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Ottonian book illumination: An historical study. 2nd ed. Harvey Miller, 1999.

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Ottonian book illumination: An historical study. H. Miller Publishers, 1991.

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The ocean of the rivers of story. New York University Press, 2006.

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Spencer-Hall, Alicia, and Blake Gutt, eds. Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography. Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462988248.

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Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography presents an interdisciplinary examination of trans and genderqueer subjects in medieval hagiography. Scholarship has productively combined analysis of medieval literary texts with modern queer theory – yet, too often, questions of gender are explored almost exclusively through a prism of sexuality, rather than gender identity. This volume moves beyond such limitations, foregrounding the richness of hagiography as a genre integrally resistant to limiting binaristic categories, including rigid gender binaries. The collection showcases schola
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Apollonius of Tyre: Medieval and Renaissance themes and variations : including the text of the Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri with an English translation. D.S. Brewer, 1991.

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Salvarani, Renata. The Body, the Liturgy and the City. Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-364-9.

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The body and the space are the fulcrums of dynamic relationships creating cultures, identities, societies. In the game of interactions between individuals, groups and space, religions play a crucial role. During a ritual performance takes place a true genesis of a sacred space. This work analyzes the theme from a historical point of view, with a focus on Christian medieval Latin liturgies. Indeed, for Christian theology, related with the dogma of the Incarnation, the chair is itself the place of the manifestation of the sacred. Liturgy makes present and gives with life a new body. Together it
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Kazancev, Dmitriy. Byzantium and Russia. The status of the sovereign as a reflection of political culture (late IX-early XVI century). INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1091380.

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The monograph is devoted to the history of medieval Russian and Byzantine teachings about the power of the sovereign and the reflection of these doctrinal ideas in the practice of public administration of the two peoples. The phenomena of the power of the sovereigns of the Byzantine Empire, Ancient Russia and the Moscow state are investigated and compared, and an attempt is made to answer the question of what is common and different in the foundations of the organization of power of these three states. The Byzantine influence on the political culture of Russia is still a subject of controversy
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Leerssen, Joep. National Thought in Europe. Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462989542.

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Bringing together sources from many countries and many centuries, this study critically analyses the growth of national thought and of nationalism — from medieval ethnic prejudice to the Romantic belief in a nation’s ‘soul’. The belief and ideology of the nation’s cultural individuality emerged from a Europe-wide exchange of ideas, often articulated in literature and belles lettres. In the last two centuries, these ideas have transformed the map of Europe and the relations between people and government. In tracing the modern European nation-state, cross-nationally and historically, as the outc
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Olivieri, Antonio, ed. Il carteggio tra Luigi Schiaparelli e Carlo Cipolla (1894-1916). Firenze University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-012-2.

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More than four hundred letters and postcards remain of the long correspondence between Carlo Cipolla, born in Verona and professor of modern history in Turin and then in Florence, and Luigi Schiaparelli, one of the students from his time in Turin. The majority of the letters came from the student, on the grounds of communicative asymmetry and conservative accidents. There are over twenty years of epistolary dialogue (1894-1916) in this publication, which now contributes significantly to the knowledge of Schiaparelli (the first modern scholar of diplomacy and palaeography in Italy), his years o
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Pecchioni, Elena, and Alba Patrizia Santo. Florence RockinArt. Firenze University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/9788855181570.

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The city of Firenze represents, for the variety of its artistic and architectural heritage, a kind of open-air museum. Works of art and monuments are mainly made of the rocks outcropping in Firenze and in the surrounding areas; indeed, a close link exists between monuments, geographical position of the city and its history. Florence, is characterised by the color of its stone-built cultural heritage, mainly by the warm ochraceous color of the Medieval Pietraforte sandstone and the cerulean grey of the Renaissance Pietra Serena sandstone together with other natural and artificial materials used
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Stewart, Jon. The Emergence of Subjectivity in the Ancient and Medieval World. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198854357.001.0001.

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This work represents a combination of different genres: cultural history, philosophical anthropology, and textbook. It follows a handful of different but interrelated themes through more than a dozen texts that were written over a period of several millennia. By means of an analysis of these texts, this work presents a theory about the development of Western Civilization from antiquity to the Middle Ages. The main line of argument traces the various self-conceptions of the different cultures as they developed historically. These self-conceptions reflect different views of what it is to be huma
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Gleason, Angela. Medieval Sport. Edited by Robert Edelman and Wayne Wilson. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199858910.013.9.

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It is widely accepted that the Middle Ages are where sports went to die. There is truth in this, but it is far from the whole story. Sports and pastimes were extremely local in the Middle Ages, making them harder for the historian to see. Compounding this, sources of the Middle Ages survive primarily in Latin, a language controlled by a ruling class that was generally unfriendly to popular expressions of entertainment. Sports in the Middle Ages, however, are neither scarce nor undiscoverable. A wide variety of popular medieval games, team sports, and athletic competitions are found in an equal
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Huggon, Martin. Medieval Medicine, Public Health, and the Medieval Hospital. Edited by Christopher Gerrard and Alejandra Gutiérrez. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198744719.013.34.

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Despite the wealth of historical documentation for medieval medicine there is a lack of archaeological evidence. Some studies have highlighted the importance of archaeobotany and zooarchaeology for future developments in this field, but this also highlights how historical discussion frequently centres on medicine only available to the wealthy or religious, not the majority of the secular population. The discussion on public health focuses on recent scientific studies and osteological research about two major diseases, the Black Death and leprosy, raising questions over burial practices and soc
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Dan, Joseph. The Narratives of Medieval Jewish History. Edited by Martin Goodman. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199280322.013.0007.

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It is surprising to realize that no historian of Judaism wrote a history of the Middle Ages in Jewish history. Between 1923 and 1926 a Jewish historian, Shlomo Bernfeld, wrote a three-volume historical work, consisting mainly of an anthology of sources, entitled Sefer ha-Demaot, ‘The Book of Tears’. These volumes present a history of the Middle Ages up to the ‘Age of Reason’, which the author hoped would be the beginning of a new age in which the fate of the Jews would be different, yet this hope, he states in the end of his work, seems to have been unfounded. This article examines such narrat
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Franklin, Carmela Vircillo. Theodor Mommsen, Louis Duchesne, and the Liber pontificalis. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198818489.003.0005.

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This chapter juxtaposes the theory and the practice of philology in the late nineteenth-century race to produce a modern critical edition of the Liber pontificalis. The resulting works, one by the French priest and church historian Louis Duchesne, the other by the classicist and German patriot Theodor Mommsen, showcase the editors’ divergent aims in the application of recensionist criticism, shaped as it was by their scholarly, national, religious, and personal loyalties. Mommsen’s edition adheres to the principles of ‘German’ critical philology and its desire to recover the original text; Duc
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Riedel, Meredith L. D. Historical Writing and Warfare. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199236428.003.0028.

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This chapter examines how medieval cultures in the East were generally more reticent than Western ones in describing warfare in bloody detail. It looks at how three cultures approached the recording of war very differently. The Tang Chinese histories are formulaic, abstract to the point of statistics; they offer only names and casualty numbers. Byzantine writing about warfare is pragmatic, gives some operational details, and is concerned for the character of commanders, but avoids exalting them. Abbasid war poetry and chronicles glorify the moral superiority of Muslim commanders, especially in
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Raj, Yogesh. Making Sense of Lynching in Medieval Nepal. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040801.003.0005.

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Focusing on medieval Nepal, in this chapter Yogesh Raj argues that existing sociohistorical accounts of lynching and other extreme forms of collective cruelty are inadequate for developing “a credible historical account” due to what he considers their “narratological bias.” Raj asserts that the problematic nature of the Event Catalogues, the main methodological innovation in these accounts composed by scholars of European rioting and American lynching, “call for a radically different approach to historiography.” Using Newari medieval records of lynching, Raj argues for “employing analogy, and
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Ben-Shalom, Ram. Medieval Jews and the Christian Past. Liverpool University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781904113904.001.0001.

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The focus in this book is on the historical consciousness of the Jews of Spain and southern France in the late Middle Ages, and specifically on their perceptions of Christianity and Christian history and culture. The book shows that in these southern European lands Jews experienced a relatively open society that was sensitive to and knowledgeable about voices from other cultures, and that this had significant consequences for shaping Jewish historical consciousness. Among the topics discussed are what Jews knew of the significance of Rome, of Jesus and the early days of Christianity, of Church
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Gardiner, Mark, and Susan Kilby. Perceptions of Medieval Settlement. Edited by Christopher Gerrard and Alejandra Gutiérrez. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198744719.013.10.

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Medieval archaeologists, possessing elements of the landscape and the buildings of the past, together with a good knowledge of the historical context, can recover many aspects of the way that space was perceived in the past. A phenomenological approach has been applied not only to castles, but also to the mundane world of peasants. Phenomenology emphasizes the experience of the world whereas archaeologists have been no less interested in the way in which that experience was manipulated and also in the competing ideas of space. Examples of encultured landscapes examined include natural places,
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Barrett, James H. Medieval Fishing and Fish Trade. Edited by Christopher Gerrard and Alejandra Gutiérrez. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198744719.013.5.

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This article discusses major developments in British marine (and to a lesser degree freshwater) fishing and fish trade between ad 1050 and 1550. Much information derives from study of fish bones recovered by archaeological excavation. Historical evidence is also important, as is information regarding human diet based on stable isotope analysis of skeletal remains. By combining these sources it is possible to infer the initial growth of marine fishing (especially of herring, cod, and related species), the emergence of long-range fish trade, and the late-medieval reorientation of traditional fis
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Albrecht, Classen, ed. Sexuality in the Middle Ages and the early modern age: New approaches to a fundamental cultural-historical and literary-anthropological theme. Walter de Gruyter, 2008.

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Saunders, Corinne. Voices and Visions: Mind, Body and Affect in Medieval Writing. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474400046.003.0023.

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A properly critical medical humanities is also a historically grounded medical humanities. Such historical grounding requires taking a long cultural perspective, going beyond traditional medical history – typically the history of disease, treatment and practice – to trace the origins and development of the ideas that underpin medicine in its broadest sense – ideas concerning the most fundamental aspects of human existence: health and illness, body and mind, gender and family, care and community. Historical sources can only go so far in illuminating such topics; we must also look to other cultu
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Innes, Matthew. Historical Writing, Ethnicity, and National Identity: Medieval Europe and Byzantium in Comparison. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199236428.003.0027.

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This chapter analyzes the wider reverberations of debates about the premodern origins of modern nationalism. It looks at the different ways in which issues of origin and identity were articulated in Western historical writing up to the beginning of the thirteenth century, and Byzantine historiography of the same period. It argues that debate about premodern ethnic and national identity has a specific valency, with its roots in Western modernity. The concepts and questions used in the discussion of premodern ethnicity and national identity are therefore rooted in a Eurocentric framework, so as
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Freedman, Paul. The Medieval Spice Trade. Edited by Jeffrey M. Pilcher. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199729937.013.0018.

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Europe's insatiable demand for spices in the late Middle Ages (1200-1500 AD) is a remarkable example of dramatic historic change triggered by consumer preference. The spice trade is important to the history of food not only because of the trade routes and speculation about how to expand them, but also because of the reasons for the heavy demand in the first place. Tropical spices are not an essential ingredient of modern European cuisine. This article documents the spice trade during the medieval period. It first considers the ubiquity of spices in medieval gastronomy and medieval pharmacology
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Mallinson, Sir James, and Soma·deva. The Ocean of the Rivers of Story (Clay Sanskrit Library). NYU Press, 2007.

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Golden, Rachel May. Mapping Medieval Identities in Occitanian Crusade Song. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190948610.001.0001.

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Home to the troubadours and a creative monastic center, twelfth-century Occitania (the south of France) fostered a vibrant musical culture that encompassed both secular and sacred, vernacular and Latin, spanning a wealth of locally cultivated genres. Such musical-poetic impulses reflected and responded to regional practices of courtly love, chivalric ideals, votive worship, monastic theologies, pilgrimage, and Holy War. This book demonstrates the rich cross-fertilizations between early Christian Crusades and two roughly contemporaneous musical-poetic repertories of Occitania: the sacred, Latin
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Gowland, Rebecca, and Bennjamin Penny-Mason. Overview. Edited by Christopher Gerrard and Alejandra Gutiérrez. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198744719.013.52.

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Historical evidence has provided a rich source of information concerning the structure and experience of the medieval life-course. Archaeology has also contributed to these debates, through the material remains associated with different age groups and the structural remains of houses, but primarily via the wealth of evidence provided by the medieval cemeteries. Human skeletal remains are proving to be a particularly fruitful source of data for understanding the relationship between chronological, biological, and social ages in medieval England. This overview examines the historical, archaeolog
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Morton, James. Byzantine Religious Law in Medieval Italy. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198861140.001.0001.

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This book is a historical study of these manuscripts, exploring how and why the Greek Christians of medieval southern Italy persisted in using them so long after the end of Byzantine rule. Southern Italy was conquered by the Norman Hauteville dynasty in the late eleventh century after over 500 years of continuous Byzantine rule. At a stroke, the region’s Greek Christian inhabitants were cut off from their Orthodox compatriots in Byzantium and became subject to the spiritual and legal jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic popes. Nonetheless, they continued to follow the religious laws of the Byzan
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Alcorn, Rhona, Joanna Kopaczyk, Bettelou Los, and Benjamin Molineaux, eds. Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474430531.001.0001.

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Drawing on the resources created by the Institute of Historical Dialectology at the University of Edinburgh (now the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics), such as eLALME (the electronic version A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English), LAEME (A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English) and LAOS (A Linguistic Atlas of Older Scots), this volume illustrates how traditional methods of historical dialectology can benefit from new methods of corpus data-collection to test out theoretical and empirical claims. In showcasing the results that these digital text resources can yield, the
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Cook, Michael. Early Medieval Christian and Muslim Attitudes to Pagan Law. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198748496.003.0007.

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This chapter compares early-medieval Christian and Islamic ideas regarding the acceptability or otherwise of pagan law under the monotheist dispensation. It argues that by and large there is a clear contrast between the two approaches. The default attitude among early-medieval Christians is that pagan law is acceptable in the absence of specific grounds for rejecting it, whereas the default among Muslims is that it is unacceptable unless there are specific grounds for adopting it. The chapter also seeks to identify the motivations involved—both the reasons actually advanced by jurists on both
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Draper, Simon A. The Written Evidence for the Later Middle Ages. Edited by Christopher Gerrard and Alejandra Gutiérrez. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198744719.013.2.

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The period 1100–1500 saw a boom in writing of all kinds in Britain, from literary works such as romances and treatises to legal and administrative documents including charters, registers, and accounts. This article considers the main types of written evidence available for the study of later medieval Britain, as well as the various means of accessing them in archives, libraries, and online. Some pitfalls of interpreting documents and texts are then explored, before a discussion of how medieval archaeologists can make use of historical sources and vice versa, using examples drawn from recent re
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Castaño, Javier, Talya Fishman, and Ephraim Kanarfogel, eds. Regional Identities and Cultures of Medieval Jews. Liverpool University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781906764678.001.0001.

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Though the existence of Jewish regional cultures is widely known, the origins of the most prominent groups, Ashkenaz and Sepharad, are poorly understood, and the rich variety of other regional Jewish identities is often overlooked. Yet all these subcultures emerged in the Middle Ages. Scholars contributing to the present study were invited to consider how such regional identities were fashioned, propagated, reinforced, contested, and reshaped — and to reflect on the developments, events, or encounters that made these identities manifest. They were asked to identify how subcultural identities p
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Willmott, Hugh. Cooking, Dining, and Drinking. Edited by Christopher Gerrard and Alejandra Gutiérrez. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198744719.013.29.

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Food preparation, eating, and drinking became increasingly complex and engaging activities during the Middle Ages, and the properties of food and material culture were actively exploited to stimulate the senses of sight, smell, taste, and even touch. The subjects of medieval cooking, dining, and drinking have received considerable historical attention in recent years, yet the material culture associated with these activities has largely been overlooked, beyond inclusion in specialist reports. This chapter reviews the evidence for these consumptive practices, combining historical documentation,
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Ormrod, W. Mark, Joanna Story, and Elizabeth M. Tyler, eds. Migrants in Medieval England, c. 500-c. 1500. British Academy, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197266724.001.0001.

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This book is a ground-breaking study of the phenomenon of migration in and to England over the medieval millennium, between c. AD 500 and c. AD 1500. It reaches across traditional scholarly divides, both disciplinary and chronological, to investigate, for the first time, the different types of data and scholarly methods that reveal evidence of migration and mobility within the medieval kingdom of England. England offers the opportunity for studying migration and migrants over the longue durée, because it has been a recognisable political unit for over a millennium and because a wealth of sourc
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Story, Joanna. Lands and Lights in Early Medieval Rome. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198777601.003.0025.

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This chapter analyses the text and epigraphy of two monumental inscriptions in Rome; both are important sources of information on landholding in early medieval Italy, and both shed light on the development of the Patrimony of St Peter and the evolving power of the popes as de facto rulers of Rome and its environs in the seventh and eighth centuries. Pope Gregory the Great (d. 604) commissioned the earlier of the two inscriptions for the basilica of St Paul, where it still survives (MEC I, XII.1). The inscription preserves the full text of a letter from Gregory to Felix, rector of the Appian pa
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Brown, Peter J. Coping with Disaster. Edited by Christopher Gerrard and Alejandra Gutiérrez. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198744719.013.7.

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This chapter considers the impact of natural hazards and their accompanying human disasters during the later medieval period. British medieval populations faced severe challenges as a result of sudden onset events including windstorms, tidal surges, floods, and lightning strikes. As well as the historical accounts of these disasters which litter the documentary record, the evidence for these catastrophic occurrences can often be traced in the surviving archaeology. Not only does this make it possible to visualize exactly what damage these events wrought to settlements, through excavation and l
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The Allegory Of Love A Study In Medieval Tradition. Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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Dugan, Holly. London Smellwalk Around 1450. Edited by Christopher Gerrard and Alejandra Gutiérrez. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198744719.013.54.

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This chapter examines the smell of medieval cities and its role in shaping individual, collective, and social knowledge about navigating these realms. To breathe in medieval cities was a communal affair; men and women inhaled all aspects of this crowded, shared space, including the smell of its many animal and human inhabitants, its industries, and their collective detritus. Using literary and historical sources to create a medieval urban odour descriptor wheel, I argue that the smell of medieval cities was both more pungent and pleasurable than we usually assume; this wheel will hopefully hel
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Rudavsky, T. M. Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199580903.001.0001.

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The purpose of this volume is to provide an account of how medieval Jewish philosophy, from the tenth century to Spinoza, forms part of an ongoing dialogue with medieval Christian and Islamic thought. It provides a corrective to available works, and a supplement to available histories of philosophy, many of which devote little space to Jewish philosophy. The focus of this work is on the tensions between Judaism and rational thought, as reflected in particular philosophical controversies arising in the context of issues in metaphysics, rationalism, language, cosmology, science, faith and reason
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Dawson, Lesel, and Fiona McHardy, eds. Revenge and Gender in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Literature. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474414098.001.0001.

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This collection focuses on the complex interrelationship of revenge and gender in ancient Greek and Roman literature, Icelandic sagas and medieval and early modern English literature. It probes revenge’s gendering, its role in consolidating and contesting gender norms, and its relation to friendship, family roles and kinship structures. It argues that while revenge frequently functions as a repressive cultural script that reinforces conservative gender roles, it also repeatedly triggers events that disturb gender norms, blurring conventional male/female and animal/human binaries, and provoking
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Spencer, Stephen J. Emotions in a Crusading Context, 1095-1291. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198833369.001.0001.

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Emotions in a Crusading Context is the first book-length study of the emotional rhetoric of crusading. It investigates the ways in which a number of emotions and affective displays—primarily fear, anger, and weeping—were understood, represented, and utilized in twelfth- and thirteenth-century western narratives of the crusades, making use of a broad range of comparative material to gauge the distinctiveness of those texts: crusader letters, papal encyclicals, model sermons, chansons de geste, lyrics, and an array of theological and philosophical treatises. In addition to charting continuities
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Lewis, C. S. The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition (Oxford Paperbacks). Oxford University Press, USA, 1985.

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Liddy, Christian D. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198705208.003.0001.

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This chapter is historiographical and conceptual in focus. It explores and critiques the paradigm of urban oligarchy, which has exercised a profound influence upon the history of late medieval English towns. It demonstrates that the emphasis upon the comparative stability of English towns is misplaced and that division was as much a part of urban politics as was consensus. It introduces the category of citizenship, upon which there is a recent continental scholarship, much of it connected to the theme of revolt. Finally, it explains the choice of the five towns of Bristol, Coventry, London, No
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Simpson, James, and Brian Cummings, eds. Cultural Reformations. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199212484.001.0001.

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This title is part of the theOxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literatureseries, edited by Paul Strohm. This book examines cultural history and cultural change in the period between the fourteenth and the seventeenth centuries, a period spanning the medieval and Renaissance. It takes a dynamically diachronic approach to cultural history and brings the perspective of alongue duréeto literary history. It redraws historical categories and offers a fresh perspective on historical temporality by challenging the stereotypes that might encourage any iconographic division between medieval and
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Barrow, Julia. Developing Definitions of Reform in the Church in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198777601.003.0037.

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There is a noticeable gap between the use of ‘reform’ terminology (reformo, reformatio) in the pre-1100 period and modern usage: in the earlier Middle Ages the terminology was essentially used to refer to the restoration of peace, buildings, and property or in a spiritual sense, as a change of heart (as established by Gerd Ladner on the basis of patristic writings); it is also noticeable that reform terminology was used much less by medieval authors, especially pre-1215, than by modern historians writing about the Middle Ages and above all on the medieval church. Nonetheless, ‘reform’ terminol
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Miller, William Ian. Outrageous Fortune. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197530689.001.0001.

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The book is a drolly pessimistic and vaguely misanthropic account that gives it a unity of voice, of view, and of several interlaced themes: the scarcity of good, that most of happiness comes in the morally questionable form of Schadenfreude, or is experienced mostly as relief that some expected bad thing did not materialize. It deals extensively with those tinges of ominousness that accompany good luck, and the related widespread belief, or feeling in the gut, that people’s mere desires and wishes provoke the gods to thwart their wishes. Are good things subject to a law of conservation, so th
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Rury, John L., and Eileen H. Tamura, eds. The [Oxford] Handbook of the History of Education. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199340033.001.0001.

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This handbook offers a global perspective on the historical development of educational institutions, systems of schooling, ideas about education, and educational experiences. Sections deal with questions of theory and methods, ancient and medieval education, the rise of national school systems, the development of universities in different contexts, problems of inequality and discrimination in education, and reform and institutional change. Specific chapters discuss colonialism and anticolonial struggles, indigenous education, gender issues in education, higher education systems, educational re
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Poag, James F., and Claire Baldwin, eds. The Construction of Textual Authority in German Literature of the Medieval and Early Modern Periods. The University of North Carolina Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/9781469658155_poag.

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Interest in the intersections of various kinds of discourse provides the basis for a closer look at diverse textual strategies of cultural legitimation. This collection presents an introductory essay and eleven studies (written in English and German) that address claims to authority associated with differing kinds of texts from such varied perspectives as political performance, popular culture, history of science, interrelations between verbal texts and other arts, and artistic professionalism. Read together, these studies illuminate historical contingencies and reveal important changes in the
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Teubner, Jonathan D. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198767176.003.0001.

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This introduction conceptually outlines and historically locates the notion of the Augustinian tradition, and explains how the theme of prayer advances and refines our understanding of this tradition. The aim of this chapter is to indicate both the distinctiveness of Augustine’s own understanding of prayer, and the continuities of this theme (and variations upon it) in those who follow him. This chapter argues that Boethius and Benedict exemplify two distinctive forms of Augustinianism, both of which influence subsequent medieval Christian thought and practice. The central analytic distinction
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Ando, Clifford. Roman Law. Edited by Markus D. Dubber and Christopher Tomlins. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198794356.013.35.

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Roman law has been a system of practice and field of academic study for some 2,400 years. Today, the field enjoys unprecedented diversity in terms of linguistic, disciplinary, and national context. However, the contours of contemporary study are the product of complex and imbricated historical factors: the non-codification by the Romans of the classical period of their own public law; solutions taken in the classical period and later to resolve conflicts among sources of law of very different antiquity; the codification in late antiquity of academic jurisprudence regarding private law; the on-
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