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Having described the countries of the "numerous peoples of the Slavs," the late twelfth-century chronicler Helmold of Bosau added, "If you consider Hungary as a part of Slavania, as some would suggest, because it does not differ by customs or by language, the area of the Slavic language extends so far that a proper estimate is quite lacking." These few words indicate how clearly local the chronicler's horizon was—the farther away from Wagria, the fuzzier his information. At the same time, though, Helmold made plain that the Slavic language was for him an essential element of what Slavania was. As a parish priest at the forefront of missionary and settlement activities, Helmold wrote a chronicle that is a unique source of information for intercultural interactions between Germans and Slavs during the high medieval colonization period.

Convent ruins and Christian profession : toward a methodology for the history of religion and gender / Lisa Bitel -- Tertullian, the angelic life, and the bride of Christ / Dyan Elliot -- Flesh, two sexes, three genders? / Jacqueline Murray -- Thomas Aquinas's chastity belt : clerical masculinity in medieval Europe / Ruth Mazo Karras -- Women's monasteries and sacred space : the promotion of saints' cults and miracles / Jane Tibbetts Schulenberg -- Priestly women, virginal men : litanies and their discontents / Felice Lifshitz

What has by now become the master narrative of the
history of sexuality holds that not only homosexuality but the whole
concept of sexuality is a creation of nineteenth-century bourgeois
society. This article argues that sexual identities, constructed through
what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick calls "minoritizing discourses," can be found
much earlier, in premodern Western societies. In the European Middle Ages,
for example, although there is nothing congruent to a modern homosexual
identity, prostitution was a sexual identity in any relevant sense of the
word. This case raises the question of whether the interplay between act
and identity might not be more complex than many interpreters of Michel
Foucault would make it, and whether the fact that sexuality is socially
constructed means that it was constructed only in the nineteenth century.

Commonly, the course in medieval Middle Eastern history serves many purposes. Not only must it detail the changes that transformed the Middle East from the seventh thru the eighteenth centuries but also it should introduce and analyze the rich diversity of pre-modern Islamic society, institutions, politics, and culture. Thus, considerable variation exists in historical treatments of the medieval Middle East. Nevertheless, at present most of these courses are chronological surveys which tend to emphasize political history, although a large number of offerings are topically arranged and give separate attention to many of the several aspects of traditional Middle Eastern civilization and institutions. Actually, the differences between these two orientations are mainly ones of emphasis. For instance, few topically arranged courses ignore the chronological factor in analyzing change.

Cover -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- GENERAL EDITORS' PREFACE -- Introduction Medieval Emotions Near and Far -- EMOTIONS HISTORY AND THE MIDDLE AGES -- THIS VOLUME AND ITS TIMEFRAME -- LATE ANTIQUITY: CONVERSION AND RENUNCIATION -- THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES -- THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER ONE Medical and Scientific Understandings -- EMOTIONS IN THE MEDICAL TEXTS OFLATE ANTIQUITY (350-700) AND THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES (700-1000) -- MEDICAL APPROACHES TO EMOTION IN HIGH ANDLATE MEDIEVAL WESTERN MEDICINE, 1000-130 -- TREATING DISORDERED EMOTIONS IN THE HIGH AND LATE MIDDLE AGES -- CONCLUSION: NONNATURALS IN LATER REGIMENS OF HEALTH -- CHAPTER TWO Religion and Spirituality -- THE ANTIQUE INHERITANCE -- EMOTION AND HUMANITY IN THE DREAM OF THE ROOD -- FEELING FOR GOD: ANCRENE WISSE -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER THREE Music and Dance -- THE PATRISTIC LEGACY: AMBROSE AND AUGUSTINE -- BOETHIUS AND HIS LEGACY -- GUIDO OF AREZZO AND THE RENEWAL OF CHANT IN THE ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH CENTURIES -- LITURGY, DANCE, AND ECCLESIASTICAL CAUTION -- THE IMPACT OF ARISTOTLE IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER FOUR Drama -- DRAMA OF THE LATE EMPIRE: MIME, PANTOMIME, AND CHRISTIAN DENUNCIATION -- THE TRANSITION TO MEDIEVAL DRAMA -- LOCATING EMOTION IN LITURGICAL DRAMA -- EXTREME EMOTION IN LITURGICAL DRAMA: GRIEF AND ANGER -- HROTSVIT OF GANDERSHEIM AND THE ROMAN LEGACY -- PERFORMING EMOTION IN THE ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH CENTURIES -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER FIVE The Visual Arts -- GESTURES OF EMOTION: THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS -- JUDGMENT OF EMOTION: ADAM AND EVE AND THE LAST JUDGMENT -- MIMESIS OF EMOTION: THE VIRGIN MARY -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER SIX Literature -- LATE ANTIQUITY -- CAROLINGIAN RENAISSANCE -- ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE -- HIGH MIDDLE AGES.

When I was in graduate school, in the 1980s, one frequently heard complaints about the comparatively unsophisticated nature of the historiography of the medieval Middle East. There was considerable envy of historians in fields like early modern European history, who pushed broader disciplinary limits and whose works were read not just for content but also for historiographical and theoretical inspiration. There were some in our own corner of the profession blazing new methodological trails—Clifford Geertz, for example, who, though not a historian, had much to say to historians, and whose books were read eagerly by historians, and not just in Middle Eastern history; or Fedwa Malti-Douglas, as much at home in feminist literary theory as in medieval Arabic literature. But many graduate students in Middle Eastern history felt a bit underrepresented on the cutting edge of historical thought and practice.

The siege dominated warfare during the medieval period. Contemporary evidence - from both accounts of sieges, and records of government - survives in relatively large quantites for the later medieval period; together with archaeological evidence, it is used here to offer a full and comprehensive picture of siege warfare. The book shows how similar methods were practised everywhere, with knowledge of new technologies spreading quickly, and experts selling their skills to any willing employer: it also looks at how the erection of defences capable of withstanding increasingly sophisticated attack became an expensive proposition. The question of whether some of the immense surviving monuments of this age really had a military function at all is also addressed.

Introduction : Medieval and Renaissance personal unions : main debates, new approaches / Paul Srodecki -- Unions as a structural element : preconditions, intentions, and realisations / Ludwig Steindorff -- Dynasties and dynastic rule between elite reproduction and state building in Europe / Frederik Buylaert, Thalia Brero and Erika Graham-Goering -- Dynastic Unions and the development of stable and extensive Christian polities in Iberia, c. 1100-c. 1300 / Luis García-Guijarro -- The "Angevin Empire" (1150-1204) : a twelfth-century union / S.D. Church -- The emergence of the Polish-Lithuanian union / Rimvydas Petrauskas -- Bishop, administrator, guardian : Albert of Hoya and his reign in Minden, Osnabrück and Hoya / Frederieke Maria Schnack -- The title rex Galiciae between ambitions and reality (c. 1100-c. 1400) / Márta Font -- The union between Hungary and Croatia : myths as reality / Neven Budak -- The Lusatias in personal union with Brandenburg and Bohemia / Norbert Kersken -- The foreign policy of the last Přemyslids : a first attempt at unifying Central Europe? / Robert Antonín -- How did the grand masters of the Teutonic Order interpret their dependency on the Polish Crown (1466-97)? / Adam Szweda -- An autonomous dependency : the unstable relationship between Royal Prussia and the Polish Crown, 1466-1569 / Beata Możejko -- Enfeoffment as a tool in the safeguarding of power? : Dithmarschen between Holsatian and archiepiscopal power claims / Stefan Brenner -- Wenceslas II Přemyslid and Louis I of Anjou : two personal unions of the Polish Kingdom in the fourteenth century / Andrzej Marzec -- Mary and Maximilian, Burgundy and Habsburg : the rise of an empire / Jan Hirschbiegel -- Albert II of Habsburg's composite monarchy (1437-39) and its significance for Central Europe / Julia Burkhardt -- King Ladislas II Jogaila of Poland, Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania and the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Church union / Darius Baronas -- The unions between Sleswick, Holsatia and Denmark in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and their Nordic precursors / Oliver Auge -- The Nordic union wars, 1451-1523 / Jens E. Olesen -- Policies for and from the dynastic union : the crowns of Castile and Aragon in the fifteenth century / María Bonet Donato -- Corona regni bohemiae : the integration of Central Europe as conceived by the Luxemburgs and their successors / Lenka Bobková -- The path towards the "Danube Monarchy"? : the political legacy of Emperor Sigismund and his "executors" in the fifteenth century / Přemysl Bar -- In search of a Jagiellonian Europe : internal and external perceptions of the dynasty and its legacy in East-Central and Eastern Europe / Paul Srodecki.