Dark Age Bodies reconstructs the gender ideology of monastic masculinity through an investigation of early medieval readings of the body and its parts. It brings together scholarship in architectural history and cultural anthropology to frame an important reconsideration of Caro…
Medieval clerics believed that original sin had rendered their "fallen bodies" vulnerable to corrupting impulses--particularly those of a sexual nature. They feared that their corporeal frailty left them susceptible to demonic forces bent on penetrating and polluting their bodie…
The religious frontier in Eastern Europe in the twelfth century -- The beginning of the crusades in Livonia and their impact on Rus' -- Livonia and Rus' in the 1230s and 1240s -- Rus' in the Catholic sources from the first half of the 13th century -- Relations between Rus' and L…
"In this book, Derek A. Rivard studies liturgical blessing and its role in the religious life of Christians during the central and later Middle Ages, with a particular focus on the blessings of the Franco-Roman liturgical tradition from the tenth to late thirteenth centuries. Th…
In medieval Europe, the death of a king could not only cause a dispute about the succession, but also a severe crisis. In times of a vacant throne particular responsibility fell to the bishops - whose general importance for the time around the first milennium has been revealed b…
by Staley, Lynn, Kempe, Margery
fromMiddle English texts (Kalamazoo, Mich.)
by Staley, Lynn, Kempe, Margery
fromMiddle English texts (Kalamazoo, Mich.)
In this book, Nicolas Baumard further explores the theory that morality was originally an adaptation to the biological market of cooperation, an arena in which individuals competed to be selected for cooperative interactions. In this environment, Baumard suggests, the best strat…
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"The author analyzes the inquisition in one French region in order to develop a sociology of medieval politics. Established in the early thirteenth century to combat widespread popular heresy, inquisitorial tribunals identified, prosecuted, and punished heretics and their suppor…
En este libro, Martin Heidegger plantea los lineamientos de una experiencia histórica distinta de la que hasta entonces se había concebido: la del tiempo fenomenológico como sentido decisivo de la historia. Es esto lo que Heidegger pretendía en estas páginas, al abordar desde un…
