Medievalists.net » 2010 Books http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Margot Fassler wins 2012 Otto Gründler Book Prize http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/14/margot-fassler-wins-2012-otto-grundler-book-prize/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/14/margot-fassler-wins-2012-otto-grundler-book-prize/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 21:06:16 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=31711 Margot Fassler, Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy at the University of Notre Dame, was awarded the 2012 Otto Gründler Book Prize for her book The Virgin of Chartres: Making History Through Liturgy and the Arts.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/14/margot-fassler-wins-2012-otto-grundler-book-prize/feed/ 0 From the Brink of the Apocalypse: Confronting Famine, War, Plague, and Death in the Later Middle Ages http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/23/from-the-brink-of-the-apocalypse-confronting-famine-war-plague-and-death-in-the-later-middle-ages/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/23/from-the-brink-of-the-apocalypse-confronting-famine-war-plague-and-death-in-the-later-middle-ages/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:11:33 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=31249 Aberth writes in the tradition of Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror, both in his lively, readable style aimed at the nonspecialist and in his antiheroic, almost romantic portrayal of late medieval miseries.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/23/from-the-brink-of-the-apocalypse-confronting-famine-war-plague-and-death-in-the-later-middle-ages/feed/ 0 Situational Poetics in Robert Henryson’s Testament of Cresseid http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/06/situational-poetics-in-robert-henrysons-testament-of-cresseid/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/06/situational-poetics-in-robert-henrysons-testament-of-cresseid/#comments Fri, 06 Apr 2012 22:58:30 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=30828 This is the first full-length study of Henryson to appear in nearly a generation.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/06/situational-poetics-in-robert-henrysons-testament-of-cresseid/feed/ 0 The Beast Within: Animals in the Middle Ages http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/16/the-beast-within-animals-in-the-middle-ages/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/16/the-beast-within-animals-in-the-middle-ages/#comments Sat, 16 Jul 2011 21:49:29 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=22815 The Beast Within: Animals in the Middle Ages By Joyce Salisbury Second Edition Routledge, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-415-78095-7 Publisher’s Synopsis: This important book offers a unique exploration of the use of and attitude towards animals from the 4th to the 14th centuries. The Beast Within explores the varying roles of animals as property, food and sexual […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/16/the-beast-within-animals-in-the-middle-ages/feed/ 0 Viking Trade and Settlement in Continental Western Europe http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/15/viking-trade-and-settlement-in-continental-western-europe/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/15/viking-trade-and-settlement-in-continental-western-europe/#comments Sat, 16 Jul 2011 03:14:53 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=22800 Viking Trade and Settlement in Continental Western Europe Edited by Iben Skibsted Klæsøe Museum Tusculanum Press, 2011 ISBN: 978-87-635-0530-7 Publisher’s Synopsis: The European coastal areas and the lands around the rivers had great importance for the local populations, but also for the Vikings. The chapters presented in this volume, written by distinguished scholars in the […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/15/viking-trade-and-settlement-in-continental-western-europe/feed/ 0 Mapping Medievalism at the Canadian Frontier http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/01/mapping-medievalism-at-the-canadian-frontier/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/01/mapping-medievalism-at-the-canadian-frontier/#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:50:05 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=22284 Mapping Medievalism at the Canadian Frontier Edited by Kathryn Brush Museum London, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-897215-30-2 Introduction: Art and cultural historians have traditionally examined the mythology of the Canadian frontier in light of the representation of the “wild” and “untamed” Canadian landscape produced by such artists as Tom Thompson and the Group of Seven in the […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/06/24/du-fait-de-cuisine-on-cookery-of-master-chiquart-1420/feed/ 0 Bloodied Banners: Martial Display on the Medieval Battlefield http://www.medievalists.net/2011/06/20/bloodied-banners-martial-display-on-the-medieval-battlefield/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/06/20/bloodied-banners-martial-display-on-the-medieval-battlefield/#comments Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:39:42 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=21997 Bloodied Banners: Martial Display on the Medieval Battlefield By Robert W. Jones Boydell Press, 2010 ISBN: 9781843835615 The medieval battlefield was a place of spectacle and splendour. The fully-armed knight, bedecked in his vivid heraldic colours, mounted on his great charger, riding out beneath his brightly-painted banner, is a stock image of war and the […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/06/20/bloodied-banners-martial-display-on-the-medieval-battlefield/feed/ 0 A Who’s Who of Your Ancestral Saints http://www.medievalists.net/2011/03/16/a-whos-who-of-your-ancestral-saints/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/03/16/a-whos-who-of-your-ancestral-saints/#comments Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:13:45 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=18486 A Who’s Who of Your Ancestral Saints By Alan J. Koman Genealogical Publishing Company, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-8063-1824-0 Publisher’s Synopsis: For anyone interested in his or her own genealogical links to medieval Europe and early Christianity, this book offers an extraordinary opportunity. For the first time, the lives of 275 early European saints are retold and […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/03/16/a-whos-who-of-your-ancestral-saints/feed/ 0 Trade in Artists’ Materials: Markets and Commerce in Europe to 1700 http://www.medievalists.net/2011/02/27/trade-in-artists-materials-markets-and-commerce-in-europe-to-1700/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/02/27/trade-in-artists-materials-markets-and-commerce-in-europe-to-1700/#comments Sun, 27 Feb 2011 15:12:08 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=17600 Trade in Artists’ Materials: Markets and Commerce in Europe to 1700 Edited by Jo Kirby, Susie Nash and Joanna Cannon Archetype Publications, 2010 ISBN: 9781904982258 Where did artists buy their materials? Who prepared them? What did they cost? Where did they come from, and how? This volume draws together the international research in this new […]

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