Clothing the Clergy. Virtue and Power in Medieval Europe, c. 800-1200, Paperback - Maureen C. Miller

Maureen C. Miller traces the ways in which clerical garb changed over the Middle Ages. Miller goes into detail about craft, artistry, and textiles ...

Reducere. Penance has traditionally been viewed exclusively as the domain of church history but penance and confession also had important social functions in...

Presents a series of case studies focusing on the identity and activities of individuals associated with crafts and industries in the Middle Age.

An examination of the role of Winchester as the heart of royal power in early medieval England.Publisher: Oxbow BooksIllustration(s): B/wNumber of ...

Debating medieval Europe serves as an entry point for studying and teaching medieval history. Rather than simply presenting foundational knowledge ...

Unlike monks and nuns, clergy have hitherto been sidelined in accounts of the Middle Ages, but they played an important role in medieval society, i...

Reducere. A History of Business in Medieval Europe, 1200-1550, demolishes the widely held view that the phrase "medieval business" is an oxymoron. The author...

DescriptionOccult topics have long fascinated artists, and the subject of witches--their imagined bodies and fantastic rituals--was a popular one f...

Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Joshua C., J.D., Ph.D. TateIllustration(s): 9 b-w illus.Number of pages: 272Collection: Yale Law Library...

Reducere. Remarkably thorough descriptions, information about hundreds of fashions: morning dresses, riding outfits, bridal gowns, more. Also millinery, foot...

Studies Romanesque effigies as a distinctive form of medieval sculpture, emphasizing the early twelfth century as a time of rapid change in the art...

Reducere. Freya Lockwood evita de douazeci de ani satucul pitoresc din Anglia in care a crescut. Asta pana cand afla ca Arthur Crockleford, negustor de antic...

Collects all the tales of this master of the uncanny, the unnerving, and the terrifying. This book includes author's stories that reflect his profe...

The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition - C. S. Lewis

Reducere. C. S. Lewis's Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature is a collection of fourteen fascinating essays, half of which were never published in ...

Reducere. Recognized as the most authoritative general account of Indonesia, this revised and expanded fourth edition has been updated in light of new schola...

Originally published in 1997. In 1985 Frederic C. Lane and Reinhold C. Mueller published the magisterial Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissa...

Crima in lumea anticarilor - C. L. Miller

Reducere. Would you denounce your faith to defend your home and family? France, 1685. Jeanne is the wife of a once-wealthy merchant, but now she risks losing...

New readings demonstrate the centrality of the rood to the visual, material and devotional cultures of the Middle Ages, its richness and complexity.

Bringing together results from archaeological investigations carried out in the suburbs to the north and east of the medieval and later City of Che...

Medieval Europe is a dark and dangerous place. It is a place where love clashes with ambition and violence rules - enemies are blinded, rivals are ...

The Ormesby Psalter is perhaps the most magnificent yet enigmatic of the great Gothic psalters produced in East Anglia in the first half of the fou...

Reducere. The Allegory of Love is a landmark study of a powerful and influential medieval conception. C. S. Lewis explores the sentiment called 'courtly love...

An exploration of the influence of gender on the workings of memory in the Middle Ages, focussing on the non-elite.Illustrations: No

The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature - C. S. Lewis

Reducere. Addresses the history, future and contemporary application of virtue ethics.

The shocking massacre of the Jews in York, 1190, is here re-examined in its historical context along with the circumstances and processes through w...

Practicing shame explores how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to secure their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against sham...

God's creations of man in a lyrical dramatization; Noah's cantankerous and hilariously funny wife refusing to leave without her friends; the Massac...

Detailed exploration of an enigmatic manuscript containing the texts to hundreds of songs, but no musical notation.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdI...

Reducere. Uniting thirty years of authoritative scholarship by a master of textual detail, Machiavelli's Virtue is a comprehensive statement on the founder o...

Reducere. Florist Lily Schmidt can handle just about any emergency if it involves flowers, but when a box of hydrangeas she needs for a wedding is actually a...

The public execution of criminals has been a common practice since ancient times. Adriano Prosperi identifies a crucial period when concepts of ven...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Austin Davenport is back as he travels back in time to battle his timeless nemesises for honor and glory. Well, sort of. When Austin is embarrassed...

Reducere. When courts collide, blood may be spilled. But when destinies collide, blood may hold power. A DUTY... Bound in service to the king within the city...