Society & Culture

ISBN: 9781405148979
Published by : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
This work incorporates material from Maimonides' philosophical, legal, and medical works, providing a synoptic picture of Maimonides' philosophical range. The book covers a broad range of topics, including divine predication, proofs for the exi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781405148986
Published by : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
This work incorporates material from Maimonides' philosophical, legal, and medical works, providing a synoptic picture of Maimonides' philosophical range. The book covers a broad range of topics, including divine predication, proofs for the exi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781843835325
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
This volume contains abstracts, in English, of hundreds of wills made by residents of the western part of Suffolk in the mid-fifteenth century, together with 'probate sentences' - details of the granting of probate, without the associated wills... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780754669135
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Professor Stuard collects here a set of her articles on women and gender in the Middle Ages, beginning with her first, published in 1975. The first section, on marriage, opens with an exploration of the Ragusa/Dubrovnik archives, reaches out to... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780300153934
Published by : Yale University Press
In this book Heather Webb studies medieval notions of the heart to explore the 'lost circulations' of an era when individual lives and bodies were defined by their extensions into the world rather than as self-perpetuating, self-limited entitie... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780226112671
Published by : University of Chicago Press
In the late medieval era, pain could be a symbol of holiness, disease, sin, or truth. It could be encouragement to lead a moral life, a punishment for wrongdoing, or a method of healing. Exploring the varied depictions and descriptions of pain ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780812242560
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
This study explores the complex relationship between women and legal culture in Spain's Crown of Aragon during the late medieval period. Aragonese courts measured women according to three factors: their status in relation to men, their relative... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415873598
Published by : Routledge Ltd
The medieval monster is a slippery construct, and its referents include a range of religious, racial, and corporeal aberrations. In this study, Miller argues that one incarnation of monstrosity in the Middle Agesthe female bodyexists in special... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781847251862
Published by : Continuum International Pub.
Established in England by William the Conqueror, the Jewish community was placed under direct royal regulation, which restricted their activities to money-lending, and established parallel judicial and fiscal institutions. This unique position ... .... Learn More