Medieval category: 3965 books
The Ornament of the World
How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2009
A brilliant and fascinating portrait of medieval Spain explores the golden age when Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in an atmosphere of tolerance. of photos. 3 maps.
The Most Noble of People
Religious, Ethnic, and Gender Identity in Muslim Spain
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
The Most Noble of People presents a nuanced look at questions of identity in Muslim Spain under the Umayyads, an Arab dynasty that ruled from 756 to 1031. With a social historical emphasis on relations among different religious and ethnic groups, and between men and women, Jessica A. Coope considers...
Religion and Peace
Historical Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
This volume represents a departure from the prevailing emphasis on religion and war in the medieval and early modern periods. Instead, the book explores the relationship between religion and peace in the context of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, both as an ideal and on the practical level. The...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
'Translated and Edited with a Preliminary Essay on the Intercourse between China and the Western Nations previous to the Discovery of the Cape Route'. Containing the travels of Friar Odoric of Pordenone, 1316-30, and letters and reports from missionary friars from Cathay and India, 1292-1338, in English...
by Elena Lombardi
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante brings to light a new character in medieval literature: that of the woman reader and interlocutor. It does so by establishing a dialogue between literary studies, gender studies, the history of literacy, and the material culture of the book in medieval...
Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages
Transcultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
In the Middle Ages, the life story of Alexander the Great was a well-traveled tale. Known in numerous versions, many of them derived from the ancient Greek Alexander Romance, it was told and re-told throughout Europe, India, the Middle East, and Central Asia. The essays collected in Alexander the...
Reimagining Europe
Kievan Rus’ in the Medieval World
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
An overriding assumption has directed scholarship in both European and Slavic history: that Kievan Rus’ was part of a Byzantine commonwealth separate from Europe. Raffensperger refutes this, and offers a new frame for two hundred years of history, in which Rus’ is understood as part of medieval Europe, and East is not so neatly divided from West.
Periodization and Sovereignty
How Ideas of Feudalism and Secularization Govern the Politics of Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Despite all recent challenges to stage-oriented histories, the idea of a division between a "medieval" and a "modern" period has survived, even flourished, in academia. Periodization and Sovereignty demonstrates that this survival is no innocent affair. By examining periodization...
The North-Eastern Frontiers of Medieval Europe
The Expansion of Latin Christendom in the Baltic Lands
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
By the mid-twelfth century the lands on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, from Finland to the frontiers of Poland, were Catholic Europe’s final frontier: a vast, undeveloped expanse of lowlands, forest and waters, inhabited by peoples belonging to the Finnic and Baltic language groups. In the...
by William Miller
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
No one who visits both Rome and Athens at the present day can fail to be struck by one remarkable difference between the two famous cities, which stand for so much in the history of the world. While Athens is composed of a very old group of ruins and a brand-new town, which was rapidly made to order...
Medieval Celebrations
Your Guide to Planning and Hosting Spectacular Feasts, Parties, Weddings, and Renaissance Fairs
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
• Full-color, revised edition
• Plans for weddings, holiday parties, and Renaissance fairs
• Ideas for properly decorating the dining hall
• Lyrics and music for songs and dances
• Recipes for food and drink
• Patterns for period costumes
• Games and plays
Disunited Kingdoms
Peoples and Politics in the British Isles 1280-1460
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
In the last decades of the thirteenth century the British Isles appeared to be on the point of unified rule, dominated by the lordship, law and language of the English. However by 1400 Britain and Ireland were divided between the warring kings of England and Scotland, and peoples still starkly defined...
by Poggio Bracciolini,
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
The facetie, as a literary form, has an ancient lineage, while, if we regard it merely as a humorous tale or jocular anecdote, its history must be almost as old as the first laughs and smiles of prehistoric man. To go back no further, we may trace it in a direct line through Latin literature, to the...
Norman Tradition and Transcultural Heritage
Exchange of Cultures in the ‘Norman’ Peripheries of Medieval Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
The Normans have long been recognised as one of the most dynamic forces within medieval western Europe. With a reputation for aggression and conquest, they rapidly expanded their powerbase from Normandy, and by the end of the twelfth century had established themselves in positions of strength from...