The urban context -- Activity and continuity: patterns of women's economic participation -- "Her and all her property": gender and property transactions -- Webs of credit and circulation of wealth -- Married partners and single women as producers and sellers -- The changing fort…
Forming the Mind deals with the internal senses, the mind/body problem and other problems associated with the concept of mind as it developed from Avicenna to the medical Enlightenment. The book collects essays from some of the foremost scholars in a relatively new and very prom…
"The authors allow medieval man and woman to speak for themselves through selections from past journals, songs, even account books."--Time
Learn about the facts behind the myths of what castle life in the Middle Ages was all about.
V.1. The mythic world of Juno, Jupiter's consort, is one of flesh and begetting, of suffering and death, and of poetry itself. Exploring the relationship between that realm of the classical gods and the sphere of medieval mythographers, Jane Chance illuminates the efforts of med…
