Medieval and Renaissance Studies: Showing 1 to 18 of 18 results where the Subjects is Religion sorted by Newest to oldest

Feeling the Future at Christian End-Time Performances

By Jill C. Stevenson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Religion, Medieval and Renaissance Studies

How Christian depictions of the End allow spectators to experience—and feel—their place within the future history of humankind

Honor and Personhood in Early Modern Mexico

By Osvaldo F. Pardo
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Latin American Studies, Religion

An examination of the concept of honor as essential to both colonial Spaniards and indigenous Mexicans

From Monastery to Hospital

Christian Monasticism and the Transformation of Health Care in Late Antiquity

By Andrew T. Crislip
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Religion

Brings to light for the first time the innovative healing practices of monasteries and their role in the development of Western medical tradition

Conflict and Coexistence

Archbishop Rodrigo and the Muslims and Jews of Medieval Spain

By Lucy K Pick
Subjects: History, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Religion
Series: History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds

Illuminates the career and method of one of thirteenth-century Spain's most important religious, military, and political figures

The Footsteps of Israel

Understanding Jews in Anglo-Saxon England

By Andrew Scheil
Subjects: History, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Religion

Illuminates the previously unrecognized role of Jews and Judaism in early English writing and society

The Idea of the Theater in Latin Christian Thought

Augustine to the Fourteenth Century

By Donnalee Dox
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Religion, Theater and Performance

Reads medieval texts long considered the historical basis for Western drama as part of the Latin Christian intellectual tradition

The Middle East Remembered

Forged Identities, Competing Narratives, Contested Spaces

By Jacob Lassner
Subjects: Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Religion, Anthropology

A meditation on the art of history-writing in the medieval Near East

The Key to The Name of the Rose

Including Translations of All Non-English Passages

By Adele J. Haft, Jane G. White, and Robert J. White
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, History, Religion

Unravels Umberto Eco's classic mystery novel

The Limits of Ancient Christianity

Essays on Late Antique Thought and Culture in Honor of R. A. Markus

Edited by William E. Klingshirn & Mark Vessey
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Religion, Classical Studies

Sixteen essays explore the end of ancient Christianity

Rereading the Renaissance

Petrarch, Augustine, and the Language of Humanism

By Carol Everhart Quillen
Subjects: History, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Religion

Augustine in Petrarch's humanism

Writing and Renunciation in Medieval Japan

The Works of the Poet-Priest Kamo no Chomei

By Rajyashree Pandey
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Religion, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Challenges the rigid distinction between the religious and literary in medieval Japan

The Tale of Saigyo

By Meredith McKinney
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Religion, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies

A moving portrait of a wandering poet-monk in medieval Japan.

Peregrinations of the Word

By Louis Mackey
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Philosophy, Religion

An examination of medieval philosophers' approach to the relation of faith and reason

Rethinking Sorrow

Revelatory Tales of Late Medieval Japan

By Margaret Childs
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, Religion, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Provides fresh translations and readings of a small, coherent subgroup of short stories that describe how people were inspired to religious commitment

Poetry and the Cult of the Martyrs

The Liber Peristephanon of Prudentius

By Michael Roberts
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Religion

A beautifully detailed literary study of Prudentius's eulogies of the Christian martyrs

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