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This volume is an introduction to the fifteenth century through chronicles and personal recollections of a diverse group of its French- and English-speaking writers. It revisits some of the principal events and personalities of that era through anecdotes illustrating interpersonal behavior. It examines how writers evaluated the conduct of their contemporaries and how some of their pessimistic conclusions may have contributed to the reputation for decadence of their century.
Fifteenth century. --- Civilization. --- Culture.
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"P.S. Lewis's work has done much to make the history of Prance in the later middle ages more accessible to the English reader and to establish new lines of enquiry and interpretation. The book's central theme is the physical and mental structure of French politics in the period. Following a general survey, the author illustrates his arguments by examining a series of institutions, attitudes and ideas."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
France --- Great Britain --- History --- Fifteenth century.
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This book presents four case studies that interrogate how German fifteenth-century painted triptychs engage with, and ultimately blur various boundaries. Some of the boundaries are internal to the triptych format, for example, transgressed frames between narratives scenes on triptychs' interiors, or interconnections between imagery on triptychs' interiors and exteriors. Other blurred boundaries are regional ones between the Netherlands and Cologne; metaphysical ones between heaven and earth; and artistic distinctions between the media of painting and sculpture. The book's case studies, which shed new light on Conrad von Soest, Stefan Lochner, and the Master of the St Bartholomew Altarpiece, illuminate the importance of German fifteenth-century painting, while providing a fresh assessment of relations between German triptychs and their more famous Netherlandish counterparts' and demonstrating the value of probing Medialität, the implications of format and medium for generating meaning. The book's coda assesses the triptych in the age of Dürer.
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What did you do when you fell ill in fifteenth-century Florence? How did you get the medicines that you needed at a price you could afford? What would you find when you entered an apothecary’s shop? This richly detailed study of the Speziale al Giglio in Florence provides surprising answers, demonstrating the continued importance of highly personalised medical practice late into the fifteenth century. Drawing on extensive archival research, it shows how personal relationships and mutual trust, rather than market forces, made payment possible even for those with limited incomes. Examining the spaces, people and products involved, Making and Marketing Medicine investigates the roles played by sociability, information networks and regulation in creating communities as well as in promoting health in Renaissance Italy.
History of Italy --- History of human medicine --- anno 1400-1499 --- Florence --- Drugstores --- Public health --- Pharmaceutical Preparations --- Drug Prescriptions --- History, 15th Century --- History, 16th Century --- Marketing --- Pharmacies --- History --- history --- Italy. --- E-books --- 16th Cent. History (Medicine) --- 16th Cent. History of Medicine --- 16th Cent. Medicine --- Historical Events, 16th Century --- History of Medicine, 16th Cent. --- History, Sixteenth Century --- Medical History, 16th Cent. --- Medicine, 16th Cent. --- 16th Century History --- 16th Cent. Histories (Medicine) --- 16th Century Histories --- Cent. Histories, 16th (Medicine) --- Cent. History, 16th (Medicine) --- Century Histories, 16th --- Century Histories, Sixteenth --- Century History, 16th --- Century History, Sixteenth --- Histories, 16th Cent. (Medicine) --- Histories, 16th Century --- Histories, Sixteenth Century --- History, 16th Cent. (Medicine) --- Sixteenth Century Histories --- Sixteenth Century History --- 15th Cent. History (Medicine) --- 15th Cent. History of Medicine --- 15th Cent. Medicine --- Historical Events, 15th Century --- History of Medicine, 15th Cent. --- History, Fifteenth Century --- Medical History, 15th Cent. --- Medicine, 15th Cent. --- 15th Century History --- 15th Cent. Histories (Medicine) --- 15th Century Histories --- Cent. Histories, 15th (Medicine) --- Cent. History, 15th (Medicine) --- Century Histories, 15th --- Century Histories, Fifteenth --- Century History, 15th --- Century History, Fifteenth --- Fifteenth Century Histories --- Fifteenth Century History --- Histories, 15th Cent. (Medicine) --- Histories, 15th Century --- Histories, Fifteenth Century --- History, 15th Cent. (Medicine) --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Social hygiene --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Apothecaries (Drugstores) --- Apothecary shops --- Chemists' shops --- Drug stores --- Pharmaceutical services --- Stores, Retail --- Sardinia --- Drugstores. --- Public health. --- 1400 - 1499 --- Italy --- Forence --- Medicine --- Health Workforce
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This volume deals with political, military, social, architectural, and literary aspects of fifteenth-century England. The essays contained in the volume range across the century from some of the leading scholars currently working in the period. With contributions by Mark Arvanigian, Kelly DeVries, Sharon Michalove, Harry Schnitker, Charlotte Bauer-Smith, Candace Gregory, Helen Maurer, Karen Bezella-Bond, E. Kay Harris, Daniel Thiery, John Leland, Peter Fleming, Virginia K. Henderson.
Fifteenth century --- Social status --- Social standing --- Socio-economic status --- Socioeconomic status --- Standing, Social --- Status, Social --- Power (Social sciences) --- Prestige --- 15th century --- Middle Ages --- Renaissance --- History --- England --- Angleterre --- Anglii︠a︡ --- Inghilterra --- Engeland --- Inglaterra --- Anglija --- England and Wales --- Civilization --- Renaissance. --- 1066-1485 --- Congresses --- Europe --- To 1500 --- Revival of letters --- History, Modern --- Civilization, Medieval --- Civilization, Modern --- Humanism
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The publication is focused on late medieval pottery products with higher aesthetical effect. The key group is represented by stove tiles, where the unifying elements of relief decoration helped to define series of motifs for stoves with specific iconographic concept, which were found in various locations. The same approach can be also used with small ceramic sculptures, aquamaniles and relief-decorated floor tiles, even though the achieved information value in these cases is much lower. Micropetrographic, XRF and other analyses helped to identify the production centres and the distribution model of these ceramic groups. 3D documentation enabled a detailed comparison of differences between individual reliefs and specific traces of manufacturing procedures. Individual chapters contain active links to the source database of analysed items and to 3D models of selected specimens from reference collections.
Archaeology --- stove tiles --- small ceramic sculptures --- aquamaniles --- ewers with zoomorphic spouts --- relief floor tiles --- Middle Ages --- analytical methods --- 3D documentation --- Cultural history --- Architecture --- Visual Arts --- Aesthetics --- Local History / Microhistory --- 13th to 14th Centuries --- 15th Century --- History of Art --- Civilization --- Art. --- Fifteenth century. --- Art --- History.
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This unique and exciting collection, inspired by the scholarship of literary critic Stephanie Trigg, offers cutting-edge responses to the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer for the current critical moment. The chapters are linked by the organic and naturally occurring affinities that emerge from Trigg's ongoing legacy; containing diverse methodological approaches and themes, they engage with Chaucer through ecocriticism, medieval literary and historical criticism, and medievalism. The contributors, trailblazing international specialists in their respective fields, honour Trigg's distinctive and energetic mode of enquiry (the symptomatic long history) and intellectual contribution to the humanities. At the same time, their approaches exemplify shifting trends in Chaucer scholarship. Like Chaucer's pilgrims, these scholars speak to and alongside each other, but their essays are also attentive to 'hearing Chaucer speak' then, now and in the future.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Chaucer, Geoffrey --- Festschrift --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Alliterative Verse. --- Chaucer Redactions. --- Chaucer, Geoffrey. --- Ecocriticism. --- Emotions in Literature. --- Emotions, History. --- Face in Literature. --- Fifteenth-century Caxton. --- Geoffrey Chaucer. --- Medieval Literature. --- Medieval Romance. --- Medievalism. --- Middle English Literature. --- Nineteenth-century medievalism. --- Stephanie Trigg. --- Trigg, Stephanie.
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The book presents an analysis of selected domains of morphosyntactic variation in a 250,000 word collection of the Middle English Paston Letters (1421-1503) from a historical sociolinguistic point of view. In the three case studies, two nominal and one verbal variable are described and discussed in detail: the replacement of Old English ‹h-› pronouns by borrowed ‹th-› pronouns, the introduction and spread of the ‹wh-› relativizers, and the spread and routinization of light verb constructions (take, make, give, have, do plus deverbal noun). While the study aims at a balanced integration of theories and methods from a number of different approaches in sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, typology, and language change, its main focus is social network theory and the role of the linguistic individual in the formation and change of language structures. Questions of individual language use and of deliberate versus unmonitored changes in the (individual) system take center stage and are discussed in the light of social network analysis. Traditional empirical social network analysis is carefully revised. Despite its many merits in present-day sociolinguistics, it often needs to be supplemented by hermeneutic-biographical analyses of the individual speakers' lives when applied to historical data. With this background, common theories and models of language change, such as grammaticalization, paradigmatic pressure, typological alignment, and generational shifts, are illustrated and evaluated from the point of view of single speakers and social groups, and their particular embedding in the speech community through various network structures. The book is of interest to advanced students and researchers in English and general linguistics, Middle English, historical linguistics and language change, corpus linguistics, as well as sociolinguistics.
Historical linguistics --- English language --- Grammar --- Sociolinguistics --- anno 1400-1499 --- Grammar, Historical. --- Variation. --- Paston letters. --- Grammar, Historical --- Variation --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and languages --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- History --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Paston letters, A.D. 1422-1509 --- Paston letters and papers of the fifteenth century --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Language and history --- Germanic languages --- Historical linguistics. --- Sociolinguistics.
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The Low Countries were at the heart of innovation in Europe in the fifteenth century. Throughout this period, the flourishing cultures of the Low Countries were also wrestling with time itself. 'The Fullness of Time' explores that struggle, and the changing conceptions of temporality that it represented and embodied showing how they continue to influence historical narratives about the emergence of modernity today. 'The Fullness of Time' asks how the passage of time in the Low Countries was ordered by the rhythms of human action, from the musical life of a cathedral to the measurement of time by clocks and calendars, the work habits of a guildsman to the devotional practices of the laity and religious orders. Through a series of transdisciplinary case studies, it explores the multiple ways that objects, texts and music might themselves be said to engage with, imply, and unsettle time, shaping and forming the lives of the inhabitants of the fifteenth-century Low Countries. Champion reframes the ways historians have traditionally told the history of time, allowing us for the first time to understand the rich and varied interplay of temporalities in the period.
Time --- Time perception --- Civilization, Medieval. --- Fifteenth century. --- Civilization. --- Social aspects --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Social aspects. --- To 1500. --- Benelux countries --- Benelux countries. --- History --- 15th century --- Civilization, Medieval --- Medieval civilization --- Middle Ages --- Time (Theology) --- Chronometry, Mental --- Duration, Intuition of --- Intuition of duration --- Mental chronometry --- Time, Cognition of --- Time estimation --- Hours (Time) --- Civilization --- Perception --- Low countries --- Fifteenth century --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Christianity --- 930.24 --- 930.24 Historische chronologie --- Historische chronologie --- Chronology --- History of the Low Countries --- anno 1400-1499 --- Christian religion --- Renaissance --- Chivalry --- Geodetic astronomy --- Nautical astronomy --- Horology --- Orientation (Psychology) --- Temporalité --- --Temps --- --Aspects sociaux --- --Belgique --- --Pays-Bas --- --Pays-Bas bourguignons --- --Aspects religieux --- --Moyen âge-XIXe s., --- XVe s., --- Civilization [Medieval ] --- To 1500 --- Time - Social aspects - Benelux countries --- Time perception - Social aspects - Benelux countries --- Time - Religious aspects - Christianity --- Temps --- Aspects sociaux --- Aspects religieux --- Moyen âge-XIXe s., 600-1900 --- XVe s., 1401-1500 --- Belgique --- Pays-Bas --- Pays-Bas bourguignons --- Benelux countries - Civilization --- Benelux countries - History - To 1500 --- Low Countries. --- calendar. --- chronology. --- fifteenth century. --- liturgy. --- medieval. --- music. --- temporality. --- time. --- vision. --- muziekgeschiedenis
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The Paston family have long been famous for the large collection of letters and papers which bear their name. However, only recently have the 'Paston Letters' been used systematically by historians of fifteenth-century England: they are both attractive to read and fiendishly difficult to use as source material for the historian. This, the second volume in Colin Richmond's individual and compelling study of the Pastons, describes the bitter disputes over the will of Sir John Fastolf (d. 1459) which dogged the family for many years, and which hold a wider significance for the law, English country society, and the complex politics of the fifteenth century. Professor Richmond uses his mastery of the Paston documents to illuminate many obscurities surrounding the will, and at the same time creates an insightful and sympathetic picture of this fascinating, often troubled family.
English letters --- Letter writing --- Soldiers --- 942.04 --- 942.04 Geschiedenis van Engeland--(1399-1485) --- Geschiedenis van Engeland--(1399-1485) --- Armed Forces personnel --- Members of the Armed Forces --- Military personnel --- Military service members --- Service members --- Servicemen, Military --- Armed Forces --- History and criticism --- History --- Biography&delete& --- Sources --- Fastolf, John, --- Paston family --- Will. --- Correspondence. --- Paston letters. --- Paston letters, A.D. 1422-1509 --- Paston letters and papers of the fifteenth century --- England --- Norfolk (England) --- Norfolk --- County of Norfolk (England) --- Angleterre --- Anglii︠a︡ --- Inghilterra --- Engeland --- Inglaterra --- Anglija --- England and Wales --- Social life and customs --- Sources. --- History and criticism. --- Biography --- Arts and Humanities
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