Studies in Medieval History and Culture
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Albertino Mussato: The Making of a Poet Laureate: A Political and Intellectual Portrait
1st Edition
By Aislinn McCabe
September 25, 2023
This book examines the life and political career of Albertino Mussato (1261–1329), a Paduan poet, historian and politician. Mussato was one of the first writers of the late medieval period to begin reviving classical Latin in his works. His classical style tragic drama Ecerinis, inspired by the ...
Authorship, Worldview, and Identity in Medieval Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Christian Raffensperger
September 25, 2023
What did medieval authors know about their world? Were they parochial and focused on just their monastery, town, or kingdom? Or were they aware of the broader medieval Europe that modern historians write about? This collection brings the focus back to medieval authors to see how they described...
The Myths and Realities of the Viking Berserkr
1st Edition
By Roderick Dale
September 25, 2023
The viking berserkr is an iconic warrior normally associated with violent fits of temper and the notorious berserksgangr or berserker frenzy. This book challenges the orthodox view that these men went ‘berserk’ in the modern English sense of the word. It examines all the evidence for medieval ...
Women and Violence in the Late Medieval Mediterranean, ca. 1100-1500
1st Edition
Edited
By Lidia L. Zanetti Domingues, Lorenzo Caravaggi, Giulia M. Paoletti
September 25, 2023
This pioneering work explores the theme of women and violence in the late medieval Mediterranean, bringing together medievalists of different specialties and methodologies to offer readers an updated outline of how different disciplines can contribute to the study of gender-based violence in ...
The Experience of Neighbourhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Bronach C. Kane, Simon Sandall
May 31, 2023
The Experience of Neighbourhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe contributes to nascent debates on concepts of neighbourliness and belonging, exploring the operation of the pre-modern neighbourhood in social practice. Formal administrative units, such as the manor and the parish, have been the ...
The Fluctuating Sea: Architecture and Movement in the Medieval Mediterranean
1st Edition
By Saygin Salgirli
May 31, 2023
This volume fluctuates between conceptualizations of movement; either movements that buildings in the medieval Mediterranean facilitated, or the movements of the users and audiences of architecture. From medieval Anatolia to Southern France and the Genoese colony of Pera across Constantinople, The...
Jews and Converts in Late Medieval Castile: Breaking with the Past
1st Edition
By Cecil Reid
January 09, 2023
Jews and Converts in Late Medieval Castile examines the ways in which Jewish-Christian relations evolved in Castile, taking account of social, cultural, and religious factors that affected the two communities throughout the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. The territorial expansion of the ...
Mobile Saints: Relic Circulation, Devotion, and Conflict in the Central Middle Ages
1st Edition
By Kate Craig
January 09, 2023
Mobile Saints examines the central medieval (ca. 950–1150 CE) practice of removing saints’ relics from rural monasteries in order to take them on out-and-back journeys, particularly within northern France and the Low Countries. Though the permanent displacements of relics—translations— have long ...
Monetisation and Commercialisation in the Baltic Sea, 1050-1450
1st Edition
Edited
By Dariusz Adamczyk, Beata Możejko
January 09, 2023
Monetisation and Commercialisation in the Baltic Sea, 1050–1450 explores the varied uses of silver and gold in the Baltic Sea zone during the medieval period. Ten original contributions examine coins and currencies, trade, economy, and power, taking care to avoid an out-of-date approach to ...
People, Power and Identity in the Late Middle Ages: Essays in Memory of W. Mark Ormrod
1st Edition
Edited
By Gwilym Dodd, Helen Lacey, Anthony Musson
January 09, 2023
This collection of ground-breaking essays celebrates Mark Ormrod’s wide-ranging influence over several generations of scholars. The seventeen chapters in this collection focus primarily on the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and are grouped thematically on governance and political ...
The Bible and Jews in Medieval Spain
1st Edition
By Norman Roth
January 09, 2023
The Bible and Jews in Medieval Spain examines the grammatical, exegetical, philosophical and mystical interpretations of the Bible that took place in Spain during the medieval period. The Bible was the foundation of Jewish culture in medieval Spain. Following the scientific analysis of Hebrew ...
The Cursed Carolers in Context
1st Edition
Edited
By Lynneth Miller Renberg, Bradley Phillis
January 09, 2023
The Cursed Carolers in Context explores the interplay between the forms and contexts in which the tale of the cursed carolers circulated and the meanings it had for medieval and early modern authors and audiences. The story of the cursed carolers has circulated in Europe since the eleventh century....