This book focuses on the use of the past in two senses. First, it looks at the way in which medieval texts from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries discussed the past: how they presented history, what kinds of historical narratives they employed, and what anxieties gathered around the practice of historiography. Second, this study examines twentieth-century interactions with this textual past, and the problems that have arisen for critics trying to negotiate this radically different textual culture. Lauryn Mayer examines chronicle histories that have been largely ignored by scholars,...

This study focuses on a sometime troubadour who later became a bishop, whose life touched on many of the most important currents of his time and place.

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book explores the historical and imaginary representation of the Saracen, or Muslim, in French writings from 1100 to 1500.

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

An investigation into the striking movements towards a discourse of 'bodily' language used to discuss the relationship between the human person and God which took place in the 12th century and after. The book focuses on the mystical writings of Bernard of Clairvaux and Hadewijck of Brabant.

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book explains how the authority Thomas Aquinas's theological teachings grew out of the doctrinal controversies surrounding it within the Dominican Order. The adoption and eventual promotion of the teachings of Aquinas by the Order of Preachers ran counter to every other current running through the late thirteenth-century Church; most scholastics, the Dominican Order included, were wary of the his unconventional teachings. Despite this, the Dominican Order was propelled along their solitary via Thomas by conflicts between two groups of magistri: Aquinas's early Dominican followers and...