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21. | | Title: Merovingian mortuary archaeology and the making of the early Middle AgesAuthor: Effros, Bonnie 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | European Studies | Archaeology | Ancient History | Medieval History | ArchaeologyPublisher's Description: Clothing, jewelry, animal remains, ceramics, coins, and weaponry are among the artifacts that have been discovered in graves in Gaul dating from the fifth to eighth century. Those who have unearthed them, from the middle ages to the present, have speculated widely on their meaning. This authoritativ . . . [more]Similar Items | 22. | | Title: Medieval stereotypes and modern antisemitismAuthor: Chazan, Robert Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Medieval Studies | Jewish Studies | Medieval History | European History | European StudiesPublisher's Description: The twelfth century in Europe, hailed by historians as a time of intellectual and spiritual vitality, had a dark side. As Robert Chazan points out, the marginalization of minorities emerged during the "twelfth-century renaissance" as part of a growing pattern of persecution, and among those stigmati . . . [more]Similar Items | 23. | | Title: Romancing the past: the rise of vernacular prose historiography in thirteenth-century France Author: Spiegel, Gabrielle M Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Medieval History | European History | Literary Theory and CriticismPublisher's Description: In a poststructuralist study of thirteenth-century French historical texts, Gabrielle Spiegel investigates the reasons for the rise of French vernacular prose historiography at this particular time. She argues that the vernacular prose histories that have until now been regarded as royalist were act . . . [more]Similar Items | 24. | | Title: Jews, medicine, and medieval society Joseph ShatzmillerAuthor: Shatzmiller, Joseph Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Medieval History | European History | Medieval Studies | MedicinePublisher's Description: Jews were excluded from most professions in medieval, predominantly Christian Europe. Bigotry was widespread, yet Jews were accepted as doctors and surgeons, administering not only to other Jews but to Christians as well. Why did medieval Christians suspend their fear and suspicion of the Jews, allo . . . [more]Similar Items | 25. | | Title: Jews in the notarial culture: Latinate wills in Mediterranean Spain, 1250-1350 Author: Burns, Robert Ignatius Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Medieval Studies | Judaism | Jewish Studies | European History | Law | Medieval HistoryPublisher's Description: In the rapidly transforming world of thirteenth-century Mediterranean Spain, the all-purpose scribe and contract lawyer known as the notary became a familiar figure. Most legal transactions of the Roman Law Renaissance were framed in this functionary's notoriously hasty shorthand. Notarial archives, . . . [more]Similar Items | 26. | | Title: Loyola's acts: the rhetoric of the self Author: Boyle, Marjorie O'Rourke 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Renaissance History | Christianity | Rhetoric | Art History | Medieval HistoryPublisher's Description: This revisionist view of Ignatius Loyola argues that his "autobiography" - until now taken to be a literal, documentary account - is in reality a work of rhetoric, a moral narrative that exploits the techniques of fiction. In radically reinterpreting this canonical text, our main source of informati . . . [more]Similar Items | 27. | | Title: Images of intolerance: the representation of Jews and Judaism in the Bible moraliséeAuthor: Lipton, Sara 1962- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Medieval Studies | French Studies | Medieval History | Art History | JudaismPublisher's Description: Around the year 1225, an illuminated Bible was made for the king of France. That work and a companion volume, the two earliest surviving manuscripts of the Bible moralisée , are remarkable in a number of ways: they are massive in scope; they combine text and image to an unprecedented extent; and the . . . [more]Similar Items | 28. | | Title: Writing and rebellion: England in 1381Author: Justice, Steven 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Medieval Studies | Medieval History | European HistoryPublisher's Description: In this compelling account of the "peasants' revolt" of 1381, in which rebels burned hundreds of official archives and attacked other symbols of authority, Steven Justice demonstrates that the rebellion was not an uncontrolled, inarticulate explosion of peasant resentment but an informed and tactica . . . [more]Similar Items | 29. | | Title: Between two worlds: the construction of the Ottoman stateAuthor: Kafadar, Cemal 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Politics | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | Medieval History | Medieval StudiesPublisher's Description: Cemal Kafadar offers a much more subtle and complex interpretation of the early Ottoman period than that provided by other historians. His careful analysis of medieval as well as modern historiography from the perspective of a cultural historian demonstrates how ethnic, tribal, linguistic, religious . . . [more]Similar Items | 30. | | Title: Apocalypse in Rome: Cola di Rienzo and the politics of the New AgeAuthor: Musto, Ronald G Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | European Studies | Medieval History | Medieval Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | Classical Politics | Autobiographies and BiographiesPublisher's Description: On May 20, 1347, Cola di Rienzo overthrew without violence the turbulent rule of Rome's barons and the absentee popes. A young visionary and the best political speaker of his time, Cola promised Rome a return to its former greatness. Ronald G. Musto's vivid biography of this charismatic leader - who . . . [more]Similar Items | 31. | | Title: Crusading peace: Christendom, the Muslim world, and Western political orderAuthor: Mastnak, Tomaž Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | Medieval History | Middle Eastern History | Christianity | Medieval Studies | Middle Eastern Studies | Social Science | Political TheoryPublisher's Description: Tomaz Mastnak's provocative analysis of the roots of peacemaking in the Western world elucidates struggles for peace that took place in the high and late Middle Ages. Mastnak traces the ways that eleventh-century peace movements, seeking to end violence among Christians, shaped not only power struct . . . [more]Similar Items | 32. | | Title: A silent minority: deaf education in Spain, 1550-1835 Author: Plann, Susan Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Language and Linguistics | Medieval History | European History | Education | European Studies | Medieval Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Cultural AnthropologyPublisher's Description: This timely, important, and frequently dramatic story takes place in Spain, for the simple reason that Spain is where language was first systematically taught to the deaf. Instruction is thought to have begun in the mid-sixteenth century in Spanish monastic communities, where the monks under vows of . . . [more]Similar Items |
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