A radical shift took place in medieval Europe that still shapes contemporary intellectual life: freeing themselves from the fixed beliefs of the past, scholars began to determine and pursue their own...
Conversion and Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250-1391
Paola Tartakoff
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512825459
Pub Date: October 2023
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
In 1341 in Aragon, a Jewish convert to Christianity was sentenced to death, only to be pulled from the burning stake and into a formal religious interrogation. His confession was as astonishing to his...
Envisioned as a tribe of ruddy-faced, redheaded, red-bearded Jewish warriors, bedecked in red attire who purportedly resided in isolation at the fringes of the known world, the Red Jews are a legendary...
Jewish Life in Medieval Spain is a detailed exploration of the Jewish experience in medieval Spain from the dawn of Sephardic society in the ninth century to the expulsion of 1492. An important...
Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century
John Tolan
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512823899
Pub Date: March 2023
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
In 1290, Jews were expelled from England and subsequently largely expunged from English historical memory. Yet for two centuries they occupied important roles in medieval English society. England’s...
Poetry, Genre, and Practice in Later Medieval England
Ingrid Nelson
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512824803
Pub Date: February 2023
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
What shall we make of medieval English lyrics? They have no fixed line or meter, no consistent point of view, and their content may seem misaligned with the other texts in manuscripts in which they...
Challenging the traditional conception of medieval Europe as insular and even xenophobic, Shirin A. Khanmohamadi's In Light of Another's Word looks to early ethnographic writers who were surprisingly...
Writing Iceland's Bishops into the Roman Church, 1200-1350
Joel D. Anderson
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512822823
Pub Date: January 2023
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
With its expanding legal system and its burgeoning throngs of lawyers, legates, and documents, the papacy of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries has often been credited with spearheading a governmental...
In Cosmos, Liturgy, and the Arts in the Twelfth Century, Margot E. Fassler takes readers into the rich, complex world of Hildegard of Bingen’s Scivias (meaning “Know the ways”)...
It was far from inevitable that Rome would emerge as the spiritual center of Western Christianity in the early Middle Ages. After the move of the Empire's capital to Constantinople in the fourth...
