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Table of Contents: “…The Middle Ages until circa 1400 / Frits van Ostrom -- The Late Middle Ages and the age of the rhetoricians, 1400-1560 / Herman Pleij -- The Dutch revolt and the golden age, 1560-1700 / E.K. …”

Table of Contents: “…THE MIDDLE AGES; John of Salisbury: A Pre-Gothic Mind; Abelard; The Political and Military Significance of Chivalric Ideas in the Late Middle Ages; Bernard Shaw's Saint; III. THE RENAISSANCE; The Problem of the Renaissance; Renaissance and Realism; In Commemoration of Erasmus; Grotius and His Time; NOTES; INDEX OF NAMES.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Reading and rereading Jenő Szűcs -- "Nationality" and "national consciousness" in the Middle Ages: towards the development of a common conceptual language -- "Gentilism": the question of barbarian ethnic consciousness -- Theoretical elements in Master Simon of Kéza's Gesta Hungarorum (1282-1285) -- Nation and people in the late Middle Ages -- The ideology of György Dózsa's Peasant War -- The three historical regions of Europe -- Questions of "origin" and national consciousness -- A bibliography of published works by Jenő Szűcs.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Fitzgerald -- Patterns of male affectivity in the late Middle Ages : the case of Jean Gerson / Brian Patrick McGuire -- "Take and taste" : sacramental physiology, Eucharistic experience, and George Herbert's The Temple / Ryan Netzley…”

Table of Contents: “…Presence of the possessed : a parameter in the performance practice of the music of Australian aboriginal women -- Gender and gender : gender ideology and the female gender player in central Java -- Drum-dance-song ensemble : women's performance in Biblical Israel -- Female musicians in Pharaonic Egypt -- Private speech, public pain : the power of women's laments in ancient Greek poetry and tragedy -- Traditional role of Greek women in music from antiquity to the end of the Byzantine Empire -- Feminized devotion, musical nuns and the "new -style" Lombard motet of the 1640's -- Symbols, performers, and sponsors : female musical creators in the late Middle Ages -- "Other Minervas" : creative women at the court of Margaret of Scotland -- Renaissance women as patrons of music : the North-Italian courts -- "Thinking from women's lives" : Francesco Caccini after 1627…”

Table of Contents: “…History, historiography, and interpretations of the reformation -- The late middle ages: threshold and foothold of the reformation -- The dawn of a new era -- Wait for no one: implementation of reforms in Wittenberg -- Fruits of the fig tree: social welfare and education -- The reformation of the common man -- The Swiss connection: Zwingli and the reformation in Zurich -- The sheep against the shepherds: the radical reformations -- Augsburg 1530 to Augsburg 1555: reforms and politics -- "The most perfect school of Christ": the Genevan reformation -- Refuge in the shadow of God's wings" the reformation in France -- The blood of the martyrs: the reformation in the Netherlands -- The reformations in England and Scotland -- Catholic renewal and the counter-reformation -- Legacies of the reformations -- Chronology -- Genealogies -- Maps.…”

Table of Contents: “…Hidden beginnings: from cult to conversion -- Earthly gods: pagan deities, Christian meanings -- Divine culture: exemplary gods and the mythological cycle -- New mythologies: pseudohistory and the lore of poets -- Vulnerability and grace: the Finn cycle -- Damaged gods: the late Middle Ages -- The imagination of the country: towards a national Pantheon -- Danaan mysteries: occult nationalism and the divine forms -- Highland divinities: the Celtic revival in Scotland -- Coherence and canon: the fairy faith and the east -- Gods of the gap: a world mythology -- Artgods.…”
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Table of Contents: “…A volcanic eruption in the early 1460s and its possible climatic impact – a natural disaster perceived globally in the late Middle Ages? -- Cultural Implications of Natural Disasters: Historical Reports of the Volcano Eruption of July, 1256 A.D -- When Europe was burning. …”
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Table of Contents: “…The High Middle Ages -- The Family Revolution of the Eleventh Century -- The Twelfth Century: New Family Models -- Peasants Before the Black Death: 1200-1347 -- The Aristocratic Lineage: Perils of Primogeniture -- Children in the High Middle Ages; Marriage and the Family in the Year 1300 -- IV. The Late Middle Ages -- The Impact of the Black Death -- The Late Medieval Peasant Family: 1350-1500 -- A Family of the English Landed Gentry -- A Merchant's Family in Fifteenth-Century Florence; Marriage and the Family After the Black Death -- V. …”

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Table of Contents: “…Nolan -- "Stable in study" : Lydgate's Fall of princes and Duke Humphrey's library / Jennifer Summit -- Lydgate, Hawes, and the science of rhetoric in the late Middle Ages / Rita Copeland -- "Hard is with seyntis for to make affray" : Lydgate the "poet-propagandist" as hagiographer / Fiona Somerset -- "Was it not routhe to se?" …”
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