Society & Culture
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Einstimmigkeit um 1500: Der Chansonnier Paris, BnF f. fr. 12744 [Hardback]
Isabel Kraft (Author)
$98.00ISBN: 9783515083911
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Beihefte zum Archiv für Musikwissenschaft (AFMW-B)
Volume: 64
This study focuses on the manuscript Paris BnF, f. fr. 12744, which purportedly belonged to Anne, Queen of France and Duchess of Burgundy (died 1514). Traditionally, the 143 monodical chansons contained in the manuscript are thought to be "folk... .... Learn More -
Maimonides: The Life and World of one of Civilization's Greatest Minds [Hardback]
Joel L. Kraemer (Author)
Regular Price: $35.00
Special Price: $9.98
ISBN: 9780385511995
Published by : Doubleday
A comprehensive biography of the great medieval Jewish thinker, physician and lawgiver, which combines a narrative of his life, with description of the wider Mediterranean context of his career and travels, and detailed analysis of his writings. .... Learn More -
Late Medieval English College and Its Context [Hardback]
Martin Heale (Editor); Clive Burgess (Editor)
Regular Price: $80.00
Special Price: $29.98
ISBN: 9781903153222
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
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 ove... .... Learn More -
On Farting: Bodily Wind in the Middle Ages [Hardback]
Valerie Allen (Author)
$69.95Out of stock
ISBN: 9780312234935
Published by : Palgrave
The study of the fart in medieval culture participates in the widespread and productive contemporary study of the body, its practices and its hermeneutics. As a consequence of the cultural materialist interest in the quotidian, recent criticism... .... Learn More -
Spices and Comfits: Collected Papers on Medieval Food [Hardback]
Johanna Maria Van Winter (Author)
$80.00ISBN: 9781903018453
Published by : Prospect Books
Throughout a long academic career in Holland, Johanna Maria van Winter has specialized in the study of food and drink in the Middle Ages. She has contributed several papers to learned journals and specialist conferences are gathered here within ... .... Learn More -
Medieval Textiles of the British Isles AD 450-1100: An Annotated Bibliography [Paperback]
Elizabeth Coatsworth (Author)
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ISBN: 9781407301358
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
The Manchester Medieval Textiles Project began in 1994, as a collaboration between Elizabeth Coatsworth of Manchester Metropolitan University and Gale Owen-Crocker of the University of Manchester. Both had specialist interests in the literary a... .... Learn More -
Privacy and Solitude: The Medieval Discovery of Private Space [Hardback]
Diana Webb (Author)
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ISBN: 9781852854799
Published by : Continuum International Pub.
The lord in his hall, the monk in his cloister: we often think of medieval people as living most of their lives in the constant company of others. But there was always another middle ages, characterised by the hermit's solitude as well as by th... .... Learn More -
1381: The Peel Affinity - An English Knight's Household in the Fourteenth Century [Hardback]
La Belle Compagnie (Author)
$34.95Out of stock
ISBN: 9780980072600
Published by : Shumacher Publishing
1381: The Peel Affinity builds a portrait of a world long lost, using gorgeous photographs filled with carefully researched and reconstructed clothing, tools, armor, furnishings, and other items, all based closely on surviving artefacts, manusc... .... Learn More -
The Early Judaeo-Persian Tafsirs of Ezekiel: Text, Translation, Commentary. Vol. I: Text [Paperback]
Thamar Eiram Gindin (Author)
$51.00ISBN: 9783700139614
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: Veroeffentlichungen zur Byzanzforschung
Volume: 40
The Tafsir of Ezekiel is the largest and most renowned Early Judaeo Persian text. It holds 226 pages of translation and commentary on Ezekiel 1:21-39:29. The Tafsir was written - probably in the late 10th or early 11th century CE - in two diff... .... Learn More -
The Early Judaeo-Persian Tafsirs of Ezekiel: Text, Translation, Commentary. Vol. II: Translation [Paperback]
Thamar Eiram Gindin (Author)
$78.00ISBN: 9783700139966
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: VERöFFENTLICHUNGEN ZUR IRANISTIK
Volume: 44
The Tafsir of Ezekiel is the largest and most renowned Early Judaeo Persian text. It holds 226 pages of translation and commentary on Ezekiel 1:21-39:29. The Tafsir was written - probably in the late 10th or early 11th century CE - in two diff... .... Learn More