Medieval category: 3965 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe provides a comprehensive overview of the gender rules encountered in Europe in the period between approximately 500 and 1500 C.E. The essays collected in this volume speak to interpretative challenges common to all fields of women's and gender...
Routledge Revivals: Women and Gender in Medieval Europe (2006)
An Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
First published in 2006, Women and Gender in Medieval Europe examines the daily reality of medieval women from all walks of life in Europe between 450 CE and 1500 CE. This reference work provides a comprehensive understanding of many aspects of medieval women and gender, such as art, economics, law,...
The Barbarian North in Medieval Imagination
Ethnicity, Legend, and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
This bookexamines 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...
The Good Wife's Guide (Le Ménagier de Paris)
A Medieval Household Book
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the closing years of the fourteenth century, an anonymous French writer compiled a book addressed to a fifteen-year-old bride, narrated in the voice of her husband, a wealthy, aging Parisian. The book was designed to teach this young wife the moral attributes, duties, and conduct befitting a woman...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
The usual wide range of approaches to garments and fabrics appears in this tenth volume. Three chapters focus on practical matters: a description of the medieval vestments surviving at Castel Sant'Elia in Italy; a survey of the spread of silk cultivation to Europe before 1300; and a documentation...
Routledge Revivals: Medieval Archaeology (2001)
An Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
First published in 2001, this is the first reference work to cover the archaeology of medieval Europe. No other reference can claim such comprehensive coverage -- from Ireland to Russia and from Scandinavia to Italy, the archaeology of the entirety of medieval Europe is discussed.
With coverage...
Moral Dilemmas in Medieval Thought
From Gratian to Aquinas
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
The history of moral dilemma theory often ignores the medieval period, overlooking the sophisticated theorizing by several thinkers who debated the existence of moral dilemmas from 1150 to 1450. In this book Michael V. Dougherty offers a rich and fascinating overview of the debates which were pursued...
The Legitimacy of the Middle Ages
On the Unwritten History of Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
This collection of essays argues that any valid theory of the modern should—indeed must—reckon with the medieval. Offering a much-needed correction to theorists such as Hans Blumenberg, who in his Legitimacy of the Modern Age describes the "modern age" as a complete departure from the...
The Politics of Ecology
Land, Life, and Law in Medieval Britain
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
If medieval literary studies is, like so many fields, currently conditioned by an ecological turn that dislodges the human from its central place in materialist analysis, then why now focus on the law? Is not the law the most human, if not indeed the human, institution? In proposing that all life...
Lords and Towns in Medieval Europe
The European Historic Towns Atlas Project
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This volume is based on possibly the biggest single Europe-wide project in urban history. In 1955 the International Commission for the History of Towns established the European historic towns atlas project in accordance with a common scheme in order to encourage comparative urban studies. Although...
Stasis in the Medieval West?
Questioning Change and Continuity
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
This volume questions the extent to which Medieval studies has emphasized the period as one of change and development through reexamining aspects of the medieval world that remained static. The Medieval period is popularly thought of as a dark age, before the flowerings of the Renaissance ushered...
Medieval Boundaries
Rethinking Difference in Old French Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In Medieval Boundaries, Sharon Kinoshita examines the role of cross-cultural contact in twelfth- and early thirteenth-century French literature. Starting from the observation that many of the earliest and best-known works of the French literary tradition are set on or beyond the borders of the French-speaking...
by Cynthia J. Cyrus
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2009
While there has been a great tradition of scholarship in medieval manuscripts, most studies have focused on the details of manuscript production by male copyists. In this study, Cynthia J. Cyrus demonstrates the prevalence of manuscript production by women monastics and challenges current assumptions...
The Origins of the German Principalities, 1100-1350
Essays by German Historians
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
The history of medieval Germany is still rarely studied in the English-speaking world. This collection of essays by distinguished German historians examines one of most important themes of German medieval history, the development of the local principalities. These became the dominant governmental...