In this collection of seven major essays (one of them published here for the first time), Monica Green argues that a history of women's healthcare in medieval western Europe has not yet been written because it cannot yet be written - the vast majority of texts relating to women's healthcare have never been edited or studied.
Prepare to indulge in an exciting and innovative study that takes us on the journey of exploring the personality of a woman whose effects on culture continue to this day.
Die neutestamentlichen Apokryphen – geheimnisvolle Schriften, die über Jahrhunderte verborgen blieben und dennoch eine erstaunliche Wirkung auf die Entwicklung des Christentums hatten.
Die Studie bietet eine umfassende Analyse der lange Zeit unterschätzten und nur wenig untersuchten Darstellungsweise in den Antiquitates Romanae des Dionysios von Halikarnass.
The idea of the past, far from suggesting a nostalgic longing or an antiquarian curiosity for ages and cultures irrevocably lost, is essential to the human perception of the world.
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (1711-1765), Russian "Leonardo da Vinci", the son of a Pomor peasant from Kholmogory, was not only a brilliant physicist, chemist and astronomer, but also an outstanding Russian historian, one of the first to speak out against the Norman theory and the doctrine preached by German historians about the "unhistoricity of the Russian people.
This book interprets Jesus Christ as a complicated, disunified literary character in Middle English literature, where he appears variously as king, traitor, victorious conqueror, sacrificial lamb, heroic knight, lover, and spouse--often as several contradictory figures in a single work.
This book interprets Jesus Christ as a complicated, disunified literary character in Middle English literature, where he appears variously as king, traitor, victorious conqueror, sacrificial lamb, heroic knight, lover, and spouse--often as several contradictory figures in a single work.
The essays in this second volume from Helmut Gneuss are devoted to the study of books, their readers, and libraries in medieval England, especially in the Anglo-Saxon period.
Expecting the End of the World in Medieval Europe: An Interdisciplinary Study examines the phenomenon of medieval eschatology from a global perspective, both geographically and intellectually.
Nicola Mesarite è protagonista di un momento di rottura per Bisanzio: il crollo dell’impero nelle mani dell’esercito della Quarta crociata (1204) e l’insediamento di un regime latino a Costantinopoli.
Medieval film explores theoretical questions about the ideological, artistic, emotional and financial investments inhering in cinematic renditions of the medieval period.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky is perhaps the most relevant classic of Russian literature for our time, whose works are gladly filmed by leading directors.
The field of Hiberno-Latin literature, a term coined to describe the Latin literature written in Ireland, or by Irishmen abroad, between 400 and 1500, was first defined by the late Mario Esposito.
With this three-volume companion, students can access the literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in English through an accessible yet authoritative introduction and line-by-line commentary.
In diesem Buch werden Figuren und Figurenkonstellationen in einem Korpus mittelhochdeutscher Artusromane mit computergestützten Methoden, insbesondere der Sozialen Netzwerkanalyse, untersucht.
