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This study explores the development and function of the Byzantine aristocratic family group, or genos, as a distinct social concept, considering particularly its political and cultural role, in the tenth through twelfth centuries.
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Uniquely combining Old Norse sources and Russian evidence, this book demonstrates what a large part Eastern Europe played in the lives and imagination of medieval Scandinavians.
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Is it possible to talk about antisemitism in the Middle Ages, before the appearance of scientific concepts of "race"? This work analyses this question and offers a nuanced response.
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We now know that vast portions of the world were interconnected throughout the Middle Ages and, moreover, that the entire circumpolar North... Læs mere
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This book argues for the need to integrate museum-based experiential qualities into discussion of Byzantine art in order to reach fuller, deeper, more ethical explanations of this culture than are habitually given.
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A comprehensive account of the Cavendish family's creative output and cultural significance in the seventeenth century, combining a survey of existing work on the Cavendishes with new, wide-ranging research.
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A cultural memory of belief in the North placing Icelandic folktales in a context of religious doctrine, social history, and Old Norse sagas and poetry.
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This study explores the creation of saintly spheres in medieval Syrian landscapes surrounding Sufi masters and friends of God.
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Sixteenth-century ethnographic accounts of Baltic paganism in English translation for the first time. With a critical introduction placing these texts in the contexts of early modern ethnography, Baltic history, and Reformation religious polemic.
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The fu genre is one of the major genres of Chinese poetry throughout imperial history. This volume presents close readings and translations of representative works spanning over a millennium.
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Why should anyone read Beowulf? This book presents a passionate literary argument for Beowulf as a searching, subtle exploration of the human presence.
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The first full length study in English to examine the life and the afterlife of Agnès Sorel (1428–1450), a favourite of King Charles VII of France, and first in the long genealogy of French royal mistresses.