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Breaking and Shaping Beastly Bodies: Animals as Material Culture in the Middle Ages
edited by Aleksander Pluskowski
An important human trait is our inclination to develop complex relationships with numerous other species. In the great majority of cases however, these mutualistic relationships involve a pair of species, whose co-evolution has been achieved through behavioural adaptation driving positive selection pressures. Humans go a step further, opportunistically and, it sometimes seems, almost arbitrarily elaborating relationships with many other species, ...
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Medieval Gardens
by Anne Jennings
In the medieval period gardens were not only sources of food and medicine but became admired for their beauty, refuges for relaxation and contemplation, and places for clandestine meetings. This concise study looks at the social history of medieval gardens from the peasant garden to the monastic garden and those of the aristocracy. Based on evidence taken from monastic records, illustrated manuscripts, poetic writings and so on, Anne Jennings ...
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The Mortimers: Lords of the March
by Charles Hopkinson and Martin Speight
Occupying a central position on the English-welsh border and in the Welsh March - the parts of Wales under Anglo-Norman control - the Mortimers have long deserved their own history. The early history of the family is set out in some detail. Once they Mortimers gained a foothold in the March they switched their attentions to acquiring a Celtic empire not only in Wales but also in Ireland, in addition to their English estates. Most members of the ...
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Suicide in the Middle Ages Volume 2: The Curse on Self-Murder
by Alexander Murray
This second book in the trilogy focuses on the origins of the condemnation of suicide and the logistics of dealing with the victims. What did they do with the body and the persons property? Alexander Murray reveals Medieval attitudes to suicide, to relationships between the living and the dead and the superstitions, stigmas and rituals of dealing with suicide victims, removing, transporting and finally disposing of the body. Drawing on a vast ...
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Singular Beast: Jews, Christians and the Pig
by Claudine Fabre-Vassas
This original account of the significance of the pig and its relationship to Jews in European Christian culture encompasses a vast array of folklore, history and ritual. Practices related to the breeding, slaughter and consumption of the pig have inspired both religious and secular taboos and rituals, laid out by the author in fascinating detail. She demonstrates clearly the power which a symbol may hold to mould an ethnic identity, and the book ...
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Pleyn Delit: Medieval Cookery for Modern Cooks
by Constance B Heart, Brenda M Hosington and Sharon Butler
Completely revised edition of the classic cookbook that makes genuine medieval meals available to modern cooks. They come largely from English and French manuscripts, but some recipes are from sources in Arabia, Catalonia and Italy. 198p (Toronto UP 1996)
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The Treatise of Walter of Bibbesworth
translated by Andrew Dalby
The Treatise of Walter of Bibbesworth is a didactic poem in Anglo-Norman which surveys a host of practical matters, ranging from childbirth and our passage through life, to estate management and life in fields, workshops, to activities in the home, the kitchen and the dining-hall, to the flora and fauna (and even the weather) of thirteenth-century England. Its didactic purpose was to teach the French language, in other words, it was not so much ...
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Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Culture
edited by Andrew Galloway
This Companion introduces a wide range of materials that constitute the culture, or cultures, of medieval England, across fields including political and legal history, archaeology, social history, art history, religion and the history of education. Above all it looks at the literature of medieval England in Latin, French and English, plus post-medieval perspectives on the 'Middle Ages'. In a linked series of essays experts in these areas show the ...
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Fleas, Flies and Friars: Children's Poetry from the Middle Ages
by Nicholas Orme
In this slim but charming volume Nicholas Orme presents a selection of childrens poetry from the Middle Ages, linked by useful commentary. There are nonsense rhymes and songs attached to games, insults and jokes, as well as poems written for the edification of children dealing with religion and schooling, and teaching children how to behave. There are also some longer poems narrating stories, including that of Robin Hood. 110p (Impress Books ...
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Medieval Sexuality: A Casebook
edited by April Harper and Caroline Proctor
The authors explore a variety of sources, contributing work on a diverse range of topics including: sources for sexuality in Late Lombard Italy; the problematic reception of early medieval penitentials by modern readers; sexuality as experienced by the desert fathers and mothers; connections between saints, monsters, and sexuality in medieval art and hagiography; the relationship between food, seduction, and adultery in the fabliaux; sex, ...
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