Christian Sanctuaries from Late Antiquity Through the Middle Ages
In Shrines, Relics, and Saints,the eminent medievalist Andre Vauchez explores the evolution of spaces in Christianity-chapels, monasteries, holy wells, grottos, and other holy places-that are considered sacred because they house the relics of a saint or because they preserve the memory of an appearance by a saint, angel, or the Virgin Mary. ......
Christian Sanctuaries from Late Antiquity Through the Middle Ages
In Shrines, Relics, and Saints,the eminent medievalist Andre Vauchez explores the evolution of spaces in Christianity-chapels, monasteries, holy wells, grottos, and other holy places-that are considered sacred because they house the relics of a saint or because they preserve the memory of an appearance by a saint, angel, or the Virgin Mary. ......
The Production of the Margin in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Books
Microliteratures is an innovative examination of writings done in the margins of medieval manuscripts and early modern books. Not always as formal as glosses, sometimes feverish and abbreviated, these marginal writings or, "microliteratures," are the product of readers thinking with the text at the center of the page. Jesus R. Velasco argues that ......
The Production of the Margin in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Books
Microliteratures is an innovative examination of writings done in the margins of medieval manuscripts and early modern books. Not always as formal as glosses, sometimes feverish and abbreviated, these marginal writings or, "microliteratures," are the product of readers thinking with the text at the center of the page. Jesus R. Velasco argues that ......
Unpublished Essays on Gods, Kingship, and Images of the State
Radiances gathers previously unpublished essays by one of the greatest historians of the twentieth century. Although best known for The King's Two Bodies (1957), Ernst Kantorowicz's scholarly expertise ranged from classical antiquity to early modernity and from political pageantry to numismatics. These essays traverse the breadth of his expertise, ......
Unpublished Essays on Gods, Kingship, and Images of the State
Radiances gathers previously unpublished essays by one of the greatest historians of the twentieth century. Although best known for The King's Two Bodies (1957), Ernst Kantorowicz's scholarly expertise ranged from classical antiquity to early modernity and from political pageantry to numismatics. These essays traverse the breadth of his expertise, ......
A Crusader's Death and Life in Acre uses five parchment rolls that inventoried the possessions of Eudes of Nevers, son of the duke of Burgundy, at his death in Acre in 1266 to open out a panorama of Christian crusader life. The contents of the rolls, or rouleaux, span from the pay rendered to knights and servants to the numerous possessions of a ......
To Govern Is to Serve explores the practices of collective governance in medieval religious orders that turned the precepts of the Gospels-most notably that "the first will be last, the last will be first"-into practices of communal deliberation and the election of superiors. Jacques Dalarun argues that these democratic forms have profoundly ......
