Fifteenth-Century Attitudes

Fifteenth-Century Attitudes
Author: Rosemary Horrox
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521589864

A paperback edition of the successful 1994 collection of essays on society in fifteenth-century England.

Medieval Conduct

Medieval Conduct
Author: Kathleen M. Ashley
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2001
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780816635757

Focusing on a broad range of texts from England, France, Germany, and Italy -- conduct and courtesy books, advice poems, devotional literature, trial records -- the contributors to Medieval Conduct draw attention to the diverse ways in which readers of this literature could interpret such behavioral guides, appropriating them to their own ends. Medieval Conduct expands the concept of conduct to include historicized practices, and theorizes the connection between texts and their concrete social uses; what emerges is a nuanced interpretation of the role of gender and class inscribed in such texts. By bringing to light these subtleties and complexities, the authors also reveal the ways in which the assumptions of literary history have shaped our reception of such texts in the past two centuries.

Codex Ashmole 61

Codex Ashmole 61
Author: George Shuffelton
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Total Pages: 669
Release: 2008-12-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1580444423

Since its rediscovery by nineteenth-century scholarship, Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 61 has never been ignored, though it has also not gained a great deal of notoriety beyond the scholars of Middle English romance. It is hoped that the present volume will encourage study of the entire manuscript as a valuable witness to the devotional habits, cultural values, and popular tastes of late medieval England.

Toward a Global Middle Ages

Toward a Global Middle Ages
Author: Bryan C. Keene
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2019-09-03
Genre: Art
ISBN: 160606598X

This important and overdue book examines illuminated manuscripts and other book arts of the Global Middle Ages. Illuminated manuscripts and illustrated or decorated books—like today’s museums—preserve a rich array of information about how premodern peoples conceived of and perceived the world, its many cultures, and everyone’s place in it. Often a Eurocentric field of study, manuscripts are prisms through which we can glimpse the interconnected global history of humanity. Toward a Global Middle Ages is the first publication to examine decorated books produced across the globe during the period traditionally known as medieval. Through essays and case studies, the volume’s multidisciplinary contributors expand the historiography, chronology, and geography of manuscript studies to embrace a diversity of objects, individuals, narratives, and materials from Africa, Asia, Australasia, and the Americas—an approach that both engages with and contributes to the emerging field of scholarly inquiry known as the Global Middle Ages. Featuring more than 160 color illustrations, this wide-ranging and provocative collection is intended for all who are interested in engaging in a dialogue about how books and other textual objects contributed to world-making strategies from about 400 to 1600.

The City of Blue and White

The City of Blue and White
Author: Anne Gerritsen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2020-05-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1108499953

A compelling examination of the ultimate global commodity, blue and white porcelain, from kiln to consumers across the globe.

Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum

Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum
Author: John Ordronaux
Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2018-10-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9780343990282

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