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Death Is a Festival
This award-winning social history of death and funeral rites during the early decades of Brazils independence from Portugal focuses on the Cemiterada movement in Salvador, capital …
Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture
In the late medieval period, manuscripts galore circulated in Middle Eastern libraries. Yet very few book collections have come down to us as such or have left a documentary trail. …
Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West
Monasticism, in all of its variations, was a feature of almost every landscape in the medieval West. So ubiquitous were religious women and men throughout the Middle Ages that all …
Royal Favourites of Medieval England
Explores Medieval England's monarchs and their trusted, often ruthless courtiers who shaped history through loyalty, power, and conflict.All monarchs have need of those to whom …
Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval
This book addresses a central problem often ignored by students of twentieth-century Mexico: the breakdown of the old order during the first years of the revolutionary era. That …
Spheres of Philosophical Inquiry and the Historiography of Medieval Philosophy
Recent writers in the historiography of philosophy have placed into question the paradigms that structure our historical writing. This volume continues this discussion with …
Medieval Saints and Modern Screens
This ground-breaking book brings theoretical perspectives from twenty-first century media, film, and cultural studies to medieval hagiography. Medieval Saints and Modern Screens …
Repurposing Literary Romance Texts in Medieval Manuscripts
Transcribing a text within a Medieval manuscript was often not a culturally and ideologically neutral act. The lack of direct control by the authors over the circulation of their …
Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England
This book explores the role of mens rea, broadly defined as a factor in jury assessments of guilt and innocence from the early thirteenth through the fourteenth century - the first …
Will och Randolphs fantastiska äventyr – Mördarvalen
Spänn fast dig för ännu ett oförglömligt äventyr med den modiga pojken Will, hans pratsamma björn Randolph och deras pålitliga kompis Uppochnedvända fågeln!Vår trio hamnar i knipa …
Cognitive Sciences and Medieval Studies
With the rapid development of the cognitive sciences and their importance to how we contemplate questions about the mind and society, recent research in the humanities has been …