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Purdy Moudarres Christiana, Chiodo Carol

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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Lines of Thought Branching Diagrams and the Medieval Mind

Even-Ezra Ayelet

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

Cervigni Dino S.

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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King Arthur The Making of the Legend

Higham Nicholas J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300210927, Yale University Press, September 2018
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 7 maps

According to legend, King Arthur saved Britain from the Saxons and reigned over it gloriously sometime around A.D. 500. Whether or not there was a "real" King Arthur has all too often been neglected by scholars; most period specialists today declare...

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Europe

Mercenary Mediterranean Sovereignty, Religion, and Violence in the Medieval Crown of Aragon

Fancy Hussein

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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Castles Fortresses of Power

Sadler John, Serdiville Rosie

ISBN: PB: 9781612006130, Casemate, June 2018
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.

Fortified structures have been in existence for thousands of years. In ancient and medieval times castles were the ultimate symbol of power, dominating their surroundings, and marking the landscape with their imposing size and impregnable designs. Af...

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Philosophy

Imagination, Meditation, and Cognition in the Middle Ages

Karnes Michelle

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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Fullness of Time Temporalities of the Fifteenth-Century Low Countries

Champion Matthew S.

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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Medieval Europe

Wickham Chris

ISBN: PB: 9780300228823, ISBN: HB: 9780300208344, Yale University Press, August 2017
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages. The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformativ...

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Literary Criticism

Medieval

In the Skin of a Beast Sovereignty and Animality in Medieval France

McCracken Peggy

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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