Understanding Mary in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Through an insightful examination of popular sermons by some of the most famous preachers of the day, Donna Spivey Ellington discusses the importance of Marian devotion to the religious understanding of European Christians in the late medieval and early modern periods. She charts a dramatic shift of emphasis in the public portrayal of the Virgin ......
A succession of catastrophes in the middle years of the fourteenth century brought France to the brink of destruction. The bankruptcy of the French state and a bitter civil war within the royal family were followed by the defeat and capture of the King of France by the Black Prince at Poitiers. A peasant revolt and a violent revolution in Paris ......
The Politics of Commemoration in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848 to the Present
This volume contains three sections of essays which examine the role of commemoration and public celebrations in the creation of a national identity in Habsburg lands. It also seeks to engage historians of culture and of nationalism in other geographic fields as well as colleagues who work on Habsburg Central Europe, but write about nationalism ......
This text tells the story of how the enslavement of Africans by Berbers, Arabs and other Africans became institutionalized and legitimized throughout Muslim Africa. It provides a portrait of domestic slavery from the 10th to 19th-centuries in a wider religious, social and economic context.
Now in its third decade, Studies in the Age of Chaucer is well established as the premier periodical in Chaucer studies and in later Middle English literature. In addition to its annual bibliography of Chaucer scholarship and authoritative reviews on new books of interest to Chaucerians, Volume 22 contains original scholarship by both young and ......
This work examines the life and career of a prominent castle lord of 11th-century Anjou. Robert the Burgundian was an Angevin knight whom the counts of Anjou allowed to amass considerable power on the northwestern march of Anjou.
This anthology provides a multicultural focus on witchcraft from the 15th to 18th century. The book builds upon information regarding both Christian and non-Christian beliefs about possession and the demonic and is organized into sections on folklore, magic, possession, gender and Christianity.
A Bibliographical Guide to the Manuscripts and Literature
In this first volume of the History of Medieval Canon Law series, Lotte Kery presents a bibliographical survey of the chronological and systematic canonical collections in the Latin West from the beginnings of Christianity to Gratian's Decretum. Divided into three large chronological periods - Early Medieval, Carolingian, and Gregorian Reform - ......
