This volume clarifies the meanings and applications of the concept of the transnational and identifies areas in which the concept can be particularly useful. The division of the volume into three parts reflects areas which seem particularly amenable to analysis through a transna…
The first overview of later medieval English monasticism for a generation, Monasticism in late medieval England, c.1300-1535 provides the first collection of translated sources on this subject. The volume covers both male and female houses of all orders and sizes, and offers a r…
This book offers full translations of the Lives of seven saints (five men and two women) who lived in Italian cities between about 1150 and 1315. It will interest both students and other readers curious about medieval Italian history and about medieval popular religion and saint…
"What can novels tell us about masculinity in Syria? In this book, Lovisa Berg explores over 20 Syrian novels covering the last 50 years of the 20th century. Uniquely, she examines only female writers in order to gauge the changing ways in which Syrian women perceived the functi…
This supplemental volume is a collection of the statutes, bylaws, and constitutions that yield insight into the aims, purposes, structure, and organization of the associations portrayed in the handbook. While the metatexts in the handbook analyze and evaluate, the historical sou…
Es ist bis heute eine höchst umstrittene Frage, ob und wie literarische Texte als eine Form politischen Schreibens betrachtet werden können. In einer kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit historischen und theoretischen Konzepten entwickelt Thomas Ernst hierzu ein komplexes literatur…
Es ist bis heute eine höchst umstrittene Frage, ob und wie literarische Texte als eine Form politischen Schreibens betrachtet werden können. In einer kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit historischen und theoretischen Konzepten entwickelt Thomas Ernst hierzu ein komplexes literatur…
