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Fabulous Feasts
This book will delight any cook or history buff, with its various medieval recipes. Includes a section on medieval recipes and a practical guide to re-creating the dishes.
Women at Work in Medieval Europe
High-born and low-born, women workers abounded in medieval Europe, running estates, brewing, baking, cloth-making and hunting, for example. Among the women profiled are Marguerite de Navarre, Hildegard of Bingen, Margaret Paston and Christine de Pizan.
A Medieval Woman's Mirror of Honor
A fifteenth-century instruction book for women provides an inside look at life in medieval France and discusses the role of women on each economic level
Handbook to Life in the Medieval World, 3-Volume Set
Capturing the essence of life in great civilizations of the past, each volume in the
Handbook to Life in the Medieval World
Handbook to Life in the Medieval World looks at the medieval period from the perspective of Christians, Jews, and Muslims who inherited and inhabited the classical Roman Empire, which stretched from the British Isles through continental Europe, the Mediterranean, North Africa, and the Middle East to Asia Minor and beyond.
The Mind Has No Sex?
In this rich and comprehensive history of women’s contributions to the development of early modern science, Londa Schiebinger unearths the forgotten heritage of women scientists and probes the cultural and historical forces that continue to shape the course of scientific scholarship and knowledge.
The Education of the Hero in Arthurian Romance
From this notable and engaging study we learn that the education of the Arthurian hero is a romance motif as significant to the hero's exploits as his beseiged damsel or his fierce joust. Accounts of the births and childhoods of religious and mythical protagonists at once prefigure and explaining their later powers. Originally published in 1966. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
The Medieval Underworld
Medieval society was obsessed with conformity. This is an account of the men and women who could not or would not observe the conventions of their times, such as homosexuals, heretics, prostitutes, thieves, vagabonds and fraudulent beggars.
Ask a Mexican
DEAR MEXICAN: WHAT IS ASK A MEXICAN ? Questions and answers about our spiciest Americans. I explore the clich s of lowriders, busboys, and housekeepers; drunks and scoundrels; heroes and celebrities; and most important, millions upon millions of law-abiding, patriotic American citizens and their illegal-immigrant cousins who represent some $600 billion in economic power. WHY SHOULD I READ ASK A MEXICAN ? At 37 million strong (or 13 percent of the U.S. population), Latinos have become America's largest minority -- and beaners make up some two-thirds of that number. I confront the bogeymen of racism, xenophobia, and ignorance prompted by such demographic changes through answering questions put...
Crispin: The End of Time
As long as I could keep myself out of bondage, I would be true to Bear's teaching. And so it was that beyond all else, I was determined to keep my freedom. After the death of their beloved mentor, Bear, Crispin and Troth are more desperate than ever, wandering the desolate French countryside, where they don't speak the language and know no one. The only hope they cling to is that somehow they can reach Iceland, where Bear had said there were no kings or lords, and where they can live in freedom. Crispin is determined to fulfill this dream, both for himself and to honor Bear's memory. But the road to liberty is filled with danger, betrayal, and loss. Crispin must decide for himself what freedom really means—and how high a price he is willing to pay for it.
