Studies in Medieval History and Culture
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Women in the Medieval Common Law c.1200–1500
1st Edition
By Gwen Seabourne
January 09, 2023
This book examines the view of women held by medieval common lawyers and legislators, and considers medieval women’s treatment by and participation in the processes of the common law. Surveying a wide range of points of contact between women and the common law, from their appearance (or not) in ...
Franks and Lombards in Italian Carolingian Texts: Memories of the Vanquished
1st Edition
Edited
By Luigi Andrea Berto
August 29, 2022
Franks and Lombards in Italian Carolingian Texts examines how historians of Carolingian Italy portrayed the history of the Lombards, Charlemagne’s conquest of the Lombard kingdom, and the presence of the Franks in the Italian Ppeninsula. The different contexts and periods in which these writers ...
The Triumph of an Accursed Lineage: Kingship in Castile from Alfonso X to Alfonso XI (1252-1350)
1st Edition
By Fernando Arias Guillén
August 01, 2022
The Triumph of an Accursed Lineage analyses kingship in Castile between 1252 and 1350, with a particular focus on the pivotal reign of Alfonso XI (r. 1312–1350). This century witnessed significant changes in the ways in which the Castilian monarchy constructed and represented its power in this ...
Early Medieval Venice: Cultural Memory and History
1st Edition
By Luigi Andrea Berto
April 29, 2022
Early Medieval Venice examines the significant changes that Venice underwent between the late-sixth and the early-eleventh centuries. From the periphery of the Byzantine Empire, Venice acquired complete independence and emerged as the major power in the Adriatic area. It also avoided absorption by ...
From Justinian to Branimir: The Making of the Middle Ages in Dalmatia
1st Edition
By Danijel Džino
April 29, 2022
From Justinian to Branimir explores the social and political transformation of Dalmatia between c.500 and c.900 AD. The collapse of Dalmatia in the early seventh century is traditionally ascribed to the Slav migrations. However, more recent scholarship has started to challenge this theory, looking...
Heresy and Citizenship: Persecution of Heresy in Late Medieval German Cities
1st Edition
By Eugene Smelyansky
April 29, 2022
Heresy and Citizenship examines the anti-heretical campaigns in late-medieval Augsburg, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Strasbourg, and other cities. By focusing on the unprecedented period of persecution between 1390 and 1404, this study demonstrates how heretical presence in cities was exploited in ...
The Charisma of Distant Places: Travel and Religion in the Early Middle Ages
1st Edition
By Courtney Luckhardt
June 30, 2021
This cultural history of early medieval travel and religion reveals how movement affected society, demonstrating the connectedness of people and regions between 500 and 850 CE. In The Charisma of Distant Places, Courtney Luckhardt enriches our understanding of migration through her examination of ...
Word Outward: Medieval Perspectives on the Entry into Language
1st Edition
By Corey J. Marvin
January 17, 2019
Using a combination of formalist and psychology-based approaches, this work examines the triple knowledge of subjectivity, body, and language in medieval imaginative literature....
Consuming Passions: The Uses of Cannibalism in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
1st Edition
By Merrall L. Price
October 19, 2016
Cannibalism is the breaking of the ultimate taboo. Yet during the later Middle Ages and early years of the Renaissance, mythological, historical, and contemporary accounts of cannibalism became particularly popular. Consuming Passions synthesizes and analyses the most interesting of those late ...
Topographies of Gender in Middle High German Arthurian Romance
1st Edition
By Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand
August 03, 2016
This book explores the metaphor of topography as a mechanism for the inscription of gender roles in Arthurian romance....
The Reproductive Unconscious in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
1st Edition
By Jennifer Wynne Hellwarth
July 29, 2016
Drawing together social and medical history and literary studies, The Reproductive Unconscious in Late Medieval and Early Modern England studies the social practices and metaphorical representations of childbirth in medieval and early modern texts and argues for the existence of a reproductive ...
And Then the End Will Come: Early Latin Christian Interpretations of the Opening of the Seven Seals
1st Edition
By Douglas W. Lumsden
July 22, 2016
This work examines a centuries-long intellectual tradition in the early Latin church linking the imagery associated with the opening of the Seven Seals of the Apocalypse with programs of ecclesiastical expansion and ascetic reform....