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Medieval History

Vehicles of Transmission, Translation, and Transformation in Medieval Textual Culture
edited by Robert Wisnovsky, Faith Wallis, Jamie Fumo, and Carlos Fraenkel
This volume contains case studies that examine how medieval cultures (western European, Arab/Islamic and Jewish) adopted ideas from the past and from each other in fields such as philosophy, literature, religion, and medicine. In this volume the McGill University Research Group on Transmission, Translation, and Transformation in Medieval Cultures and their collaborators initiate a new reflection on the dynamics involved in receiving texts and ...
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Violence in Medieval Europe
by Warren C. Brown
Drawing on a wide variety of primary sources, Warren Brown examines the norms governing violence within medieval societies from the sixth to the fourteenth century, over an area covering the Romance and the Germanic speaking regions of the continent as well as England. He looks at how private individuals exercised violence in defence of their rights or in vengeance for wrongs within a set of clearly understood rules, and how over the course of ...
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Along the Oral-Written Continuum: Types of Texts, Relations and their Implications
edited by S. Rankovic, L. Melve, and E. Mundal
Ever since its introduction in the 1970s, Ruth Finnegan's notion of the oral-written, or the oral-literate, continuum has served as one of the most effective means of dispelling the dichotomous understanding of the two principal media of communication in the Middle Ages. However, while often casually invoked, the concept has never been made a focus of study in its own right. The present volume is an attempt to place the oral-written continuum at ...
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The Body Broken: Medieval Europe 1300-1520
by Charles F. Briggs
This new history of the later Middle Ages, intended as an undergraduate textbook, takes the form of a thematic survey, rather than a narrative of events. Briggs does not shy away from complex issues, and opens with an involving section on grand socio-economic themes and theories, before looking at more day-to-day aspects of social organisation and family life. Sections on political institutions and theory follow, as well as war in its military ...
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The Crisis of the Twelfth Century: Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government
by Thomas N. Bisson
This important and hugely ambitious book provides a very different picture of from that of Charles Homer Haskins' Twelfth Century Renaissance which the title consciously and provocatively echoes. For Bisson power in the twelfth century means lordship, personal, violent and oppresive, and quite different from anything we might today class as government. As an overarching theme, however, the book takes the processes by which the twelfth century ...
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Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor Dynasty
by Elizabeth Norton
A narrative account of Margaret Beaufort's (1443-1509) extraordinary life, and its twists and turns, framed by an image with which she was all too familiar - the wheel of fortune. Norton shows that Margaret was in no way a passive participant in the turbulent politics of the later fifteenth century, actively conspiring against the Yorkist dynasty in the interests of her son, who with his victory at Bosworth (aided by Margaret's husband Lord ...
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Masculinities and Femininities in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
edited by Frederick Kiefer
Table of Contents:Tracy Adams, 'Make me chaste and continent, but not yet': A Model for Clerical Masculinity? - Victor Scherb, Shoulder Companions and Shoulders in Beowulf - Lynn Shutters, Lion Hearts, Saracen Heads, Dog Tails: The Body of the Conqueror in Richard Coer de Lyon - Albrecht Classen, Women Win the Day: The Female Heroine in Late-Medieval German Maeren- Megan Moore, Chrétien's Romances of ...
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Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom
by Tom Holland
'L'an mil'; thus has this century been condemned by past medieval scholars, a cautiously-named and intimidating phrase describing the complex struggles of belief, hope, despair and power that frustrated and incited the rulers of this century. Millenium guides us through a time overcast by the anticipation of the apocalypse, the return of Christ or the coming of Antichrist, by realization and denial, and by the defining of the boundaries between ...
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Mind Matters: Studies of Medieval and Early Modern Intellectual History in Honour of Marcia Colish
edited by C.J. Nederman, N. van Deusen, and E.A. Matter
Marcia Colish is one of the most influential scholars of the history of medieval and early-modern thought, the author of numerous books and scores of articles in the field, as well as a pioneering President of the Medieval Academy of America. This volume honours her accomplishments with papers by her many colleagues, friends and former students, who are themselves prominent scholars from across a range of disciplines. The chapters are diverse ...
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Power and Persuasion: Essays on the Art of State Building in Honour of W.P. Blockmans
edited by P.C.M. Hoppenbrouwers, A. Janse, and R. Stein
The transformation of the myriad of medieval kingdoms, principalities, local lordships, city-'states' and peasant 'republics' into 'modern' states claiming some measure of sovereignty remains one of the core themes of European history, because it gets down to the very root of the (idea of) modern Europe. Some 20 leading experts cast new light on various aspects of this process, such as political communication, foreign diplomacy, dynastic ...
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