The nineteen original articles written by medieval scholars fill a gap in the field's scholarship which has ignored sexuality as a topic. Building on the groundbreaking work of Michel Foucault's history of sexuality, the essays consider ignored research work and bring fresh insi…
"How did people of the mediaeval period explain physical phenomena, such as eclipses or the distribution of land and water on the globe? What creatures did they think they might encounter: angels, devils, witches, dog-headed people? This book explores the ways in which mediaeval…
An evaluation of the work of Yitzhak (Ignacy) Schipper (1884-1943), the Polish Jewish historian. Working at a time of acute Polish hostility towards the Jews, much of Schipper's work (written in Polish and Yiddish) was directed towards disproving antisemitic claims and showing t…
