The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in the Middle Ages, Paperback - Robert Bartlett

Reducere. Seven hundred years ago, executioners led a Welsh rebel named William Cragh to a wintry hill to be hanged. They placed a noose around his neck, dro...

Reducere. The last member of a murdered House tries to protect his ward from forced marriage to a monster while uncovering clues to his own tortured past. Th...

Eminent historian Robert Bartlett takes a fresh, cogent look at how our view of medieval history has been shaped by eight significant films of the ...

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

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

The third book in the new Penguin Maigret series: Georges Simenon's haunting tale about the lengths to which people will go to escape from guilt, i...

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

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)...

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...

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...

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

In this authoritative, lively book, the celebrated Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco presents a learned summary of medieval aesthetic id...

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

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 ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn The Middle Ages, Dorothy Mills lets medieval chroniclers tell their own tales; poets and troubadours, minstrels and wandering scholar...

Reducere. In this single indispensable volume, one of America’s ranking scholars combines a life’s work of research and teaching with the art of lively narra...

Reducere. INVENTING THE MIDDLE AGESThe Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth CenturyIn this ground-breaking work, Norman Cantor ...

Jacques Le Goff sets out in this book to explain the role of money, or rather of the various types of money, in the economy, life and mentalities o...