Description |
1 online resource (x, 814 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
De Gruyter Reference |
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Handbook of Medieval Culture ; Volume 2 |
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De Gruyter reference.
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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 |
Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed September 30 2015) |
Subject |
Civilization, Medieval.
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History -- Historical Periods -- Medieval History
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History -- Topics in History -- Cultural History
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Literary Studies -- Literary Studies, general
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HISTORY -- World.
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Civilization, Medieval
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Classen, Albrecht, editor
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ISBN |
9783110377637 |
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3110377632 |
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9783110387322 |
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3110387328 |
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