Society & Culture
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Necessary Conjunctions: The Social Self in Medieval England [Hardback]
gary Shaw (Author)
$69.95Out of stock
ISBN: 9781403966896
Published by : Palgrave
This analysis of public social identities in late medieval urban societies on England draws on many examples from the cathedral city of Wells after the plague had beset the city and before the Reformation (1375-1520). In examining documentary evid... .... Learn More -
Performing Women in the Middle Ages: Sex, Gender and the Iberian Lyric [Hardback]
Denise K Filios (Author)
$65.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9781403967305
Published by : Palgrave
In stark contrast to the courtly world of romances, `medieval Iberian lyric is full of uppity women mouthing off'. Often to be heard being sung in the streets of 13th-century Spain and Portugal by ordinary men and women, these usually obscene song... .... Learn More -
Perception and Action in Medieval Europe [Hardback]
Harald Kleinschmidt (Author)
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ISBN: 9781843831464
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
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 r... .... Learn More -
Medieval Gardens [Paperback]
Justin Jennings (Author)
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Special Price: $5.98
ISBN: 9781850749035
Published by : English Heritage
Series: Historic Gardens
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 conversat... .... Learn More -
Medieval Floor Tiles of Northern England: Pattern and purpose: production between the 13th and 16th centuries [Hardback]
Jennie Stopford (Author)
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ISBN: 9781842171424
Published by : Oxbow Books
Jennie Stopford examines the monastic influence on northern England's manufacture and use of floor tiles. Split into three sections - Chronological Survey, The Tile Groups, and The Sites and Collections - this in-depth study covers an immense b... .... Learn More -
Reading Medieval Culture [Hardback]
Robert M. Stein (Editor); Sandra Pierson Prior (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780268041113
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press
This collection of original essays honors the influential work of Robert W. Hanning. Contributors cover a wide range of fields within medieval studies, from Anglo-Saxon England to twelfth-century European intellectual culture, and... .... Learn More -
The Texture of Society: Medieval Women in the Southern Low Countries [Hardback]
Ellen E. Kittell (Author); Mary Suydam (Author)
$75.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9780312293321
Published by : Palgrave
This volume, which aims to bring to the attention of a wider academic audience studies by Dutch and other European scholars, presents nine essays that examine the role of medieval women in the urban, politically fragmented world of the southern Lo... .... Learn More -
Love, Sex and Marriage in the Middle Ages: A Sourcebook [Hardback]
Conor McCarthy (Author); Kathleen McCarthy (Author)
$99.95Out of stock
ISBN: 9780415307451
Published by : Routledge Ltd
In bringing together a broad collection of extracts from medieval literature, theological, medical and legal writings, chronicles and letters, McCarthy highlights the diversity of attitudes, thoughts and concepts on love, sex and marriage in medie... .... Learn More -
`A Great Effusion of Blood?' Interpreting Medieval Violence [Hardback]
Daniel Thiery (Author); Mark D. Meyerson (Author); Oren Falk (Author)
$65.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9780802087744
Published by : University of Toronto Press
The thirteen essays in this book argue that violence was omnipresent in medieval society, affecting all people and areas of life, from politics and religion, to social behaviour and language and textual production. But rather than being the produc... .... Learn More -
Medieval Families: Perspectives on Marriage, Household and Children [Paperback]
C. Neel (Author)
$30.50Out of stock
ISBN: 9780802084583
Published by : University of Toronto Press
This study reprints eleven articles written by North American historians and art historians over the last thirty years. They demonstrate the integration of women and children, excluded for a so long, into medieval history by scholars and the growt... .... Learn More