Articles with keyword "Middle Ages"
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The Body of Christ
Theology became flesh and blood in the sacred street theater of medieval England.
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Dating Fashionable Middle-Aged People
A scholar's epic journey to catalog two hundred years of medieval dress.
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Rufus Refused Credit
Modest Medieval scholar's commentaries on Aristotle come to light after five hundred years
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Where Town Meets Gown
Site on medieval history, broad in scope, ranges from the totally wacky to materials that are deep and philosophically chellenging.
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Thieves of Pleasure
A vicious fraternal war rewards Alfonso VI with the artistic and poetic treasures of al-Andalus.
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How to Lose Weight and Gain Power
From The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of a Castilian Culture, © 2008 by Jerrilynn D. Dodds, María Rosa Menocal, and Abigail Krasner Balbale.
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Dante: Auctor, Autore
The question of authority among writers nags us less today than it did in the late Middle Ages, when poets and philosophers began daring to pen their works in the vernacular.
