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Medieval Social History
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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
Medieval Gardens charts the evolution of England's earliest gardens, from the rows of culinary and medicinal herbs tended by monks, to the earliest secular pleasure gardens, enclosed within castle walls. These were spaces for private conversations and outdoor games, often with raised beds and turf seats and perhaps a mound for surveying the countryside beyond. Still enclosed within wall were the 'pleasure parks' that covered many acres of ...
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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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Sign Languages of Poverty. International Round Table-Discussion, Krems an der Donau, October 10 and 11, 2005
edited by Gerhard Jaritz
Medieval and early modern sources dealt regularly with the problem of "poverty". The term poverty often referred to members of widely divergent groups in society. Various groups of objects, gestures, behaviour, and other cultural aspects were drawn on to express and characterise the "poverties" being described. Independent of the status of the persons or groups of people being described, those characteristics could, on one hand, be identical to ...
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Perception and Action in Medieval Europe
by Harald Kleinschmidt
Can dancers and singers dance and sing for one year and one day without drinking, eating and sleeping? Can pictures be made to speak to their viewers? Can lavender purify the soul? The modern mind denies that such occurrences are possible and relegates to the fantastic Middle Ages reports that they happened. In his new book Harald Kleinschmidt traces the logic of perception and action behind these and many other strange stories about the use of ...
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The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle: A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in the Middle Ages
by Robert Bartlett
Seven hundred years ago, executioners led a Welsh rebel named William Cragh to a wintry hill to be hanged. They placed a noose around his neck, dropped him from the gallows, and later pronounced him dead. But was he dead? While no less than nine eyewitnesses attested to his demise, Cragh later proved to be very much alive, his resurrection attributed to the saintly entreaties of the defunct Bishop Thomas de Cantilupe.
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Manorial Records
by Denis Stuart
Manorial records are an important source of information for the local or family historian, but this is the first, full-length modern manual to offer a structured and comprehensive guide to their use. It explains the nature and Latin vocabulary of manorial ...
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Making a Living in the Middle Ages
Dyer, Christopher
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Dreaming of Cockaigne: Medieval Fantasies of the Perfect Life
by Herman Pleij
Imagine a dreamland on earth where roasted pigs toddle about with knives in their backs to make carving easy; where grilled geese fly directly into one´s open mouth; where cooked fish jump out of the water at one´s feet. The weather is always temperate, ...
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Consuming Narratives: Gender and Monstrous Appetites in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
edited by Liz Herbert McAvoy and Teresa Walters
While moralists may stress the importance of the proper management of appetite, medieval and early modern narratives are full of images of monstrous and deformed appetites running out of control. Consuming Narratives examines the significance of these ...
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