Books in the Knowledge Communities series

This book is an early medieval social history based on the early penitentials, with up-to-date translations of these often-ignored or misunderstood texts.

Lynch offers a close historical analysis of the educational landscape of Lyons, showing how schools and teachers were organised and how they interacted with each other and with ecclesiastical and municipal authorities.

By examining medieval female saints' lives in dialogue with modern film theories, a trans-historical spectrum of visual experience is revealed: medieval saint and modern moviegoer are connected in the visual act.

This book analyses the manuscripts of the Citeaux, copied and illustrated during a period of intense reform at the monastery, that demonstrate the interdependence between art, liturgy, and reform.

This book argues that premodern societies were characterised by the quest for Yvirtue.OE

This collection of essays surveys the richness of creation and creativity in order to draw out debates, sometimes implicit and sometimes formally stated, about the production and reproduction of cultural meaning between medieval and modern culture.