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Narrating Law and Laws of Narration in Medieval Scandinavia

Disputes lie at the heart of the sagas. Consequently, literary texts have been treated as sources of legal practice - narrations of law - while the sagas themselves and the handling of legal matters by th…

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…

Life on the Farm in Medieval Jerusalem

Studies of Jerusalem in the post-classical periods have traditionally centered, unsurprisingly, on the Old City, isolating it from the regional setting in which it operated on a daily basis. The agricultu…

Justyna Rogos-Hebda

Abbreviating Middle English

Abbreviating Middle English: Scribal practices, Visual Texts and Medieval Multimodalities investigates the changing dynamics of scribal abbreviating practices in a corpus of late Middle English manuscript…

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…

Edwin D. Craun

Strategies of the Silent in Medieval English Literature

Silence, like speech, is a mode of communication that can be used strategically. In Strategies of the Silent in Medieval English Literature, Edwin D. Craun investigates the silences in public life that pu…

Edwin D. Craun

Strategies of the Silent in Medieval English Literature

Silence, like speech, is a mode of communication that can be used strategically. In Strategies of the Silent in Medieval English Literature, Edwin D. Craun investigates the silences in public life that pu…

Kendra Strand

An Unfamiliar Place

In mid-fourteenth-century Japan, amid decades of civil unrest caused by a violent rivalry over imperial succession, three men embarked on journeys that would lead them to reimagine their world: the second…

Caleb D Molstad

Tasting Religious Thought and Experience in Late-Medieval English Literature

Through an analysis of vernacular metaphors of food and consumption for religious experience and theology in late-fourteenth and early fifteenth century England, Caleb D. Molstad explores what that langua…

Daniel Wilcox

Louis the Bavarian: Architect of Medieval Power

In the heart of the medieval era, a transformative ruler emerged to reshape the political and cultural landscape of Europe. Louis the Bavarian: Architect of Medieval Power unveils the riveting story of Em…

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…

Franco Battiato

Fleurs

Yoav Tirosh

How Genre Governs Creation in the Medieval Icelandic Sagas

"This thoughtful and provocative study takes the current debates over genre in Old Norse literature to the next level."---Shaun Hughes, Professor, Purdue University-West Lafayette, USAThis books…

Daniel Wilcox

Louis the Bavarian: Architect of Medieval Power

In the heart of the medieval era, a transformative ruler emerged to reshape the political and cultural landscape of Europe. Louis the Bavarian: Architect of Medieval Power unveils the riveting story of Em…

Eleanor Janega

The Once and Future Sex

What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages, the era that bridged the ancient world and mo…

How to Ensure Predictability in Legal Pluralism

How did pre-modern merchants provide for predictability in situations of legal pluralism? What kind of practices did merchants use to make other parties act according to their expectations? In spheres of …

Gordon Mckelvie

Protest, Resistance and Popular Politics in Late Medieval Scotland

Ch 1: Introduction.- Ch 2: The Wars of Independence: Myths and Realities.- Ch 3: Beyond the Wars of Independence: Protest, Confrontation and Popular Politics.- Ch 4: Anticipated Problems and Everyday Form…

Jeannette Graulau

Medieval Mining and Power in Thirteenth-Century Europe

Studying mine-drainage works of a medieval principality living through times of war, social turmoil, and land reclamation, this book examines the relation between political power and mineral wealth. It ar…

James Harvey Robinson

Medieval and Modern Times, Part II (Yesterday's Classics)

This is Part II of Medieval and Modern Times, beginning with Chapter XVIII, "France under Louis IV" and continuing through Chapter XXXVI, "The Great War." An engaging history of Europe…