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Graphic Signs of Authority in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, 300-900
Graphic Signs of Authority in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages presents a cultural history of graphic signs and examines how they were employed to communicate secular and …
Montecassino and Benevento in the Middle Ages
This second volume by Graham Loud focuses on two key centres of the south Italian church in the central Middle Ages. The first section concentrates on the 'golden age' of the abbey …
Moritz Steinschneider. The Hebrew Translations of the Middle Ages and the Jews as Transmitters
This book surveys Hebrew manuscripts of Aristotelian philosophy and logic. It presents a translation and revision of part of Moritz Steinschneider's monumental Die Hebraeischen …
Mathematical Recreations in the Middle Ages
A whimsical examination of math in the Middle Ages. This book brings together many unusual and entertaining examples of Medieval mathematical exercises. Medieval treatises on …
Song of Songs in the Early Middle Ages
In The Song of Songs in the Early Middle Ages, Hannah W. Matis examines how the Song of Songs, the collection of Hebrew love poetry, was understood in the Latin West as an allegory …
Poisoned Wells
Between 1348 and 1350, Jews throughout Europe were accused of having caused the spread of the Black Death by poisoning the wells from which the entire population drank. Hundreds if …
Venomous Tongues
Sandy Bardsley examines the complex relationship between speech and gender in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and engages debates on the static nature of women's status …
Reform, Ecclesiology, and the Christian Life in the Late Middle Ages
Philosophy was not an idle venture in the Renaissance. There were no clear-cut boundaries between theory and the practice. Theologians, jurists and humanists gave opinions on …
Sexual Violence and Rape in the Middle Ages
Medieval historians and literary scholars have not ignored the topic of sexual violence and rape, but the primary focus has regularly rested on English, French, or Italian …
Logic and Language in the Middle Ages
During a career spanning four decades, Sten Ebbesen has produced a body of work which stands as a remarkable and important contribution to the field of medieval philosophy. …
Maimonides and St. Thomas Aquinas: The Lives and Works of the Middle Ages' Most Influential Religious Philosophers
*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading"One should accept the truth from whatever source it proceeds." - Maimonides Moses Ben Maimon, …
Financing Queenship in Late Fifteenth Century England
"Seah's important book richly documents and deftly analyzes the complex household economies of three fifteenth-century queens consort of England who lived during a period of …