Medieval category: 3965 books
by Jessica Cohn
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
This captivating book introduces readers to Islamic history through vivid images and intriguing facts. The text works in conjunction with the eye-catching photos and illustrations to give readers a look into the history of Islamic culture, life, and politics, including Muhammad, the Arabian Peninsula,...
by Henry Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2015
The romantic growth and imaginative shaping of chivalric love having been followed in the fortunes of its great exemplars, Tristan, Iseult, Lancelot, Guinevere, Parzival, a different illustration of mediaeval passion may be had by turning from these creations of literature to an actual woman, whose...
by Mike Paine
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Now in paperback, a concise guide to one of the bloodiest periods of medieval ChristendomThe first crusade was set in motion by Pope Urban II in 1095 and culminated in the capture of Jerusalem from the Muslims four years later. In 1291 the fall of Acre marked the loss of the last Christian enclave...
The Race for Paradise
An Islamic History of the Crusades
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
In 1099, when the first Frankish invaders arrived before the walls of Jerusalem, they had carved out a Christian European presence in the Islamic world that endured for centuries, bolstered by subsequent waves of new crusaders and pilgrims. The story of how this group of warriors, driven by faith,...
Assassins
The Story of Medieval Islam's Secret Sect
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2009
The so-called "Assassins"—men who had no fear of death and were trained to kill—are one of the most spectacular legends of medieval history. Since the tales of Marco Polo and others, the myths surrounding them have been fantastically embellished and the truth has become ever more obscure....
Eating Beauty
The Eucharist and the Spiritual Arts of the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
"The enigmatic link between the natural and artistic beauty that is to be contemplated but not eaten, on the one hand, and the eucharistic beauty that is both seen (with the eyes of faith) and eaten, on the other, intrigues me and inspires this book. One cannot ask theo-aesthetic questions about the...
The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages
The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages
Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1970
The end of the millennium has always held the world in fear of earthquakes, plague, and the catastrophic destruction of the world. At the dawn of the 21st millennium the world is still experiencing these anxieties, as seen by the onslaught of fantasies of renewal, doomsday predictions, and New Age...
From the Brink of the Apocalypse
Confronting Famine, War, Plague and Death in the Later Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Praise for the first edition:
"Aberth wears his very considerable and up-to-date scholarship lightly and his study of a series of complex and somber calamites is made remarkably vivid." -- Barrie Dobson, Honorary Professor of History, University of York
The later Middle Ages...
Discerning Spirits
Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Trance states, prophesying, convulsions, fasting, and other physical manifestations were often regarded as signs that a person was seized by spirits. In a book that sets out the prehistory of the early modern European witch craze, Nancy Caciola shows how medieval people decided whom to venerate as...
Afterlives
The Return of the Dead in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Simultaneously real and unreal, the dead are people, yet they are not. The society of medieval Europe developed a rich set of imaginative traditions about death and the afterlife, using the dead as a point of entry for thinking about the self, regeneration, and loss. These macabre preoccupations are...
The Everyday Life of the Templars
The Knights Templar at Home
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
The lives of the medieval Templars seem hidden and mysterious. Helen J. Nicholson reveals their everyday world set out in early 14th-century records. The records of the Templars’ estates show us how they operated, the men and women who worked for them on their lands and houses, their tenants and...
Jan Hus
Religious Reform and Social Revolution in Bohemia
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
A century before Martin Luther and the Reformation, Jan Hus confronted the official Church and helped to change the face of medieval Europe. A key figure in the history of Europe and Christianity and a catalyst for religious reform and social revolution, Jan Hus was poised between tradition and innovation....
Fearful Spirits, Reasoned Follies
The Boundaries of Superstition in Late Medieval Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Superstitions are commonplace in the modern world. Mostly, however, they evoke innocuous images of people reading their horoscopes or avoiding black cats. Certain religious practices might also come to mind—praying to St. Christopher or lighting candles for the dead. Benign as they might seem today,...
Monastic Reform as Process
Realities and Representations in Medieval Flanders, 900–1100
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
The history of monastic institutions in the Middle Ages may at first appear remarkably uniform and predictable. Medieval commentators and modern scholars have observed how monasteries of the tenth to early twelfth centuries experienced long periods of stasis alternating with bursts of rapid development...