Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages, Hardback - Suzannah Biernoff

This book breaks new ground by bringing postmodern writings on vision and embodiment into dialogue with medieval texts and images: an interdiscipli...

From wool and leather to silks, spices and gems, a fascinating journey through early international trade.Publisher: Amberley PublishingAuthor(s): H...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): MorilloNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 234 x 27Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farmec...

Avery is a little curious child who simply loves history and...can travel in it! Every title is an adventure in history bringing together fiction a...

This highly-illustrated volume, by bestselling author Richard Barber, shows how medieval princes proclaimed their special status through displays o...

This book studies the way in which medieval ways of knowing the Oriental 'other' were constructed around the idea of a utopic East as located in th...

Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Katherine HarveyIllustration(s): 17 halftonesNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 220 x 268 x ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This book investigates the role of 'texts' - including books, maps, stones and caskets - in the conveyance and transformation of knowledge througho...

Johannes Fried gives us a Middle Ages full of people encountering the unfamiliar, grappling with new ideas, redefining power, and interacting with ...

Fresh from the award-winning Woodmansterne studio, Hysterical Heritage juxtaposes imagery inspired by the Bayeaux Tapestry with modern day expressi...

Fascinating accounts of the outrageous criminals, murderous fanatics, unrepentant heretics and audacious pioneers of the medieval era.Publisher: Am...

Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built.Publisher: Head of ZeusAuthor(s): Da...

Following a long trajectory from late antiquity to the high Middle Ages, Dyan Elliott offers a provocative analysis of the changing religious, emot...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressNumber of pages: 256Collection: Advances in Critical Military StudiesPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 155 x 2...

In The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages, Mary Dzon explores the continued transmission and appeal of apocryphal legends througho...

Reducere. The intrepid Blinkerton children grapple with many adventures when they travel back in time to the Middle Ages. Their guide book from the Good Time...

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

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

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

First full-length study of the use and perception of deceit in medieval warfare.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s): James (Person) TittertonI...

This edited volume brings together experts on the later middle ages to chart the principle developments of medieval Europe.Editor(s): Isabella (Pro...

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...

This book presents new, cross-disciplinary research on leprosy in medieval Europe, focusing on questions of identity. It reveals complex responses ...

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

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 ...

This new book provides a fresh perspective on these well-known rebellions, it examines the causes behind insurrections and how in turn they influen...

This research underscores the significance of the Transylvanian Saxons as actors in the cultural history of Europe. The presence of books in southe...

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 ...

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

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...