The World of the Troubadours: Medieval Occitan Society, C.1100 C.1300, Paperback - Linda Paterson

Occitania, known today as the "south of France, " had its own language and culture in the Middle Ages. Its troubadours created "courtly love" and a...

Reducere. The crusading movements provoked a vast and diverse mass of reactions in the medieval West. While Latin sources provide official versions of its pr...

The military and religious orders of the Knights Templar (founded 1120) and Knights Hospitaller (founded c.1099) were a driving force throughout th...

Reducere. The Allegory of Love is a landmark study of a powerful and influential medieval conception. C. S. Lewis explores the sentiment called 'courtly love...

The British Motor Corporation's 1100 and 1300 model range was amongst the most successful in the Corporation's history, selling more than 2.1 milli...

This volume combines a comprehensive exploration of all vessel glass from middle and late Anglo-Saxon England and a review of the early glass with ...

This bilingual edition contains an introduction to the three major periods of the troubadours - their beginning, rise, and decline - as well as hea...

Maureen C. Miller traces the ways in which clerical garb changed over the Middle Ages. Miller goes into detail about craft, artistry, and textiles ...

For the first time ever, this book offers a much-needed comprehensive and introductory overview of the tumultuous era of the Crusades.Publisher: Pe...

The shocking massacre of the Jews in York, 1190, is here re-examined in its historical context along with the circumstances and processes through w...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom 1550 to colonial partition in the mid-1880s, trade was key to Afro-European relations on the western Slave Coast (the coastal areas...

Tower houses are the definitive building of medieval Ireland. This study investigates their significant social role, which has previously gone unde...

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

Reducere. The stories collected in The Dawn of the World were related by the Miwok elders after the first rains of the winter season, usually in the ceremoni...

In this important study, features of late second-millennium B.C.E. culture are critically examined in order to define the complex social boundaries...

The Films of Kore-eda Hirokazu: An Elemental Cinema draws readers into the first 13 feature films and 5 of the documentaries of award-winning Japan...

This book examines the history of monastic exemption in early medieval France. In this era, the popes in Rome became de facto rulers and proprietor...

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 ...

Originally published in 1937, C. L. R. James's World Revolution is a pioneering Marxist analysis of the revolutionary history in the interwar perio...

Reducere. In Commerce before Capitalism in Europe, 1300-1600, Martha C. Howell challenges dominant interpretations of the relationship between the so-called ...

Suitable for both amateurs and professionals wishing to re-create the clothing of Medieval England for historical interpretation or drama. This boo...

A rich exploration of the unexpected online worlds of British Muslims.

Written as an official report for MI5 in 1945, originally published with the permission of the British Government over twenty years later, The Doub...

Reducere. At large during the most colorful period in New Orleans' history, from just after the Louisiana Purchase through the War of 1812, privateers Jean a...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: F. C. CoplestonAquinas (1224-74) lived at a time when the Christian West was opening up to a wealth of Greek and Islamic ph...

Bringing together results from archaeological investigations carried out in the suburbs to the north and east of the medieval and later City of Che...

Reducere. This book "The secret Terrorists" is a clear explication about a dangerous secret society call "the jesuits". Now in a new Big print (A4) and large...

The first comprehensive history of the Aboriginal First World War experience on the battlefield and the home front.When the call to arms was heard ...

Detailed exploration of an enigmatic manuscript containing the texts to hundreds of songs, but no musical notation.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdI...

The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature - C. S. Lewis

Reducere. A comprehensive collection of creation stories ranging across widely varying times and cultures, including Ancient Egyptian, African, and Native Am...

This book sets out to provide a coherent history of the fortunes of this ship-type in the twentieth century. It begins with a brief summary of deve...

This work is concerned with the memories of medieval people. In the Middle Ages, as now, men and women collected stories about the past and handed ...

Although skill, leadership, strategy, and number of forces have been important factors in battles, armaments have played the most decisive role in ...

DescriptionOccult topics have long fascinated artists, and the subject of witches--their imagined bodies and fantastic rituals--was a popular one f...

One of the most famous fighting divisions of the British Army in World War One was the Royal Naval Division. Ernie Coleman tells its story, from tr...

A detailed examination of the before, during and after of Operation Colossus, the first British airborne raid of WWII. Draws on interviews with rel...