Medieval 37

This timely volume ventures into the subject of sadomasochism in varied aspects of medieval life. Saint’s Lives and mystical treatises provide evidence of failed sadism and empowering masochism. Lit……続きを見る

In questo libro ci si propone di analizzare il linguaggio della passione e dell’eros nella letteratura medievale francese. In particolare l’autore analizza tre famose coppie medievali che hanno dato……続きを見る

While historians know that history is about interpreting primary sources, students tend to think of history as a set of facts. In The Saint and the Count, Leah Shopkow opens up the interpretive worl……続きを見る

Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism is a cross-cultural analysis of the role that alcohol consumption played in literature, social and cultural history, and gender role……続きを見る

Sophist by Plato The Sophist (Greek: Σοφιστής; Latin: Sophista) is a Platonic dialogue from the philosopher's late period, most likely written in 360 BC. In it the interlocutors, led by Eleatic Stra……続きを見る

The Analects by Confucius is an ancient Chinese book composed of a large collection of sayings and ideas attributed to the Chinese philosopher Confucius and his contemporaries, traditionally believe……続きを見る

Das Buch bietet eine Einführung in die Anfänge der deutschen Dichtkunst in der Zeit vom späten 8. bis zum frühen 10. Jahrhundert. Es präsentiert die zwölf überlieferten poetischen Werke der Epoche i……続きを見る

Bestiaries. Lapidaries. Lunaries. Inventories and household vocabularies. Lists are everywhere in medieval and early modern texts––evidence of the need to manage and order knowledge and experience. ……続きを見る

In Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature, Karma Lochrie and Usha Vishnuvajjala bring together established scholars and new voices to illuminate a previously understudied but consequential elemen……続きを見る

Around the turn of the nineteenth century, no task seemed more urgent to German Romantics than the creation of a new mythology. It would unite modern poets and grant them common ground, and bring ph……続きを見る

Bestsellers and masterpieces: The changing medieval canon addresses the strange fact that, in both European and Middle Eastern medieval studies, those texts that we now study and teach as the most c……続きを見る

In this two-part anthology, Jan M. Ziolkowski builds on themes uncovered in his earlier The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. Here he focuses particularly on the performing a……続きを見る

Written in the 14th century and enjoying a Swedish national status similar to the English Beowulf, this fascinating tale with many levels of meaning reflects the ideals of politics and aesthetics ty……続きを見る

Medieval manuscripts are our shared inheritance, and today they are more accessible than everーthanks to digital copies online. Yet for all that widespread digitization has fundamentally transformed……続きを見る

Storia della letteratura inglese è un’esauriente rassegna, in otto volumi totali, della letteratura inglese dal Medioevo agli inizi del ventunesimo secolo. L’opera – già uscita a stampa (Firenze, Le……続きを見る

O estudo definitivo das obras jurídicas de Afonso X aplicadas aos seus poemas sobre milagres. Embora seu meio tivesse semelhanças impressionantes com o Velho Oeste, o povo da Espanha medieval estava……続きを見る

In recent decades the concept of Mediterranean has been cited with increasing frequency in relation to the study of medieval literatures. And yet, in what sense would Dante’s Comedy be ‘Mediterranea……続きを見る

From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeToo Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, th……続きを見る

Storia della letteratura inglese è un’esauriente rassegna, in otto volumi totali, della letteratura inglese dal Medioevo agli inizi del ventunesimo secolo. L’opera – già uscita a stampa (Firenze, Le……続きを見る

Storia della letteratura inglese è un’esauriente rassegna, in otto volumi totali, della letteratura inglese dal Medioevo agli inizi del ventunesimo secolo. L’opera – già uscita a stampa (Firenze, Le……続きを見る

I precursori di Dante di Alessandro D’Ancona, una delle figure più rilevanti nel panorama letterario italiano tra fine ‘800 e inizio ‘900, costituisce un viaggio straordinario alla ricerca delle ori……続きを見る

A Saxon of St. Boniface’s acquaintance in England observed that the two peoples, the English and Saxons, were of the same bone and blood. Certainly Boniface himself noted the similarities in languag……続きを見る

This book offers new insights into the twelfth-century Persian poet Nezami Ganjavi. Challenging the dominant interpretation of Nezami’s poetry as the product of mysticism or Islam, this book explore……続きを見る

Centering on the difficult and important subject of medieval rape culture, this book brings Middle English and Scots texts into conversation with contemporary discourses on sexual assault and the #M……続きを見る

This edited collection of essays brings together scholars across disciplines who consider the collaborative work of John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert, philologists, medievalists and early modern……続きを見る

The Secret in Medieval Literature: Alternative Worlds in the Middle Ages explores the many strange phenomena, both in the Middle Ages and today, that do not find any good rational explanations. Thos……続きを見る

A series of dream visions, Piers Plowman is a moral reckoning of the whole of medieval England, in which every part of society--from church and king to every sort of "folk"--is considered in the lig……続きを見る

While globalization is a modern phenomenon, premodern people were also interconnected in early forms of globalism, sharing merchandise, technology, languages, and stories over long distances. Lookin……続きを見る

Best known as the author of the Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio is a key figure in Italian literature. In the mid-fourteenth century, however, Boccaccio was also deeply involved in the politics of Flo……続きを見る

Best known as the author of the Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio is a key figure in Italian literature. In the mid-fourteenth century, however, Boccaccio was also deeply involved in the politics of Flo……続きを見る