Suchergebnisse

Was the medieval church corrupt? /Frans van Liere --Papal infallibility /Elaine M. Beretz --"The age of faith" : everyone in the Middle Ages believed in God /Peter Dendle --Everyone was an orthodox, educated Roman Catholic /Michael D.C. Drout --Myth of the virgin nun /Mary Dockray-Miller --Medieval Popess /Vincent DiMarco --Medieval monks : funnier than you thought /Liam Ethan Felsen --Medieval attitudes toward Muslims and Jews /Michael Frassetto --Crusades : eschatological lemmings, younger sons, papal hegemony, and colonialism /Jessalynn Bird --Myth of the mounted knight /James G. Patterson --Myth of the flat earth /Louise M. Bishop --Medieval sense of self /Ronald J. Ganze --Middles Ages were a superstitious time /Peter Dendle --Age before reason /Richard Raiswell --Rehabilitating medieval medicine /Anne Van Arsdall --Medieval misconceptions /Bryon Grigsby --Medieval cuisine : hog's swill or culinary art? /Jean-Franc̦ois Kosta-Théfaine --What did medieval people eat? /Christopher Roman --Medieval drama /Carolyn Coulson-Grigsby --Shakespeare did not write in Old English /Marijane Osborn --Austere age without laughter /Michael W. George --King Arthur : the once and future misconception /S. Elizabeth Passmore --"Peasants revolt"? /Paul Strohm --Medieval sense of history /Richard H. Godden --Medieval peasant /Dinah Hazell --Witches and the myth of the medieval Burning Times /Anita Obermeier --Medieval child : an unknown phenomenon? /Sophie Oosterwijk --Were women able to read and write in the Middle Ages? /Helen Conrad-O'Briain --Teaching Chaucer in Middle English /C. David Benson --Medieval chastity belt unbuckled /Linda Migl Keyser.

Byzantium and Western Europe in the Early Middle Ages. Codex Justinianus: children of the unfree ; Novella 146: On Jews ; Excerpt from the Visigothic Code ; The Farmer's Law, from Byzantium ; The laws of Alfred, Guthrum, and Edward the Elder ; The laws of King Alfred -- The Catholic Church and its vicissitudes. Four documents from the Investiture controversy ; A truce of God, Decree of the Emperor Henry IV ; The Crusaders in Mainz, May 27, 1096 ; Excerpt from "The capture of Jerusalem" ; Excerpt from Historia Constantinopolitana ; Statute in favor of the princes ; Report from China ; Letter to Gregory XI -- England and France. The Assize of Clarendon ; Letter from Peter of Blois to Queen Eleanor of England ; Excerpt from Dialogue Concerning the Exchequer ; On the rules of love and chivalry ; Magna Carta ; Three summonses to the Parliament of 1295 ; Ordinances of the Merchant Gild of Southampton ; The Battle of Poitiers, from The Chronicles of Froissart ; Excerpts from The Book of the City of Ladies ; Excerpt from The Treasure of the City of Ladies ; Letter to the King of England from Joan of Arc ; Excerpt from the trial of Joan of Arc -- The Near East and beyond. The Pact of Umar: Peace Accord to the Christians of Syria ; Ibn Battuta makes the pilgrimage to Mecca and travels to Baghdad ; Ibn Battuta's travels in Cairo, Damascus, and Jerusalem ; Ibn Battuta's travels to Mali -- Philosophy, religion, and science. On fate and providence, from The Consolation of Philosophy ; Excerpt from St. Anslem's Proslogium, or Discourse on the Existence of God ; "In behalf of the fool": a response to St. Anselm ; Prologue to Sic et Non ; "Of the perils of his abbey," from Abelard's Historia Calamitatum ; Testament of St. Francis ; On the principles of nature ; Excerpt from Summa Theologica ; "On experimental science" ; Excerpt from The Love of Books.

Queering Ovidian myth: bestiality and desire in Christine de Pizan's Epistre Othea / Marilynn Desmond and Pamela Sheingorn -- Sodomy's mark: Alan of Lille, Jean de Meun, and the medieval theory of authorship / Susan Schibanoff -- The pose of the queer: Dante's gaze, Brunetto Latini's body / Michael Camille -- Response: presidential improprieties and medieval categories: the absurdity of heterosexuality / Karma Lochrie -- Sodomitic Moor: queerness in the narrative of Reconquista / Gregory S. Hutcheson -- Chaste subjects: gender, heroism, and desire in the Grail quest / Peggy McCracken -- The King's boyfriend: Froissart's political theatre of 1326 / Claire Sponsler -- Response: "Just like a woman": queer history, womanizing the body, and the boys in Arnaud's band / Francesc Canadé Sautman -- Translating the foreskin / Kathleen Biddick -- Shameful pleasures: up close and dirty with Chaucer, flesh and the word / Glenn Burger -- Ecce Homo / Garrett P.J. Epp -- Medieval/postmodern: HIV/AIDS and the temporality of crisis / Steven F. Kruger -- Response: Return of the repressed: the sequel / Larry Scanlon

Today's world is the product of the late Middle Ages. In what is now called 'Flanders', a new kind of man emerged. A practical man, an entrepreneur, a critical man who no longer believed what church and nobility tried to tell him. He discovers the world, creates, produces and innovates. In this book young researchers take us back to the Middle Ages. With attention for top works of art and unknown gems. This art book has a fresh academic point of view: the economical history of the Middle Ages from the viewpoint of different social groups, with surprising results on cliched thoughts such as the passive countryside, the dark Middle Ages and the role of women in society