Proposing a fresh theoretical approach to the study of cinematic portrayals of the Middle Ages, this book uses both semiotics and historiography to demonstrate how contemporary filmmakers have attemp
This book focuses on the ways in which military technology, political and social trends, and shifting frontiers shaped the emergence of new forms of public authority and civic life as embodied in the
Despite a background of war, piracy, depopulation, bullion shortages, adverse political decisions, legal uncertainties and deteriorating weather conditions, between the mid-fourteenth and the mid-fif
The Liar Paradox challenges logicians' and semanticists' theories of truth and meaning. Modern accounts of paradoxes in formal semantics offer solutions through the hierarchy of object language and m
'Matthew Innes' new survey fills a nagging void for teachers of early medieval history ...' - John McCulloh, Kansas State University."Innes has done early medieval scholarship a great service. By sur
'Matthew Innes' new survey fills a nagging void for teachers of early medieval history ...' - John McCulloh, Kansas State University."Innes has done early medieval scholarship a great service. By sur
Many historians of medieval art now look beyond soaring cathedrals to study the relationship of architecture and image-making to life in medieval society. InThe Art of Healing, Marcia Kupfer explores
An examination of medieval Chinese Buddhist thanatonic practices. Bridging area studies and the history of religions, Teiser explores the concerns, practices and beliefs of 9th- and 10th-century Chine
This volume deals with the neglected problem of the Olsztyn Group. The prosperity and long-distance contact revealed by this cemetery shows that the West Baltic tribes had considerable influence in ea
In 1119, the people of the Near East came together in an epic clash of horses, swords, sand, and blood that would decide the fate of the city of the Aleppo-and the eastern Crusader states. Fought betw
Within the field of Dutch literature the Limburg Sermons constitute a unique collection of sermons from the thirteenth century. In addition to material translated from German it contains a unique seri
From the 14th of the Nordic Iconographic Symposia, held in August 1994 in Jutland, Denmark, 16 papers focus on the two important pictorial concepts or world of images, cult and devotional images. A ma
Learn even more about coding, and take your computer games to the next level!In 10 easy lessons, learn about adding detailed graphics and take your game designing skills to the next level. Now that yo
The third volume in Hughes Oliphant Old’s multivolume history of the reading and preaching of Scripture focuses on the Middles Ages. Surveying the development of preaching over the span of a thousand
