The Fluctuating Sea

Saygin Salgirli

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Medieval History and Culture
• This volume fluctuates between conceptualizations of movement; either movements that buildings in the medieval Mediterranean facilitated, or the movem... Lees meer

Traveling Through Text

Elka Weber

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval History and Culture
• Traveling through Text compares religious ravel writing by Muslims, Christians and Jews in later Middle Ages. This comparative approach allows us to s... Lees meer

The Myths and Realities of the Viking Berserkr

Roderick Dale

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval History and Culture
• The viking berserkr is an iconic warrior normally associated with violent fits of temper and the notorious berserksgangr or berserker frenzy. This boo... Lees meer

The Bible and Jews in Medieval Spain

Norman Roth

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Medieval History and Culture
• The Bible and Jews in Medieval Spain examines the grammatical, exegetical, philosophical and mystical interpretations of the Bible that took place in ... Lees meer

The Door of the Caliph

Elsa Cardoso

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval History and Culture
• This book focuses on the conceptualization of the court, palace and ruler of the Umayyad Caliphate of al-Andalus. Western terminology still plays a no... Lees meer

Travel, Pilgrimage and Social Interaction from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval History and Culture
• Mobility and travel have always been key characteristics of human societies, having various cultural, social and religious aims and purposes. Travels ... Lees meer

The Epistemology of the Monstrous in the Middle Ages

Lisa Verner

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval History and Culture | nr. 33
• This book studies the phenomena of monsters and marvels from the time of Pliny the Elder through the 14th century. Lees meer

Mobile Saints

Kate Craig

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval History and Culture
• Mobile Saints examines the central medieval (ca. 950-1150 CE) practice of removing saints' relics from rural monasteries in order to take them on out-... Lees meer

The Contested Theological Authority of Thomas Aquinas

Elizabeth Lowe

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Medieval History and Culture
• This book explains how the authority Thomas Aquinas's theological teachings grew out of the doctrinal controversies surrounding it within the Dominica... Lees meer

Christian, Saracen and Genre in Medieval French Literature

Lynn Tarte Ramey

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Medieval History and Culture
• This book explores the historical and imaginary representation of the Saracen, or Muslim, in French writings from 1100 to 1500. Lees meer

Pestilence in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature

Byron Lee Grigsby

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Medieval History and Culture
• Pestilence in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature examines three diseases--leprosy, bubonic plague, and syphilis--to show how doctors, priest... Lees meer

The Experience of Neighbourhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval History and Culture
• The Experience of Neighbourhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe contributes to nascent debates on concepts of neighbourliness and belonging, explo... Lees meer

English Readers of Catholic Saints

Judy Ann Ford

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Medieval History and Culture
• In 1484, William Caxton, the first publisher of English-language books, issued The Golden Legend , a translation of the most well-known collection of ... Lees meer

Marian Devotion in the Late Middle Ages

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval History and Culture
• By the late Middle Ages, manifestations of Marian devotion had become multifaceted and covered all aspects of religious, private and personal life. Ma... Lees meer

Illuminating the Border of French and Flemish Manuscripts, 1270-1310

Lisa Moore Hunt

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Medieval History and Culture
• This study first examines the marginal repertoire in two well-known manuscripts, the Psalter of Guy de Dampierre and an Arthurian Romance, within thei... Lees meer

The Preaching Fox

Warren E Edminster

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval History and Culture | nr. 32
• First published in 2005. Volumes in the Medieval History and Culture series include studies on individual works and authors of Latin and vernacular li... Lees meer

The Cursed Carolers in Context

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Medieval History and Culture
• The Cursed Carolers in Context explores the interplay between the forms and contexts in which the tale of the cursed carolers circulated and the meani... Lees meer

Food Consumption in Medieval Iberia

Juan Vicente García Marsilla

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Medieval History and Culture
• From the banquets of kings and nobles to the daily struggle for the subsistence of the poor, food was already much more than a biological necessity in... Lees meer

Heresy and Citizenship

Eugene Smelyansky

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Medieval History and Culture
• Heresy and Citizenship examines the anti-heretical campaigns in late-medieval Augsburg, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Strasbourg, and other cities. By foc... Lees meer

She, This in Blak

Thomas Hill

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Medieval History and Culture
• "She, This in Blak" takes a fresh look at Chaucer's great Trojan romance, Troilus and Criseyde, in light of recent scholarship on late scholastic disc... Lees meer

Supernatural Encounters

Stephen Gordon

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Medieval History and Culture
• The belief in the reality of demons and the restless dead formed a central facet of the medieval worldview. Whether a pestilent-spreading corpse mobil... Lees meer

Early Medieval Venice

Luigi Andrea Berto

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Medieval History and Culture
• Early Medieval Venice examines the significant changes that Venice underwent between the late-sixth and the early-eleventh centuries. From the periphe... Lees meer

John Cassian and the Reading of Egyptian Monastic Culture

Steven D Driver

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval History and Culture | nr. 8
• This book examines the method of meditative reading encouraged by John Cassian (c. 360-435) in his ascetic writings, the bulk of which are fictive dia... Lees meer

Food Consumption in Medieval Iberia

Juan Vicente García Marsilla

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval History and Culture
• From the banquets of kings and nobles to the daily struggle for the subsistence of the poor, food was already much more than a biological necessity in... Lees meer