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  • Fictive Orders and Feminine Religious Identities, 1200-1600

    by Alison More ...
    Any visitor to Belgium or the Netherlands is immediately struck by the number of convents and beguinages (begijnhoven) in both major cities and small towns. Their number and location in urban centres suggests that the women who inhabited them once held a prominent role. Despite leaving a visible mark on cities in Europe, much of the story of these women - known variously as beguines, tertiaries, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Representing Medieval Genders and Sexualities in Europe

    Construction, Transformation, and Subversion, 600–1530

    Edited by Elizabeth L'Estrange, Alison More ...
    Transcending both academic disciplines and traditional categories of analysis, this collection illustrates the ways genders and sexualities could be constructed, subverted and transformed. Focusing on areas such as literature, hagiography, history, and art history, from the Anglo-Saxon period to the early sixteenth century, the contributors examine the ways men and women lived, negotiated, and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Voltaire

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Nicholas Cronk ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Voltaire (1694-1778), best remembered as the author of Candide, is one of the central actors -- arguably the defining personality -- of the European Enlightenment. In this Very Short Introduction, Nicholas Cronk explores Voltaire's remarkable career and demonstrates how his thinking is pivotal to our notion and understanding of the Enlightenment. In a fresh and modern examination of his writings, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Misconceptions About the Middle Ages

    Edited by Stephen Harris, Bryon L. Grigsby ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture
    Interest in the middle ages is at an all time high at the moment, thanks in part to "The Da Vinci Code." Never has there been a moment more propitious for a study of our misconceptions of the Middle Ages than now.Ranging across religion, art, and science, Misconceptions about the Middle Ages unravels some of the many misinterpretations that have evolved concerning the medieval period, including ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Art of Conversation

    by Peter Burke ...
    The Art of Conversation is a major contribution to the social history of language - a relatively new field which has become the focus of lively interdisciplinary debate in recent years.Drawing on the work of sociolinguists and others, Burke uses their concept while reserving the right to qualify their theories where the historical record makes this seem appropriate. Like the sociolinguists, Burke ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Proving Woman

    Female Spirituality and Inquisitional Culture in the Later Middle Ages

    by Dyan Elliott ...
    Around the year 1215, female mystics and their sacramental devotion were among orthodoxy's most sophisticated weapons in the fight against heresy. Holy women's claims to be in direct communication with God placed them in positions of unprecedented influence. Yet by the end of the Middle Ages female mystics were frequently mistrusted, derided, and in danger of their lives. The witch hunts were just ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Generations of Feeling

    A History of Emotions, 600–1700

    by Barbara H. Rosenwein ...
    Generations of Feeling is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of emotions in pre- and early modern Western Europe. Charting the varieties, transformations and constants of human sentiments over the course of eleven centuries, Barbara H. Rosenwein explores the feelings expressed in a wide range of 'emotional communities' as well as the theories that served to inform and reflect their ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Handbook of Medieval Sexuality

    Edited by Vern L. Bullough, James Brundage ...
    Like specialists in other fields in humanities and social sciences, medievalists have begun to investigate and write about sex and related topics such as courtship, concubinage, divorce, marriage, prostitution, and child rearing. The scholarship in this significant volume asserts that sexual conduct formed a crucial role in the lives, thoughts, hopes and fears both of individuals and of the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Birth of Territory

    by Stuart Elden ...
    Political theory professor Stuart Elden explores the history of land ownership and control from the ancient to the modern world in The Birth of Territory.Territory is one of the central political concepts of the modern world and, indeed, functions as the primary way the world is divided and controlled politically. Yet territory has not received the critical attention afforded to other crucial ... Read more

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  • Medieval Sexuality

    A Casebook

    Edited by April Harper, Caroline Proctor ...
    Series series Routledge Medieval Casebooks
    Medieval Sexuality: A Casebook is a fascinating collection featuring both new and established experts in the field. The volume includes 11 original essays by Ross Balzaretti, Philip Crispin, Dominic Janes, Hugh Kennedy, A. Lynn Martin, Kim M. Phillips, Samantha J. E. Riches, Joyce E. Salisbury, David Santiuste, and the volume editors, April Harper and Caroline Proctor. The authors explore a ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe

    Edited by Judith M. Bennett, Ruth Mazo Karras ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe provides a comprehensive overview of the gender rules encountered in Europe in the period between approximately 500 and 1500 C.E. The essays collected in this volume speak to interpretative challenges common to all fields of women's and gender history - that is, how best to uncover the experiences of ordinary people from archives formed ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages

    by Robert Mills ...
    During the Middle Ages in Europe, some sexual and gendered behaviors were labeled "sodomitical" or evoked the use of ambiguous phrases such as the "unmentionable vice" or the "sin against nature." How, though, did these categories enter the field of vision? How do you know a sodomite when you see one?In Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages, Robert Mills explores the relationship between sodomy and ... Read more

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