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Title Handbook of Medieval Culture. Volume 2 / edited by Albrecht Classen
Published Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (x, 814 pages) : illustrations
Series De Gruyter Reference
Handbook of Medieval Culture ; Volume 2
De Gruyter reference.
Contents Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, and Fishing -- Illness and Death -- Islamic Spain: Al-Andalus and the Three Cultures -- Jewish Culture and Literature in England -- Languages -- Law in Literature and Society -- Literature -- Love, Sex, and Marriage -- Magic and Divination -- Medicine -- Medieval Manuscripts -- Memory, Recollection, and Forgetting -- Medieval merchants -- History of Medieval Metrology -- Millenarianism/Millennialism, Eschatology, Apocalypticism, Utopianism -- Western Monasticism -- Money, Banking, Economy -- Monsters -- Conceptualizing and Experiencing Music in the Middle Ages (ca. 500-1500) -- Numbers. Translated by Erik Born -- Numismatics -- Old Age -- The Papacy and the Pan-European Culture -- Patrons, Arts, and Audiences -- Poverty -- Public Opinion and Popular Culture -- Religious Conflict -- Revolt and Revolution
Summary Thanks to extensive research, our understanding of medieval culture has virtually exploded over the last decades. Medieval society embraced a complex set of values that must be discussed from an interdisciplinary perspective. This new handbook offers articles on central topics defining the medieval world and culture. The topics covered are, for example, love and marriage, transportation, medicine, Church and religions, literature, and the arts
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed September 30 2015)
Subject Civilization, Medieval.
History -- Historical Periods -- Medieval History
History -- Topics in History -- Cultural History
Literary Studies -- Literary Studies, general
HISTORY -- World.
Civilization, Medieval
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Classen, Albrecht, editor
ISBN 9783110377637
3110377632
9783110387322
3110387328