Medieval category: 3965 books
by Maria Clara Rossi, Marina Garbellotti
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
In recent years historical studies on adoption and fosterage have greatly advanced, very likely due to the importance that such practices have acquired in our own societies. Also in the past – not only during Roman or Late Antique periods, but throughout the Middle Ages and the Modern Era as well...
by Alexander Murray
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Alexander Murray has long had an intellectual interest in the history of religion - struggling between his inbuilt anti-clericism and his pronounced monastic leanings. The five essays in Conscience and Authority in the Medieval Church take on this dialectic, addressing the difficult relationship between...
"Every Valley Shall Be Exalted"
The Discourse of Opposites in Twelfth-Century Thought
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
In high medieval France, men and women saw the world around them as the product of tensions between opposites. Imbued with a Christian culture in which a penniless preacher was also the King of Kings and the last were expected to be first, twelfth-century thinkers brought order to their lives through...
The Birth of Nobility
Constructing Aristocracy in England and France, 900-1300
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
For 300 years separate and mutually uncomprehending English and French historiographies have confused the history of medieval aristocracy. Unpicking the basic assumptions behind both national traditions, this book explains them, reconciles them and offers entirely new ways to take the study of aristocracy...
Authority and Spectacle in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Essays in Honor of Teofilo F. Ruiz
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Bringing together distinguished scholars in honor of Professor Teofilo F. Ruiz, this volumepresents original and innovative research on the critical and uneasy relationship between authority and spectacle in the period from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, focusing on Spain, the Mediterranean...
Ecclesiastical Knights
The Military Orders in Castile, 1150-1330
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
“Warrior monks”—the misnomer for the Iberian military orders that emerged on the frontiers of Europe in the twelfth century—have long fascinated general readers and professional historians alike. Proposing “ecclesiastical knights” as a more accurate name and conceptual model—warriors...
The Emergence of León-Castile c.1065-1500
Essays Presented to J.F. O'Callaghan
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
To many medieval Europeans north of the Pyrenees, the Iberian Kingdom of León-Castile was remote and unfamiliar. In many ways such perceptions linger today, and the fact that León-Castile is mentioned at all in current textbooks is the result of efforts begun by scholars some forty years ago....
Friendship in Medieval Iberia
Historical, Legal and Literary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Private and public relationships - frequently labelled as friendships - have always played a crucial role in human societies. Yet, over the centuries ideas and meanings of friendship transformed, adapting to the political and social climates of different periods. Changing concepts and practices of...
by Helen M. Jewell
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2006
The period 1200-1550 opened in a time of population expansion but went on to suffer the demographically cataclysmic effects of the plague, beginning with the Black Death of 1347-51. The period dawned with a confident papacy and the Albigensian crusade against heretics and ended with the Catholic church...
The Narreme in the Medieval Romance Epic
An Introduction to Narrative Structures
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1969
In this study Professor Dorfman applies the methods of modern linguistics to literary analysis. Literature may be described as the structured use of language: the modern linguistic analyzes language in a search for the minimal units of sound and form, phoneme and morpheme, and determines the combinations...
The Templars, the Witch, and the Wild Irish
Vengeance and Heresy in Medieval Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Early medieval Ireland is remembered as the "Land of Saints and Scholars," due to the distinctive devotion to Christian faith and learning that permeated its culture. As early as the seventh century, however, questions were raised about Irish orthodoxy, primarily concerning Easter observances. Yet...
Medieval Devon and Cornwall
Shaping an Ancient Countryside
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
The countryside of Devon and Cornwall preserves an unusually rich legacy from its medieval past. This book explores the different elements which go to make up this historic landscape - the chapels, crosses, castles and mines; the tinworks and strip fields; and above all, the intricately worked counterpane...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Drawing from theatre, English studies, and art history, among others, these essays discuss the challenges and rewards of teaching medieval and early modern texts in the 21st-century university. Topics range from the intersections of race, religion, gender, and nation in cross-cultural encounters to the use of popular culture as pedagogical tools.
by Adam Lucas
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This is the first detailed study of the role of the Church in the commercialization of milling in medieval England. Focusing on the period from the late eleventh to the mid sixteenth centuries, it examines the estate management practices of more than thirty English religious houses founded by the...