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Medieval worlds : barbarians, heretics, and artists in the Middle Ages / Arno Borst ; translated by Eric Hansen.

By: Borst, Arno
Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992Description: xiii, 273 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0226066568 (cloth : acidfree paper)Uniform titles: Barbaren, Ketzer, und Artisten. English Subject(s): Civilization, Medieval | Europe -- History -- 476-1492DDC classification: 940.1 LOC classification: CB351 | .B5913 1992Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-261) and index.
Contents:
Barbarians : the history of a European catchword -- The history of languages in the flux of European thought -- The invention and fission of the public persona -- Universal histories in the Middle Ages? -- Historical time in the writings of Abelard -- Heretics and hysteria -- The origins of the witch-craze in the Alps -- Patron saints in medieval society -- Chivalric life in the High Middle Ages -- Crisis and reform in the universities of the Late Middle Ages -- Women and art in the Middle Ages -- Science and games -- Three studies of death in the Middle Ages -- My life.

Translation of: Barbaren, Ketzer und Artisten.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-261) and index.

Barbarians : the history of a European catchword -- The history of languages in the flux of European thought -- The invention and fission of the public persona -- Universal histories in the Middle Ages? -- Historical time in the writings of Abelard -- Heretics and hysteria -- The origins of the witch-craze in the Alps -- Patron saints in medieval society -- Chivalric life in the High Middle Ages -- Crisis and reform in the universities of the Late Middle Ages -- Women and art in the Middle Ages -- Science and games -- Three studies of death in the Middle Ages -- My life.

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