Europe in the High Middle Ages, Paperback - William Chester Jordan

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

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

Addressing every aspect of the early history of Central Europe, this book explores the formation and early centuries of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland...

Features essays that apply the method to the broader question of differences between regular canons and monks and the narrower question of differen...

Paul reveals the lasting impact of the crusades, beyond the expeditions themselves, on the formation of dynastic identity and the culture of the me...

In the thirteenth century, radical reformers - churchmen, devout laywomen and laymen, and secular rulers - undertook Hherculean efforts aimed at th...

A realistic, in-depth review of the methods used to treat the casualties of violence in the Middle Ages.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): ...

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

Reducere. DescriptionDuring the Middle Ages a shared European concept of magic emerged. In the early period, pagan beliefs and practices were absorbed into e...

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

This authoritative survey draws on historical and archaeological sources in the narration of 750 years of the history of southeastern Europe. It ex...

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

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...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Europe, then keep reading...Five captivating manuscripts in one book: European History: A Captiv...

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...

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 ...

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

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. If you want to discover the captivating history of Europe, then keep reading...Five captivating manuscripts in one book: European History: A Captiv...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

Reducere. DescriptionIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Middle Ages, then keep reading...One of the least understood periods of European ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Middle Ages, then keep reading...One of the least understood periods of European history occ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Middle Ages, then keep reading...One of the least understood periods of European history occ...

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...