Studies in Medieval History and Culture
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Women of the Humiliati: A Moral Response to Medieval Civic Life
1st Edition
By Sally Brasher
June 16, 2009
This book examines the contribution of women to the Humiliati movement, providing original archival evidence indicating that women dominated the group's membership. These findings have implications for both women's spirituality and women's work, correcting the received opinion that the patriarchal ...
She, this in Blak: Vision, Truth, and Will in Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Ciseyde
1st Edition
By Thomas Hill
May 25, 2008
"She, This in Blak" takes a fresh look at Chaucer's great Trojan romance, Troilus and Criseyde, in light of recent scholarship on late scholastic discourses on representation and causality as they pertain to human perception and judgment. This study also contributes to a growing literature on the ...
Maps and Monsters in Medieval England
1st Edition
By Asa Simon Mittman
April 30, 2008
This study centers on issues of marginality and monstrosity in medieval England. In the middle ages, geography was viewed as divinely ordered, so Britain's location at the periphery of the inhabitable world caused anxiety among its inhabitants. Far from the world's holy center, the geographic ...
The Medieval Tradition of Thebes: History and Narrative in the Roman de Thebes, Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Lydgate
1st Edition
By Dominique Battles
May 06, 2004
As the story of the war between the sons of Oedipus and their cursed race, the Theban legend rivaled that of Troy in popularity and importance for medieval poets and audiences. Dominique Battles explores the vernacular Theban narratives of the Middle Ages, including the Old French Roman de Thebes ...