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Comparing Two Italies. Civic Tradition, Trade Networks, Family Relationships between the Italy of Communes and the Kingdom of Sicily
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Comparing Two Italies. Civic Tradition, Trade Networks, Family Relationships between the Italy of Communes and the Kingdom of Sicily show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Comparing Two Italies. Civic Tradition, Trade Networks, Family Relationships between the Italy of Communes and the Kingdom of SicilyThe title of this volume recalls the famous 1977 book by David Abulafia, The Two Italies, about the origins of the so-called ‘unequal exchange’ and ‘dual economy’ between Northern and Southern Italy. These are supposed to have provided the ground for the so-called ‘Southern question’ (‘questione meridionale’), one of the foremost topics in the whole of Italian history. However, trade is not the only relevant theme in a comparison between the Italy of Communes and the Kingdom of Sicily. This collection of essays points to different interpretative paths, which concern not only trade networks, but also less well-known aspects of the interrelation, such as the rise of civic tradition, the spread of Mendicant Orders, and the circulation of wealth through family relationships, women, marriage and patrimonial assets.
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Digitizing Medieval Sources – L’édition en ligne de documents d’archives médiévaux
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Digitizing Medieval Sources – L’édition en ligne de documents d’archives médiévaux show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Digitizing Medieval Sources – L’édition en ligne de documents d’archives médiévauxCet ouvrage rassemble les communications présentées lors du colloque qui s’est tenu à Nancy, les 9 et 10 juin 2016, sur le thème des éditions en ligne de documents d’archives médiévaux. Les communications présentées à cette occasion ont permis d’aborder les questions non seulement techniques mais également heuristiques soulevées par l’importance nouvelle des Humanités numériques pour les médiévistes.
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El lenguaje del arte
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:El lenguaje del arte show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: El lenguaje del arteEl análisis de la evolución de la terminología técnica utilizada en la descripción científi ca de textos y manuscritos desde la Edad Media hasta nuestros días es el argumento que los responsables de este volumen pretenden poner al alcance del lector como tema de discusión y de reflexión. La particularidad del libro manuscrito reside en constituir un unicum donde los elementos materiales, estructurales y de contenido (texto e imagen) se relacionan necesariamente entre sí. Asimismo, los usos lingüísticos de los coetáneos de los manuscritos medievales para denominar su propia realidad libresca y textual se erigen en un objeto de estudio que ahonda en la consideración del manuscrito y del texto, de su forma y de su contenido, como entidades indisociables.
Es recomendable, por lo tanto, un acercamiento multidisciplinar al libro manuscrito, un acercamiento que exige la colaboración de especialistas de disciplinas diversas, cada una de ellas con una terminología técnica propia. Con esa perspectiva, los trabajos presentados en estas páginas servirán como descripción del estado de la cuestión y, a la vez, como punto de partida útil para que paleógrafos, codicólogos, historiadores del arte o fi lólogos comparen sus respectivos modos de abordar el análisis del libro manuscrito y de sus textos, enriqueciéndose unos a otros mediante sus conocimientos propios y particulares sobre la materia, todo ello con el fi n de favorecer la utilización de un vocabulario adecuado y, si se considera posible y conveniente, común.
El presente libro tiene su origen en el Coloquio Anual de la Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études Médiévales organizado en Barcelona en julio de 2017, en la Institución Milá y Fontanals del CSIC. Cuenta con las contribuciones de Marina Bernasconi, Joanna Frońska, Ana Gómez Rabal, Jacqueline Hamesse, Christine Jakobi-Mirwald, Marta Pavón Ramírez, Merce Puig Rodríguez-Escalona, Pere J. Quetglas y Elena E. Rodríguez Díaz.
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Faith and Knowledge in Late Medieval and Early Modern Scandinavia
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Faith and Knowledge in Late Medieval and Early Modern Scandinavia show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Faith and Knowledge in Late Medieval and Early Modern ScandinaviaThis book investigates the interface between faith and knowledge in Scandinavia in the centuries before and after the Reformation, a period in which the line between belief and knowledge was often blurred, and local traditions remained influential. While Scandinavia was undoubtedly an integral part of Latin Christendom before the arrival of Lutheranism, the essays gathered together in this volume demonstrate that religious discourse still took a unique form in this region. Faith was influenced by magical practices centred on remnants of Nordic paganism, local wisdom literature, and metaphoric language about the divine that diverged considerably from that of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Texts, motifs, and practices that were common throughout Europe were also transformed and altered within this northern setting.
Covering the late medieval up to the early modern period, this volume offers new insights into intellectual culture in Scandinavia, and the remarkable longevity of local beliefs even into the early post-Reformation period.
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Figures littéraires grecques en France et en Italie aux xiv e et xv e siècles
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Figures littéraires grecques en France et en Italie aux xiv e et xv e siècles show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Figures littéraires grecques en France et en Italie aux xiv e et xv e sièclesAux xiv e et xv e siècles, la Grèce suscite en Italie et en France un engouement nouveau, dans une tension entre admiration et méfiance face à l’altérité mal connue et mal perçue tant de son univers ancien que de son devenir byzantin. Se multiplient les œuvres en latin, en français et en italien qui évoquent le passé de la Grèce ancienne. Les héros et les héroïnes de la Grèce ancienne entrent dans des univers scripturaires nombreux qui manifestent des exploitations littéraires et esthétiques, mais aussi politiques, religieuses et éthiques très diverses. Ces appropriations ne cessent de s’élargir à des formes d’écriture nouvelles jusqu’à la fin du xv e siècle, entre réinterprétation, instrumentalisation, recréation poétique ou fidélité aux textes peu à peu redécouverts. Le présent ouvrage étudie la présence et l’exploitation des figures de la Grèce ancienne en France et en Italie aux xiv e et xv e siècles, et les nouvelles formes d’ « actualité » qu’elles prennent dans les textes, avec l’évolution du regard et de l’interprétation des auteurs, avec aussi les décalages qui existent entre l’Italie et la France.
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Inwardness, Individualization, and Religious Agency in the Late Medieval Low Countries
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Inwardness, Individualization, and Religious Agency in the Late Medieval Low Countries show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Inwardness, Individualization, and Religious Agency in the Late Medieval Low CountriesRecent scholarship on the Middle Ages has highlighted the importance of individualistic tendencies in devotion in both the lay world and religious communities. This interaction between individualization and religious agency has been scrutinized in numerous studies, focusing on the beginnings during the so-called ‘Twelfth- Century Renaissance’, and further development in the later medieval and early modern periods.
However, there has hitherto been relatively little scholarship on the phenomenon in the Devotio Moderna: the flourishing of more personalized forms of devotion in north-western Europe during the later Middle Ages. The essays in this volume redress this gap by exploring the processes of inwardness and the emergent individualization of religious practices in the late medieval Low Countries. The essays explore issues including the early impact of the printing press on devotion; meditational aids such as identification with Christ, prayer cycles, practices of remembrance, and devout songs; and the tension between inner devotion and the ideal of communal piety in male and female religious communities. They also discuss some leading individuals of the Devotio movement.
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Late Medieval Devotional Compilations in England
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Late Medieval Devotional Compilations in England show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Late Medieval Devotional Compilations in EnglandDevotional compilations were the staple spiritual food for lay and religious readers in the late medieval period. As well thought-out assemblages of texts or extracts of texts, they provided readers with material from basic catechetic instruction to advice and tools for the practice of contemplation. Their exploration enables a more sophisticated understanding of the authorial roles played by compilers, the reading practices of their recipients, and the patronage of compilations carried out by religious and secular individuals and communities. It also offers a new window into late medieval English religiosity as well as demonstrating the complexity and creativity associated with compiling activity.
In this volume, leading scholars in the field of medieval English literature consider the role and impact of a substantial number of devotional compilations, offering new evidence about the manuscripts, sources, and contexts that frame this important corpus.
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Les stratégies de la narration dans la peinture médiévale
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Les stratégies de la narration dans la peinture médiévale show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Les stratégies de la narration dans la peinture médiévaleDepuis les débuts de l’art chrétien, l’Ancien Testament a reçu une place singulièr dans le décor des églises comme dans l’illustration des manuscrits. Certaines formules conçues aux IVe-Ve siècles se sont imposées durant tout le Moyen Âge, comme celles de Saint-Pierre de Rome, et une influence encore plus large a longtemps été attribuée à la Genèse Cotton ou à son modèle. Les oeuvres médiévales ne reproduisent toutefois presque jamais servilement celles qui les ont précédées. Les concepteurs les ont constamment réélaborées pour des raisons probablement multiples : adapter la composition au cadre imposé par l’architecture ou le découpage du folio, optimiser les ressorts de la narration pour en faciliter la lecture ou toucher plus efficacement la sensibilité du spectateur, enchaîner les scènes pour entraîner le regard dans le sens de la lecture ou relier sémantiquement deux épisodes voisins, induire un sens spécifique inspiré par la théologie ou la liturgie, ou encore exprimer visuellement des ambitions institutionnelles voire politiques. Les quinze articles réunis dans cet ouvrage développent ces questionnements en les appliquant à des ensembles peints ou en mosaïque représentatifs de la période envisagée : les oeuvres conservées ou perdues des premiers siècles, Saint-Pierre de Rome, Saint-Paul-hors-les-Murs et leurs avatars médiévaux, les bibles carolingiennes de Tours et celles de Ripoll, Galliano, les autres ensembles lombards, Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe, Château-Gontier, Palerme et Monreale. Pour enrichir cette réflexion, le champ d’investigation a été étendu aux cycles néotestamentaires des églises médiobyzantines et aux mosaïques de Saint-Marc de Venise. Dans la conclusion, Herbert Kessler propose en effet une mise au point stimulante sur la délicate question de la Genèse Cotton en nuançant son influence sur le cycle vénitien. L’ouvrage offre ainsi un panorama très complet de la représentation de l’Ancien Testament et une réflexion foisonnante sur les stratégies de la narration.
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Miroirs Arthuriens entre images et mirages
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Miroirs Arthuriens entre images et mirages show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Miroirs Arthuriens entre images et miragesCe volume, issu des travaux du XXIVe Congrès de la Société Internationale Arthurienne, réunit les derniers acquis de la recherche sur les romans arthuriens et leur réception au fil du temps. Organisées en fonction des axes thématiques du Congrès, les contributions apportent du nouveau au sujet des manuscrits arthuriens et de leurs impressionnants programmes iconographiques, suivant un mélange fascinant de philologie et histoire de l’art. Les interférences des motifs arthuriens, qui font en grande partie la richesse de ces textes, occupent aussi une place importante de même qu’elles préoccupent les médiévistes depuis quelques années. L’anthropologie culturelle n’est pas négligée non plus : des interventions sur les identités arthuriennes ainsi que sur les enjeux politiques de ces romans tellement de fois récupérés par les royautés européennes en guise de modèles rappellent l’universalité de l’arthurianisme qui fascine des milliers de lecteurs et auditeurs à travers le temps. Ceci explique également la riche réception des textes médiévaux, adaptés aussi bien à la modernité qu’à la période contemporaine. En somme, traitant des périodes variées ainsi que des espaces géopolitiques des plus divers, les articles réunis dans ce volume forment un beau bouquet arthurien mélangeant des réflexions les plus savantes aux contes de fées et aux couleurs d’antan.
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Sicut dicit: Editing Ancient and Medieval Commentaries on Authoritative Texts
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Sicut dicit: Editing Ancient and Medieval Commentaries on Authoritative Texts show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Sicut dicit: Editing Ancient and Medieval Commentaries on Authoritative TextsCommentaries on authoritative texts from Antiquity and the Middle Ages are increasingly being recognized as witnesses to a rich tradition of cultural reception and intellectual engagement. This renewed interest goes hand-in-hand with an increased demand for critical editions of the texts in question. However, the genre of the commentary presents a number of specific challenges to the editor, challenges related to the textual dynamic, the presentation on the page, and the intertwined transmission history of the commentary and the authoritative text that forms its subject. This volume brings together twelve case studies on texts written in Greek and Latin, which range from Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages. Touching upon a variety of fields, including literature, theology, philosophy, medicine, and law, these case studies offer an interdisciplinary perspective on commentaries on authoritative texts and the editors’ challenging work to accurately reconstruct and present them.
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Simon de Montfort (c. 1170-1218)
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Simon de Montfort (c. 1170-1218) show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Simon de Montfort (c. 1170-1218)La carrière de Simon de Montfort - seigneur français, earl anglais, croisé en Terre sainte et dans le Midi de la France - n’a pas cessé de marquer ses contemporains et sa postérité. Bien de ses compagnons d’armes ont vu en lui le plus pieux et le plus courageux des héros, le modèle du chevalier du Christ (miles Christi). Cette image prestigieuse a cours de son vivant et après son prétendu martyre au service du combat contre la dépravation hérétique. Cependant, dans les contrées occitanophones et dans la péninsule Ibérique, sa réputation devient aussi celle d’un brigand, d’un barbare, d’un intrus étranger, cupide et sans scrupules. Les actes du colloque tenu à Poitiers en 2018 reviennent sur sa vie et sur son lignage afin de comprendre l’homme dans toutes ses contradictions : le croisé incorruptible en Terre sainte, mutilant toute une garnison en Languedoc, le vainqueur du roi d’Aragon, soumettant toutes ses conquêtes au roi de France, le spoliateur des seigneurs légitimes du Midi, protégeant les veuves et le clergé local, le membre d’un puissant lignage franco-normand dont son héritage se perpétue dans toute l’Europe. Simon est à la fois le produit de son temps et l’agent de son devenir, un conquérant et un perdant. Caractère sombre et puissant, il semble être à l’image de son emblème héraldique: un lion à la queue fourchée.
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Social Inequality in Early Medieval Europe: Local Societies and Beyond
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Social Inequality in Early Medieval Europe: Local Societies and Beyond show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Social Inequality in Early Medieval Europe: Local Societies and BeyondThe goal of this book is to discuss the theoretical challenges posed by the study of social and political inequality of local societies in Western Europe during the Early Middle Ages. Traditional approaches have defi ned rural communities as passive bodies, poor and unstable in the framework of a self-suffi cient economy. In the last few decades, social approaches both in medieval history and archaeology have neglected the opportunity to re-evaluate the role of peasantry and other subaltern groups, even where new written and material evidence has challenged traditional assumptions. Conversely, scholars focussing on elites and aristocracies have promoted powerful research agenda.
As a consequence of the 2007-2008 recession, the social sciences began to be interested in social and economic inequality, opening up new avenues for a reassessment of social history. The early medieval period has been identifi ed by numerous scholars as a key arena for the analysis of political complexity and social inequality in long-term perspective.
The study of local societies has become one of the most fruitful areas for innovative research in medieval archaeology and history, using approaches related to micro-history. This book, dedicated to Chris Wickham, is formed of fourteen papers centred on early medieval local communities drawing on both written and material records, which identify complex frameworks of social inequality at the lo
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The Origin and Nature of Language and Logic.
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:The Origin and Nature of Language and Logic. show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: The Origin and Nature of Language and Logic.The annual colloquium of the SIEPM in Freiburg, Germany, was groundbreaking in that it featured a more or less equal number of talks on all three medieval cultures that contributed to the formation of Western philosophical thought: the Islamic, Jewish, and Christian traditions. Indeed, the subject of the colloquium, ‘The Origin and Nature of Language and Logic in Medieval Islamic, Jewish, and Christian Thought’, lent itself to such a cross-cultural approach. In all these traditions, partially inspired by ancient Greek philosophy, partially by other sources, language and thought, semantics and logic occupied a central place. As a result, the chapters of the present volume effortlessly traverse philosophical, religious, cultural, and linguistic boundaries and thus in many respects open up new perspectives. It should not be surprising if readers delight in chapters of a philosophical tradition outside of their own as much as they do in those in their area of expertise.
Among the topics discussed are the significance of language for logic; the origin of language: inspiration or convention; imposition or coinage; the existence of an original language; the correctness of language; divine discourse; animal language; the meaningfulness of animal sounds; music as communication; the scope of dialectical disputation; the relation between rhetoric and demonstration; the place of logic and rhetoric in theology; the limits of human knowledge; the meaning of categories; the problem of metaphysical entailment; the need to disentangle the metaphysical implications of language; the quantification of predicates; and the significance of linguistic custom for judging logical propositions.
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Achard de Saint-Victor métaphysicien
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Achard de Saint-Victor métaphysicien show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Achard de Saint-Victor métaphysicienAprès plus de 800 ans d'oubli paraissait, il y a une trentaine d'années, un chef d'œuvre de la philosophie médiévale - si ce n'est de la pensée occidentale dans son ensemble -, le De unitate Dei et pluralitate creaturarum d'Achard de Saint-Victor, devenu évêque d'Avranches en 1161, dans l'édition et la traduction de son unique exemplaire padouan que procurait Emmanuel Martineau en 1987.
C'est pour marquer cette renaissance qu'a été rééditée cette première édition et organisé le colloque dont le présent ouvrage publie les actes. Il rassemble des contributions nécessairement modestes et partielles, mais pionnières, dont le seul but est d'initier à l'explication d'un traité d'une audace, d'une complexité et d'une puissance spéculative exceptionnelles : « génial entrelacs de spiritualité hyper-augustinienne et de métaphysique hyper-platonicienne », où il s'agit de rien de moins que de penser l'uni-distinction essentielle de la Sagesse divine.
Puisse ce volume de la collection Ad argumenta. Quaestio Special Issues ouvrir à d'autres études qui donneront à leur tour le goût de cette sagesse sans laquelle la vérité ne saurait être saisie « par elle-même » : ipsa generalis, qua omnes sapiunt, sapientia.
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Berechiah ben Natronai ha-Naqdan’s Works and Their Reception
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Berechiah ben Natronai ha-Naqdan’s Works and Their Reception show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Berechiah ben Natronai ha-Naqdan’s Works and Their ReceptionBerechiah ben Natronai ha-Naqdan, the illustrious Jewish scholar from Rouen, was probably the most prolific writer among the twelfth century Jewish authors in France. While all his creations are truly remarkable, two are the focus of this book: Mishlei Shu'alim, the largest compilation of Aesopic fables ever written in Hebrew, and Dodi ve-Nekhdi, a translation of Adelard of Bath's Questiones Naturales. The ten studies gathered here, written by internationally renowned scholars from Europe, Israel and the United States, explore the richness and uniqueness of these two major books, as well as their sources and their reception. A number of these studies accentuate specific themes and motives, some of which are discussed here for the first time. Other studies relate to the linguistic particularities, examined here in a novel and original manner. We also present innovative studies on the Hebrew version of Questiones Naturales, and use vibrant examples to demonstrate the translations, adaptations and uses of Berechiah's works from the Middle Ages until the modern era. This volume is the result of an international workshop that was held in the Center for Jewish Studies in Palacky University in May 2015.
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Biens publics, biens du roi
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Biens publics, biens du roi show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Biens publics, biens du roiLes sociétés politiques du haut Moyen Âge sont caractérisées par une forte centralité royale, que l'historiographie a étudiée sous de multiples aspects comme les rituels et les formes de communication, la parenté et les alliances entre groupes aristocratiques, la compétition pour le trône ou la faveur du souverain etc. Le présent volume replace l'attention sur les fondements économiques des pouvoirs des pouvoirs des rois, ducs et princes en une période où l'imposition directe d'origine tardoantique s'est étiolée au profit de la rente. Que s'est-il passé entre l'épuisement de l'impôt foncier direct aux vi e-vii e siècles et la diffusion à large échelle des pouvoirs seigneuriaux, aux xi e-xii e siècles ? De quelles ressources foncières disposait le roi et quels étaient ses rapports avec l'exercice du pouvoir au niveau central et local ? Quels étaient les modes de redistribution de la terre publique, de quelle manière était-elle h économique des pouvoirs du souverain ? Historiens et archéologues s'efforcent de répondre à ces questions pour la plupart des régions de l'Europe occidentale.
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Catastrophes and the Apocalyptic in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Catastrophes and the Apocalyptic in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Catastrophes and the Apocalyptic in the Middle Ages and the RenaissanceIn the twenty-first century, insurance companies still refer to 'acts of God' for any accident or event not influenced by human beings: hurricanes, floods, hail, tsunamis, wildfires, earthquakes, tornados, lightning strikes, even falling trees. The remote origin of this concept can be traced to the Hebrew Bible. During the Second Temple period of Judaism a new literary form developed called 'apocalyptic' as a mediated revelation of heavenly secrets to a human sage concerning messages that could be cosmological, speculative, historical, teleological, or moral. The best-known development of this type of literature, however, came to fruition in the New Testament and is, of course, the Book of Revelation, attributed to the apostle John, and which figures prominently in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
This collection of essays, the result of the 2014 ACMRS Conference, treats the topic of catastrophes and their connection to apocalyptic mentalities and rhetoric in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (with particular reference to reception of the Book of Revelation), both in Europe and in the Muslim world. The twelve authors contributing to this volume use terms that are simultaneously helpful and ambiguous for a whole range of phenomena and appraisal.
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Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Preaching in the Mediterranean and Europe
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Preaching in the Mediterranean and Europe show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Preaching in the Mediterranean and EuropeThis volume explores the sermons and activities of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim preachers who shaped ideas about religious and gendered identities and alterity throughout the Mediterranean and northern Europe. Preachers of all three traditions played a decisive role in defining the religious identities of their communities, often in response to negative images projected onto religious others. The studies cover a broad spectrum of premodern Europe and the Mediterranean and address the ways that preaching reflects transcultural contacts as well as social, intellectual, and hermeneutical encounters among diverse societies and religious communities.
The essays are divided into three themes. Part One, ‘Religious and Gendered Identities and Alterities,’ examines how religious identity is inflected by the presence or the ‘absent presence’ of religious others and interrogates how gender informs religious identity, piety, and alterity. The chapters in Part Two, ‘Hermeneutical Identities, Alterities, and Transcultural Relations in Christian and Jewish Preaching’, offer contrasting interpretations of the impact of anti-Judaism in Christian preaching and analyse Jewish responses to Christian polemic. Part Three, ‘Muslim and Christian Orators and Inter-faith Encounters,’ explores these encounters from the dual perspectives of Crusade and military conflict and interreligious dialogue, disputation, and proselytization. The volume positions itself at the intellectual crossroads between comparative medieval sermons studies and transcultural Mediterranean and European studies.
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Crossing Borders in the Insular Middle Ages
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Crossing Borders in the Insular Middle Ages show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Crossing Borders in the Insular Middle AgesThis volume offers an in-depth exploration of the cultural connections between and across Britain, Ireland, and Iceland during the high and late Middle Ages. Drawing together new research from international scholars working in Celtic Studies, Norse, and English, the contributions gathered together here establish the coherence of the medieval Insular world as an area for literary analysis and engage with a range of contemporary approaches to examine the ways, and the degrees to which, Insular literatures and cultures connect both with each other, and with the wider European mainstream.
The articles in this collection discuss the Insular histories of some of the most widely read literary works and authors of the Middle Ages, including Geoffrey of Monmouth and William Langland. They trace the legends of Troy and of Charlemagne as they travelled across linguistic and geographical borders, give fresh attention to the multilingual manuscript collections of great households and families, and explore the political implications of language choice in a linguistically plural society. In doing so, they shed light on a complex network of literary and cultural connections and establish the Insular world not as a periphery, but as a centre.
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Crusading Europe
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Crusading Europe show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Crusading EuropeThe image of the crusades often connotes exoticism and foreign adventuring. However, the underlying motivations, daily practicalities, and lasting impact of the crusades on their European birthplace are equally important. How did European anxieties, prejudices, and priorities propel the crusading movement? How did crusaders understand and manage the particularly European geographical, legal, and financial dimensions of their campaigns? How did the crusades mark medieval European architecture, spirituality, and literature? This volume not only engages these provocative questions but also serves as a monument to the career of Christopher Tyerman, who has done so much to integrate European and global crusading history. The collection of essays gathered here by leading crusade historians, Tyerman’s friends and former students, furthers study of the crusades within their European context, highlighting intriguing new directions for teaching and researching the crusades and their impact.
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