Studies in Medieval History and Culture

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1. Crafting the Witch

   Gendering Magic in Medieval and Early Modern England

   By Heidi Breuer

   Series: Studies in Medieval History and Culture

   This book analyzes the gendered transformation of magical figures occurring in Arthurian romance in England from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. In the earlier texts, magic is predominantly a masculine pursuit, garnering its user prestige and power, but in the later texts, magic...

   Published September 13th 2011 by Routledge
2. Through the Daemon's Gate

   Kepler's Somnium, Medieval Dream Narratives, and the Polysemy of Allegorical Motifs

   By Dean Swinford

   Series: Studies in Medieval History and Culture

   This book tells the story of the early modern astronomer Johannes Kepler’s Somnium, which has been regarded by science historians and literary critics alike as the first true example of science fiction. Kepler began writing his complex and heavily-footnoted tale of a fictional Icelandic astronomer...

   Published October 27th 2010 by Routledge
3. Rooted in the Earth, Rooted in the Sky

   Hildegard of Bingen and Premodern Medicine

   By Victoria Sweet

   Series: Studies in Medieval History and Culture

   Rooted in the Earth, Rooted in the Sky is a detailed study of the medicine of Hildegard of Bingen, a medieval mystic, theologian and composer, who also wrote a practical medical text. Although there has been an explosion of interest in Hildegard's music, theology, illuminations and medicine in the...

   Published June 17th 2010 by Routledge
4. Illuminating the Border of French and Flemish Manuscripts, 1270–1310

   By Lisa Moore Hunt

   Series: Studies in Medieval History and Culture

   This study first examines the marginal repertoire in two well-known manuscripts, the Psalter of Guy de Dampierre and an Arthurian Romance, within their material and codicological contexts. This repertoire then provides a template for an extended study of the marginal motifs that appear in eighteen...

   Published June 3rd 2010 by Routledge
5. Body and Sacred Place in Medieval Europe, 1100-1389

   By Dawn Marie Hayes

   Series: Studies in Medieval History and Culture

   Body and Sacred Place in Medieval Europe investigates the medieval understanding of sacred place, arguing for the centrality of bodies and bodily metaphors to the establishment, function, use, and power of medieval churches. Questioning the traditional division of sacred and profane jurisdictions,...

   Published August 20th 2009 by Routledge
6. Fair and Varied Forms

   Visual Textuality in Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts

   By Mary C. Olson

   Series: Studies in Medieval History and Culture

   Published June 30th 2009 by Routledge
7. The King's Two Maps

   Cartography & Culture in Thirteenth-Century England

   By Daniel Birkholz

   Series: Studies in Medieval History and Culture

   Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
8. Women of the Humiliati

   A Moral Response to Medieval Civic Life

   By Sally Brasher

   Series: Studies in Medieval History and Culture

   This book examines the contribution of women to the Humiliati movement, providing original archival evidence indicating that women dominated the group's membership. These findings have implications for both women's spirituality and women's work, correcting the received opinion that the patriarchal...

   Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
9. Saracens and the Making of English Identity

   The Auchinleck Manuscript

   By Siobhain Bly Calkin

   Series: Studies in Medieval History and Culture

   This book explores the ways in which discourses of religious, racial, and national identity blur and engage each other in the medieval West. Specifically, the book studies depictions of Muslims in England during the 1330s and argues that these depictions, although historically inaccurate, served to...

   Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
10. Speculative Grammar and Stoic Language Theory in Medieval Allegorical Narrative

    From Prudentius to Alan of Lille

    By Jeffrey Bardzell

    Series: Studies in Medieval History and Culture

    In his Plaint of Nature (De planctu Naturae), Alan of Lille bases much of his argument against sin in general and homosexuality in particular on the claim that both amount to bad grammar. The book explores the philosophical uses of grammar that were so formative of Alan’s thinking in major writers...

    Published October 13th 2008 by Routledge