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Handbook of Medieval culture : fundamental aspects and conditions of the European Middle Ages
Title
Handbook of Medieval culture : fundamental aspects and conditions of the European Middle Ages / edited by Albrecht Classen.
ISBN
9783110377606
3110377608
9783110266597
3110266598
9783110377569
311037756X
9783110377576
3110377578
9783110267303
3110267306
9783110377637
3110377632
9783110377613
3110377616
Publication
Boston : De Gruyter, 2015.
Physical Description
3 volumes (x, 2,247 pages) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Access and use
Electronic book restricted to subscribing institutions.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 03, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Vol. 1.
Medieval culture: an introduction to a new handbook
Animals, birds, and fish in the Middle Ages
Architecture
Visual arts
Astrology, alchemy and other occult sciences
Astronomy
The Bible and biblical exegesis
Children and childhood in the Middle Ages
Chivalry and knighthood
Church and the clergy
Cities
Communication in the Middle Ages
Convivencia: conquest and coexistence in medieval Spain
Medieval courts and aristocracy
Daily life
Death
Dreams and dream theory
Dwarves, trolls, ogres, and giants
Education and schooling
Excrement and waste
Fashion
Fairy, elves and the enchanted otherworld
Feudalism in literature and society
Food and cookbooks
Foreigners and fear
The forest, the river, the mountain, the field, and the meadow
Friendship in the Middle Ages
Games and pastimes
God
The Greek orthodox Church
Hell, purgatory, and heaven
Horses and equitation
Vol. 2.
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
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
Vol. 3.
Roads, streets, bridges, and travelers
The rural world and the peasants
Saints and relics
The senses, the medieval sensorium, and sensing (in) the Middle Ages
The sermon in the Middle Ages
Ships and seafaring
Threats, dangers, and catastrophes
Time and timekeeping
Travel and exploration in the Middle Ages
The medieval university
War and peace
Weapons, warfare, siege machinery, and training in arms
Witchcraft and superstition.
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Electronic books.
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