Medieval category: 3965 books
The Middle Ages in Popular Imagination
Memory, Film and Medievalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
It is often assumed that those outside of academia know very little about the Middle Ages. But the truth is not so simple. Non-specialists in fact learn a great deal from the myriad medievalisms – post-medieval imaginings of the medieval world – that pervade our everyday culture. These, like Lord...
Strange Words
Retelling and Reception in the Medieval Roland Textual Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Strange Words offers separate but interrelated close readings of four medieval Roland texts in French and Occitan, paying particular attention to scenes in which the speeches of various characters perform or mirror narrative functions. In this clearly written and accessible book, Margaret Jewett Burland...
Queens of the Conquest
England's Medieval Queens Book One
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
In the first volume of an exciting new series, bestselling author Alison Weir brings the dramatic reigns of England’s medieval queens to life.
The lives of England’s medieval queens were packed with incident—love, intrigue, betrayal, adultery, and warfare—but their stories have been...
by Frances Gies
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
From bestselling historians Frances and Joseph Gies, authors of the classic “Medieval Life” series, comes this compelling, lucid, and highly readable account of the family unit as it evolved throughout the Medieval period—reissued for the first time in decades.
“Some particular books...
Medieval Philosophy
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Why do good things happen to bad people? Can we prove whether God exists? What is the difference between right and wrong? Medieval Philosophers were centrally concerned with such questions: questions which are as relevant today as a thousand years ago when the likes of Anselm and Aquinas sought to resolve...
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
**An extraordinary and beautifully illustrated exploration of the medieval world through twelve manuscripts, from one of the world's leading experts.
Winner of The Wolfson History Prize and The Duff Cooper Prize.
A San Francisco Chronicle Holiday Book Gift Guide Pick! **
*Meetings...
Routledge Revivals: Key Figures in Medieval Europe (2006)
An Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
First published in 2006, Key Figures in Medieval Europe, brings together in one volume the most important people who lived in medieval Europe between 500 and 1500. Gathered from the biographical entries from the series, Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, these A-Z biographical entries discuss...
by Sharon Bennett Connolly
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
These are the stories of women, famous, infamous and unknown, who shaped the course of medieval history. The lives and actions of medieval women were restricted by the men who ruled the homes, countries and world they lived in. It was men who fought wars, made laws and dictated religious doctrine....
by John M. Riddle, Winston Black
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
This clear and comprehensive text covers the Middle Ages from the classical era to the late medieval period. Distinguished historian John Riddle provides a cogent analysis of the rulers, wars, and events—both natural and human—that defined the medieval era. Taking a broad geographical perspective,...
by R. Howard Bloch
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation from—or antidote to—ten centuries of misogyny. In this major contribution to gender studies, R. Howard Bloch demonstrates how similar the ubiquitous antifeminism of medieval times and the romantic idealization of woman...
Space in the Medieval West
Places, Territories, and Imagined Geographies
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In the last two decades, research on spatial paradigms and practices has gained momentum across disciplines and vastly different periods, including the field of medieval studies. Responding to this ’spatial turn’ in the humanities, the essays collected here generate new ideas about how medieval...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2003
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophy, first published in 2003, takes its readers into one of the most exciting periods in the history of philosophy. It spans a millennium of thought extending from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas and beyond. It includes not only the thinkers of the Latin West...
The Arma Christi in Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture
With a Critical Edition of 'O Vernicle'
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The Arma Christi, the cluster of objects associated with Christ’s Passion, was one of the most familiar iconographic devices of European medieval and early modern culture. From the weapons used to torment and sacrifice the body of Christ sprang a reliquary tradition that produced active and contemplative...
The Materials of Early Theatre: Sources, Images, and Performance
Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Collected Studies CS 1068
The essays selected for this volume are chosen to reflect the important and intersecting ways in which over the last forty years Meg Twycross has shifted paradigms for people reading early English religious drama. The focus of Meg Twycross’s research has been on...