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Studies in Medieval History and Culture


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Light, Privacy, and Neighbors Windows in Late Medieval and Early Modern London

Light, Privacy, and Neighbors: Windows in Late Medieval and Early Modern London

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By Janet S. Loengard
September 06, 2024

Density of housing in late medieval and early modern London could make access to light and privacy incompatible, provoking neighbor disputes. This book examines the Custom of London on light, which reflected centuries-old ideas about the right to have, or prevent neighbors from having, windows. The...

The Travels of Cristoforo Buondelmonti and Ciriaco d’Ancona in the Aegean Sea Humanism, Early Colonial Politics, and Agency

The Travels of Cristoforo Buondelmonti and Ciriaco d’Ancona in the Aegean Sea: Humanism, Early Colonial Politics, and Agency

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By Eleni Tounta
July 19, 2024

This book explores the travels of Cristoforo Buondelmonti and Ciriaco d’Ancona to the Greek lands in the early fifteenth-century eastern Mediterranean.   Drawing on post-colonial studies' frameworks, such as travel writing and imaginative geographies, this volume offers an innovative examination of...

Making Miracles in Medieval England

Making Miracles in Medieval England

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By Tom Lynch
May 27, 2024

The cult of the saints was central to medieval Christianity largely due to the miraculous. Saints were members of the elect of heaven and could intercede with God on the behalf of supplicants. Whilst people visited shrines and prayed to the saints for many reasons it was the hope of intercession ...

The Friar and the Philosopher William of Moerbeke and the Rise of Aristotle’s Science in Medieval Europe

The Friar and the Philosopher: William of Moerbeke and the Rise of Aristotle’s Science in Medieval Europe

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By Pieter Beullens
May 27, 2024

William of Moerbeke was a prolific medieval translator of Aristotle and other ancient philosophical and scientific authors from Greek into Latin, and he played a decisive role in the acceptance of Aristotelian philosophy in the Latin world. He is often criticized for an allegedly deficient ...

The ‘Other’, Identity, and Memory in Early Medieval Italy

The ‘Other’, Identity, and Memory in Early Medieval Italy

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By Luigi Andrea Berto
May 27, 2024

The political fragmentation of Italy—created by Charlemagne’s conquest of a part of the Lombard Kingdom in 774 and the weakening of the Byzantine Empire in the eighth and ninth centuries—, the conquest of Sicily by the Muslims in the ninth century, and the Norman ‘conquest’ of southern Italy in the...

New Approaches to the Archive in the Middle Ages Collecting, Curating, Assembling

New Approaches to the Archive in the Middle Ages: Collecting, Curating, Assembling

1st Edition

Edited By Emily N. Savage
March 01, 2024

This volume brings together scholars of history, manuscript studies, and art and architectural history to examine in conversation the varieties of medieval archival acts, the heterogeneity of collections, and the motivations of collectors. It is united by the historically flexible concept of the ...

Adam of Bremen’s Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum Origins, Reception and Significance

Adam of Bremen’s Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum: Origins, Reception and Significance

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Edited By Grzegorz Bartusik, Radosław Biskup, Jakub Morawiec
January 29, 2024

Adam of Bremen’s Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum is one of the most important accounts documenting the history, geography and ethnology of Northern and Central-Eastern Europe in the period between the ninth and eleventh centuries. Its author, a canon of the archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen, ...

Food Consumption in Medieval Iberia A Socio-economic Analysis, 13th-15th Centuries

Food Consumption in Medieval Iberia: A Socio-economic Analysis, 13th-15th Centuries

1st Edition

By Juan Vicente García Marsilla
January 29, 2024

From the banquets of kings and nobles to the daily struggle for the subsistence of the poor, food was already much more than a biological necessity in the Middle Ages: it was a social phenomenon full of meaning. In this book all the implications and meanings that food had on the Iberian Peninsula ...

Fragmented Nature: Medieval Latinate Reasoning on the Natural World and Its Order

Fragmented Nature: Medieval Latinate Reasoning on the Natural World and Its Order

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Edited By Mattia Cipriani, Nicola Polloni
January 29, 2024

The Latin Middle Ages were characterised by a vast array of different representations of nature. These conceptualisations of the natural world were developed according to the specific requirements of many different disciplines, with the consequent result of producing a fragmentation of images of ...

Marian Devotion in the Late Middle Ages Image and Performance

Marian Devotion in the Late Middle Ages: Image and Performance

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Edited By Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky, Gerhard Jaritz
January 29, 2024

By the late Middle Ages, manifestations of Marian devotion had become multifaceted and covered all aspects of religious, private and personal life. Mary becomes a universal presence that accompanies the faithful on pilgrimage, in dreams, as holy visions, and as pictorial representations in church ...

Cardinal Bessarion (1403–1472) Most Latin of Greeks, Most Greek of Latins

Cardinal Bessarion (1403–1472): Most Latin of Greeks, Most Greek of Latins

1st Edition

By Michael Malone-Lee
December 22, 2023

Cardinal Bessarion was a towering figure in the fifteenth-century Renaissance. His life spanned the century. In his sixty-nine years of life, he was a stellar student, a Basilian monk, a Greek Orthodox archbishop, a Roman cardinal, a papal diplomat, and an eminent humanist and scholar. Cardinal ...

Peacemaking and the Restraint of Violence in High Medieval Europe

Peacemaking and the Restraint of Violence in High Medieval Europe

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Edited By Simon Lebouteiller, Louisa Taylor
October 04, 2023

The High Middle Ages have been seen as an important point within the development of governmental and administrative bureaucracy, as well as a time in which there was frequent conflict. This volume addresses the methods by which violence was regulated and mitigated, and peaceful relations were ...

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