Participatory Reading in Late-Medieval England, Hardback - Heather Blatt

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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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...

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

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...

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

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

This collection offers bold new readings of the images, composition, reception, and contexts of the beautiful, twelfth-century Markyate Psalter.Pub...

An international journal committed to the publication of essays and reviews relevant to drama and theatre history to 1642. This issue includes eigh...

Interrogations of materiality and geography, narrative framework and boundaries, and the ways these scholarly pursuits ripple out into the wider cu...

Publisher: UnboundAuthor(s): Soren LilyNumber of pages: 112Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 111 x 155 x 15Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farmecul...

The bitter civil war for the English throne, which drew in Scotland and Normandy, when a princess's rightful throne was seized by her male cousin, ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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...

This critical study of medieval English romances uses ideas from anthropology and critical theories of the gift to shed light on narratives ranging...

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

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

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...

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Winner of the 2021 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church HistoryAn overlooked aspect of the iconography of the A...

This book uncovers the tremendous importance of water for European medieval literature, focusing on a large number of writers and poets. Water prov...

Contemporary descriptions of objects no longer extant examined to reconstruct these lost treasures.Publisher: York Medieval PressIllustration(s): 1...

Reducere. This volume offers fresh approaches to both the material and the subject matter of late medieval English alabaster sculptures, bringing them into d...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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

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

A survey of attitudes to marriage as represented in medieval legal and literary texts.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s): Conor McCarthyNumbe...

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

A unique addition to the increasingly popular trend of looking at the ordinary lives of people. Provides an important perspective from the ground u...

How the Anglican church responded to population growth and the need for more accommodation, with the building of 1500 new churches, many of the fin...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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

This book explores the experience of childhood and adolescence in later medieval English rural society from 1250 to 1450.

Publisher: Unicorn Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Richard TaylorIllustration(s): 48 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 202...

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

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

Presents a systematic survey of the fifty most important medieval parish church towers and spires in England, covering a period of some five hundre...

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