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Sanctity and Female Authorship
Birgitta of Sweden & Catherine of Siena
Häftad, 2021
812 kr
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Birgitta of Sweden (Birgitta Birgersdotter, 1302/03-1373) and her younger contemporary Catherine of Siena (Caterina Benincasa, 1347-1380) form the most powerful and influential female duo in European history. Both enjoyed saintly reputations in life, while acting as the charismatic leaders of a …
Sanctity and Female Authorship
Birgitta of Sweden & Catherine of Siena
Inbunden, 2019
2888 kr
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Birgitta of Sweden (Birgitta Birgersdotter, 1302/03-1373) and her younger contemporary Catherine of Siena (Caterina Benincasa, 1347-1380) form the most powerful and influential female duo in European history. Both enjoyed saintly reputations in life, while acting as the charismatic leaders of a …
Preaching and New Worlds
Sermons as Mirrors of Realms Near and Far
Av Timothy Johnson, Katherine Shelby m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
706 kr
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This collection of essays examines the polyvalent concept of "New Worlds" in the context of medieval and early modern sermon studies. While the terms "Old World" and "New World" are commonplace in studies of Europe and the Americas, this volume explores how preaching in the Atlantic world and …
Saintly Women
Medieval Saints, Modern Women, and Intimate Partner Violence
Av Nancy Nienhuis, Beverly Mayne Kienzle
Häftad, 2020
845 kr
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This ground-breaking volume assesses the contemporary epidemic of intimate partner violence and explores how and why cultural and religious beliefs serve to excuse battering and to work against survivors’ attempts to find safety. Theological interpretations of sacred texts have been used for …
Representations of Eve in Antiquity and the English Middle Ages
Av John Flood
Häftad, 2019
812 kr
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As the first woman, Eve was the pattern for all her daughters. The importance of readings of Eve for understanding how women were viewed at various times is a critical commonplace, but one which has been only narrowly investigated. This book systematically explores the different ways in which Eve …
Barbarian North in Medieval Imagination
Ethnicity, Legend, and Literature
Av Robert Rix
Häftad, 2019
812 kr
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This book examines the sustained interest in legends of the pagan and peripheral North, tracing and analyzing the use of an ‘out-of-Scandinavia’ legend (Scandinavia as an ancestral homeland) in a wide range of medieval texts from all over Europe, with a focus on the Anglo-Saxon tradition. The pagan …
Gender and Holiness
Men, Women and Saints in Late Medieval Europe
Inbunden, 2002
2512 kr
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This collection brings together two flourishing areas of medieval scholarship: gender and religion. It examines gender-specific religious practices and contends that the pursuit of holiness can destabilise binary gender itself. Though saints may be classified as masculine or feminine, holiness may …
Invention of Saintliness
Inbunden, 2002
2512 kr
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This volume discusses, from an historical and literary angle, the ways in which sanctification and the inscription of saintliness take place. Going beyond the traditional categories of canonization, cult, liturgical veneration and hagiographical lives, the work raises fundamental issues concerning …
Tolkien the Medievalist
Av Jane Chance
Inbunden, 2002
2888 kr
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Interdisciplinary in approach, Tolkien the Medievalist provides a fresh perspective on J. R. R. Tolkien's Medievalism. In fifteen essays, eminent scholars and new voices explore how Professor Tolkien responded to a modern age of crisis - historical, academic and personal - by adapting his …
Julian of Norwich
Visionary or Mystic?
Av Kevin Magill
Inbunden, 2005
2490 kr
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Julian of Norwich was a fourteenth-century woman who at the age of thirty had a series of vivid visions centred around the crucified Christ. Twenty years later, while living as an anchoress in a church, she is believed to have set out these visions in a text called the Showing of Love. Going …
Disability in Medieval Europe
Thinking about Physical Impairment in the High Middle Ages, c.1100–c.1400
Inbunden, 2005
2332 kr
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This impressive volume presents a thorough examination of all aspects of physical impairment and disability in medieval Europe. Examining a popular era that is of great interest to many historians and researchers, Irene Metzler presents a theoretical framework of disability and explores key areas …
Envisaging Heaven in the Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2006
2586 kr
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Envisaging Heaven in the Middle Ages deals with medieval notions of heaven in theological and mystical writings, in visions of the Otherworld, and in medieval art, poetry and music. It considers the influence of such notions in the secular literature of some of the greatest writers of the period …
Tolkien the Medievalist
Av Jane Chance
Häftad, 2008
1046 kr
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Interdisciplinary in approach, Tolkien the Medievalist provides a fresh perspective on J. R. R. Tolkien's Medievalism. In fifteen essays, eminent scholars and new voices explore how Professor Tolkien responded to a modern age of crisis - historical, academic and personal - by adapting his …
Gender and Holiness
Men, Women and Saints in Late Medieval Europe
Häftad, 2011
750 kr
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This collection brings together two flourishing areas of medieval scholarship: gender and religion. It examines gender-specific religious practices and contends that the pursuit of holiness can destabilise binary gender itself. Though saints may be classified as masculine or feminine, holiness may …
Julian of Norwich
Visionary or Mystic?
Av Kevin Magill
Häftad, 2009
1092 kr
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Julian of Norwich was a fourteenth-century woman who at the age of thirty had a series of vivid visions centred around the crucified Christ. Twenty years later, while living as an anchoress in a church, she is believed to have set out these visions in a text called the Showing of Love. Going …
Disability in Medieval Europe
Thinking about Physical Impairment in the High Middle Ages, c.1100–c.1400
Häftad, 2010
742 kr
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This impressive volume presents a thorough examination of all aspects of physical impairment and disability in medieval Europe. Examining a popular era that is of great interest to many historians and researchers, Irene Metzler presents a theoretical framework of disability and explores key areas …
Crying in the Middle Ages
Tears of History
Häftad, 2013
910 kr
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Sacred and profane, public and private, emotive and ritualistic, internal and embodied, medieval weeping served as a culturally charged prism for a host of social, visual, cognitive, and linguistic performances. Crying in the Middle Ages addresses the place of tears in Jewish, Christian, and …
Envisaging Heaven in the Middle Ages
Häftad, 2014
937 kr
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Envisaging Heaven in the Middle Ages deals with medieval notions of heaven in theological and mystical writings, in visions of the Otherworld, and in medieval art, poetry and music. It considers the influence of such notions in the secular literature of some of the greatest writers of the period …
Misconceptions About the Middle Ages
Av Stephen Harris, Bryon L. Grigsby
Inbunden, 2007
2826 kr
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Interest in the middle ages is at an all time high at the moment, thanks in part to "The Da Vinci Code." Never has there been a moment more propitious for a study of our misconceptions of the Middle Ages than now. Ranging across religion, art, and science, Misconceptions about the Middle Ages …
Invention of Saintliness
Häftad, 2015
892 kr
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This volume discusses, from an historical and literary angle, the ways in which sanctification and the inscription of saintliness take place. Going beyond the traditional categories of canonization, cult, liturgical veneration and hagiographical lives, the work raises fundamental issues concerning …
Misconceptions About the Middle Ages
Av Stephen Harris, Bryon L. Grigsby
Häftad, 2009
817 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Interest in the middle ages is at an all time high at the moment, thanks in part to "The Da Vinci Code." Never has there been a moment more propitious for a study of our misconceptions of the Middle Ages than now. Ranging across religion, art, and science, Misconceptions about the Middle Ages …
Medieval Monstrosity and the Female Body
Inbunden, 2010
2888 kr
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The medieval monster is a slippery construct, and its referents include a range of religious, racial, and corporeal aberrations. In this study, Miller argues that one incarnation of monstrosity in the Middle Ages—the female body—exists in special relation to medieval teratology insofar as it …
Representations of Eve in Antiquity and the English Middle Ages
Av John Flood
Inbunden, 2010
2888 kr
Lägg i varukorg
As the first woman, Eve was the pattern for all her daughters. The importance of readings of Eve for understanding how women were viewed at various times is a critical commonplace, but one which has been only narrowly investigated. This book systematically explores the different ways in which Eve …
Crying in the Middle Ages
Tears of History
Inbunden, 2011
2512 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Sacred and profane, public and private, emotive and ritualistic, internal and embodied, medieval weeping served as a culturally charged prism for a host of social, visual, cognitive, and linguistic performances. Crying in the Middle Ages addresses the place of tears in Jewish, Christian, and …
Saintly Women
Medieval Saints, Modern Women, and Intimate Partner Violence
Av Nancy Nienhuis, Beverly Mayne Kienzle
Inbunden, 2017
2888 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This ground-breaking volume assesses the contemporary epidemic of intimate partner violence and explores how and why cultural and religious beliefs serve to excuse battering and to work against survivors’ attempts to find safety. Theological interpretations of sacred texts have been used for …
Preaching and New Worlds
Sermons as Mirrors of Realms Near and Far
Av Timothy Johnson, Katherine Shelby m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2512 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This collection of essays examines the polyvalent concept of "New Worlds" in the context of medieval and early modern sermon studies. While the terms "Old World" and "New World" are commonplace in studies of Europe and the Americas, this volume explores how preaching in the Atlantic world and …
Medieval Monstrosity and the Female Body
Häftad, 2014
946 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The medieval monster is a slippery construct, and its referents include a range of religious, racial, and corporeal aberrations. In this study, Miller argues that one incarnation of monstrosity in the Middle Ages—the female body—exists in special relation to medieval teratology insofar as it …
Barbarian North in Medieval Imagination
Ethnicity, Legend, and Literature
Av Robert Rix
Inbunden, 2014
3156 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book examines the sustained interest in legends of the pagan and peripheral North, tracing and analyzing the use of an ‘out-of-Scandinavia’ legend (Scandinavia as an ancestral homeland) in a wide range of medieval texts from all over Europe, with a focus on the Anglo-Saxon tradition. The pagan …
