Medieval blood

An important chapter in the history of the body, this study investigates the significance of how medieval writers saw the body as a container of blood. Written from an interdisciplinary perspective with interested lay readers in mind, this title discusses how and why the blood ...

International mobility in the military orders (twelfth to fifteenth centuries)

travelling on Christ's business

International Mobility is an anthology of essays by an international team of experts on the travels of the brothers of the international military religious orders: the Templars, Hospitallers, Teutonic Knights and others, during the Middle Ages. The military orders, particularly the Templars and Hospitallers, depended ...

Holiness and masculinity in the Middle Ages

Studies of gender in medieval culture have tended to focus on femininity; however, the study of medieval masculinities has developed into an important area of enquiry in the last few years. This collection is the first to concentrate on the ways in which varieties of ...