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Medieval Cultures in Contact
Inbunden, 2002
1156 kr
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Medievalists have long considered topics of cultural contact such as antagonism or exchange between western Europe and the Islamic world, the west's debts to Byzantium, European expansion during the Crusades, and Mediterranean trade. Medieval Cultures in Contact grows out of such traditional themes …
Medieval Cultures in Contact
Häftad, 2002
483 kr
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Medievalists have long considered topics of cultural contact such as antagonism or exchange between western Europe and the Islamic world, the west's debts to Byzantium, European expansion during the Crusades, and Mediterranean trade. Medieval Cultures in Contact grows out of such traditional themes …
Dante for the New Millennium
Av Teodolinda Barolini, Teodolinda Barolini m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
1372 kr
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The twenty-five original essays in this remarkable book constitute both a state of the art survey of Dante scholarship and a manifesto for new understandings of one of the world's great poets. The fruit of an historic conference called by the Dante Society of America, the essays confront a range of …
Dante for the New Millennium
Av Teodolinda Barolini, Teodolinda Barolini m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
603 kr
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The twenty-five original essays in this remarkable book constitute both a state of the art survey of Dante scholarship and a manifesto for new understandings of one of the world's great poets. The fruit of an historic conference called by the Dante Society of America, the essays confront a range of …
Poets of Divine Love
The Rhetoric of Franciscan Spiritual Poetry
Inbunden, 2004
1193 kr
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St. Francis of Assisi (c. 1181-1226) and Jacopone da Todi (c.1236-1306) were but two exemplars of a rich school of mystical poets writing in Umbria in the Franciscan religious tradition. Their powerful creations form a significant corpus of medieval Italian vernacular poetry only now being fully …
Medieval Education
Av Ronald B. Begley, Joseph W. Koterski
Inbunden, 2005
1214 kr
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This volume offers original studies on the subject of medieval education, not only in the formal academicsense typical of schools and universities but also in a broader cultural sense that includes law, liturgy, and the new religious orders of the high Middle Ages. Its essays explore the …
Medieval Poetics and Social Practice
Responding to the Work of Penn R. Szittya
Inbunden, 2012
716 kr
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This collection responds to the critical legacy of Penn R. Szittya, the recently retired former chair of Georgetown University's English Department. Inspired by Georgetown's Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice and its statement that poetry "traverses the fields of aesthetic, social, …
Isaac on Jewish and Christian Altars
Polemic and Exegesis in Rashi and the Glossa Ordinaria
Inbunden, 2012
826 kr
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Devorah Schoenfeld's new work offers an in-depth examination of two of the most influential Christian and Jewish Bible commentaries of the High Middle Ages. The Glossa Ordinaria and Rashi's commentary were standard texts for Bible study in the High Middle Ages, and Rashi's influence continues to …
Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia
A Study of Manuscript Transmission and Monastic Culture
Inbunden, 2014
734 kr
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Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia, a groundbreaking study of the intellectual and monastic culture of the Main Valley during the eighth century, looks closely at a group of manuscripts associated with some of the best-known personalities of the European Middle Ages, including Boniface of …
Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond
Poetic Variety in Medieval Iceland and Norway
Av Martin Chase
Inbunden, 2014
804 kr
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Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond shines light on traditional divisions of Old Norse–Icelandic poetry and awakens the reader to work that blurs these boundaries. Many of the texts and topics taken up in these enlightening essays have been difficult to categorize and have consequently been overlooked or …
Ecclesiastical Knights
The Military Orders in Castile, 1150-1330
Inbunden, 2015
741 kr
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"Warrior monks"—the misnomer for the Iberian military orders that emerged on the frontiers of Europe in the twelfth century—have long fascinated general readers and professional historians alike. Proposing "ecclesiastical knights" as a more accurate name and conceptual model—warriors animated by …
Europe After Wyclif
Av J. Patrick Hornbeck II, Michael Van Dussen
Inbunden, 2016
692 kr
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This volume brings together scholarship that discusses late-medieval religious controversy on a pan-European scale, with particular attention to developments in England, Bohemia, and at the general councils of the fifteenth century. Controversies such as those that developed in England and Bohemia …
French of Outremer
Communities and Communications in the Crusading Mediterranean
Av Laura K. Morreale, Nicholas L. Paul
Inbunden, 2018
941 kr
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The establishment of feudal principalities in the Levant in the wake of the First Crusade (1095-1099) saw the beginning of a centuries-long process of conquest and colonization of lands in the eastern Mediterranean by French-speaking Europeans. This book examines different aspects of the life and …
Ecstasy in the Classroom
Trance, Self, and the Academic Profession in Medieval Paris
Häftad, 2018
539 kr
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Can ecstatic experiences be studied with the academic instruments of rational investigation? What kinds of religious illumination are experienced by academically minded people? And what is the specific nature of the knowledge of God that university theologians of the Middle Ages enjoyed compared …
Ecstasy in the Classroom
Trance, Self, and the Academic Profession in Medieval Paris
Inbunden, 2018
1794 kr
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Can ecstatic experiences be studied with the academic instruments of rational investigation? What kinds of religious illumination are experienced by academically minded people? And what is the specific nature of the knowledge of God that university theologians of the Middle Ages enjoyed compared …
King Alfonso VIII of Castile
Government, Family, and War
Av Miguel Gómez, Kyle C. Lincoln m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
787 kr
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King Alfonso VIII of Castile: Government, Family and War brings together a diverse group of scholars whose work concerns the reign of Alfonso VIII (1158–1215). This was a critical period in the history of the Iberian peninsula, when the conflict between the Christian north and the Moroccan empire …
Whose Middle Ages?
Teachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past
Av Andrew Albin, Mary C. Erler m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
269 kr
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Whose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the nonspecialist reader and ideal for teaching at an undergraduate level. Each of twenty-two essays takes up an area where digging for meaning in the medieval past has brought something distorted back …
Whose Middle Ages?
Teachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past
Av Andrew Albin, Mary C. Erler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
996 kr
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Whose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the nonspecialist reader and ideal for teaching at an undergraduate level. Each of twenty-two essays takes up an area where digging for meaning in the medieval past has brought something distorted back …
Medieval Nonsense
Signifying Nothing in Fourteenth-Century England
Av Jordan Kirk
Inbunden, 2021
1632 kr
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Five hundred years before "Jabberwocky" and Tender Buttons, writers were already preoccupied with the question of nonsense. But even as the prevalence in medieval texts of gibberish, babble, birdsong, and allusions to bare voice has come into view in recent years, an impression persists that these …
Medieval Nonsense
Signifying Nothing in Fourteenth-Century England
Av Jordan Kirk
Häftad, 2021
446 kr
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Five hundred years before "Jabberwocky" and Tender Buttons, writers were already preoccupied with the question of nonsense. But even as the prevalence in medieval texts of gibberish, babble, birdsong, and allusions to bare voice has come into view in recent years, an impression persists that these …
Viking Mediologies
A New History of Skaldic Poetics
Av Kate Heslop
Inbunden, 2022
1685 kr
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WINNER, ALDO AND JEANNE SCAGLIONE PRIZE FOR STUDIES IN GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURESViking Mediologies is a study of pre-modern multimedia rooted in the embodied poetic practice of Viking Age skalds. Prior study of the skaldic tradition has focused on authorship—distinctions of poetic style, …
Viking Mediologies
A New History of Skaldic Poetics
Av Kate Heslop
Häftad, 2022
485 kr
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WINNER, ALDO AND JEANNE SCAGLIONE PRIZE FOR STUDIES IN GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURESViking Mediologies is a study of pre-modern multimedia rooted in the embodied poetic practice of Viking Age skalds. Prior study of the skaldic tradition has focused on authorship—distinctions of poetic style, …
Remember the Hand
Manuscription in Early Medieval Iberia
Inbunden, 2023
898 kr
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WINNER, KATHERINE SINGER KOVACS PRIZE Remember the Hand studies a body of articulate manuscript books from the Christian monasteries of northern Iberia in the tenth and eleventh centuries. These exceptional, richly illuminated codices have in common an urgent sense of scribal presence—scribes name …
Law, Justice, and Society in the Medieval World
An Introduction Through Film
Av Esther Liberman Cuenca, M. Christina Bruno m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1229 kr
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This coursebook is the first full-length study of cinematic "legal medievalism," or the modern interpretation of medieval law in film and popular cultureFor more than a century, filmmakers have used the "Middle Ages" to produce popular entertainment and comment on contemporary issues. Each of the …
Law, Justice, and Society in the Medieval World
An Introduction Through Film
Av Esther Liberman Cuenca, M. Christina Bruno m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
334 kr
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This coursebook is the first full-length study of cinematic "legal medievalism," or the modern interpretation of medieval law in film and popular cultureFor more than a century, filmmakers have used the "Middle Ages" to produce popular entertainment and comment on contemporary issues. Each of the …
With a Pure Conscience
Christian Liberty Before the Reformation
Inbunden, 2025
798 kr
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Offers new perspectives on freedom of conscience and religious liberty by tracing their origins to the Middle Ages, thereby challenging the common assumption that these core tenets of modernity were products of the EnlightenmentDeeply committed to the formation of a just and sacred society, …
