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Exploring the work of writers, illuminators, and craftspeople, this volume demonstrates the pervasive nature of architecture as a category of medieval thought. The architectural remnants of the past—from castles and cathedrals to the lowliest villa
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Irene Binini
This book offers a major reassessment of Peter Abelard's modal logic and theory of modalities, presenting them as far more uniform and consistent than was recognized until now. Irene Binini offers new ways of connecting Abelard's modal views with oth
Autor:
Sarah Star
Henry Daniel, fourteenth-century medical writer, Dominican friar, and contemporary of Chaucer, is one of the most neglected figures to whom we can attribute a substantial body of extant works in Middle English. His Liber Uricrisiarum, the earliest kn
Autor:
Daniel Davies, R. D. Perry
From England and France to the Low Countries, Wales, Scotland, and Italy, the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) fundamentally shaped late-medieval literature. This volume adopts an expansive focus to reveal the transnational literary consequences of over
This open access book explores how medieval societies conversed about the city and citizen in texts, visual imagery and material culture. It adopts a long-term, interdisciplinary, and cross-cultural perspective, bringing together contributions on the
Autor:
Tom Lewis
A concise and entertaining explanation of how other accounts, and popular culture such as films, have misrepresented medieval warfare.We don't know how medieval soldiers fought. Did they just walk forward in their armor smashing each other with their
Autor:
Nicole R. Rice
Nicole Rice's original study analyzes the role played by late medieval English hospitals as sites of literary production and cultural contestation.The hospitals of late medieval England defy easy categorization. They were institutions of charity, med
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Sarah Loose Guerrero
This book combines the history of charitable institutions with the study of power in urban and rural spaces from the late medieval to the early modern era. Focusing on the Ospedale di Santa Maria della Scala in Siena, the book goes beyond examining h
Autor:
Eliška Kubartová Poláčková
Laments of the Virgin Mary represent a devotional genre that offered its clerical and lay audiences of the High and Late Middle Ages a deeply inspiring, yet at the same time ambiguous, religious experience. Through the deeply emotional and markedly a
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Meriem Pagès
Less than a hundred years after Thomas Becket's martyrdom at the hands of four of Henry II's knights, his Anglo-Norman mother was transformed into a pagan princess who abandoned faith and kin for Becket's father and Christianity. Pagès uses this who