Knighthood and Society in the High Middle Ages, Paperback - David Crouch

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

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

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...

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

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): ...

Space and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds - Michael Scott

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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 ...

By 1940 going to the movies was the most popular form of public leisure in Britain's empire. This book explores the social and cultural impact of t...

A collection of essays examining literary discussions of the role of science, focusing on the interactions between processes of knowledge formation...

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

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...

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 ...

This volume examines how the political, economic and social changes of the Great Depression impacted on Hollywood and how it responded to them.

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

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...

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

Reducere. DescriptionThis study of politics and the role of the state in the Arab world is aimed at students of Middle East politics, political theory and po...

Expanded and updated, Charles Eisenstein's classic treatise on capitalism, currency, and the gift economy. This revised version traces the history ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Alan R. H. (University of Cambridge, UK) BakerIllustration(s): 13 MapsNumber of pages: 248Publica...

The third edition of The Beast Within has been updated throughout to include current scholarship, new discussion of definitions, and fresh perspect...

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

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...

This timely volume examines the commitments of historicism in the wake of New Historicism. Several of the essays strive to reformulate the very cri...

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

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)...

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. The War for Independence touched virtually every American. It promised liberty, the opportunity for a better life, and the excitement of the battle...

The Kuwaiti population includes around 100, 000 people - approximately 10 per cent of the Kuwaiti nationals -whose legal status is contested. Often...