Medieval worlds : barbarians, heretics, and artists in the Middle Ages

Medieval worlds : barbarians, heretics, and artists in the Middle Ages /

In this exciting book by one of the foremost medievalists at work today, Arno Borst offers at once an imaginatively narrated tour of medieval society and a summary of the most important themes he has explored in his sophisticated philosophical approach to history. Issues of language, power, and cult...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Borst, Arno
Format: Book
Language:English
German
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Subjects:
476-1492
Civilization, Medieval.
Civilisation médiévale.
Mentaliteitsgeschiedenis.
Europe > History > 476-1492.
Europe > Histoire > 476-1492.
Europe.
Europa (geografie)
Europe > 476-1492.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Barbarians : the history of a European catchword
  • The history of languages in the flux of European thought
  • The invention and fission of the public persona
  • Universal histories in the Middle Ages?
  • Historical time in the writings of Abelard
  • Heretics and hysteria
  • The origins of the witch-craze in the Alps
  • Patron saints in medieval society
  • Chivalric life in the High Middle Ages
  • Crisis and reform in the universities of the Late Middle Ages
  • Women and art in the Middle Ages
  • Science and games
  • Three studies of death in the Middle Ages
  • My life.

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