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Dante's Volume from Alpha to Omega
ISBN: PB: 9780866986359, University of Chicago Press, ACMRS Press, January 2021
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Dante's Volume from Alpha to Omega brings together essays written by internationally recognized scholars to explore the poet's encyclopedic impulse in light of our own frenzied information age. This comprehensive collection of essays, coedited by Car...
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£77,00
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Lines of Thought Branching Diagrams and the Medieval Mind
ISBN: HB: 9780226743080, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 27 halftones, 86 line drawings, 3 tables
We think with objects – we conduct our lives surrounded by external devices that help us recall information, calculate, plan, design, make decisions, articulate ideas, and organize the chaos that fills our heads. Medieval scholars learned to think wi...
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Boccaccio's "Decameron" Rewriting the Christian Middle Ages and the Lyric Tradition
ISBN: PB: 9780866986069, University of Chicago Press, ACMRS Press, January 2021
554 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This study develops a new interpretation of The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio's masterpiece, which has found new popularity in the wake of COVID. Dino S. Cervigni offers an inclusive and novel reading of the collection, theorizing that the first nine...
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Mercenary Mediterranean Sovereignty, Religion, and Violence in the Medieval Crown of Aragon
ISBN: PB: 9780226597898, ISBN: HB: 9780226329642, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 5 maps, 1 table
Sometime in April 1285, five Muslim horsemen crossed from the Islamic kingdom of Granada into the realms of the Christian Crown of Aragon to meet with the king of Aragon, who showered them with gifts, including sumptuous cloth and decorative saddles,...
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Imagination, Meditation, and Cognition in the Middle Ages
ISBN: PB: 9780226527598, ISBN: HB: 9780226425313, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
280 pp., 23x15 cm
In "Imagination, Meditation, and Cognition in the Middle Ages", Michelle Karnes revises the history of medieval imagination with a detailed analysis of its role in the period's meditations and theories of cognition. Karnes here understands imaginatio...
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£47,00
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Fullness of Time Temporalities of the Fifteenth-Century Low Countries
ISBN: HB: 9780226514796, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 colour plates, 32 halftones, 1 map, 2 line drawings
The Low Countries were at the heart of innovation in Europe in the fifteenth century. Throughout this period, the flourishing cultures of the Low Countries were also wrestling with time itself".The Fullness of Time" explores that struggle, and the ch...
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£41,50
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In the Skin of a Beast Sovereignty and Animality in Medieval France
ISBN: HB: 9780226458922, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates
In medieval literature, when humans and animals meet – whether as friends or foes – issues of mastery and submission are often at stake".In the Skin of a Beast" shows how the concept of sovereignty comes to the fore in such narratives, reflecting lar...
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Medieval Invention of Travel
ISBN: PB: 9780226446622, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 9 halftones
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...
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Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries
ISBN: HB: 9780226436739, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
232 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 28 colour plates, 28 halftones
Just like we do today, people in medieval times struggled with the concept of human exceptionalism and the significance of other creatures. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the medieval bestiary. Sarah Kay's exploration of French and Latin besti...
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Neighboring Faiths Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today
ISBN: PB: 9780226379852, ISBN: HB: 9780226168937, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are usually treated as autonomous religions, but in fact across the long course of their histories the three religions have developed in interaction with one another. In "Neighboring Faiths", David Nirenberg examines...
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