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C Stephen Jaeger
"An updated collection of essays on the European cultural history of the period 950-1150, with new research and analysis, updated notes, several excursus and appendices, a comprehensive and updated bibliography…
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C. Stephen Jaeger
Public avowals of love between men were common from antiquity through the Middle Ages. What do these expressions leave to interpretation? This title charts the social constructions of passion and…
This book examines charisma as the force in art, literature, and film that engages the reader’s or viewer’s consciousness and inspires admiration and imitation. Thirteen chapters analyze the workings of…
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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic BookArgues that the origins of courtliness lie in the German courts, their courtier class, and the education for court service in the…
An engaging narrative history of the origins of formal education in the West. Winner of the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, awarded by the American Philosophical Society.
Historical research into emotionality is at present generally enjoying an heightened level of interest.
Cohabiting peers learned from one another in medieval religious communities (11th-12th century), not top-down but peer-to-peer. This volume focuses on the way in which day-to-day interpersonal exchanges of knowledge functioned…
The most recent research into the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and Angevin worlds.
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