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The Secret in Medieval Literature explores the many secret agents, actions, creatures, and other beings influencing human existence. Medieval poets had a clear sense of the alternative dimension (the secret)…
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Examining literary narratives from the tenth through the fifteenth centuries, this book explores how writers used their craft to voice harsh criticism of the ruling class and unearths a deep…
The volume explores premodern reflections of nature by authors, scientists, artists or physicians, focusing on perceptions of natural environment as a resource, a provider of pleasure, a threat to human…
Translation and detailed commentary of a fourteenth-century Low-German work about the Near and Middle East.
Das Streben nach einem guten Leben, mithin nach einem guten Tod, beherrschte schon immer die Philosophie, Theologie, und dann auch die Literatur und Medizin. In der Fruhneuzeit intensivierte sich der…
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The Middle Ages were not only times of military conflicts, the formation of nations, and the rise of the Catholic Church, but also an era defined by profound exploration of…
Toleration and Tolerance in Medieval European Literature aims to examine and unearth the critical investigations of toleration and tolerance presented in literary texts of the Middle Ages.
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These essays explore the cultural significance of writing and reading in the Middle Ages, and argues for an understanding of medieval cultures as combinations of oral and literary expressions. Essays…
Earlier theses on the history of childhood can now be laid to rest and a fundamental paradigm shift initiated, as there is an overwhelming body of evidence to show that…
Features studies that explore the phenomenon of sexuality in a variety of medieval and early-modern literatures, including Old English texts, Middle-High German narratives, medieval Spanish and early-modern French literature, and…
The contributors to this new volume explore the wide gamut of characteristic features determining the rise of the city as a central living space since the high Middle Ages, and…
Theophrast von Hohenheim (Paracelsus) gehoerte zwar zu den herausragenden AErzten seiner Zeit, war aber zugleich heftig umkampft, wie die Entwicklung der Medizingeschichte des 16. Jahrhunderts uberhaupt vor Augen fuhrt, als…
Sexual Violence and Rape in the Middle Ages
This book uncovers the tremendous importance of water for European medieval literature, focusing on a large number of writers and poets. Water proves to be highly meaningful in religious, literary…
Using an interdisciplinary approach and incorporating sources from across the entire European continent dating from the early Middle Ages to the sixteenth century, this book examines the phenomenon of prostitution…
To expand our understanding of medieval literature in its wider context, there is a desperate need for more translations, since not every text in the Middle Ages was written in…
Serendipitously, at around the same time as Boccaccio published his famous Decameron (1350), the Swiss-German Dominican Ulrich Bonerius published his highly popular collection of fables, The Gemstone.
Long ignored, the fascinating Baltic-German author Werner Bergengruen (d. 1964), once even nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature, is reintroduced here through the English translation of a selection of…
Contains information about research in medieval studies and its most important results over the years.
This book provides unique and lively, authentic, and source-based insights into the history, culture, geography, fauna, flora, geology, climate, and politics of eighteenth-century Sonora/Arizona, drawing from the fascinating first-hand accounts…
This is an anthology of literary, religious, and philosophical texts from the entire Middle Ages and the early modern age that address already quite explicitly religious toleration and even tolerance.
A considerable collection of German women’s poetry in translation, results of ingenious archival research.
Although courtly literature is often associated with a chivalrous and idyllic life, the essays in this collection demonstrate that the quest for love in medieval courtly literature was underpinned by
This volume treats old age and old people as reflected in medieval and early modern literature, historical documents, and visual products, offering innovative perspectives, examining hitherto neglected texts and art…
Wenngleich bisher die Stellung der Frau im Mittelalter und der Fruhneuzeit uberwiegend als von Unterdruckung bestimmt beschrieben worden ist, erlaubt eine kritische Analyse von Texten, die von Frauen geschrieben worden…
Only a highly comparative study of medieval literature can help us to comprehend how much fundamental ideas and concepts were shared throughout the entire period. The idea of the trail…
Explores the often problematic, and also productive relationships between East and West during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age, focusing on literary and pragmatic texts, scientific exchanges, strategies…
For a long time we have naively talked about the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and other periods, but at closer analysis all those terms prove to be constructed models to…
The Forest in Medieval German Literature analyzes the topic of the forest through some of the best and lesser known examples of medieval German literature, approaching them through modern ecocritical…
Der zweite Band der Theophrastus Paracelsus Studien versammelt die Beitrage internationaler Wissenschaftler aus verschiedenen Fachdisziplinen. Beleuchtet werden die kulturhistorischen und mentalitatsgeschichtlichen Gegebenheiten, die fur die Arbeit von Paracelsus von Bedeutung…
This book offers the first complete English translation of the poems by the late-medieval German (Tyrolean) Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376/1377-1445). German scholarship and musicologists have long recognized the extraordinary strength…
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Medieval society embraced a complex set of values that must be discussed from an interdisciplinary perspective. This book offers articles on central topics defining the medieval world and culture. It…
Death has never been a simple matter, neither for the victim/s nor for the survivors. All societies have deeply struggled with the issue of death and have found material and…
Bi- and multilingualism are of great interest for contemporary linguists since this phenomenon deeply reflects on language acquisition, language use, and sociolinguistic conditions in many different circumstances all over the…
Modern myths about medieval and early modern hygiene and health continue to dominate our understanding of the pre-modern world. Their societies functioned well because they embraced their own hygiene and…
While previous scholarship has mostly focused on concrete cases of magicians, on law cases brought against them, or on conflicts between the Church and magical practitioners in the pre-modern world…
The contributions to this volume explore the intellectual approaches to time and space through literary and historical reflections upon the self and its space from the Middle Ages to the…
Human existence has always been determined not only by war, death, love, and the quest for God. People throughout time have always searched for means to find entertainment and intellectual…
Cultural history cannot operate without the acknowledgment of the world of imagination and fantasy. Philosophy, theology, literature, the visual arts, even the sciences and medicine depend on the capacity of…
