Bloomsbury Academic A Cultural History of Ideas in the Medieval Age (The Cultural Histories Series)

PRAISE FOR A CULTURAL HISTORY OF IDEAS: VOLUMES 1-6 A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE 2023 AAP PROSE AWARDS WINNER: BEST HUMANITIES REFERENCE WORK This volume of A Cultural History of Ideas examines the roughly thousand years, fromthe end of the Roman Empire to the cusp ofthe Reformation, which make up the MiddleAges. Each chapter investigates the ideas andpractices associated with a specific theme—knowledge, the human self, ethics, politics,nature, religion, rhetoric, art, and history—inorder to reveal the tangle of social, cultural, andreligious factors that shaped, and were shapedby, medieval intellectual life. Central to thisproject is the need to read against the grain,revealing the limits and suppressions in both themedieval sources themselves and more recentscholarship on the period. Taken together, thesenine essays, written from a variety of disciplinaryperspectives, depict the complexities of medievallife and thought, their unique characteristics, and their influence on subsequent centuries. The 6-volume set A Cultural History of Ideas is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available in print for individuals or for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a tangible reference for their shelves or as part of a fully-searchable digital library. The digital product is available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access via www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com. Individual volumes for academics and researchers interested in specific historical periods are also available in print or digitally via www.bloomsburycollections.com.