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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The lady & the Virgin The lady & the Virgin Penny Schine Gold Penny Schine Gold provides a bold analysis of key literary and artistic images of women in the Middle Ages and the relationship between these images and the actual experience of women. She argues tha… OL120458W
A tender age A tender age William F. MacLehose "Beginning in the early thirteenth century, the burial of a child became an event of dramatic consequence. Child death took on a symbolic power, with great concern expressed over the fate of the body… OL13609183W
Dreaming of Cockaigne Dreaming of Cockaigne Herman Pleij "Imagine a dreamland on earth where roasted pigs toddle about with knives in their backs to make carving easy; where grilled geese fly directly into one's open mouth; where cooked fish jump out of th… OL2128367W
Growing up in the Middle Ages Growing up in the Middle Ages Paul B. Newman "This work examines day-to-day childhood experiences during the Middle Ages, focusing on all social classes of children. Chapters cover birth and baptism; early childhood; playing; clothing; care and… OL222016W
Sword, miter, and cloister Sword, miter, and cloister Constance Brittain Bouchard 463 pages : 25 cm OL2724484W
Giovanni and Lusanna Giovanni and Lusanna Gene A. Brucker "In 1455, Lusanna, a beautiful Florentine woman of the artisan class, brought suit against her wealthy, high-born lover Giovanni, claiming that she and Giovanni had been secretly married during their… OL2749628W
Ḥoref ha-ʻoṭeh otanu Ḥoref ha-ʻoṭeh otanu Shulamith Shahar '... introducing a wide range of topics, data, and methodological approaches in order to offer a balanced picture... Shahar's volume is a good summary ... with useful notes and bibliography ... and t… OL3239299W
The social history of art The social history of art Arnold Hauser First published in 1951 as Socialgeschichte der Kunst und Literatur, Arnold Hauser's comprehensive work explores the interaction between art and society. Through the detailing of social and historica… OL7124260W
Prostitution in Mediaeval Society (Women in Culture & Society) Prostitution in Mediaeval Society (Women in Culture & Society) Leah Lydia Otis Prostitution in Medieval Society, a monograph about Languedoc between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, is also much more than that: it is a compelling narrative about the social construction of s… OL9348079W