Publications
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Fraternal Bonds in the Early Middle Ages
(2023)
The problem of fraternal relations in the early Middle Ages has not been hitherto studied in detail, especially in comparison with the multitude of studies dealing with the models of marriage, gender-based social roles, ...
Rituals in Slavic Pre-Christian Religion
(2023)
The authors comprehensively analyze all the available information regarding the ritual practices of Slavic pre-Christian religion that can be found in written medieval texts. After investigating every kind of reference to ...
Reading Nature in the Early Middle Ages
(2023)
This book is a new cultural and intellectual history of the natural world in the early medieval Latin West. It examines the complex relationships between language, texts, and the physical world they describe, focusing on ...
A Companion to the Cavendishes
(2020)
“The noble Cavendishes were one of the most influential families in the politics and culture of early modern England and beyond. A Companion to the Cavendishes offers a comprehensive account of the Cavendish family's ...
Digital Techniques for Documenting and Preserving Cultural Heritage
(2018)
This book presents interdisciplinary approaches to the examination and documentation of material cultural heritage, using non-invasive spatial and spectral optical technologies.
Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World
(2015)
This ground-breaking book brings together scholars from the humanities and social and physical sciences to address the question of how recent work in the genetics, zoology, and epidemiology of plague's causative organism ...
John Miles Foley's World of Oralities
(2020)
This collection brings together newly commissioned and cutting-edge essays on oral text and tradition ranging from the ancient and medieval world to the present day by a leading group of European and North American oral ...
Animism, Materiality, and Museums
(2021)
Among our most cherished modern assumptions is our distance from the material world we claim to love or, alternately, to dominate and own. As both devotional tool and art object, the Byzantine icon is rendered complicit ...
Sufi Masters and the Creation of Saintly Spheres in Medieval Syria
(2021)
This book explores the lives of Sufi masters who functioned as embodiments of Islamic sainthood and left a lasting mark on the land. These figures lived in the ancient cities of Syria and their surrounding towns and villages ...
Gender, Reading, and Truth in the Twelfth Century
(2020)
The twelfth century witnessed the birth of modern Western European literary tradition: major narrative works appeared in both French and in German, founding a literary culture independent of the Latin traditions of the ...