Medieval Worlds Barbarians, Heretics and Artists in the Middle Ages

Name: Medieval Worlds Barbarians, Heretics and Artists in the Middle Ages
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ISBN: 9780226066578

ISBN-10: 0226066576

ISBN-13: 9780226066578

Edition: 1996 (Reprint)

Authors: Arno Borst, Eric Hansen

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In Medieval Worlds: Barbarians, Heretics, and Artists, medieval historian Arno Borst offers at once an imaginatively narrated tour of medieval society. Issues of language, power, and cultural change come to life as he examines how knights, witches and heretics, monks and kings, women poets, and disputatious university professors existed in the medieval world. Clearly interested in the forms of medieval behavior which gave rise to the seeds of modern society, Borst focuses on three in particular that gave momentum to medieval religious, social, and intellectual movements: the barbaric, heretical, and artistic. Borst concludes by reflecting on his own life as a scholar and draws out lessons…

Book details

List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/22/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Eric Hansen has been reporting on college sports since 1993 and has won several national awards from the Football Writers Association of America. Hansen worked his way up to managing editor for the Irish Sports Report where he stayed for seven years. He now works as the beat writer for Notre Dame football and as an assistant sports editor for the South Bend Tribune . He currently lives in South Bend, Indiana.



Preface



Interpreting Language



Barbarians: The History of a European Catchword



The History of Languages in the Flux of European Thought



Interpreting Government



The Invention and Fission of the Public Persona



Interpreting History



Universal Histories in the Middle Ages?



Historical Time in the Writings of Abelard



Religious Movements



Heretics and Hysteria



The Origins of the Witch-craze in the Alps



Social Movements



Patron Saints in Medieval Society



Chivalric Life in the High Middle Ages



Intellectual Movements



Crisis and Reform in the Universities of the Late Middle Ages



Experiences with Art



Women and Art in the Middle Ages



Science and Games



Experiences with Mortality



Three Studies of Death in the Middle Ages



My Life


Bibliography


Index