Religious Poverty and the Profit Economy in Medieval Europe, Paperback - Lester Little

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This engaging history of dynastic power in medieval Europe explores the role of family dynamics and family consciousness in the politics of royal a...

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...

In 1144, the mutilated body of William of Norwich, a young apprentice leatherworker, was found abandoned outside the city's walls. The boy bore dis...

Dave Elder-Vass argues that dominant approaches to the economy miss much of what happens in real economies and that the rise of the digital economy...

A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1, 000-year span of the Middle Ages The millennium ...

The public execution of criminals has been a common practice since ancient times. Adriano Prosperi identifies a crucial period when concepts of ven...

Reducere. Penance has traditionally been viewed exclusively as the domain of church history but penance and confession also had important social functions in...

This book examines fundamental issues of principle and practice in the taxation of international corporations. It analyses the economic and wider n...

DescriptionThe world was caught up in a haze of exuberance and mania, with many hoping to get rich through accumulating easily accessible and unreg...

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This engaging history of dynastic power in medieval Europe explores the role of family dynamics and family consciousness in the politics of royal a...

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...

Presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the use of caves and rock shelters across Europe during the medieval period for a wide range of religi...

In 1230, Jews in the English city of Norwich were accused of having seized and circumcised a five-year-old Christian boy named Edward because they ...

This is the most authoritative account of life in Medieval Europe between the fall of the Roman Empire and the coming of the Renaissance. Full cove...

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

This richly illustrated book tells the story of Europe and the Mediterranean over the thousand years which saw the creation of Western Civilization...

Reducere. A History of Business in Medieval Europe, 1200-1550, demolishes the widely held view that the phrase "medieval business" is an oxymoron. The author...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Ruth (University of Minnesota, USA) Mazo KarrasIllustration(s): 19 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pa...

This book explores rural societies in western Europe from 700-1050. It focuses on the bottom of the social hierarchy, rejectingviews that see rural...

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Publisher: Zone BooksAuthor(s): Caroline Walker BynumNumber of pages: 344Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 230 x 32Cover type: Paperback / so...

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Studies Romanesque effigies as a distinctive form of medieval sculpture, emphasizing the early twelfth century as a time of rapid change in the art...

Reducere. This book reevaluates the prevailing notion that Jews in medieval Christian Europe lived under an appalling regime of ecclesiastical limitation, go...

Maureen C. Miller traces the ways in which clerical garb changed over the Middle Ages. Miller goes into detail about craft, artistry, and textiles ...

The Dominican friars of late-medieval Italy were vowed to a life of religious poverty. Yet their churches contained many visual riches such as work...

This book explores how religious activists understand, interpret and practically engage with neoliberal globalization and present their proposals a...

DescriptionTraces Islamic influence on commerce, science, technology, philosophy and European self-awareness in the Middle Ages

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Reducere. Descopera istoria. Stat si religie in Europa medievala. Papalitatea, Imperiul si marile regate dinasticeIntre secolele al XI-lea si al XIII-lea au ...

Reducere. For many years scholars have sought to explain why the European states that emerged in the period before the French Revolution developed along such...

Unlike monks and nuns, clergy have hitherto been sidelined in accounts of the Middle Ages, but they played an important role in medieval society, i...

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Late Medieval Christianity's encounter with miraculous materials viewed in the context of changing conceptions of matter itself.In the period betwe...

Reducere. Although many Americans assume that religious participation has declined in America, Finke and Stark present a different picture. In 1776, fewer th...

DescriptionSwords were special in Anglo-Saxon England. Their names, deeds and pedigrees were enshrined in writing. Many were curated for generation...

Reducere. In the Middle Ages, the region of Tuscany and its surrounding area was, for around 150 years, home to a surprising number of holy women, from the b...

Reducere. God has blessed Ketty Lester to achieve so much in her lifetime. Growing up in the cotton fields of Little Rock, Arkansas, to her first performance...

Drawing on rich empirical material, Urban Secularism demonstrates that urban actors draw and (re-)produce dichotomies of inclusion and exclusion an...