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  • "Strong of Body, Brave and Noble"

    Chivalry and Society in Medieval France

    de Constance Brittain Bouchard ...
    Medieval society was dominated by its knights and nobles. The literature created in medieval Europe was primarily a literature of knightly deeds, and the modern imagination has also been captured by these leaders and warriors. This book explores the nature of the nobility, focusing on France in the High Middle Ages (11th-13th centuries). Constance Brittain Bouchard examines their families; their ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Negotiation and Resistance

    Peasant Agency in High Medieval France

    de Constance Brittain Bouchard ...
    In Negotiation and Resistance**, Constance Brittain Bouchard challenges familiar depictions of the peasantry as an undifferentiated mass of impoverished and powerless workers.** Peasants in eleventh- and twelfth-century France had far more scope for action, self-determination, and resistance to oppressive treatment—that is, for agency—than they are usually credited with having. Through innovative ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • "Every Valley Shall Be Exalted"

    The Discourse of Opposites in Twelfth-Century Thought

    de Constance Brittain Bouchard ...
    In high medieval France, men and women saw the world around them as the product of tensions between opposites. Imbued with a Christian culture in which a penniless preacher was also the King of Kings and the last were expected to be first, twelfth-century thinkers brought order to their lives through the creation of opposing categories. In a highly original work, Constance Brittain Bouchard ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • The Cartulary-Chronicle of St-Pierre of Bèze

    Edición de Constance Brittain Bouchard ...
    Series series Medieval Academy Books
    In the early twelfth century a Burgundian monk set out to tell the 500-year history of his monastery, embedded within a broader history of early medieval France. The Cartulary-Chronicle of St-Pierre of Bèze is both a history of the monastery and a collection of its 331 charters, from its seventh-century foundation until the middle of the twelfth century. Bèze was a Benedictine house whose history ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

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  • A History of Medieval Political Thought

    300–1450

    de Joseph Canning ...
    First Published in 2005. The book covers four periods, each with a different focus. From 300 to 750 Canning examines Christian ideas of rulership. The often neglected centuries from 750 to 1050, the Carolingian period and its aftermath, are given special attention. From 1050 to 1290 the conflict between temporal and spiritual power and the revived legacy of antiquity comes to the fore. Finally in ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Publication and the Papacy in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

    de Samu Niskanen ...
    Series series Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
    This Element explores the papacy's engagement in authorial publishing in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The opening discussion demonstrates that throughout the medieval period, papal involvement in the publication of new works was a phenomenon, which surged in the eleventh century. The efforts by four authors to use their papal connexions in the interests of publicity are examined as case ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • The Highest Poverty

    Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life

    de Giorgio Agamben ...
    Traducido por Adam Kotsko ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    The acclaimed philosopher and author of Homo Sacer contemplates the possibility of true human freedom through a deep analysis of monastic stricture.What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule? It is to these questions that Giorgio Agamben's new ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Cult of the Saints

    Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity, Enlarged Edition

    de Peter Brown ...
    A new edition of the "brilliantly original and highly sophisticated" study of saint worship after the fall of the Roman Empire ( Library Journal).In this groundbreaking work, Peter Brown explores how the worship of saints and their corporeal remains became central to religious life in Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. During this period, earthly remnants served as a heavenly ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Book of Memory

    A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture

    de Mary Carruthers ...
    Series Libro 70 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material and conclusions of the first. While responding to new directions in research inspired by the original, this new ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Through the Eye of a Needle

    Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD

    de Peter Brown ...
    Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire, written by the world's foremost scholar ... Leer más

    $25.19 USD

  • Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality

    Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century

    de John Boswell ...
    "What makes this work so exciting is not simply its content . . . but its revolutionary challenge to . . . Western culture's most familiar moral assumptions." — NewsweekJohn Boswell's National Book Award–winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay ... Leer más

    $22.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Proving Woman

    Female Spirituality and Inquisitional Culture in the Later Middle Ages

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD