Medieval category: 3965 books
Voices of Medieval England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life
Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
This volume provides a selection of primary documents from medieval England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, thereby enabling readers to directly access information about life long ago in the region.
• Provides tools and techniques for effectively evaluating the meaning and importance of the...
Las ideas geográficas y la imagen del mundo en la literatura
Española medieval.
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Esta obra se propone estudiar las ideas geográficas en la España medieval, con particular atención a los siglos XIII, XIV y XV y en sus relaciones con las fuentes griegas y latinas del período clásico y de la tardía Antigüedad. El análisis se centra en la descripción de la imago mundi medieval...
by Phillipp R. Schofield
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Seals and their Context in the Middle Ages offers an extensive overview of approaches to and the potential of sigillography, as well as introducing a wider readership to the range, interest and artistry of medieval seals. Seals were used throughout medieval society in a wide range of contexts: royal,...
Scribes of Space
Place in Middle English Literature and Late Medieval Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Scribes of Space posits that the conception of space—the everyday physical areas we perceive and through which we move—underwent critical transformations between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. Matthew Boyd Goldie examines how natural philosophers, theologians, poets, and other thinkers...
Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages
Maimed Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Whereas traditional scholarship assumed that William Shakespeare used the medieval past as a negative foil to legitimate the present, Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages offers a revisionist perspective, arguing that the playwright valorizes the Middle Ages in order to critique the oppressive...
The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity
Volume 5: Tumbling into the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to...
The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity
Volume 6: War and Peace, Sex and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to...
The Wealth of England
The Medieval Wool trade and Its Political Importance 1100–1600
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The wool trade was undoubtedly one of the most important elements of the British economy throughout the medieval period - even the seat occupied by the speaker of the House of lords rests on a woolsack. In The Wealth of England Susan Rose brings together the social, economic and political strands...
by Mary Bateson
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
My object has been to keep social rather than political facts in view, and throughout to supply by illustration from contemporary accounts some of the characteristic detail which is apt to be crowded out in political histories. The story of social evolution may fairly be called the national story....
The Clash of Legitimacies
The State-Building Process in Late Medieval Lombardy
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2018
The Clash of Legitimacies makes an innovative contribution to the history of the state-building process in late medieval Lombardy (during the 13th to 15th centuries), by illuminating myriad conflicts attending the legitimacy of power and authority at different levels of society. Through the analysis...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2019
The legend of Prester John has received much scholarly attention over the last hundred years, but never before have the sources been collected and coherently presented to readers. This book now brings together a fully-representative set of texts setting out the many and various sources from which...
by Francisco Xavier Hernández Cardona, Xavier Rubio Campillo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Se trata de un libro que, desde el rigor pero con contenido gráfico y tono ameno, trata de analizar los conflictos bélicos de varios siglos de nuestra historia deteniéndose en la composición de los ejércitos, el desarrollo del armamento, la utilización de animales en las batallas o la aparición...
by Ian Mortimer
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2014
From an award-winning historian: “A new and convincing likeness of medieval England’s most iconic king” (The Sunday Times).
This biography by the bestselling author of The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England takes an insightful look at the life of Henry V, casting new light on...
by Ian Mortimer
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2014
The real life story of the Plantagenet ruler, by “the most remarkable medieval historian of our time” (The Times, London).
The talented, confident, and intelligent son of John of Gaunt, Henry IV started his reign as a popular and charismatic king after he dethroned the tyrannical and wildly...