Medieval category: 3965 books
Margins and Metropolis
Authority across the Byzantine Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
This volume explores the political, cultural, and ecclesiastical forces that linked the metropolis of Byzantium to the margins of its far-flung empire. Focusing on the provincial region of Hellas and Peloponnesos in central and southern Greece, Judith Herrin shows how the prestige of Constantinople...
Towton: The Battle of Palm Sunday Field
The Battle of Palm Sunday Field
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
The battle at Towton in Yorkshire on 29 March 1461 was the largest, longest fought and bloodiest day in English medieval history. In terms of the number of troops involved, the ruthlessness of the fighting, the quantity of casualties and the decisive nature of its outcome, Towton stands out from the...
Mysteries of the Middle Ages
And the Beginning of the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
From the bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization, a fascinating look at how medieval thinkers created the origins of modern intellectual movements.
After the long period of decline known as the Dark Ages, medieval Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature,...
The Performance of Self
Ritual, Clothing, and Identity During the Hundred Years War
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Medieval courtiers defined themselves in ceremonies and rituals. Tournaments, Maying, interludes, charivaris, and masking invited the English and French nobility to assert their identities in gesture and costume as well as in speech. These events presumed that performance makes a self, in contrast...
by H G Koenigsberger
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
This book traces across the millennium of the Middle Ages the gradual crystallisation of a new and distinctive European identity. Koenigsberger covers the Islamic, Byzantine and central Asian worlds in his account which explains Europe's progression from chaos and collapse to the point where it was set to rule much of the world.
Gender and Holiness
Men, Women and Saints in Late Medieval Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
This collection brings together two flourishing areas of medieval scholarship: gender and religion. It examines gender-specific religious practices and contends that the pursuit of holiness can destabilise binary gender itself. Though saints may be classified as masculine or feminine, holiness may...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 1999
The Franciscan William of Ockham (c. 1288–1347) was an English medieval philosopher, theologian, and political theorist. Along with Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus, he is regarded as one of the three main figures in medieval philosophy after around 1150. Ockham is important not only in the history...
Early Medieval Philosophy 480-1150
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
Compact but singularly well thought out material of a theological, logical, poetic as well as philosophical nature.
by Christopher Cannon
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
The first lessons we learn in school can stay with us all our lives, but this was nowhere more true than in the last decades of the fourteenth century when grammar-school students were not only learning to read and write, but understanding, for the first time, that their mother tongue, English, was...
by Philip Butterworth
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This volume brings together important records of medieval theatre practice between 1400 and 1580. The records are drawn from a wide range of spheres including civic, ecclesiastical, trade and guild records and consist of payments for materials, techniques and services; also included are some eye witness...
Brother-Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium
Monks, Laymen, and Christian Ritual
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Among medieval Christian societies, Byzantium is unique in preserving an ecclesiastical ritual of adelphopoiesis, which pronounces two men, not related by birth, as brothers for life. It has its origin as a spiritual blessing in the monastic world of late antiquity, and it becomes a popular social...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
This collection of essays offers fresh analysis of topics in the exciting area of Atlantic World studies. Challenging standard assumptions, the essays advance the argument that the Atlantic Ocean was a region that encompassed ethnic and political boundaries, in which a sub-community shaped by culture and commerce arose.
The Scottish Legendary
Towards a poetics of hagiographic narration
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
This is the first book-length study of the Scottish Legendary of the late fourteenth century. The only extant collection of saints' lives in the vernacular from medieval Scotland, the work scrutinises the dynamics of hagiographic narration, its implicit assumptions about literariness, and the functions...
Word of Mouth
Fama and Its Personifications in Art and Literature from Ancient Rome to the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
The concept expressed by the Roman term fama, although strictly linked to the activity of speaking, recalls a more complex form of collective communication that puts diverse information and opinions into circulation by 'word of mouth', covering the spreading of rumours, expression of common anxieties,...