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Law, Justice, and Society in the Medieval World

This coursebook is the first full-length study of cinematic "legal medievalism," or the modern interpretation of medieval law in film and popular cultureFor more than a century, filmmakers have …

Medieval English in a Multilingual Context

This edited book examines the multilingual culture of medieval England, exploring its impact on the development of English and its textual manifestations from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The book of…

Jennifer A. Lorden

Literary Form in Early Medieval England

This Element offers a tour of literary forms - those that have received more attention and those that have been relatively overlooked - in the first six centuries of English literature. It considers the m…

Jennifer A. Lorden

Literary Form in Early Medieval England

The earliest English writers left little comment on their literary forms. In contrast to the grammatical treatises of late antiquity or critical studies of contemporary and modern literature, early mediev…

Medieval Philosophical Writings on the Powers of the Soul

Philosophers of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries held that organisms are alive by virtue of possessing a soul, and that the soul endows an organism with various powers. This volume presents a rich …

A Cultural History of Education in the Medieval Age

A thematic overview of education and its place in Western society and culture in the medieval age.

Franco Battiato

Fleurs

Robert A H Evans

God and History in the Early Medieval West

This is a book about the basic narrative sources we use to tell the story of early medieval Europe, the authors who wrote them, and the audiences who read them.

Craig Perry

Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt

A new global history of the slave trade, the lives of enslaved people, and the role of slavery in the formation of Jewish and Arab-Islamic culture in the medieval Middle EastIn this book, Craig Perry mine…

Judah D Galinsky

The Making of a Medieval Bestseller

This study is a history of a medieval bestseller--Rabbi Isaac of Corbeil's handbook of accessible religious law relevant to Jews living in the Diaspora in medieval times. Galinsky describes how it came in…

Richard Sowerby

Natural and Supernatural in Early Medieval England

When men and women in early medieval England thought about the world around them, they did so in ways that often strike us as strange. In their surviving writings, we are confronted continually with unfam…

Richard Sowerby

Natural and Supernatural in Early Medieval England

When men and women in early medieval England thought about the world around them, they did so in ways that often strike us as strange. In their surviving writings, we are confronted continually with unfam…

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Sinfonye

Conor O'Brien

The Rise of Christian Kingship in the Early Medieval West

This book examines the relationship between Christianity and politics in the early Middle Ages (essentially the fifth to ninth centuries). It explores how Christians first came to start claiming that one …

Michael Calder

Art and Drama on a Late Medieval Rood Screen

With little scholarly attention having been given to the late medieval iconography that features on rood screens in the southwest of England, the significance of the figures painted at Berry Pomeroy has l…

Jonathan R Lyon

Corruption, Protection and Justice in Medieval Europe

What was an "advocate" (Latin: advocatus; German: Vogt) in the Middle Ages? What responsibilities came with the position and how did they change over time? With this groundbreaking study, Jonath…

E K Myerson

The Desire for Syria in Medieval England

In June 1458, two boats were cornered by pirates off the coast of Malta. Their captain - Robert Sturmy - proved no match for the notorious Genoese freebooter Giuliano Gattilusio and was summarily killed b…

The Locus of Meaning in Medieval Art

This book addresses the status and relevance of iconography and iconology in the contemporary scholarly study of medieval art. There is a widespread tendency among art historians today to regard the study…

Said Amir Arjomand

Messianism and Sociopolitical Revolution in Medieval Islam

"This is a fascinating account of a far too little known revolutionary tradition, essential reading for all those interested in the comparative study of revolutionary phenomena. The book is a major a…