Paul Milliman – författare
Visar alla böcker från författaren Paul Milliman. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
2 produkter
2 produkter
1 271 kr
Kommande
During the Middle Ages (500-1450), active leisure was considered a productive activity, distinct from work and devotional pursuits. Running, fencing, playing ball, swimming, dancing, hunting or singing all could help to keep one’s humours in balance and therefore maintain one’s mental and physical health. Idle leisure, however, was supposed to be avoided because it could lead to the deadly sin of sloth, corrupting both mind and body. At least this was the theory. To what extent were medieval people weighing the risks and rewards of the leisure activities they engaged in, and to what extent were they simply interested in having fun while enjoying performances, feasting or window shopping? What do medieval texts and images tell us about the kinds of leisure activities that enriched the lives of various social groups? Do the popular dreamworlds of the Land of Cockaigne – endless leisure with no time allotted for devotion or work – indicate where the true medieval priorities lay? A Cultural History of Leisure in the Middle Ages, paying particular attention to England and France, presents an overview of key themes and trends in this period, with essays on: Ideas of leisure; The performing arts and their audiences; The cerebral arts and their publics; Sports and games; Holydays, holidays and tourism; The world of conviviality; The world of goods; The world of nature; Representations of leisure.A Cultural History of Leisure is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available as hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a tangible reference for their shelves or as part of a fully-searchable digital library. The digital product is available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access via www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com. Individual volumes for academics and researchers are also available in print or digitally via www.bloomsburycollections.com.
Del 21 - East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450
‘The Slippery Memory of Men’
The Place of Pomerania in the Medieval Kingdom of Poland
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
3 136 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Paul Milliman's The Slippery Memory of Men is the first monograph on the role played by the early fourteenth-century trials between Poland and the Teutonic Knights in the restoration of the Polish kingdom. It is also only the second English-language monograph on this important transitional period in Polish history and the first in over 40 years. Milliman first analyzes the thirteenth-century borderland society of the south Baltic littoral, especially in Pomerania, and then uses the lengthy testimonies of over 150 witnesses from the fourteenth-century trials to examine the role of the memory of this borderland in informing the witnesses' views of where the kingdom of Poland was as well as who should be included within its boundaries.