Articles

What do we mean when we talk about disability in the Middle Ages? This volume brings together dynamic scholars working on the subject in medieval literature... 
People with disabilities | Literature, Medieval | History and criticism | History | People with disabilities in literature | History of Medicine | Medieval Literature | Medieval History 400-1500 | To 1500

Civilization, Medieval | Periodicals | Literature, Medieval | Societies

Theory, etc | Civilization, Medieval | Middle Ages | Civilization, Modern | Medieval influences | Literature, Medieval | History and criticism | Philosophy

Superstitions are commonplace in the modern world. Mostly, however, they evoke innocuous images of people reading their horoscopes or avoiding black cats.... 
Civilization, Medieval | Catholic Church | Superstition | History | Religious aspects | Europe | Medieval | Christianity | RELIGION | HISTORY

The first monograph on the history of Islamic hospitals, this volume focuses on the under-examined Egyptian and Levantine institutions of the twelfth to... 
Care of the sick | Hospitals | Islam | History | Religious aspects | Medicine: General Issues | Hospitals, Medieval - Middle East

This book considers howscientists, theologians, priests, and poets approached the relationship of thehuman body and ethics in the later Middle Ages. Is... 
History of Medicine | History, Medieval | Medicine, Medieval, in literature | Literature and medicine | History | Medicine, Medieval | Literature and morals | Literature, Medieval | Medieval Literature | Classical and Antique Literature | Literature | Social History | History of Religion | Religion and Society | History of Medieval Europe | Humanities | the seven deadly sins | medieval medicine | Languages and Literature | medieval religion | Historia | Språk och litteratur | History and Archaeology | Humaniora | General Literature Studies | history of religion | medieval culture | Litteraturvetenskap | medieval literature | Historia och arkeologi | history of medicine

Middle Ages | Yearbooks | Literature, Medieval | History

History | Middle Ages | Periodicals

Scholastic disputation, the formalized procedure of debate in the medieval university, is one of the hallmarks of intellectual life in premodern Europe.... 
Religious disputations | Dialogue | Scholasticism | Civilization, Medieval | Debates and debating | Academic disputations | History | Learning and scholarship | 12th century | Europe | To 1500 | Language & Literature | Medieval, 500–1500 | 13th century | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES | Medieval | Rhetoric | HISTORY | Medieval, 500-1500

Archaeology | Great Britain History | Archaeology, Medieval | Medieval landscapes | Medieval churches | Later medieval archaeology | Bioarchaeology | Medieval artefacts | Medieval castles | Sensual culture studies | Medieval countryside | Medieval life course | Medieval towns and economy | Medieval industry

In hisProblemata, Aristotle provided medieval thinkers with the occasion to inquire into the natural causes of the sexual desires of men to act upon or be... 
Philosophy, Medieval | Male homosexuality | History | Sodomy | Science, Medieval | Europe | To 1500 | history | Medieval | HISTORY

In this debut, Heather Webb studies medieval notions of the heart to explore the 'lost circulations' of an era when individual lives and bodies were defined by... 
History | Civilization, Medieval | Heart | Human body (Philosophy) | Medical literature | Symbolic aspects | Mind and body | To 1500 | Heart in literature | Health Sciences

Medicine | Medicine, Greek and Roman | Mediterranean Region Social conditions | Hospital and community | Byzantine Empire Civilization | Medicine, Ancient | History

Cities and towns, Medieval | Europe | Middle Ages | Civilization, Medieval | Europe History | 476-1492 | Archaeology, Medieval

Science and the humanities | Civilization, Medieval | Middle Ages | Translating and interpreting | History | Transmission of texts | Learning and scholarship

Susan Sontag in Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors points to the vital connection between metaphors and bodily illnesses, though her analyses deal... 
Health in literature | Medicine in literature | English literature | Human body in literature | Language and languages | Rhetoric | Medieval influences | History and criticism | Social aspects | History | Philosophy | History of Medicine | Medieval Literature | Early Modern/Renaissance Literature | Interdisciplinary Literary Studies | Literature by Geographic Area | English literature-History and criticism | England

Published just after the Second World War,European Literature and the Latin Middle Agesis a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European... 
Latin literature, Medieval and modern | Literature, Medieval | History and criticism | European literature | General | Medieval | Ancient & Classical | European | Literary Criticism | Language & Literature | LITERARY CRITICISM

History and Development of English | Lexicography | Medieval Latin | The English Language | Medieval Culture | Dictionaries of English | Old English Language | Middle English Language

"This book focuses on one of the most attractive yet poorly understood features of late-medieval manuscript illumination: the portrait of the book owner at... 
Women | Portraits, Medieval | Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval | Prayer books | History of Art / Art & Design Styles | England | Portraits | France