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Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500
Space, Place, and Motion: Locating Confraternities in the Late
Medieval and Early Modern City offers the first sustained
comparative examination of the relationship between confraternal
life and the spaces of the late medieval and early modern city. By
considering cities large (Rome) and small (Aalst) in regions as
disparate as Ireland and Mexico, the essays collected here seek to
uncover the commonalities and differences in confraternal practice
as they played out on the urban stage. From the candlelit oratory
to the bustling piazza, from the hospital ward to the festal table,
from the processional route to the execution grounds, late medieval
and early modern cities, this interdisciplinary book contends, were
made up of fluid and contested 'confraternal spaces.' Contributors
are: Kira Maye Albinsky, Meryl Bailey, Cormac Begadon, Caroline
Blondeau-Morizot, Danielle Carrabino, Andrew Chen, Ellen Decraene,
Laura Dierksmeier, Ellen Alexandra Dooley, Douglas N. Dow, Anu
Mand, Rebekah Perry, Pamela A.V. Stewart, Arie van Steensel, and
Barbara Wisch.
This Companion to the Abbey of Le Bec in the Central Middle Ages
(11th-13th Centuries) offers the first major collection of studies
dedicated to the medieval abbey of Le Bec, one of the most
important, and perhaps the single most influential, monastery in
the Anglo-Norman world. Following its foundation in 1034 by a
knight-turned-hermit called Herluin, Le Bec soon developed into a
religious, cultural and intellectual hub whose influence extended
throughout Normandy and beyond. The fourteen chapters gathered in
this Companion are written by internationally renowned experts of
Anglo-Norman studies, and together they address the history of this
important medieval institution in its many exciting facets. The
broad range of scholarly perspectives combined in this volume
includes historical and religious studies, prosopography and
biography, palaeography and codicology, studies of space and
identity, as well as theology and medicine. Contributors are
Richard Allen, Elma Brenner, Laura Cleaver, Jean-Herve Foulon,
Giles E.M. Gasper, Laura L. Gathagan, Veronique Gazeau, Leonie V.
Hicks, Elizabeth Kuhl, Benjamin Pohl, Julie Potter, Elisabeth van
Houts, Steven Vanderputten, Sally N. Vaughn, and Jenny Weston.
Disavowing their traditional portrayal as the progenitors of
medieval Christian dualism, this book recasts the Paulicians as
broadly conventional Christians inspired by the apostle Paul. Using
previously neglected Paulician testimony and a critical reappraisal
of the existing sources, it explains their fleeting regional
prominence via a pluralistic approach to Paulician identity within
the complex socio-religious milieus of Armenia and Asia Minor.
Exploring their history of schism, persecution, and resistance, it
reassesses their relationship with the iconoclast controversy and
the changing fortunes of Byzantine-Islamic warfare, shedding new
light on their obscure but fascinating transformation from
itinerant preachers to militarized insurrectionists.
This volume highlights the wealth of medieval storytelling and the
fundamental unity of the medieval Mediterranean by combining in a
comprehensive overview popular eastern tales along with their Greek
adaptations and examining Byzantine love tales, both learned and
vernacular, alongside their Persian counterparts and the later
adaptations of Western romances.
Antonia Bosanquet's Minding Their Place is the first full-length
study of Ibn al-Qayyim's (d. 751/1350) collection of rulings
relating to non-Muslim subjects, Ahkam ahl al-dhimma. It offers a
detailed study of the structure, content and authorial method of
the work, arguing that it represents the author's personal
composition rather than a synthesis of medieval rulings, as it has
often been understood. On this basis, Antonia Bosanquet analyses
how Ibn al-Qayyim's presentation of rulings in Ahkam ahl al-dhimma
uses space to convey his view of religious hierarchy. She considers
his answer to the question of whether non-Muslims have a place in
the Abode of Islam, how this is defined and how his definition
contributes to Ibn al-Qayyim's broader theological world-view.
Peasants, Lords and State: Comparing Peasant Conditions in
Scandinavia and the Eastern Alpine Region, 1000-1750 challenges the
once widespread view, rooted in the historical thinking of the
nineteenth century, that Scandinavian and especially Norwegian
peasants enjoyed a particular "peasant freedom" compared to their
Continental counterparts. Markers of this supposed freedom were
believed to be peasants' widespread ownership of land, extensive
control over land and resources, and comprehensive judicial
influence through the institution of the thing. The existence of
slaves and unfree people was furthermore considered a marginal
phenomenon. The contributors compare Scandinavia with the eastern
Alpine region, two regions comprising fertile plains as well as
rugged mountainous areas. This offers an opportunity to analyse the
effect of topographical factors without neglecting the influence of
manorial and territorial power structures over the long time-span
of c.1000 to 1750. With contributions by Markus Cerman, Tore
Iversen, Michael Mitterauer, John Ragnar Myking, Josef Riedmann,
Werner Roesener, Helge Salvesen, and Stefan Sonderegger.
This volume contains selected papers from an international
conference held in 2009 in Varna, Bulgaria. The papers represent
major trends and developments in current research on the medieval
Slavonic biblical tradition, primarily in comparison with Greek and
Hebrew texts. The volume covers the translation of the canonical,
apocryphal and pseudepigraphical books of the Old and New
Testaments and its development over the ninth to sixteenth
centuries. Another focus is on issues relating to Cyril and
Methodius, the creators of the first Slavonic alphabet in the ninth
century and the first translators of biblical books into Slavonic.
The analytical approach in the volume is interdisciplinary,
applying methodologies from textual criticism, philology, cultural
and political history, and theology. It should be of value to
Slavists, Hebraists and Byzantinists.
The Uses of the Bible in Crusader Sources sets out to understand
the ideology and spirituality of crusading by exploring the
biblical imagery and exegetical interpretations which formed its
philosophical basis. Medieval authors frequently drew upon
scripture when seeking to justify, praise, or censure the deeds of
crusading warriors on many frontiers. After all, as the fundamental
written manifestation of God's will for mankind, the Bible was the
ultimate authority for contemporary writers when advancing their
ideas and framing their world view. This volume explores a broad
spectrum of biblically-derived themes surrounding crusading and, by
doing so, seeks to better comprehend a thought world in which
lethal violence could be deemed justifiable according to Christian
theology. Contributors are: Jessalynn Bird, Adam M. Bishop, John D.
Cotts, Sini Kangas, Thomas Lecaque, T. J. H. McCarthy, Nicholas
Morton, Torben Kjersgaard Nielsen, Luigi Russo, Uri Shachar, Iris
Shagrir, Kristin Skottki, Katherine Allen Smith, Thomas W. Smith,
Carol Sweetenham, Miriam Rita Tessera, Jan Vandeburie, Julian J. T.
Yolles, and Lydia Marie Walker.
How did people of the past prepare for death, and how were their
preparations affected by religious beliefs or social and economic
responsibilities? Dying Prepared in Medieval and Early Modern
Northern Europe analyses the various ways in which people made
preparations for death in medieval and early modern Northern
Europe, adapting religious teachings to local circumstances. The
articles span the period from the Middle Ages to Early Modernity
allowing an analysis over centuries of religious change that are
too often artificially separated in historical study. Contributors
are Dominika Burdzy, Otfried Czaika, Kirsi Kanerva, Mia Korpiola,
Anu Lahtinen, Riikka Miettinen, Bertil Nilsson, and Cindy Wood.
This volume explores some of the many different meanings of
community across medieval Eurasia. How did the three 'universal'
religions, Christianity, Islam and Buddhism, frame the emergence of
various types of community under their sway? The studies assembled
here in thematic clusters address the terminology of community;
genealogies; urban communities; and monasteries or 'enclaves of
learning': in particular in early medieval Europe, medieval South
Arabia and Tibet, and late medieval Central Europe and Dalmatia. It
includes work by medieval historians, social anthropologists, and
Asian Studies scholars. The volume present the results of in-depth
comparative research from the Visions of Community project in
Vienna, and of a dialogue with guests, offering new and exciting
perspectives on the emerging field of comparative medieval history.
Contributors are (in order within the volume) Walter Pohl, Gerda
Heydemann, Eirik Hovden, Johann Heiss, Rudiger Lohlker, Elisabeth
Gruber, Oliver Schmitt, Daniel Mahoney, Christian Opitz, Birgit
Kellner, Rutger Kramer, Pascale Hugon, Christina Lutter, Diarmuid O
Riain, Mathias Fermer, Steven Vanderputten, Jonathan Lyon and Andre
Gingrich.
THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The Knights Templar
were the wealthiest, most powerful - and most secretive - of the
military orders that flourished in the crusading era. Their story -
encompassing as it does the greatest international conflict of the
Middle Ages, a network of international finance, a swift rise in
wealth and influence followed by a bloody and humiliating fall -
has left a comet's tail of mystery that continues to fascinate and
inspire historians, novelists and conspiracy theorists.
Composed in early thirteenth-century Iberia, the Libro de Alexandre
was Spain's first vernacular version of the Romance of Alexander
and the first poem in the corpus now known as the mester de
clerecia. These learned works, written by clergy and connected with
both school and court, were also tools for the articulation of
sovereignty in an era of prolonged military and political
expansion. In The Task of the Cleric, Simone Pinet considers the
composition of the Libro de Alexandre in the context of
cartography, political economy, and translation. Her discussion
sheds light on how clerics perceived themselves and on the
connections between literature and these other activities. Drawing
on an extensive collection of early cartographic materials, much of
it rarely considered in conjunction with the romance, Pinet offers
an original and insightful view of the mester de clerecia and the
changing role of knowledge and the clergy in thirteenth-century
Iberia.
In this book Jukka Korpela offers an analysis of the trade in
kidnapped Finns and Karelians into slavery in Eastern Europe. Blond
slaves from the north of Europe were rare luxury items in Black Sea
and Caspian markets, and the high prices they commanded stimulated
and sustained a long-distance trade based on kidnapping in special
robbery missions and war expeditions. Captives were sold into the
Volga slave trade and transported through market webs further
south. This business differed and was separate from the large-scale
raids carried out on Crimeans for enslavement in Eastern Europe, or
the mass kidnappings characteristic of Mediterranean slavery. The
trade in Finns and Karelians provides new perspectives on the
formation of the Russian state as well as the economic networks of
official and unofficial markets in Eastern Europe.
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