An entirely new perspective on Byzantine art and culture through the lens of secular artA winged centaur with the spotted body of a leopard playing a lute; a naked man with an animal head; a goat-footed Pan; a four-bodied lion; sphinxes and hippocamps.
An entirely new perspective on Byzantine art and culture through the lens of secular artA winged centaur with the spotted body of a leopard playing a lute; a naked man with an animal head; a goat-footed Pan; a four-bodied lion; sphinxes and hippocamps.
Scholars have long accepted China's own view of its traditional foreign relations: that China devised its own world order and maintained it from the second century B.
Mary Shelley's 'The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck' is a historical novel that delves into the life and adventures of Perkin Warbeck, a pretender to the English throne in the 15th century.
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.
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 historical sketches and fragments that are here submitted to the reader deal only with a few phases of the rich and varied life of the period known as the Middle Ages and are intended to arouse a wider interest in that thousand years of Christian history that opens with Clovis and closes with the discovery of the New World.
This volume is the result of a symposium organised in 2018 by Élodie Attia in Aix-en-Provence and offers a cross-sectional view of the production of typologically similar Latin, Greek and Hebrew Bibles during the course of the Middle Ages.
This book argues that literary and historiographical works written by Iberian Christians between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries promoted contradictory representations of Muslims in order to advocate for their colonization through the affirmation of Christian supremacy.
Micro Middle Ages brings together five microhistorical case studies focusing on small or seemingly inconsequential evidence that leads to broader conclusions about medieval history and the way we do and understand history in general.
A stimulating and provocative collection, these essays challenge received notions about the culture and history of medieval Russia and offer fresh approaches to problems of textual interpretation, the theory of the medieval text, and the analysis of alternative, nonverbal texts.
'FASCINATING' Guardian | 'WE LOVE THIS BOOK' Blackwells | 'THE BEST GIFT BOOK THERE IS' IndependentA GUIDE TO LIVING IN DARK TIMES, FROM PEOPLE WHO REALLY DIDBursting with wisdom and artwork from the Middle Ages, this handy guide will give you time-tested solutions for all of life's biggest problems.
This book argues that literary and historiographical works written by Iberian Christians between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries promoted contradictory representations of Muslims in order to advocate for their colonization through the affirmation of Christian supremacy.
Micro Middle Ages brings together five microhistorical case studies focusing on small or seemingly inconsequential evidence that leads to broader conclusions about medieval history and the way we do and understand history in general.
Die interdisziplinär angelegte Studie widmet sich der Untersuchung der Überlieferungs- und Textgeschichte, der literarischen Autorschaft und den Erzählverfahren frauenmystischer Viten- und Offenbarungsliteratur des Spätmittelalters.
Die von den Kölner Erzbischöfen und ihren Vertretern auf Synoden oder in deren zeitlicher Nähe veröffentlichten Statuten vermittelten den Klerikern und Laien ihrer Diözese die von den Päpsten und allgemeinen Konzilien erlassenen kanonischen Vorschriften in einer ihrem Verständnishorizont und den regionalen Gegebenheiten angepassten Form.
Das heute in der Nationalbibliothek von Warschau aufbewahrte Sakramentar aus der Abtei Tyniec bei Krakau beeindruckt durch seine prächtige Ausgestaltung mit fast fünfzig Text- und Bildzierseiten sowie reichem Initialschmuck.
Als großartiges Zeugnis der Editionstätigkeit baltischer Historiker und Archivare ist das "Liv-, Est- und Kurländische Urkundenbuch" die bedeutendste Quellenedition zur Geschichte des spätmittelalterlichen Livland, des Gebietes der heutigen Staaten Estland und Lettland, und dient als unverzichtbares Instrument zur Erforschung der baltischen Geschichte.
Wie kaum ein zweiter hat sich der Berliner Mediävist Johannes Helmrath in seinen Forschungen dem sprachlichen Ausdruck der Welt sowie des menschlichen Wissens und Wollens gewidmet – und dabei seinen Erkenntnissen stets einen ganz eigenen rhetorischen Glanz verliehen.
