Medieval category: 3965 books
by Norman F. Cantor
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
INVENTING THE MIDDLE AGES
The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century
In this ground-breaking work, Norman Cantor explains how our current notion of the Middle Ages-with its vivid images of wars, tournaments, plagues, saints and kings, knights and ladies-was...
The Colonies of Genoa in the Black Sea Region
Evolution and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This book focuses on the network of the Genoese colonies in the Black Sea area and their diverse multi-ethnic societies. It raises the problems of continuity of the colonial patterns, reveals the importance of the formation of the late medieval / early modern colonialism, the urban demography, and...
Writing the Lives of People and Things, AD 500-1700
A Multi-disciplinary Future for Biography
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Historical biography has a mixed reputation: at its best it can reveal much not only about an individual, but the wider context of their life and society; at worst it can result in a narrowly focused work of hagiography or condemnation. Yet in spite of its sometimes inferior status amongst academics,...
Alexander the Great in the Persian Tradition
History, Myth and Legend in Medieval Iran
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Alexander the Great (356–333 BC) was transformed into a legend by all those he met, leaving an enduring tradition of romances across the world. Aside from its penetration into every language of medieval Europe, the Alexander romance arguably had its greatest impact in the Persian language.
by Gary Ekborg
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Courtly love is a medieval literary concept of love emphasizing nobility and chivalry. Stories of noble knights riding off on adventure for the love of a fair lady abound in the Middle Ages. "Love and Romance in the Middle Ages" captures the stories of courtly love, noble knights and fair maidens....
by Phyllis Gaffney
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
What do we know of medieval childhood? Were boundaries always clear between childhood and young adulthood? Was medieval childhood gendered? Scholars have been debating such questions over half a century. Can evidence from imaginative literature test the conclusions of historians? Phyllis Gaffney's...
The Stag of Love
The Chase in Medieval Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
A sport and a military exercise, hunting involved aggressive action with weapons and dogs, and pursuit to the point of combat and killing, for the sake of recreation, food or conquest. The Stag of Love explores the body of erotic metaphor that developed from the hunt together with Ovid's flourishing...
The Malice of Unnatural Death (Knights Templar Mysteries 22)
A thrilling medieval adventure of secrets and murder
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
A deadly hunt for a dangerous secret and a ruthless killer...
The twenty-second novel in Michael Jecks' Knights Templar mysteries is a riveting tale of murder and intrigue in the King's Court. Perfect for fans of George R. R. Martin and****Ellis Peters.
'Another rip-roaring medieval...
The Death Ship of Dartmouth (Knights Templar Mysteries 21)
A fascinating murder mystery from 14th-century Devon
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
A gang of ruthless pirates and the prospect of civil war threaten medieval Britain...
Sir Baldwin de Furnshill and Bailiff Simon Puttock, Michael Jeck's savvy sleuths, are on the case again in The Death Ship of Dartmouth, another compelling, well-crafted tale in the Knights Templar series....
Scotland's Merlin
A Medieval Legend and its Dark Age Origins
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Who was Merlin? Is the famous wizard of Arthurian legend based on a real person? In this book, Merlin's origins are traced back to the story of Lailoken, a mysterious 'wild man' who is said to have lived in the Scottish Lowlands in the sixth century AD. The book considers the question of whether Lailoken...
How to Cook A Peacock
Le Viandier: Medieval Recipes From The French Court
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
In the fourteenth century, French kings prized such fare as peacock, storks and herons. Guillaume Tirel not only cooked these dishes, he left a book on how to do it. Because (it is said) he had a long sharp nose, he was nicknamed "Taillevent" ("Slice-wind"), and his classic cookbook...
Routledge Revivals: A History of the Art of War in the Middle Ages (1978)
Volume One 378-1278
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
First published in 1898, this history of medieval warfare, written by one of the great medievalists of his time, Sir Charles Oman, remains for students and general readers one of the best accounts of military art in the Middle Ages. The book begins with the significant battle of Adrianople in 378...
Ecofeminist Subjectivities
Chaucer’s Talking Birds
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
This book analyzes the interaction between gender and species in Chaucer's poetry and strives to understand his adaptation of medieval discourse through an ecofeminist lens. Works that either speak of animals, or those with animals speaking, give new insights into the medieval textual handling of the 'others' of society.
The Medieval Tradition of Thebes
History and Narrative in the Roman de Thebes, Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Lydgate
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.