Böcker i Studies in Medieval and Reform-serien

To explore Christian-Muslim relations at the dawn of the modern age, this book examines Nicholas of Cusa's seminal works on the Qur'an and world religions. It also considers Muslim responses to Christianity and other Christian writings on Islam.

Viacheslav Lytvynenko and Mikhail Shpakovskiy offer the first English edition of two Slavic works by Zinoviy Otenskiy (d. 1571/2), preceded by a thorough historical, literary, and theological treatment.

Athens and Wittenberg explores how Luther and early Lutheranism did not neglect the classics of Greece and Rome, but continued to draw from the philosophy and poetry of antiquity in their quest to reform the church.

Twenty original perspectives on such authors as Marguerite de Navarre, Rabelais, Montaigne, Marot, Labé, and Hélisenne de Crenne, as well as on less familiar works of religious polemics, emblems, cartography, geomancy, bibliophilism, and ichthyology.

Converso and Morisco are the terms applied to those Jews and Muslims who converted to Christianity (mostly under duress) in late Medieval Spain. Converso and Moriscos Studies examines the manifold cultural implications of these mass convertions.

Ordering Emotions in Europe, 1100-1800 investigates how emotions were conceptualised and practised in the medieval and early modern period, as they ordered systems of thought and practice--from philosophy and theology, to science and medicine.

The articles in this collection offer an in-depth analysis of the Dialogus Miraculorum by the Cistercian Caesarius of Heisterbach (thirteenth century) and provide an insight into the theory and practice of Cistercian persuasion and Caesarius's narrative theology.

Jonathan Adams offers a detailed analysis of Swedish National Archives manuscript E 8902 and its contents as well as a new edition of this puzzling text.

In Memory Wars in the Low Countries, 1566-1700 Jasper van der Steen explains how the political exploitation of the public memory of the Revolt in the Netherlands influenced the formation of distinct 'national' identities in the Dutch Republic and the Habsburg Netherlands.

This volume brings together some of the most exciting current scholarship on these themes. This interdisciplinary and geographically broad-ranging volume pays tribute to the ground-breaking work of Charles Zika.

Analyzing the literature on art from the Italian Renaissance, The Spiritual Language of Art explores the complex relationship between visual art and spirituality by revealing that terms, concepts and metaphors derived from spiritual literature were consistently used to discuss art.

This monograph demonstrates why humanism began in Italy in the mid-thirteenth century. It considers Petrarch a third generation humanist, who christianized a secular movement. The analysis traces the beginning of humanism in poetry and its gradual penetration of other Latin literary genres, and, through stylistic analyses of texts, the extent to which imitation of the ancients produced changes in cognition and visual perception.The volume traces the link between vernacular translations and the emergence of Florence as the leader of Latin humanism by 1400 and why, limited to an elite in the fourteenth century, humanism became a major educational movement in the first decades of the fifteenth. It revises our conception of the relationship of Italian humanism to French twelfth-century humanism and of the character of early Italian humanism itself."In the Footsteps of the Ancients is the recipient of the Jacques Barzun Prize 2001 in Cultural History of the American Philosophical Society. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

This study offers a new view on the development of an urban culture of writing in one of the major cities of late medieval Europe. Via the examination of a tremendous number of documents from the Augsburg city archive it shows how civic authorities started to rely more and more on written records, which in turn created the need for archiving. The power of this process primarily resulted from a growing desire for supervision and control. Die Studie eröffnet einen neuen Blick auf den Entstehungsprozess kommunaler Schriftkultur in einer europäischen Großstadt des Spätmittelalters. Die Auswertung der umfangreichen Überlieferung im Stadtarchiv Augsburg zeigt, wie städtische Autoritäten zunehmend auf Schriftlichkeit angewiesen waren und dabei eigene Bedürfnisse der Archivierung ausprägten. Als zentrale Antriebskraft der Verschriftlichung tritt dabei ein wachsendes Bedürfnis nach Kontrolle und Überprüfbarkeit hervor.

This book shows how the sixteenth-century priest Antonio Gallonio engaged with law, medicine and engineering, to draw attention to saintly virtues. It exposes the tensions between a theocratic clergy and the self-assertion of secular professionals in the Italian Counter-Reformation

This volume explores individual responses to the problem of discernment of spirits, and the adjacent problem of true and false holiness in the period following the European Reformations.

Florian Dörschel deals with the martial side of German chivalry towards the end of the Middle Ages. Knightly violence was at the center of social, military and political life as an instrument of power, representation and communication. Florian Dörschel befasst sich mit der kriegerischen Seite des deutschen Rittertums im ausgehenden Mittelalter. Diese ritterliche Gewalt stand als Machtinstrument, Repräsentations- und Kommunikationsmittel im Mittelpunkt des sozialen, militärischen und politischen Lebens.

The early modern era is often envisioned as one in which European genres, both narrative and visual, diverged indelibly from those of medieval times. This collection examines a disparate set of travel texts, dating from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries, to question that divergence and to assess the modes, themes, and ethnologies of travel writing. It demonstrates the enduring nature of the itinerary, the variant forms of witnessing (including imaginary maps), the crafting of sacred space as a cautionary tale, and the use of the travel narrative to represent the transformation of the authorial self. Focusing on European travelers to the expansive East, from the soft architecture of Timur's tent palaces in Samarqand to the ambiguities of sexual identity at the Mughul court, these essays reveal the possibilities for cultural translation as travelers of varying experience and attitude confront remote and foreign (or not so foreign) space.

This lively collection of essays examines the link between public opinion and the development of changing 'Netherlandish' identities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

This volume deals with the intellectual world of "progressive" monks on the eve of the Reformation in the sixteenth century. Biographical sketches of three Benedictines and three Cistercians vicariously represent the lives and works of humanists in cloisters (Klosterhumanismus).

This collection of essays covers relations between town and country, regional economic systems, and historical regional studies in late medieval and early modern Germany, in particular how these bear upon social and religious change in the age of the Reformation. Starting from case-studies of South-West Germany, Switzerland and Alsace, the essays broaden out to consider the formation of economic landscapes, the development of urban territories, and the survival of forms of serfdom throughout Germany as a whole. While issues of economic and social structure take pride of place, they are accompanied by analysis of regional mentalities and cultural identities as well.With an Introduction by Tom Brady.

An exploration of the complex political dynamics of early modern Germany and on the manner in which art produced by Jorg Breu the Elder of Augsburg responded to those dynamics.

This collection of twelve essays explores various aspects in the development of medicine from the Middle Ages to 1700 with a particular emphasis on revisiting original texts for new insights in the culture of healing.