Medieval category: 3965 books
Roadworks
Medieval Britain, medieval roads
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Roadworks: Medieval Britain, medieval roads is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study of roads and wayfinding in medieval England, Wales and Scotland. It looks afresh at the relationship between the road as a material condition of daily life and the formation of local and national communities, arguing...
by Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Is it legitimate to conceive of and write a history of medieval French literature when the term "literature" as we know it today did not appear until the very end of the Middle Ages? In this novel introduction to French literature of the period, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet says yes, arguing...
by Alan Ereira, Terry Jones
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2009
Was medieval England full of knights on horseback rescuing fainting damsels in distress? Were the Middle Ages mired in superstition and ignorance? Why does nobody ever mention King Louis the First and Last? And, of course, those key questions: which monks were forbidden the delights of donning underpants......
A Medieval Family
The Pastons of Fifteenth-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
The fascinating story of the fortunes of one medieval family over the course of a century, from bestselling historians Frances and Joseph Gies.
The Pastons were members of the English gentry—a tiny group of roughly 1,000 households sandwiched between the ruling nobility and the peasants,...
Medieval Cities
Their Origins and the Revival of Trade - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Nearly a century after it was first published in 1925, Medieval Cities remains one of the most provocative works of medieval history ever written. Here, Henri Pirenne argues that it was not the invasion of the Germanic tribes that destroyed the civilization of antiquity, but rather the closing of...
The History of Medieval Europe
The Development of Europe and Its Civilization - From the Decline of the Roman Empire to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
This book aims to trace the development of Europe and its civilization, from the decline of the Roman Empire to the opening of the sixteenth century. The Table of Contents indicates the general plan of the book, which is to treat medieval Europe as a whole and to hang the story upon a single thread,...
by Dawn Marie Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Body and Sacred Place in Medieval Europe investigates the medieval understanding of sacred place, arguing for the centrality of bodies and bodily metaphors to the establishment, function, use, and power of medieval churches. Questioning the traditional division of sacred and profane jurisdictions,...
by Katherine Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Kingship and Masculinity in Late Medieval England explores the dynamic between kingship and masculinity in fifteenth century England, with a particular focus on Henry V and Henry VI. The role of gender in the rhetoric and practice of medieval kingship is still largely unexplored by medieval historians....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records),...
by Mark R. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
What was it like to be poor in the Middle Ages? In the past, the answer to this question came only from institutions and individuals who gave relief to the less fortunate. This book, by one of the top scholars in the field, is the first comprehensive book to study poverty in a premodern Jewish community--from...
The Ethical Poetic of the Later Middle Ages
A decorum of convenient distinction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
This study of the definition of literature in the late medieval period is based on manuals of writing and on literary commentary and glosses. It defines a method of reading which may now profitably explain medieval texts, and identifies new primary medieval evidence which may ground and guide new...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
In medieval society and culture, memory occupied a unique position. It was central to intellectual life and the medieval understanding of the human mind. Commemoration of the dead was also a fundamental Christian activity. Above all, the past - and the memory of it - occupied a central position in...
Medieval Mysteries
A Guide to History, Lore, Places and Symbolism
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Journey into twelve of the world’s favorite medieval mysteries and cross the threshold into the world of the High Middle Ages. From Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales to Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose to Dan Brown’s bestselling The Da Vinci Code, the medieval period continues to intrigue, inspire,...
Medieval Robots
Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
A thousand years before Isaac Asimov set down his Three Laws of Robotics, real and imagined automata appeared in European courts, liturgies, and literary texts. Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, and silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct...