Medieval category: 3965 books
by Joyce DiPastena
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Medieval author Joyce DiPastena is always on the lookout for authentic medieval names for her characters. Internet searches are helpful, but occasionally they can lead a writer astray. Accurate lists can be found on the internet, but it can take a deal of searching and double-checking of sources....
Medieval Rural Settlement
Britain and Ireland, AD 800-1600
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2011
Medieval Rural Settlement: Britain and Ireland, AD 800-1600 is a major assessment and review of the origins, forms and evolutions of medieval rural settlement in Britain and Ireland across the period c. AD 800-1600. It offers a comprehensive analysis of early to late medieval settlement, land use,...
The Medieval Way of War
Studies in Medieval Military History in Honor of Bernard S. Bachrach
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Few historians have argued so forcefully or persuasively as Bernard S. Bachrach for the study of warfare as not only worthy of scholarly attention, but demanding of it. In his many publications Bachrach has established unequivocally the relevance of military institutions and activity for an understanding...
Theorizing Medieval Geopolitics
War and World Order in the Age of the Crusades
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Over the past two decades or so, medieval geopolitics have come to occupy an increasingly prominent place in the collective imagination—and writings—of International Relations scholars. Although these accounts differ significantly in terms of their respective analytical assumptions, theoretical...
'A Great Effusion of Blood'?
Interpreting Medieval Violence
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
'A great effusion of blood' was a phrase used frequently throughout medieval Europe as shorthand to describe the effects of immoderate interpersonal violence. Yet the ambiguity of this phrase poses numerous problems for modern readers and scholars in interpreting violence in medieval society and culture...
The Later Medieval City
1300-1500
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
The Later Medieval City, 1300-1500, the second part of David Nicholas's ambitious two-volume study of cities and city life in the Middle Ages, fully lives up to its splendid precursor, The Growth of the Medieval City. (Like that volume it is fully self-sufficient, though many readers will want to...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
"A hugely interesting set of essays, reflecting on a variety of ways in which medieval history has developed to the present time. Scholarship of the highest standard, deeply thought-provoking and deeply engaged with the inheritances and future tasks of medieval academic history. The collection...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
Ethics was a central preoccupation of medieval philosophers, and medieval ethical thought is rich, diverse, and inventive. Yet standard histories of ethics often skip quickly over the medievals, and histories of medieval philosophy often fail to do justice to the centrality of ethical concerns in...
Law and Society in Later Medieval England and Ireland
Essays in Honour of Paul Brand
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Law mattered in later medieval England and Ireland. A quick glance at the sources suggests as much. From the charter to the will to the court roll, the majority of the documents which have survived from later medieval England and Ireland, and medieval Europe in general, are legal in nature. Yet despite...
The Medieval Risk-Reward Society
Courts, Adventure, and Love in the European Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The Medieval Risk-Reward Society offers a study of adventure and love in the European Middle Ages focused on the poetry of authors such as Marie de France, Chrétien de Troyes, Wolfram von Eschenbach, and Gottfried von Strassburg—showing how a society based on sacrifice becomes a society based on...
A Medieval Woman's Companion
Women's Lives in the European Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
What have a deaf nun, the mother of the first baby born to Europeans in North America, and a condemned heretic to do with one another? They are among the virtuous virgins, marvelous maidens, and fierce feminists of the Middle Ages who trail-blazed paths for women today. Without those first courageous...
The Social Politics of Medieval Diplomacy
Anglo-German Relations (1066-1307)
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Late nineteenth- and twentieth-century political and intellectual boundaries have heavily influenced our views of medieval Germany. Historians have looked back to the Middle Ages for the origins of modern European political crises. They concluded that while England and France built nation-states during...
Suspended Animation
Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
When Marsellus in the film Pulp**Fiction asserts, "I'm gonna git medieval on your ass," we know that he is about to bring down a fierce and exacting punishment. Yet is the violence of the Middle Ages that far removed from our modern society? Suspended Animation argues that not only is the...
by Stephen F. Brown, Juan Carlos Flores
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
This second edition concentrates on various philosophers and theologians from the medieval Arabian, Jewish, and Christian worlds. It principally centers on authors such as Abumashar, Saadiah Gaon and Alcuin from the eighth century and follows the intellectual developments of the three traditions up...