Society & Culture
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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 -
Agnes Blannbekin: Agnes Blannbekin [Hardback]
Ulrike Wiethaus (Author)
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ISBN: 9780859916349
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Agnes Blannbekin's life is known only through her work Life and Revelations , which describes the daily life and religious experiences of living in a Beguine community in Vienna. Typical of descriptions of 13th-century women's mysticism, it desc... .... Learn More -
The Mortimers [Paperback]
Charles Hopkinson (Author)
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ISBN: 9781873827536
Published by : Logaston Press
Occupying a central position on the English-welsh border and in the Welsh March - the parts of Wales under Anglo-Norman control - the Mortimers have long deserved their own history. The early history of the family is set out in some detail. Onc... .... Learn More -
Consuming Narratives: Gender and Monstrous Appetite in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance [Paperback]
Elizabeth Herbert McAvoy (Author)
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ISBN: 9780708317426
Published by : University of Wales Press
Eighteen papers, presented at a conference held in Cardiff in 2000, examine perceptions and representations of the human body, particularly female, in literature and in medieval and early modern ideology in general. Women, foreigners and other ... .... Learn More -
The Trials and Joys of Marriage [Paperback]
Eve Salisbury (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781580440356
Published by : Medieval Institute Publications
The disparate texts in this anthology, produced in England between the late thirteenth and the early sixteenth centuries, challenge, and in some cases parody and satirize, the institution of marriage. “In so doing,” according to the Introduction, ... .... Learn More -
Visions of Community in Pre-Modern Europe [Paperback]
Nicholas Howe (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780268028633
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press
Essays explore the ways in which communities were imagined and built between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries/ Giles Constable discusses the ways in which monastic vows of service to God served as the basis for communities of monks in Europe i... .... Learn More -
Fifteenth-Century Studies Volume 26 [Hardback]
Edelgard E. DuBruck (Author); Barbara I. Gusick (Author)
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ISBN: 9781571132284
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Seventeen papers, plus tributes and book reviews, on the history and culture of 15th-century Europe. Subjects include: Crusade propaganda in the court of Philip the Good; Pope Joan; Froissart's Chroniques ; Pierre Gringor; Margery Kempe; Frenc... .... Learn More -
At the Dawn of Modernity: Biology, Culture and Material Life in Europe after the Year 1000 [Hardback]
David Levine (Author)
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ISBN: 9780520220584
Published by : University of California Press
This specialised history searches for the origins of a modern social order within the social transformations of medieval northern Europe. Levine argues that, by the 14th century, innovations in religious and secular organisations meant that co... .... Learn More -
Three Medieval Rhetorical Arts [Hardback]
James J. Murphy (Editor)
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