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34 produkter
New Material Interpretation of Twelfth-Century Architecture
Reconstructing the Abbey of Saint-Denis
Av Jason Crow
Häftad, 2025
725 kr
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Today, we perceive Gothic cathedrals as light-filled forms representing the sacred. The colored light projected from brightly-colored stained glass windows onto the walls and floors of these buildings suggests the presence of divinity. Suger (1081–1151CE), the abbot of the monastery of Saint-Denis, …
Anticipating Sin in Medieval Society
Childhood, Sexuality, and Violence in the Early Penitentials
Häftad, 2025
704 kr
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Composed between the sixth and ninth centuries, penitentials were little books of penance that address a wide range of human fallibility. But they are far more than mere registers of sin and penance: rather, by revealing the multiple contexts in which their authors anticipated various sins, they …
Elementary and Grammar Education in Late Medieval France
Lyon, 1285-1530
Av Sarah Lynch
Häftad, 2025
725 kr
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The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries saw a marked increase in the availability of elementary and grammar education in Europe. In France, that rise took the form of a unique blend of trends also seen elsewhere in Europe, ranging from Church-dominated schools to independent schools and communal …
Feminist Approaches to Early Medieval English Studies
Av Robin Norris, Rebecca Stephenson m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
809 kr
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Scholarship on early medieval England has seen an exponential increase in scholarly work by and about women over the past twenty years, but the field has remained peculiarly resistant to the transformative potential of feminist critique. Since 2016, Medieval Studies has been rocked by conversations …
Horizontal Learning in the High Middle Ages
Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Transfer in Religious Communities
Av Micol Long, Tjamke Snijders m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
704 kr
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The history of medieval learning has traditionally been studied as a vertical transmission of knowledge from a master to one or several disciples. Horizontal Learning in the High Middle Ages: Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Transfer in Religious Communities centres on the ways in which cohabiting peers …
Images, Improvisations, Sound, and Silence from 1000 to 1800 - Degree Zero
Av Babette Hellemans, Alissa Jones Nelson
Häftad, 2025
725 kr
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The act of drawing a line or uttering a word is often seen as integral to the process of making art. This is especially obvious in music and the visual arts, but applies to literature, performance, and other arts as well. These collected essays, written by scholars from diverse fields, take a …
Medieval Saints and Modern Screens
Divine Visions as Cinematic Experience
Häftad, 2025
809 kr
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This ground-breaking book brings theoretical perspectives from twenty-first century media, film, and cultural studies to medieval hagiography. Medieval Saints and Modern Screens stakes the claim for a provocative new methodological intervention: consideration of hagiography as media. More …
Cistercian Reform and the Art of the Book in Twelfth-Century France
Av Diane Reilly
Häftad, 2025
704 kr
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This book is a study of the programmatic oral performance of the written word and its impact on art and text. Communal singing and reading of the Latin texts that formed the core of Christian ritual and belief consumed many hours of the Benedictine monk's day. These texts-read and sung out loud, …
Intellectual Dynamism of the High Middle Ages
Häftad, 2025
704 kr
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The essays in The Intellectual Dynamism of the High Middle Ages pay tribute to the work and impact of Constant J. Mews, in spirit and in content, revealing a nuanced and integrated vision of the intellectual history of the medieval West. Mews's groundbreaking work has revealed the wide world of …
Medieval Life of Language
Grammar and Pragmatics from Bacon to Kempe
Av Mark Amsler
Häftad, 2025
725 kr
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The Medieval Life of Language: Grammar and Pragmatics from Bacon to Kempe explores the complex history of medieval pragmatic theory and ideas and metapragmatic awareness across social discourses. Pragmatic thinking about language and communication is revealed in grammar, semiotics, philosophy, and …
Rhetorical Arts in Late Antique and Early Medieval Ireland
Häftad, 2025
809 kr
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The Rhetorical Arts in Late Antique and Early Medieval Ireland represents the first study of the art of rhetoric in medieval Ireland, a culture often neglected by medieval rhetorical studies. In a series of three case studies, Brian James Stone traces the textual transmission of rhetorical theories …
Symbolism of Marriage in Early Christianity and the Latin Middle Ages
Images, Impact, Cognition
Häftad, 2025
704 kr
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In the Middle Ages everyone, it seems, entered into some form of marriage. Nuns - and even some monks - married the bridegroom Christ. Bishops married their sees. The popes, as vicars of Christ, married the universal Church. And lay people, high and low, married each other. What united these …
Transforming Europe in the Images of the World, 1110-1500
Fuzzy Geographies
Häftad, 2026
851 kr
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This is the first book to examine the wide and important geographical tradition that arose from the description of the world in the Imago mundi – a medieval encyclopedic bestseller, almost unrivalled in popularity from its composition in the 1110s well into the age of print. The Imago mundi was …
Virtue Ethics and Education from Late Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century
Häftad, 2025
704 kr
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This book argues that pre-modern societies were characterized by a common quest for human flourishing or excellence, i.e. virtue. The history of virtue is a particularly fruitful approach when studying pre-modern periods. Systems of moral philosophy and more day-to-day moral ideas and practices in …
Rethinking the Republic of Letters
Memory and Identity in Early Modern Learned Communities
Inbunden, 2025
2542 kr
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This book offers a revisionist look at the historiography of the Republic of Letters and the community of learning in early modern Europe. It suggests a new approach, conceptualising the learned world as a web of imagined communities in which the members do not know all their peers. These …
Transforming Europe in the Images of the World, 1110-1500
Fuzzy Geographies
Inbunden, 2025
1876 kr
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This book examines the wide and important geographical tradition that arose from the description of the world in the 'Imago mundi' - a medieval encyclopedic bestseller, almost unrivalled in popularity from its composition in the 1110s well into the age of print.
Devotio Moderna and the Medieval University
Cultures of Devotion and Learning
Inbunden, 2026
2504 kr
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Devotio Moderna and the Medieval University explores the origins and intellectual legacy of the Devotio Moderna, a Christian movement born from Geert Grote’s transformative rejection of worldly learning, which went on to inspire key figures of the Reformation, including Erasmus, Ignatius of Loyola, …
History of Medieval Astrology
The Importance of the Kraków School of Astrology (15th-16th centuries)
Inbunden, 2026
2578 kr
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A History of Medieval Astrology analyses the contributions of the Kraków Astronomy and Astrology School, part of the University of Kraków – one of the fastest growing universities in 15th-century Europe.Astrology was a science practised by the most prominent representatives of the most important …
Elementary and Grammar Education in Late Medieval France
Lyon, 1285-1530
Av Sarah Lynch
Inbunden, 2017
2190 kr
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Lynch offers a close historical analysis of the educational landscape of Lyons, showing how schools and teachers were organised and how they interacted with each other and with ecclesiastical and municipal authorities.
Images, Improvisations, Sound, and Silence from 1000 to 1800 - Degree Zero
Av Babette Hellemans, Alissa Jones Nelson
Inbunden, 2018
2190 kr
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This collection of essays surveys the richness of creation and creativity in order to draw out debates, sometimes implicit and sometimes formally stated, about the production and reproduction of cultural meaning between medieval and modern culture.
New Material Interpretation of Twelfth-Century Architecture
Reconstructing the Abbey of Saint-Denis
Av Jason Crow
Inbunden, 2024
2126 kr
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This book reassesses the origins and significance of "Gothic" architecture and approaches the interpretation of the twelfth-century church through its materiality Integrates the twelfth-century conceptualization of architecture within art, science, and theology.
Medieval Saints and Modern Screens
Divine Visions as Cinematic Experience
Inbunden, 2017
2190 kr
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By examining medieval female saints' lives in dialogue with modern film theories, a trans-historical spectrum of visual experience is revealed: medieval saint and modern moviegoer are connected in the visual act.
Horizontal Learning in the High Middle Ages
Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Transfer in Religious Communities
Av Micol Long, Tjamke Snijders m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2190 kr
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The history of medieval learning has traditionally been studied as a vertical transmission of knowledge from a master to one or several disciples. Horizontal Learning in the High Middle Ages: Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Transfer in Religious Communities centres on the ways in which cohabiting peers …
Anticipating Sin in Medieval Society
Childhood, Sexuality, and Violence in the Early Penitentials
Inbunden, 2017
2190 kr
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This book is an early medieval social history based on the early penitentials, with up-to-date translations of these often-ignored or misunderstood texts.
Rhetorical Arts in Late Antique and Early Medieval Ireland
Inbunden, 2022
2190 kr
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This represents the first study of the art of rhetoric in medieval Ireland, a culture often neglected by medieval rhetorical studies.
Symbolism of Marriage in Early Christianity and the Latin Middle Ages
Images, Impact, Cognition
Av Line Cecilie Engh, Line Cecilie Engh
Inbunden, 2019
2126 kr
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This book grapples with questions of the impact of marriage symbolism on both ideas and practice in the early Christian and medieval period.
Intellectual Dynamism of the High Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2021
2578 kr
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The essays pay tribute to the work and impact of Constant J. Mews, in spirit and in content, revealing a nuanced and integrated vision of the intellectual history of the medieval West.
Cistercian Reform and the Art of the Book in Twelfth-Century France
Av Diane Reilly
Inbunden, 2018
2126 kr
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This book analyses the manuscripts of the Cîteaux, copied and illustrated during a period of intense reform at the monastery, that demonstrate the interdependence between art, liturgy, and reform.
Love as the Divine Presence, from Augustine to Peter Lombard
The Theological Anthropology in the Early Western Culture
Inbunden, 2026
2504 kr
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Love as the Divine Presence, from Augustine to Peter Lombard explores the profound theological anthropology of human love in Western Christian thought, tracing its development from Augustine to the twelfth‑century Augustine-renaissance, where love was understood as both divine and human.This book …
Feminist Approaches to Early Medieval English Studies
Av Robin Norris, Rebecca Stephenson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
2742 kr
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This is a collection of original research on early medieval England with a broad disciplinary cross-section of the field of early English studies. It offers a productive response to debates over how institutional structures work to exclude certain kinds of scholars and scholarship.
