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“john block friedman”

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  • The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought

    by John Block Friedman ...
    Beyond the boundaries of the known Christian world during the Middle Ages, there were alien cultures that intrigued, puzzled, and sometimes frightened the people of Europe. The reports of travelers in Africa and Asia revealed that "monstrous" races of men lived there, whose appearance and customs were quite different from the European norm. This book examines the impact of these races upon Western ... Read more

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  • Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques

    Monstrosity and Religion in Europe and the United States

    by Michael E. Heyes, Linda C. Ceriello, Thomas S. Franke, John Block Friedman, John W. Ellis-Etchison, Minji Lee, Susanne Margarit McColeman, Cathleen McKague, AnaMaria Seglie, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock0 ...
    Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques examines the intersection of religion and monstrosity in a variety of different time periods in the hopes of addressing two gaps in scholarship within the field of monster studies. The first part of the volume—running from the medieval to the Early Modern period—focuses upon the view of the monster through non-majority voices and accounts from those who were ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Routledge Revivals: Trade, Travel and Exploration in the Middle Ages (2000)

    An Encyclopedia

    Edited by John Block Friedman, Kristen Mossler Figg ...
    First published in 2000, Trade, Travel, and Exploration: An Encyclopedia covers the people, places, technologies, and intellectual concepts that contributed to trade, travel and exploration during the Middle Ages, from the years C.E. 525 to 1492.This comprehensive reference work contains entries on a large number of subjects, including familiar topics such as the voyages of Columbus and Marco Polo ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

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  • Holy Blood, Holy Grail Illustrated Edition

    The Secret History of Jesus, the Shocking Legacy of the Grail

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  • Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?

    Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation

    by Robert Bartlett ...
    "An indispensable point of departure for anyone interested in the cult of the saints in the Middle Ages." —Eamon Duffy, The New York Review of BooksFrom its earliest centuries, one of the most notable features of Christianity has been the veneration of the saints—the holy dead. This ambitious history tells the fascinating story of the cult of the saints from its origins in the second-century days ... Read more

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  • European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

    by Ernst Robert Curtius ...
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    Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles. In what T. S. Eliot called a "magnificent" book, Ernst Robert Curtius establishes medieval Latin ... Read more

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  • Medieval Robots

    Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art

    by E. R. Truitt ...
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    A thousand years before Isaac Asimov set down his Three Laws of Robotics, real and imagined automata appeared in European courts, liturgies, and literary texts. Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, and silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct while others performed disciplinary or surveillance functions. Variously ascribed to artisanal genius, ... Read more

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  • Ethnicity in Medieval Europe, 950-1250

    Medicine, Power and Religion

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  • The Medieval Invention of Travel

    by Shayne Aaron Legassie ...
    Over the course of the Middle Ages, the economies of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa became more closely integrated, fostering the international and intercontinental journeys of merchants, pilgrims, diplomats, missionaries, and adventurers. During a time in history when travel was often difficult, expensive, and fraught with danger, these wayfarers composed accounts of their experiences in ... Read more

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  • Holy Warriors

    The Religious Ideology of Chivalry

    by Richard W. Kaeuper ...
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  • Suicide in the Middle Ages, Volume 2

    by Alexander Murray ...
    A group of men dig a tunnel under the threshold of a house. Then they go and fetch a heavy, sagging object from inside the house, pull it out through the tunnel, and put it on a cow-hide to be dragged off and thrown into the offal-pit. Why should the corpse of a suicide – for that is what it is– have earned this unusual treatment? In The Curse on Self-Murder, the second volume of his three-part ... Read more

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