Medieval exempla are key sources for religious and social history. This translation contains prime material for undergraduate teaching.
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Medieval exempla are key sources for religious and social history. This translation contains prime material for undergraduate teaching.
This collection of twelve essays aims to demonstrate that while example has a rich genealogy in the rhetorical tradition, it also involves issues that are central to current theories of meaning and ethics in literature and philosophy. Whatever is designated as example functions …
This collection of twelve essays aims to demonstrate that while example has a rich genealogy in the rhetorical tradition, it also involves issues that are central to current theories of meaning and ethics in literature and philosophy. Whatever is designated as example functions …
This volume explores the integral role of memory and mnemonic techniques in medieval preaching from the thirteenth to the early fifteenth century.
"Labyrinths of Exemplarity presents the first comprehensive, in-depth study of the problem of exemplarity - or how we move between the general and the particular in order to try to understand our world. The author's focus ranges from the most basic and fundamental issues of what…
Contemporary misogyny and antisemitism have their roots in the demonization of women and Jews in medieval Christendom. In church art and mass preaching, the construct of the devil as an outcast from heaven and the source of all evil was linked both to the conception of women as …
