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A companion to observant reform in the late Middle Ages and beyond
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ISBN: 9789004226272 9004226273 9789004297524 9004297529 Year: 2015 Volume: 59 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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The Observant Movement was a widespread effort to reform religious life across Europe. It took root around 1400, and for a century and more thereafter it inspired or shaped much that became central to European religion and culture. The Observants produced many of the leading religious figures of the later Middle Ages—Catherine of Siena, Bernardino of Siena and Savonarola in Italy, Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros in Spain, and in Germany Martin Luther himself. This volume provides scholars with a current, synthetic introduction to the Observant Movement. Its essays also seek collectively to expand the horizons of our study of Observant reform, and to open new avenues for future scholarship. Contributors are Michael D. Bailey, Pietro Delcorno, Tamar Herzig, Anne Huijbers, James D. Mixson, Alison More, Carolyn Muessig, Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli, Bert Roest, Timothy Schmitz, and Gabriella Zarri.


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Ekphrastic medieval visions : a new discussion in interarts theory
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ISBN: 9780230109841 0230109845 1349292354 9786613381774 0230370535 128338177X Year: 2011 Volume: *59 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Palgrave Macmillan

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"Ekphrastic Medieval Visions explores the transformative power of ekphrasis in high and late medieval dream visions and mystical visions, ending with considerations of contemporary poetry to illustrate how medieval ekphrasis can illuminate current studies in poetics. Barbetti demonstrates that medieval ekphrases reveal ekphrasis as a process rather than a genre and shows how it works with cultural memory to transform, shift, and revise composition"--Provided by publisher.


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Medieval letters : between fiction and document
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ISBN: 9782503555201 9782503561899 2503561896 2503555209 Year: 2015 Volume: 33 Publisher: Turnhout Brepols

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Modern scholarship on medieval letters has often focused on the divide between fictionality and historicity. Attempts have been made to distinguish between ‘real’ letters and those that were used as stylistic models, and discussion has focused on how to make use of these texts as historical sources. In this volume, which draws on the proceedings of the ‘Medieval Letters between Fiction and Document’ conference held in Siena in 2013, scholars including Peter Dronke, Ronald Witt, Joan Ferrante, and Sylvie Lefèvre analyse the historical value of medieval letters in both Latin and other European languages and explore different disciplinary approaches to the field. Comprising contributions on methodology, Latin literature up to the fifteenth century, Byzantine and Romance literature, and courtly letters, this unique book also documents the debate on unedited texts — including women’s love letters — and on celebrated cases of disputed authorship such as the Epistolae duorum amantium and Dante’s Epistola to Cangrande. It thus offers a significant re-evaluation of the huge and partly unpublished heritage of medieval letters across Europe, and provides important insights into the use of these unique sources in social, literary, and legal history.


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East meets West in the Middle Ages and early modern times : transcultural experiences in the premodern world
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ISSN: 18643396 ISBN: 9783110328783 311032878X 3110321513 9783110321517 Year: 2013 Volume: 14 Publisher: Berlin De Gruyter

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This new volume explores the surprisingly intense and complex relationships between East and West during the Middle Ages and the early modern world, combining a large number of critical studies representing such diverse fields as literary (German, French, Italian, English, Spanish, and Arabic) and other subdisciplines of history, religion, anthropology, and linguistics. The differences between Islam and Christianity erected strong barriers separating two global cultures, but, as this volume indicates, despite many attempts to 'Other' the opposing side, the premodern world experienced an astonishing degree of contacts, meetings, exchanges, and influences. Scientists, travelers, authors, medical researchers, chroniclers, diplomats, and merchants criss-crossed the East and the West, or studied the sources produced by the other culture for many different reasons. As much as the theoretical concept of 'Orientalism' has been useful in sensitizing us to the fundamental tensions and conflicts separating both worlds at least since the eighteenth century, the premodern world did not quite yet operate in such an ideological framework. Even though the Crusades had violently pitted Christians against Muslims, there were countless contacts and a palpable curiosity on both sides both before, during, and after those religious warfares.


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Abortion in the early Middle Ages, c.500-900
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ISBN: 9781903153574 1903153573 9781782045311 1903153751 1782045317 Year: 2015 Publisher: Woodbridge York Medieval Press

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When a Spanish monk struggled to find the right words to convey his unjust expulsion from a monastery in a desperate petition to a sixth-century king, he likened himself to an aborted fetus. Centuries later, a ninth-century queen found herself accused of abortion in an altogether more fleshly sense. Abortion haunts the written record across the early middle ages. Yet, the centuries after the fall of Rome remain very much the "dark ages" in the broader history of abortion.
This book, the first to treat the subject in this period, tells the story of how individuals and communities, ecclesiastical and secular authorities, construed abortion as a social and moral problem across a number of post-Roman societies, including Visigothic Spain, Merovingian Gaul, early Ireland, Anglo-Saxon England and the Carolingian empire. It argues early medieval authors and readers actively deliberated on abortion and a cluster of related questions, and that church tradition on abortion was an evolving practice. It sheds light on the neglected variety of responses to abortion generated by different social and intellectual practices, including church discipline, dispute settlement and strategies of political legitimation, and brings the history of abortion into conversation with key questions about gender, sexuality, Christianization, penance and law. Ranging across abortion miracles in hagiography, polemical letters in which churchmen likened rivals to fetuses flung from the womb of the church and uncomfortable imaginings of resurrected fetuses in theological speculation, this volume also illuminates the complex cultural significance of abortion in early medieval societies.

Zubin Mistry is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary University of London.


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Bans et édits pour la ville de Tournai en temps de peste (1349-1351) : les transcriptions retrouvées de Frédéric Hennebert
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ISSN: 0001415X ISBN: 9782870440193 2870440197 Year: 2021 Volume: 29 Publisher: Bruxelles Commission royale d'histoire / Koninklijke Commissie voor Geschiedenis

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Tournai (Belgique) --- Sources. --- Black Death --- Municipal archives --- Tournai (Belgium) --- History --- histoire médiévale --- histoire contemporaine --- BPB2105 --- contemporary history --- suvremena povijest --- historia contemporánea --- samtidshistoria --- sodobna zgodovina --- Geschichte der Gegenwart --- istorie contemporană --- storia contemporanea --- hedendaagse geschiedenis --- soudobá historie --- nykyhistoria --- súčasné dejiny --- lähiajalugu --- šiuolaikinė istorija --- História Contemporânea --- samtidshistorie --- legújabb kori történelem --- σύγχρονη ιστορία --- histori bashkëkohore --- storja kontemporanja --- съвременна история --- jauno laiku vēsture --- historia współczesna --- современа историја --- савремена историја --- tegenwoordige tijd --- età contemporanea --- gegenwärtige Epoche --- современа епоха --- историја на новата ера --- nutidshistoria --- historie současnosti --- nykyaika --- σύγχρονη εποχή --- nutidshistorie --- современа ера --- Gegenwartsgeschichte --- σύγχρονα χρόνια --- nutid --- nieuwste geschiedenis --- epoka bashkëkohore --- jelenkor --- Idade Contemporânea --- актуелна историја --- âge contemporain --- contemporary era --- suvremena era --- Edad Contemporánea --- nüüdisaeg --- současná historie --- samtid --- époque contemporaine --- šiuolaikinė era --- средњевековна историја --- srednjeveška zgodovina --- historia średniowieczna --- historia medieval --- keskaja ajalugu --- geschiedenis van de Middeleeuwen --- средновековна историја --- keskiajan historia --- storja medjevali --- istorie medievală --- história stredoveku --- medieval history --- középkortörténet --- História Medieval --- μεσαιωνική ιστορία --- Geschichte des Mittelalters --- viduslaiku vēsture --- medeltidshistoria --- historie středověku --- povijest srednjega vijeka --- middelalderhistorie --- viduramžių istorija --- histori e mesjetës --- средновековна история --- storia medievale --- keskaeg --- Middelalderen --- keskiaika --- srednji vijek --- evul mediu --- среден век --- mediavelistika --- Medio Evo --- Middle Ages --- viduslaiki --- medeltiden --- medievo --- mittlere Geschichte --- Mesjeta --- middeleeuwen --- Edad Media --- stredovek --- Moyen Âge --- Μεσαίωνας --- középkor --- viduramžiai --- History of the Low Countries --- anno 1300-1399 --- Tournai --- 949.3 --- 949.3 Geschiedenis van België --- Geschiedenis van België --- 949.3 History of Belgium --- History of Belgium --- stair chomhaimseartha --- histoire médiévale

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