Shapeshifting narratives appear in cultures all over the world, throughout human history. At each point, these narratives give expression to culturally contingent anxieties and preoccupations. This study examines shapeshifting narratives in early medieval England and Ireland in …
Main description: Eine adlige Witwe, die den Papst aus Avignon zurückholen will, ein tapferer Streiter für die Freiheit der Kirche und eine demütig fastende Rekluse - die Heiligen des spätmittelalterlichen Ostseeraums weisen die ganze Bandbreite möglicher Heiligkeitsideale auf, …
Due to the scarcity of sources regarding actual Jewish and Muslim communities and settlements, there has until now been little work on either the perception of or encounters with Muslims and Jews in medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region. The volume provides the reader with …
This book presents a fresh approach to the question of the historical continuities and discontinuities of Jew-hatred, juxtaposing chapters dealing with the same phenomenon - one in the pre-modern, one in the modern period. How do the circumstances of interreligious violence diff…
