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The lady & the Virgin
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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… |
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A tender age
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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… |
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Dreaming of Cockaigne
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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… |
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Growing up in the Middle Ages
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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… |
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Sword, miter, and cloister
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Constance Brittain Bouchard |
463 pages : 25 cm |
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Giovanni and Lusanna
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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… |
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Ḥoref ha-ʻoṭeh otanu
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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… |
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The social history of art
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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… |
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Prostitution in Mediaeval Society (Women in Culture & Society)
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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… |
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