The Middle Ages, Paperback

This collection of essays focuses attention on how medieval gender intersects with other categories of difference, particularly religion and ethnic...

DescriptionIn popular imagination few phenomena are as strongly associated with medieval society as knighthood and chivalry. At the same time, and ...

The Roman empire tends to be seen as a whole whereas the early middle ages tends to be seen as a collection of regional histories, roughly correspo...

In this newest edition of her bestselling book, Barbara H. Rosenwein integrates the history of European, Byzantine, and Islamic medieval cultures--...

Suitable for the teaching of medieval philosophy, this title features judicious selections and translations based on critical editions.Publisher: H...

The third edition of Reading the Middle Ages retains the strengths of previous editions--thematic and geographical diversity, clear and informative...

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,...

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: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Richard MarksNumber of pages: 364Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 191 x 245 x 22Cover type: Paperback / ...

Publisher: University of Notre Dame PressAuthor(s): Barbara ZimbalistNumber of pages: 330Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 230 x 22Cover type...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 1 Line drawings, black and white; 19 Halftones, black and white; 1 Tables, black and white; 20 Illu...

This volume presents the first multidisciplinary bioarchaeological analysis to reconstruct life conditions in ancient Tuscany between Late Antiquit...

Reducere. In this first volume of the new History of Medieval Canon Law series, Lotte K ry presents a bibliographical survey of the chronological and systema...

This authoritative survey draws on historical and archaeological sources in the narration of 750 years of the history of southeastern Europe. It ex...

The third edition of The Beast Within has been updated throughout to include current scholarship, new discussion of definitions, and fresh perspect...

In this newest edition of her bestselling book, Barbara H. Rosenwein integrates the history of European, Byzantine, and Islamic medieval cultures-a...

Reducere. About the AuthorEtienne Gilson was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy.

Reducere. DescriptionFifty Early Medieval Things introduces readers to the material culture of late antique and early medieval Europe, north Africa, and west...

This volume contains the proceedings of the conference 'Law and Marriage in Medieval and Early Modern Times' held on 4 - 6 May 2011 at the Carlsber...

Addressing every aspect of the early history of Central Europe, this book explores the formation and early centuries of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland...

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"Here is the first full translation into English of one of the 20th century's few undoubted classics of history." -Washington Post Book World The A...

Since the original publication of this title, the twelfth-century Calabrian Abbot Joachim of Fiore has been accorded an increasingly central positi...

Presents a series of case studies focusing on the identity and activities of individuals associated with crafts and industries in the Middle Age.

In this newest edition of her bestselling book, Barbara H. Rosenwein integrates the history of European, Byzantine, and Islamic medieval cultures-a...

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. European arrowheads and crossbow bolts are relatively under-represented in the literature and are usually treated only as minor aspects. There is a...

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Paul reveals the lasting impact of the crusades, beyond the expeditions themselves, on the formation of dynastic identity and the culture of the me...

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...

Did Muslims and Jews in the Middle Ages cohabit in a peaceful "interfaith utopia"? Or were Jews under Muslim rule persecuted, much as they were in ...

The Middle Ages saw a flourishing of mysticism that was astonishing for its richness and distinctiveness. This book examines a number of women whos...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 36 bw illusNumber of pages: 304Collection: The Cultural Histories SeriesPublication date: 2022...

Proposing that people lived (and live) in "emotional communities"--each having its own particular norms of emotional valuation and expression--Barb...

Publisher: The Highfield Press SouthamptonNumber of pages: 300Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 300 x 211 x 17Cover type: Paperback / softbackEdito...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 83 bw illusNumber of pages: 256Collection: The Cultural Histories SeriesPublication date: 2022...

Reducere. DescriptionDuring the Middle Ages a shared European concept of magic emerged. In the early period, pagan beliefs and practices were absorbed into e...

Murder, Rape and Treason: Judicial Combats in the Late Middle Ages contains accounts of some of the most sanguine, unusual or controversial judicia...

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

Features essays that apply the method to the broader question of differences between regular canons and monks and the narrower question of differen...

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...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the wake of modern genocide, we tend to think of violence against minorities as a sign of intolerance, or, even worse, a prelude to e...

Reducere. In The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, Geraldine Heng questions the common assumption that the concepts of race and racisms only beg...

Explores the ways in which a range of modern textual cultures have continued to engage creatively with the medieval past in order to come to terms ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Europe, then keep reading...Five captivating manuscripts in one book: European History: A Captiv...

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...

Cinematic Illuminations offers medievalists, literary and cultural theorists, and film theorists and buffs a fresh approach to understanding how po...

Reducere. In this groundbreaking work, Ellen Meiksins Wood rewrites the history of political theory. She traces the development of the Western tradition from...

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

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

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

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): MorilloNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 24Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedesc...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Stephen MennellNumber of pages: 408Publication date: 1995Dimensions: 228 x 154 x 26Cover type: Pa...

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DescriptionParis in the Middle Ages was home to royalty, mountebanks, Knights Templar, merchants, prostitutes, and canons. Bursting outward from th...

Publisher: University Press of the PacificAuthor(s): J F C HeckerIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 60Publication date...

Reducere. This book follows the tradition of teaching history in a story-based format. The often-politicized "social studies" approach to history focuses on ...

Reducere. J.R.R. Tolkien claimed that he based the land of Middle Earth on a real place. The Real Middle Earth brings alive, for the first time, the very rea...

Part Two of FourSmall Format: 6" x 9"The University of North Georgia Press and Affordable Learning Georgia bring you British Literature: From the M...

Penance and confession were an integral part of medieval religious life; essays explore literary evidence.

DescriptionCastration and castrati have always been facets of western culture, from myth and legend to law and theology, from eunuchs guarding hare...

Dramatic social and economic change during the middle ages altered the lives of the people of Britain in far-reaching ways, from the structure of t...

Reducere. The Global Middle Ages: An Introduction discusses how, when, and why a 'global Middle Ages' was conceptualized; explains and considers the terms th...

DescriptionAncient and medieval labyrinths embody paradox, according to Penelope Reed Doob. Their structure allows a double perspective--the baffli...

A full and comprehensive survey of the development of the Cistercian Order which emerged from the tumultuous intellectual and religious fervour of ...

Reducere. From bestselling historians Frances and Joseph Gies, authors of the classic "Medieval Life" series, comes this compelling, lucid, and highly readab...

Reducere. In this novel, set in the 15th century during the Hundred Years War between France and England, Hella Haasse brilliantly captures all the drama of ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Richard E. RubensteinEurope was in the long slumber of the Middle Ages, the Roman Empire was in tatters, and the Greek lang...

The relations between medieval East Anglia and countries across the North Sea examined from a variety of perspectives.