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| Author | : Pavlina Cermanova |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 325 |
| Release | : 2021-06-30 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9782503594637 |
This book provides a series of studies concerning unique medieval texts that can be defined as 'books of knowledge', such as medieval chronicles, bestiaries, or catechetic handbooks. Thus far, scholarship of intellectual history has focused on concepts of knowledge to describe a specific community, or to delimit intellectuals in society. However, the specific textual tool for the transmission of knowledge has been missing. Besides oral tradition, books and other written texts were the only sources of knowledge, and they were thus invaluable in efforts to receive or transfer knowledge. That is one reason why texts that proclaim to introduce a specific field of expertise or promise to present a summary of wisdom were so popular. These texts discussed cosmology, theology, philosophy, the natural sciences, history, and other fields. They often did so in an accessible way to maintain the potential to also attract a non-specialised public. The basic form was usually a narrative, chronologically or thematically structured, and clearly ordered to appeal to readers. Books of this kind could be disseminated in dozens or even hundreds of copies, and were often available (by translation or adaptation) in various languages, including the vernacular. In exploring these widely-disseminated and highly popular texts that offered a precise segment of knowledge that could be accessed by readers outside the intellectual and social elite, this volume intends to introduce books of knowledge as a new category within the study of medieval literacy.
| Author | : Daniel Philip Waley |
| Publisher | : London : Longmans [c1964] |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 1964 |
| Genre | : Europe |
| ISBN | : |
Treats fifteen forces or events during the period, 1250-1520 A. D., especially the growth of governments into 'modern' nation states. Extensive use of contemporary sources.
| Author | : Steven Epstein |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2009-04-27 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 052188036X |
This book examines the most important themes in European social and economic history from the beginning of growth around the year 1000 to the first wave of global exchange in the 1490s. These five hundred years witnessed the rise of economic systems, such as capitalism, and the social theories that would have a profound influence on the rest of the world over the next five centuries. The basic story, the human search for food, clothing, and shelter in a world of violence and scarcity, is a familiar one, and the work and daily routines of ordinary women and men are the focus of this volume. Surveying the full extent of Europe, from east to west and north to south, Steven Epstein illuminates family life, economic and social thought, war, technologies, and other major themes while giving equal attention to developments in trade, crafts, and agriculture. The great waves of famine and then plague in the fourteenth century provide the centerpiece of a book that seeks to explain the causes of Europe's uneven prosperity and its response to catastrophic levels of death. Epstein also sets social and economic developments within the context of the Christian culture and values that were common across Europe and that were in constant tension with Muslims, Jews, and dissidents within its boundaries and the great Islamic and Tartar states on its frontier.
| Author | : Christopher Dyer |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 1989-03-09 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780521272155 |
Between 1200 and 1520 medieval English society went through a series of upheavals: this was an age of war, pestilence and rebellion. This book explores the realities of life of the people who lived through those stirring times. It looks in turn at aristocrats, peasants, townsmen, wage-earners and paupers, and examines how they obtained their incomes and how they spent them. This revised edition (1998) includes a substantial new concluding chapter and an updated bibliography.
| Author | : Bernard Guenée |
| Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 1985-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780631136743 |
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 295 |
| Release | : 2014-03-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004269746 |
The boundaries between mental, social and physical order and various states of disorder – unexpected mood swings, fury, melancholy, stress, insomnia, and demonic influence – form the core of this compilation. For medieval men and women, religious rituals, magic, herbs, dietary requirements as well as to scholastic medicine were a way to cope with the vagaries of mental wellbeing; the focus of the articles is on the interaction and osmosis between lay and elite cultures as well as medical, theological and political theories and practical experiences of daily life. Time span of the volume is the later Middle Ages, c. 1300-1500. Geographically it covers Western Europe and the comparison between Mediterranean world and Northern Europe is an important constituent. Contributors are Jussi Hanska, Gerhard Jaritz, Timo Joutsivuo, Kirsi Kanerva, Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, Marko Lamberg, Iona McCleery, Susanna Niiranen, Sophie Oosterwijk, and Catherine Rider.
| Author | : DavidS. Areford |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 622 |
| Release | : 2017-07-05 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1351539671 |
Structured around in-depth and interconnected case studies and driven by a methodology of material, contextual, and iconographic analysis, this book argues that early European single-sheet prints, in both the north and south, are best understood as highly accessible objects shaped and framed by individual viewers. Author David Areford offers a synthetic historical narrative of early prints that stresses their unusual material nature, as well as their accessibility to a variety of viewers, both lay and monastic. This volume represents a shift in the study of the early printed image, one that mirrors the widespread movement in art history away from issues of production, style, and the artist toward issues of reception, function, and the viewer. Areford's approach is intensely grounded in the object, especially the unacknowledged material complexity of the print as a portable, malleable, and accessible image that depended on a response that was not only visual but often physical, emotional, and psychological. Recognizing that early prints were not primarily designed for aesthetic appreciation, the author analyzes how their meanings stemmed from specific functions involving private devotion, protection, indulgences, the cult of saints, pilgrimage, exorcism, the art of memory, and anti-Semitic propaganda. Although the medium's first century was clearly transitional and experimental, Areford explores how its potential to impact viewers in new ways?both positive and negative?was quickly realized.
| Author | : Sari Katajala-Peltomaa |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0198850468 |
Covering Western Europe (c. 1240-1450) and drawing upon a rich body of sources, this volume analyses how lay people understood the phenomenon of demonic presence and possession and used it to identify and unravel problems in their lives.
| Author | : Jeffrey Howard Denton |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 1999-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780802082640 |
Essays from a range of disciplines examine different, but linked aspects of the social organization of Europe from the 13th to 16th centuries.
| Author | : T. Earenfight |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2010-03-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0230106013 |
The twelve essays in Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe re-examine the vexing issue of women, money, wealth, and power from distinctive perspectives - literature, history, architectural history - using new archival sources. The contributors examine how money and changing attitudes toward wealth affected power relations between women and men of all ranks, especially the patriarchal social forces that constrained the range of women s economic choices. Employing theories on gender, culture, and power, this volume reveals wealth as both the motive force in gender relations and a precise indicator of other, more subtle, forms of power and influence mediated by gender.
