Dissimilar Similitudes: Devotional Objects in Late Medieval Europe, Hardcover - Caroline Walker Bynum

Reducere. From an acclaimed historian, a mesmerizing account of how medieval European Christians envisioned the paradoxical nature of holy objects Between th...

Publisher: Zone BooksAuthor(s): Caroline Walker BynumNumber of pages: 344Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 230 x 32Cover type: Paperback / so...

Late Medieval Christianity's encounter with miraculous materials viewed in the context of changing conceptions of matter itself.In the period betwe...

Reducere. The quiet market town of Wilsnack in northeastern Germany is unfamiliar to most English-speakers and even to many modern Germans. Yet in the fiftee...

Reducere. Fragmentation and Redemption is first of all about bodies and the relationship of part to whole in the high Middle Ages, a period in which the over...

DescriptionWhile the social identity of women in medieval society hinged largely on the ritual of marriage, identity for men was derived from belon...

Reducere. An exploration of the roles of metamorphosis and hybridity in the establishment of personal identity, with particular emphasis on the twelfth and t...

Features essays that apply the method to the broader question of differences between regular canons and monks and the narrower question of differen...

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This book traces affinities across the digital-medieval divide to explore how reading functioned as a nexus for concerns about literacy, audiences'...

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Reducere. Neighbours and strangers investigates social cohesion in rural settlements in western Europe from 700 to 1050, asking to what extent settlements, o...

In 1230, Jews in the English city of Norwich were accused of having seized and circumcised a five-year-old Christian boy named Edward because they ...

This volume examines interdisciplinary boundaries, and includes texts focusing on material culture, philological analysis and historical research. ...

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This study investigates the 'exceptional' staging of the life of Catherine of Siena by a female actor and a female patron in 1468 Metz. Integrating...

Alone Together reinterprets the explosion of sentimental poetry and prose in fifteenth-century Iberia.Publisher: University of Toronto PressAuthor(...

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Tracing three episodes in sacred history - the loss of Eden, the loading of Noah's Ark, and the Harrowing of Hell - Sarah Elliott Novacich shows ho...

DescriptionAs anyone who has read Chaucer's Canterbury Tales knows, Middle English literature is rife with sexually explicit language and situation...

Essays bringing out the richness and vibrancy of pre-modern textual culture in all its variety.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdIllustration(s): 62 c...

Heresy and Citizenship examines the anti-heretical campaigns in late-medieval Augsburg, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Strasbourg, and other cities. It ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Cecil ReidIllustration(s): 1 Line drawings, black and white; 8 Halftones, black and white; 5 Tables, blac...

DescriptionThe medieval reception of Alexander the Great inspired a complicated literary corpus not simply because it involved so many source-texts...

Margaret of Anjou was a vengeful and violent woman, or so we have been told, whose vindictive spirit fuelled the fifteenth-century dynastic conflic...

Reducere. Why a 'spectacle' of the body? Why not an 'imaginary' of the body or 'images' or perhaps 'concepts'? Even to the lay reader, the two sets - 'specta...

If you want to discover the captivating history of Notre-Dame de Paris, then keep reading...It was with horror and sadness that the people of the w...

Reducere. Descopera istoria. Stat si religie in Europa medievala. Papalitatea, Imperiul si marile regate dinasticeIntre secolele al XI-lea si al XIII-lea au ...

First full examination of the medieval livery collar, form, function, and significance.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s): Matthew J. WardIll...

Description"Carole Rawcliffe continues with her mission to clean up the Middle Ages. In earlier work she has already given us scholarly yet sympath...

In Ruling the Spirit, Claire Taylor Jones revises the narrative of women's involvement in the German Dominican order, arguing that Dominican women ...

This volume elucidates the craft practices, cultural conventions and literary attitudes of scribes of late medieval English manuscripts to students...

DescriptionSwords were special in Anglo-Saxon England. Their names, deeds and pedigrees were enshrined in writing. Many were curated for generation...

Challenging the long-standing idea that translations do not bear the same literary or historical weight as the supposed originals upon which they a...

Publisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Peter D. ShapinskyNumber of pages: 344Collection: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studi...

Reducere. Saint Gregory of Tours' comprehensive history of the Frankish people, who ruled over much of what is modern-day France and Germany, is published he...

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Irish inhabitants of the 'four obedient shires' - a term commonly used to describe the region at the heart of the English colony in the later Middl...

An examination of awareness of the ecclesiastical doctrine of discretio spirituum, the means of testing whether visions were truly of divine origin...

Reducere. From late medieval reenactments of the Deposition from the Cross to Sol Lewitt's "Buried Cube, " Depositions is about taking down images and about ...

Featuring an array of fascinating illustrations from the British Library's rich medieval collection, Cats in Medieval Manuscripts includes anecdote...

Featuring stunning illustrations from the British Library's rich medieval collection, Dogs in Medieval Manuscripts provides - through discussion of...

Reducere. Descopera istoria. Stat si religie in Europa medievala. Papalitatea, Imperiul si marile regate dinastice Intre secolele al XI-lea si al XIII-lea au...

The various objects chosen by the author tell the story of the conflicts which shaped the nature of the Western World known today, both in spiritua...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of The Black Death, then keep reading...The Black Death was the first recorded pandemic in Europe a...

Reducere. Maeve's strangely astute tarot readings make her the talk of the school, until a classmate draws a chilling and unfamiliar card--and then disappear...

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DescriptionThis edited volume explores how (what is today) Scotland can be compared with, contrasted to, or was connected with other parts of Early...