea world - Moves away from considering medieval texts in terms of literary tropes - Demonstrates the connections between the study of emotion in medieval cultures and other disciplines This book...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 292 p. — (Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions). - Use the history of emotions to explore the interconnectedness of societies in the medieval North Sea world - Moves away from considering medieval texts in terms of literary tropes - Demonstrates the connections between the study of emotion in medieval cultures and other disciplines This book...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 296 p. A Cultural History of Objects in the Medieval Age covers the period 500 to 1400, examining the creation, use and understanding of human-made objects and their consequences and impacts. The power and agency of objects significantly evolved over this time. Exploring objects and artefacts within art, technology, and everyday life, the volume...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 296 p. A Cultural History of Objects in the Medieval Age covers the period 500 to 1400, examining the creation, use and understanding of human-made objects and their consequences and impacts. The power and agency of objects significantly evolved over this time. Exploring objects and artefacts within art, technology, and everyday life, the volume...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 400 p. Perceptions of the Prehistoric in Anglo-Saxon England represents an unparalleled exploration of the place of prehistoric monuments in the Anglo-Saxon psyche, and examines how Anglo-Saxon communities perceived and used these monuments during the period AD 400-1100. Sarah Semple employs archaeological, historical, art historical, and...
De Gruyter, 2001. — 728 p. — (Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte des Dominikanerordens – Neue Folge 10). In dem Band sind neue methodische und thematische Ansätze zu Leben und Werk des Albertus Magnus gebündelt; wie sie in der internationalen jüngeren Forschung erarbeitet werden. Vertreter verschiedener Interpretationen kommen in ihm zu Wort.
York Medieval Press, 2016. — 341 p. — (Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages 4). Cathars have long been regarded as posing the most organised challenge to orthodox Catholicism in the medieval West, even as a "counter-Church" to orthodoxy in southern France and northern Italy. Their beliefs, understood to be inspired by Balkan dualism, are often seen as the most radical...
Princeton University Press, 2017. — 208 p. Demonstrating that similarities between Jewish and Christian art in the Middle Ages were more than coincidental, Cultural Exchange meticulously combines a wide range of sources to show how Jews and Christians exchanged artistic and material culture. Joseph Shatzmiller focuses on communities in northern Europe, Iberia, and other...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 225 p. Medieval Irish texts reveal distinctive and unexpected constructions of gender. Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland illuminates these ideas through its fresh and provocative re-readings of a wide range of texts, including saga, romance, legal texts, Fenian narrative, hagiography, and ecclesiastical verse. This ground-breaking collection...
Fordham University Press, 2011. — 285 p. Sanctuary and Crime rethinks the history of sanctuary protections in the Western legal tradition. Until the sixteenth century, every major medieval legal tradition afforded protections to fugitive criminals who took sanctuary in churches. Sanctuary-seeking criminals might have been required to perform penance or go into exile, but they...
University of Delaware Press, 2019. — 1068 p. — ISBN 978-1-64453-161-7. Epic Landscapes is the first study devoted to architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe’s substantial artistic oeuvre from 1795, when he set sail from Britain to Virginia, to late 1798, when he relocated to Pennsylvania. Thus, this book offers the only extended consideration of Latrobe’s Virginian watercolors,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. - 237 p.
Archipelago and Otherworld
Reading the Otherworld Environmentally
Paradise in the Sea: An Early Geography of Desire
Colors of the Winds, Landscapes of Creation
A Cosmic Imaginarium
Archipelago and Empire
Cornell University Press, 2024. — 390 p. The Politics of Emotion explores the intersection of powerful emotional states―love, melancholy, grief, and madness―with gender and political power on the Iberian Peninsula from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. Using an array of sources―literary texts, medical treatises, and archival documents - Nuria Silleras-Fernandez...
Böhlau Köln, 2015. — 346 s.
Heutzutage bevölkern Monster aller Art viele Szenerien in Literatur, Film, Kunst und Werbung. Das Spektrum reicht von Aliens über Krümelmonster bis zu Zombies. Das war im Mittelalter nicht anders. Auch dort begegnet man den Monstern allenthalben – etwa an Kirchenportalen, auf Kapitellen, in Gemälden und Buchillustrationen oder in Romanen,...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 208 p. A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history. This volume, A Cultural History of Peace in the Medieval Age explores peace from 800 to 1450. As with all the volumes in...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 208 p. A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history. This volume, A Cultural History of Peace in the Medieval Age explores peace from 800 to 1450. As with all the volumes in...
De Gruyter, 1995. - 510 p. Der TPMA enthält ca. 90.000 Sprichwörter, Sprüche, Maximen und sprichwörtliche Redensarten aus literarischen Quellen des lateinischen, romanischen und germanischen Mittelalters mit ihren antiken Quellen. Die Sprichwörter sind in Artikeln geordnet, deren Titel (im Lexikon alphabetisch) jeweils mit dem Hauptbegriff der darunter vereinigten Sprichwörter...
De Gruyter, 2000. - 448 p.
Der TPMA enthält ca. 90.000 Sprichwörter, Sprüche, Maximen und sprichwörtliche Redensarten aus literarischen Quellen des lateinischen, romanischen und germanischen Mittelalters mit ihren antiken Quellen. Die Sprichwörter sind in Artikeln geordnet, deren Titel (im Lexikon alphabetisch) jeweils mit dem Hauptbegriff der darunter vereinigten Sprichwörter...
De Gruyter, 2001. - 464 p.
Der TPMA enthält ca. 90.000 Sprichwörter, Sprüche, Maximen und sprichwörtliche Redensarten aus literarischen Quellen des lateinischen, romanischen und germanischen Mittelalters mit ihren antiken Quellen. Die Sprichwörter sind in Artikeln geordnet, deren Titel (im Lexikon alphabetisch) jeweils mit dem Hauptbegriff der darunter vereinigten Sprichwörter...
De Gruyter, 1995. - 292 p.
Der TPMA enthält ca. 90.000 Sprichwörter, Sprüche, Maximen und sprichwörtliche Redensarten aus literarischen Quellen des lateinischen, romanischen und germanischen Mittelalters mit ihren antiken Quellen. Die Sprichwörter sind in Artikeln geordnet, deren Titel (im Lexikon alphabetisch) jeweils mit dem Hauptbegriff der darunter vereinigten Sprichwörter...
De Gruyter, 2010. - 480 p.
Der TPMA enthält ca. 90.000 Sprichwörter, Sprüche, Maximen und sprichwörtliche Redensarten aus literarischen Quellen des lateinischen, romanischen und germanischen Mittelalters mit ihren antiken Quellen. Die Sprichwörter sind in Artikeln geordnet, deren Titel (im Lexikon alphabetisch) jeweils mit dem Hauptbegriff der darunter vereinigten Sprichwörter...
De Gruyter, 1995. - 510 p.
Der TPMA enthält ca. 90.000 Sprichwörter, Sprüche, Maximen und sprichwörtliche Redensarten aus literarischen Quellen des lateinischen, romanischen und germanischen Mittelalters mit ihren antiken Quellen. Die Sprichwörter sind in Artikeln geordnet, deren Titel (im Lexikon alphabetisch) jeweils mit dem Hauptbegriff der darunter vereinigten Sprichwörter...
De Gruyter, 1996. - 500 p.
Der TPMA enthält ca. 90.000 Sprichwörter, Sprüche, Maximen und sprichwörtliche Redensarten aus literarischen Quellen des lateinischen, romanischen und germanischen Mittelalters mit ihren antiken Quellen. Die Sprichwörter sind in Artikeln geordnet, deren Titel (im Lexikon alphabetisch) jeweils mit dem Hauptbegriff der darunter vereinigten Sprichwörter...
De Gruyter, 1996. - 500 p.
Der TPMA enthält ca. 90.000 Sprichwörter, Sprüche, Maximen und sprichwörtliche Redensarten aus literarischen Quellen des lateinischen, romanischen und germanischen Mittelalters mit ihren antiken Quellen. Die Sprichwörter sind in Artikeln geordnet, deren Titel (im Lexikon alphabetisch) jeweils mit dem Hauptbegriff der darunter vereinigten Sprichwörter...
De Gruyter, 1997. - 480 p.
Der TPMA enthält ca. 90.000 Sprichwörter, Sprüche, Maximen und sprichwörtliche Redensarten aus literarischen Quellen des lateinischen, romanischen und germanischen Mittelalters mit ihren antiken Quellen. Die Sprichwörter sind in Artikeln geordnet, deren Titel (im Lexikon alphabetisch) jeweils mit dem Hauptbegriff der darunter vereinigten Sprichwörter...
De Gruyter, 1998. - 480 p.
Der TPMA enthält ca. 90.000 Sprichwörter, Sprüche, Maximen und sprichwörtliche Redensarten aus literarischen Quellen des lateinischen, romanischen und germanischen Mittelalters mit ihren antiken Quellen. Die Sprichwörter sind in Artikeln geordnet, deren Titel (im Lexikon alphabetisch) jeweils mit dem Hauptbegriff der darunter vereinigten Sprichwörter...
De Gruyter, 1998. - 496 p.
Der TPMA enthält ca. 90.000 Sprichwörter, Sprüche, Maximen und sprichwörtliche Redensarten aus literarischen Quellen des lateinischen, romanischen und germanischen Mittelalters mit ihren antiken Quellen. Die Sprichwörter sind in Artikeln geordnet, deren Titel (im Lexikon alphabetisch) jeweils mit dem Hauptbegriff der darunter vereinigten Sprichwörter...
De Gruyter, 1999. - 488 p.
Der TPMA enthält ca. 90.000 Sprichwörter, Sprüche, Maximen und sprichwörtliche Redensarten aus literarischen Quellen des lateinischen, romanischen und germanischen Mittelalters mit ihren antiken Quellen. Die Sprichwörter sind in Artikeln geordnet, deren Titel (im Lexikon alphabetisch) jeweils mit dem Hauptbegriff der darunter vereinigten Sprichwörter...
De Gruyter, 1999. - 480 p.
Der TPMA enthält ca. 90.000 Sprichwörter, Sprüche, Maximen und sprichwörtliche Redensarten aus literarischen Quellen des lateinischen, romanischen und germanischen Mittelalters mit ihren antiken Quellen. Die Sprichwörter sind in Artikeln geordnet, deren Titel (im Lexikon alphabetisch) jeweils mit dem Hauptbegriff der darunter vereinigten Sprichwörter...
De Gruyter, 2001. - 456 p.
Der TPMA enthält ca. 90.000 Sprichwörter, Sprüche, Maximen und sprichwörtliche Redensarten aus literarischen Quellen des lateinischen, romanischen und germanischen Mittelalters mit ihren antiken Quellen. Die Sprichwörter sind in Artikeln geordnet, deren Titel (im Lexikon alphabetisch) jeweils mit dem Hauptbegriff der darunter vereinigten Sprichwörter...
Arc Humanities Press, 2023. — 448 p. This reference work examines the ways in which some medieval behaviours and identities were categorized as criminal or deviant. It also explores the implications of modern demonization of the Middle Ages. As well as discussing constructions of deviance, this book also explores the behaviours and identities which provoked these labels and...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 297 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs).
Medieval Violence provides a detailed analysis of the practice of medieval brutality, focusing on a thriving region of northern France in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. It examines how violence was conceptualised in this period, and uses this framework to investigate street violence,...
Boydell Press, 2018. — 342 p. — (Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture 14). Images and imagery played a major role in medieval political thought and culture, but their influence has rarely been explored. This book provides a full assessment of the subject. Starting with an examination of the writings of late twelfth-century courtier-clerics, and their new vision of...
Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2019. — 353 p. — (Sanctity in Global Perspective). On 29 December, 1170, Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, was brutally murdered in his own cathedral. News of the event was rapidly disseminated throughout Europe, generating a widespread cult which endured until the reign of Henry VIII in the sixteenth century, and engendering a...
Brepols, 2023. — 312 p. — (Texte, Codex & Contexte 23). A collaborative investigation of one of the best-known works of late medieval European literature, the Franco-Burgundian collection of short stories known as the Cent Nouvelles nouvelles. Modelled loosely on Boccaccio's Decameron and incorporating elements from Old French fabliaux as well as Poggio Bracciolini's Liber...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 398 p. — ISBN: 0-19-924427-8. This is the first single-author study in over fifty years to offer an integrated appraisal of the early Middle Ages as a dynamic and formative period in European history. Written in an attractive and accessible style, it makes extensive use of original sources to introduce early medieval men and women at all levels...
University of Wales Press, 2021. — 128 p. Introducing the Medieval Ass presents a lucid, accessible, and comprehensive picture of the enormous socioeconomic and cultural significance of the ass, or donkey, in the Middle Ages and beyond. In medieval times, the ass was a vital, utilitarian beast of burden, rather like ubiquitous white delivery vans today. At the same time,...
Brepols, 2015. — 492 p. This book investigates how medieval abbeys in the Southern Low Countries used hagiographical manuscripts as a communicative tool. Four basic questions are addressed: How did layout influence a manuscript's communicative potential? Was manuscript communication influenced by its composition? How did the flexibility of texts and manuscripts influence their...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 305 p. — (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology). Drawing on material from a range of genres, with extensive reference to manuscript collections, Richard Snoddy offers a detailed study of James Ussher's applied soteriology. After locating Ussher in the ecclesiastical context of seventeenth-century Ireland and England, Snoddy examines his...
D.S. Brewer, 2011. — 276 p. Local and imperial, insular and expansive, both English yet British: geographically and culturally, the sea continues to shape changing models of Englishness. This volume traces the many literary origins of insular identity from local communities to the entire archipelago, laying open the continuities and disruptions in the sea's relationship with...
Ohio State University Press, 2015. — 322 p. In the medieval period, as in the media culture of the present, learned and popular forms of talk were intermingled everywhere. They were also highly mobile, circulating in speech, writing, and symbol, as performances as well as in material objects. The communication through and between different media we all negotiate in daily life did...
Sutton Publishing Ltd., 1980. — 288 p. Draws on contemporary sources to present a reign-by-reign chronicle of the English court fool from his origins in Carolingian Europe and Celtic Ireland to Archy Armstrong, jester to James I. Among topics covered are innocents or natural fools, the evolution of the Tudor jester from his medieval antecedents, biographies of Henry VIII's...
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2020. — 212 p. — (Medieval Monastic Studies 5). Founded in 1132, Fountains Abbey became the wealthiest English Cistercian monastery - yet relatively little analysis has been made of its surviving records to investigate how its wealth was controlled and sustained. This book deals with this secular aspect of the religious community at...
Brill, 2024. — xxiv, 358 p. — (Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe 21). The story of the mitre began during the 11th-century church reform movements and was, surprisingly, inspired by a popular pastime. After a thousand years of bare heads, the Church finally had an official hat, signaling newly-structured internal dynamics, an increase in power and...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 280 p. Why did weeds matter in the Carolingian empire? What was their special significance for writers in eighth- and ninth-century Europe and how was this connected with the growth of real weeds? In early medieval Europe, unwanted plants that persistently appeared among crops created extra work, reduced productivity, and challenged...
D.S. Brewer, 2011. — 214 p. This co-written book challenges assumptions about Chrétien as the author of a canon of works. In a series of lively exchanges, its five authors reassess the relationship between lyric and romance, between individuality and social conditions, and between psychology and medieval philosophy. The idea of 'logical time' is used to open up such topics as...
Seuil, 2021. — 194 p. Une étude sur le fixeur, un intermédiaire qui, au Moyen Age, servait de traducteur dans toutes les situations de rencontre et d'échanges (croisade, pèlerinage, prédication ou commerce). L'auteure confronte l'histoire et la littérature médiévale à travers l'analyse de la circulation des textes. Depuis l'engagement occidental en Afghanistan, en Irak puis en...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 432 p. The Historians of Angevin England is a study of the explosion of creativity in historical writing in England in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, and what this tells us about the writing of history in the middle ages. Many of those who wrote history under the Angevin kings of England chose as their subject the events of...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 432 p. The Historians of Angevin England is a study of the explosion of creativity in historical writing in England in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, and what this tells us about the writing of history in the middle ages. Many of those who wrote history under the Angevin kings of England chose as their subject the events of...
Ohio State University Press, 2011. — 328 p. How to Make a Human: Animals and Violence in the Middle Ages tracks human attempts to cordon humans off from other life through a wide range of medieval texts and practices, including encyclopedias, dietary guides, resurrection doctrine, cannibal narrative, butchery law, boar-hunting, and teratology. Karl Steel argues that the human...
Brill, 2019. — 382 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, vol. 57). The French president Charles de Gaulle spoke of a Europe "from the Atlantic to the Urals". Europe was spatially formed with these topographic parameters from the late 10th century onwards, with the massive Christianization of its inhabitants. At that time, however, all three...
D.S.Brewer, 2022. — 346 p. — (Anglo-Saxon Studies 42). Throughout her career, Professor Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe has focused on the often-overlooked details of early medieval textual life, moving from the smallest punctum to a complete reframing of the humanities' biggest questions. In her hands, the traditional tools of medieval studies -- philology, paleography, and close...
D.S.Brewer, 2022. — 346 p. — (Anglo-Saxon Studies 42). Throughout her career, Professor Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe has focused on the often-overlooked details of early medieval textual life, moving from the smallest punctum to a complete reframing of the humanities' biggest questions. In her hands, the traditional tools of medieval studies -- philology, paleography, and close...
Boydell Press, 2009. — 224 p. The officers of arms (kings of arms, heralds and pursuivants) have often been overlooked by scholars of late medieval elite society. Yet as officers of the crown, ducal courts or noble families, they played important parts in a number of areas. They were crucial to foreign and domestic relations, and chivalric culture; and, of course, they were to...
Princeton University Press, 1987. — 616 p.
This book explores the influence of literacy on eleventh and twelfth-century life and though on social organization, on the criticism of ritual and symbol, on the rise of empirical attitudes, on the relationship between language and reality, and on the broad interaction between ideas and society.
Medieval and early modern literacy,...
University of Toronto Press, 2016. — 296 p. In the Middle Ages, the life story of Alexander the Great was a well-traveled tale. Known in numerous versions, many of them derived from the ancient Greek Alexander Romance, it was told and re-told throughout Europe, India, the Middle East, and Central Asia. The essays collected in "Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages" examine these...
Cambridge University Press, 2024. — 502 p. In the Middle Ages, educated people communicated their love in verse letters that revealed at once their personal commitments and their commitments to an established form of literary art. Medieval Love Letters reveals the fascinating duality of the medieval love letter as literary art and as life-writing by exploring a wide variety of...
Brill, 2019. — xii, 210 p. — (Commentaria 11). Linda Stone’s analysis of the anti-Jewish polemic present in three closely-linked twelfth-century Psalms glosses brings a new source to the study of medieval Christian-Jewish relations. She reveals how its presence, within the parva, media and magna glosses compiled respectively, by Anselm of Laon, Gilbert of Poitiers and Peter...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 420 p. What did it mean to be a Frankish nobleman in an age of reform? How could Carolingian lay nobles maintain their masculinity and their social position, while adhering to new and stricter moral demands by reformers concerning behaviour in war, sexual conduct and the correct use of power? This book explores the complex interaction between...
Brill, 2007. — 271 p. — (Visualising the Middle Ages 1). Assembled on the occasion of Gary Dickson's retirement from the University of Edinburgh following a distinguished career as an internationally acclaimed scholar of medieval social and religious history, this volume contains contributions by both established and newer scholars inspired by Dickson’s particular interests in...
Brill, 2021. — 288 p. — (Explorations in Medieval Culture 15). There are few historical figures in the Middle Ages that cast a larger shadow than Charlemagne. This volume brings together a collection of studies on the Charlemagne legend from a wide range of fields, not only adding to the growing corpus of work on this legendary figure, but opening new avenues of inquiry by...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. - 240 p.
Introduction: Power, History, Drama
The Body: Bare Life in the Passion Plays
Things: Objects and Agency in the Trial and Crucifixion Plays
Gender/Politics: Motherhood in the Innocents Plays and the Planctus Mariae
Economics: Money, Labor, and Ideology in Four Towneley Plays
Law: Obligation and Legal Parody in the Cain and Abel Plays...
De Gruyter, 2010. — 318 p. The volume assesses performative structures within a variety of medieval forms of textuality, from vernacular literature to records of parliamentary proceedings, from prayer books to musical composition. Three issues are central to the volume: the role of ritual speech acts; the way in which authorship can be seen as created within medieval texts...
Liverpool University Press, 2024. — 296 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Belief and Culture). The century between c. 650 and 750 was one of major religious, social and political transformations in northwest Europe. In the Frankish kingdom, clerics from Ireland and Britain played an important role in these processes. One of the most prominent figures to emerge from...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 240 p. For the first time, a group of distinguished authors come together to provide an authoritative exploration of the cultural history of tragedy in the Middle Ages. Reports of the so-called death of medieval tragedy, they argue, have been greatly exaggerated; and, for the Middle Ages, the stakes couldn't be higher. Eight essays offer a blueprint...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 240 p. For the first time, a group of distinguished authors come together to provide an authoritative exploration of the cultural history of tragedy in the Middle Ages. Reports of the so-called death of medieval tragedy, they argue, have been greatly exaggerated; and, for the Middle Ages, the stakes couldn't be higher. Eight essays offer a blueprint...
Brill, 2007. — x, 366 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 134). This study is the first comprehensive treatment of the way Marsilius of Padua (1270/1290–1342), a seminal political thinker of the Late Middle Ages, elaborated on Aristotle’s political thought in articulating his political theory. Its main thesis is that Marsilius is committed to the view of a...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 348 p. This is the first book to focus on Latin epic verse saints' lives in their medieval historical contexts. Anna Taylor examines how these works promoted bonds of friendship and expressed rivalries among writers, monasteries, saints, earthly patrons, teachers, and students in Western Europe in the central middle ages. Using philological,...
University of Central Florida, 2023. — 99 p. This thesis centers on Theodulf of Orléans and the themes of love and food throughout his episcopal statutes and poetry. These two themes are connected to the larger Carolingian landscape, in which Theodulf interacts with society, culture, and religion. In covering these two themes, a more nuanced picture of Carolingian religion and...
Brepols, 2011. — 408 p. — (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 12). It is well known that the Carolingian royal family inspired and promoted a cultural revival of great consequence. The courts of Charlemagne and his successors welcomed lively gatherings of scholars who avidly pursued knowledge and learning, while education became a booming business in the...
Brepols Publishers, 2018. — 782 p. — (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy 38). Annotations in modern books are a phenomenon that often causes disapproval: we are not supposed to draw, doodle, underline, or highlight in our books. In many medieval manuscripts, however, the pages are filled with annotations around the text and in-between the lines. In some cases, a ‘white space’...
De Gruyter, 2013. — 548 S. — (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 88). Auch der vormoderne Mittel- und Nordeuropäer ist als „homo ludens“ vorzustellen. So begegnen uns verschiedenste Spiele sportliche Disziplinen im Germanischen und Keltischen in mannigfacher Funktion als literarisches Motiv in fiktionalen Texten und als mythologische Chiffre....
Brill, 2022. — 306 p. — (Explorations in Medieval Culture 18). This edited collection examines the ways in which medieval grief is both troubled and troubling––troubled in its representation, troubling to categories such as gender, identity, hierarchy, theology, and history, among others. Investigating various instantiations of grief—sorrow, sadness, and mourning; weeping and...
Ohio State University Press, 2021. — 234 p. Scripting the Nation is the first book to set the poets of Scottish King James IV’s court—William Dunbar, Walter Kennedy, and Gavin Douglas—in an extended dialogue with Latin and vernacular traditions of historiography. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, Latin chroniclers such as John of Fordun and Walter Bower argued for...
D.S. Brewer, 2020. —242 p. Bohemian culture exercised an important influence on the court of King Richard II, but it has been somewhat overlooked, with previous scholarship on its writers and artists generally confined to the role played by the French courtof King Charles V and the Italian city states of Milan and Florence. This book aims to fill that gap. It argues that...
Brill, 2018. — xxiv, 404 p. — (Library of the Written Word - The Manuscript World 67). In Communal Creativity in the Making of the ‘Beowulf’ Manuscript, Simon Thomson analyses details of scribal activity to tell a story about the project that preserved Beowulf as one of a collective, if error-strewn, endeavour and arguing for a date in Cnut’s reign. He presents evidence for the...
Macat Library, 2017. — 102 p. Few historians trace grand themes across many centuries and places, but Ernst Kantorowicz's great work on the symbolic powers of kingship is a fine example of what can happen when they do. The King's Two Bodies is at once a superb example of the critical thinking skill of evaluation – assessing huge quantities of evidence, both written and visual,...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 338 p. Combining historical, literary and linguistic evidence from Old English and Latin, Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England creates a new, more complete picture of who and what pre-Conquest English poets really were. It includes a study of Anglo-Saxon words for 'poet' and the first list of named poets in Anglo-Saxon England. Its survey...
Stanford University Press, 1996. — 294 p. Medieval Venuses and Cupids analyzes the transformations of the love deities in later Middle English Chaucerian poetry, academic Latin discourses on classical myth (including astrology, natural philosophy, and commentaries on classical Roman literature), and French conventions that associate Venus and Cupid with Ovidian arts of love....
Columbia University Press, 2002. — 372 p. In the first century of Islam, most of the former Christian Roman Empire, from Syria to Spain, was brought under Muslim control in a conquest of unprecedented proportions. Confronted by the world of Islam, countless medieval Christians experienced a profound ambivalence, awed by its opulence, they were also troubled by its rival claims...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 206 p. Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Feminist Origins of the Arthurian Legend provides the first feminist analysis of both the Arthurian section of The History of the Kings of Britain and The Life of Merlin. Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Arthurian Section as Feminist Legend Complicating and Undermining Feminist Legend in le Roman de Brut Displacing Feminist...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. — 344 p. Twelve literary scholars and historians investigate the ways in which space and place are politically, religiously, and culturally inflected. Exploring medieval texts as diverse as Icelandic sagas, Ptolemy's "Geography", and Mandeville's "Travels", the contributors illustrate the intimate connection between geographical...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. - 126 p. The Germanic Medievalism of Borges’ Life Borges the Poet Borges the Scholar and Writer Borges the Fabulist Borges’ Medievalism
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 248 p. A Cultural History of Plants in the Post-Classical Era covers the period from 500 to 1400, ranging across northern and central Europe to the Mediterranean, and from the Byzantine and Arabic Empires to the Persian World, India, and China. This was an age of empires and fluctuating borders, presenting a changing mosaic of environments,...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 248 p. A Cultural History of Plants in the Post-Classical Era covers the period from 500 to 1400, ranging across northern and central Europe to the Mediterranean, and from the Byzantine and Arabic Empires to the Persian World, India, and China. This was an age of empires and fluctuating borders, presenting a changing mosaic of environments,...
D.S. Brewer, 2017. — 424 p. Skin is the parchment upon which identity is written; class, race, ethnicity, and gender are all legible upon the human surface. Removing skin tears away identity, and leaves a blank slate upon which law, punishment, sanctity, ormonstrosity can be inscribed; whether as an act of penal brutality, as a comic device, or as a sign of spiritual sacrifice,...
Brill, 2019. — 432 p. — (Explorations in Medieval Culture, v. 10). The willingness to betray one’s country, one’s people, one’s family - to commit treason and foreswear loyalty to one entity by giving it to another—is a difficult concept for many people to comprehend. Yet, societies have grappled with treason for centuries; the motivations, implications, and consequences are...
Boydell & Brewer Publishers, 2013. — 365 p. Castration and castrati have always been facets of western culture, from myth and legend to law and theology, from eunuchs guarding harems to the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century castrati singers. Metaphoric castration pervades a number of medieval literary genres, particularly the Old French fabliaux - exchanges of power predicated...
Brill, 2015. — 645 p. — (Explorations in Medieval Culture 1). The spectacle of the wounded body figured prominently in the Middle Ages, from images of Christ’s wounds on the cross, to the ripped and torn bodies of tortured saints who miraculously heal through divine intervention, to graphic accounts of battlefield and tournament wounds - evidence of which survives in the...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 272 p. Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts takes as its starting point an understanding that a medieval book is a whole object at every point of its long history. As such, medieval books can be studied most profitably in a holistic manner as objects-in-the-world. This means readers might profitably account for all aspects of the manuscript in...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 272 p. Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts takes as its starting point an understanding that a medieval book is a whole object at every point of its long history. As such, medieval books can be studied most profitably in a holistic manner as objects-in-the-world. This means readers might profitably account for all aspects of the manuscript in...
Leuven University Press , 2006. — 254 p.
Church buildings dominated medieval towns. The faithful flocked to the parish and monastic churches and chapels to attend masses, to receive the Sacraments, to offer up their prayers. However, secular authorities, from the ruler to the town government, the trades or guilds, also made use of these ecclesiastical buildings for storage and...
ABC-Clio, 2015. — 316 p. This new addition to the Daily Life through Artifacts series provides not only the full benefit of a reference work with its comprehensive explanations and primary sources, but also supplies images of the objects, bringing a particular aspect of the medieval world to life. Each entry in Artifacts from Medieval Europe explains and expands upon the...
Boydell & Brewer, 2021. — 332 p. — (Studies in Celtic History 41). The physical nature of the medieval cartulary examined alongside its textual contents. Medieval cartularies are one of the most significant sources for a historian of the Middle Ages. Once viewed as simply repositories of charters, cartularies are now regarded as carefully curated collections of texts whose...
Brill, 2010. — 270 p. — (Later Medieval Europe 6). The idea for this volume grew out of a series of panels on ‘madness’ over the course of three years’ International Congresses on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan and the International Medieval Congresses at the University of Leeds in Leeds, England. The panels ranged from defining mental...
Brill, 2014. — 392 p. — (Medieval Law and Its Practice 17). Medicine and the Law in the Middle Ages offers fresh insight into the intersection between these two distinct disciplines. A dozen authors address this intersection within three themes: medical matters in law and administration of law, professionalization and regulation of medicine, and medicine and law in hagiography....
Brepols Publishers, 2021. — 288 p. — (Studies in the Early Middle Ages 47). Water is both a practical and symbolic element. Whether a drop blessed by saintly relics or a river flowing to the sea, water formed part of the natural landscapes, religious lives, cultural expressions, and physical needs of medieval women and men. This volume adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to...
University of Toronto Press, 2017. — 464 p. In "England in Europe, Elizabeth "Muir Tyler focuses on two histories: the "Encomium Emmae Reginae", written for Emma the wife of the Aethelred II and Cnut, and "The Life of King Edward", written for Edith the wife of Edward the Confessor. Tyler offers a bold literary and historical analysis of both texts and reveals how the two queens...
Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2024. — 457 p. — (Scrinium Friburgense 59). What does the term author mean in the Romance literatures of the Middle Ages? What is its role in structuring the collection of texts attributed to it? Do the medieval written testimonies reflect the idea the author had of his work or do they obey other cultural criteria established by the compilers? This...
Brill, 2016. — 397 p. — (Intersections 43). Singing together is a tried and true method of establishing and maintaining a group’s identity. Identity, Intertextuality, and Performance in Early Modern Song Culture for the first time explores comparatively the dynamic process of group formation through the production and appropriation of songs in various European countries and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1999. — 234 p. — (Early Modern History: Society and Culture).
Introduction: Historical Laughter
Land of Cockaigne
Laughter Embodied
A Cure for the Civilized
The Politics of Joking
Entremets: Turning Bakhtin upside down
Censoring Lies
Jestbooks in the Spanish Netherlands
Counter Reformation Humour
Postscript: Hispanic Flemish Hotchpotch
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 207 p. The Gregorian Reform, Pastoral Power, and Subjection The Courtly Fold: The Subjectivation of Pastoral Power and the Invention of Modern Eroticism Chrétien de Troyes’s Diagram of Power: Perceval
Northern Illinois University Press, DeKalb, 2014. — 275 p. The Slavic Letters of St. Jerome is the first book-length study of the medieval legend that Church Father and biblical translator St. Jerome was a Slav who invented the Slavic (Glagolitic) alphabet and Roman Slavonic rite. The Slavic language, written in Jerome’s alphabet and endorsed by his authority, gained the unique...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 278 p. The Black Middle Ages examines the influence of medieval studies on African-American thought. Matthew X. Vernon focuses on nineteenth century uses of medieval texts to structure racial identity, but also considers the flexibility of medieval narratives more broadly in the medieval period, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book engages...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 278 p. The Black Middle Ages examines the influence of medieval studies on African-American thought. Matthew X. Vernon focuses on nineteenth century uses of medieval texts to structure racial identity, but also considers the flexibility of medieval narratives more broadly in the medieval period, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book engages...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. — 624 p. — (Boethius 60). Les mathématiques médiévales avaient un rôle économique très important au XIIème siècle étant donné que leur usage ne se limitait pas aux simples érudits, mais s étendait aux commerçants bien établis et aux itinérants. De nombreux ouvrages qui leur sont adressés présentent un nombre impressionnant d exemples et de problèmes...
Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2000. — 552 p. Bêtes et hommes dans le monde médiéval cherche «à définir la nature des relations entre l'homme et l'animal, la (ou les) fonction(s) que l'homme du Moyen Âge assigne à l'animal. C'est un repoussoir, un miroir, un ennemi et un allié. C'est un instrument capital dans la quête de soi-même de l'homme, une pièce essentielle de l'humanisme...
Brill / Schöningh, 2013. — 282 p. — (Mittelmeerstudien 1). People of the most diverse origins, functions and religious affiliations gathered at Christian and Muslim courts in the Medieval Mediterranean: Diplomats, scholars, artists, merchants and pilgrims came as visitors and encountered a wide spectrum of court officials such as administrative personnel, translators, religious...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2017. — 352 p. — (Beiträge zur Hagiographie 19). Heiligenviten können nur vor dem Hintergrund umfassender Kenntnisse der biblischen Bücher gelesen, verstanden und gedeutet werden. Es wäre ein großer Fehler, den Umgang mit biblischen Texten in bedeutenden Heiligenviten als bloßen Topos zu entwerten. Den Heiligen und den Autor seiner Vita verband eine...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. — 326 p. Envisioned as a tribe of ruddy-faced, redheaded, red-bearded Jewish warriors, bedecked in red attire who purportedly resided in isolation at the fringes of the known world, the Red Jews are a legendary people who populated a shared Jewish-Christian imagination. But in fact the red variant of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel is a...
Brepols Publishers , 2016. — 294 p. This volume recognises that religious writings care deeply about how devotional reading takes place, providing models for improving reading as a way of improving one's ability to worship. The abundant evidence from medieval England suggests a deep interest among devotional writers in documenting, teaching, and circumscribing devotional...
BÖHLAU, 1964. — 268 p.
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Blacker Jean, Burgess Glyn S., Ogden Amy (eds.). — Brill, 2013. — 406 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions; Texts and Sources 169/3). Best known for his two chronicles, the Roman de Brut and the Roman de Rou, Wace, one of the great pioneers of twelfth-century French writing, is also the author of three hagiographical works: the Conception Nostre Dame and the...
Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. — 244 p. — ISBN: 0-271-02045-8. Ficino and music. Ficino's Magic. Pletho, Lazaretti & Ficino. Ficino's magic in the 16th century. Telesians. Campanella.
De Gruyter, 2016. — 226 p. Understanding how medieval textual cultures engaged with the heritage of antiquity (transmission and translation) depends on recognizing that reception is a creative cultural act (transformation). These essays focus on the people, societies and institutions who were doing the transmitting, translating, and transforming - the "agents". The subject...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 240 p. Wondrous Skins and Tactile Affection: The Blemmye’s Touch Noli me Tangere: The Enigma of Touch in Middle English Religious Literature and Art for and About Women Havelok’s Bare Life and the Significance of Skin The Medieval Werewolf Model of Reading Skin Cutaneous Time in the Late Medieval Literary Imagination The Form of the Formless:...
Boydell and Brewer, 2016. — 265 p. The livery collar had a pervasive presence in late-medieval England. Worn about the neck to denote service to a lord, references to the collar abound in government records, contemporary chronicles and correspondence, and many depictions of the collar can be found in illuminated manuscripts and on church monuments. From the fifteenth century...
Brepols, 2024. — 254 p. — (Studia Traditionis Theologiae 54). The period between the Fall of Rome and the rise of the Carolingians saw a major shift in knowledge production. Learning became monopolised by a Christian intellectual elite in a rapidly developing monastic landscape. This transition and transformation was only fully achieved by the time of Charlemagne, whose reign...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. — 626 p. — (Sudhoffs Archiv 59). The study of computus, i.e. the medieval science of the reckoning of time, has lately received considerable attention. The focus of this research, however, has been on the few texts that can be readily attributed to well-known authors, leaving the impression that this science was understood and advanced only by a...
V&R unipress, 2022. — 663 p. — (Orbis mediaevalis Vorstellungswelten des Mittelalters 20). Death as a fundamental cultural and religious factor is given special consideration in the account of a bishop’s demise – but the ideas of death, the demands placed on bishops, and the way of portraying what has happened are changing. Without representing the center of the plot, death...
Boydell Press, 2016. — 270 p. Thomas Becket - the archbishop of Canterbury cut down in his own cathedral just after Christmas 1170 - stands amongst the most renowned royal ministers, churchmen, and saints of the Middle Ages. He inspired the work of medieval writers and artists, and remains a compelling subject for historians today. Yet many of the political, religious, and...
York Medieval Press, 2021. — 356 p. An investigation into how racial stereotypes were created and used in the European Middle Ages. Students in twelfth-century Paris held slanging matches, branding the English drunkards, the Germans madmen and the French as arrogant. On crusade, army recruits from different ethnic backgrounds taunted each other's military skills. Men producing...
York Medieval Press, 2021. — 356 p. An investigation into how racial stereotypes were created and used in the European Middle Ages. Students in twelfth-century Paris held slanging matches, branding the English drunkards, the Germans madmen and the French as arrogant. On crusade, army recruits from different ethnic backgrounds taunted each other's military skills. Men producing...
Medieval Institute Publications, 2019. — 308 p. This collection of essays examines the motifs of darkness, depression, and descent in both literal and figurative manifestations within a variety of Anglo-Saxon texts, including the Old English Consolation of Philosophy , Beowulf , Guthlac , The Junius Manuscript , The Wonders of the East , and The Battle of Maldon . Essays deal...
Medieval Institute Publications, 2019. — 308 p. This collection of essays examines the motifs of darkness, depression, and descent in both literal and figurative manifestations within a variety of Anglo-Saxon texts, including the Old English Consolation of Philosophy , Beowulf , Guthlac , The Junius Manuscript , The Wonders of the East , and The Battle of Maldon . Essays deal...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 462 p. In the thirteenth century, the University of Paris emerged as a complex community with a distinctive role in society. This book explores the relationship between contexts of learning and the ways of knowing developed within them, focusing on twelfth-century schools and monasteries, as well as the university. By investigating their...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 304 p. This book revives what was unique, strange, and exciting about the variety of performances that took place in the realms of the French kings and Burgundian dukes. Laura Weigert brings together a wealth of visual artifacts and practices to explore this tradition of late medieval performance taking place, not in "theaters," but in...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 298 p. This book presents the first full-length study in English of monumental bronzes in the Middle Ages. Taking as its point of departure the common medieval reception of bronze sculpture as living or animated, the study closely analyzes the practice of lost-wax casting (cire perdue) in western Europe and explores the cultural...
Brill, 2016. — 283 p. — (The Medieval Franciscans 12). In Liturgy, Books and Franciscan Identity in Medieval Umbria, Anna Welch explores how Franciscan friars engaged with manuscript production networks operating in Umbria in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries to produce the missals essential to their liturgical lives. A micro-history of Franciscan liturgical...
Amsterdam University Press, 2020. — 228 p. — (Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West). The varied career of Adam Easton (c.1330—1397) led him from Norwich Cathedral Priory to Oxford, Avignon and Rome. Not only a monk of the Benedictine Order, he was also a scholar, theologian, diplomat and cardinal, and his work reflects the breadth of this multifaceted background. This...
Torun: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikolaja Kopernika, 2008. — 625 s.
Вента Я., Хартманн З., Фоллманн-Профе Г. Средневековая культура и литература в государстве Немецкого Ордена в Пруссии: жизнь и последование.
Торунь: Научное издательство Университета Николая Коперника, 2008. - 625 с.
Dieser Band bildet den Auftakt der neuen Reihe Sacra bella septentrionalia. Diese...
University of Toronto Press, 2015. - 152 p.
Between the early thirteenth and late fifteenth centuries, theologians and preachers in Western Europe adopted a distinct and rigidly structured sermon format. The scholastic sermon, as it was known, was taught through technical treatises known as artes praedicandi, of which approximately 230 survive.
A dense and complicated...
Cambridge University Press, 2024. — 302 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology). This incisive, in-depth study unearths the significance of a neglected group of early medieval manuscripts, those which transmit the Ordines Romani. These texts present detailed scripts for Christian ceremonies that narrate the gestures, motions, actions and settings of ritual...
York Medieval Press, 2004. — 174 p.
Medieval castles have traditionally been explained as feats of military engineering and tools of feudal control, but Abigail Wheatley takes a different approach, looking at a range of sources usually neglected in castle studies. Evidence from contemporary literature and art reveals the castle's place at the heart of medieval culture, as an...
Routledge, 2017. — 244 p. How different are we from those in the past? Or, how different do we think we are from those in the past? Medieval people were more dirty and unhygienic than us – as novels, TV, and film would have us believe – but how much truth is there in this notion? This book seeks to challenge some of these preconceptions by examining medieval society through...
Routledge, 2017. — 244 p. How different are we from those in the past? Or, how different do we think we are from those in the past? Medieval people were more dirty and unhygienic than us – as novels, TV, and film would have us believe – but how much truth is there in this notion? This book seeks to challenge some of these preconceptions by examining medieval society through...
Parkstone International, 2022. — 256 p. — ISBN: 9781781608555. In the Middle Ages, navigation relied upon a delicate balance between art and science. Whilst respecting the customs and the precautions of their forbearers, sailors had to count on their knowledge of the stars, the winds, the currents, and even of migratory flights. They also used hand-painted maps, which, although...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. — 288 p. The Middle Ages (800–1400) were rich and vibrant centuries in the history of European culture, society, and intellectual thought. Emerging state powers, the growing influence of the Christian Church, demographic change, and economic expansion and contraction all made an impact upon children and family life. Movements for church reform...
Brepols Publishers, 2020. — 256 p. — (Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 46). The environment--together with ecology and other aspects of the way people see their world--has become a major focus of pre-modern studies. The thirteen contributions in this volume discuss topics across the millennium in Europe from the late 600s to the early 1600s. They introduce...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997. — 408 p. Part I traces the poetics of teratology, the study of monsters, to Christian neoplatonic theology and philosophy, particularly Pseudo-Dionysius's negative theology and his central idea that God cannot be known except by knowing what he is not. Williams argues that the principles of negative theology as applied to epistemology and...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2004. — 165 p. — (The Northern World 11).
This volume includes selected papers from an interdisciplinary symposium in Norse Studies held at the University of St Andrews. The symposium brought together scholars with a shared interest in medieval Scandinavian history and culture, especially the sagas, from a variety of disciplines, and this diversity is...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 280 p. Compunction was one of the most important emotions for medieval Christianity; in fact, through its confessional function, compunction became the primary means for an affective sinner to gain redemption. Cultures of Compunction in the Medieval World explores how such emotion could be expressed, experienced and performed in medieval European...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 280 p. Compunction was one of the most important emotions for medieval Christianity; in fact, through its confessional function, compunction became the primary means for an affective sinner to gain redemption. Cultures of Compunction in the Medieval World explores how such emotion could be expressed, experienced and performed in medieval European...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. - 296 p.
Introduction: Setting the Scene
The Foundation Legend of Godstow Abbey: A Holy Woman’s Life in Anglo-Norman Verse
Remembering Countess Delphine’s Books: Reading as a Means to Shape a Holy Woman’s Sanctity
The Letters of Princess Sophia of Hungary, a Nun at Admont
The Missing Rusian Women: The Case of Evpraksia Vsevolodovna
Leaving...
Boydell Press, 2020. — 256 p. — (Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture 18). Essays showing how the stuff of Norman Sicily, its mosaics, frescoes, art and architecture, was used to construct its history. Material culture played a crucial role in developing the cultural narrative of Norman Sicily. The essays in this book consider how images, designs, artifacts,...
Geneve, 2013. — 107 p.
Les travaux de Jean Wirth sur l’histoire de l’image médiévale se sont accompagnés dès le début d’une réflexion théorique sur la sémantique de l’image dont il livre les résultats dans ce petit ouvrage. Après avoir montré combien la notion d’image est devenue floue, il reprend le problème là où l’avaient laissé les penseurs du passé, comme saint Thomas,...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 618 p. This book traces the intellectual life of the Kingdom of Italy, the area in which humanism began in the mid-thirteenth century, a century or more before exerting its influence on the rest of Europe. Covering a period of over four and a half centuries, this study offers the first integrated analysis of Latin writings produced in the...
Bremer Landesmuseum für Kunst, 1982. — 230 p.
Handbuch zur Sonderausstellung vom 5. Dezember 1982 bis 24. April 1983 im Bremer Landesmuseum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte (Focke-Museum). Beiträge u.a. von Hartmut Boockmann (Die Lebensverhältnisse in spätmittelalterlichen Städten), Heiko Steuer (Zum Lebensstandard in der mittelalterlichen Stadt), Hans-Georg Stephan (Die...
Liverpool University Press, 1999. — 205 p. From the perspective of the Hispano-Romans, the Visigoths who invaded Spain in the midfifth century were heretical barbarians. But Leovigild's military success and Reccared's conversion to Catholic Christianity led to more positive assessments of the Gothic role in Iberian history. John of Biclaro (c.590) and Isidore of Seville (c.625)...
University of Sydney, 2020. — 292 p. Prophecy, Fate and Memory in the Early and Medieval Celtic World brings together a collection of studies that closely explore aspects of culture and history of Celtic-speaking nations. Non-narrative sources and cross-disciplinary approaches shed new light on traditional questions concerning commemoration, sources of political authority, and...
University of Sydney, 2020. — 292 p. Prophecy, Fate and Memory in the Early and Medieval Celtic World brings together a collection of studies that closely explore aspects of culture and history of Celtic-speaking nations. Non-narrative sources and cross-disciplinary approaches shed new light on traditional questions concerning commemoration, sources of political authority, and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 288 p.
Poetry’s Old War
The Broken Flood of the Miller’s Tale
The Runaway Gods of the Manciple’s Tale
The Lost World of the Nun’s Priest’s Tale
Brill, 2021. — 415 p. — (Later Medieval Europe 23). This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis of wills in late medieval Krakow. It presents the origins of testamentary acts in the Kingdom of Poland and its centre, Krakow, and their subsequent transformation from so called ‘canonical wills’ to ‘communal wills’. Wysmułek discusses the socio-cultural role of wills and...
Medieval Institute Publications; Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2024. — 349 p. — (Festschriften, Occasional Papers, and Lectures). Dante, Eschatology, and the Christian Tradition honors Ronald B. Herzman, SUNY Geneseo Distinguished Teaching Professor of English. Over more than fifty years Professor Herzman has been a major force in the promotion of medieval studies within academe and...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 270 p. During the early medieval period, crusading brought about new ways of writing about the city of Jerusalem in Europe. By creating texts that embellished the historical relationship between the Holy City and England, English authors endowed their nation with a reputation of power and importance. In Jerusalem in Medieval Narrative, Suzanne...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 344 p. The main function of western musical notation is incidental: it prescribes and records sound. But during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, notation began to take on an aesthetic life all its own. In the early fifteenth century, a musician might be asked to sing a line slower, faster, or starting on a different pitch than what is...
Palgrave, 2003. — 220 p. — (The New Middle Ages 35).
Zeikowitz explores both affirming and denigrating discourses of male same-sex desire in diverse fourteenth-century chivalric texts and describes the sociopolitical forces motivating those discourses. He attempts to dethrone traditional heteronormative views by drawing attention to culturally normative 'queer' desire....
Cornell University Press, 2020. — 258 p. Stolen Song documents the act of cultural appropriation that created a founding moment for French literary history: the rescripting and domestication of troubadour song, a prestige corpus in the European sphere, as French. This book also documents the simultaneous creation of an alternative point of origin for French literary history - a...
Cornell University Press, 2020. — 258 p. Stolen Song documents the act of cultural appropriation that created a founding moment for French literary history: the rescripting and domestication of troubadour song, a prestige corpus in the European sphere, as French. This book also documents the simultaneous creation of an alternative point of origin for French literary history - a...
Routledge, 2022. — 226 p. By the late Middle Ages, manifestations of Marian devotion had become multifaceted and covered all aspects of religious, private and personal life. Mary becomes a universal presence that accompanies the faithful on pilgrimage, in dreams, as holy visions, and as pictorial representations in church space and domestic interiors. The first part of the...
Routledge, 2022. — 226 p. By the late Middle Ages, manifestations of Marian devotion had become multifaceted and covered all aspects of religious, private and personal life. Mary becomes a universal presence that accompanies the faithful on pilgrimage, in dreams, as holy visions, and as pictorial representations in church space and domestic interiors. The first part of the...
University of Toronto Press, 2018. — 240 p. 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 letters themselves. In...
University of Toronto Press, 2018. — 240 p. 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 letters themselves. In...
Brepols Publishers, 2014. — 576 p. — (Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies 20). This book brings to life an impressively broad array of performances in the Eastern Mediterranean. It covers many traditional types of performance, including singers, dancers, storytellers, street performers, clowns, preachers, shadow-puppeteers, fireworks displays, and semi-theatrical...
М.: Ломоносовъ, 2020. — 256 с. — (История. География. Этнография). — ISBN 978-5-91678-606-4. Исследование «Дьявол в быту, легендах и литературе Средних веков» стоит особняком в творчестве популярнейшего писателя Серебряного века Александра Амфитеатрова (1862–1938). Оттолкнувшись от книги итальянского профессора Артуро Графа «Дьявол», который сосредоточился на теологической...
Лекции по культуре средневековой Европы преподавателя "Волгоградского государственного университета", доцента Асташина В. В. Лекция "Средневековая культура Венгерского королевства" содержит 38 слайдов.
М.: Книжный клуб 36.6, 2012. — 335 с. — ISBN: 978-5-98697-246-6. Средневековье - эпоха контрастов, противоречий и больших перемен. Но что думали и как чувствовали люди, жившие в те времена? Чем были для них любовь, нежность, сексуальность? Неужели наше отношение к интимной стороне жизни так уж отличается от средневекового? Книга "Любовь и секс в Средние века" дает нам...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2017. — 384 с. — (Богословская и церковно-историческая библиотека). — ISBN 978-5-906910-77-6. Предлагаемое издание - первая публикация университетского курса по истории средневековой цивилизации профессора Санкт-Петербургского университета В.Г. Васильевского (1839-1899). Лекции охватывают широкий хронологический диапазон - с I по XIII вв., отражают лучшие...
М.: Институт российской истории РАН; Институт археологии РАН, 2016. – 256 с. В издании публикуются материалы, подготовленные к научной конференции, которая пройдет 13–14 октября 2016 г. в Москве. В рефератах и тезисах докладов участников конференции подняты проблемы отражения личности человека средневековья в исторических и археологических источниках. Книга предназначена...
Санкт-Петербург: Мифрил, 1995. — 273 с. Петр Михайлович Бицилли (1879—1953) — выдающийся медиевист петербургской школы, автор блестящих работ по исторической и социальной психологии средневековья. «Элементы средневековой культуры» - одна из лучших работ ученого, в которой дана общая характеристика средневекового человека, его исторических и культурных горизонтов, его восприятия...
М.: Мифрил, 1995 - 264 с.
ISBN: 5-86457-010-9
Петр Михайлович Бицилли (1879—1953) — выдающийся медиевист петербургской школы, автор блестящих работ по исторической и социальной психологии средневековья. «Элементы средневековой культуры» — одна из лучших работ ученого, в которой дана общая характеристика средневекового человека, его исторических и культурных горизонтов, его...
Учебная книга для VI классов мужских гимназий и реальных училищ. — М.: Изд. Т-ва И.Д. Сытина, 1915. — 208 с. Оглавление Средневековая культура. Византийская культура Церковь и духовная культура. Школа, наука и литература. Государственное устройство. Развитие законодательства. Искусство. Культура ислама Происхождение и состав культуры ислама. Феодализм. Бенефиций. Возникновение...
СПб.: Тип. А. С. Суворина, 1912. — 96 с. Веселовский Александр Николаевич (1838-1906), русский филолог, историк и теоретик литературы, с 1870 г. профессор Петербургского университета, с 1877 г. академик. Автор рассматривает развитие личности в Средневековье и сопоставляет с классической древностью. Особое внимание уделяется женщине - ее положению в обществе в разное время и в...
СПб.: Тип. А.С. Суворина, 1912. — 96 с. Веселовский Александр Николаевич (1838-1906), русский филолог, историк и теоретик литературы, с 1870 г. профессор Петербургского университета, с 1877 г. академик. Автор рассматривает развитие личности в Средневековье и сопоставляет с классической древностью. Особое внимание уделяется женщине - ее положению в обществе в разное время и в...
Учебное пособие. — Екатеринбург: Уральский федеральный университет им. Первого президента России Б.Н. Ельцина (УрФУ), 2020. — 267 с. — ISBN: 978‑5‑7996‑2946‑5. В учебном пособии рассматриваются образы и представления, связанные со странами Ближнего Востока, Восточной, Южной и Юго‑Восточной Азии, а также отчасти Африки, формировавшиеся и трансформировавшиеся в европейской...
М.: АСТ, 2020. — 2279 с. Перед вами объемный сборник исследований по истории, искусству и литературе эпохи Средневековья от двух известных российских ученых: специалиста по истории средних веков Западной Европы Наталии Басовской и искусствоведа, преподавателя и писательницы Паолы Волковой. В книгу также вошли тексты основных памятников литературы изучаемых веков – трактат «Сумма...
М.: АСТ, 2020. — 2279 с. Перед вами объемный сборник исследований по истории, искусству и литературе эпохи Средневековья от двух известных российских ученых: специалиста по истории средних веков Западной Европы Наталии Басовской и искусствоведа, преподавателя и писательницы Паолы Волковой. В книгу также вошли тексты основных памятников литературы изучаемых веков – трактат «Сумма...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2014. — 568 с.: ил. — (Очерки визуальности). — ISBN 978-5-4448-0179-6. Монография представляет собой очерк христианской культуры Запада с эпохи Отцов Церкви до ее апогея на рубеже XIII–XIV вв. Не претендуя на полноту описания и анализа всех сторон духовной жизни рассматриваемого периода, автор раскрывает те из них, в которых мыслители и...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2014. — 568 с.: ил. — (Очерки визуальности). — ISBN: 978-5-4448-0179-6. Монография представляет собой очерк христианской культуры Запада с эпохи Отцов Церкви до ее апогея на рубеже XIII–XIV вв. Не претендуя на полноту описания и анализа всех сторон духовной жизни рассматриваемого периода, автор раскрывает те из них, в которых мыслители и...
М.: Российская политическая энциклопедия (РОССПЭН), 2008. — 559 с. Монография предлагает комплексную реконструкцию основных явлений культурной жизни Южной Италии в первой половине XIII века на материале как опубликованных текстов (трактатов, хроник, писем, поэзии), так и архивных материалов: иллюстрированных рукописей по астрологии, медицине и другим наукам о природе. Научная и...
3-е изд. — Москва: Новое литературное обозрение, 2018. — 568 с. — (Очерки визуальности). — ISBN 978-5-444-80272-4. Книга представляет собой очерк христианской культуры Запада с эпохи Отцов Церкви до ее апогея на рубеже XIII-XIV вв. Не претендуя на полноту описания и анализа всех сторон духовной жизни рассматриваемого периода, автор раскрывает те из них, в которых мыслители и...
СПб.: Центр гуманитарных инициатив, 2011. — 752 с. — (Письмена времени). Сборник посвящен памяти выдающегося отечественного историка-медиевиста, основателя исторической антропологии в России Арона Яковлевича Гуревича. Он был иностранным членом Американской академии медиевистов, Королевского Норвежского общества ученых, Королевского общества историков Великобритании, Бельгийской...
СПб.: Центр гуманитарных инициатив, 2011. — 752 с. — (Письмена времени). — ISBN: 978-5-88415-997-6. Сборник посвящен памяти выдающегося отечественного историка-медиевиста, основателя исторической антропологии в России Арона Яковлевича Гуревича. Он был иностранным членом Американской академии медиевистов, Королевского Норвежского общества ученых, Королевского общества историков...
СПб.: Азбука-классика, 2008. — 272 с.
Что подавали к королевскому столу в Средние века? Книга охватывает практически все сохранившиеся кулинарные книги Средневековья, начиная от трактата знаменитого римского гурмана Апиция до сочинений придворных поваров французских королей. Издание украшают также рекомендации, какой следует придерживаться диеты. На страницах энциклопедии...
СПб.: Издательский дом Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета, 2007. — 544 с. — (Письмена времени). — ISBN 978-5-288-03808-2. В издание вошли книги: «Проблемы средневековой народной культуры» и «Культура и общество средневековой Европы глазами современников». В фокусе исследования первой книги ‒ мировидение и особенности религиозности неграмотных простолюдинов, «людей...
СПб.: Издательский дом Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета, 2007. — 544 с. — (Письмена времени). — ISBN 978-5-288-03808-2. В издание вошли книги: «Проблемы средневековой народной культуры» и «Культура и общество средневековой Европы глазами современников». В фокусе исследования первой книги ‒ мировидение и особенности религиозности неграмотных простолюдинов, «людей...
М.: Искусство, 1984. — 350 с. В книге рассматриваются определенные аспекты картины мира людей западноевропейского средневековья: восприятие ими времени и пространства, их отношение к природе, понимание права, богатства, бедности, собственности и труда. Анализ этих категорий подводит к постановке проблемы человеческой личности эпохи феодализма. Под таким углом зрения исследуется...
М.: Искусство, 1972. — 318 с.; 2-е изд., испр. и доп. — М.: Искусство, 1984. — 350 с.
В книге исследуется картина мира средневекового человека, основные категории средневековой культуры, мировоззрение средневекового человека.
Книга известного историка и культуролога, в которой акцентируется внимание не на величайших событиях в истории Средневекового мира, а на жизни средневековых людей. Их представления о пространстве и времени, о грехе, труде и прочих повседневных делах.
М.: Искусство, 1984. — 350 с.
В книге рассматриваются определенные аспекты картины мира людей западноевропейского средневековья: восприятие ими времени и пространства, их отношение к природе, понимание права, богатства, бедности, собственности и труда. Анализ этих категорий подводит к постановке проблемы человеческой личности эпохи феодализма. Под таким углом зрения исследуется...
Монография. М.: Наука, 1972 г. 320 с. В первом издании данной книги рассматриваются определенные аспекты картины мира людей западноевропейского средневековья: восприятие ими времени и пространства, их отношение к природе, понимание права, богатства, бедности, собственности и труда. Анализ этих категорий подводит к постановке проблемы человеческой личности эпохи феодализма. Под...
М.: Наука, 1972. — 320 с. В первом издании данной книги рассматриваются определенные аспекты картины мира людей западноевропейского средневековья: восприятие ими времени и пространства, их отношение к природе, понимание права, богатства, бедности, собственности и труда. Анализ этих категорий подводит к постановке проблемы человеческой личности эпохи феодализма. Под таким углом...
М.: Искусство, 1989. — 368 с. Настоящая книга посвящена не высокой философии ученых богословов, а тому пласту обыденного сознания, который отражает "представления и речи средневекового простеца". Духовный мир средневекового человека автор рассматривает по основным его характеристикам - отдельные главы повествуют о своеобразном преломлении в умах простых людей официального...
М.: Искусство, 1989. — 366 с. — ISBN: 5-210-00018-4. Настоящая книга посвящена не высокой философии ученых богословов, а тому пласту обыденного сознания, который отражает "представления и речи средневекового простеца". Духовный мир средневекового человека автор рассматривает по основным его характеристикам - отдельные главы повествуют о своеобразном преломлении в умах простых...
М.: Искусство, 1989. — 368 с. Настоящая книга посвящена не высокой философии ученых богословов, а тому пласту обыденного сознания, который отражает "представления и речи средневекового простеца". Духовный мир средневекового человека автор рассматривает по основным его характеристикам - отдельные главы повествуют о своеобразном преломлении в умах простых людей официального...
М.: Искусство, 1981. — 359 с. Книга посвящена малоизученной теме — культуре широких масс народа в эпоху средневековья. В ней оспаривается распространенная точка зрения, согласно которой западноевропейская культура сводилась к культуре образованных слоев общества. Автор утверждает, что народная культура существовала и не представляла собой упрощенной версии...
М.: Искусство, 1981. — 359 с. Книга посвящена малоизученной теме — культуре широких масс народа в эпоху средневековья. В ней оспаривается распространенная точка зрения, согласно которой западноевропейская культура сводилась к культуре образованных слоев общества. Автор утверждает, что народная культура существовала и не представляла собой упрощенной версии...
М.: Искусство, 1990. — 396 с. — ISBN: 5-210-00102-4. Книга известного советского ученого-медиевиста продолжает и развивает исследование западноевропейской средневековой культуры с необычной точки зрения: посредством анализа письменных текстов как бы восстанавливается миропонимание широких слоев народа, не имевших доступа к письменности. Автор рассматривает саги и песни, записи...
Москва: Искусство, 1990. — 395 с.
Аннотация издательства: Книга известного советского ученого-медиевиста продолжает и развивает исследование западноевропейской средневековой культуры с необычной точки зрения: посредством анализа письменных текстов как бы восстанавливается миропонимание широких слоев народа, не имевших доступа к письменности. Автор рассматривает саги и песни,...
М.: Искусство, 1990. — 396 с. — ISBN: 5-210-00102-4. Книга известного советского ученого-медиевиста продолжает и развивает исследование западноевропейской средневековой культуры с необычной точки зрения: посредством анализа письменных текстов как бы восстанавливается миропонимание широких слоев народа, не имевших доступа к письменности. Автор рассматривает саги и песни, записи...
София: Наука и изкуство, 1985. — 375 с. Предговор. Народната култура и среднолатинската литература от Цезарий Арелатски до Цезарий Хайстербахски. Селяни и светци. Народната култура в огледалото на "покайните книги". "Божествената комедия" преди Данте. "Светилник": популярно богословие и народна религиозност през средните векове. "Върхът" и "низината": средновековна гротеска....
М.: Наука, 1988. — 344 с. ISBN: 5-02-009399-8 Монография посвящена праздничной культуре средневековья. Главными источниками послужили произведения изобразительного искусства - романская и готическая скульптура, художественное ремесло, миниатюры рукописей. Их исследование дает возможность проникнуть в живую полнокровную действительность той эпохи. Для историков, искусствоведов,...
М.: Наука, 1988. — 344 с. — ISBN 5-02-009399-8. Монография посвящена праздничной культуре средневековья. Главными источниками послужили произведения изобразительного искусства - романская и готическая скульптура, художественное ремесло, миниатюры рукописей. Их исследование дает возможность проникнуть в живую полнокровную действительность той эпохи. Для историков,...
М.: Либроком, 2010. — 191 с. — ISBN 978-5-397-01071-9. Вещи имеют свои судьбы. Прежде чем попасть в витрину музея, они проходили немалые пути и во времени, и в пространстве. Многие из них могли бы рассказать увлекательные истории. Изделия безвестных ремесленников, ярко и достоверно повествующие о своей эпохе, о ее психологии, незаменимы для исторического исследования. Какие...
М.: Либроком, 2010. — 191 с. — ISBN 978-5-397-01071-9. Вещи имеют свои судьбы. Прежде чем попасть в витрину музея, они проходили немалые пути и во времени, и в пространстве. Многие из них могли бы рассказать увлекательные истории. Изделия безвестных ремесленников, ярко и достоверно повествующие о своей эпохе, о ее психологии, незаменимы для исторического исследования. Какие...
М.: Индрик, 2006. — 556 с. Монография посвящена праздничной культуре Средневековья. Главными источниками послужили произведения изобразительного искусства — романская и готическая скульптура, художественное ремесло, миниатюры рукописей. Их исследование дает возможность проникнуть в живую полнокровную действительность той эпохи. Для историков, искусствоведов, археологов и более...
М.: Индрик, 2006. — 556 с. Монография посвящена праздничной культуре Средневековья. Главными источниками послужили произведения изобразительного искусства — романская и готическая скульптура, художественное ремесло, миниатюры рукописей. Их исследование дает возможность проникнуть в живую полнокровную действительность той эпохи. Для историков, искусствоведов, археологов и более...
Москва: Индрик, 2006. — 556 с. Монография посвящена праздничной культуре Средневековья. Главными источниками послужили произведения изобразительного искусства — романская и готическая скульптура, художественное ремесло, миниатюры рукописей. Их исследование дает возможность проникнуть в живую полнокровную действительность той эпохи. Для историков, искусствоведов, археологов и...
Киев: 1890. — 243 с. Книга рекомендуется литературоведам, историкам, этнологам, студентам и аспирантам исторических и филологических факультетов вузов, а также всем, кто интересуется историей и литературой Западной Европы. Николай Павлович Дашкевич (1852-1908) - известный литературовед и историк, представитель культурно-исторической школы в литературоведении. Родился в селе...
Л.: Ленинградская Публичная библиотека, 1927. — 210 с. — (Серия IV: Occidentalia). Предисловие, К истории Корбийского письма. Codices Petropolitani. F. v. XIV, I и F. v. I, II В.В.Бахтин, В вопросу о составе мед. частей рукописи П. б-ки Г.У.Вальтер, Историческое стихотворение XII в. и рукопись П. б-ки. О судьбах кодекса Q.v. IV. 3 А.Д.Стефанович, Semideus Катоnа Сакко. Неопубл....
СПб.: Дмитрий Буланин, 2022. — 368 с. — (Studiorum slavicorum monumenta 29). — ISBN 978-5-86007-926-7. Знаменитый труд выдающего медиевиста Ольги Антоновны Добиаш-Рождественской «Культ св. Михаила в латинском средневековье. V—XIII века» (Петроград, 1917), за который она была удостоена степени доктора всеобщей истории, получил высокие оценки ученых в России и Франции. По словам...
СПб.: Дмитрий Буланин, 2022. — 366 с. — (Studiorum slavicorum monumenta 29). Знаменитый труд выдающего медиевиста Ольги Антоновны Добиаш-Рождественской «Культ св. Михаила в латинском средневековье. V—XIII века» (Петроград, 1917), за который она была удостоена степени доктора всеобщей истории, получил высокие оценки ученых в России и Франции. По словам автора, «изучение святых...
М.: Наука, 1987. — 349 с. В книгу вошли работы члена-корреспондента АН СССР О. А. Добиаш-Рождественской (1874-1939) «Западное средневековое искусство», «Техника книги в эпоху феодализма», «Духовная культура Западной Европы IV-XI вв.» и другие, а также мемуарное и эпистолярное наследие выдающегося советского историка-медиевиста. Большинство работ О. А. Добиаш-Рождественской...
М.: Наука, 1987. — 349 с. В книгу вошли работы члена-корреспондента АН СССР О. А. Добиаш-Рождественской (1874-1939) «Западное средневековое искусство», «Техника книги в эпоху феодализма», «Духовная культура Западной Европы IV-XI вв.» и другие, а также мемуарное и эпистолярное наследие выдающегося советского историка-медиевиста. Большинство работ О. А. Добиаш-Рождественской...
СПб.: Петербургский учебный магазин, 1901. — 354 с. Книга посвящена средневековым поэтам-певцам, воспевавшим служение Богу и сюзерену, любовь к Прекрасной Даме, рыцарские подвиги и добродетели. Эти поэты стояли у истоков музыки, литературы и придворной куртуазии. Содержит иллюстрации.
СПб.: Алетейя, 2001. — 432 с. — (Vita memoriae).
"Возможно, эта книга позволит немного глубже почувствовать, чем жили средневековые люди, ведь она не излагает хронику великих исторических событий, но раскрывает саму жизнь, то, что мы обычно называем скучным словом «быт». Когда читаешь ее, создается впечатление, будто попадаешь в средневековый мир, ходишь по улицам городов,...
М.: Алетейа, 1997. — 351, [2] с. : ил., нот. ил. — (Vita memoriae). — ISBN: 5-89321-004-2. Книга посвящена средневековым поэтам-певцам, воспевавшим служение Богу и сюзерену, любовь к Прекрасной Даме, рыцарские подвиги и добродетели. Эти поэты стояли у истоков музыки, литературы и придворной куртуазии.
М.: Ломоносовъ, 2014. — 240 с. — (История. География. Этнография). — ISBN: 978-5-91678-226-4 Культуре рыцарства и возвышенной поэзии, которые невозможно разделить и без которых невозможно представить европейское Средневековье, посвящена книга историка и поэта Константина Алексеевича Иванова (1858—1919) — директора Императорской Николаевской гимназии в Царском Селе, домашнего...
М.: Ломоносов, 2014. — 240 с. — (История. География. Этнография). Странно представить сейчас, что было время, когда по европейским дорогам толпами разъезжали рыцари и традиция обязывала их быть певцами и поэтами. И некоторые из них, надо признать, стали поэтами выдающимися. Зародившись во Франции, искусство трубадуров и труверов, распространилось по Европе и по-своему...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2001. — 432 с. — (Vita memoriae).
"Возможно, эта книга позволит немного глубже почувствовать, чем жили средневековые люди, ведь она не излагает хронику великих исторических событий, но раскрывает саму жизнь, то, что мы обычно называем скучным словом «быт». Когда читаешь ее, создается впечатление, будто попадаешь в средневековый мир, ходишь по улицам городов,...
СПб.: Гуманитарная Академия, 2013. — 352 с. Монография А.В.Карабыкова посвящена характеристике воззрений на сущность языка и способы его использования, свойственных культуре христианского Средневековья. На основе изучения широкого круга источников, включающего в себя выдающиеся произведения агиографии и рыцарской литературы, важнейшие богословско-философские,...
СПб.: Гуманитарная Академия, 2013. — 363 с. ISBN: 978-5-93762-096-5 Монография А.В.Карабыкова посвящена характеристике воззрений на сущность языка и способы его использования, свойственных культуре христианского Средневековья. На основе изучения широкого круга источников, включающего в себя выдающиеся произведения агиографии и рыцарской литературы, важнейшие...
М.: Наука, 1982. — 272 с. "Под "художественным языком" эпохи авторы статей настоящего сборника понимают всю совокупность средств чувственно-понятийного освоения действительности. Художественный язык средних веков может быть прослежен как в области изобразительного и словесного искусства, так и в иных областях, имеющих дело со знаковыми системами, - в религиозно-магической...
М.: Наука, 1982. — 272 с. "Под "художественным языком" эпохи авторы статей настоящего сборника понимают всю совокупность средств чувственно-понятийного освоения действительности. Художественный язык средних веков может быть прослежен как в области изобразительного и словесного искусства, так и в иных областях, имеющих дело со знаковыми системами, - в религиозно-магической...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2003. - 337 с. (Серия «Библиотека средних веков»). ISBN: 5-89329-639-7 «История европейской культуры» Л. П. Карсавина — исследование западноевропейской, а отчасти и восточноевропейской культуры от ее зарождения в римскую эпоху вплоть до XVIII-XIX вв. Первую часть этого труда и представляет собой том «Римская империя, христианство и варвары», в котором Л. П....
СПб.: Алетейя, 2003. - 336 с. — (Серия «Библиотека средних веков»). Пер. с лит. Т.Алекнене; научная редакция, библиография А.Клементьева. ISBN 5-89329-639-7 «История европейской культуры» Л. П. Карсавина — исследование западноевропейской, а отчасти и восточноевропейской культуры от ее зарождения в римскую эпоху вплоть до XVIII-XIX вв. Первую часть этого труда и представляет...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2003. - 336 с. — (Серия «Библиотека средних веков»). Пер. с лит. Т.Алекнене; научная редакция, библиография А.Клементьева. ISBN 5-89329-639-7 «История европейской культуры» Л. П. Карсавина — исследование западноевропейской, а отчасти и восточноевропейской культуры от ее зарождения в римскую эпоху вплоть до XVIII-XIX вв. Первую часть этого труда и представляет...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2003. - 336 с. — (Серия «Библиотека средних веков»). Пер. с лит. Т.Алекнене; научная редакция, библиография А.Клементьева. ISBN 5-89329-639-7 «История европейской культуры» Л. П. Карсавина — исследование западноевропейской, а отчасти и восточноевропейской культуры от ее зарождения в римскую эпоху вплоть до XVIII-XIX вв. Первую часть этого труда и представляет...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2017. — 336 с. — (Библиотека средних веков). — ISBN 978-5-89329-639-6. «История европейской культуры» Л. П. Карсавина — исследование западноевропейской, а отчасти и восточноевропейской культуры от ее зарождения в римскую эпоху вплоть до XVIII-XIX вв. Первую часть этого труда и представляет собой том «Римская империя, христианство и варвары», в котором Л. П....
СПб.: Алетейя, 2003. — 337 с. (Библиотека средних веков). — ISBN: 5-89329-639-7. «История европейской культуры» Л. П. Карсавина — исследование западноевропейской, а отчасти и восточноевропейской культуры от ее зарождения в римскую эпоху вплоть до XVIII—XIX вв. Первую часть этого труда и представляет собой том «Римская империя, христианство и варвары», в котором Л. П. Карсавин...
М.: Книжная находка, 2003. Книга известного русского религиозного философа и историка-медиевиста Л.П. Карсавина (1882-1952) раскрывает "стихию жизни" Средневековья, в ярчайших проявлениях философской и религиозной мысли, экономического и политического развития Италии, Германии и Франции. Оглавление: История и «Культура Средних веков» Падающая римская империя и проблема...
Киев: Символ; Airland. — 1995. — 208 с. — ISBN: 5-7702-0925-9. Книга выдающегося мыслителя русского Серебряного века Льва Платоновича Карсавина является блестящим образцом и прообразом культурологии XX века. Она как бы подытожила целый ряд его исторических работ, одновременно продемонстрировав новый, синтетический подход к исследованию культуры. В то же время данный "очерк"...
Прага: Типография "Политика", 1929. — 464 с. Издание Чешской академии наук и искусств Изданная посмертно книга великого русского ученого Никодима Павловича Кондакова (1844-1925), представляет собой курс лекций, читанный автором в Карловом университете. Содержание: Предисловие проф. Л. Г. Нидерле. Древности восточных кочевников и южной России (скифо-сарматские). Искусство...
Монография. — Прага. Издание Чешской академии наук и искусств, 1929. — 464 с.
Язык: Русский (дореформенный).
Изданная посмертно книга великого русского ученого Никодима Павловича Кондакова (1844-1925), представляет собой курс лекций, читанный автором в Карловом университете.
Учебное пособие. — М.: Московский гуманитарный институт им. Е.Р. Дашковой, 2003. — 55 с.
Данное учебное пособие посвящено духовной жизни Западной Европы в средние века. В работе отражены особенности и основные этапы развития средневековой культуры, ценности и идеалы человека той эпохи.
Учебное пособие. — Екатеринбург: Уральский федеральный университет им. Первого президента России Б.Н. Ельцина (УрФУ), 2019. — 132 с. — ISBN: 978‑5‑7996‑2734‑8. Учебное пособие посвящено истории книжной традиции Западной Европы в эпоху Средневековья и дает представление о месте и роли рукописной книги в интеллектуальной жизни Средних веков, о положении и социальном статусе...
М.: Текст, 2011. — 224 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7516-0876-7. Новая книга непревзойденного знатока и исследователя культуры Западной Европы продолжает знакомить читателя с интереснейшими деталями средневековой европейской жизни. Жак Ле Гофф исследует само средневековое представление о жизни, ее героях - рыцарях без страха и упрека или благородных разбойниках; о местах, с которыми у нас...
М.: Текст, 2011. — 224 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7516-0876-7. Новая книга непревзойденного знатока и исследователя культуры Западной Европы продолжает знакомить читателя с интереснейшими деталями средневековой европейской жизни. Жак Ле Гофф исследует само средневековое представление о жизни, ее героях - рыцарях без страха и упрека или благородных разбойниках; о местах, с которыми у нас...
М.: Текст, 2011. — 224 с. — ISBN 978-5-7516-0876-7. Новая книга непревзойденного знатока и исследователя культуры Западной Европы продолжает знакомить читателя с интереснейшими деталями средневековой европейской жизни. Жак Ле Гофф исследует само средневековое представление о жизни, ее героях - рыцарях без страха и упрека или благородных разбойниках; о местах, с которыми у нас...
М.: Текст, 2011. — 220 с.
Перевод с французского Д.Савосина.
Новая книга непревзойденного знатока и исследователя культуры Западной Европы продолжает знакомить читателя с интереснейшими деталями средневековой европейской жизни. Жак Ле Гофф исследует само средневековое представление о жизни, ее героях - рыцарях без страха и упрека или благородных разбойниках; о местах, с...
Перевод с французского Д.Савосина. — М.: Текст, 2011. — 220 (4) с. — ISBN: 978-5-7516-0876-7. Новая книга непревзойденного знатока и исследователя культуры Западной Европы продолжает знакомить читателя с интереснейшими деталями средневековой европейской жизни. Жак Ле Гофф исследует само средневековое представление о жизни, ее героях - рыцарях без страха и упрека или благородных...
Пер. с франц. С. В. Чистяковой и Н. В. Шевченко под ред. В. А. Бабинцева. — Екатеринбург: Издательство Уральского университета, 2000. — 328 с. — ISBN 5-7525-0446-5. «Другое Средневековье» — сборник статей выдающегося французского историка Жака Ле Гоффа, посвященных истории, культуре и ментальности европейского Средневековья. Предисловие. Время и труд . Средние века Мишле....
Пер. с франц. С. В. Чистяковой и Н. В. Шевченко под ред. В. А. Бабинцева. — Екатеринбург: Издательство Уральского университета, 2000. — 328 с. — ISBN: 5-7525-0446-5. «Другое Средневековье» — сборник статей выдающегося французского историка Жака Ле Гоффа, посвященных истории, культуре и ментальности европейского Средневековья. Предисловие. Время и труд. Средние века Мишле....
Перевод с французского А. М. Руткевича. — 2-е изд. — СПб.: Изд-во Санкт-Петербургского университета, 2003. — 160 с. — ISBN: 5-288-03334-Х. С очерка истории интеллектуалов, людей, посвятивших себя умственной деятельности, - ученых (монахов и клириков) и мирян (богословов и философов), Ле Гофф начинает свою экспансию в мир духовности и психологии человека Средних веков. Как и в...
СПб.: Изд-во С.-Петербургского университета, 2003. — 160 с.
Перевод с французского А. М. Руткевича.
2-е изд.
С очерка истории интеллектуалов, людей, посвятивших себя умственной деятельности, - ученых (монахов и клириков) и мирян (богословов и философов), Ле Гофф начинает свою экспансию в мир духовности и психологии человека Средних веков. Как и в последующих своих работах -...
Перевод с французского А. М. Руткевича. — 2-е изд. — СПб.: Изд-во Санкт-Петербургского университета, 2003. — 160 с. — ISBN 5-288-03334-Х. С очерка истории интеллектуалов, людей, посвятивших себя умственной деятельности, - ученых (монахов и клириков) и мирян (богословов и философов), Ле Гофф начинает свою экспансию в мир духовности и психологии человека Средних веков. Как и в...
Долгопрудный: Аллегро-Пресс, 1997. — 290 с. С очерка истории интеллектуалов, людей, посвятивших себя умственной деятельности, - ученых (монахов и клириков) и мирян (богословов и философов), Ле Гофф начинает свою экспансию в мир духовности и психологии человека Средних веков. Как и в последующих своих работах - «Другое Средневековье», «Людовик IX Святой», нашумевшей в 1960-е годы...
Аллегро-Пресс Долгопрудный, 1997 — 290 с. С очерка истории интеллектуалов, людей, посвятивших себя умственной деятельности, - ученых (монахов и клириков) и мирян (богословов и философов), Ле Гофф начинает свою экспансию в мир духовности и психологии человека Средних веков. Как и в последующих своих работах - «Другое Средневековье», «Людовик IX Святой», нашумевшей в 1960-е годы...
Перевод с французского А. М. Руткевича. — 2-е изд. — СПб.: Издательство Санкт-Петербургского университета, 2003. — 160 с. — ISBN: 5-288-03334-Х. С очерка истории интеллектуалов, людей, посвятивших себя умственной деятельности, - ученых (монахов и клириков) и мирян (богословов и философов), Ле Гофф начинает свою экспансию в мир духовности и психологии человека Средних веков. Как...
У-Фактория, АСТ, 2009. - 544 с. (Philosophy). ISBN: 978-5-403-00513-5.
Знаменитый историк Средневековья Жак Ле Гофф посвящает феномену чистилища целую книгу. И это не случайно. Чистилище формировалось постепенно: изначально как вера в некое возможное искупление грехов после смерти, затем как верование в некое особое, срединное, промежуточное место, где осуществляется это...
М.; Екатеринбург: У-Фактория, АСТ, 2009. — 544 с. — (Philosophy). — ISBN: 978-5-403-00513-5.
Знаменитый историк Средневековья Жак Ле Гофф посвящает феномену чистилища целую книгу. И это не случайно. Чистилище формировалось постепенно: изначально как вера в некое возможное искупление грехов после смерти, затем как верование в некое особое, срединное, промежуточное место, где...
М.; Екатеринбург: У-Фактория, АСТ. 2009. — 544 c. — ISBN: 978-5-9757-0437-5; ISBN: 978-5-403-00513-5. Знаменитый историк Средневековья Жак Ле Гофф посвящает феномену чистилища целую книгу. И это не случайно. Чистилище формировалось постепенно: изначально как вера в некое возможное искупление грехов после смерти, затем как верование в некое особое, срединное, промежуточное...
Львів: Літопис, 2007. - 350 с. Книжка есеїв французького історика Жака Ле Гоффа - приклад блискучого поєднання історичної, літературознавчої та культурологічної методології в межах одного дослідження, що його предметом є історія людського духу. Для гуманітаріїв та всіх, хто не звик шукати знання на поверхні.
Пер. с фр. — Общ. ред. С. К. Цатуровой. — М.: Прогресс, 2001. — 440 с. — ISBN 5-01-004673-3. Файл не идентичен книжному изданию, но имеет страничную разметку данного издания. Мир воображаемого присутствует во всех обществах, во все эпохи, но временами, благодаря приписываемым ему свойствам, он приобретает особое звучание. Именно этот своеобразный, играющий неизмеримо важную...
Пер. с фр. — Общ. ред. С. К. Цатуровой. — М.: Прогресс, 2001. — 440 с. — ISBN 5-01-004673-3. Мир воображаемого присутствует во всех обществах, во все эпохи, но временами, благодаря приписываемым ему свойствам, он приобретает особое звучание. Именно этот своеобразный, играющий неизмеримо важную роль мир воображаемого окружал мужчин и женщин средневекового Запада. Как отделить...
М.: Прогресс, 2001. — 440 с. — ISBN: 5-01-004673-3. Мир воображаемого присутствует во всех обществах, во все эпохи, но временами, благодаря приписываемым ему свойствам, он приобретает особое звучание. Именно этот своеобразный, играющий неизмеримо важную роль мир воображаемого окружал мужчин и женщин средневекового Запада. Как отделить воображаемое от символического и...
Перевод с французского под общей редакцией Ю. Л. Бессмертного. — М.: Прогресс, Прогресс-Академия, 1992. — 376 с. Один из самых авторитетных историков XX века, Жак Ле Гофф рассматривает средневековый Запад в заданных им параметрах пространства-времени, материальной культуры и социальной иерархии, открывающих нам как человека Средневековья в его повседневности и в его...
Екатеринбург: У-Фактория, 2005. - 560 с. (Серия "Великие цивилизации"). Перевод с французского под общей редакцией В. А. Бабинцева. Послесловие А. Я. Гуревича. Один из самых авторитетных историков XX века, Жак Ле Гофф рассматривает средневековый Запад в заданных им параметрах пространства-времени, материальной культуры и социальной иерархии, открывающих нам как человека...
Екатеринбург: У-Фактория, 2005. — 560 с. — (Великие цивилизации). — ISBN 5-94799-388-0, 5-9709-0037-0. Один из самых авторитетных историков XX века, Жак Ле Гофф рассматривает средневековый Запад в заданных им параметрах пространства-времени, материальной культуры и социальной иерархии, открывающих нам как человека Средневековья в его повседневности и в его ментальности, так и...
Пер. с фр. под общ. ред. В.А. Бабинцева. — Екатеринбург: У-Фактория, 2005. — 560 с. — (Великие цивилизации). — ISBN 5-9709-0037-0. Один из самых авторитетных историков XX века, Жак Ле Гофф рассматривает средневековый Запад в заданных им параметрах пространства-времени, материальной культуры и социальной иерархии, открывающих нам как человека Средневековья в его повседневности и...
Перевод с французского под общей редакцией В. А. Бабинцева. — Екатеринбург: У-Фактория, 2005. — 560 с. — (Великие цивилизации). Послесловие А. Я. Гуревича. Один из самых авторитетных историков XX века, Жак Ле Гофф рассматривает средневековый Запад в заданных им параметрах пространства-времени, материальной культуры и социальной иерархии, открывающих нам как человека...
Екатеринбург: У-Фактория, 2005. - 560 с. (Серия "Великие цивилизации"). Перевод с французского под общей редакцией В. А. Бабинцева. Послесловие А. Я. Гуревича. Один из самых авторитетных историков XX века, Жак Ле Гофф рассматривает средневековый Запад в заданных им параметрах пространства-времени, материальной культуры и социальной иерархии, открывающих нам как человека...
Пер. с фр. под общ. ред. В. А. Бабинцева; послесл. А. Я. Гуревича. — Екатеринбург: У-Фактория, 2005. — 560 с. — (Великие цивилизации). Один из самых авторитетных историков XX века, Жак Ле Гофф рассматривает средневековый Запад в заданных им параметрах пространства-времени, материальной культуры и социальной иерархии, открывающих нам как человека Средневековья в его...
Хрестоматия. — Киев: Христианское братство «Путь к истине», 1992 — 383 с. — ISBN: 5-7707-3107-9. Сборник текстов. Хотя лишь одна из представленных в книге работ может быть отнесена непосредственно к сфере богословской мысли, однако все они разрабатывают фактически одну тему: пути проникновения Христианского мировоззрения и Христианской духовности в различные пласты культуры...
Киев: Христианское братство "Путь к истине", 1992. - 383 с. — ISBN: 5-7707-3107-9 В данном томе лишь одна из представленных работ может быть отнесена непосредственно к сфере богословской мысли, однако все они разрабатывают фактически одну тему: пути проникновения Христианского мировоззрения и Христианской духовности в различные пласты культуры Средневековья. Внимание читателя...
Киев: Христианское братство "Путь к истине", 1992. - 383 с. — ISBN: 5-7707-3107-9 В данном томе лишь одна из представленных работ может быть отнесена непосредственно к сфере богословской мысли, однако все они разрабатывают фактически одну тему: пути проникновения Христианского мировоззрения и Христианской духовности в различные пласты культуры Средневековья. Внимание читателя...
Киев: Христианское братство "Путь к истине", 1992. - 383 с. — ISBN: 5-7707-3107-9 В данном томе лишь одна из представленных работ может быть отнесена непосредственно к сфере богословской мысли, однако все они разрабатывают фактически одну тему: пути проникновения Христианского мировоззрения и Христианской духовности в различные пласты культуры Средневековья. Внимание читателя...
Киев: Христианское братство "Путь к истине", 1992. - 383 с. — ISBN: 5-7707-3107-9 В данном томе лишь одна из представленных работ может быть отнесена непосредственно к сфере богословской мысли, однако все они разрабатывают фактически одну тему: пути проникновения Христианского мировоззрения и Христианской духовности в различные пласты культуры Средневековья. Внимание читателя...
Академия "Арзамас", 2021. - 59 с. Как в XV веке писали книги по истории? Что изображали на средневековых миниатюрах и как понять их скрытую символику? Историк-медиевист Михаил Майзульс рассказывает о «Цвете историй» — рукописной книге из библиотеки бургундского герцога Филиппа III Доброго — и попутно объясняет, как были устроены другие манускрипты того времени. Работа хорошо...
Учебное пособие. — Алматы: Қазақ университеті, 2018. — 222 с. Учебное пособие предназначено для магистрантов, обучающихся по специальности «История». В пособии изложена история формирования духовной культуры Средневековья, являющаяся одной из наиболее сложных и актуальных проблем исторической науки. Центральной проблемой пособия является исследование путей и форм развития...
Москва: АСТ, 2020. В Средние века люди были жутко грязными и вонючими – никогда не мылись, одежду не стирали, рыцари ходили в туалет прямо под себя, в доспехи, а широкополые шляпы носили, чтобы защищаться от помоев и содержимого ночных горшков, постоянно выливаемых из окон. Королева Изабелла Кастильская поклялась не менять белье, пока мавры не будут изгнаны из Испании, и мылась...
М.: АСТ, 2020. — 336 с. — (История и наука Рунета). Добро пожаловать в Средневековье - жестокую и веселую эпоху, когда люди с одинаковым рвением молились и убивали, пировали и постились, грешили и каялись. Время фанатиков, умиравших за веру Христову в Крестовых походах, и лицемеров, именовавших бобров рыбой, чтобы их можно было есть в постные дни. В этой книге автор расскажет о...
М.: АСТ, 2020. — 336 с. — (История и наука Рунета). Добро пожаловать в Средневековье - жестокую и веселую эпоху, когда люди с одинаковым рвением молились и убивали, пировали и постились, грешили и каялись. Время фанатиков, умиравших за веру Христову в Крестовых походах, и лицемеров, именовавших бобров рыбой, чтобы их можно было есть в постные дни. В этой книге автор расскажет о...
Архангельск: Изд-во Поморского педуниверситета, 1995. - 320 с. Книга представляет собой авторскую систематизацию и литературную обработку материала семинара «Введение в средневековую культуру», организованного в одной из московских школ в духе проекта В.С.Библера «Школа диалога культур». Занятия семинара посвящены текстологическому анализу Библии и «Салической правды» (VI в.)....
Архангельск: Изд-во Поморского педуниверситета, 1995. - 320 с. Книга представляет собой авторскую систематизацию и литературную обработку материала семинара «Введение в средневековую культуру», организованного в одной из московских школ в духе проекта В.С.Библера «Школа диалога культур». Занятия семинара посвящены текстологическому анализу Библии и «Салической правды» (VI в.)....
М.: Гнозис, 1994. — 209 с. — ISBN: 5-7333-0465-0. Последние два десятилетия существенно изменили проблематику исследований по средним векам, а следовательно — картину средневекового мира: все чаще эти исследования не столько исторические или философские, сколько культурологические. «Каков бы ни был специальный предмет изысканий историка — экономика, политический строй,...
М.: Гнозис, 1994. - 209 с.
Последние два десятилетия существенно изменили проблематику исследований по средним векам, а следовательно — картину средневекового мира: все чаще эти исследования не столько исторические или философские, сколько культурологические. «Каков бы ни был специальный предмет изысканий историка — экономика, политический строй, социальные отношения, духовная...
Учебное пособие. — Томск: Издательство Томского государственного педагогического университета, 2015. — 100 с. — ISBN: 978-5-89428-771-3. Культура воинской элиты западноевропейского Средневековья интерпретируется как целостная система, проявляющая себя в ментальных предпочтениях ее носителей, отразившихся в самых разнообразных культурных «текстах» – поэзии, обычаях, праздничных...
Учебное пособие. — Барынина О.А., Дадыкина М.М., Балаченков А.П., Круглова А.Р., Кириллов И.С., Рысаков А.С. — СПб.: СПбГТУРП, 2011. — 122 с.
Учебное пособие включает в себя восемь очерков по истории культуры и искусства Европы и Азии в Средние века. Авторы-составители показали роль культурных эпох Средневековья в мировой художественной системе, их своеобразие и взаимодействие....
Учебное пособие / Новосибирский государственный университет. Новосибирск, 2002. 255 с. Пособие подготовлено на кафедре всеобщей истории гуманитарного факультета Новосибирского государственного университета в соответствии с программами курсов «История средних веков», «История средневековой западноевропейской культуры», «История Западной цивилизации». Данное пособие написано в...
С.- Петербург: Типография Н. Тиблена и Ко., 1865. — 203 с. Пётр Николаевич Полевой (1839-1902) — историк всеобщей и русской литературы, беллетрист, исторический романист, переводчик, популяризатор, критик и редактор. Содержание Введение Судьбы драмы до XII века Драма в XII веке Драма в XIII веке Приложение
Российский государственный гуманитарный ун-т. — Москва: 1994. — 40 с. — (Чтения по истории и теории культуры. Выпecr 5. Традиция как синтезирующий механизм культуры). — ISBN 5-7281-0068-6. Серия «Чтения по истории и теории культуры», выпускаемая Институтом высших гуманитарных исследований РГГУ, публикует материалы проводимого в его стенах семинара по сравнительному изучению...
СПб.: Гуманитарная Академия, 2015. — 320 с. — (Studia classica). — ISBN 978-5-93762-093-4. Монография доктора исторических наук А. И. Сидорова представляет собой первое в отечественной науке исследование исторической культуры франков в каролингскую эпоху (VIII—X вв.). В центре внимания автора — сумма исторических знаний, доступных франкам, источники формирования этих знаний,...
СПб.: Гуманитарная академия, 2015. — 320 с. — (Studia classica). — ISBN: 5-93762-093-4. Монография доктора исторических наук А. И. Сидорова представляет собой первое в отечественной науке исследование исторической культуры франков в Каролингскую эпоху (VIII-X вв.). В центре внимания автора - сумма исторических знаний, доступных франкам, источники формирования этих знаний,...
СПб.: Гуманитарная академия, 2015. — 320 с. — (Studia classica). — ISBN: 5-93762-093-4. Монография доктора исторических наук А. И. Сидорова представляет собой первое в отечественной науке исследование исторической культуры франков в Каролингскую эпоху (VIII-X вв.). В центре внимания автора - сумма исторических знаний, доступных франкам, источники формирования этих знаний,...
Наукове видання. К.:Інститут історії України НАН України, 1997. —208 с.
У монографії розглянуто процес тісної взаємодії двох приблизно ізоморфних функціональних систем — "мови культури", тобто культури як семіотичної системи, з одного боку, та системи вербальної комунікації "латина — народні мови", компоненти якої виступають як функціональні стилі. В межах тисячолітнього...
Курс лекций. — Харьков: Майдан, 2017. — 396 с. — ISBN: 978-966-372-582-6. Лекции представляют материалы к специальному курсу по истории западноевропейской культуры и охватывает главным образом период V–XV вв., когда сформировались основные ценности и идеалы европейской цивилизации. Они знакомят с концепциями средневековой культуры, ее особенностями в эпоху Раннего...
Курс лекций. 2-е изд., дораб. — Харьков: Майдан, 2021. — 446 с. — ISBN 978-966-372-818-6. Лекции представляют материалы к специальному курсу по истории западноевропейской культуры и охватывают, главным образом, период V–XV вв., когда сформировались основные ценности и идеалы европейской цивилизации. Книга знакомит с концепциями средневековой культуры, ее особенностями,...
М.: СПб.: Центр гуманитарных инициатив, 2017. — 264 с. — (Mediaevalia). — ISBN: 978-5-98712-728-5. В данной книге собраны работы, анализирующие различные по жанру, истории создания и судьбе тексты, появившиеся в основном в период развитого и позднего Средневековья. Объединяет их то, что главные герои озадачены поисками смысла собственного бытия и определения своего места в...
М.: СПб.: Центр гуманитарных инициатив, 2017. — 264 с. — (Mediaevalia). — ISBN: 978-5-98712-728-5. В данной книге собраны работы, анализирующие различные по жанру, истории создания и судьбе тексты, появившиеся в основном в период развитого и позднего Средневековья. Объединяет их то, что главные герои озадачены поисками смысла собственного бытия и определения своего места в...
М.; СПб.: Центр гуманитарных инициатив, 2018. — 192 с. — (Mediaevalia). — ISBN: 978-5-98712-836-7. В предлагаемой вниманию читателей книге собраны очерки по итальянской религиозной литературе Средних веков, посвященные разным проблемам, жанрам и авторам, представленным в итальянской словесности XIII–XV вв. Специфика произведений религиозного содержания указанной эпохи...
М.: Наука, 1989. — 320 с. — ISBN: 5-02-008966-4. В монографии рассматривается одна из ключевых проблем истории Западной Европы — переход от античности к средневековью и его значение для судеб европейской культуры. Анализируя произведения и деятельность крупнейшего философа того времени Северина Боэция, блестящего писателя, создателя Вивария, выдающегося государственного деятеля...
М.: Наука, 1989. — 320 с. — ISBN: 5-02-008966-4. В монографии рассматривается одна из ключевых проблем истории Западной Европы — переход от античности к средневековью и его значение для судеб европейской культуры. Анализируя произведения и деятельность крупнейшего философа того времени Северина Боэция, блестящего писателя, создателя Вивария, выдающегося государственного деятеля...
Москва: Форум; Неолит, 2015. — 256 c. — ISBN 978-5-91134-982-0, 978-5-9903746-4-5. Скальды, руны и саги древней Скандинавии не были обойдены вниманием исследователей и любовью читателей. Тем не менее эта богатейшая культурная традиция по-прежнему изобилует загадками, разночтениями и вопросами, оставшимися без ответа. Загадочным представляется и самый дух этой культуры, который...
Переводчик А. Н. Мурашов. — М.: АСТ, 2018. — 386 с. — ISBN: 978-5-17-111220-2. Понятие телесности в Средние века – предмет удивительный и во многом для нас необычный. Что люди думали о жизни и смерти своей оболочки – и как они ее изображали? Ответ на этот нетривиальный вопрос ждет вас на страницах этой глубокой и увлекательной книги, богато и ярко иллюстрированной. Как...
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Книга видного голландского историка, впервые вышедшая в свет в 1919 г., с тех пор неоднократно переиздавалась на всех европейских языках, а в 1988 г. впервые была издана в России. Внешне описательная и беллетристическая, она вместе с тем устремлена к самым...
СПб.: Издательство Ивана Лимбаха, 2013. — 768 с. — ISBN: 978-5-89059-186-9. Книга нидерландского историка культуры Йохана Хёйзинги, впервые вышедшая в свет в 1919 г., выдержала на родине уже более двух десятков изданий, была переведена на многие языки и стала выдающимся культурным явлением XX века. В России выходит пятым, заново просмотренным и исправленным изданием с подробным...
Пер. Д. В. Сильвестрова. Статья А. В. Михайлова. Коммент. Д. Э. Харитоновича. — М.: Наука, 1988. — 563 с. — (Памятники исторической мысли). — ISBN: 5-02-008934-6. Предисловие к первому изданию. Яркость и острота жизни. Желанье прекрасной жизни. Иерархическое понимание общества. Рыцарская идея. Мечта о подвиге и любви. Рыцарские ордена и рыцарские обеты. Значение рыцарского...
Сост., предисл. и пер. с нидерл. Д. В. Сильвестрова; коммент., указатели Д. Э. Харитоновича. — СПб.: Изд-во Ивана Лимбаха, 2011. — 786 с. — ISBN 978-5-89059-166-1. Книга нидерландского историка культуры Йохана Хёйзинги, впервые вышедшая в свет в 1919 г., выдержала на родине уже более двух десятков изданий, была переведена на многие языки и стала выдающимся культурным явлением XX...
Пер. Д. В. Сильвестрова. Статья А. В. Михайлова. Коммент. Д. Э. Харитоновича. – М.: Наука, 1988. – 563 с. – (Памятники исторической мысли). ISBN: 5-02-008934-6 Содержание: Предисловие к первому изданию Яркость и острота жизни Желанье прекрасной жизни Иерархическое понимание общества Рыцарская идея Мечта о подвиге и любви Рыцарские ордена и рыцарские обеты Значение рыцарского...
Сост., предисл. и пер. с нидерл. Д. В. Сильвестрова; коммент., указатели Д. Э. Харитоновича. – СПб.: Изд-во Ивана Лимбаха, 2011. – 786 с.
Книга нидерландского историка культуры Йохана Хёйзинги, впервые вышедшая в свет в 1919 г., выдержала на родине уже более двух десятков изданий, была переведена на многие языки и стала выдающимся культурным явлением XX века. В России выходит...
М.: Азбука-Аттикус, 2019 — (Азбука-классика. Non-Fiction). — ISBN: 978-5-389-16526-7. Осень Средневековья – наиболее прославленное произведение выдающегося нидерландского историка и культуролога Йохана Хёйзинги. Впервые вышедшее в свет в 1919 г., оно выдержало на родине уже более двух десятков изданий, было переведено на многие языки и стало значительным культурным явлением XX...
Нижневартовск: Изд-во НГУ, 2014. — 107 с. — ISBN: 978–5–00047–160–9. Монография представляет собой концептуальное осмысление роли символов возмездия в западноевропейской средневековой культуре. Их анализ проведен с точки зрения фундаментального значения категории «возмездие», определившего мировоззренческие особенности средневекового общества, сложившиеся в силу...
М.: Издатель Савин С.А., 2003. — 592 с. — ISBN 5-902121-05-1. Данное учебное пособие представляет из себя справочное издание по истории интеллектуальной культуры Средневековья, как она отразилась в трудах философов, богословов, естествоиспытателей и энциклопедистов латинского Запада V-XV вв. Тот факт, что преимущественное внимание в нем уделено фигурам «второго плана», повышает...
М.: Издатель Савин С.А., 2003. — 592 с. — ISBN: 5-902121-05-1. Данное учебное пособие представляет из себя справочное издание по истории интеллектуальной культуры Средневековья, как она отразилась в трудах философов, богословов, естествоиспытателей и энциклопедистов латинского Запада V-XV вв. Тот факт, что преимущественное внимание в нем уделено фигурам «второго плана»,...
Харків: Око, 2002. — 640 с.: іл.
Книга відомого французького історика, представника знаної "школи Аналів", Жана Клода Шмітта присвячена жестовій традиції на середньовічному латинському Заході. Послідовно розглядаючи історичний, культурний, комунікативний, педагогічний, символічний й под. вимір жесту як знаряддя ефективного людського спілкування в його зв’язку з магічною,...
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Опять же, стоит ли переносить /file/1950369/ и /file/1951108/ в подраздел Справочные материалы - Энциклопедии, данного раздела? Или пусть все тома будут в одном месте?
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