Classen, Albrecht : Handbook of Medieval Culture.

By: Classen, AlbrechtMaterial type: TextTextSeries: De Gruyter Reference SerPublisher: Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (824 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783110377637Subject(s): Civilization, Medieval -- Bibliography | Civilization, Medieval | Europe -- History -- 476-1492Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Classen, Albrecht : Handbook of Medieval CultureDDC classification: 909.07 LOC classification: CB351 .H227 2015Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, and Fishing -- Illness and Death -- Islamic Spain: Al-Andalus and the Three Cultures -- Jewish Culture and Literature in England -- Languages -- Law in Literature and Society -- Literature -- Love, Sex, and Marriage -- Magic and Divination -- Medicine -- Medieval Manuscripts -- Memory, Recollection, and Forgetting -- Medieval merchants -- History of Medieval Metrology -- Millenarianism/Millennialism, Eschatology, Apocalypticism, Utopianism -- Western Monasticism -- Money, Banking, Economy -- Monsters -- Conceptualizing and Experiencing Music in the Middle Ages (ca. 500-1500) -- Numbers. Translated by Erik Born -- Numismatics -- Old Age -- The Papacy and the Pan-European Culture -- Patrons, Arts, and Audiences -- Poverty -- Public Opinion and Popular Culture -- Religious Conflict -- Revolt and Revolution.
Summary: Thanks to extensive research, our understanding of medieval culture has virtually exploded over the last decades. Medieval society embraced a complex set of values that must be discussed from an interdisciplinary perspective. This new handbook offers articles on central topics defining the medieval world and culture. The topics covered are, for example, love and marriage, transportation, medicine, Church and religions, literature, and the arts.
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Intro -- Contents -- Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, and Fishing -- Illness and Death -- Islamic Spain: Al-Andalus and the Three Cultures -- Jewish Culture and Literature in England -- Languages -- Law in Literature and Society -- Literature -- Love, Sex, and Marriage -- Magic and Divination -- Medicine -- Medieval Manuscripts -- Memory, Recollection, and Forgetting -- Medieval merchants -- History of Medieval Metrology -- Millenarianism/Millennialism, Eschatology, Apocalypticism, Utopianism -- Western Monasticism -- Money, Banking, Economy -- Monsters -- Conceptualizing and Experiencing Music in the Middle Ages (ca. 500-1500) -- Numbers. Translated by Erik Born -- Numismatics -- Old Age -- The Papacy and the Pan-European Culture -- Patrons, Arts, and Audiences -- Poverty -- Public Opinion and Popular Culture -- Religious Conflict -- Revolt and Revolution.

Thanks to extensive research, our understanding of medieval culture has virtually exploded over the last decades. Medieval society embraced a complex set of values that must be discussed from an interdisciplinary perspective. This new handbook offers articles on central topics defining the medieval world and culture. The topics covered are, for example, love and marriage, transportation, medicine, Church and religions, literature, and the arts.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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