Society & Culture
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Perception and Action in Medieval Europe [Hardback]
Harald Kleinschmidt (Author)
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ISBN: 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 -
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 -
The Medieval Marriage Scene: Prudence, Passion, Policy [Hardback]
Sherry Roush (Editor); Cristelle L. Baskins (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780866983433
Published by : Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society
The Medieval Marriage Scene: Prudence, Passion, Policy brings together expert scholarship on fictive, artistic, legal, ethical, and economic facets of the institution of marriage across Europe between roughly 500 and 1550. The twelve contributors ... .... 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 -
Home and Homelessness in the Medieval and Renaissance World [Paperback]
Nicholas Howe (Author)
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ISBN: 9780268030704
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press
The idea of `home' means much more than a pile of bricks and mortar but the archaeological evidence of physical structures provides valuable information about how people in the past have used the space in their houses. Similarly documentary evi... .... 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 -
Gendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages [Paperback]
M. Erler (Author); Maryanne Kowaleski (Author)
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ISBN: 9780801488306
Published by : Cornell University Press
There were a variety of conditions and arenas within which medieval women could hold positions of power but, at the same time, many of these also differentiated and eroded their authority. This collection of eleven papers presents a range of a... .... Learn More -
Shadows of Mary: Reading the Virgin Mary in Medieval Texts [Paperback]
Teresa Reed (Author)
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ISBN: 9780708317976
Published by : University of Wales Press
The figuration of the Virgin Mary was often contradictory in medieval texts and theological, philosophical and social perceptions of her greatly influenced both sacred and secular literature. In this study Teresa Reed explores five examples of ... .... Learn More
