Handbook of Medieval Culture

Handbook of Medieval CultureThanks to extensive research, our understanding of medieval culture has virtually exploded over the last decades. Medieval society embraced a complex set of values that must be discussed from an interdisciplinary perspective. This new handbook offers articles on central topics defining the medieval world and culture. The topics covered are, for example, love and marriage, transportation, medicine, Church and religions, literature, and the arts.

sharing households

While the Canudos movement has been consistently viewed either as a rebellion of crazed fanatics or as a model of proletarian resistance to oppression

the brutish lord of the domain of Whispers

The Arabic tradition on eroticism breaks through into French literary writings on gender and sexuality in often surprising ways

and its operations

Magnum expanded the human-interest story to global dimensions while bringing the aesthetic of news pictures into new markets

and psychological issues

we can take the next steps toward achieving similar reductions in hunger and food insecurity elsewhere in the developed and developing worlds

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of enterprise

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