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Literary studies: general Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 Shakespeare studies & criticism Medieval historyDe Gruyter, 2019 ISBN: 9783110660449Description:A "blind spot" suggests an obstructed view, or partisan perception, or a localized lack of understanding. Just as the brain "reads" the "blind spot"...
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Literary studies: general Literary studies: classical, early & medieval Literary studies: plays & playwrights Shakespeare studies & criticism Medieval historyThe Unruly Womb in Early Modern English Drama: Plotting Women's Biology on the Stage
Ursula A. Potter
De Gruyter, 2019 ISBN: 9783110662016Description:This study provides an accessible, informative and entertaining introduction to women’s sexual health as presented on the early modern stage, and...
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Ancient history: to c 500 CE Medieval history Philosophy: aesthetics Migration, immigration & emigrationArchaeology, history and biosciences: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Susanne Brather-Walter
De Gruyter, 2019 ISBN: 9783110616651Description:New scientific methods offer new insights in the past. Promising opportunities for archaeology and historiography are confronted with the challenges...
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Maps and Travel in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period: Knowledge, Imagination, and Visual Culture
Ingrid Baumgärtner
Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby
Katrin Kogman-Appel
De Gruyter, 2019 ISBN: 9783110587418Description:The volume discusses the world as it was known in the Medieval and Early Modern periods, focusing on projects concerned with mapping as a conceptual...
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Literary studies: classical, early & medieval Classical history / classical civilisation Medieval historyDe Gruyter, 2019 ISBN: 9783110636048Description:This book’s concern is with notoriously obscure ancient poets-riddlers, whom it argues to have been an essential, albeit necessarily marginal, element...
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The Criminalization of Abortion in the West: Its Origins in Medieval Law
Wolfgang P. Müller
Cornell University Press, 2012 ISBN: 9780801464157Description:Anyone who wants to understand how abortion has been treated historically in the western legal tradition must first come to terms with two quite...
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To Follow in Their Footsteps: The Crusades and Family Memory in the High Middle Ages
Nicholas L. Paul
Cornell University Press, 2012 ISBN: 9780801465987Description:When the First Crusade ended with the conquest of Jerusalem in 1099, jubilant crusaders returned home to Europe bringing with them stories, sacred...
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Cornell University Press, 2014 ISBN: 9780801470776Description:
Leprosy has afflicted humans for thousands of years. It wasn't until the twelfth century, however, that the dreaded disease entered the collective...
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The Saint and the Chopped-Up Baby: The Cult of Vincent Ferrer in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Laura Ackerman Smoller
Cornell University Press, 2014 ISBN: 9780801470974Description:Vincent Ferrer (1350–1419), a celebrated Dominican preacher from Valencia, was revered as a living saint during his lifetime, receiving papal...
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Margery Kempe and the Lonely Reader
Rebecca Krug
Cornell University Press, 2017 ISBN: 9781501708169Description:In Margery Kempe and the Lonely Reader, Rebecca Krug shows how and why Kempe wrote her Book, arguing that in her engagement with written culture she...
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