Research on medieval and early modern travel literature has made great progress, which now allows us to take the next step and to analyze the correlations between the individual and space throughout time, which contributed essentially to...

Childhood in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance von Classen, Albrecht

Sexuality is one of the most influential factors in human life. The responses to and reflections upon the manifestations of sexuality provide fascinating insights into fundamental aspects of medieval and early-modern culture. This...

Paracelsus im Kontext der Wissenschaften seiner Zeit von Classen, Albrecht

Bestseller - gestern und heute / Bestseller - Yesterday and Today von Classen, Albrecht

This interdisciplinary handbook provides extensive information about research in medieval studies and its most important results over the last decades. The handbook is a reference work which enables the readers to quickly and purposely...

This new volume explores the surprisingly intense and complex relationships between East and West during the Middle Ages and the early modern world, combining a large number of critical studies representing such diverse fields as...

Handbook of Medieval Culture. Set 3 Volumes von Classen, Albrecht

Amerikanische Satiren von Classen, Albrecht

The notions of other peoples, cultures, and natural conditions have always been determined by the epistemology of imagination and fantasy, providing much freedom and creativity, and yet have also created much fear, anxiety, and horror....

Gehst du gerne auf Mittelalterfeste, vielleicht sogar verkleidet als glorreicher Ritter oder strahlendes Burgfäulein? Das Mittelalter mit seinen mächtigen Burgen und tosenden Kämpfen, seinen aufregenden Geschichten rund um...

Theophrast von Hohenheim (Paracelsus) gehörte zwar zu den herausragenden Ärzten seiner Zeit, war aber zugleich heftig umkämpft, wie die Entwicklung der Medizingeschichte des 16. Jahrhunderts überhaupt vor Augen führt, als viele...