Blurred Boundaries and Deceptive Dichotomies in Pre-Modern Texts and Images

• Hardcover | Engels | Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture | nr. 28
• This collection of essays focuses on the way blurred boundaries are represented in pre-modern texts and visual art and how they were received and perc... Lees meer

Multilingualism in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age

• Hardcover | Engels | Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture | nr. 17
• Bi- and multilingualism are of great interest for contemporary linguists since this phenomenon deeply reflects on language acquisition, language use, ... Lees meer

Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time

Classen Albrecht

• Hardcover | Duits | Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture | nr. 20
• There are no clear demarcation lines between magic, astrology, necromancy, medicine, and even sciences in the pre-modern world. Under the umbrella ter... Lees meer

Mental Health, Spirituality, and Religion in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age

• Hardcover | Engels | Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture | nr. 15
• This volume continues the critical exploration of fundamental issues in the medieval and early modern world, here concerning mental health, spirituali... Lees meer

Communication, Translation, and Community in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period

• Hardcover | Engels | Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture | nr. 26
• Literature serves many purposes, and one of them certainly proves to be to convey messages, wisdom, and instruction, and this across languages, religi... Lees meer

Rural Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age

• Hardcover | Engels | Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture | nr. 9
• Older research on the premodern world limited its focus on the Church, the court, and, more recently, on urban space. The present volume invites reade... Lees meer

Pleasure and Leisure in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age

• Hardcover | Engels | Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture | nr. 23
• Jan Huizinga and Roger Caillois have already taught us to realize how important games and play have been for pre-modern civilization. Recent research ... Lees meer

Sexual Violence and Rape in the Middle Ages

Albrecht Classen

• Hardcover | Engels | Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture | nr. 7
• Medieval historians and literary scholars have not ignored the topic of sexual violence and rape, but the primary focus has regularly rested on Englis... Lees meer

Popular Opinion in the Middle Ages

Charles W Connell

• Hardcover | Engels | Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture | nr. 18
• This book provides a needed overview of the scholarship on medieval public culture and popular movements such as the Peace of God, heresy, and the cru... Lees meer

Inscribing the Environment

Connie Scarborough

• Hardcover | Engels | Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture | nr. 13
• Ecocriticism as a theoretical model has primarily been used in the study of Romantic, post-Romantic, and contemporary literary texts. Applications of ... Lees meer

Bodily and Spiritual Hygiene in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

• Hardcover | Engels | Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture | nr. 19
• While most people today take hygiene and medicine for granted, they both have had their own history. We can gain deep insights into the pre-modern wor... Lees meer

War and Peace

• Hardcover | Engels | Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture | nr. 8
• The contributors to the present volume examine, from a wide variety of perspectives, the issues of war and peace in the Middle Ages and early modern t... Lees meer

Freedom, Imprisonment, and Slavery in the Pre-Modern World

Albrecht Classen

• Hardcover | Engels | Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture | nr. 25
• Contrary to common assumptions, medieval and early modern writers and poets often addressed the high value of freedom, whether we think of such fable ... Lees meer

Words That Tear the Flesh

• Hardcover | Engels | Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture | nr. 21
• The rhetorical trope of irony is well-trod territory, with books and essays devoted to its use by a wide range of medieval and Renaissance writers, fr... Lees meer

Travel, Time, and Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time

• Hardcover | Engels | Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture | nr. 22
• Research on medieval and early modern travel literature has made great progress, which now allows us to take the next step and to analyze the correlat... Lees meer

East Meets West in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times

• Hardcover | Engels | Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture | nr. 14
• This new volume explores the surprisingly intense and complex relationships between East and West during the Middle Ages and the early modern world, c... Lees meer

Death in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times

• Hardcover | Engels | Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture | nr. 16
• Death is not only the final moment of life, it also casts a huge shadow on human society at large. People throughout time have had to cope with death ... Lees meer

Crime and Punishment in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age

• Hardcover | Engels | Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture | nr. 11
• All societies are constructed, based on specific rules, norms, and laws. Hence, all ethics and morality are predicated on perceived right or wrong beh... Lees meer

Imagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time

• Hardcover | Engels | Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture | nr. 24
• The notions of other peoples, cultures, and natural conditions have always been determined by the epistemology of imagination and fantasy, providing m... Lees meer

Laughter in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times

• Hardcover | Engels | Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture | nr. 5
• Despite popular opinions of the 'dark Middle Ages' and a 'gloomy early modern age, ' many people laughed, smiled, giggled, chuckled, entertained and r... Lees meer

Nature in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Times

• Hardcover | Engels | Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture | nr. 29
• The study of pre-modern anthropology requires the close examination of the relationship between nature and human society, which has been both precario... Lees meer

Sexuality in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times

• Hardcover | Engels | Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture | nr. 3
• Sexuality is one of the most influential factors in human life. The responses to and reflections upon the manifestations of sexuality provide fascinat... Lees meer

Globalism in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age

• Hardcover | Engels | Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture | nr. 27
• Although it is fashionable among modernists to claim that globalism emerged only since ca. 1800, the opposite can well be documented through careful c... Lees meer

Authorities in the Middle Ages

• Hardcover | Engels | Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture | nr. 12
• Medievalists reading and writing about and around authority-related themes lack clear definitions of its actual meanings in the medieval context. Auth... Lees meer