Books have rarely been written about the history of any emotion except love and shame, and this volume is the very first on the meaning of anger in the Middle Ages. Well aware of modern theories about the nature of anger, the authors consider the role of anger in the social lives and conceptual universes of a varied and significant cross-section of medieval people: monks, saints, kings, lords, and peasants. They are careful to distinguish between texts (the sources on which historians must rely) and the reality behind the texts. They are sensitive, as well, to the differences between...
Books have rarely been written about the history of any emotion except love and shame, and this volume is the very first on the meaning of anger in...
Why did early medieval kings declare certain properties to be immune from the judicial and fiscal encroachments of their own agents Did weakness compel them to prohibit their agents from entering these properties as historians have traditionally believed? In a richly detailed book that will be greeted as a landmark addition to the literature on the Middle Ages. Barbara H. Rosenwein argues that immunities were markers of power. By placing restraints on themselves and their agents, kings demonstrated their authority, affirmed their status. and manipulated the boundaries of sacred...
Why did early medieval kings declare certain properties to be immune from the judicial and fiscal encroachments of their own agents Did weakness compe...
A new generation of historians today is borrowing from cultural anthropology, post-modern critical theory, and gender studies to understand the social meanings of medieval religious movements, practices, figures, and cults. In this volume Sharon Farmer and Barbara H. Rosenwein bring together essays all hitherto unpublished that combine some of the best of these new approaches with rigorous research and traditional scholarship. Some of these essays re-envision the professionals of religion: the monks and nuns who carried out crucial social functions as mediators between living and dead,...
A new generation of historians today is borrowing from cultural anthropology, post-modern critical theory, and gender studies to understand the social...
Books have rarely been written about the history of any emotion except love and shame, and this volume is the very first on the meaning of anger in the Middle Ages. Well aware of modern theories about the nature of anger, the authors consider the role of anger in the social lives and conceptual universes of a varied and significant cross-section of medieval people: monks, saints, kings, lords, and peasants. They are careful to distinguish between texts (the sources on which historians must rely) and the reality behind the texts. They are sensitive, as well, to the differences between...
Books have rarely been written about the history of any emotion except love and shame, and this volume is the very first on the meaning of anger in...
Why did early medieval kings declare certain properties to be immune from the judicial and fiscal encroachments of their own agents? Did weakness compel them to prohibit their agents from entering these properties, as historians have traditionally...
Why did early medieval kings declare certain properties to be immune from the judicial and fiscal encroachments of their own agents? Did weakness comp...
