Sowohl die Konstituierung von Gesellschaft als auch der Gebrauch von Sprache an sich repräsentieren wichtige Probleme bereits der mittelalterlicher Welt. Mit Hilfe moderner kommunikationstheoretischer Überlegungen (Habermas, Luhmann,...

"The Corpse in the Middle Ages: Embalming, Cremating, and the Cultural Construction of the Dead Body" von Albrecht Classen ist eine wissenschaftliche Untersuchung der Vorstellungen und Praktiken rund um den Tod und den toten Körper im...

Medieval historians and literary scholars have not ignored the topic of sexual violence and rape, but the primary focus has regularly rested on English, French, or Italian documents. Here we have the first book-length study that...

Während man bisher durchaus gewillt gewesen ist, das Phänomen der höfischen Liebe als ein zentrales Thema in der (hoch-)mittelalterlichen Welt anzuerkennen, hat man doch meist darüber hinweggesehen, wie stark das Interesse der Dichter...

Older research on the premodern world limited its focus on the Church, the court, and, more recently, on urban space. The present volume invites readers to consider the meaning of rural space, both in light of ecocritical readings and...

Although it is fashionable among modernists to claim that globalism emerged only since ca. 1800, the opposite can well be documented through careful comparative and transdisciplinary studies, as this volume demonstrates, offering a wide...

Death is not only the final moment of life, it also casts a huge shadow on human society at large. People throughout time have had to cope with death as an existential experience, and this also, of course, in the premodern world. The...

Despite the assumption that we live today in a rather rationalist and mechanized world, there remain many aspects that neither medicine nor physics can fully explain. The Catholic Church continues to pronounce individuals as saints...

While most people today take hygiene and medicine for granted, they both have had their own history. We can gain deep insights into the pre-modern world by studying its health-care system, its approaches to medicine, and concept of...

The study of pre-modern anthropology requires the close examination of the relationship between nature and human society, which has been both precarious and threatening as well as productive, soothing, inviting, and pleasurable. Much...

There are no clear demarcation lines between magic, astrology, necromancy, medicine, and even sciences in the pre-modern world. Under the umbrella term 'magic,' the contributors to this volume examine a wide range of texts, both literary...

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...