Society & Culture
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Widows, Heirs, and Heiresses in the Late Twelfth Century: The Rotuli de Dominabus Et Pueris Et Puellis [Hardback]
John Walmsley (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780866983532
Published by : Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society
Series: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies
This work is a new critical edition and translation of the late-twelfth-century Rotuli de Dominabus et Pueris et Puellis. These records were the result of a little known Domesday-like royal enquiry into the status and assets of widows and wards on... .... Learn More -
Medieval Constructions in Gender and Identity: Essays in Honor of Joan M. Ferrante [Hardback]
Teodolinda Barolini (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780866983372
Published by : Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society
Series: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies
Contributed by ten distinguished scholars — Joan Cadden, Anne L. Clark, Margaret Aziza Pappano, Susan L. Einbinder, Roy Rosenstein, Laura Kendrick, H. Wayne Storey, Sarah Spence, Suzanne Conklin Akbari, and Teodolinda Barolini — the essays in this... .... Learn More -
Making Difference in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia [Paperback]
Jean Dangler (Author)
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ISBN: 9780268025762
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press
Jean Dangler traces shifts in conceptions of alterity from medieval to early modern Spain through a detailed study of four writing genres: muwashshah/jarcha poems from Al-Andalus, Andalusi "cutting poems", medical literature about the body and dis... .... Learn More -
Andreas Capellanus, Scholasticism, and the Courtly Tradition [Hardback]
Don A. Monson (Author)
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ISBN: 9780813214191
Published by : Catholic University of America Press
This book, the first study in English devoted entirely to Andreas Capellanus's "De Amore", presents a comprehensive inquiry into the influence of scholasticism on the structure and organization of the work, applying methods of medieval philosophy ... .... Learn More -
Perception and Action in Medieval Europe [Hardback]
Harald Kleinschmidt (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9781843831464
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Can dancers dance for a year and a day without drinking, eating or sleeping? Can pictures be made to speak to their viewers? Can lavender purify the soul? In his new book, however, Harald Kleinschmidt argues that we should not be so swift to di... .... Learn More -
Medieval Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Dialogue: The Apparicion Maistre Jehan de Meun of Honorat Bovet: A Critical Edition with English Translation [Hardback]
Michael Hanly (Author)
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ISBN: 9780866983266
Published by : Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society
Series: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies
In Honorat Bovet's reformist dream vision (1398), the shade of Jean de Meun leads a panel of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish speakers in castigating European chivalry and clergy for their dereliction during a time of war and schism. In a rare gambit... .... Learn More -
Reading Medieval Culture: Essays in Honour of Robert W. Hanning [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 from Chaucer’s a... .... Learn More -
Angels and Earthly Creatures: Preaching, Performance and Gender in the Later Middle Ages [Hardback]
Claire M. Waters (Author)
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ISBN: 9780812237535
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
In the medieval religious world, preachers were angels who existed on a lofty level but had to descend to lower levels in order to communicate and preach to `earthly creatures'. This study draws on saints' lives, religious treatises and artes ... .... Learn More -
Turn It Again: Jewish Medieval Studies and Literary Theory [Paperback]
Sheila Delany (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781889818368
Published by : Pegasus Press
These essays deal with Jewish studies and the medieval historian; rabbinic ecclesiology and the synods of Nicaea and Yavneh; Jewish women martyrs; sexual politics and marriage; late medieval Castile; nation and miscegenation; cultural hybridity; K... .... Learn More -
The History of Anti-semitism: From Mohammed to the Marranos [Hardback]
Leon Poliakov (Author)
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ISBN: 9780812237672
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
From Mohammed to the Marranos focuses on the Sephardim, the Jews of North Africa and Iberia. Poliakov relates the great achievements of Spanish Jewry under the Muslim Caliphs followed by their gradual and painful decline during and after the Chris... .... Learn More
