Medieval category: 3965 books
From England to France
Felony and Exile in the High Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
At the height of the Middle Ages, a peculiar system of perpetual exile—or abjuration—flourished in western Europe. It was a judicial form of exile, not political or religious, and it was meted out to felons for crimes deserving of severe corporal punishment or death. From England to France explores...
The Counts of Laval
Culture, Patronage and Religion in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The Lavals were one of the most important families in late medieval France, rising to a position of unsurpassed eminence by the mid sixteenth century. Yet, at the very point where they reached this position of unrivalled importance, all was put at risk by the dual challenges of dynastic failure and...
Songbook
How Lyrics Became Poetry in Medieval Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Today we usually think of a book of poems as composed by a poet, rather than assembled or adapted by a network of poets and readers. But the earliest European vernacular poetries challenge these assumptions. Medieval songbooks remind us how lyric poetry was once communally produced and received—a...
by Shiloh Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
One of the biggest attractions of George R.R. Martin's high fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, and by extension its HBO television adaptation, Game of Thrones, is its claim to historical realism. The author, the directors and producers of the adaptation, and indeed the fans of the books and show,...
Somerled
And the Emergence of Gaelic Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Through most of eight hundred years, Somerled of Argyll has been variously denounced as an intractable rebel against his rightful king and esteemed as the honoured ancestor of the later medieval Lord of the Isles, but he can be recognised now as a much more complex figure of major prominence in twelfth-century...
Poetics of the Incarnation
Middle English Writing and the Leap of Love
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
The Gospel of John describes the Incarnation of Christ as "the Word made flesh"—an intriguing phrase that uses the logic of metaphor but is not traditionally understood as merely symbolic. Thus the conceptual puzzle of the Incarnation also draws attention to language and form: what is...
Market Power
Lordship, Society, and Economy in Medieval Catalonia (1276–1313)
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Market Power explores society and economy in medieval Iberia, examining the intersection of regional commercial interests, lordship, and royal authority as part of the evolution of a small village into a rural market town.
by Lynn Thorndike
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2015
THIS book aims to trace the development of Europe and its civilization, from the decline of the Roman Empire to the opening of the sixteenth century, for the benefit of the college student and the general reader. It is almost needless to say that such a work makes little claim to originality in method...
Edward III and the Triumph of England
The Battle of Crécy and the Company of the Garter
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
A fascinating recreation of the world of one of England's most charismatic monarchs, from award-winning author and historian Richard Barber
The destruction of the French army at Crécy in 1346 and the subsequent siege and capture of Calais marked a new era in European history. The most powerful,...
Victory at Poitiers
The Black Prince and the Medieval Art of War
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
On 13 September 1356 near Poitiers in western France, the small English army of Edward, the Black Prince crushed the forces of the French King Jean II in one of the most famous battles of the Hundred Years' War. Over the centuries the story of this against-the-odds English victory has, along with...
From Eden to Eternity
Creations of Paradise in the Later Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Did Adam and Eve need to eat in Eden in order to live? If so, did human beings urinate and defecate in paradise? And since people had no need for clothing, transportation, or food, what purpose did animals serve? Would carnivorous animals have preyed on other creatures? These were but a few of the...
by Richard Huscroft
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Making England, 796–1042 explores the creation and establishment of the kingdom of England and the significant changes that led to it becoming one of the most successful and sophisticated political structures in the western world by the middle of the eleventh century.
At the end of the eighth...
Water in the City
The Aqueducts and Underground Passages of Exeter
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
The city of Exeter was one of the great provincial capitals of late medieval and early modern England, possessing a range of civic amenities fully commensurate with its size and importance. Among the most impressive of these was its highly sophisticated system of public water supply, including a...
by Dana Munro
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
THE Latin which gave birth to the Romance languages was vulgar Latin, that is, the Latin of the common people. It accompanied the soldiers of the legions, the colons, and the emigrants of every kind, from Italy into the provinces, and thus became the language of the people of all Western Europe--the...