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Handbook of Medieval Culture : Fundamental Aspects and Conditions of the European Middle Ages. Volume 1 / ed. by Albrecht Classen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Handbook of Medieval Culture ; Volume 1Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (696 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110266597
  • 9783110385441
  • 9783110267303
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 909.07 23
LOC classification:
  • CB351 .H227 2015
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Volume 1 -- Medieval Culture—An Introduction to a New Handbook -- Animals, Birds, and Fish in the Middle Ages -- Architecture -- Visual Arts -- Astrology, Alchemy and other Occult Sciences -- Astronomy -- The Bible and Biblical Exegesis -- Children and Childhood in the Middle Ages -- Chivalry and Knighthood -- Church and the Clergy -- Cities -- Communication in the Middle Ages -- Convivencia: Conquest and Coexistence in Medieval Spain -- Medieval Courts and Aristocracy -- Daily Life -- Death -- Dreams and Dream Theory -- Dwarves, Trolls, Ogres, and Giants -- Education and Schooling -- Excrement and Waste -- Fashion -- Fairy, Elves and the Enchanted Otherworld -- Feudalism in Literature and Society -- Food and Cookbooks -- Foreigners and Fear -- The Forest, the River, the Mountain, the Field, and the Meadow -- Friendship in the Middle Ages -- Games and Pastimes -- God -- The Greek Orthodox Church -- Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven -- Horses and Equitation
Summary: A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture. Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over the last decades. Particularly our understanding of medieval culture, of the basic living conditions, and the specific value system prevalent at that time has considerably expanded, to a point where we are in danger of no longer seeing the proverbial forest for the trees. The present, innovative handbook offers compact articles on essential topics, ideals, specific knowledge, and concepts defining the medieval world as comprehensively as possible. The topics covered in this new handbook pertain to issues such as love and marriage, belief in God, hell, and the devil, education, lordship and servitude, Christianity versus Judaism and Islam, health, medicine, the rural world, the rise of the urban class, travel, roads and bridges, entertainment, games, and sport activities, numbers, measuring, the education system, the papacy, saints, the senses, death, and money.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9783110267303

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Volume 1 -- Medieval Culture—An Introduction to a New Handbook -- Animals, Birds, and Fish in the Middle Ages -- Architecture -- Visual Arts -- Astrology, Alchemy and other Occult Sciences -- Astronomy -- The Bible and Biblical Exegesis -- Children and Childhood in the Middle Ages -- Chivalry and Knighthood -- Church and the Clergy -- Cities -- Communication in the Middle Ages -- Convivencia: Conquest and Coexistence in Medieval Spain -- Medieval Courts and Aristocracy -- Daily Life -- Death -- Dreams and Dream Theory -- Dwarves, Trolls, Ogres, and Giants -- Education and Schooling -- Excrement and Waste -- Fashion -- Fairy, Elves and the Enchanted Otherworld -- Feudalism in Literature and Society -- Food and Cookbooks -- Foreigners and Fear -- The Forest, the River, the Mountain, the Field, and the Meadow -- Friendship in the Middle Ages -- Games and Pastimes -- God -- The Greek Orthodox Church -- Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven -- Horses and Equitation

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A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture. Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over the last decades. Particularly our understanding of medieval culture, of the basic living conditions, and the specific value system prevalent at that time has considerably expanded, to a point where we are in danger of no longer seeing the proverbial forest for the trees. The present, innovative handbook offers compact articles on essential topics, ideals, specific knowledge, and concepts defining the medieval world as comprehensively as possible. The topics covered in this new handbook pertain to issues such as love and marriage, belief in God, hell, and the devil, education, lordship and servitude, Christianity versus Judaism and Islam, health, medicine, the rural world, the rise of the urban class, travel, roads and bridges, entertainment, games, and sport activities, numbers, measuring, the education system, the papacy, saints, the senses, death, and money.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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