Author : Jean Verdon
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 33,52 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN :
The technology and devices of the 21st century have done much to protect us from our in-built fear of the dark. To the medieval man and woman, night, particularly during the long winter months, was a time of superstitious demonic fantasies, drunkenness, thievery and even murder.
Author : Jean Verdon
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,36 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN :
The technology and devices of the 21st century have done much to protect us from our in-built fear of the dark. To the medieval man and woman, night, particularly during the long winter months, was a time of superstitious demonic fantasies, drunkenness, thievery and even murder.
Author : Gail Gibbons
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 44,51 MB
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0316049832
A look at the life of knights in the Middle Ages and a collection of tales about their adventures.
Author : Susan Boynton
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 19,73 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN :
At the heart of the various articles in this book are four customaries, compiled over the course of nearly a hundred years beginning at the end of the tenth century, that describe daily life and liturgy at the abbey of Cluny. Two principal objectives motivated the creation of the present volume of essays : first, to bring out the unequaled richness of these monastic customaries for scholars, primarily medievalists in all disciplines; and second, to facilitate the use of these sources, which can be challenging at first sight. Drawing upon the multiple disciplines needed to account for the full range of information presented by the customaries, the editors have brought together varied and complementary approaches to these multifaceted documents. Among the principal themes common to the studies in this volume are the genesis and transmission of the customaries, the relationship between texts and practice, and the evidence they offer for the function of monastic spaces as well as for the ritualization of communal life.
Author : A. Roger Ekirch
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 29,74 MB
Release : 2006-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0393329011
Beautifully illuminated by a color insert and with black-and-white illustrations throughout, this compelling narrative of night is panoramic in scope yet fashioned on an intimate scale and enriched by personal stories.
Author : Al-Khatib Al-Baghdadi
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 10,50 MB
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0815632983
He’s fond of anyone who throws a party; he’s always at a party in his dreams, for party-crashing’s blazoned on his heart . . . a prisoner to the path of fi ne cuisine. With this statement, al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, a Muslim preacher and scholar, introduces The Art of Party-Crashing, a book that represents a sharp departure from the religious scholarship for which he is known. Compiled in the eleventh century, this collection of irreverent and playful anecdotes celebrates eating, drinking, and general merriment. Ribald jokes, flirtations, and wry observations of misbehaving Muslims acquaint readers with everyday life in medieval Iraq in a way that is both entertaining and edifying. Selove’s translation, accompanied by her whimsical drawings, introduces the delights and surprises of medieval Arabic humor to a new audience.
Author : Alain Boureau
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 19,72 MB
Release : 1998-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0226067432
From the late Middle Ages to THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO to Mel Gibson's BRAVEHEART, the ultimate symbol of feudal barbarism has been the right of a feudal lord to sleep with the bride of a vassal on her wedding night. But here, in a fascinating case study of the folklore of sexuality, Alain Boureau elegantly demonstrates such tradition is a myth.
Author : Bettina Bildhauer
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 26,20 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802086679
The figure of the monster in medieval culture functions as a vehicle for a range of intellectual and spiritual inquiries, from questions of language and representation to issues of moral, theological, and cultural value. Monstrosity is bound up with questions of body image and deformity, nature and knowledge, hybridity and horror. To explore a culture's attitudes to the monstrous is to comprehend one of its most important symbolic tools. The Monstrous Middle Ages looks at both the representation of literal monsters and the consumption and exploitation of monstrous metaphors in a wide variety of high and late-medieval cultural productions, from travel writings and mystical texts to sermons, manuscript illuminations and maps. Individual essays explore the ways in which monstrosity shaped the construction of gender and sexual identity, religious symbolism, and social prejudice in the Middle Ages. Reading the Middle Ages through its monsters provides an opportunity to view medieval culture from fresh perspectives. The Monstrous Middle Ages will be essential reading for anyone interested in the concept of monstrosity and its significance for both medieval cultural production and contemporary critical practice.
Author : Charlie Jane Anders
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 25,88 MB
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 146687113X
LOCUS AWARD FINALIST! “This generation’s Le Guin.” —Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less Charlie Jane Anders, the nationally bestselling author of All the Birds in the Sky delivers a brilliant new novel set in a hauntingly strange future with #10 LA Times bestseller The City in the Middle of the Night. "If you control our sleep, then you can own our dreams... And from there, it's easy to control our entire lives." January is a dying planet—divided between a permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless sunshine on the other. Humanity clings to life, spread across two archaic cities built in the sliver of habitable dusk. But life inside the cities is just as dangerous as the uninhabitable wastelands outside. Sophie, a student and reluctant revolutionary, is supposed to be dead after being exiled into the night. Saved only by forming an unusual bond with the enigmatic beasts who roam the ice, Sophie vows to stay hidden from the world, hoping she can heal. But fate has other plans—and Sophie's ensuing odyssey and the ragtag family she finds will change the entire world. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Joelle Rollo-Koster
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1315466848
Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed explores new cultural research into death and funeral practices in medieval Europe and demonstrates the important relationship between death and the world of the living in the middle ages. This volume explores overarching topics such as burials, commemorations, revenants, mourning practices and funerals, capital punishment, suspiscious death and death registrations using case studies from across Europe including England, Iceland and Spain. Drawing together and building upon the latest scholarship, this book is essential reading for all students and academics of death in the medieval period.
