East Anglia and its North Sea World in the Middle Ages, Paperback - ***

The relations between medieval East Anglia and countries across the North Sea examined from a variety of perspectives.

Reducere. This volume traces the development astrology from the 5th through 15th centuries, highlighted by interpretations from a variety of literary sources...

DescriptionParis in the Middle Ages was home to royalty, mountebanks, Knights Templar, merchants, prostitutes, and canons. Bursting outward from th...

DescriptionCastration and castrati have always been facets of western culture, from myth and legend to law and theology, from eunuchs guarding hare...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): MorilloNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 24Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedesc...

The medieval kitchen revealed; facilities, seasonal foods, strictures of the church, and the interweaving of foodstuffs with medical theory.

This book is a collection of milestone articles of a leading scholar in the study of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily, a crossroads of Latin-Christian,...

A full and comprehensive survey of the development of the Cistercian Order which emerged from the tumultuous intellectual and religious fervour of ...

DescriptionA year in the life of a peasant woman in medieval England is vividly evoked in this extraordinary portrait of Marion, a carpenter's wife...

This book presents the first full length study in English of monumental bronzes in the Middle Ages, from technology of production to public recepti...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 36 bw illusNumber of pages: 304Collection: The Cultural Histories SeriesPublication date: 2022...

Publisher: Christian Focus Publications LtdAuthor(s): Luke H. DavisNumber of pages: 176Collection: Risen HopePublication date: 2022Dimensions: 215 ...

Reducere. From bestselling historians Frances and Joseph Gies, authors of the classic "Medieval Life" series, comes this compelling, lucid, and highly readab...

Penance and confession were an integral part of medieval religious life; essays explore literary evidence.

This collection of essays focuses attention on how medieval gender intersects with other categories of difference, particularly religion and ethnic...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 83 bw illusNumber of pages: 256Collection: The Cultural Histories SeriesPublication date: 2022...

An engrossing exploration of the sex lives of ordinary medieval people.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Katherine HarveyIllustration(s): 17 illu...

Reducere. DescriptionThis work is suitable for ages 8-14. In the Middle Ages, it was important for everyone to dress and act according to their position in s...

A glittering and gruesome history of the body in the Middle Ages, from saints' relics to lovesick troubadours. Brings together medicine, art, poetr...

A fascinating new portrait of Medieval Britain that brings together the everyday and the extraordinary.Publisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s)...

Gendering the Master Narrative asks whether a female tradition of power might have existed distinct from the male one, and how such a tradition mig...

Reducere. About the AuthorEtienne Gilson was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy.

Reducere. In this book, one of the most esteemed contemporary historians of the Middle Ages presents a concise examination of the problem that usury posed fo...

Policymakers across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have long tried to integrate their people spatially and economically. Wishing to bring ...

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The office of bishop of Rome, is one of the most powerful positions in the world. As an ancient institution stretching back for centuries, the papa...

The concept of an ordered human society, both religious and secular, as an expression of a divinely ordered universe was central to medieval though...

In this authoritative, lively book, the celebrated Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco presents a learned summary of medieval aesthetic id...

In Afterlives, Nancy Mandeville Caciola explores this extraordinary phenomenon of the living's relationship with the dead in Europe during the five...

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Reducere. Seven hundred years ago, executioners led a Welsh rebel named William Cragh to a wintry hill to be hanged. They placed a noose around his neck, dro...

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Reducere. DescriptionIn The Middle Ages, Dorothy Mills lets medieval chroniclers tell their own tales; poets and troubadours, minstrels and wandering scholar...

Reducere. In this single indispensable volume, one of America’s ranking scholars combines a life’s work of research and teaching with the art of lively narra...

Reducere. INVENTING THE MIDDLE AGESThe Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth CenturyIn this ground-breaking work, Norman Cantor ...

Jacques Le Goff sets out in this book to explain the role of money, or rather of the various types of money, in the economy, life and mentalities o...

A concise and accessible history of four of the monastic orders in the middle ages.

Reducere. Now revised and expanded, this edition of the splendidly detailed and lively history of the Middle Ages contains more than 30 percent new material.

Reducere. DescriptionAn engaging introduction to the history of the church from the Reformation to modern times, taking up the story where Saints and Heroes ...

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Did Muslims and Jews in the Middle Ages cohabit in a peaceful "interfaith utopia"? Or were Jews under Muslim rule persecuted, much as they were in ...

DescriptionJohn Henry Haaren (b. August 13, 1855, New York, New York - d. September 23, 1916, Brooklyn, New York) was an American educator and hist...

Reducere. Not the same as other Famous Men reprints - This one is better 190+ illustrations to go with the stories, five new chapters added by historian Rob ...

A comprehensive and authoritative study of medieval visual arts in Europe, forming the ideal guide for students to all facets of art and architectu...

"Here is the first full translation into English of one of the 20th century's few undoubted classics of history." -Washington Post Book World The A...