Suchergebnisse

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

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.