Pragmatic Literacy East And West 1200 1330

Author : R. H. Britnell
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0851156959

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Pragmatic Literacy, East and West, 1200-1330 by R. H. Britnell Pdf

Studies of the uses of literacy for the exercise of political and economic power, in Latin Christendom and the wider world. This pioneering collection of studies is concerned with the way in which increasing literacy interacted with the desire of thirteenth-century rulers to keep fuller records of their government's activities, and the manner in whichthis literacy could be used to safeguard or increase authority. In Europe the keeping of archives became an increasingly normal part of everyday administrative routines, and much has survived, owing to the prolonged preference forparchment rather than paper; in the Eastern civilisations material is more scarce. Papers discuss pragmatic literacy and record keeping in both West and East, through the medium of both literary and official texts. Thelate Professor RICHARD BRITNELL taught in the Department of History at the University of Durham. Contributors: RICHARD BRITNELL, THOMAS BEHRMANN, MANUEL RIU, OLIVER GUYOTJEANNIN, GÉRARD SIVÉRY, MANFRED GROTEN, MICHAELNORTH, MICHAEL PRESTWICH, PAUL HARVEY, GEOFFREY MARTIN, GEOFFREY BARROW, ROBERT SWANSON, NICHOLAS OIKONOMIDES, ELIZABETH ZACHARIADOU, I.H. SIDDIQUI, TIMOTHY BROOK, YOSHIYASU KAWANE

Author : Carol Lansing,Edward D. English
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118425121

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A Companion to the Medieval World by Carol Lansing,Edward D. English Pdf

Drawing on the expertise of 26 distinguished scholars, this important volume covers the major issues in the study of medieval Europe, highlighting the significant impact the time period had on cultural forms and institutions central to European identity. Examines changing approaches to the study of medieval Europe, its periodization, and central themes Includes coverage of important questions such as identity and the self, sexuality and gender, emotionality and ethnicity, as well as more traditional topics such as economic and demographic expansion; kingship; and the rise of the West Explores Europe’s understanding of the wider world to place the study of the medieval society in a global context

Author : Gerhard Jaritz,Katalin Szende
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317212256

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Medieval East Central Europe in a Comparative Perspective by Gerhard Jaritz,Katalin Szende Pdf

Medieval East Central Europe in a Comparative Perspective draws together the new perspectives concerning the relevance of East Central Europe for current historiography by placing the region in various comparative contexts. The chapters compare conditions within East Central Europe, as well as between East Central Europe, the rest of the continent, and beyond. Including 15 original chapters from an interdisciplinary team of contributors, this collection begins by posing the question: "What is East Central Europe?" with three specialists offering different interpretations and presenting new conclusions. The book is then grouped into five parts which examine political practice, religion, urban experience, and art and literature. The contributors question and explain the reasons for similarities and differences in governance and strategies for handling allies, enemies or subjects in particular ways. They point out themes and structures from town planning to religious orders that did not function according to political boundaries, and for which the inclusion of East Central European territories was systemic. The volume offers a new interpretation of medieval East Central Europe, beyond its traditional limits in space and time and beyond the established conceptual schemes. It will be essential reading for students and scholars of medieval East Central Europe.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : MINN:31951D01726401A

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International Medieval Bibliography by Anonim Pdf

Author : Monica H. Green
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191607356

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Making Women's Medicine Masculine by Monica H. Green Pdf

Making Women's Medicine Masculine challenges the common belief that prior to the eighteenth century men were never involved in any aspect of women's healthcare in Europe. Using sources ranging from the writings of the famous twelfth-century female practitioner, Trota of Salerno, all the way to the great tomes of Renaissance male physicians, and covering both medicine and surgery, this study demonstrates that men slowly established more and more authority in diagnosing and prescribing treatments for women's gynaecological conditions (especially infertility) and even certain obstetrical conditions. Even if their 'hands-on' knowledge of women's bodies was limited by contemporary mores, men were able to establish their increasing authority in this and all branches of medicine due to their greater access to literacy and the knowledge contained in books, whether in Latin or the vernacular. As Monica Green shows, while works written in French, Dutch, English, and Italian were sometimes addressed to women, nevertheless even these were often re-appropriated by men, both by practitioners who treated women and by laymen interested to learn about the 'secrets' of generation. While early in the period women were considered to have authoritative knowledge on women's conditions (hence the widespread influence of the alleged authoress 'Trotula'), by the end of the period to be a woman was no longer an automatic qualification for either understanding or treating the conditions that most commonly afflicted the female sex - with implications of women's exclusion from production of knowledge on their own bodies extending to the present day.

Author : Ionuţ Epurescu-Pascovici
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783275762

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Human Agency in Medieval Society, 1100-1450 by Ionuţ Epurescu-Pascovici Pdf

Argues the case for the individual as autonomous moral agent in the later Middle Ages.

Author : Anna A. Grotans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139453325

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Reading in Medieval St. Gall by Anna A. Grotans Pdf

Learning to read in medieval Germany meant learning to read and understand Latin as well as the pupils' own language. The teaching methods used in the medieval Abbey of St Gall survive in the translations and commentaries of the monk, scholar and teacher Notker Labeo (c.950–1022). Notker's pedagogic method, although deeply rooted in classical and monastic traditions, demonstrates revolutionary innovations that include providing translations in the pupils' native German, supplying structural commentary in the form of simplified word order and punctuation, and furnishing special markers that helped readers to perform texts out loud. Anna Grotans examines this unique interplay between orality and literacy in Latin and Old High German, and illustrates her study with many examples from Notker's manuscripts. This study has much to contribute to our knowledge of medieval reading, and of the relationship between Latin and the vernacular in a variety of formal and informal contexts.

Author : Farhat Hasan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316516812

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Paper, Performance, and the State : Social Change and Political Culture in Mughal India by Farhat Hasan Pdf

Looking at the political processes in early modern South Asia as shaped by state formation from below, this work argues that, outside the imperial and trans-regional contexts, the Mughal state subsisted on the mutually-empowering relations with the elites and common people.

Author : Julia C. Crick,Alexandra Walsham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Design
ISBN : 0521810639

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The Uses of Script and Print, 1300-1700 by Julia C. Crick,Alexandra Walsham Pdf

This volume investigates written communication before and after the introduction of printing in England.

Author : Michael T. Clanchy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118295984

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From Memory to Written Record by Michael T. Clanchy Pdf

This seminal work of scholarship, which traces the development of literacy in medieval England, is now fully updated in a third edition. This book serves as an introduction to medieval books and documents for graduate students throughout the world Features a completely re-written first chapter, ‘Memories and Myths of the Norman Conquest', and a new postscript by the author reflecting on the reception to the original publication and discussing recent scholarship on medieval literacy Includes a revised guide to further reading and a revision of the plates which illustrate medieval manuscripts in detail

Author : Kellie Robertson,Wendy Scase,Laura Ashe,Philip Knox
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843845577

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New Medieval Literatures 20 by Kellie Robertson,Wendy Scase,Laura Ashe,Philip Knox Pdf

Cutting-edge and fresh new outlooks on medieval literature, emphasising the vibrancy of the field.

Author : Howard Louthan,Gary B. Cohen,Franz A. J. Szabo
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857451095

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Diversity and Dissent by Howard Louthan,Gary B. Cohen,Franz A. J. Szabo Pdf

Early modern Central Europe was the continent’s most decentralized region politically and its most diverse ethnically and culturally. With the onset of the Reformation, it also became Europe’s most religiously divided territory and potentially its most explosive in terms of confessional conflict and war. Focusing on the Holy Roman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, this volume examines the tremendous challenge of managing confessional diversity in Central Europe between 1500 and 1800. Addressing issues of tolerance, intolerance, and ecumenism, each chapter explores a facet of the complex dynamic between the state and the region’s Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Utraquist, and Jewish communities. The development of religious toleration—one of the most debated questions of the early modern period—is examined here afresh, with careful consideration of the factors and conditions that led to both confessional concord and religious violence.

Author : Ian Morris
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691160863

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The Measure of Civilization by Ian Morris Pdf

Uses four factors--energy capture per capita, organization, information technology and war-making capacity--to attempt to show which world regions were the most powerful throughout all of human history.

Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405195522

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A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350 - c.1500 by Peter Brown Pdf

A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350-c.1500 challenges readers to think beyond a narrowly defined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries. A ground-breaking collection of newly-commissioned essays on medieval literature and culture. Encourages students to think beyond a narrowly defined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries. Reflects the erosion of the traditional, rigid boundary between medieval and early modern literature. Stresses the importance of constructing contexts for reading literature. Explores the extent to which medieval literature is in dialogue with other cultural products, including the literature of other countries, manuscripts and religion. Includes close readings of frequently-studied texts, including texts by Chaucer, Langland, the Gawain poet, and Hoccleve. Confronts some of the controversies that exercise students of medieval literature, such as those connected with literary theory, love, and chivalry and war.

Author : Luciana Duranti,Patricia C. Franks
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781538125809

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Encyclopedia of Archival Writers, 1515 - 2015 by Luciana Duranti,Patricia C. Franks Pdf

This book breaks new grounds in the scholarship of archival science, providing information of nearly 200 authors. This is the first book that describes in one publication the intellectual contributions of all major archival authors in bibliographic context.