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A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Middle Ages

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? Spanning the years from 900 to 1500 and traversing geographical borders,…

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Heather Graham
The Sword of Light

Will fabled objects of myth be enough to defend their emerald isle?The mystical Tuatha Dé Danann walked the hills of ancient Ireland long before the first Rí, or king, ever ruled the land. Before they ste…

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A Cultural History of Insects in the Medieval Age

A Cultural History of Insects in the Medieval Age covers the period from 500 to 1300, a time when the uses and value of insect products greatly increased. Silk, in particular, created economies and led to…

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Jeremy Harte
Fairy Encounters in Medieval England

Strange tales from many medieval genres prove that experience, not fiction, underlay fairy beliefs. Supernatural beings took on similar forms whether they were supposed to be ghosts or goblins, saints or …

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John Clark
The Green Children of Woolpit

This book introduces the story of the 'Green Children' and how it has been interpreted, retold, and reworked. Analysing the two accounts, and offering fresh translations from the Latin originals, it consi…

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Carla Maria Bino
Medieval Avatars

This Element explores how medieval devotional and disciplinary practices acted as 'immersive technologies' for producing presence and configuring emotions. Through the comparative analysis of Aelred of Ri…

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Carla Maria Bino
Medieval Avatars

This Element explores how medieval devotional and disciplinary practices acted as 'immersive technologies' for producing presence and configuring emotions. Through the comparative analysis of Aelred of Ri…

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Finn Longman
The Wolf and His King

'Howlingly good' THE BOOKSELLER 'Quiet, meditative, powerful' LOCUS 'A beautiful, lyrical tale of love, betrayal and above all, yearning' SFX 'With prose that flows off the page like honey' CRISTIN WILLIA…

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Isabella Lazzarini, Luciano Piffanelli, Diego Pirillo
Reframing Treaties in the Late Medieval and Early Modern West

The history of peacemaking has traditionally been reduced to isolated case studies and seen as the prelude to the presumed 'universal' and 'modern' international order. Countering this one-dimensional and…

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Bernard Faure
From Stars to Stones

Written by one of the leading scholars of Japanese religion, From Stars to Stones is the fourth installment of a multivolume project that promises to be a milestone in our understanding of the mythico-rit…

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A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Medieval Age

A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Medieval Age covers the period from 500 to 1450, focusing in particular on the innovations in East and South Asia and in Islamicate cultures. With the invention of…

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Janet R Goodwin
Dodging and Confronting Stigma

"Dodging and Confronting Stigma examines the lives of people who were stigmatized or marginalized in Japan's late classical and medieval ages. Often characterized as beggars, they in fact pursued a v…

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Hilde De Weerdt
The Arts of Governance

"The Arts of Governance offers a global history of the creation, uses, and adaptations of the political advice literature produced at the court of or about the reign of Tang Emperor Taizong (r. 626-6…

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Finn Longman
The Wolf and His King

'Howlingly good' THE BOOKSELLER 'Quiet, meditative, powerful' LOCUS 'A beautiful, lyrical tale of love, betrayal and above all, yearning' SFX 'With prose that flows off the page like honey' CRISTIN WILLIA…

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