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  • The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women's Writing in the Global Middle Ages

    Edited by Michelle M. Sauer, Diane Watt, Liz Herbert McAvoy ...
    Series series Reference Module Humanities
    This is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to medieval women’s writing globally. Focusing on the thousand-year period between 500-1500, this comprehensive reference work addresses a long-standing gap in scholarship on women writers from this period. It challenges current understandings of the literary tradition of women by incorporating early writers and texts that remain marginal and by ... Read more

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    Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

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  • Self-Help from the Middle Ages

    What the Seven Deadly Sins Can Teach Us About Living

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    **In this charming journey into the past, a historian reveals medieval wisdom that can still guide us today"One of the most compelling medieval history books I have ever read."–Ian Mortimer, author of The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England**Peter Jones was teaching medieval history at a university in Siberia when his third icy winter there plunged him into a dark place. Luckily, he knew ... Read more

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  • The Woman Reader

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    This lively story has never been told before: the complete history of women's reading and the ceaseless controversies it has inspired. Belinda Jack's groundbreaking volume travels from the Cro-Magnon cave to the digital bookstores of our time, exploring what and how women of widely differing cultures have read through the ages.Jack traces a history marked by persistent efforts to prevent women ... Read more

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  • The Book

    A Global History

    Edited by Michael F. Suarez, S.J., H. R. Woudhuysen ...
    A concise edition of the highly acclaimed Oxford Companion to the Book, this book features the 51 articles from the Companion plus 3 brand new chapters in one affordable volume. The 54 chapters introduce readers to the fascinating world of book history. Including 21 thematic studies on topics such as writing systems, the ancient and the medieval book, and the economics of print, as well as 33 ... Read more

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  • Bibliophobia

    The End and the Beginning of the Book

    by Brian Cummings ...
    Series series Clarendon Lectures in English
    Bibliophobia is a book about material books, how they are cared for, and how they are damaged, throughout the 5000-year history of writing from Sumeria to the smartphone. Its starting point is the contemporary idea of 'the death of the book' implied by the replacement of physical books by digital media, with accompanying twenty first-century experiences of paranoia and literary apocalypse. It ... Read more

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  • Misconceptions About the Middle Ages

    Edited by Stephen Harris, Bryon L. Grigsby ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture
    Interest in the middle ages is at an all time high at the moment, thanks in part to "The Da Vinci Code." Never has there been a moment more propitious for a study of our misconceptions of the Middle Ages than now.Ranging across religion, art, and science, Misconceptions about the Middle Ages unravels some of the many misinterpretations that have evolved concerning the medieval period, including ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe

    Edited by Judith M. Bennett, Ruth Mazo Karras ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe provides a comprehensive overview of the gender rules encountered in Europe in the period between approximately 500 and 1500 C.E. The essays collected in this volume speak to interpretative challenges common to all fields of women's and gender history - that is, how best to uncover the experiences of ordinary people from archives formed ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Hildegard of Bingen

    Edited by Jennifer Bain ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This specially commissioned collection of thirteen essays explores the life and works of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), monastic founder, leader of a community of nuns, composer, active correspondent, and writer of religious visions, theological treatises, sermons, and scientific and medical texts. Aimed at advanced university students and new Hildegard researchers, the essays provide a broad ... Read more

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  • A Medieval Woman's Companion

    Women's Lives in the European Middle Ages

    by Susan Signe Morrison ...
    What have a deaf nun, the mother of the first baby born to Europeans in North America, and a condemned heretic to do with one another? They are among the virtuous virgins, marvelous maidens, and fierce feminists of the Middle Ages who trail-blazed paths for women today. Without those first courageous souls who worked in fields dominated by men, women might not have the presence they currently do ... Read more

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  • e-Pedia: Hildegard of Bingen

    Hildegard of Bingen, O.S.B

    by Wikipedia contributors ...
    Series series e-Pedia
    This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Hildegard of Bingen, O.S.B. (German: Hildegard von Bingen; Latin: Hildegardis Bingensis; 1098 – 17 September 1179), also known as Saint Hildegard and Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, and polymath. She is ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Medieval Sexuality

    Edited by Vern L. Bullough, James Brundage ...
    Like specialists in other fields in humanities and social sciences, medievalists have begun to investigate and write about sex and related topics such as courtship, concubinage, divorce, marriage, prostitution, and child rearing. The scholarship in this significant volume asserts that sexual conduct formed a crucial role in the lives, thoughts, hopes and fears both of individuals and of the ... Read more

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