Late Medieval jewish identities

Iberia and beyond

Eds. Carmen Caballero- Navas, Esperanza Alfonso. Taking the Jewish community as a focal point, this book thoroughly explores the various 'borders'--geographical divides, religious affiliations, gender boundaries, genre divisions--that ruled the lives and intellectual production of late medieval Jews.

Charlemagne´s mustache

and other cultural clusters of a dark age

Charlemagne's Mustache and Other Cultural Clusters of a Dark Age presents the reader with seven engaging studies of cultural life and thought in the Carolingian world: Why did Charlemagne have a mustache and why did hair matter? Why did the king own peacocks and ...

Berenguela of castle (1180-1246) and political women in the Middle Ages

The women in the family that ruled thirteenth-century Castile used maternity, familial and political strategy, and religious and cultural patronage to secure their personal power as well as to promote their lineage. Leonor of England, and her daughters Blanche of Castile (Queen of France), Urraca ...

The erotics of consolation

desire and distance in the Late Middle Ages

The scope of the present volume is to examine the manner in which some of the leading medieval writers in a number of literary genres engaged with the Stoical discourse of consolation. It brings together a very distinguished group of people. This project is clearly ...

Medievalism and orientalism

three essays and literature, architecture and cultural identity

This volume offers a unique interpretation of medieval cultural history. It examines the cultural conception of the Middle Ages. It roots current cultural interests with history.By examining sources in cultural history, literature, and architecture, this book reveals mutual influences evident in the development of ...

England and Iberia in the Middle Ages, 12th-15th century

cultural, literary, and political exchanges

This groundbreaking interdisciplinary collection of essays by American, British, and Iberian scholars examines the literary, historical, and artistic exchanges between England and Iberia from the twelfth to fifteenth century.

Representing others in medieval iberian literature

"Representing Others in Medieval Iberian Literature" explores the ways Arabic, Jewish and Christian intellectuals in medieval Iberia (courtiers and clerics) adapt and transform the Andalusi go-between figure in order to represent their own role as cultural intermediaries. While these authors are of different religious, ethnic ...

Byzantine dress

representation of secular dress in eighth-to twelfth-century painting

In Byzantium, two overlapping systems of dress existed: a semiotic one whereby dress was a code for rank and wealth, and a fashion system where dress was based on the desire to look a certain way. Courtiers participated in a semiotic system of dress, but ...

Was the Bayeux tapestry made in France?

the case for St. Florent of Saumur

This book presents the hypothesis that the Bayeux tapestry, long believed to have been made in England, came from the Loire valley in France, from the abbey of St. Florent of Saumur. This is based on a number of different kinds of evidence, the most ...

Ecstatic transformation

on the uses of alterity in the Middle Ages

Ecstatic Transformation studies the manner in which medieval ways of knowing the Oriental 'other' were constructed around the idea of a utopic East as located in the legend and Letter of Prester John (c. 1160). The birth of utopic thinking, it argues, is tied to ...

Homeoroticism and chivalry

discourses of male same-sex desire in the fourteenth century

Representations of Early Byzantine empresses

image and empire