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    <title>The Magic Books...</title>
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"In this beautifully illustrated account, Anne Lawrence-Mathers explores the medieval fascination with magic through twenty extraordinary illuminated manuscripts. These books were highly sought after, commissioned by kings and stored in great libraries. They include an astronomical compendium made for Charlemagne’s son; The Sworn Book of Honorius, used by a secret society of trained magicians; and the highly influential Picatrix. This vivid new history shows how attitudes to magic and science changed over the medieval period—and produced great works of art as they did so.']]></description>
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    <title>Katz, V.J., Folkerts, M., Hughes, B., et al., eds.: Sourcebook in the Mathematics of Medieval Europe and North Africa</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Medieval Europe was a meeting place for the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic civilizations, and the fertile intellectual exchange of these cultures can be seen in the mathematical developments of the time. This sourcebook presents original Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic sources of medieval mathematics, and shows their cross-cultural influences. Most of the Hebrew and Arabic sources appear here in translation for the first time.
"Readers will discover key mathematical revelations, foundational texts, and sophisticated writings by Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic-speaking mathematicians, including Abner of Burgos’s elegant arguments proving results on the conchoid—a curve previously unknown in medieval Europe; Levi ben Gershon’s use of mathematical induction in combinatorial proofs; Al-Mu’taman Ibn Hūd’s extensive survey of mathematics, which included proofs of Heron’s Theorem and Ceva’s Theorem; and Muhyī al-Dīn al-Maghribī’s interesting proof of Euclid’s parallel postulate. The book includes a general introduction, section introductions, footnotes, and references."]]></description>
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    <title>Wickham, C.: Sleepwalking into a New World: The Emergence of Italian City Communes in the Twelfth Century. (eBook and Hardcover)</title>
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"Chris Wickham provides richly textured portraits of three cities—Milan, Pisa, and Rome—and sets them against a vibrant backcloth of other towns. He argues that, in all but a few cases, the elites of these cities and towns developed one of the first nonmonarchical forms of government in medieval Europe, unaware that they were creating something altogether new. Wickham makes clear that the Italian city commune was by no means a democracy in the modern sense, but that it was so novel that outsiders did not know what to make of it. He describes how, as the old order unraveled, the communes emerged, governed by consular elites “chosen by the people,” and subject to neither emperor nor king. They regularly fought each other, yet they grew organized and confident enough to ally together to defeat Frederick Barbarossa, the German emperor, at the Battle of Legnano in 1176."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Qualitative evidence suggests that heresy within the medieval Catholic Church had many of the characteristics of a scale-free network. From the perspective of the Church, heresy can be seen as a virus. The virus persisted for long periods of time, breaking out again even when the Church believed it to have been eradicated. A principal mechanism of heresy was through a small number of individuals with very large numbers of social contacts. 
"Initial attempts by the Inquisition to suppress the virus by general persecution, or even mass slaughtering, of populations thought to harbour the "disease" failed. Gradually, however, the Inquisition learned about the nature of the social networks by which heresy both spread and persisted. Eventually, a policy of targeting key individuals was implemented, which proved to be much more successful."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles. In what T. S. Eliot called a "magnificent" book, Ernst Robert Curtius establishes medieval Latin literature as the vital transition between the literature of antiquity and the vernacular literatures of later centuries. The result is nothing less than a masterful synthesis of European literature from Homer to Goethe."]]></description>
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"Since the seventh century, when the armies of Constantinople and Medina fought for control of Syria and Palestine, there has been ongoing contact between the Muslim world and the West. This sweeping history vividly recounts the wars and the crusades, the alliances and diplomacy, commerce and the slave trade, technology transfers, and the intellectual and artistic exchanges. Here readers are given an unparalleled introduction to key periods and events, including the Muslim conquests, the collapse of the Byzantine Empire, the commercial revolution of the medieval Mediterranean, the intellectual and cultural achievements of Muslim Spain, the crusades and Spanish reconquest, the rise of the Ottomans and their conquest of a third of Europe, European colonization and decolonization, and the challenges and promise of this entwined legacy today."]]></description>
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    <title>Fossier, R. and Fossier, R. and Cochrane, L.G., trans.: The Axe and the Oath: Ordinary Life in the Middle Ages.</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In The Axe and the Oath, one of the world's leading medieval historians presents a compelling picture of daily life in the Middle Ages as it was experienced by ordinary people. Writing for general readers, Robert Fossier vividly describes how these vulnerable people confronted life, from birth to death, including childhood, marriage, work, sex, food, illness, religion, and the natural world. While most histories of the period focus on the ideas and actions of the few who wielded power and stress how different medieval people were from us, Fossier concentrates on the other nine-tenths of humanity in the period and concludes that "medieval man is us."
"Drawing on a broad range of evidence, Fossier describes how medieval men and women encountered, coped with, and understood the basic material facts of their lives. We learn how people related to agriculture, animals, the weather, the forest, and the sea; how they used alcohol and drugs; and how they buried their dead. But The Axe and the Oath is about much more than simply the material demands of life. We also learn how ordinary people experienced the social, cultural, intellectual, and spiritual aspects of medieval life, from memory and imagination to writing and the Church. The result is a sweeping new vision of the Middle Ages that will entertain and enlighten readers."]]></description>
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    <title>[0805.2490] Using statistical smoothing to date medieval manuscripts</title>
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    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.2490</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We discuss the use of multivariate kernel smoothing methods to date manuscripts dating from the 11th to the 15th centuries, in the English county of Essex. The dataset consists of some 3300 dated and 5000 undated manuscripts, and the former are used as a training sample for imputing dates for the latter. It is assumed that two manuscripts that are ``close'', in a sense that may be defined by a vector of measures of distance for documents, will have close dates. Using this approach, statistical ideas are used to assess ``similarity'', by smoothing among distance measures, and thus to estimate dates for the 5000 undated manuscripts by reference to the dated ones."

Can we get data?]]></description>
<dc:subject>statistics smoothing medieval_european_history text_mining to_teach:undergrad-ADA in_NB kernel_smoothing</dc:subject>
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    <dc:date>2012-02-15T17:07:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://magistraetmater.blog.co.uk/2012/01/16/making-charters-useful-12468505/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>medieval_european_history data_sets historiography magistra to:blog</dc:subject>
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    <link>http://magistraetmater.blog.co.uk/2007/09/19/does_morality_have_an_effect~3005783/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>medieval_european_history historiography history_of_morals magistra</dc:subject>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[State and Society in the Early Middle Ages]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted medieval_european_history state-building institutions</dc:subject>
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    <dc:date>2011-05-07T22:38:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://cambridge.org/9781107006744</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[_Magistra et Mater_ in book form.  (Well, not really.)
]]></description>
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    <title>The Frozen Echo: Greenland and the Exploration of North America, CA. A. D. 1000-1500 by Kirsten A. Seaver - Powell's Books</title>
    <dc:date>2010-10-03T19:26:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=0804731616</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://magistraetmater.blog.co.uk/2010/06/19/tweeting-the-assembly-carolingian-texts-and-social-media-8830535/">
    <title>Tweeting the assembly: Carolingian texts and social media - Magistra et Mater</title>
    <dc:date>2010-06-22T13:35:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://magistraetmater.blog.co.uk/2010/06/19/tweeting-the-assembly-carolingian-texts-and-social-media-8830535/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["(Attention Conservation Notice: this is an unholy mashup between historical speculation and experience from 23 Things, exacerbated by too much checking footnotes and not enough sleep)."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>social_life_of_the_mind medieval_european_history social_media cultural_transmission magistra</dc:subject>
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    <title>Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog: To Kalamazoo, wyth Love</title>
    <dc:date>2009-06-07T20:01:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://houseoffame.blogspot.com/2006/05/to-kalamazoo-wyth-love.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["GALFRIDUS CHAUCERES LYNES OF PICKE-VPPE"; of which I think the best is "Ich haue the tale of Lancelot yn myn roome. Woldstow rede of yt wyth me?"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:joncgoodwin funny:academic practices_relating_to_the_transmission_of_genetic_information medieval_european_history chaucer.geoffrey</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:570f54c9f85c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://houseoffame.blogspot.com/2008/08/new-order-hot-newes-on-blazinge-fellow.html">
    <title>Geoffrey Chaucer Hath An Extreme Blog: HOT NEWES ON BLAZINGE FELLOW</title>
    <dc:date>2008-12-28T02:05:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://houseoffame.blogspot.com/2008/08/new-order-hot-newes-on-blazinge-fellow.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Do people get naked?

Ywis, sum tyme ther ys nakedness and bodye-payntynge, and yet it ledeth nat to the synne of lecherie for the bodye payntynge is moostly pictorial narratifs of the punishementes of purgatorie (and yit sum still falle into errour and sinnes of the flesshe, the which is lamentable but pardonable). 

Where can I buy a Pardon?

Pardones are soold at several posiciouns around the feeld. Yf ye aren anticipatinge a particularlie elaborate synne, ye must consult the central pardon offyce."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>blogging affectionate_parody burning_man medieval_european_history funny:geeky chaucer.geoffrey</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://magistraetmater.blog.co.uk/2008/11/16/why-was-the-gregorian-reform-gregorian-5043721">
    <title>Why was the Gregorian Reform Gregorian?</title>
    <dc:date>2008-11-16T15:24:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://magistraetmater.blog.co.uk/2008/11/16/why-was-the-gregorian-reform-gregorian-5043721</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Simony, celibacy, professionalism, communities of practice...
]]></description>
<dc:subject>medieval_european_history catholicism social_life_of_the_mind professionalism communities_of_practice imagined_communities epidemiology_of_representations</dc:subject>
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    <title>Muhlberger's Early History: The golden angel and 14th-century robots</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-25T15:51:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nipissingu.ca/department/history/MUHLBERGER/2008/06/golden-angel-and-14th-century-robots.htm</link>
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    <title>Muhlberger's Early History: 14th-century robots</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-25T15:50:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nipissingu.ca/department/history/MUHLBERGER/2008/06/14th-century-robots.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>medieval_european_history history_of_technology mechanical_automata</dc:subject>
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    <dc:date>2008-03-31T17:11:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bubonic_plague_map_2.png</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Spread of Black Death in Europe
]]></description>
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    <title>Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages (Cohn)</title>
    <dc:date>2007-11-19T17:51:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.labyrinthbooks.com/sale_detail.aspx?isbn=9780195004564</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A truly outstanding book.  You really want to read it.
]]></description>
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    <title>Magistra et Mater - Apocalypse then?</title>
    <dc:date>2007-10-21T12:36:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://magistraetmater.blog.co.uk/2007/10/21/apocalypse_then~3169756</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Just how millenarian was Latin Christendom about the years 1000 and 1033, and did it matter?
]]></description>
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