Medieval category: 3965 books
by Henry Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
The Middle Ages! They seem so far away; intellectually so preposterous, spiritually so strange. Bits of them may touch our sympathy, please our taste; their window-glass, their sculpture, certain of their stories, their romances,—as if those straitened ages really were the time of romance, which...
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by Michael Frassetto
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This book examines a pivotal period in ancient human history: the fall of the Roman Empire and the birth of a new European civilization in the early Middle Ages.
• A chronology of events
• Dozens of primary document excerpts
• A substantial bibliography of print and nonprint sources
by Alexander Clarence Flick
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
First Published in 2018. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Seats of Power in Europe during the Hundred Years War
An Architectural Study from 1330 to 1480
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
The Hundred Years’ War between England and France is a story of an epic conflict between two nations whose destinies became inextricably entwined throughout the later Middle Ages. During that time the balance of architectural power moved from religious to secular domination, the Gothic form continued...
Contested Treasure
Jews and Authority in the Crown of Aragon
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
In Contested Treasure, Thomas Barton examines how the Jews in the Crown of Aragon in the twelfth through fourteenth centuries negotiated the overlapping jurisdictions and power relations of local lords and the crown. The thirteenth century was a formative period for the growth of royal bureaucracy...
Sufism, Culture, and Politics
Afghans and Islam in Medieval North India
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
This book provides a political history of north India under Afghan rulers in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Focusing on interconnections between religion and politics, it also raises questions of paramount concern to an understanding of Islam in medieval north India. The book is...
Sleepwalking into a New World
The Emergence of Italian City Communes in the Twelfth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2015
Amid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a new form of collective government—the commune—arose in the cities of northern and central Italy. Sleepwalking into a New World takes a bold new look at how these autonomous city-states came about, and fundamentally...
Violence and Justice in Bologna
1250–1700
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
This collection of essays offers a unique contribution to the study of violence and justice in a late medieval and early modern Italy by combining a multivocal perspective with a case-study focus on the city-state of Bologna. Drawing on the city’s singularly rich archival resources, the authors...
The North Through its Names
A Phenomenology of Medieval and Early-Modern Northern England
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The North of England and northern-ness are elusive concepts, both academically and in popular perception. This volume in the English Surnames Survey series looks at what can be learned about the idea of the 'North' of England as a distinct identity from its surnames. The personal names from the north...
The Irish in Early Medieval Europe
Identity, Culture and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Many Irish scholars, known as 'peregrini', arrived in Continental Europe in the early Middle Ages making a significant cultural impact. This edited collection of brand new essays brings together some of the world's leading experts in the field who synthesise major critical developments, and offer exciting new perspectives on the Irish peregrini.
by Ralph A. Griffiths, Phillipp R. Schofield
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
This book honours the achievement of J. Beverley Smith during a notable career as a teacher and writer of history, and an editor in the service of his profession. The essays are contributed by fellow historians from across Britain and include some of the country’s outstanding scholars. ‘Wales...
by Richard M. Eaton
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2004
This is a timely topic, since many in India today are looking to the past to justify or Condemn public policy with respect to religious monuments.
by Lea, Henry Charles
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
This was originally published in three volumes, but is now comprised in one volume. There is a linked table of contents for each volume as well as a detailed table of contents at the beginning of each volume linked to the specific chapters in that volume. There is also a subject index at the end of...
Pietro Monte's Collectanea
The Arms, Armour and Fighting Techniques of a Fifteenth-Century Soldier
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
Pietro Monte's Collectanea is a wide-ranging treatise on the arts of knighthood, focusing on martial arts, athletics, arms and armour, and military practice, but touching on subjects as diverse as diet, zoology and the design of life preservers. Monte, a courtier, soldier and scholar who won the respect...