Medieval People

Reducere. Neighbours and strangers investigates social cohesion in rural settlements in western Europe from 700 to 1050, asking to what extent settlements, o...

This volume marks a change in the areas of landscape history and the history of everyday life, offering the first sustained analysis of how ordinar...

Immigrant England tells the story of thousands of people who migrated to later medieval England. The book draws on uniquely rich evidence about the...

Reducere. This updated and expanded edition of The History of Spain offers an in-depth examination of Europe's fifth largest economy, providing important cov...

A multi-disciplinary investigation of the links between people and animals, in reality and representation.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s):...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book is the first to present fictions about the medieval world to serious students of history. Instead of merely listing myths and ...

This book attempts to show through documentary and archaeological evidence how Birmingham evolved from a village into its present role as the secon...

This work is concerned with the memories of medieval people. In the Middle Ages, as now, men and women collected stories about the past and handed ...

Reducere. Ever wonder how good you'd be with a sword? This book is for you.Do you love movie sword fights? Learn how real sword fighting works.Are you into s...

Reducere. To seek sanctuary from persecution by entering a sacred space is an act of desperation, but also a symbolic endeavor: fugitives invoke divine prese...

Reducere. The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe provides a comprehensive overview of the gender rules encountered in Europe in the perio...

Reducere. The Jewish prayer book, the sidur, is the longest continuous record of the history, philosophy, literature and ethics of the Jewish people. It has ...

The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE-800 CE investigates what dreams meant in late classical and early medieval China. Mapping a common dreamscape that ...

Reducere. From the eighth century onwards, the Muslim townsfolk of North Africa were well aware that fifty stages away across the desert to the south lay a l...

Starting from manuscripts compiled for local priests in the Carolingian period, this book investigates the way in which pastoral care took shape at...

We think with objects--we conduct our lives surrounded by external devices that help us recall information, calculate, plan, design, make decisions...

Which language should we use in philosophy: technical or common language? Medieval philosophers and Renaissance humanists differed widely on this m...

Considering the interrelations between sight, touch, and imagination, this book offers a new approach to how we understand the way that ancient and...

Reducere. The medical tradition that developed in the lands of Islam during the medieval period (c. 650-1500) has, like few others, influenced the fates and ...

In Blood and Boundaries, Stuart B. Schwartz takes us to late medieval Latin America to show how Spain and Portugal's policies of exclusion and disc...

The Intolerant Middle Ages is a collection of primary sources on the history of persecution. The goal of the book is to highlight instances of pers...

Reducere. A bold new religious history of the late antique and medieval Middle East that places ordinary Christians at the center of the storyIn the second h...

DescriptionThis edited volume explores how (what is today) Scotland can be compared with, contrasted to, or was connected with other parts of Early...

The relationship between people and parish in the late medieval ages illuminated by this study of a remarkable survival from the period.

DescriptionFor centuries, people have talked of a powerful bodily disorder called migraine, which currently affects about a billion people around t...

DescriptionRely on this practical, end-to-end guide on cyber safety and online security written expressly for a non-technical audience. You will ha...

Reducere. From the bestselling author whose memoirs Under the Sun and Bella Tuscany have captured the voluptuousness of Italian life comes a lavishly illustr...

Reducere. The Chronicle of the Czechs by Cosmas of Prague (d. 1125) is a masterwork of medieval historical writing, deeply erudite, consciously researched, a...

Reducere. A landmark text on the history of Christian spirituality embarks on the journey afresh. This accessible and engaging history provides an excellent ...

DescriptionFreshly updated for this second edition with considerable new material, this authoritative introduction to the history of Christian theo...

Reducere. Revolutions in Worldview traces the historical development of the western mind through ten eras. It explores the fundamental ideas that revolutioni...

The Ancient Ways of Wessex tells the story of Wessex's roads in the early medieval period, at the point at which they first emerge in the historica...

Reducere. First developed and written in medieval Germany, Yiddish eventually became the everyday speech of Jews all over Europe and later globally. Yiddish ...

An examination of daily life in the Middle Ages which reveals the intimate relations between age groups, between the living and the dead, and betwe...

Reducere. Saint Gregory of Tours' comprehensive history of the Frankish people, who ruled over much of what is modern-day France and Germany, is published he...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Becoming the People of the Talmud, Talya Fishman examines ways in which circumstances of transmission have shaped the cultural meanin...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: K. K. EdinIn the far future, Earth's nearby star systems have been colonized. Outfitted with a device that allows them to e...

Iceland, Greenland, Northern Norway, and the Faroe Islands lie on the edges of Western Europe, in an area long portrayed by travelers as remote and...

Reducere. This sourcebook collects together for the first time in English the major documents relating to the life and contemporary reputation of Joan of Arc...

Blue has had a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world. The ancient Greeks scorned it as ugly and barbaric, but most Americans and Europe...

Reducere. For centuries, people have used a combination of water, prayer, meditation and herbs to rejuvenate the mind, body and soul. In Spiritual Bathing, R...

The story of two archaeological sites in Greater Manchester shows how people lived and worked the rural landscape in post-medieval period.Publisher...

DescriptionCitizenship is at the heart of our contemporary world but it is a particular vision of national citizenship forged in the French Revolut...

This book examines the ordinary, routine, daily behaviour, experiences and beliefs of people in Scotland from the earliest times to 1600.

The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE-800 CE investigates what dreams meant in late classical and early medieval China. Mapping a common dreamscape that ...

Reducere. This is a major survey of the barbarian migrations and their role in the fall of the Roman Empire and the creation of early medieval Europe, one of...

Reducere. Creation myths are the deepest and most important of all myths because they are concerned with both the basic patterns of existence and the ultimat...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of France, then keep reading...Three captivating manuscripts in one book: History of France: A Capt...

DescriptionIn the early 1980s, Duccio Balestracci discovered in a Sienese archive two account books kept from 1450 to 1502 by a Tuscan peasant name...

Reducere. This is the third of a four-volume history of philosophy . . . on ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary philosophy. After the fourth volume i...

Reducere. This is the first of a four-volume history of philosophy . . . on ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary philosophy. After the fourth volume i...

Did you know that blue eyes, baldness, bad breath and boils were all considered bodily 'blights' by Medieval Arabs, as were cross eyes, lameness an...

Reducere. MINALAN GETS MEDIEVAL When you defeat the invading goblin army, get knighted on the field of battle, gifted with lands and gold, usually your happi...

Reducere. The most comprehensive book on the topic, Thinking about Good and Evil traces the most salient Jewish ideas about why innocent people seem to suffe...

Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295749013At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China's formative era of phar...

Reducere. In Commerce before Capitalism in Europe, 1300-1600, Martha C. Howell challenges dominant interpretations of the relationship between the so-called ...

From The Hobbit to Harry Potter, how fantasy harnesses the cultural power of magic, medievalism, and childhood to re-enchant the modern world Why a...

Reducere. How much Eastern European history do you know?The story of Eastern Europe is one of successes and failures, competing interests, and the rise and f...

The intoxicating history of an extraordinary city and her people--from the medieval kings surrounding Berlin's founding to the world wars, tumult, ...

Reducere. For the first time in a popular history of tea, the Chinese, Japanese, Tibetan, and Mongolian annals have been thoroughly consulted and carefully s...

DescriptionIn the growth of towns and the revival of commerce, historians have seen the development of a bourgeois and capitalist Europe, but Pierr...

Reducere. As the very first book of its kind, An Environmental History of Medieval Europe provides a highly original survey of medieval relations with the na...

Reducere. What did the medieval Spanish have against the Jews? Religion and Otherness? In that Catholic world Jews were heretics, and they had customs and la...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Fairy world of Northern Europe and Germany The term "Fairy" covers all kinds of nature spirits and Elementals all over the world. No...

Reducere. A classic early 20th century translation by the Jewish Publication Society is graced by reproductions of ancient frescoes, medieval illuminated man...

Immigrant England tells the story of thousands of people who migrated to later medieval England. The book draws on uniquely rich evidence about the...

Reducere. DescriptionDavid Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive--even stories as fa...

The arrival of a band of Spanish mercenaries brings new danger for Margaret Beaufort and the House of Lancaster in this richly-imagined medieval my...

Reducere. Journey back in time to take part in a mammoth hunt, march with a Roman soldier, and fly with the Wright brothers. Explore what history looked like...

This revised and expanded edition surveys the growth and development of magic in medieval times. Examining its relationship with religion, science,...