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"This book explores the connection between saints and animals, and how the power over animals has been a characteristic of saints from their beginnings in the Early Church. The connection between saints and humans is examined, with the saint as a human rising beyond humanity, touching the divine, and the non-human animal as a creature, which is connected to and yet removed from humanity and which may have a connection to the sacred itself. This volume transcends traditional religious boundaries by including Christian saints as well as similar figures in Islam and Norse religions. It operates on the cusp of two exciting and innovative fields: hagiographic and animal studies. It shows the complexities of human-animal interaction and the sacred: authorities clashing with experiential knowledge, metaphorical animals as opposed to real, animals ranging from helpers or opponents of saints, disguises of demons, or identity markers of a human community. Companion Species will be of value to scholars and students interested in medieval history, Europe and religion, as well as social and cultural history"--

Animals --- Animaux --- Christian saints --- Human-animal relationships --- Muslim saints --- Saints chrétiens --- Saints musulmans --- Religious aspects --- History. --- Aspect religieux --- Histoire.

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Over the past eighteen years, gender has become a major analytical tool in medieval studies. The purpose of this volume is to evaluate its use and to search for ways in which to improve and enhance its value. The authors address the question of how gender relates to other tools of medieval research. Several articles criticize the way in which an exclusive focus on gender tends to obscure the impact of other factors, for instance class, politics, economy, or the genre in which a source is written. Other articles address ‘wrong’ ways of using gender, for instance monolithic or anachronistic views of what constitutes differences between men and women. The intention is that this selection of case studies further establishes and enhances the indispensability of gender as an analytical tool within medieval studies.The volume has been produced in recognition of the work of the Groningen medievalist, Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker, on the occasion of her sixty-fifth birthday. She is the person primarily responsible for introducing to the Netherlands gender as a legitimate and useful tool in medieval studies. The contributors are medievalists from a range of countries and different backgrounds. They were selected in order to test Dr Mulder-Bakker’s ideas on methodology and interdisciplinarity through a series of case-studies

Social ethics --- Comparative literature --- History as a science --- Christian spirituality --- anno 500-1499 --- Historiography --- Europe --- Church history --- Historiography. --- Criticism [Historical ] --- Critique historique --- Geschiedkundige methodologie --- Geschiedschrijving --- Geschiedschrijving--Methodologie --- Historical criticism --- Historical method --- Historical methodology --- Historiografie --- Historiographie --- Historische kritiek --- Historische methode --- Historische methodologie --- History--Criticism --- Kritiek [Historische ] --- Methodologie [Historische ] --- Methodology [Historical ] --- Women --- Femmes --- History --- Histoire --- Histoire religieuse --- Authorship --- Criticism --- 600-1500 --- Mulder-Bakker, Anneke --- Europe - Church history - 600-1500

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This book presents the proceedings of the international conference “The Middle Ages in the Modern World,” held in Rome November 21-24, 2018. Attended by more than a hundred participants of different ages, educational backgrounds, and places of origin, the conference constituted a landmark in the study of medievalism: the historical discipline, now in full bloom, that investigates the ways in which the thousand-year period between 500 and 1500 was, and continues to be, presented, reconstructed, and imagined in successive eras. The book opens with a substantial bibliography drawn from all of its components, followed by the seven keynote lectures and ninety-three shorter texts - abstracts of the individual conference papers - organized along eight thematic pathways, which together provide a vivid image of the current state of the field.

History --- medievalism --- historiography --- medieval civilisation --- Médiévisme --- Civilisation médiévale --- Historiographie