Death has never been a simple matter, neither for the victim/s nor for the survivors. All societies have deeply struggled with the issue of death and have found material and spiritual answers in respo
After Classen's (emeritus, German studies, U. of Arizona) near 200-page introduction, mostly US but also some Austrian medievalists explore depictions of rural space in the European middle ages. Among
Charting a middle course between breadth and depth, historians and literature scholars present some of the wide chronological, geographical, cultural, and institutional parameters within which chess o
Classen (German studies, U. of Arizona) endeavors to "examine how violence and rape have been dealt with in the past, especially by medieval German and their contemporary European poets." He explains
Literature scholars and historians draw from literary and historical texts to shed light on medieval and early modern perceptions of what constituted criminal behaviors, and how society responded puni
The aim of this English-language series on medieval studies is to establish a methodical, discerning connection between text analysis and cultural history. The series addresses the fundamental cultur
The contributors to the present volume examine, from a wide variety of perspectives, the issues of war and peace in the Middle Ages and early modern time, probing the direction of the relevant discour
This book provides a needed overview of the scholarship on medieval public culture and popular movements such as the Peace of God, heresy, and the crusades and illustrates how a changing sense of the
The conventional view is that a few exceptional female figures struggled hard to carve a small niche for themselves with the patriarchal world of Medieval Europe. Classen, who is not further identifie
Scholars of literature, mental health, and the history of medicine explore how people of the medieval and early modern periods conducted communicative exchanges in their quest for spiritual health in
The recent movement to apply the tenets of ecocriticism to medieval literature has missed Spanish literature until now. Scarborough concentrates on canonical works that have been thoroughly examined f
There are no clear demarcation lines between magic, astrology, necromancy, medicine, and even sciences in the pre-modern world. Under the umbrella term 'magic,' the contributors to this volume examine
Transcultural experiences are few and far between in the Middle Ages and early modern times; not enough evidence has been sifted for clues, it has not been discovered, or it has simply been ignored. T
