Medievalists.net » 2009 Books http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Telling Images: Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative II http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/03/telling-images-chaucer-and-the-imagery-of-narrative-ii/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/03/telling-images-chaucer-and-the-imagery-of-narrative-ii/#comments Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:48:43 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=14785 Telling Images: Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative II By V.A. Kolve Stanford University Press, 2009 ISBN:  9780804776585 Telling Images investigates certain symbolic traditions in Geoffrey Chaucer’s major poetry and their relationship to the visual culture of his time. With more than 150 illustrations, it continues an inquiry begun in the author’s prize-winning study, Chaucer […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/03/telling-images-chaucer-and-the-imagery-of-narrative-ii/feed/ 0 Arguments, Texts, and Contexts: Anselm’s Argument and the Friars http://www.medievalists.net/2010/10/25/arguments-texts-and-contexts-anselm%e2%80%99s-argument-and-the-friars/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/10/25/arguments-texts-and-contexts-anselm%e2%80%99s-argument-and-the-friars/#comments Tue, 26 Oct 2010 03:33:11 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=11708 Arguments, Texts, and Contexts: Anselm’s Argument and the Friars Matthews, Scott Medieval Philosophy and Theology 8 (1999) Abstract The contrast between the reception of Anselm’s Proslogion in the work of Bonaventure and in the work of Thomas Aquinas is often held up as a classic example of their competing intellectual assumptions. Some have located the […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2010/10/25/arguments-texts-and-contexts-anselm%e2%80%99s-argument-and-the-friars/feed/ 0 The Golden Summary of Cinggis Qayan http://www.medievalists.net/2010/08/24/the-golden-summary-of-cinggis-qayan/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/08/24/the-golden-summary-of-cinggis-qayan/#comments Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:05:39 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=9647 The Golden Summary of Cinggis Qayan By Leland Liu Rogers Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009 ISBN: 978-3-447-06074-5 The Golden Summary of Cinggis Qayan (Cinggis Qayan-u Altan Tobci) is the earliest post-Mongol Empire period compilation of legends of the Genghis Khan mythos known to date. These stories are the original legends from which many later Genghis Khan Chronicles were […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2010/08/24/the-golden-summary-of-cinggis-qayan/feed/ 0 Article on Old English Bede, Book on Frankish Formulae, win Royal Historical Society prizes http://www.medievalists.net/2010/08/05/article-on-old-english-bede-book-on-frankish-formulae-win-royal-historical-society-prizes/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/08/05/article-on-old-english-bede-book-on-frankish-formulae-win-royal-historical-society-prizes/#comments Fri, 06 Aug 2010 03:33:13 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=9252 The Royal Historical Society announced their awards for outstanding historical scholarship and achievement earlier this summer, and two young medievalists came out as winners. George Molyneaux of Oxford University won the Alexander Prize for his article “The Old English Bede: English Ideology or Christian Instruction?”, while Dr. Alice Rio of King’s College, London, received the […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2010/08/05/article-on-old-english-bede-book-on-frankish-formulae-win-royal-historical-society-prizes/feed/ 0 The Maps of Matthew Paris http://www.medievalists.net/2010/07/18/the-maps-of-matthew-paris/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/07/18/the-maps-of-matthew-paris/#comments Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:38:37 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=9010 The Maps of Matthew Paris: Medieval Journeys through Space, Time and Liturgy By Daniel K. Connolly Boydell and Brewer, 2009 ISBN: 9781843834786 The illustrations of the Benedictine monk, artist, and chronicler Matthew Paris offer a gateway into the thirteenth-century world. This new study of his cartography emphasises the striking innovations he brought to it, and shows […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2010/07/18/the-maps-of-matthew-paris/feed/ 0 Landscape with Two Saints: How Genovefa of Paris and Brigit of Kildare Built Christianity in Barbarian Europe http://www.medievalists.net/2010/07/08/landscape-with-two-saints-how-genovefa-of-paris-and-brigit-of-kildare-built-christianity-in-barbarian-europe/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/07/08/landscape-with-two-saints-how-genovefa-of-paris-and-brigit-of-kildare-built-christianity-in-barbarian-europe/#comments Fri, 09 Jul 2010 05:44:55 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=8919 Landscape with Two Saints: How Genovefa of Paris and Brigit of Kildare Built Christianity in Barbarian Europe By Lisa Bitel Oxford University Press, 2009 ISBN: 9780195336528 At a time when Europeans still longed to be Roman and were just learning to be Christian, two extraordinary holy women – Genovefa of Paris (ca. 420-502) and Brigit […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2010/07/08/landscape-with-two-saints-how-genovefa-of-paris-and-brigit-of-kildare-built-christianity-in-barbarian-europe/feed/ 0 Licoricia of Winchester: Marriage, Motherhood and Murder in the Medieval Anglo-Jewish Community http://www.medievalists.net/2010/07/05/licoricia-of-winchester-marriage-motherhood-and-murder-in-the-medieval-anglo-jewish-community/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/07/05/licoricia-of-winchester-marriage-motherhood-and-murder-in-the-medieval-anglo-jewish-community/#comments Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:06:11 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=8882 Licoricia of Winchester: Marriage, Motherhood and Murder in the Medieval Anglo-Jewish Community By Suzanne Bartlet Vallentine Mithcell, 2009 ISBN:  978-05-85303-822-1 On a spring day in 1277, the prominent Jewish businesswoman Licoricia of Winchester was found by her daughter murdered, stabbed to death in her own house. Alongside Licoricia’s body was that of her Christian maid, […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2010/07/05/licoricia-of-winchester-marriage-motherhood-and-murder-in-the-medieval-anglo-jewish-community/feed/ 0 Hofstaðir: Excavations of a Viking Age Feasting Hall in North-Eastern Iceland http://www.medievalists.net/2010/04/03/hofsta%c3%b0ir-excavations-of-a-viking-age-feasting-hall-in-north-eastern-iceland/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/04/03/hofsta%c3%b0ir-excavations-of-a-viking-age-feasting-hall-in-north-eastern-iceland/#comments Sun, 04 Apr 2010 01:05:08 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=7537 Hofstaðir: Excavations of a Viking Age Feasting Hall in North-Eastern Iceland Edited by Gavin Lucas Institute of Archaeology (Iceland), 2009 An international group of 45 archaeologists provide an in-depth and detailed analysis and interpretation of the 1992-2002 investigations of this classic site. At about 500 pages with over 200 illustrations, the volume represents a landmark […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2010/04/03/hofsta%c3%b0ir-excavations-of-a-viking-age-feasting-hall-in-north-eastern-iceland/feed/ 0 Records, Administration and Aristocratic Society in the Anglo-Norman Realm http://www.medievalists.net/2010/03/13/records-administration-and-aristocratic-society-in-the-anglo-norman-realm/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/03/13/records-administration-and-aristocratic-society-in-the-anglo-norman-realm/#comments Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:53:55 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=7201 Records, Administration and Aristocratic Society in the Anglo-Norman Realm: Papers Commemorating the 800th Anniversary of King John’s Loss of Normandy Edited by Nicholas Vincent Boydell, 2009 ISBN: 9781843834854 The major theme of this volume is the records of the Anglo-Norman realm, and how they are used separately and in combination to construct the history of […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2010/03/13/records-administration-and-aristocratic-society-in-the-anglo-norman-realm/feed/ 0 A Companion to the Great Western Schism (1378-1417) http://www.medievalists.net/2010/03/13/a-companion-to-the-great-western-schism-1378-1417/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/03/13/a-companion-to-the-great-western-schism-1378-1417/#comments Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:14:00 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=7195 A Companion to the Great Western Schism (1378-1417) Edited by Joëlle Rollo-Koster and Thomas M. Izbicki Brill, 2009 ISBN: 978 90 04 16277 8 The division of the Church or Schism that took place between 1378 and 1417 had no precedent in Christianity. No conclave since the twelfth century had acted as had those in […]

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