Main description: Ecocriticism as a theoretical model primarily has been used in the study of Romantic, post-Romantic, and contemporary literary texts. Applications of the tenents of ecocriticism to medieval literature is a farily recent phenomenon. This book examines key, canon…
This book takes up the familiar topic of church reform in the later Middle Ages, but does so in a novel way: by examining the relationship between reform and the domestic lives of parish priests, their female companions, and other members of the priests' households or familia in…
"The Mongols are universally known as conquerors, but they were more than that: influential thinkers, politicians, engineers, and merchants. Challenging the view that nomads are peripheral to history, The Horde reveals the complex empire the Mongols built and traces its enduring…
Monks, manuscripts, and sundials : the navicula in medieval England -- Five fifteenth-century sundials -- Manuscript sources about the navicula -- Calendar tables and latitude lists -- Texts, instruments, diagrams, and relations between them -- Using a sundial, understanding the…
"The navicula sundial, because of its rarity and attractive form, has interested curators and historians alike. Although apparently a specifically English instrument, there is much debate about when and where it was invented, and about who made and used the five surviving mediev…