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Disability and Sanctity in the Middle Ages
This volume significantly expands current understandings of both disability and sanctity in the Middle Ages. Across the collection, heterogeneous constructions, and experiences, of …
Moritz Steinschneider. The Hebrew Translations of the Middle Ages and the Jews as Transmitters
This book surveys Hebrew manuscripts of Aristotelian philosophy and logic. This publication is the second in a series of volumes that translates, updates, and, where necessary, …
Tears, Liquids and Porous Bodies in Literature Across the Ages
Taking in works from writers as diverse as William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Charlotte Brontë, John Keats, James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence, this book spans approximately 300 …
Living Image in the Middle Ages and Beyond
This edited volume discusses images that bleed, speak, cry, move, and behave in ways we usually attribute to living creatures.Living images have been the object of devotion as well …
Fantasy of the Middle Ages
This abundantly illustrated book is an illuminating exploration of the impact of medieval imagery on three hundred years of visual culture. From the soaring castles of Sleeping …
Sex Lives and Churches in Polish Territories Through the Ages
This book analyzes the relation between the Churches’ official teachings regarding ‘desired’ and forbidden forms of sexual behaviour on the one hand, and mundane practice on the …
Scripture and History in the Middle Ages / Schriftsinn Und Geschichte Im Mittelalter
The studies focus on the question "What is in late antique and medieval biblical commentaries?" The question concerns the term "historia" to what uses is it put by the exegetes, …
Europe in the Central Middle Ages
This wide-ranging introduction to medieval Europe has been updated and revised. In his popular survey Brooke explores the variety of human experience in the period. He looks at …
Communicating Papal Authority in the Middle Ages
This book bridges Japanese and European scholarly approaches to ecclesiastical history to provide new insights into how the papacy conceptualised its authority and attempted to …
Experience of Beauty in the Middle Ages
This book articulates a new approach to medieval aesthetic values, emphasizing the sensory and emotional basis of all medieval arts, their love of play and fine craftsmanship, of …
Medievalism and Orientalism
This unique study traces fundamental parallels between medieval European and Middle Eastern cultures. By examining sources in cultural history, literature, and architecture, this …
Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages
In the Middle Ages, the life story of Alexander the Great was a well-traveled tale. Known in numerous versions, many of them derived from the ancient Greek Alexander Romance, it …