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  • The Intellectual Dynamism of the High Middle Ages

    Edited by Clare Monagle ...
    Series series Knowledge Communities
    The essays in The Intellectual Dynamism of the High Middle Ages pay tribute to the work and impact of Constant J. Mews, in spirit and in content, revealing a nuanced and integrated vision of the intellectual history of the medieval West. Mews's groundbreaking work has revealed the wide world of medieval letters: looking beyond the cathedral and the cloister for his investigations, and taking a ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Medieval Age

    Edited by Juanita Ruys, Dr Clare Monagle ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    Our period opens at the end of the Roman Empire when intellectual currents are indebted to the Greek philosophical inheritance of Plato and Aristotle, as well as to a Romanized Stoicism. Into this mix entered the new, and from 313CE imperially sanctioned, religion of Christianity. In art, literature, music, and drama, we find an increasing emphasis on the arousal of individual emotions and their ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Scholastic Affect

    Gender, Maternity and the History of Emotions

    by Clare Monagle ...
    Series series Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses
    Scholastic theologians made the Virgin Mary increasingly perfect over the Middle Ages in Europe. Mary became stainless, offering an impossible but ideologically useful vision of womanhood. This work offers an implicit theory of the utility and feelings of women in a Christian salvationary economy. The Virgin was put to use as a shaming technology, one that silenced and effaced women's affective ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The Politics of Nothing

    On Sovereignty

    Edited by Clare Monagle, Dimitris Vardoulakis ...
    This book questions what sovereignty looks like when it is de-ontologised; when the nothingness at the heart of claims to sovereignty is unmasked and laid bare. Drawing on critical thinkers in political theology, such as Schmitt, Agamben, Nancy, Blanchot, Paulhan, The Politics of Nothing asks what happens to the political when considered in the frame of the productive potential of the nothing? The ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • European Women's Letter-writing from the 11th to the 20th Centuries

    by Clare Monagle, Carolyn James, David Garrioch, Barbara Caine ...
    This book reveals the importance of personal letters in the history of European women between the year 1000 and the advent of the telephone. It explores the changing ways that women used correspondence for self-expression and political mobilization over this period, enabling them to navigate the myriad gendered restrictions that limited women’s engagement in the world. Whether written from the ... Read more

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  • The Book of Memory

    A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture

    by Mary Carruthers ...
    Series Book 70 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material and conclusions of the first. While responding to new directions in research inspired by the original, this new ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Proving Woman

    Female Spirituality and Inquisitional Culture in the Later Middle Ages

    by Dyan Elliott ...
    Around the year 1215, female mystics and their sacramental devotion were among orthodoxy's most sophisticated weapons in the fight against heresy. Holy women's claims to be in direct communication with God placed them in positions of unprecedented influence. Yet by the end of the Middle Ages female mystics were frequently mistrusted, derided, and in danger of their lives. The witch hunts were just ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Generations of Feeling

    A History of Emotions, 600–1700

    by Barbara H. Rosenwein ...
    Generations of Feeling is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of emotions in pre- and early modern Western Europe. Charting the varieties, transformations and constants of human sentiments over the course of eleven centuries, Barbara H. Rosenwein explores the feelings expressed in a wide range of 'emotional communities' as well as the theories that served to inform and reflect their ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 35

    Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture

    Edited by Paul Maurice Clogan ...
    Series Book 35 - Medievalia et Humanistica Series
    Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In ... Read more

    $123.99 USD

  • Anna Maria van Schurman, 'The Star of Utrecht'

    The Educational Vision and Reception of a Savante

    by Anne R. Larsen ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    Dutch Golden Age scholar Anna Maria van Schurman was widely regarded throughout the seventeenth century as the most learned woman of her age. She was 'The Star of Utrecht','The Dutch Minerva','The Tenth Muse', 'a miracle of her sex', 'the incomparable Virgin', and 'the oracle of Utrecht'. As the first woman ever to attend a university, she was also the first to advocate, boldly, that women should ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Vision, Devotion, and Self-Representation in Late Medieval Art

    by Alexa Sand ...
    This book investigates the 'owner portrait' in the context of late medieval devotional books primarily from France and England. These mirror-like pictures of praying book owners respond to and help develop a growing concern with visibility and self-scrutiny that characterized the religious life of the laity after the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215. The image of the praying book owner translated ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • Suspended Animation

    Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture

    by Robert Mills ...
    Hanging, flaying, beating, anti-Semitic violence and the torture of sodomites: the darker side of life in medieval Europe has fuelled the imagery of many books and films: we know exactly what is meant in the film Pulp Fiction, when one character declares ‘I’m gonna get medieval on yo’ ass’. But the stereotype of uncontrolled violence inflicted in the distant past is not only historically ... Read more

    $24.59 USD