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New research methods allow us to explore how relics of the material culture of the medieval north can confront, corroborate, or disprove the depiction of social norms in the Old Norse-Icelandic literary corpus, which remains the most important source of our present-day knowledge of social development in the Viking Age and medieval Scandinavia. This interdisciplinary volume considers in depth how social values such as reputation, honour, and friendship, were integral to the development of rituals, customs, religion, literature, and language in the medieval North.

Scandinavia --- Fennoscandia --- Norden --- Nordic countries --- Civilization --- History. --- History --- HISTORY / Europe / Scandinavia. --- Icelandic sagas. --- Vikings. --- medieval Scandinavia. --- medieval society. --- social norms. --- To 1397

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This pioneering study examines a pivotal period in the history of Europe and the Near East. Spanning the ancient and medieval worlds, it investigates the shared ideal of sacred kingship that emerged in the late Roman and Persian empires. This shared ideal, while often generating conflict during the four centuries of the empires' coexistence (224-642), also drove exchange, especially the means and methods Roman and Persian sovereigns used to project their notions of universal rule: elaborate systems of ritual and their cultures' visual, architectural, and urban environments. Matthew Canepa explores the artistic, ritual, and ideological interactions between Rome and the Iranian world under the Sasanian dynasty, the last great Persian dynasty before Islam. He analyzes how these two hostile systems of sacred universal sovereignty not only coexisted, but fostered cross-cultural exchange and communication despite their undying rivalry. Bridging the traditional divide between classical and Iranian history, this book brings to life the dazzling courts of two global powers that deeply affected the cultures of medieval Europe, Byzantium, Islam, South Asia, and China.

Monarchy --- Rites and ceremonies --- Sassanids --- Social aspects --- Social life and customs. --- Rome --- Iran --- Relations --- Kings and rulers. --- ancient history. --- ancient rome. --- ancient societies. --- ancient world. --- art. --- byzantium. --- china. --- classical heritage. --- classical history. --- court life. --- engaging. --- europe. --- global politics. --- global powers. --- historical. --- iranian history. --- islam. --- kingship. --- medieval europe. --- medieval society. --- medieval times. --- near east. --- nonfiction study. --- persian empire. --- pivotal period. --- political history. --- roman empire. --- rome. --- royal intrigue. --- royalty. --- sacred kingship. --- sasanian iran. --- south asia.

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In the period between 1200 and 1500 in western Europe, a number of religious women gained widespread veneration and even canonization as saints for their extraordinary devotion to the Christian eucharist, supernatural multiplications of food and drink, and miracles of bodily manipulation, including stigmata and inedia (living without eating). The occurrence of such phenomena sheds much light on the nature of medieval society and medieval religion. It also forms a chapter in the history of women. Previous scholars have occasionally noted the various phenomena in isolation from each other and have sometimes applied modern medical or psychological theories to them. Using materials based on saints' lives and the religious and mystical writings of medieval women and men, Caroline Walker Bynum uncovers the pattern lying behind these aspects of women's religiosity and behind the fascination men and women felt for such miracles and devotional practices. She argues that food lies at the heart of much of women's piety. Women renounced ordinary food through fasting in order to prepare for receiving extraordinary food in the eucharist. They also offered themselves as food in miracles of feeding and bodily manipulation. Providing both functionalist and phenomenological explanations, Bynum explores the ways in which food practices enabled women to exert control within the family and to define their religious vocations. She also describes what women meant by seeing their own bodies and God's body as food and what men meant when they too associated women with food and flesh. The author's interpretation of women's piety offers a new view of the nature of medieval asceticism and, drawing upon both anthropology and feminist theory, she illuminates the distinctive features of women's use of symbols. Rejecting presentist interpretations of women as exploited or masochistic, she shows the power and creativity of women's writing and women's lives.

Food --- Women --- Food habits --- Aliments --- Femmes --- Habitudes alimentaires --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- History --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme --- Histoire --- Social history --- Eglise catholique --- History of doctrines --- 248.153.4 --- 396 "04/14" --- -Social history --- -Food --- -Food habits --- -Eating --- Food customs --- Foodways --- Human beings --- Habit --- Manners and customs --- Diet --- Nutrition --- Oral habits --- Foods --- Dinners and dining --- Home economics --- Table --- Cooking --- Dietaries --- Gastronomy --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Sociology --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Femininity --- Vasten. Versterving. Onthouding --- Feminisme. Vrouwenbeweging. Vrouw en maatschappij--Middeleeuwen --- -Religious aspects --- -Christianity --- -History of doctrines --- -History --- -Vasten. Versterving. Onthouding --- 396 "04/14" Feminisme. Vrouwenbeweging. Vrouw en maatschappij--Middeleeuwen --- 248.153.4 Vasten. Versterving. Onthouding --- Christianity. --- -248.153.4 Vasten. Versterving. Onthouding --- Eating --- History of civilization --- Christian spirituality --- anno 1200-1499 --- Middle Ages, 500-1500 --- Primitive societies --- Food - Religious aspects - Christianity --- Women - History - Middle Ages, 500-1500 --- Food habits - History --- Aliments - Aspect religieux - Eglise catholique --- Femmes - Histoire - 500-1500 (Moyen Age) --- Habitudes alimentaires - Histoire --- Food - Religious aspects - Christianity - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Social history - Medieval, 500-1500 --- Food habits - History - To 1500 --- anthropology. --- catholicism. --- devotional practices. --- eucharist. --- fasting. --- feminism. --- feminist theory. --- food studies. --- food. --- gender studies. --- gender. --- historiography. --- history. --- inedia. --- medieval asceticism. --- medieval religion. --- medieval society. --- medieval women. --- middle ages. --- miracles. --- mysticism. --- nonfiction. --- piety. --- religion. --- religiosity. --- religious studies. --- religious vocation. --- religious women. --- renunciation. --- saints lives. --- saints. --- stigmata. --- symbolism. --- western europe. --- women and religion. --- womens lives. --- womens studies. --- womens writing. --- world history. --- MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATION --- WOMEN --- HABITUDES ALIMENTAIRES --- HISTORY --- MIDDLE AGES, 500-1500 --- MOYEN AGE