Ruth Mazo Karras is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Medieval Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe and coeditor of Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
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Ruth Mazo Karras: Unmarriages
The Middle Ages are often viewed as a repository of tradition, yet what we think of as traditional marriage was far from the only available alternative to the single state in medieval Europe. Many pe …
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Ruth Mazo Karras & Joel Kaye: Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe
In the popular imagination, the Middle Ages are often associated with lawlessness. As historians have long recognized, however, medieval culture was characterized by an enormous respect for law, lega …
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Elisheva Baumgarten & Ruth Mazo Karras: Entangled Histories
From Halakhic innovation to blood libels, from the establishment of new mendicant orders to the institutionalization of Islamicate bureaucracy, and from the development of the inquisitorial process t …
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Ruth Mazo Karras: Common Women
Through a sensitive use of a wide variety of imaginative and didactic texts, Ruth Karras shows that while prostitutes as individuals were marginalized within medieval culture, prostitution as an …
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Judith M. Bennett & Ruth Mazo Karras: Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe
The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe provides a comprehensive overview of the gender rules encountered in Europe in the period between approximately 500 and 1500 C.E. The essays …
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Judith M. Bennett & Ruth Mazo Karras: Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe
The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe provides a comprehensive overview of the gender rules encountered in Europe in the period between approximately 500 and 1500 C.E. The essays …
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Ruth Mazo Karras: Common Women
Through a sensitive use of a wide variety of imaginative and didactic texts, Ruth Karras shows that while prostitutes as individuals were marginalized within medieval culture, prostitution as an …
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Ruth Mazo Karras: Thou Art the Man
‚How do we approach the study of masculinity in the past?‘ Ruth Mazo Karras asks. Medieval documents that have come down to us tell a great deal about the things that men did, but not enough about wh …
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Paola Tartakoff: Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe
A investigation into the thirteenth-century Norwich circumcision case and its meaning for Christians and Jews In 1230, Jews in the English city of Norwich were accused of having seized and circumcise …
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Walter Simons: Cities of Ladies
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title In the early thirteenth century, semireligious communities of women began to form in the cities and towns of the Low Countries. These begu …
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Uta-Renate Blumenthal: The Investiture Controversy
‚This book describes the roots of a set of ideals that effected a radical transformation of eleventh-century European society that led to the confrontation between church and monarchy known as the …
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Barbara Newman: From Virile Woman to WomanChrist
Why did hagiographers of the late Middle Ages praise mothers for abandoning small children? How did a group of female mystics come to define themselves as ‚apostles to the dead‘ and end by challengin …
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Walter Goffart: Barbarian Tides
The Migration Age is still envisioned as an onrush of expansionary ‚Germans‘ pouring unwanted into the Roman Empire and subjecting it to pressures so great that its western parts collapsed under the …
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C. Stephen Jaeger: The Envy of Angels
Before the rise of universities, cathedral schools educated students in a course of studies aimed at perfecting their physical presence, their manners, and their eloquence. The formula of cathedral …
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John Y.B. Hood: Aquinas and the Jews
Hood’s study contends that Aquinas’s writings remain resistant to or skeptical of anti-Jewish trends in thirteenth-century theology. Aquinas sets out simply to clarify and systematize received …
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Theodore Evergates: Feudal Society in Medieval France
Theodore Evergates has assembled, translated, and annotated some two hundred documents from the country of Champagne into a sourcebook that focuses on the political, economic, and legal workings of a …
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The Laws of the Salian Franks
Following the collapse of the western Roman Empire, the Franks established in northern Gaul one of the most enduring of the Germanic barbarian kingdoms. They produced a legal code (which they called …
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Pamela Sheingorn: The Book of Sainte Foy
The miracle stories surrounding Sainte Foy form one of the most complete sets of material relating to a medieval saint’s cult and its practices. Pamela Sheingorn’s superb translation from the Medieva …
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Lambert of Ardres: The History of the Counts of Guines and Lords of Ardres
The History of the Counts of Guines and Lords of Ardres, a work made famous by Georges Duby, now appears in an expert translation by Leah Shopkow. Consisting of 154 surviving chapters, Lambert’s chro …
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E. Ann Matter: The Voice of My Beloved
The Song of Songs, eight chapters of love lyrics found in the collection of wisdom literature attributed to Solomon, is the most enigmatic book of the Bible. For thousands of years Jews and Christian …
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Theodore Evergates: Aristocratic Women in Medieval France
Were aristocratic women in medieval France little more than appendages to patrilineal families, valued as objects of exchange and necessary only for the production of male heirs? Such was the view pr …
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C. Stephen Jaeger: Ennobling Love
‚Richard, Duke of Aquitaine, son of the King of England, remained with Philip, the King of France, who so honored him for so long that they ate every day at the same table and from the same dish, and …
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Wim Blockmans & Walter Prevenier: The Promised Lands
They were, in the words of one contemporary observer, ‚the Promised Lands.‘ In all of Europe, only Northern Italy could rival the economic power and cultural wealth of the Low Countries in the later …
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Maria Rosa Menocal & María Rosa Menocal: The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History
Arabic culture was a central and shaping phenomenon in medieval Europe, yet its influence on medieval literature has been ignored or marginalized for the last two centuries. In this ground-breaking b …
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Dyan Elliott: Fallen Bodies
Medieval clerics believed that original sin had rendered their ‚fallen bodies‘ vulnerable to corrupting impulses—particularly those of a sexual nature. They feared that their corporeal frailty left t …
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Thomas N. Bisson: Cultures of Power
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Cultures of Power proffer diverse perspectives on the prehistory of government in Northern France, Spain, Germany, the Low Countries, and England. Political, social, ecclesiastical, …
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Constance Hoffman Berman: The Cistercian Evolution
According to the received history, the Cistercian order was founded in Cîteaux, France, in 1098 by a group of Benedictine monks who wished for a stricter community. They sought a monastic life that c …
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James M. Powell: Anatomy of a Crusade, 1213-1221
James M. Powell here offers a new interpretation of the Fifth Crusade’s historical and social impact, and a richly rewarding view of life in the thirteenth century. Powell addresses such questions as …
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The Lombard Laws
Here presented for the first time in English are the law codes of the Lombard kings who ruled Italy from the sixth to the eighth centuries. The documents afford unparalleled insight into the …
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C. Stephen Jaeger: The Origins of Courtliness
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book Argues that the origins of courtliness lie in the German courts, their courtier class, and the education for court service in the tenth and …
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Thomas F. X. Noble: The Republic of St. Peter
The Republic of St. Peter seeks to reclaim for central Italy an important part of its own history. Noble’s thesis is at once original and controversial: that the Republic, an independent political en …
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Jenny Adams: Power Play
The game of chess reached western Europe by the year 1000, and within several generations it had become one of the most popular pastimes ever. Both men and women, and even priests played the game des …
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Sahar Amer: Crossing Borders
Given Christianity’s valuation of celibacy and its persistent association of sexuality with the Fall and of women with sin, Western medieval attitudes toward the erotic could not help but be vexed. I …
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Christine Caldwell Ames: Righteous Persecution
Righteous Persecution examines the long-controversial involvement of the Order of Preachers, or Dominicans, with inquisitions into heresy in medieval Europe. From their origin in the thirteenth centu …
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Alfred J. Andrea: The Capture of Constantinople
The armies of the Fourth Crusade that left Western Europe at the beginning of the thirteenth century never reached the Holy Land to fight the Infidel; they stopped instead at Byzantium and sacked tha …
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John H. Arnold: Inquisition and Power
What should historians do with the words of the dead? Inquisition and Power reformulates the historiography of heresy and the inquisition by focusing on depositions taken from the Cathars, a religiou …
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Robert F. Berkhofer III: Day of Reckoning
Day of Reckoning: Power and Accountability in Medieval France applies recent approaches to literacy, legal studies, memory, ritual, and the manorial economy to reexamine the transformation of medieva …
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Ptolemy of Lucca & Thomas Aquinas: On the Government of Rulers
Ptolemy, considered a proto-Humanist by some, combined the principles of Northern Italian republicanism with Aristotelian theory in his De Regimine Principum, a book that influenced much of the polit …
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Courtney M. Booker: Past Convictions
How do people, in both the past and the present, think about moments of social and political crisis, and how do they respond to them? What are the interpretive codes by which troubling events are rea …
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Constance Brittain Bouchard: Those of My Blood
For those who ruled medieval society, the family was the crucial social unit, made up of those from whom property and authority were inherited and those to whom it passed. One’s kin could be one’s cl …
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Jennifer Bryan: Looking Inward
‚You must see yourself.‘ The exhortation was increasingly familiar to English men and women in the two centuries before the Reformation. They encountered it repeatedly in their devotional books, the …
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Christine Chism: Alliterative Revivals
Alliterative Revivals is the first full-length study of the sophisticated historical consciousness of late medieval alliterative romance. Drawing from historicism, feminism, performance studies, and …
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Theresa Coletti: Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints
A sinner-saint who embraced then renounced sexual and worldly pleasures; a woman who, through her attachment to Jesus, embodied both erotic and sacred power; a symbol of penance and an exemplar of co …
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Lynda L. Coon: Sacred Fictions
Late antique and early medieval hagiographic texts present holy women as simultaneously pious and corrupt, hideous and beautiful, exemplars of depravity and models of sanctity. In Sacred Fictions Lyn …
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The Burgundian Code
‚Gives the reader a portrayal of the social institutions of a Germanic people far richer and more exhaustive than any other available source.’—from the Foreword, by Edward Peters From the bloody clas …
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Theresa Earenfight: The King’s Other Body
Queen María of Castile, wife of Alfonso V, ‚the Magnanimous, ‚ king of the Crown of Aragon, governed Catalunya in the mid-fifteenth century while her husband conquered and governed the kingdom of Nap …
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Theodore Evergates: The Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1100-1300
Theodore Evergates provides the first systematic analysis of the aristocracy in the county of Champagne under the independent counts. He argues that three factors—the rise of the comital state, fiefh …
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Katherine L. French: The People of the Parish
The parish, the lowest level of hierarchy in the medieval church, was the shared responsibility of the laity and the clergy. Most Christians were baptized, went to confession, were married, and were …
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Katherine L. French: The Good Women of the Parish
There was immense social and economic upheaval between the Black Death and the English Reformation, and contemporary writers often blamed this upheaval on immorality, singling out women’s behavior fo …
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The Trotula
The Trotula was the most influential compendium of women’s medicine in medieval Europe. Scholarly debate has long focused on the traditional attribution of the work to the mysterious Trotula, said to …
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Fiona J. Griffiths: The Garden of Delights
In The Garden of Delights, Fiona J. Griffiths offers the first major study of the Hortus deliciarum, a magnificently illuminated manuscript of theology, biblical history, and canon law written both b …
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Peter Heath: Allegory and Philosophy in Avicenna (Ibn Sînâ)
Islamic allegory is the product of a cohesive literary tradition to which few contributed as significantly as Ibn Sina (Avicenna), the eleventh-century Muslim philosopher. Peter Heath here offers a d …
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Iain Macleod Higgins: Writing East
No work revealed more of the mysterious East to statesmen, explorers, readers, and writers of the late Middle Ages than the Book of John Mandeville. One of the most widely circulated documents of its …
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Daniel Hobbins: Authorship and Publicity Before Print
Widely recognized by contemporaries as the most powerful theologian of his generation, Jean Gerson (1363-1429) dominated the stage of western Europe during a time of plague, fratricidal war, and reli …
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Lisa Lampert: Gender and Jewish Difference from Paul to Shakespeare
Although representations of medieval Christians and Christianity are rarely subject to the same scholarly scrutiny as those of Jews and Judaism, ‚the Christian‘ is as constructed a term, category, an …
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Michael Lower: The Barons‘ Crusade
In December 1235, Pope Gregory IX altered the mission of a crusade he had begun to preach the year before. Instead of calling for Christian magnates to go on to fight the infidel in Jerusalem, he now …
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Christopher MacEvitt: The Crusades and the Christian World of the East
In the wake of Jerusalem’s fall in 1099, the crusading armies of western Christians known as the Franks found themselves governing not only Muslims and Jews but also local Christians, whose culture a …
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Peggy McCracken: The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero
In The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero, Peggy Mc Cracken explores the role of blood symbolism in establishing and maintaining the sex-gender systems of medieval culture. Reading a variety of lite …
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Sarah McNamer: Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion
Affective meditation on the Passion was one of the most popular literary genres of the high and later Middle Ages. Proliferating in a rich variety of forms, these lyrical, impassioned, script-like te …
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Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker: Lives of the Anchoresses
In cities and towns across northern Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a new type of religious woman took up authoritative positions in society, all the while living as public recluses i …
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Barbara Newman: God and the Goddesses
Contrary to popular belief, the medieval religious imagination did not restrict itself to masculine images of God but envisaged the divine in multiple forms. In fact, the God of medieval Christendom …
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Thomas F. X. Noble: Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians
In the year 726 C.E., the Byzantine emperor Leo III issued an edict declaring images to be idols, forbidden by Exodus, and ordering all such images in churches to be destroyed. Thus commenced the fir …
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Joseph F. O’Callaghan: Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain
Drawing from both Christian and Islamic sources, Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain demonstrates that the clash of arms between Christians and Muslims in the Iberian peninsula that began in the …
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Sara S. Poor: Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book
Sometime around 1230, a young woman left her family and traveled to the German city of Magdeburg to devote herself to worship and religious contemplation. Rather than living in a community of holy wo …
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Stephen A. Mitchell: Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages
Stephen A. Mitchell here offers the fullest examination available of witchcraft in late medieval Scandinavia. He focuses on those people believed to be able—and who in some instances thought themselv …
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Sally McKee: Uncommon Dominion
From 1211 until its loss to the Ottomans in 1669, the Greek island we know as Crete was the Venetian colony of Candia. Ruled by a paid civil service fully accountable to the Venetian Senate, Candia w …
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Karen A. Winstead: John Capgrave’s Fifteenth Century
Britain of the fifteenth century was rife with social change, religious dissent, and political upheaval. Amid this ferment lived John Capgrave—Austin friar, doctor of theology, leading figure in East …
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Shannon McSheffrey: Gender and Heresy
Shannon Mc Sheffrey studies the communities of the late medieval English heretics, the Lollards, and presents unexpected conclusions about the precise ways in which gender shaped participation and …
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Shannon McSheffrey: Marriage, Sex, and Civic Culture in Late Medieval London
Awarded honorable mention for the 2007 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize sponsored by the Canadian Historical Association How were marital and sexual relationships woven into the fabric of late medieval soci …
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Claire M. Waters: Angels and Earthly Creatures
Texts by, for, and about preachers from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries reveal an intense interest in the preacher’s human nature and its intersection with his ‚angelic‘ role. Far from simply …
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Lisa Wolverton: Hastening Toward Prague
This is the first comprehensive study in English of Czech society and politics in the High Middle Ages. It paints a vivid portrait of a flourishing Christian community in the decades between 1050 and …
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Sandy Bardsley: 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 after the Black Death. …
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Craig Williamson: ‚Beowulf‘ and Other Old English Poems
The best-known literary achievement of Anglo-Saxon England, Beowulf is a poem concerned with monsters and heroes, treasure and transience, feuds and fidelity. Composed sometime between 500 and 1000 C …
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Lisa M. Bitel & Felice Lifshitz: Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe
In Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe, six historians explore how medieval people professed Christianity, how they performed gender, and how the two coincided. Many of the daily religious dec …
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Ramzi Rouighi: The Making of a Mediterranean Emirate
The thirteenth century marks a turning point in the history of the western Mediterranean. The armies of Castile and Aragon won significant and decisive victories over Muslims in Iberia and took over …
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The Trotula
The Trotula was the most influential compendium on women’s medicine in medieval Europe. Scholarly debate has long focused on the traditional attribution of the work to the mysterious Trotula, said to …
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Lynda L. Coon: Dark Age Bodies
In Dark Age Bodies Lynda L. Coon reconstructs the gender ideology of monastic masculinity through an investigation of early medieval readings of the body. Focusing on the Carolingian era, Coon evalua …
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Jody Enders: ‚The Farce of the Fart‘ and Other Ribaldries
Was there more to medieval and Renaissance comedy than Chaucer and Shakespeare? Bien sûr. For a real taste of saucy early European humor, one must cross the Channel to France. There, in the fifteenth …
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Marie A. Kelleher: The Measure of Woman
By the end of the Middle Ages, the ius commune—the combination of canon and Roman law—had formed the basis for all law in continental Europe, along with its patriarchal system of categorizing women. …
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Susan Mosher Stuard: Gilding the Market
In the fourteenth century, garish ornaments, bright colors, gilt, and military effects helped usher in the age of fashion in Italy. Over a short span of years important matters began to turn on the c …
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Barbara M. Kreutz: Before the Normans
Histories of medieval Europe have typically ignored southern Italy, looking south only in the Norman period. Yet Southern Italy in the ninth and tenth centuries was a complex and vibrant world that …
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Paul the Deacon: History of the Lombards
History of the Lombards, by Paul the Deacon (c. 720-c. 799), is among the most important and oldest accounts of the Germanic nation. The book preserves many ancient myths and popular traditions and …
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Alastair Minnis: Medieval Theory of Authorship
It has often been held that scholasticism destroyed the literary theory that was emerging during the twelfth-century Renaissance, and hence discussion of late medieval literary works has tended to de …
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Alastair Minnis: Fallible Authors
Can an outrageously immoral man or a scandalous woman teach morality or lead people to virtue? Does personal fallibility devalue one’s words and deeds? Is it possible to separate the private from the …
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Jeanne Krochalis & Edward Peters: The World of ‚Piers Plowman‘
Next to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, William Langland’s Piers Plowman is perhaps the best-known literary picture of fourteenth-century England. Langland’s work, more socially concerned and critical th …
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Lawrence Warner: The Lost History of ‚Piers Plowman‘
Despite the recent outpouring of scholarship on Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner contends, we know much less about the poem’s production, transmission, and readership than one might think. When did Wil …
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Sara McDougall: Bigamy and Christian Identity in Late Medieval Champagne
The institution of marriage is commonly thought to have fallen into crisis in late medieval northern France. While prior scholarship has identified the pervasiveness of clandestine marriage as the ca …
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J. M. M. H. Thijssen: Censure and Heresy at the University of Paris, 1200-1400
For the scholastic philosopher William Ockham (c. 1285-1347), there are three kinds of heresy. The first, and most unmistakable, is an outright denial of the truths of faith. Another is so obvious th …
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Paola Tartakoff: Between Christian and Jew
In 1341 in Aragon, a Jewish convert to Christianity was sentenced to death, only to be pulled from the burning stake and into a formal religious interrogation. His confession was as astonishing to hi …
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Edward Peters: Heresy and Authority in Medieval Europe
Throughout the Middle Ages and early modern Europe theological uniformity was synonymous with social cohesion in societies that regarded themselves as bound together at their most fundamental levels …
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Rachel Koopmans: Wonderful to Relate
While the late Anglo-Saxons rarely recorded saints‘ posthumous miracles, a shift occurred as monastic writers of the late eleventh and twelfth centuries started to preserve hundreds of the stories th …
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Karma Lochrie: Covert Operations
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book In Covert Operations, Karma Lochrie brings the categories and cultural meanings of secrecy in the Middle Ages out into the open. Isolating …
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Kathleen Davis: Periodization and Sovereignty
Despite all recent challenges to stage-oriented histories, the idea of a division between a ‚medieval‘ and a ‚modern‘ period has survived, even flourished, in academia. Periodization and Sovereignty …
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Ellen F. Arnold: Negotiating the Landscape
Negotiating the Landscape explores the question of how medieval religious identities were shaped and modified by interaction with the natural environment. Focusing on the Benedictine monastic communi …
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Martha Carlin & David Crouch: Lost Letters of Medieval Life
Everyday life in early thirteenth-century England is revealed in vivid detail in this riveting collection of correspondence of people from all classes, from peasants and shopkeepers to bishops and ea …
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Jessalynn Bird & Edward Peters: Crusade and Christendom
In 1213, Pope Innocent III issued his letter Vineam Domini, thundering against the enemies of Christendom—the ‚beasts of many kinds that are attempting to destroy the vineyard of the Lord of Sabaoth‘ …
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Susan Mosher Stuard: Women in Medieval Society
Early medieval women exercised public roles, rights, and responsibilities. Women contributed through their labor to the welfare of the community. Women played an important part in public affairs. The …
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Richard W. Kaeuper: Holy Warriors
The medieval code of chivalry demanded that warrior elites demonstrate fierce courage in battle, display prowess with weaponry, and avenge any strike against their honor. They were also required to b …
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Sarah Kay: Parrots and Nightingales
The love songs of Occitan troubadours inspired a rich body of courtly lyric by poets working in neighboring languages. For Sarah Kay, these poets were nightingales, composing verse that is recognizab …
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Caroline Walker Bynum & Paul Freedman: Last Things
When the medievals spoke of ‚last things‘ they were sometimes referring to events, such as the millennium or the appearance of the Antichrist, that would come to all of humanity or at the end of time …
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Robert I. Burns, S.J.: Las Siete Partidas, Volume 1
Las Siete Partidas, or Seven Divisions, is the major law code of thirteenth-century Spain, compiled by Alfonso X the Learned of Castile. Seven centuries later, this compendium of legal and customary …
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Robert I. Burns, S.J.: Las Siete Partidas, Volume 2
Las Siete Partidas, or Seven Divisions, is the major law code of thirteenth-century Spain, compiled by Alfonso X the Learned of Castile. Seven centuries later, this compendium of legal and customary …
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Robert I. Burns, S.J.: Las Siete Partidas, Volume 3
Las Siete Partidas, or Seven Divisions, is the major law code of thirteenth-century Spain, compiled by Alfonso X the Learned of Castile. Seven centuries later, this compendium of legal and customary …
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Robert I. Burns, S.J.: Las Siete Partidas, Volume 4
Las Siete Partidas, or Seven Divisions, is the major law code of thirteenth-century Spain, compiled by Alfonso X the Learned of Castile. Seven centuries later, this compendium of legal and customary …
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Robert I. Burns, S.J.: Las Siete Partidas, Volume 5
Las Siete Partidas, or Seven Divisions, is the major law code of thirteenth-century Spain, compiled by Alfonso X the Learned of Castile. Seven centuries later, this compendium of legal and customary …
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Joan Cadden: Nothing Natural Is Shameful
In his Problemata, Aristotle provided medieval thinkers with the occasion to inquire into the natural causes of the sexual desires of men to act upon or be acted upon by other men, thus bringing huma …
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Alex J. Novikoff: The Medieval Culture of Disputation
Scholastic disputation, the formalized procedure of debate in the medieval university, is one of the hallmarks of intellectual life in premodern Europe. Modeled on Socratic and Aristotelian methods o …
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Geoffroi de Charny: A Knight’s Own Book of Chivalry
On the great influence of a valiant lord: ‚The companions, who see that good warriors are honored by the great lords for their prowess, become more determined to attain this level of prowess.‘ On the …
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Jean-Claude Schmitt: The Conversion of Herman the Jew
Sometime toward the middle of the twelfth century, it is supposed, an otherwise obscure figure, born a Jew in Cologne and later ordained as a priest in Cappenberg in Westphalia, wrote a Latin account …
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Simon Teuscher: Lords‘ Rights and Peasant Stories
In the mid-nineteenth century, Jacob Grimm published a collection of late medieval records of local law—called Weistümer—that was scarcely less comprehensive than his famous collection of fairy tales …
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Linda Safran: The Medieval Salento
Located in the heel of the Italian boot, the Salento region was home to a diverse population between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. Inhabitants spoke Latin, Greek, and various vernaculars, and th …
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Kim M. Phillips: Before Orientalism
A distinct European perspective on Asia emerged in the late Middle Ages. Early reports of a homogeneous ‚India‘ of marvels and monsters gave way to accounts written by medieval travelers that indulge …
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Shirin A. Khanmohamadi: In Light of Another’s Word
Challenging the traditional conception of medieval Europe as insular and even xenophobic, Shirin A. Khanmohamadi’s In Light of Another’s Word looks to early ethnographic writers who were surprisingly …
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William D. Phillips, Jr.: Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
The enslaved population of medieval Iberia composed only a small percentage of the general populace at any given point, and slave labor was not essential to the regional economy during the period. Ye …
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Tanya Stabler Miller: The Beguines of Medieval Paris
In the thirteenth century, Paris was the largest city in Western Europe, the royal capital of France, and the seat of one of Europe’s most important universities. In this vibrant and cosmopolitan cit …
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John Van Engen: Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life
The Devotio Moderna, or Modern Devout, puzzled their contemporaries. Beginning in the 1380s in market towns along the Ijssel River of the east-central Netherlands and in the county of Holland, they f …
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Constance Brittain Bouchard: Rewriting Saints and Ancestors
Thinkers in medieval France constantly reconceptualized what had come before, interpreting past events to give validity to the present and help control the future. The long-dead saints who presided o …
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Amy Appleford: Learning to Die in London, 1380-1540
Taking as her focus a body of writings in poetic, didactic, and legal modes that circulated in England’s capital between the 1380s—just a generation after the Black Death—and the first decade of the …
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Steven Justice: Adam Usk’s Secret
Adam Usk, a Welsh lawyer in England and Rome during the first years of the fifteenth century, lived a peculiar life. He was, by turns, a professor, a royal advisor, a traitor, a schismatic, and a spy …
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Patricia Clare Ingham: The Medieval New
Despite the prodigious inventiveness of the Middle Ages, the era is often characterized as deeply suspicious of novelty. But if poets and philosophers urged caution about the new, Patricia Clare Ingh …
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E. Jane Burns: Courtly Love Undressed
Clothing was used in the Middle Ages to mark religious, military, and chivalric orders, lepers, and prostitutes. The ostentatious display of luxury dress more specifically served as a means of self-d …
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E. Jane Burns: Sea of Silk
The story of silk is an old and familiar one, a tale involving mercantile travel and commercial exchange along the broad land mass that connects ancient China to the west and extending eventually to …
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The Saxon Mirror
The Sachsenspiegel, or Saxon Mirror, compiled in 1235 by Eike von Repgow, may be said to mark the beginning of vernacular German jurisprudence. For the first time, Maria Dobozy offers an English tran …
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Thomas Devaney: Enemies in the Plaza
Toward the end of the fifteenth century, Spanish Christians near the border of Castile and Muslim-ruled Granada held complex views about religious tolerance. People living in frontier cities bore muc …
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E. R. Truitt: Medieval Robots
A thousand years before Isaac Asimov set down his Three Laws of Robotics, real and imagined automata appeared in European courts, liturgies, and literary texts. Medieval robots took such forms as tal …
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Alastair Minnis: From Eden to Eternity
An impressively learned and beautifully illustrated review of medieval ideas about Paradise Did Adam and Eve need to eat in Eden in order to live? If so, did human beings urinate and defecate in para …
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Poems of the Elder Edda
The great poetic tradition of pre-Christian Scandinavia is known to us almost exclusively though the Poetic Edda. The poems originated in Iceland, Norway, and Greenland between the ninth and thirteen …
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Jennifer D. Thibodeaux: The Manly Priest
During the High Middle Ages, members of the Anglo-Norman clergy not only routinely took wives but also often prepared their own sons for ecclesiastical careers. As the Anglo-Norman Church began to im …
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Simon Barton: Conquerors, Brides, and Concubines
Conquerors, Brides, and Concubines investigates the political and cultural significance of marriages and other sexual encounters between Christians and Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula, from the Isla …
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Claire M. Waters: Translating ‚Clergie‘
In Translating ‚Clergie‘, Claire Waters explores texts in French verse and prose from England and the Continent that respond to the educational imperative implicit in the Fourth Lateran Council’s man …
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Brigitte Cazelles: The Lady as Saint
Among the thirteenth-century saints exalted are female martyrs and hermits of early Christianity. In
The Lady as Saint, Brigitte Cazelles offers the first English translation of these lives and …
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Michael Goodich: Other Middle Ages
Seldom heard from in modern times, those on the margins of Medieval Europe have much to tell us about the society that defined them. More than just a fascinating cast of characters, the visionaries a …
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Jean Renart: The Romance of the Rose or Guillaume de Dole
The author of at least two noteworthy romances of the early thirteenth century,
Le Roman de la Rose or Guillaume de Dole and
L’Escoufle (The Kite), as well as
Le Lai de l’Ombre, Jean Renart is …
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William Langland’s ‚Piers Plowman‘
William Langland’s Piers Plowman is one of the major poetic monuments of medieval England and of world literature. Probably composed between 1372 and 1389, the poem survives in three distinct version …
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Theodore Evergates: Henry the Liberal
Over the course of the twelfth century, the county of Champagne grew into one of the wealthiest and most important of French principalities, home to a large and established aristocracy, the site of i …
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Patricia Clare Ingham: Sovereign Fantasies
During and after the Hundred Years War, English rulers struggled with a host of dynastic difficulties, including problems of royal succession, volatile relations with their French cousins, and the co …
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Nicole Nolan Sidhu: Indecent Exposure
Men and women struggling for control of marriage and sexuality; narratives that focus on trickery, theft, and adultery; descriptions of sexual activities and body parts, the mention of which is prohi …
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Making Love in the Twelfth Century
New, sparkling translations of the Letters of Two Lovers, the Tegernesee Letters, and selections from the Regensburg Songs Nine hundred years ago in Paris, a teacher and his brilliant female student …
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Karma Lochrie: Nowhere in the Middle Ages
Literary and cultural historians typically cite Thomas More’s 1516 Utopia as the source of both a genre and a concept. Karma Lochrie rejects this origin myth of utopianism along with the assumption t …
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Catherine M. Mooney: Clare of Assisi and the Thirteenth-Century Church
In a work based on a meticulous analysis of sources, many of them previously unexplored, Catherine M. Mooney upends the received account of Clare of Assisi’s founding of the Order of San Damiano, or …
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Steven Justice & Kathryn Kerby-Fulton: Written Work
Critics of Piers Plowman have often behaved as if the great fourteenth-century English poem were written by committee, Written Work marks a major shift in orientation by focusing on William Langland …
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Henry Ansgar Kelly: The Middle English Bible
In the last quarter of the fourteenth century, the complete Old and New Testaments were translated from Latin into English, first very literally, and then revised into a more fluent, less Latinate st …
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Richard Firth Green: Elf Queens and Holy Friars
In Elf Queens and Holy Friars Richard Firth Green investigates an important aspect of medieval culture that has been largely ignored by modern literary scholarship: the omnipresent belief in fairylan …
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Peggy K. Liss: Isabel the Queen
Queen Isabel of Castile is perhaps best known for her patronage of Christopher Columbus and for the religious zeal that led to the Spanish Inquisition, the waging of holy war, and the expulsion of Je …
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The Complete Old English Poems
From the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom to the thrilling account of Beowulf’s battle with a treasure-hoarding dragon, from the heart-rending lament of a lone ca …
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Sharon Farmer: The Silk Industries of Medieval Paris
For more than one hundred years, from the last decade of the thirteenth century to the late fourteenth, Paris was the only western European town north of the Mediterranean basin to produce luxury sil …
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Jesús D. Rodríguez-Velasco: Order and Chivalry
Knighthood and chivalry are commonly associated with courtly aristocracy and military prowess. Instead of focusing on the relationship between chivalry and nobility, Jesús D. Rodríguez-Velasco asks d …
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‚Holy Deadlock‘ and Further Ribaldries
Did you hear the one about the newlywed who rushes off for legal advice before the honeymoon is over? Or the husbands who arrange for an enormous tub in which to cure their sugary wives with a pinch …
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Ingrid Nelson: Lyric Tactics
What shall we make of medieval English lyrics? They have no fixed line or meter, no consistent point of view, and their content may seem misaligned with the other texts in manuscripts in which they a …
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Kellie Robertson: Nature Speaks
What does it mean to speak for nature? Contemporary environmental critics warn that giving a voice to nonhuman nature reduces it to a mere echo of our own needs and desires; they caution that it is a …
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Mary Dzon: The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages
Beginning in the twelfth century, clergy and laity alike started wondering with intensity about the historical and developmental details of Jesus‘ early life. Was the Christ Child like other children …
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Stefan Vander Elst: The Knight, the Cross, and the Song
The Knight, the Cross, and the Song offers a new perspective on the driving forces of crusading in the period 1100-1400. Although religious devotion has long been identified as the primary motivation …
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Robin Chapman Stacey: Dark Speech
What does it mean to talk about law as theater, to speak about the ‚performance‘ of transactions as mundane as the sale of a pig or as agonizing as receiving compensation for a dead kinsman? In Dark …
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Zachary A. Matus: Franciscans and the Elixir of Life
One of the major ambitions of medieval alchemists was to discover the elixir of life, a sovereign remedy capable not only of healing the body but of transforming it. Given the widespread belief that …
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Joshua Byron Smith: Walter Map and the Matter of Britain
Why would the sprawling thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle have been attributed to Walter Map, a twelfth-century writer from the Anglo-Welsh borderlands known for his stinging satir …
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Andrew J. Romig: Be a Perfect Man
The life of an aristocratic Carolingian man involved an array of behaviors and duties associated with his gender and rank: an education in arms and letters; training in horsemanship, soldiery, and hu …
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Claire Taylor Jones: Ruling the Spirit
Histories of the German Dominican order have long presented a grand narrative of its origin, fall, and renewal: a Golden Age at the order’s founding in the thirteenth century, a decline of Dominican …
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Glenn D. Burger: Conduct Becoming
Conduct Becoming examines a new genre of late medieval writing that focuses on a wife’s virtuous conduct and ability of such conduct to alter marital and social relations in the world. Considering a …
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Kathryn L. Reyerson: Mother and Sons, Inc.
In the late 1320s, Martha de Cabanis was widowed with three young sons, eleven, eight, and four years of age. Her challenges would be many: to raise and train her children to carry on their father’s …
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Fiona J. Griffiths: Nuns‘ Priests‘ Tales
During the Middle Ages, female monasteries relied on priests to provide for their spiritual care, chiefly to celebrate Mass in their chapels but also to hear the confessions of their nuns and give la …
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Olivia Remie Constable: To Live Like a Moor
What do clothing, bathing, or dining habits reveal about one’s personal religious beliefs? Nothing, of course, unless such outward bodily concerns are perceived to hold some sort of spiritual signifi …
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Daniel Donoghue: How the Anglo-Saxons Read Their Poems
The scribes of early medieval England wrote out their vernacular poems using a format that looks primitive to our eyes because it lacks the familiar visual cues of verse lineation, marks of punctuati …
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Susan L. Einbinder: After the Black Death
The Black Death of 1348-50 devastated Europe. With mortality estimates ranging from thirty to sixty percent of the population, it was arguably the most significant event of the fourteenth century. No …
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Marcela K. Perett: Preachers, Partisans, and Rebellious Religion
In early fifteenth-century Prague, disagreements about religion came to be shouted in the streets and taught to the laity in the vernacular, giving rise to a new kind of public engagement that would …
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Robin Chapman Stacey: Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales
In Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales, Robin Chapman Stacey explores the idea of law as a form of political fiction: a body of literature that blurs the lines generally drawn between the legal …
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Rena N. Lauer: Colonial Justice and the Jews of Venetian Crete
When Venice conquered Crete in the early thirteenth century, a significant population of Jews lived in the capital and main port city of Candia. This community grew, diversified, and flourished both …
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Brett Edward Whalen: The Two Powers
Historians commonly designate the High Middle Ages as the era of the ‚papal monarchy, ‚ when the popes of Rome vied with secular rulers for spiritual and temporal supremacy. Indeed, in many ways the …
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Ramzi Rouighi: Inventing the Berbers
Before the Arabs conquered northwest Africa in the seventh century, Ramzi Rouighi asserts, there were no Berbers. There were Moors (Mauri), Mauretanians, Africans, and many tribes and tribal federati …
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G. Geltner: Roads to Health
In Roads to Health, G. Geltner demonstrates that urban dwellers in medieval Italy had a keen sense of the dangers to their health posed by conditions of overcrowding, shortages of food and clean wate …
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Cord J. Whitaker: Black Metaphors
In the late Middle Ages, Christian conversion could wash a black person’s skin white—or at least that is what happens when a black sultan converts to Christianity in the English romance King of Tars. …
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Hannah Barker: That Most Precious Merchandise
The history of the Black Sea as a source of Mediterranean slaves stretches from ancient Greek colonies to human trafficking networks in the present day. At its height during the fourteenth and early …
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Noah D. Guynn: Pure Filth
As Noah D. Guynn observes, early French farce has been summarily dismissed as filth for centuries. Renaissance humanists, classical moralists, and Enlightenment philosophes belittled it as an embarra …
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Jesús D. Rodríguez-Velasco: Dead Voice
An exploration of the thirteenth-century law code known as Siete Partidas Conceived and promulgated by Alfonso X, King of Castile and León (r. 1252-1282), and created by a workshop of lawyers, legal …
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Henry Bainton: History and the Written Word
A thought-provoking look at the Angevin aristocracy’s literary practices and historical record Coming upon the text of a document such as a charter or a letter inserted into the fabric of a medieval …
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Christopher MacEvitt: The Martyrdom of the Franciscans
A study of three hundred years of medieval Franciscan history that focuses on martyrdom While hagiographies tell of Christian martyrs who have died in an astonishing number of ways and places, slain …
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Benjamin A. Saltzman: Bonds of Secrecy
What did it mean to keep a secret in early medieval England? It was a period during which the experience of secrecy was intensely bound to the belief that God knew all human secrets, yet the secrets …
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Eric J. Goldberg: In the Manner of the Franks
Eric J. Goldberg traces the long history of early medieval hunting from the late Roman Empire to the death of the last Carolingian king, Louis V, in a hunting accident in 987. He focuses chiefly on e …
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Judith M. Bennett: A Medieval Life
A Medieval Life offers a biography of one woman, a portrait of her world, and an introduction to historical method. A Medieval Life offers a biography of one woman, a portrait of her world, and an in …
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Dyan Elliott: The Corrupter of Boys
In the fourth century, clerics began to distinguish themselves from members of the laity by virtue of their augmented claims to holiness. Because clerical celibacy was key to this distinction, religi …
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Adrienne Williams Boyarin: The Christian Jew and the Unmarked Jewess
In the Plea Rolls of the Exchequer of the Jews, Trinity Term 1277, Adrienne Williams Boyarin finds the case of one Sampson son of Samuel, a Jew of Northampton, arrested for impersonating a Franciscan …
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Martha G. Newman: Cistercian Stories for Nuns and Monks
Around the year 1200, the Cistercian Engelhard of Langheim dedicated a collection of monastic stories to a community of religious women. Martha G. Newman explores how this largely unedited collection …
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Barbara Newman: The Permeable Self
How, Barbara Newman asks, did the myth of the separable heart take such a firm hold in the Middle Ages, from lovers exchanging hearts with one another to mystics exchanging hearts with Jesus? What sp …
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Philippe de Beaumanoir: The ‚Coutumes de Beauvaisis‘ of Philippe de Beaumanoir
F. R. P. Akehurst provides the first English translation of the complete text of Coutumes, the customary law of Clermont in the Beauvais region as it was practiced and understood in the late …
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F. R. P. Akehurst: The Etablissements de Saint Louis
As the earliest major monument of the customary law in the region to the south and southwest of the Ile de France, the book known as the Etablissements de Saint Louis greatly amplifies our knowledge …
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Thomas H. Bestul: Texts of the Passion
In this book Thomas H. Bestul constructs the literary history of the Latin Passion narratives, placing them within their social, cultural, and historical contexts. He examines the ways in which the P …
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Otto Brunner: Land and Lordship
Otto Brunner contends that prevailing notions of medieval social and constitutional history had been shaped by the nineteenth-century nation state and its ‚liberal‘ order. Whereas a sharp distinction …
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Anne L. Klinck & Ann Marie Rasmussen: Medieval Woman’s Song
The number of surviving medieval secular poems attributed to named female authors is small, some of the best known being those of the trobairitz the female troubadours of southern France. However, th …
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Bruce R. O’Brien: God’s Peace and King’s Peace
Sometime before the middle of the twelfth century, an anonymous English writer composed the Leges Edwardi, a treatise purporting to contain the laws that had been in force under the Anglo-Saxon King …
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James A. Schultz, Jr.: The Knowledge of Childhood in the German Middle Ages, 1100-1350
James A Schultz has brought a historiographic approach to nearly two hundred Middle High German texts—narrative, didactic, homiletic, legal, religious, and secular. He explores what they say …
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Robin Chapman Stacey: The Road to Judgment
Examines the institution of personal suretyship through the remarkable rich sources extant from medieval Ireland and Wales. Das E-Book The Road to Judgment wird angeboten von University of …
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Sarah Stanbury: The Visual Object of Desire in Late Medieval England
Little remains of the rich visual culture of late medieval English piety. The century and a half leading up to the Reformation had seen an unparalleled growth of devotional arts, as chapels, parish c …
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Charles R. Young: The Royal Forests of Medieval England
The distinction between the forest and the trees is fundamental to this study, for the royal forest of medieval England was a complex institution with legal, political, economic, and social significa …
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Thomas C. Stillinger: The Song of Troilus
The Song of Troilus traces the origins of modern authorship in the formal experimentation of medieval writers. Thomas C. Stillinger analyzes a sequence of narrative books that are in some way constru …
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The ‚Alexandreis‘ of Walter of Châtilon
Written sometime in the 1170s, Walter of Chatillon’s Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great loomed as large on literary horizons as the works on Jean de Meun, Dante, or Boccaccio. Within a few …
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David M. Olster: Roman Defeat, Christian Response, and the Literary Construction of the Jew
Olster explores Byzantine Christian reactions to the catastrophic Persian and Arab invasions, challenging long-held assumptions that divided ‚religious‘ from ’secular‘ literature and exempted …
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Kevin Brownlee & Sylvia Huot: Rethinking the ‚Romance of the Rose‘
The Romance of the Rose has been a controversial text since it was written in the thirteenth century. There is evidence for radically different readings as as early as the first half of the fourteent …
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Henry Charles Lea: The Ordeal
Henry Charles Lea was one of the first American historians to use what would later be termed comparative and anthropological approaches to history. Under his pen, the study of the medieval ordeal bec …
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Catherine M. Mooney: Gendered Voices
‚These studies . . . not only illuminate the past with a fierce and probing light but also raise, with nuance and power, fundamental issues of interpretation and method.’—from the Foreword, by Caroli …
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Suzanne Fonay Wemple: Women in Frankish Society
Women in Frankish Society is a careful and thorough study of women and their roles in the Merovingian and Carolingian periods of the Middle Ages. During the 5th through 9th centuries, Frankish societ …
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Richard A. Jackson: Ordines Coronationis Franciae, Volume 1
The
ordines coronationis are essentially the scripts for the coronation of Frankish and French sovereigns. Combining detailed religious, ceremonial, and political material, they are an …
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Odo of Tournai: On Original Sin and A Disputation with the Jew, Leo, Concerning the Advent of Christ, the Son of God
To his contemporaries, Odo of Tournai—master of the cathedral school of Tournai, first abbot of the restored monastery of St. Martin of Tournai, and, later, Bishop of Cambrai—was one of the most illu …
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Edward Peters: Christian Society and the Crusades, 1198-1229
During the thirteenth century, the widespread conviction that the Christian lands in Syria and Palestine were of utmost importance to Christendom, and that their loss was a sure sign of God’s displea …
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Maud Kozodoy: The Secret Faith of Maestre Honoratus
Until the summer of 1391, when anti-Jewish riots spread across the Iberian peninsula, the person subsequently known as Honoratus de Bonafide, a Christian physician and astrologer at the court of King …
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Susan Crane: The Performance of Self
Medieval courtiers defined themselves in ceremonies and rituals. Tournaments, Maying, interludes, charivaris, and masking invited the English and French nobility to assert their identities in gesture …
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George W. Dameron: Florence and Its Church in the Age of Dante
By the early fourteenth century, the city of Florence had emerged as an economic power in Tuscany, surpassing even Siena, which had previously been the banking center of the region. In the space of f …
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Sharon Kinoshita: Medieval Boundaries
In Medieval Boundaries, Sharon Kinoshita examines the role of cross-cultural contact in twelfth- and early thirteenth-century French literature. Starting from the observation that many of the earlies …
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Peggy McCracken: The Romance of Adultery
Peggy Mc Cracken offers a feminist historicist reading of Guenevere, Iseut, and other adulterous queens of Old French literature, and situates romance narratives about queens and their lovers within …
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Catherine Sanok: Her Life Historical
Her Life Historical offers a major reconsideration of one of the most popular narrative forms in late medieval England—the lives of female saints—and one of the period’s primary modes of interpretati …
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Katherine Zieman: Singing the New Song
In Singing the New Song, Katherine Zieman examines the institutions and practices of the liturgy as central to changes in late medieval English understandings of the written word. Where previous stud …
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Nancy Bradley Warren: Spiritual Economies
From its creation in the early fourteenth century to its dissolution in the sixteenth, the nunnery at Dartford was among the richest in England. Although obliged to support not only its own community …
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Joseph F. O’Callaghan: The Gibraltar Crusade
The epic battle for control of the Strait of Gibraltar waged by Castile, Morocco, and Granada in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries is a major, but often overlooked, chapter in the hi …
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Edward Peters: The First Crusade
The First Crusade received its name and shape late. To its contemporaries, the event was a journey and the men who took part in it pilgrims. Only later were those participants dubbed Crusaders—’those …
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Karla Mallette: The Kingdom of Sicily, 1100-1250
When Muslim invaders conquered Sicily in the ninth century, they took control of a weakened Greek state in cultural decadence. When, two centuries later, the Normans seized control of the island, the …
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Katherine L. Jansen & Joanna Drell: Medieval Italy
Medieval Italy gathers together an unparalleled selection of newly translated primary sources from the central and later Middle Ages, a period during which Italy was famous for its diverse cultural l …
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Janna Bianchini: The Queen’s Hand
Her name is undoubtedly less familiar than that of her grandmother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, or that of her famous conqueror son, Fernando III, yet during her lifetime, Berenguela of Castile (1180-1246) …
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Susan Crane: Animal Encounters
Traces of the living animal run across the entire corpus of medieval writing and reveal how pervasively animals mattered in medieval thought and practice. In fascinating scenes of cross-species encou …
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Dyan Elliott: The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell
The early Christian writer Tertullian first applied the epithet ‚bride of Christ‘ to the uppity virgins of Carthage as a means of enforcing female obedience. Henceforth, the virgin as Christ’s spouse …
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€48.99
Cristina Maria Cervone: Poetics of the Incarnation
The Gospel of John describes the Incarnation of Christ as ‚the Word made flesh’—an intriguing phrase that uses the logic of metaphor but is not traditionally understood as merely symbolic. Thus the c …
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Ryan Szpiech: Conversion and Narrative
In 1322, a Jewish doctor named Abner entered a synagogue in the Castilian city of Burgos and began to weep in prayer. Falling asleep, he dreamed of a ‚great man‘ who urged him to awaken from his slum …
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Mathew Kuefler: The Making and Unmaking of a Saint
A crusader, a hermit, a bishop, a plague victim, and even a repentant murderer by turns: the stories attached to Saint Gerald of Aurillac offer a strange and fragmented legacy. His two earliest biogr …
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Joseph F. O’Callaghan: The Last Crusade in the West
By the middle of the fourteenth century, Christian control of the Iberian Peninsula extended to the borders of the emirate of Granada, whose Muslim rulers acknowledged Castilian suzerainty. No longer …
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Antoine de La Sale: Jean de Saintré
Written in 1456 and purporting to be the biography of the actual fourteenth-century knight of its title, Jean de Saintré has been called the first modern novel in French and one of the first historic …
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Claire Sponsler: The Queen’s Dumbshows
No medieval writer reveals more about early English drama than John Lydgate, Claire Sponsler contends. Best known for his enormously long narrative poems The Fall of Princes and The Troy Book, Lydgat …
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Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski: The Strange Case of Ermine de Reims
In 1384, a poor and illiterate peasant woman named Ermine moved to the city of Reims with her elderly husband. Her era was troubled by war, plague, and schism within the Catholic Church, and Ermine c …
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Daniel E. Bornstein: Dino Compagni’s Chronicle of Florence
Dino Campagni’s classic chronicle gives a detailed account of a crucial period in the history of Florence, beginning about 1280 and ending in the first decade of the fourteenth century. During that t …
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Richard C. Dales: The Scientific Achievement of the Middle Ages
The scientists of the twelfth century were daring, original, inventive, and above all determined to discover purely rational explanations of natural phenomena. Their intense interest in the natural …
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Catherine Sanok: New Legends of England
In New Legends of England, Catherine Sanok examines a significant, albeit previously unrecognized, phenomenon of fifteenth-century literary culture in England: the sudden fascination with the Lives o …
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Maya Maskarinec: City of Saints
It was far from inevitable that Rome would emerge as the spiritual center of Western Christianity in the early Middle Ages. After the move of the Empire’s capital to Constantinople in the fourth cent …
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Constance Hoffman Berman: The White Nuns
Modern studies of the religious reform movement of the central Middle Ages have often relied on contemporary accounts penned by Cistercian monks, who routinely exaggerated the importance of their own …
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Theodore Evergates: Marie of France
Countess Marie of Champagne is primarily known today as the daughter of Louis VII of France and Eleanor of Aquitaine and as a literary patron of Chrétien de Troyes. In this engaging biography, Theodo …
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John W. Baldwin: Knights, Lords, and Ladies
At the beginning of the twelfth century, the region around Paris had a reputation for being the land of unruly aristocrats. Entrenched within their castles, the nobles were viewed as quarrelling amon …
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Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner: Shaping Romance
Examines a set of five twelfth-century romance texts—complete and fragmentary, canonical and now neglected, long and short—to map out the characteristics and boundaries of the genre in …
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R. D. Fulk: A History of Old English Meter
In A History of Old English Meter, R. D. Fulk offers a wide-ranging reference on Anglo-Saxon meter. Fulk examines the evidence for chronological and regional variation in the meter of Old English ver …
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Mark C. Bartusis: The Late Byzantine Army
The late Byzantine period was a time characterized by both civil strife and foreign invasion, framed by two cataclysmic events: the fall of Constantinople to the western Europeans in 1204 and again t …
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Richard A. Jackson: Ordines Coronationis Franciae, Volume 2
The
ordines coronationis are essentially the scripts for the coronation of Frankish and French sovereigns. Combining detailed religious, ceremonial, and political material, they are an …
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Emma Lipton: Cultures of Witnessing
Like other compilations of medieval urban drama, the plays that were performed in the streets of York on the Feast of Corpus Christi from the late fourteenth century until the third quarter of the si …
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Heather Blurton: Inventing William of Norwich
William of Norwich is the name of a young boy purported to have been killed by Jews in or about 1144, thus becoming the victim of the first recorded case of such a ritual murder in Western Europe and …
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Tzafrir Barzilay: 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 not thousands were …
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Meg Leja: Embodying the Soul
Embodying the Soul explores the possibilities and limitations of human intervention in the body’s health across the ninth-century Carolingian Empire. Early medieval medicine has long been cast as a s …
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Nicholas Watson: Balaam’s Ass: Vernacular Theology Before the English Reformation
For over seven hundred years, bodies of writing in vernacular languages served an indispensable role in the religious and intellectual culture of medieval Christian England, yet the character and ext …
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Ruth (University of Minnesota, USA) Mazo Karras & Katherine E. Pierpont: Sexuality in Medieval Europe
Now in its fourth edition, Sexuality in Medieval Europe provides a lively account of a society whose attitudes toward sexuality both were ancestral to, and differed from, contemporary ones. The …
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Ruth (University of Minnesota, USA) Mazo Karras & Katherine E. Pierpont: Sexuality in Medieval Europe
Now in its fourth edition, Sexuality in Medieval Europe provides a lively account of a society whose attitudes toward sexuality both were ancestral to, and differed from, contemporary ones. The …
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