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Free Download Medical Anthropology in the Late Middle Ages: Pietro d’Abano on Body, Soul, and the Virtues
by Matthew Klemm
English | 2025 | ISBN: 3110611341 | 172 Pages | True ePUB | 2.37 MB

Free Download Medical Anthropology in the Late Middle Ages: Pietro d’Abano on Body, Soul, and the Virtues
by Matthew Klemm
English | 2025 | ISBN: 3110611341 | 172 Pages | PDF | 6.4 MB

Free Download Cross-dressing in the Middle Ages
by Marina Montesano
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032325798 | 268 Pages | True ePUB | 3.94 MB

Free Download Secret Societies Of The Middle Ages: The Assassins, Templars & the Secret Tribunals of Westphalia by Thomas Keightley
English | April 1, 2005 | ISBN: 1578633346 | 428 pages | PDF | 4.59 Mb
Secret Societies of the Middle Ages explores the foundations of modern secret societies, examining the history and known facts of three very different organizations.

Free Download The Dark Ages Collection by J.B. Bury, Edward Creasy, Henry Bradley
English | September 13, 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08HZ6P93P | 2509 pages | PDF | 15 Mb
The Dark Ages is a historical periodization traditionally referring to the Middle Ages, that asserts that a demographic, cultural, and economic deterioration occurred in Western Europe following the decline of the Roman Empire.

Free Download Kisha G. Tracy, "Why Study the Middle Ages? "
English | ISBN: 1641891971 | 2022 | 118 pages | PDF | 744 KB
The study of the Middle Ages in every aspect of the modern liberal arts―the humanities, STEM, and the social sciences―has significant importance for society and the individual. There is a common belief that the peoples of the past were somehow exempt from (positive, especially) human nature, had less of a sense of morality (by any definition) than we do now, or were unaware of basic human dilemmas or triumphs. Relegating the Middle Ages to "primitive" distances us from close examination of what has not changed in society―or what has, which might not be for the better. Exploring and exploding these (mis)conceptions is essential to experience the benefits of a liberal education.

Free Download Theater and the Sacred in the Middle Ages by Andrzej Dąbrówka, translated by Jan Burzyński, Mikołaj Golubiewski
English | July 31, 2019 | ISBN: 3631655010 | True EPUB | 576 pages | 0.8 MB
The book presents a theory of relationships between the forms of devotion and early drama genres. The historical background is the circumstances of the Church becoming independent of the Empire. A theological and philosophical aspect of the transformation of piety at the time was the specification of the ontological status of the sacred (spiritualization) and "shifting it to Heaven" (transcendentalization). In opposition to a theory of Western civilization as a process of increasing individual self-control, the author argues for the need to take into account purely religious conditions (the idea of recapitulation). This allows the author to develop a holistic aesthetics for the religiously inspired creativity in the period spanning the 11th-15th centuries and to propose a new typology of medieval drama.

Free Download Clare Monagle, "The Intellectual Dynamism of the High Middle Ages "
English | ISBN: 9462985936 | 2021 | 344 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The essays in The Intellectual Dynamism of the High Middle Ages pay tribute to the work and impact of Constant J. Mews, in spirit and in content, revealing a nuanced and integrated vision of the intellectual history of the medieval West. Mews’s groundbreaking work has revealed the wide world of medieval letters: looking beyond the cathedral and the cloister for his investigations, and taking a broad view of intellectual practice in the Middle Ages, Mews has demanded that we expand our horizons as we explore the history of ideas. Alongside his cutting-edge work on Abelard, he has been a leader in the study of medieval women writers, paying heed to Hildegard and Heloise in particular. In Mews’ Middle Ages, the world of ideas always belongs to a larger world: one that is cultural, gendered, and politicized.

Free Download E. Nathaniel Gates, "Race and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Ages of Territorial and Market Expansion, 1840-1900"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0815329563 | EPUB | pages: 424 | 0.9 mb
First Published in 1998. Explores the concept of "race" The term "race," which originally denoted genealogical or class identity, has in the comparatively brief span of 300 years taken on an entirely new meaning. In the wake of the Enlightenment it came to be applied to social groups. This ideological transformation coupled with a dogmatic insistence that the groups so designated were natural, and not socially created, gave birth to the modern notion of "races" as genetically distinct entities. The results of this view were the encoding of "race" and "racial" hierarchies in law, literature, and culture.

Free Download Martianus Capella in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance
by Katie Reid
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9004684905 | 241 Pages | PDF | 11.3 MB