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Satire in the Middle Byzantine Period
The Golden Age of Laughter?
Inbunden, 2020
3343 kr
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This volume places the satirical works of the Middle Byzantine period in a wider political and socio-cultural context, exploring not only their various forms but also their functions and meanings. The volume is divided into four parts. The first part provides the backgrounds of the authors and …
Faces of Charisma: Image, Text, Object in Byzantium and the Medieval West
Av Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak
Inbunden, 2018
2826 kr
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In Faces of Charisma: Image, Text, Object in Byzantium and the Medieval West, a multi-disciplinary group of scholars advances the theory that charisma may be a quality of art as well as of person. Beginning with the argument that Weberian charisma of person is itself a matter of representation, …
Wounds and Wound Repair in Medieval Culture
Inbunden, 2015
4166 kr
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The spectacle of the wounded body figured prominently in the Middle Ages, from images of Christ’s wounds on the cross, to the ripped and torn bodies of tortured saints who miraculously heal through divine intervention, to graphic accounts of battlefield and tournament wounds—evidence of which …
Giant Hero in Medieval Literature
Inbunden, 2016
2740 kr
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In The Giant Hero in Medieval Literature Tina Boyer counters the monstrous status of giants by arguing that they are more broadly legible than traditionally believed. Building on an initial analysis of St. Augustine’s City of God, Bernard of Clairvaux’s deliberations on monsters and marvels, and …
Trauma in Medieval Society
Inbunden, 2018
2593 kr
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Trauma in Medieval Society is an edited collection of articles from a variety of scholars on the history of trauma and the traumatised in medieval Europe. Looking at trauma as a theoretical concept, as part of the literary and historical lives of medieval individuals and communities, this volume …
Royal and Elite Households in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
More than Just a Castle
Inbunden, 2018
3023 kr
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In this volume, the authors bring fresh approaches to the subject of royal and noble households in medieval and early modern Europe. The essays focus on the people of the highest social rank: the nuclear and extended royal family, their household attendants, noblemen and noblewomen as courtiers, …
Melusine's Footprint
Tracing the Legacy of a Medieval Myth
Av Misty Urban
Inbunden, 2017
2529 kr
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In Melusine’s Footprint: Tracing the Legacy of a Medieval Myth, editors Misty Urban, Deva Kemmis, and Melissa Ridley Elmes offer an invigorating international and interdisciplinary examination of the legendary fairy Melusine. Along with fresh insights into the popular French and German traditions, …
Dealing With The Dead
Mortality and Community in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Av Thea Tomaini
Inbunden, 2018
2794 kr
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Death was a constant, visible presence in medieval and renaissance Europe. Yet, the acknowledgement of death did not necessarily amount to an acceptance of its finality. Whether they were commoners, clergy, aristocrats, or kings, the dead continued to function literally as integrated members of …
Kids Those Days: Children in Medieval Culture
Inbunden, 2021
2391 kr
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In Kids Those Days, Lahney Preston-Matto and Mary Valante have organized a collection of interdisciplinary research into childhood throughout the Middle Ages. Contributors to the volume investigate childhood from Greece to the “Celtic-Fringe,” looking at how children lived, suffered, thrived, or …
Legend of Charlemagne
Envisioning Empire in the Middle Ages
Av Jace Stuckey
Inbunden, 2021
2340 kr
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There are few historical figures in the Middle Ages that cast a larger shadow than Charlemagne. This volume brings together a collection of studies on the Charlemagne legend from a wide range of fields, not only adding to the growing corpus of work on this legendary figure, but opening new avenues …
Between Sword and Prayer
Warfare and Medieval Clergy in Cultural Perspective
Inbunden, 2017
2713 kr
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Between Sword and Prayer is a broad-ranging anthology focused on the involvement of medieval clergy in warfare and a variety of related military activities. The essays address, on the one hand, the issue of clerical participation in combat, in organizing military campaigns, and in armed defense, …
Imagined Communities: Constructing Collective Identities in Medieval Europe
Inbunden, 2018
2458 kr
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Imagined Communities: Constructing Collective Identities in Medieval Europe offers a series of studies focusing on the problems of conceptualisation of social group identities, including national, royal, aristocratic, regional, urban, religious, and gendered communities. The geographical focus of …
Remembering the Medieval Present: Generative Uses of England’s Pre-Conquest Past, 10th to 15th Centuries
Inbunden, 2019
2186 kr
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This volume of essays focuses on how individuals living in the late tenth through fifteenth centuries engaged with the authorizing culture of the Anglo-Saxons. Drawing from a reservoir of undertreated early English documents and texts, each contributor shows how individual poets, ecclesiasts, …
Treason
Medieval and Early Modern Adultery, Betrayal, and Shame
Inbunden, 2019
2655 kr
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The willingness to betray one’s country, one’s people, one’s family—to commit treason and foreswear loyalty to one entity by giving it to another—is a difficult concept for many people to comprehend. Yet, societies have grappled with treason for centuries; the motivations, implications, and …
Rethinking Medieval Ireland and Beyond
Lifecycles, Landscapes, and Settlements, Essays in Honor of T.B. Barry
Inbunden, 2022
2499 kr
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This volume brings together scholarship from many disciplines, including history, heritage studies, archaeology, geography, and political science to provide a nuanced view of life in medieval Ireland and after.Primarily contributing to the fields of settlement and landscape studies, each essay …
Knight without Boundaries: Yiddish and German Arthurian Wigalois Adaptations
Inbunden, 2021
2358 kr
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This volume explores a core medieval myth, the tale of an Arthurian knight called Wigalois, and the ways it connects the Yiddish-speaking Jews and the German-speaking non-Jews of the Holy Roman Empire. The German Wigalois / Viduvilt adaptations grow from a multistage process: a German text adapted …
Strangers at the Gate! Multidisciplinary Explorations of Communities, Borders, and Othering in Medieval Western Europe
Inbunden, 2022
2378 kr
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This volume showcases a range of different approaches to strangers and strangeness across medieval western Europe. It focuses on how communities responded to the arrival of strangers and to different ways in which individuals and groups were constructed as estranged. Further, it reflects on …
Animal Husbandry: Bestiality in Medieval Culture
Inbunden, 2025
1940 kr
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How was bestiality perceived in the Middle Ages? The answer is far from simple. Depending on the context, it might be a kingmaking ritual, a boys’ game, a pact with the devil, a peccadillo or a capital offense. As dangerous as it could be to be suspected by one’s own neighbors of committing …
Law / Book / Culture in the Middle Ages
Av Thom Gobbitt
Inbunden, 2021
2852 kr
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In Law | Book | Culture in the Middle Ages fifteen contributions are brought together, each taking a detailed view on the role of manuscripts and the written word in legal cultures and literate representations thereof. Four broad thematic approaches exploring the manuscript contexts and reception, …
Echoing Hooves: Studies on Horses and Their Effects on Medieval Societies
Inbunden, 2022
3009 kr
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Saying that horses shaped the medieval world – and the way we see it today – is hardly an exaggeration. Why else do we imagine a medieval knight – or a nomadic warrior – on horseback? Why do we use such metaphors as “unbridled” or “bearing a yoke” in our daily language? Studies of medieval horses …
Early Medieval English Life Courses
Cultural-Historical Perspectives
Av Thijs Porck
Inbunden, 2021
2888 kr
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How did the life course, with all its biological, social and cultural aspects, influence the lives, writings, and art of the inhabitants of early medieval England? This volume explores how phases of human life such as childhood, puberty, and old age were identified, characterized, and related in …
Religious Rites of War beyond the Medieval West
Volume 1: Northern Europe and the Baltic
Inbunden, 2023
1579 kr
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This is Volume One of a two-volume collection that brings together contributions from cultural and military history to offer an examination of religious rites employed in connection with warfare as well as their transformative and power- and identity-building potential across political communities …
Religious Rites of War beyond the Medieval West
Volume 2: Central and Eastern Europe
Inbunden, 2023
1710 kr
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This is Volume Two of a two-volume collection that brings together contributions from cultural and military history to offer an examination of religious rites employed in connection with warfare as well as their transformative and power- and identity-building potential across political communities …
Humans and Other Animals in the Middle Ages
An Introduction and Reader
Av Philip Line
Inbunden, 2025
2719 kr
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This sourcebook serves both as an introduction and a wide-ranging reference work for human attitudes to nonhuman animals in Latin Europe during the Middle Ages. Under twelve headings, it includes numerous translated passages from Latin and vernacular texts that reflect human conceptions and uses of …
Exile and Execution in Medieval and Early Modern Society
Inbunden, 2025
2603 kr
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In both exile and execution, society must be complicit; people must be willing to ostracize their neighbors or watch their execution, participating in the spectacle that reifies the power of the state. This collection investigates the relationship between the exiled and the landscape, physical or …
Horizons of Medieval French and Occitan
New Approaches to Manuscripts and Texts
Inbunden, 2026
2397 kr
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This volume celebrates Simon Gaunt’s scholarship by exploring the current boundaries and future directions of medieval French and Occitan literary criticism. The essays address questions of vital importance to these disciplines, including: What are the literary cultures and identities associated …
