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Addressing Injustice in the Medieval Body Politic
Av Constant Jan Mews, Kathleen Neal
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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Justice and injustice were subjects of ongoing debate in medieval Europe. Received classical and biblical models both influenced how these qualities of moral and political life were perceived, discussed and acted upon. Important among these influences was the anonymous seventh-century Irish text, …
Church and Belief in the Middle Ages
Popes, Saints, and Crusaders
Av Kirsi Salonen, Sari Katajala-Peltomaa
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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The roles of popes, saints, and crusaders were inextricably intertwined in the Middle Ages: papal administration was fundamental in the making and promulgating of new saints and in financing crusades, while crusaders used saints as propaganda to back up the authority of popes, and even occasionally …
Contacts and Networks in the Baltic Sea Region
Austmarr as a Northern mare nostrum, ca. 500-1500 AD
Av Maths Bertell, Kendra Willson
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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Since prehistoric times, the Baltic Sea has functioned as a northern mare nostrum — a crucial nexus that has shaped the languages, folklore, religions, literature, technology, and identities of the Germanic, Finnic, Sámi, Baltic, and Slavic peoples. This anthology explores the networks among those …
Framing Premodern Desires
Sexual Ideas, Attitudes, and Practices in Europe
Av Satu Lidman, Tom Linkinen m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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The way that we have perceived, described, and understood sexual desire has changed dramatically over time and across cultures. This collection brings together a group of experts from a variety of disciplines to explore the history of sexual desires and the transformation of sexual ideas, …
Imagined Communities on the Baltic Rim, from the Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries
Av Wojtek Jezierski, Lars Hermanson
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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Prior to the high Middle Ages, the Baltic Rim was largely terra incognita-but by the late Middle Ages, it was home to diverse small and large communities. But the Baltic Rim was not simply the place those people lived-it was also an imagined space through which they defined themselves and their …
Languages in the Lutheran Reformation
Textual Networks and the Spread of Ideas
Av Mikko Kauko, Miika Norro m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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This collection of essays charts the influence of the Lutheran Reformation on various (northern) European languages and texts written in them. The central themes of Languages in the Lutheran Reformation: Textual Networks and the Spread of Ideas are: how the ideas related to Lutheranism were adapted …
Narrative Concepts in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Literature
Av Liisa Steinby, Aino Mäkikalli
Häftad, 2025
812 kr
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This collection of essays studies the encounter between allegedly ahistorical concepts of narrative and eighteenth-century literature from across Europe. At issue is the question of whether the theoretical concepts underpinning narratology are, despite their appearance of ahistorical generality, …
Order, Materiality, and Urban Space in the Early Modern Kingdom of Sweden
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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Our corporeality and immersion in the material world make us inherently spatial beings, and the fact that we all share everyday experiences in the global physical environment means that community is also spatial by nature. This book explores the relationship between the seventeenth-century …
Popular Romance in Iceland
The Women, Worldviews, and Manuscript Witnesses of Nítída saga
Häftad, 2025
812 kr
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A late medieval Icelandic romance about the 'maiden-king' of France, Nítída saga generated interest in its day and grew in popularity in post-Reformation Iceland, yet until now it has not received the comprehensive scholarly analysis that it much deserves. Analysing this saga from a variety of …
Reflecting Jerusalem in Medieval Czech Lands
Av Anna Kernbach, Lenka Panusková m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
812 kr
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Reflecting Jerusalem in the Medieval Czech Lands maps the reception, reflection, and translation of Jerusalem in medieval Czech lands. The volume deals with Jerusalem as an idea and traces it not only in time but in various forms of art as well – such as architecture, book and wall-painting, and …
Re-forming Texts, Music, and Church Art in the Early Modern North
Av Tuomas Lehtonen, Linda Kaljundi
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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Our historical understanding of the Reformation in northern Europe has tended to privilege the idea of disruption and innovation over continuity - yet even the most powerful reformation movements drew on and exchanged ideas with earlier cultural and religious practices. This volume attempts to …
Same-sex Sexuality in Later Medieval English Culture
Av Tom Linkinen
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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This volume investigates the state of same-sex relations in later medieval England, drawing on a remarkably rich array of primary sources from the period that include legal documents, artworks, theological treatises, and poetry. Tom Linkinen uses those sources to build a framework of medieval …
Power of Religious Societies in Shaping Early Modern Society and Identities
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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The Power of Religious Societies in Shaping Early Modern Society and Identities studies the value system of the French Catholic community the Filles de la Charité, or the Daughters of Charity, in the first half of the seventeenth century. An analysis of the activities aimed at edifying morality in …
Stockholm Bloodbath of 1520
Context and Commemoration
Av Heiko Droste, Kurt Villads Jensen
Häftad, 2026
706 kr
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The Stockholm Bloodbath on November 7–9, 1520, during which Kristian II had more than 100 persons executed on charges of heresy, is a turning point in the history of the Northern kingdoms. This bloodbath eventually led to Kristian II’s lifelong incarceration, the rise of the Swedish Vasa dynasty, …
Thomas Aquinas's Relics as Focus for Conflict and Cult in the Late Middle Ages
The Restless Corpse
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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This book offers a new way of looking at Saint Thomas Aquinas-not as a living man, but as a posthumous source of relics. Marika Räsänen delves deep into the strange relationship between Aquinas's physical remains and the devotional moments they enabled-in many cases in situations where the actual …
Same-sex Sexuality in Later Medieval English Culture
Av Tom Linkinen
Inbunden, 2015
2594 kr
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This volume investigates the state of same-sex relations in later medieval England, drawing on a remarkably rich array of primary sources from the period that include legal documents, artworks, theological treatises, and poetry. Tom Linkinen uses those sources to build a framework of medieval …
Re-forming Texts, Music, and Church Art in the Early Modern North
Av Tuomas Lehtonen, Linda Kaljundi
Inbunden, 2016
2834 kr
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This volume traces continuities between the medieval and early modern period in the Nordic realm, enabling the Reformation and its changes to be seen in a new light.
Church and Belief in the Middle Ages
Popes, Saints, and Crusaders
Av Kirsi Salonen, Sari Katajala-Peltomaa
Inbunden, 2016
2139 kr
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This book brings together scholars to consider the links among the roles of popes, saints, and crusaders and the ways that understanding them can help us build a more complete picture of the working of the church and Christianity in the Middle Ages.
Popular Romance in Iceland
The Women, Worldviews, and Manuscript Witnesses of Nítída saga
Inbunden, 2016
2343 kr
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A detailed study of the Nítída saga and its presentation of women and the Icelandic worldview, including questions of identity, gender, female solidarity, and the romance genre itself.
Thomas Aquinas's Relics as Focus for Conflict and Cult in the Late Middle Ages
The Restless Corpse
Inbunden, 2017
2594 kr
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This book offers a new way of looking at Saint Thomas Aquinas-not as a living man, but as a posthumous source of relics.
Narrative Concepts in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Literature
Av Liisa Steinby, Aino Mäkikalli
Inbunden, 2017
2758 kr
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The essays take on aspects of eighteenth-century texts such as plot, genre, character, perspective, temporality, and more, coming at them from both a narratological and a historical perspective.
Imagined Communities on the Baltic Rim, from the Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries
Av Wojtek Jezierski, Lars Hermanson
Inbunden, 2016
2834 kr
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This book traces the transformation of the Baltic Rim in this period through a focus on the self-image of a number of communities: urban and regional, cultic, missionary, legal, and political.
Framing Premodern Desires
Sexual Ideas, Attitudes, and Practices in Europe
Av Satu Lidman, Tom Linkinen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
2203 kr
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This collection brings together a group of leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to explore the history of sexual desires and the transformation of sexual ideas, attitudes, and practices in premodern Europe.
Order, Materiality, and Urban Space in the Early Modern Kingdom of Sweden
Inbunden, 2017
2203 kr
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Riitta Laitinen offers a novel account of civil and social order in the seventeenth-century town of Turku, Sweden.
Languages in the Lutheran Reformation
Textual Networks and the Spread of Ideas
Av Mikko Kauko, Miika Norro m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2139 kr
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This collection of essays charts the influence of the Lutheran Reformation on various (northern) European languages and texts written in them. The central themes of *Languages in the Lutheran Reformation: Textual Networks and the Spread of Ideas* are: how the ideas related to Lutheranism were …
Contacts and Networks in the Baltic Sea Region
Austmarr as a Northern mare nostrum, ca. 500-1500 AD
Av Maths Bertell, Kendra Willson
Inbunden, 2019
2343 kr
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Since prehistoric times, the Baltic Sea has functioned as a northern *mare nostrum* - a crucial nexus that has shaped the languages, folklore, religions, literature, technology, and identities of the Germanic, Finnic, Sámi, Baltic, and Slavic peoples. This anthology explores the networks among …
Power of Religious Societies in Shaping Early Modern Society and Identities
Inbunden, 2020
2139 kr
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This book studies the value system of the French Catholic community the Filles de la Charité, or the Daughters of Charity, in the first half of the seventeenth century.
Addressing Injustice in the Medieval Body Politic
Av Constant Jan Mews, Kathleen Neal
Inbunden, 2023
2519 kr
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Focuses on the influence of a widely copied but largely unstudied text, 'The Twelve Abuses of the Age' with a multi-national and multi-disciplinary focus, involving disciplines of literature, history and political thought.
Stockholm Bloodbath of 1520
Context and Commemoration
Av Heiko Droste, Kurt Villads Jensen
Inbunden, 2025
2072 kr
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In this volume, fifteen researchers offer new insights both into events of The Stockholm Bloodbath (1520) and also, most significantly, into their background and aftermath, which stretch far beyond Stockholm and the year 1520.
Reflecting Jerusalem in Medieval Czech Lands
Av Anna Kernbach, Lenka Panusková m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
2758 kr
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Reflecting Jerusalem in the Medieval Czech Lands maps the reception, reflection, and translation of Jerusalem in medieval Czech lands. The volume deals with Jerusalem as an idea and traces it not only in time but in various forms of art as well – such as architecture, book and wall-painting, and …
