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Christian Thought in the Medieval Islamicate World
Christian Thought in the Medieval Islamicate World: ?Abdisho? of Nisibis and the Apologetic Tradition is the first monograph-length study and intellectual biography of ?Abdisho? of …
Imprisonment in the Medieval Religious Imagination, c. 1150-1400
This book explores the world of religious thinking on imprisonment, and how images of imprisonment were used in monastic thought, the cult of saints, the early inquisitions, …
Ancient and Medieval Thought on Greek Enclitics
This book has two complementary aims: to improve our grasp of the ideas about Greek enclitics that ancient and medieval scholars have passed down to us, and to show how a close …
Medieval Marriage Sermons
Before the advent of printing, the preaching of the friars was the mass medium of the middle ages. This edition of marriage sermons reveals what a number of famous preachers …
Baltic Crusades and Societal Innovation in Medieval Livonia, 1200-1350
The Baltic Crusades in the thirteenth century led to the creation of the medieval Livonia. But what happened after the conquest? The contributors to this volume analyse the …
Festival Culture in the World of the Spanish Habsburgs
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in Early Modern Festivals. These spectacles articulated the self-image of ruling elites and played out the tensions of the …
Colour and Light in Ancient and Medieval Art
The myriad ways in which colour and light have been adapted and applied in the art, architecture, and material culture of past societies is the focus of this interdisciplinary …
Frontiers for Peace in the Medieval North
In Frontiers for Peace in the Medieval North. The Norwegian-Scottish Frontier c. 1260-1470, Ian Peter Grohse examines social and political interactions in Orkney, a Norwegian-held …
Women in Christianity in the Medieval Age
This volume offers a comprehensive introduction to and investigation of the multivocality of women’s experience in the Middle Ages. In medieval Europe women saw their role in the …
Medieval Wales
This book provides an introduction to the history of medieval Wales, with particular emphasis on political developments. It traces the growth of Welsh princely power, and the …
Three Late Medieval Morality Plays: Everyman, Mankind and Mundus et Infans
"e;Take example, all ye that this do hear or see..."e; The Morality Play was popular in England between 1400 and 1600. It offers moral instruction and spiritual teaching …
Image of Aleksandr Nevskiy in Medieval Russia
This study examines the evolution of the image of Aleksandr Nevskiy in close connection with the dynamics of the political and cultural history of medieval Russia. It demonstrates …