Studies in Medieval History and Culture
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The Water Supply System of Siena, Italy: The Medieval Roots of the Modern Networked City
1st Edition
By Michael P. Kucher
July 26, 2016
The book reviews scholarly literature and archival sources including maps and diagrams, to better situate Siena's achievement in urban history and broadens our understanding of medieval technology and urban life....
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....
Justice and the Social Context of Early Middle High German Literature
1st Edition
By Robert G. Sullivan
July 21, 2016
This book argues that far from preaching traditional, otherworldly ideals, the authors or these religious works were deeply engaged in the social, political, and spiritual issues that characterized the Holy Roman Empire at a time of radical transformation....
John Cassian and the Reading of Egyptian Monastic Culture
1st Edition
By Steven D. Driver
May 13, 2016
This book examines the method of meditative reading encouraged by John Cassian (c. 360-435) in his ascetic writings, the bulk of which are fictive dialogues that purportedly record the instruction he had received from Egyptial Christian monks. This instruction was at its core an interactive ...
Non-Native Sources for the Scandinavian Kings' Sagas
1st Edition
By Paul A. White
July 31, 2015
Traditional scholarship on the kings' sagas has tended to focus on the textual histories and interrelationships between the various twelfth- and thirteenth-century Scandinavian manuscripts. Thus previous scholars have striven to ascertain chronology, dating, and potential literary borrowings ...
The Literal Sense and the Gospel of John in Late Medieval Commentary and Literature
1st Edition
By MArk Hazard
April 23, 2015
Focusing on the famous Medieval commentator Nicolas of Lyra and the anonymous Middle English biblical adaptation of the Gospel of John, the Cursor Mundi, this book examines the development of the analytical tools of biblical literary criticism showing how late Medieval commentators negotiated the ...
Marriage Fictions in Old French Secular Narratives, 1170-1250: A Critical Re-evaluation of the Courtly Love Debate
1st Edition
By Keith Nickolaus
February 27, 2015
Nickolaus provides the readers with a concise critical discussion of the "courtly love" debate, broad historical and comparative analysis, and a model that explains, at the level of plot, rhetoric, and ideology, the proper place of amorous motifs in the context of prevailing Christian doctrines and...
Desiring Truth: The Process of Judgment in Fourteenth-Century Art and Literature
1st Edition
By Jeremy Lowe
December 22, 2014
First published in 2005. Volumes in the Medieval History and Culture series include studies on individual works and authors of Latin and vernacular literatures, historical personalities and events, theological and philosophical issues, and new critical approaches to medieval literature and culture....
The Epistemology of the Monstrous in the Middle Ages
1st Edition
By Lisa Verner
December 22, 2014
This book studies the phenomena of monsters and marvels from the time of Pliny the Elder through the 14th century....
The Preaching Fox: Elements of Festive Subversion in the Plays of the Wakefield Master
1st Edition
By Warren E. Edminster
December 22, 2014
First published in 2005. Volumes in the Medieval History and Culture series include studies on individual works and authors of Latin and vernacular literatures, historical personalities and events, theological and philosophical issues, and new critical approaches to medieval literature and culture....
The Mystical Language of Sensation in the Later Middle Ages
1st Edition
By Gordon Rudy
September 11, 2014
First Published in 2002. This book is about the way medieval authors wrote about union with God and how they used language that refers to the senses to articulate their ideas about how a person can be one with God. Rudy argues that such explicit concepts of the spiritual senses are not sharply ...
Where Troubadours were Bishops: The Occitania of Folc of Marseille (1150-1231)
1st Edition
By Nicole M. Schulman
September 11, 2014
Using one man as a lens, a man known variously as Folquet, Folques, Folco, and Folc, it will examine some of the important changes and developments of the period from a new, more human, perspective....