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Although representations of medieval Christians and Christianity are rarely subject to the same scholarly scrutiny as those of Jews and Judaism, "the Christian" is as constructed a term, category, a……続きを見る

It has often been held that scholasticism destroyed the literary theory that was emerging during the twelfth-century Renaissance, and hence discussion of late medieval literary works has tended to d……続きを見る

Sometime around 1230, a young woman left her family and traveled to the German city of Magdeburg to devote herself to worship and religious contemplation. Rather than living in a community of holy w……続きを見る

The love songs of Occitan troubadours inspired a rich body of courtly lyric by poets working in neighboring languages. For Sarah Kay, these poets were nightingales, composing verse that is recogniza……続きを見る

Taking as her focus a body of writings in poetic, didactic, and legal modes that circulated in England's capital between the 1380sーjust a generation after the Black Deathーand the first decade of t……続きを見る

Traces the development of media concepts across scientific, legal, and devotional knowledge domains to offer a coherent theory of premodern media Were there media before the printing press? Although……続きを見る

A constant feature of Jewish culture in the medieval Mediterranean was the dedication of panegyric texts in Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, and other languages to men of several ranks: scholars, communal lead……続きを見る

Peggy McCracken offers a feminist historicist reading of Guenevere, Iseut, and other adulterous queens of Old French literature, and situates romance narratives about queens and their lovers within ……続きを見る

Generations of scholars have meditated upon the literary devices and cultural meanings of The Song of Roland. But according to Andrew Taylor not enough attention has been given to the physical conte……続きを見る

The Black Death of 1348-50 devastated Europe. With mortality estimates ranging from thirty to sixty percent of the population, it was arguably the most significant event of the fourteenth century. N……続きを見る

While the late Anglo-Saxons rarely recorded saints' posthumous miracles, a shift occurred as monastic writers of the late eleventh and twelfth centuries started to preserve hundreds of the stories t……続きを見る

Men and women struggling for control of marriage and sexuality; narratives that focus on trickery, theft, and adultery; descriptions of sexual activities and body parts, the mention of which is proh……続きを見る

Despite the great literary achievements of Chaucer, Langland, and the Pearl Poet, Ricardian English books were still a niche market in 1400. As Kathryn Kerby-Fulton shows, however, their generation ……続きを見る

At the end of the fourteenth and into the first half of the fifteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, and John Lydgate translated and revised stories with long pedigrees in Latin, Italian, and……続きを見る

A thirteenth-century text purporting to represent a debate between a Jew and a Christian begins with the latter's exposition of the virgin birth, something the Jew finds incomprehensible at the most……続きを見る

How, Barbara Newman asks, did the myth of the separable heart take such a firm hold in the Middle Ages, from lovers exchanging hearts with one another to mystics exchanging hearts with Jesus? What s……続きを見る

A new account of premodern education that offered non-elite readers lessons in navigating the premodern marketplace Learning to Talk Shop explores the phrasebooks and guides to conversations that fl……続きを見る

The Gospel of John describes the Incarnation of Christ as "the Word made flesh"ーan intriguing phrase that uses the logic of metaphor but is not traditionally understood as merely symbolic. Thus the……続きを見る

In the late Middle Ages, Christian conversion could wash a black person's skin whiteーor at least that is what happens when a black sultan converts to Christianity in the English romance King of Tar……続きを見る

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Unveiling Eve is the first feminist inquiry into the Hebrew poetry and prose forms cultivated in Muslim and Christian Spain, Italy, and P……続きを見る

For over seven hundred years, bodies of writing in vernacular languages served an indispensable role in the religious and intellectual culture of medieval Christian England, yet the character and ex……続きを見る

New, sparkling translations of the Letters of Two Lovers, the Tegernesee Letters, and selections from the Regensburg Songs Nine hundred years ago in Paris, a teacher and his brilliant female student……続きを見る

What do the physical characteristics of the books acquired by elite women in the late medieval and early modern periods tell us about their owners, and what in particular can their illustrationsーes……続きを見る

Challenging the traditional conception of medieval Europe as insular and even xenophobic, Shirin A. Khanmohamadi's In Light of Another's Word looks to early ethnographic writers who were surprisingl……続きを見る

A thousand years before Isaac Asimov set down his Three Laws of Robotics, real and imagined automata appeared in European courts, liturgies, and literary texts. Medieval robots took such forms as ta……続きを見る

Given Christianity's valuation of celibacy and its persistent association of sexuality with the Fall and of women with sin, Western medieval attitudes toward the erotic could not help but be vexed. ……続きを見る

Augustine of Hippo was the most prolific and influential writer on reading between antiquity and the Renaissance, though he left no systematic treatise on the subject. His reluctance to synthesize h……続きを見る

Après le miroir et les clefs, le séminaire du centre d’étude des Textes médiévaux a continué de 2005 à 2007 ses approches de realia, en étudiant deux métonymies animales : les cornes et les plumes. ……続きを見る

Au XIIe et au XIIIe siècles, alors que se développe le roman moderne, les auteurs inventent les moyens d’animer leurs personnages, de les caractériser et de les faire agir. Romans en vers comme roma……続きを見る

Venance Fortunat, poète chrétien du VIe siècle, eut, pour ainsi dire, une vie riche de trois existences : né entre 530 et 540, éduqué à Ravenne, il part pour la Gaule vers la fin de l’été ou à l’aut……続きを見る