Lordship, State Formation And Local Authority In Late Medieval And Early Modern England Av Spike (universitat Mannheim Germany) Gibbs

This Element will reevaluate the relationship between monasticism and the city in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the period 400 to 700 in both post-Roman West and the eastern Mediterranean, putting both of those areas in conversation.

Challenging the long-standing idea that translations do not bear the same literary or historical weight as the supposed originals upon which they are based, this book shows that vernacular manuscripts tell us a great deal about medieval culture, especially...

<P>This book attempts to challenge the canonical gender concept while trying to specify what gender was in the medieval and early modern world. It tests, verifies, and challenges the methodology and use the concept(s) of gender specifically applicable...

G¿ttliches Sprachrohr oder gr¿¿nwahnsinnige Hochstaplerin? Die Benediktinerin Hildegard von Bingen ist wohl die prominenteste und gleichzeitig die umstrittenste Gelehrte im deutschen Sprachraum. Hermann Fischer untersucht in diesem Werk von 1927 ihre...