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This pioneering work explores the theme of women and violence in the late medieval Mediterranean, bringing together medievalists of different specialties and methodologies to offer readers an outline of how different disciplines can contribute to the study of gender-based violence in medieval times.
This collection of essays brings the focus back to medieval authors to see how they described their world. While we see that each author certainly had their own biases, the vast majority of them did not view the world as constrained to their small piece of it.
Mobile Saints examines the central medieval (ca. 950-1150 CE) practice of removing saints' relics from rural monasteries in order to take them on out-and-back journeys, particularly within northern France and the Low Countries.
Exploring the formation of networks across late medieval Central Europe, this book examines the complex interaction of merchants, students, artists and diplomats in a web of connections that linked the region.
This book bridges Japanese and European scholarly approaches to ecclesiastical history to provide new insights into how the papacy conceptualised its authority and attempted to realise and communicate that authority in ecclesiastical and secular spheres across Christendom.
William of Moerbeke was a prolific medieval translator of Aristotle and other ancient philosophical and scientific authors from Greek into Latin, and he played a decisive role in the acceptance of Aristotelian philosophy in the Latin world. He is often criticized for an allegedly deficient translation method.
The studies collected in this volume investigate the origins and context of the Gesta and will enable researchers to better understand and evaluate the historical veracity of the text.
This book focuses on this tension between order and randomness, and idealisation and reality of nature in the Middle Ages.
By the late Middle Ages, manifestations of Marian devotion had become multifaceted and covered all aspects of religious, private and personal life.
This pioneering work explores the theme of women and violence in the late medieval Mediterranean, bringing together medievalists of different specialties and methodologies to offer readers an outline of how different disciplines can contribute to the study of gender-based violence in medieval times.
This collection of essays brings the focus back to medieval authors to see how they described their world. While we see that each author certainly had their own biases, the vast majority of them did not view the world as constrained to their small piece of it.
Monetisation and Commercialisation in the Baltic Sea, 1050-1450 explores the varied uses of silver and gold in the Baltic Sea zone during the medieval period. It will appeal to scholars and students of medieval European history, as well as those interested in economic history, and the history of trade and commerce.
The Cursed Carolers in Context explores the interplay between the forms and contexts in which the tale of the cursed carolers circulated, and the meanings it had for medieval and early modern authors and audiences. It will appeal to scholars and students of medieval European history, literature, and dance.
This book explores the metaphor of topography as a mechanism for the inscription of gender roles in Arthurian romance.
Comparing the travel writing of Muslims, Christians and Jews in the later Middle Ages, this book presents insights into how these religious communities shaped the perceptions of their readers. This book also explores the tensions between text and empirical experience as found in the writings of religious writers who value holy texts.
This volume is a close reading of the female cross-dresser in 13th century French romance, examining the interplay between physical and narrative ambiguity.
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