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Understanding the senses is indispensable for comprehending the Middle Ages because both a theoretical and a practical i

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This volume presents a comprehensive and collaborative survey of how people, individually and within collective entities

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The ancient world used the senses to express an enormous range of cultural meanings. Indeed the senses were functionally

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Historically, scholars have largely endorsed the truism that there was no such thing as medieval tragedy, a genre long b

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Historically and broadly defined as the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Renaissance, the

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The medieval era has been described as ‘the ‘Age of Chivalry’ and ‘the Age of Faith’ but also as ‘the Dark Ages’. Mediev

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A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages is an essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of h

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The Middle Ages was an era of dynamic social transformation, and notions of disability in medieval culture reflected how

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A Cultural History of Sexuality presents an overarching survey from ancient times to the present. With six volumes cover

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A Cultural History of Theatre in the Middle Ages provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural

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