Legacies of the Ancient and Medieval World
Author | : Cynthia L. Clark |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-07-02 |
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ISBN | : 9780757567346 |
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Author | : Cynthia L. Clark |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-07-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780757567346 |
Author | : Charles George Crump |
Publisher | : Oxford Clarendon Press [1926] |
Total Pages | : 668 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Art, Medieval |
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Author | : Pearson Custom Publishing |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1998-05-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780536011176 |
Author | : William George De Burgh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Civilization |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lynn T. Ramey |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2014-09-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813055040 |
Black Legacies looks at color-based prejudice in medieval and modern texts in order to reveal key similarities. Bringing far-removed time periods into startling conversation, this book argues that certain attitudes and practices present in Europe’s Middle Ages were foundational in the development of the western concept of race. Using historical, literary, and artistic sources, Lynn Ramey shows that twelfth- and thirteenth-century discourse was preoccupied with skin color and the coding of black as “evil” and white as “good.” Ramey demonstrates that fears of miscegenation show up in all medieval European societies. She pinpoints these same ideas in the rhetoric of later centuries. Mapmakers and travel writers of the colonial era used medieval lore of “monstrous peoples” to question the humanity of indigenous New World populations, and medieval arguments about humanness were employed to justify the slave trade. Ramey even analyzes how race is explored in films set in medieval Europe, revealing an enduring fascination with the Middle Ages as a touchstone for processing and coping with racial conflict in the West today.
Author | : Julius Kirshner |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1991-01-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780631154921 |
This fascinating volume breaks new ground in examining the status and lives of women in Europe during the Middle Ages, offering revealing new insights into the role of women in a wide range of religious, sexual and domestic affairs. As this book amply demonstrates, women were central to the spiritual life of the medieval Church: Jo Ann McNamara writes on the legacy of miracles in the nunneries of Merovingian Gaul, Suzanne Wemple on one of the most important female monasteries in northern Italy, and Phyllis Roberts on the ideal of the virginal life. But the book is equally concerned with the family and relations between men and women. Leah Lydia Otis, for example, looks at the practice of prostitution in late medieval Perpignan; Helen Rodnite Lemay discusses medieval gynecology; and Julius Kirshner provides a revolutionary study of wives' claims against insolvent husbands, challenging the notion that the legal rights of women deteriorated in late medieval Italy.
Author | : Charles George Crump |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 658 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Art, Medieval |
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Author | : Charles George Crump |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 654 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Art, Medieval |
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Author | : Jonathan A.C. Brown |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2017-12-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1786073080 |
Contrary to popular opinion, the bulk of Islamic law does not come from the Quran but from hadith, first-hand reports of the Prophet Muhammad’s words and deeds, passed from generation to generation. However, with varying accounts often only committed to paper a century after the death of Muhammad, Islamic scholars, past and present, have been faced with complex questions of historical authenticity. In this wide-ranging introduction, Jonathan A. C. Brown explores the collection and criticism of hadith, and the controversy surrounding its role in modern Islam. This edition, revised and updated with additional case studies and attention to the very latest scholarship, also features a new chapter on how hadiths have been used politically, both historically and in the Arab Spring and its aftermath. Informative and accessible, it is perfectly suited to students, scholars and general readers interested in this critical element of Islam.
Author | : Ticktock Media Ltd |
Publisher | : TickTock Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-02 |
Genre | : Civilization, Ancient |
ISBN | : 9781846968310 |
Looks at the cultural practices, technology, art, architecture, religion and legacies of four important cultures from the ancient and medieval worlds.