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New Evidence for the Dating and Impact of the Black Death in Asia
Since 2014, when The Medieval Globe first presented the latest interdisciplinary scholarship on the Black Death as a global pandemic, the pace and intensity of research has …
Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World
This ground-breaking book brings together scholars from the humanities and social and physical sciences to address the question of how recent work in the genetics, zoology, and …
Western Civilizations
Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo)
The Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo) was composed around 1160 at the imperial Bavarian abbey of Tegernsee, at a critical point in the power-struggle between the …
Western Civilizations
Used by more than a million students since its original publication, Western Civilizations became the leading text for the course by combining historical scholarship with classroom …
Medieval Sicily, al-Andalus, and the Maghrib
This book explores a millennium of literary exchanges among the peoples of the Maghrib, or westernmost strongholds of medieval Islam. In the seventh century, Muslim expansion into …
Re-Assessing the Global Turn in Medieval Art History
Scotland and the First World War
What did war look like in the cultural imagination of 1914? Why did men in Scotland sign up to fight in unprecedented numbers? What were the martial myths shaping Scottish identity …
Re-Assessing the Global Turn in Medieval Art History
The growth in debates concerning the concept of 'the global' in medieval art history, and the more complex picture of Eurasian and African societies and material culture that has …
Recreating the Medieval Globe
The creative reuse of materials, texts, and ideas was a common phenomenon in the medieval world. The seven chapters offer here a synchronic and diachronic consideration of the …
A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Middle Ages
For the first time, a group of distinguished authors come together to provide an authoritative exploration of the cultural history of tragedy in the Middle Ages. Reports of the …