Sodomy, Masculinity and Law in Medieval Literature. France and England, 1050-1230, Paperback - ***

This book offers a historical survey of attitudes towards same-sex love during the centuries that gave us the Plantagenet court of Henry II and Ele...

The first full-length examination of the medieval Charlemagne tradition in the literature and culture of medieval England, from the Chanson de Rola...

A survey of attitudes to marriage as represented in medieval legal and literary texts.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s): Conor McCarthyNumbe...

Contemporary descriptions of objects no longer extant examined to reconstruct these lost treasures.Publisher: York Medieval PressIllustration(s): 1...

Drawing on a wide array of sources, including plea rolls, guides for confessors, and popular literature of the era, this book argues that issues of...

Publisher: UCL PressAuthor(s): Sebastian CoxonIllustration(s): 17 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 234Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 2...

What did it mean to keep a secret in early medieval England? It was a period during which the experience of secrecy was intensely bound to the beli...

Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Joshua C., J.D., Ph.D. TateIllustration(s): 9 b-w illus.Number of pages: 272Collection: Yale Law Library...

The Legitimacy of Bastards is the first book to consider the individuals who had illegitimate children, the ways in which they provided for them an...

A definitive and authoritative survey of the Western church from 1050 to the early Reformation, featuring entirely original content carefully assem...

This book uncovers the tremendous importance of water for European medieval literature, focusing on a large number of writers and poets. Water prov...

Visions of medieval castles in Fourteenth and fifteenth - century illuminations produced in France - Sabina Madgearu

First major study of the representation of Minerva in the Middle Ages, giving insights into classical reception.

DescriptionPeople in the Middle Ages had chantry chapels, mortuary rolls, the daily observance of the Office of the Dead, and even purgatory--but t...

First full-length study of the notion and concept of old age in early medieval England.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s): Thijs PorckIllustr...

In the fourth century, clerics began to distinguish themselves from members of the laity by virtue of their augmented claims to holiness. Because c...

Reducere. In nineteenth-century England, sodomy was punishable by death; even an accusation could damage a man's reputation for life. The last executions for...

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Family was a central feature of social life in Italian cities. This wide-ranging volume explores patrimony in legal thought and how family property...

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

Race, Religion and Law in Colonial India: Trials of an Interracial Family - Chandra Mallampalli

A major reassessment, based on hitherto unpublished manuscript material, of a disease whose history has attracted more myths and misunderstandings ...

'Impeccably researched and beautifully written, this book offers a fresh perspective on one of the most controversial queens in history. Not to be ...

New in paperback - In this biography Sara Cockerill has gone back to the primary sources, and the wealth of recent first-rate scholarship, and asse...

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New B-format paperback - This fascinating book explores the status of women in medieval England, both before and after the Norman Conquest.Publishe...

Assembles a diverse range of texts to encourage and facilitate the study of medieval towns - a fresh incentive following the collapse of the city-b...

An exhilarating chronicle of the ruling families of France and England, showing how two dynasties formed one extraordinary storyPublisher: Yale Uni...

Fun and informative guide for the historical traveller, finding themselves living in Medieval England.Illustrations: Integrated black and white ill...

New paperback edition - The perfect almanac for lovers of all things medieval. A detailed picture is gathered from original sources.

Dehm analyzes how the REDD+ scheme operates to reorganise social relations and establish new forms of global authority over forests in the Global S...

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An international journal committed to the publication of essays and reviews relevant to drama and theatre history to 1642. This issue includes eigh...

In this addition to his Crime History Series, Gregory Durston points to the lack of design and short-term expediency that typified Tudor law and or...

Reducere. This volume offers fresh approaches to both the material and the subject matter of late medieval English alabaster sculptures, bringing them into d...

DescriptionFor people in the early Middle Ages, the earth, air, water and ether teemed with other beings. Some of these were sentient creatures tha...