This ground-breaking volume brings together contributions from scholars across a range of disciplines (including literary studies, history, geography and archaeology) to investigate questions of space, place and identity in the medieval city.
Religion and Culture in the Middle AgesSeries
This series delves into the intricate relationship between religion and culture during the medieval period. It explores how faith shaped art, society, and daily life across Europe. Offering a deep dive into the mindset and customs of this fascinating era. It is essential reading for anyone interested in medieval history and cultural studies.
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The Book of Margery Kempe has generally been judged to be over-emotional and its structure regarded as at worst non-existent, at best naive. This work argues instead that The Book unfolds a creative experience of memory as spiritual progress, and explores Margery's meditational experience in the context of visual and verbal iconography.
Medieval Blood
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Presents an interdisciplinary study of one of the crucial elements of medieval imaginations of the world: blood. This book shows how blood affirms the body as one of the major tenets of medieval thought. It is suitable for those interested in the history of the body across a wide range of disciplines: medieval history, and history of religion.
The Glossa Ordinaria, the medieval glossed Bible first printed in 1480/81, has been a rich source of biblical commentary for centuries. Circulated first in manuscript, the text is the Latin Vulgate Bible of St. Jerome with patristic commentary both in the margins and within the text itself.
Cultivating the Heart
- 272 pages
- 10 hours of reading
Cultivating the Heart reveals the languages of feeling in a range of religious texts from the High Middle Ages.
Holiness and Masculinity in the Middle Ages
- 240 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Although studies of gender in medieval culture have tended to focus on femininity, the study of medieval masculinities has developed greatly over the last few years. This book concentrates on this aspect of medieval gender studies, and looks at the ways in which varieties of medieval masculinity intersected with concepts of holiness.