Medieval Family Roles : A Book of Essays 9781136537646, 9780815336631

This colelction of twelve original essays by European and American scholars, offers some of the latest research in three

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English Pages 263 Year 1999

Medieval Family Roles : A Book of Essays
9781136537646, 9780815336631

For medieval Christians, Islam presented a series of disquieting challenges, and individual Christians portrayed Muslim

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Monk's Head, escabèche, ice cream, and preserved eel are among the diverse delicacies featured in "Regional Cu

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In these new essays leading European and North American scholars of medieval medicine focus on manuscripts and their tra

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Originally published in 1997, Medieval Liturgy is a unique and interesting collection of nine essays that explores medie

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This collection of essays asks contributors to take the capaciousness of the word "queer" to heart in order to

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One of the most popular and widely read books of the Middle Ages, Physiologus contains allegories of beasts, stones, and

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The Sufis were heirs to a tradition of Islamic mysticism, and they have generally been viewed as standing more or less a

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Essays in Medieval History marks the retirement from the University of Toronto of one of North America's most disti

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This book presents a synthetic history of the family--the most basic building block of medieval Jewish communities--in G

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To encourage an understanding of the issues in what is becoming a matter of public policy, Professor Schlessinger has co

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