Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages, Paperback - Barbara H. Rosenwein

Proposing that people lived (and live) in "emotional communities"--each having its own particular norms of emotional valuation and expression--Barb...

In this newest edition of her bestselling book, Barbara H. Rosenwein integrates the history of European, Byzantine, and Islamic medieval cultures--...

The third edition of Reading the Middle Ages retains the strengths of previous editions--thematic and geographical diversity, clear and informative...

In this newest edition of her bestselling book, Barbara H. Rosenwein integrates the history of European, Byzantine, and Islamic medieval cultures-a...

In this newest edition of her bestselling book, Barbara H. Rosenwein integrates the history of European, Byzantine, and Islamic medieval cultures-a...

Reducere. DescriptionFifty Early Medieval Things introduces readers to the material culture of late antique and early medieval Europe, north Africa, and west...

In-depth account of the wars Scotland's northern and western highlands in the early Middle Ages.Illustrations: 40 colour & black and white illustra...

Reducere. Generations of Feeling is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of emotions in pre- and early modern Western Europe. Charting the varie...

Reducere. DescriptionThis history of Germany in the Dark Ages and Medieval eras chronicles the birth and progress of the nation through a series of short bio...

The Roman empire tends to be seen as a whole whereas the early middle ages tends to be seen as a collection of regional histories, roughly correspo...

Modern scholarship generally treats the "debate about women" (querelle des femmes) as a late medieval phenomenon, perhaps touched upon by canonic a...

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

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): Barbara H. RosenweinNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 147 x 221 x 29Cover type: HardbackRedes...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the wake of modern genocide, we tend to think of violence against minorities as a sign of intolerance, or, even worse, a prelude to e...

Tracing the story of anger from the Buddha to Twitter, Rosenwein provides a much-needed account of our changing and contradictory understandings of...

Reducere. In this first volume of the new History of Medieval Canon Law series, Lotte K ry presents a bibliographical survey of the chronological and systema...

Reducere. In brief portraits, Pope Benedict XVI offers engaging, perceptive, and edifying sketches of some of the great thinkers and writers of Christianity....

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

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Anglo-Saxons, then keep reading...There was a time before England was united. This was a tim...

Reducere. DescriptionIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Anglo-Saxons, then keep reading... There was a time before England was united. Th...

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

Publisher: University of Notre Dame PressAuthor(s): Barbara ZimbalistNumber of pages: 330Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 230 x 22Cover type...

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 ...

``The Penguin History of Europe series... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects.``--New Statesman It was an age of hope and possibilit...

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...

DescriptionIn popular imagination few phenomena are as strongly associated with medieval society as knighthood and chivalry. At the same time, and ...

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...

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 ...

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...

Murder, Rape and Treason: Judicial Combats in the Late Middle Ages contains accounts of some of the most sanguine, unusual or controversial judicia...

Reducere. In The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, Geraldine Heng questions the common assumption that the concepts of race and racisms only beg...

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...