The Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectures Series - CEU Press
Emotion and Devotion: The Meaning of Mary in Medieval Religious Cultures
1st Edition
By Miri Rubin
March 10, 2009
In Emotion and Devotion Miri Rubin explores the craft of the historian through a series of studies of medieval religious cultures. In three original chapters she approaches the medieval figure of the Virgin Mary with the aim of unravelling meaning and experience. Hymns and miracle tales, ...
Measuring Time, Making History
1st Edition
By Lynn Hunt
January 10, 2008
Time is the crucial ingredient in history, and yet historians rarely talk about time as such. These essays offer new insight into the development of modern conceptions of time, from the Christian dating system (BC/AD or BCE/CE) to the idea of modernity as a new epoch in human history....