This book uncovers the tremendous importance of water for European medieval literature, focusing on a large number of writers and poets. Water proves to be highly meaningful in religious, literary, an
Despite a modern tendency to describe medieval women as suppressed and marginalized, a critical reading of relevant texts by female poets/writers demonstrates that women all over Europe in the premode
By pursuing an ecocritical reading, The Forest in Medieval German Literature examines passages in medieval German texts where protagonists operated in the forest and found themselves either in conflic
Published by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS), this volume consists of an English translation of the verse narratives of late medieval German author Heinrich Kaufringer.
This book provides unique and lively, authentic, and source-based insights into the history, culture, geograpyh, fauna, flaura, geology, climate, and politics of eighteenth-century Sonora/Arizona, dra
Classen (German studies, U. of Arizona) endeavors to "examine how violence and rape have been dealt with in the past, especially by medieval German and their contemporary European poets." He explains
This book offers the first complete English translation of the poems by the late-medieval German (Tyrolean) Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376/1377-1445). Oswald von Wolkenstein was one of the leading poets
The conventional view is that a few exceptional female figures struggled hard to carve a small niche for themselves with the patriarchal world of Medieval Europe. Classen, who is not further identifie
Conrad Kyeser was the first to present an image of a chastity belt in his illustrated book on war machinery,Bellifortis (1405), and some fifteenth- and sixteenth-century poets and artists referred to
Toleration and Tolerance in Medieval European Literature aims to examine and unearth the critical investigations of toleration and tolerance presented in literary texts of the Middle Ages. In contrast
There are no clear demarcation lines between magic, astrology, necromancy, medicine, and even sciences in the pre-modern world. Under the umbrella term 'magic,' the contributors to this volume examine
The aim of this English-language series on medieval studies is to establish a methodical, discerning connection between text analysis and cultural history. The series addresses the fundamental cultur
Death has never been a simple matter, neither for the victim/s nor for the survivors. All societies have deeply struggled with the issue of death and have found material and spiritual answers in respo
A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture.Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over the
A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture.Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over the
