The Middle Ages

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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The first two sections of this book explore different ways of understanding seismic phenomena and present strategies for post-disaster management. ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book is the first to present fictions about the medieval world to serious students of history. Instead of merely listing myths and ...

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

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

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

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...

This engaging analysis of Western fashion explores the influence of fashion, taste, and style on people's actions and beliefs since the Middle Ages...

This volume creates awareness among spectators about the differences between the past and the present, the importance of understanding the past-pre...

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. The task of condensing the History of the Church within a few hundred pages is a delicate one. We have undertaken it in the hope that our efforts w...

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

The De Re Militari of Vegetius: The Reception, Transmission and Legacy of a Roman Text in the Middle Ages - Christopher Allmand

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 ...

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

When does imitation of an author morph into masquerade? Although the Roman writer Ovid died in the first century CE, many new Latin poems were ascr...

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

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

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

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Reducere. The task of condensing the History of the Church within a few hundred pages is a delicate one. We have undertaken it in the hope that our efforts w...

This abundantly illustrated book is an illuminating exploration of the impact of medieval imagery on three hundred years of visual culture.Publishe...

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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...

Reducere. "An audacious, entertaining page-turner. Dan Jones covers a thousand years of history with elegance and panache."--Dan Carlin, host of Hardcore His...

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...

Reducere. This comprehensive activity book and curriculum guide about the Middle Ages contains comprehension questions and answers, maps and geography activi...

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

DescriptionHeretic and impostor or reformer and statesman? The contradictory Western visions of MuhammadIn European culture, Muhammad has been vili...

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...

The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages - Geraldine Heng

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...