The Herald in Late Medieval Europe
Author: Katie Stevenson
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781843834823
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst full-length assessment of the role of the herald in medieval Europe.
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A Cultural History of the Medieval Sword
Author: Robert W. Jones
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2023-05-23
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1837650365
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study takes the sword beyond it functional role as a tool for killing, considering it as a cultural artifact and the broader meaning and significance it had to its bearer.
Medieval Heraldry
Author: Terence Wise
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2012-04-20
Total Pages: 103
ISBN-13: 1780966261
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCoats of arms were at first used only by kings and princes, then by their great nobles, but by the mid-13th century arms were being used extensively by the lesser nobility, knights and those who later came to be styled gentlemen. In some countries the use of arms spread even to merchants, townspeople and the peasantry. From the mundane to the fantastic, from simple geometric patterns to elaborate mythological beasts, this fascinating work by Terence Wise explores the origins and appearance of medieval heraldic devices in an engagingly readable style accompanied by numerous illustrations including eight full page colour plates by Richard Hook.
Holy Bones, Holy Dust
Author: Charles Freeman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011-05-24
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 0300166591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRelics were everywhere in medieval society. Saintly morsels such as bones, hair, teeth, blood, milk, and clothes, and items like the Crown of Thorns, coveted by Louis IX of France, were thought to bring the believer closer to the saint, who might intercede with God on his or her behalf. In the first comprehensive history in English of the rise of relic cults, Charles Freeman takes readers on a vivid, fast-paced journey from Constantinople to the northern Isles of Scotland over the course of a millennium.In "Holy Bones, Holy Dust," Freeman illustrates that the pervasiveness and variety of relics answered very specific needs of ordinary people across a darkened Europe under threat of political upheavals, disease, and hellfire. But relics were not only venerated--they were traded, collected, lost, stolen, duplicated, and destroyed. They were bargaining chips, good business and good propaganda, politically appropriated across Europe, and even used to wield military power. Freeman examines an expansive array of relics, showing how the mania for these objects deepens our understanding of the medieval world and why these relics continue to capture our imagination.
Treason and Masculinity in Medieval England
Author: E. Amanda McVitty
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1783275553
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGroundbreaking new approach to the idea of treason in medieval England, showing the profound effect played by gender.
Medieval Welsh Genealogy
Author: Ben Guy
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2020-04-17
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9781783275137
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst in-depth investigation of the genealogies of medieval Wales, bringing out their full significance.
Godfrey of Viterbo and his Readers
Author: Dr Thomas Foerster
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2015-08-28
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 1472442687
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection provides a systematic survey of the wide readership the works of Godfrey of Viterbo enjoyed in the late Middle Ages. In the last years of the twelfth century this chronicler and imperial notary wrote a series of historical collections that gained considerable and lasting popularity: between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, his works were copied in elaborate manuscripts in almost all of Latin Europe. Godfrey was a herald of the new political ideas the Hohenstaufen developed after the years of defeat against the papacy and the Italian communes, but also a universal chronicler whose interests reached far beyond the political issues of his day. Bringing together a group of specialists on manuscripts and historical writing in late medieval England, Spain, Italy, Germany, Bohemia and Poland, this volume demonstrates how Godfrey’s works were understood by medieval readers.
Chivalry and Knighthood in Scotland, 1424-1513
Author: Katie Stevenson
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781843831921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work considers how chivalry was interpreted in 15th century Scotland and how it compared with European ideas of chivalry; the resposibilities of knighthood in this period and the impact on political life; the chivalric literature and the relevance of Christian components of chivalric culture.
The Shape of Sex
Author: Leah DeVun
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2021-05-25
Total Pages: 661
ISBN-13: 0231551363
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner, 2024 Haskins Medal, Medieval Academy of America Winner, 2023 Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize, History of Science Society Winner, 2022 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies, American Academy of Religion Honorable Mention, 2023 John Boswell Prize, The Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender History (CLGBTH) Longlisted, 2022 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Studies, Lambda Literary Awards The Shape of Sex is a pathbreaking history of nonbinary sex, focusing on ideas and individuals who allegedly combined or crossed sex or gender categories from 200–1400 C.E. Ranging widely across premodern European thought and culture, Leah DeVun reveals how and why efforts to define “the human” so often hinged on ideas about nonbinary sex. The Shape of Sex examines a host of thinkers—theologians, cartographers, natural philosophers, lawyers, poets, surgeons, and alchemists—who used ideas about nonbinary sex as conceptual tools to order their political, cultural, and natural worlds. DeVun reconstructs the cultural landscape navigated by individuals whose sex or gender did not fit the binary alongside debates about animality, sexuality, race, religion, and human nature. The Shape of Sex charts an embrace of nonbinary sex in early Christianity, its brutal erasure at the turn of the thirteenth century, and a new enthusiasm for nonbinary transformations at the dawn of the Renaissance. Along the way, DeVun explores beliefs that Adam and Jesus were nonbinary-sexed; images of “monstrous races” in encyclopedias, maps, and illuminated manuscripts; justifications for violence against purportedly nonbinary outsiders such as Jews and Muslims; and the surgical “correction” of bodies that seemed to flout binary divisions. In a moment when questions about sex, gender, and identity have become incredibly urgent, The Shape of Sex casts new light on a complex and often contradictory past. It shows how premodern thinkers created a system of sex and embodiment that both anticipates and challenges modern beliefs about what it means to be male, female—and human.
Frisians of the Early Middle Ages
Author: John Hines
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 1783275618
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMulti-disciplinary approaches shed fresh light on the Frisian people and their changing cultures.
