Medieval category: 3965 books
Bede and Aethelthryth
An Introduction to Christian Latin Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
*Bede and Aethelthryth *asks why Christians in Britain around the year 700 enjoyed Latin poetry. What did they see in it? What did they get from it? This book attempts to reconstruct the horizon of expectation of a highly learned, Latin-speaking nun as she encounters a fifty-line poem by the Venerable...
Snorri Sturluson and the Edda
The Conversion of Cultural Capital in Medieval Scandinavia
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2008
Why would Snorri Sturluson (c. 1179-1241), the most powerful and rapacious Icelander of his generation, dedicate so much time and effort to producing the Edda, a text that is widely recognized as the most significant medieval source for pre-Christian Norse myth and poetics? Kevin J. Wanner brings...
Cross and Scepter
The Rise of the Scandinavian Kingdoms from the Vikings to the Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2014
Christianity and European-style monarchy—the cross and the scepter—were introduced to Scandinavia in the tenth century, a development that was to have profound implications for all of Europe. Cross and Scepter is a concise history of the Scandinavian kingdoms from the age of the Vikings to the...
by Michelle Karnes
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
In Imagination, Meditation, and Cognition in the Middle Ages, Michelle Karnes revises the history of medieval imagination with a detailed analysis of its role in the period’s meditations and theories of cognition. Karnes here understands imagination in its technical, philosophical sense, taking...
Pride and Prodigies
Studies in the Monsters of the Beowulf Manuscript
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Monsters and the monstrous, whether from the remote pagan past or the new world of Christian Latin learning, haunted the Anglo-Saxon imagination in a variety of ways. In this series of detailed studies, Andy Orchard demonstrates the changing range of Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards the monstrous by...
Jaufre (Routledge Revivals)
An Occitan Arthurian Romance
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This translation, first published in 1992, presents one of the most memorable medieval ballads, largely because it contains a number of surprises and falsified expectations.
Jaufre, the hero, arrives at the court of King Arthur with a total and naïve faith in the King and his ability to effect...
The English Boccaccio
A History in Books
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
The Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio has had a long and colourful history in English translation. This new interdisciplinary study presents the first exploration of the reception of Boccaccio’s writings in English literary culture, tracing his presence from the early fifteenth century to the 1930s....
by Joanne Mattern
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Geoffrey Chaucer was a British poet during the Middle ages and is still considered one of the greatest English writers of all time. Through this intriguing biography, readers will learn about Chaucer's life as he took part in the Hundred Years War, worked for King Edward III, and went on to write...
by Margaux Baum, Margaret Scott
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
If it is clothes that make the man or woman, each historical era can speak volumes to modern observers with its dominant fashions and clothing trends. This book provides a vivid journey into the fabrics used by medieval peoples, the textile trade, tailoring, and the ever more outrageous and interesting...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Beatrice Cenci is a tragic figure from late 16th century Rome. Along with her brother, Giacomo, and her stepmother, Lucrezia, she plotted the death of her evil father, Francesco Cenci. Following the parricide the three culprits were sentenced to death by Pope Clement VIII, The verdicts occurred following...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Joan of Arc came to prominence in the decade after France suffered a crucial defeat to the English at the Battle of Agincourt on October 25, 1415. Her rise coincided with the deep misfortunes the French people were suffering at the hands of the English invading armies. My e-book covers the period...
Build It! Medieval World
Make Supercool Models with Your Favorite LEGO® Parts
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
This series of visually rich instruction books for LEGO® creations is perfect for children ages 5 and up. Inside Build it! Racecars, you'll find a range of creative models from to put together, created using bricks that LEGO® obsessives may already have at home. Each book in this interactive series...
Crusade Against the Grail
The Struggle between the Cathars, the Templars, and the Church of Rome
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2006
The first English translation of the book that reveals the Cathar stronghold at Montségur to be the repository of the Holy Grail
• Presents the history of the Papal persecution of the Cathars that lies hidden in the medieval epic Parzival and in the poetry of the troubadours
• Provides...
European Magic and Witchcraft
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Magic, witches, and demons have drawn interest and fear throughout human history. In this comprehensive primary source reader, Martha Rampton traces the history of our fascination with magic and witchcraft from the first through to the seventeenth century. In over 80 readings presented chronologically,...