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pro vyhledávání: '"Grosseteste, Robert"'
Autor:
Peter Adamson
Avicenna is the greatest philosopher of the Islamic world. His immense impact on Christian and Jewish medieval thought, as well as on the subsequent Islamic tradition, is charted in this volume alongside studies which provide a comprehensive introduc
Autor:
Gad Freudenthal
Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures provides the first comprehensive overview by world-renowned experts of what we know today of medieval Jews'engagement with the sciences. Many medieval Jews, whether living in Islamic or Christian civilizations, joi
Autor:
Mary Carruthers
Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edi
Food and diet are central to understanding daily life in the middle ages. In the last two decades, the potential for the study of diet in medieval England has changed markedly: historians have addressed sources in new ways; material from a wide range
Autor:
Caroline Walker Bynum
In the period between 1200 and 1500 in western Europe, a number of religious women gained widespread veneration and even canonization as saints for their extraordinary devotion to the Christian eucharist, supernatural multiplications of food and drin
Autor:
Bowers, Barbara S., Keyser, Linda Migl
This volume challenges and redefines the traditional distinction made between the sacred and the secular in medieval healing, medical practice, and theory as evidenced in the historic, text record, and by material culture (sites and objects). The stu
Autor:
Virginia Langum
This book considers how scientists, theologians, priests, and poets approached the relationship of the human body and ethics in the later Middle Ages. Is medicine merely a metaphor for sin? Or can certain kinds of bodies physiologically dispose peopl
Autor:
Catherine Rider
During the Middle Ages, many occult rituals and beliefs existed and were practiced alongside those officially sanctioned by the church. While educated clergy condemned some of these as magic, many of these practices involved religious language, ritua
Autor:
Mary Carruthers, Jan M. Ziolkowski
In antiquity and the Middle Ages, memory was a craft, and certain actions and tools were thought to be necessary for its creation and recollection. Until now, however, many of the most important visual and textual sources on the topic have remained u
Autor:
Carruthers, Mary, Ziolkowski, Jan M.
''A volume that will interest a wide spectrum of readers.''--Patrick Geary, University of California, Los Angeles