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The Altar and its Environment, 1150-1400
edited by J.E.A. Kroesen and V.M. Schmidt
The articles collected in this volume discuss the rise and spread of the altarpiece, or retable, as the standard altar decoration across Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Historians of art and liturgy have addressed such issues as the relations with other types of altar furnishings, regional variants, and their architectural, liturgical and socio-political context. The papers grew out of a symposium held at the University of ...
Paperback. Price GB £81.00

Poetry on Christian Subjects
edited by Margaret Clunies Ross
This is the first volume of an envisaged nine that are the fruits of an international project to edit the complete corpus of medieval skaldic poetry. The project is supported by the Union Académique Internationale (supported project no. 60). Funding has been provided by, amongst others, the UK Arts & Humanities Research Board; the Australian Research Council; and the Joint Committee of the Nordic Research Councils for Humanities. The ...
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Gautier de Coinci: Miracles, Music, and Manuscripts
edited by A. Stones and K.M. Krause
Gautier de Coinci (c. 1777-1236) was a Benedictine prior, poet and author of several very popular religious works, including a large collection of Miracles of the Virgin in French, which enjoyed a wide circulation during the Middle Ages. Gautier drew on multiple Latin sources for his work, embellishing and personalizing them as he adapted them to his poetic design. Conceiving of his collection of miracle tales as a complete work, Gautier ...
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Narrative and History in the Early Medieval West
edited by Elizabeth M. Tyler and Ross Balzaretti
This volume explores the nature of narrative in texts used as sources for history by modern scholars of the early medieval West. Narrative is defined here broadly as how stories are told and the volume focuses on the interaction of what texts say and with how they say it. The congruence of narrative and history is a wide subject, which can be approached in a number of ways. This volume examines four types of written source: poetry (Latin and ...
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Religious and Laity in Western Europe, 1000-1400: Interaction, Negotiation and Power
edited by E. Jamroziak and J.E. Burton
This volume examines forms of interaction between monastic or mendicant communities and lay people in the high Middle Ages in Britain, France, the Low Countries, and Scandinavia. The nineteen papers explore these issues in geographically and chronologically diverse settings in a way that no English-language collection has yet attempted. It brings together the latest research from established as well as younger historians. The first section, ...
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Vernacular Mysticism in the Charterhouse: A Study of London, British Library, MS Additional 37790
edited by M. Cré
The first monograph to appear in The Medieval Translator series, Vernacular Mysticism in the Charterhouse presents a study of London, British Library, MS Additional 37790 (Amherst), a purpose-built anthology of major mystical texts by Richard Rolle, Julian of Norwich, Jan van Ruusbroec and Marguerite Porète, interspersed with shorter texts and compilations. Though the manuscript is famous mainly because it contains the only ...
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Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages
edited by Manuele Gragnolati, Tristan Kay, Elena Lombardi and Francesca Southerden
This volume takes Dante's rich and multifaceted discourse of desire, from the Vita Nova to the Commedia, as a point of departure in investigating medieval concepts of desire in all their multiplicity, fragmentation and interrelation. As well as offering several original contributions on this fundamental aspect of Dante's work, it seeks to situate the Florentine more effectively within the broader spectrum of medieval culture and to establish ...
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On Old Age: Approaching Death in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
edited by C. Krötzl and K. Mustakallio
Recent research into old age and dying in the premodern world has examined not only the demographic aspects of ageing populations but also the social role of aged people. Nonetheless, there has usually been a neglect of the end of life and attitudes towards death and memory. These topics have seldom been discussed in the same volume. The end of life evokes questions. What does it mean to grow old? What happens when one dies? How does one cope ...
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The Playful Middle Ages: Essays in Memory of Elaine C. Block
edited by Paul Hardwick
Love play or playing dead, wordplay or playing games - the notion of play inhabits all spheres of human activity. This collection of essays brings together international scholars from a range of disciplines to explore aspects of playfulness in the later European Middle Ages. From manuscript to performance and from the domestic to the doctrinal, the exuberance and ambiguity of verbal and visual play is interrogated in order to decode layers of ...
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Inhumations de prestige ou prestige de l'inhumation? Expressions du pouvoir dans l'au-delà (IVe-XVe siècle)
edited by Armelle Alduc-Le Bagousse
The contributions contained in this volume question the staging of funerals, the commemorative representation of the deceased, the role of the place of the burial as expressions of non-sectarian or religious power, and the recognition or signification of so-called 'privileged' burials within the funeral zone. 464p (Brepols 2009)
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