{"title":"Cultura Medieval","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"from-beasts-to-souls","title":"From Beasts to Souls","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Middle Ages provides a particularly rich trove of hybrid creatures, semi-human beings, and composite bodies: we need only consider manuscript pages and stone capitals in Romanesque churches to picture the myriad figures incorporating both human and animal elements that allow movement between, and even confusion of, components of each realm.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Beasts to Souls: Gender and Embodiment in Medieval Europe\u003c\/i\u003e raises the issues of species and gender in tandem, asking readers to consider more fully what happens to gender in medieval representations of nonhuman embodiment. The contributors reflect on the gender of stones and the soul, of worms and dragons, showing that medieval cultural artifacts, whether literary, historical, or visual, do not limit questions of gender to predictable forms of human or semi-human embodiment. By expanding what counts as \"the body\" in medieval cultural studies, the essays shift our understanding of gendered embodiment and articulate new perspectives on its range, functions, and effects on a broader theoretical spectrum. Drawing on depictions of differently bodied creatures in the Middle Ages, they dislodge and reconfigure long-standing views of the body as always human and the human body as merely male and female.   The essays address a number of cultural contexts and academic disciplines: from French and English literature to objects of Germanic and Netherlandish material culture, from theological debates to literary concerns with the soul. They engage with issues of gender and embodiment located in stones, skeletons, and snake tails, swan-knights, and werewolves, along with a host of other unexpected places in a thought-provoking addition to somatic cultural history.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFrom Beasts to Souls: Gender and Embodiment in Medieval Europe\u003c\/i\u003e is a cogent, well-conceived addition to the dynamic field of cultural studies of the body. The essays are extremely strong, with contributions that are both insightful and provocati\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Longleaf Services Univ of Notre Dame du Lac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52649688498543,"sku":"9780268022327","price":274.67,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/0268022321.jpg?v=1770662902"},{"product_id":"kingdom-of-stargazers","title":"Kingdom of Stargazers","description":"\u003cp\u003eAstrology in the Middle Ages was considered a branch of the magical arts, one informed by Jewish and Muslim scientific knowledge in Muslim Spain. As such it was deeply troubling to some Church authorities. Using the stars and planets to divine the future ran counter to the orthodox Christian notion that human beings have free will, and some clerical authorities argued that it almost certainly entailed the summoning of spiritual forces considered diabolical. We know that occult beliefs and practices became widespread in the later Middle Ages, but there is much about the phenomenon that we do not understand. For instance, how deeply did occult beliefs penetrate courtly culture and what exactly did those in positions of power hope to gain by interacting with the occult? In \u003cem\u003eA Kingdom of Stargazers\u003c\/em\u003e, Michael A. Ryan examines the interest in astrology in the Iberian kingdom of Aragon, where ideas about magic and the occult were deeply intertwined with notions of power, authority, and providence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRyan focuses on the reigns of Pere III (1336 1387) and his sons Joan I (1387 1395) and Marti I (1395 1410). Pere and Joan spent lavish amounts of money on astrological writings, and astrologers held great sway within their courts. When Marti I took the throne, however, he was determined to purge Joan's courtiers and return to religious orthodoxy. As Ryan shows, the appeal of astrology to those in power was clear: predicting the future through divination was a valuable tool for addressing the extraordinary problems political, religious, demographic plaguing Europe in the fourteenth century. Meanwhile, the kings' contemporaries within the noble, ecclesiastical, and mercantile elite had their own reasons for wanting to know what the future held, but their engagement with the occult was directly related to the amount of power and authority the monarch exhibited and applied. \u003cem\u003eA Kingdom of Stargazers\u003c\/em\u003e joins a growing body of scholarship that explores the\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Longleaf Services on behalf of Cornell University","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52691116851567,"sku":"9781501713507","price":215.94,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/1501713507.jpg?v=1771527427"}],"url":"https:\/\/internacional.umlivro.com.br\/collections\/cultura-medieval.oembed","provider":"UmLivro Internacional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}