Litteraturvetenskap
A Brief History of English Literature - In the Western World
"A Brief History of English Literature" provides a lively introductory guide to English literature from "Beowulf" to the present day. The book is written in a lucid style to enable the reader to engage fully with the narrative ...
The Book of Memory - A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture
Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second ...
The Kalevala
The Kalevala, a Finnish epic on the scale of the Iliad and the Odyssey, presents a rare portrait of an ancient people in both peace and at war. It played a central role in the march towards Finnish independence and inspired some of Sibelius's grea...
Drottningar och sköldmör : gränsöverskidande kvinnor i medeltida myt och ve - gränsöverskidande kvinnor i medeltida myt och verklighet ca 400-1400
Varför bär hon manskläder? Man kan ju inte se på henne att hon är kvinna!, utbrister en av Jeanne dArcs rannsakare under rättegången mot henne på 1400-talet. Då var klädedräkten en viktig symbol för könsidentitet. Tvetydigheter om kön ville man ti...
The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (731 AD) is Bede's most famous work. A scholarly monk working in the north-east of England, Bede wrote the five books of the History in Latin. Starting with the invasion of Julius Caesar in the fift...
The Craft of Thought - Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400-1200
The Craft of Thought, first published in 1998, is a companion to Mary Carruthers' earlier study of memory in medieval culture, The Book of Memory. This more recent volume examines medieval monastic meditation as a discipline for making thoughts, a...
From Roman to Merovingian Gaul - A Reader
Covering the origins and history of the Merovingian kingdom, this text provides coverage of a central but often overlooked part of European history. Selections include Attila the Hun''s meeting with the Pope, Queen Balthild''s life and more.'
Sagans svenskar : synen på vikingatiden och de isländska sagorna under 300 - synen på vikingatiden och de isländska sagorna under 300 år
Vikingatiden har ofta betraktats som nordbornas och svenskarnas äldsta minne, en grund för vår nationella identitet. Från 1600-talets senare del till 1960-talet har sagornas svenskar betraktats som allt från sv enska göter, skandinaver, germaner o...
Imagining a Place for Buddhism - Literary Culture and Religious Community in Tamil-Speaking South India
This study argues that, in early medieval South India, it was in the literary arena that religious ideals and values were publicly contested. While Tamil-speaking South India is today celebrated for its preservation of Hindu tradition, non-Hindu r...
The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity
The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity is a wide-ranging collection of essays that engages with valuable questions about the end of the ancient world and the beginning of the medieval, while providing a much-needed touchstone for the study of Late ...
Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources - Fascicule VII: N
This dictionary is an indispensable guide to the study of the Latin Middle Ages. It records the continuing usage of classical and late Latin in this period (6th-16th centuries), but it presents most fully the medieval developments of the language,...
Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources - Fascicule XII: Pos-Pro
This dictionary is an indispensable guide to the study of the Latin Middle Ages. It records the continuing usage of classical and late Latin in this period (6th-16th centuries), but it presents most fully the medieval developments of the language,...
St John Damascene - Tradition and Originality in Byzantine Theology
This is the first examination of the whole range of the thought of John Damascene, one-time Arab civil servant, later a Palestinian monk, who thought of himself as a Byzantine churchman. He was one of the most influential of Byzantine theologians,...
Justinian and the Making of the Syrian Orthodox Church
This study examines the sixth century formation of the Syrian Orthodox Church. Menze shows that the separation of the Syrian Orthodox Christians from Western Christianity occurred due to the divergent political interests of bishops and emperors. D...
The Law Code of Manu
The Law Code of Manu is the most authoritative and best-known legal text of ancient India. A seminal Hindu work, it is important for its classic description of the many social institutions which have come to be identified with Indian society. Patr...
The Making of Romantic Love - Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE
In the twelfth century, the Catholic Church attempted a thoroughgoing reform of marriage and sexual behavior aimed at eradicating sexual desire from Christian lives. Seeking a refuge from the very serious condemnations of the Church and relying on...
Voices in Dialogue - Reading Women in the Middle Ages
Using a dialogue format, contributors to this collection of essays outline key issues in the cultural history of medieval women. Many of the essays in this volume provide compelling evidence that women in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages achieve...
Old English Literature - Critical Essays
Recognizing the dramatic changes in Old English studies over the past generation, this up-to-date anthology gathers twenty-one outstanding contemporary critical writings on the prose and poetry of Anglo-Saxon England, from approximately the sevent...
Beowulf: Verse Translation - A Verse Translation
This text presents a faithful rendition of "Beowulf", a poem written in Old English sometime before the tenth century A.D., which describes the adventures of a great Scandinavian warrior of the sixth century. The translation is combined ...
Greek Thought, Arabic Culture - The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early 'Abbasaid Society (2nd-4th/5th-10th C.)
From the middle of the eighth century to the tenth century, almost all non-literary and non-historical secular Greek books, including such diverse topics as astrology, alchemy, physics, botany and medicine, that were not available throughout the e...
Cyril of Alexandria
As a ruler of the church of Alexandria and president of the Third Ecumenical Council of 431, Cyril was one of the most powerful men of the fifth century and played a decisive role in the history of his times. He was an important thinker who define...
2000 Years of Mayan Literature
Mayan literature is among the oldest in the world, spanning an astonishing two millennia from deep pre-Columbian antiquity to the present day. Here, for the first time, is a fully illustrated survey, from the earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions to ...
Religion, Learning and Science in the 'Abbasid Period
The five centuries of the 'Abbasid period (eighth to thirteenth centuries AD) were the golden age of Arabic literature. They saw the appearance not only of poetry and belles-lettres (which are covered in a previous volume), but also of an extensiv...
Abbasid Belles Lettres
This volume of The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature covers artistic prose and poetry produced in the heartland and provinces of the 'Abbasid empire during the second great period of Arabic literature, from the mid-eighth to the thirteenth ce...
From Slavery to Feudalism in South-Western Europe
This book is first and foremost an extended examination and discussion of the enslavement of men and women by others of their society and in particular of the means and causes of the gradual end of slavery in early medieval Europe between 500 and ...
Humour, History and Politics in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Although the topic of humour has been dealt with for other eras, early medieval humour remains largely neglected. These essays go some way towards filling the gap, examining how early medieval writers deliberately employed humour to make their cas...
England Before the Conquest - Studies in Primary Sources Presented to Dorothy Whitelock
Concerned with the basic materials of documents, literature, art, place-names, inscriptions, coins, buildings and archaeological finds, the twenty-two original studies that make up this 1971 text brought fresh understanding to various important to...
The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature
This book introduces students to the literature of Anglo-Saxon England, the period from 600-1066, in a collection of fifteen specially commissioned essays. The Companion is aimed at students encountering Old English literature for the first time, ...
Art and Text in Byzantine Culture
Art and Text in Byzantine Culture explores the relationship between images and words, and examines the different types of interactions between pictures and texts in Byzantine art. Byzantium is the only major world power to have experienced politic...
The Book of Memory - A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture
Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second ...
