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  • Acts of Care

    Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health

    by Sara Ritchey ...
    In Acts of Care**, Sara Ritchey recovers women's healthcare work by identifying previously overlooked tools of care: healing prayers, birthing indulgences, medical blessings, liturgical images, and penitential practices.** Ritchey demonstrates that women in premodern Europe were both deeply engaged with and highly knowledgeable about health, the body, and therapeutic practices, but their critical ... Read more

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  • Holy Matter

    Changing Perceptions of the Material World in Late Medieval Christianity

    by Sara Ritchey ...
    A magnificent proliferation of new Christ-centered devotional practices—including affective meditation, imitative suffering, crusade, Eucharistic cults and miracles, passion drama, and liturgical performance—reveals profound changes in the Western Christian temperament of the twelfth century and beyond. This change has often been attributed by scholars to an increasing emphasis on God's embodiment ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550

    Edited by Sara Ritchey, Sharon Strocchia ...
    Series series Premodern Health, Disease, and Disability
    This path-breaking collection offers an integrative model for understanding health and healing in Europe and the Mediterranean from 1250 to 1550. By foregrounding gender as an organizing principle of healthcare, the contributors challenge traditional binaries that ahistorically separate care from cure, medicine from religion, and domestic healing from fee-for-service medical exchanges. The essays ... Read more

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  • Marxism and Migration

    Edited by Genevieve Ritchie, Sara Carpenter, Shahrzad Mojab ...
    Series series Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
    This book approaches migration from Marxist feminist, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial perspectives. The present conditions of transnational migration, best described as a kind of social expulsion, include migrant caravans and detained unaccompanied children in the United States, thousands of migrant deaths at sea, the razing of self-organized refugee camps in Greece, and the massive dispersal ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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    Comment Gagner de L'Argent ou Devenir Riche

    by J, Ewing Ritchie ...
    Narrated by Sara Vancouver ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 56 min

    Dans ce récit captivant, découvrez l'étude réalisée par J. Ewing Ritchie sur ce qui fait le succès et sur ce qui ne le fait pas ! Cet audiobook s'adresse au lecteur perspicace, capable de "lire entre les lignes" et reconnaître les stratégies, les aptitudes et attitudes développées par ceux qui réussissent ! Parlant des entrepreneurs venant en ville, J. Ewing Ritchie déclara : Ils viennent dans la ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Medieval Sexuality

    Edited by Vern L. Bullough, James Brundage ...
    Like specialists in other fields in humanities and social sciences, medievalists have begun to investigate and write about sex and related topics such as courtship, concubinage, divorce, marriage, prostitution, and child rearing. The scholarship in this significant volume asserts that sexual conduct formed a crucial role in the lives, thoughts, hopes and fears both of individuals and of the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Punishment and Medieval Education

    by Ben Parsons ...
    What meanys shall I use to lurne withoute betynge?, asks a pupil in a translation exercise compiled at Oxford in 1460s. One of the most conspicuous features of medieval education is its reliance on flogging. Throughout the period, the rod looms large in literary and artistic depictions of the schoolroom: it appears in teaching manuals, classroom exercises, and even in the iconography of ... Read more

    $17.99 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

  • 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

  • The Cult of the Saints

    Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity, Enlarged Edition

    by Peter Brown ...
    A new edition of the "brilliantly original and highly sophisticated" study of saint worship after the fall of the Roman Empire ( Library Journal).In this groundbreaking work, Peter Brown explores how the worship of saints and their corporeal remains became central to religious life in Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. During this period, earthly remnants served as a heavenly ... Read more

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  • Death in Medieval Europe

    Death Scripted and Death Choreographed

    Edited by Joelle Rollo-Koster ...
    Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed explores new cultural research into death and funeral practices in medieval Europe and demonstrates the important relationship between death and the world of the living in the Middle Ages.Across ten chapters, the articles in this volume survey the cultural effects of death. This volume explores overarching topics such as burials, ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Passions and Tempers

    A History of the Humours

    by Noga Arikha ...
    This history of the four humours "may excite passions and tempers . . . as a good work of intellectual history should. You will learn a lot from its pages." ( Washington Post).Physicians in ancient Greece believed four humours—blood, phlegm, black bile, and choler—flowed within the human body, determining a person's health, mood, and character. Not until the seventeenth century would a more ... Read more

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