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A new look at how Islamic and eastern cultural threads influenced the Western Renaissance, through analysis of travel narratives and travelogues from the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries.
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This short book invites Shakespeareans to rediscover the wonders and pleasures of fandom, by exploring the storytelling and moral values common to both Shakespeare and comic books.
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Christ on a Donkey explores Palm Sunday processions and other representations of Christ’s entry into Jerusalem as both processional theater and interpretations of the biblical narrative.
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Jerome’s Abbreviated Psalter was the primary medium for lay people in the Middle Ages to imitate the monastic divine office. This edition presents the Middle English versions in parallel, followed by the Latin version in the Lincoln Thornton manuscript.
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Using the Gesta Danorum of Saxo Grammaticus as its main primary source, this works analyzes the transitions of the twelfth to thirteenth centuries in Denmark, particularly in the context of the Northern Crusades.
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Daniel Wollenberg examines how and why the medieval past is manipulated and deployed as a means to certain political ends today, especially by writers and politicians on the far right.
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A radical rethinking of Andean colonial history from the perspective of the historians of ayllu Qaqachaka (Bolivia), and their play between oral history and written archives.
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This volume and its companion gather a wide range of readings and sources to enable us to see and understand what monsters show us about what it means... Læs mere
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The first complete English translation of Hussovianus’s Latin poem, a national epic in Lithuania, Belarus, and Poland.
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The first comprehensive volume of articles on plague and other diseases that afflicted humans and animals in the Ottoman Empire—from the Black Death to the fall of the empire.
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This concise and effective synthesis investigates the role of the institution of the Church in the transformation of the Roman West from the fourth to seventh centuries.
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This book explores the famous works of Thomas More, Erasmus, Las Casas, and Guaman Poma de Ayala as they develop what is described here as sixteenth-century liberation thinking in context of the Americas.