Studies in Medieval History and Culture
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Supernatural Encounters: Demons and the Restless Dead in Medieval England, c.1050–1450
1st Edition
By Stephen Gordon
August 02, 2021
The belief in the reality of demons and the restless dead formed a central facet of the medieval worldview. Whether a pestilent-spreading corpse mobilised by the devil, a purgatorial spirit returning to earth to ask for suffrage, or a shape-shifting demon intent on crushing its victims as they ...
Christians and Muslims in Early Medieval Italy: Perceptions, Encounters, and Clashes
1st Edition
By Luigi Andrea Berto
June 30, 2021
In the early Middle Ages, Italy became the target of Muslim expansionist campaigns. The Muslims conquered Sicily, ruling there for more than two centuries, and conducted many raids against the Italian Peninsula. During this period, however, Christians and Muslims were not always at war – trade ...
Church, Society and University: The Paris Condemnation of 1241/4
1st Edition
By Deborah Grice
June 30, 2021
In 1241/4 the theology masters at the university at Paris with their chancellor, Odo of Chateauroux, mandated by their bishop, William of Auvergne, met to condemn ten propositions against theological truth. This book represents the first comprehensive examination of what hitherto has been a largely...
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 ...
The Death Penalty in Late-Medieval Catalonia: Evidence and Significations
1st Edition
By Flocel Sabaté
June 30, 2021
The death penalty was unusual in medieval Europe until the twelfth century. From that moment on, it became a key instrument of rule in European society, and we can study it in the case of Catalonia through its rich and varied unpublished documentation. The death penalty was justified by Roman Law; ...
The Sense of Smell in the Middle Ages: A Source of Certainty
1st Edition
By Katelynn Robinson
June 30, 2021
Odors, including those of incense, spices, cooking, and refuse, were both ubiquitous and meaningful in central and late medieval Western Europe. The significance of the sense of smell is evident in scholastic Latin texts, most of which are untranslated and unedited by modern scholars. Between the ...
Travel, Pilgrimage and Social Interaction from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
1st Edition
Edited
By Jenni Kuuliala, Jussi Rantala
June 30, 2021
Mobility and travel have always been key characteristics of human societies, having various cultural, social and religious aims and purposes. Travels shaped religions and societies and were a way for people to understand themselves, this world and the transcendent. This book analyses travelling in ...
Traveling Through Text: Message and Method in Late Medieval Pilgrimage Accounts
1st Edition
By Elka Weber
December 10, 2019
Traveling through Text compares religious ravel writing by Muslims, Christians and Jews in later Middle Ages. This comparative approach allows us to see that writers in all three religious communities used travel writing in the same way, to shape the perceptions of their readers by asserting the ...
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 ...