Medieval category: 3965 books
The Fifth Crusade in Context
The Crusading Movement in the Early Thirteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
The Fifth Crusade represented a cardinal event in early thirteenth-century history, occurring during what was probably the most intensive period of crusading in both Europe and the Holy Land. Following the controversial outcome of the Fourth Crusade in 1204, and the decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council...
Fortified Settlements in Early Medieval Europe
Defended Communities of the 8th-10th Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Twenty-three contributions by leading archaeologists from across Europe explore the varied forms, functions and significances of fortified settlements in the 8th to 10th centuries AD. These could be sites of strongly martial nature, upland retreats, monastic enclosures, rural seats, island bases,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
This translation, first published in 1993, presents a little-known medieval romance to readers who do not know Old French, or who are generally unfamiliar with the literature of the Middle Ages.
Probably composed between 1190 and 1220, the major interest of Amadas and Ydoine to modern readers...
After Lavinia
A Literary History of Premodern Marriage Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
The Renaissance jurist Alberico Gentili once quipped that, just like comedies, all wars end in a marriage. In medieval and early modern Europe, marriage treaties were a perennial feature of the diplomatic landscape. When one ruler decided to make peace with his enemy, the two parties often sealed...
The Ends of the Body
Identity and Community in Medieval Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Drawing on Arabic, English, French, Irish, Latin and Spanish sources, the essays share a focus on the body’s productive capacity – whether expressed through the flesh’s materiality, or through its role in performing meaning.
The collection is divided into four clusters. ‘Foundations’...
Allegorical Bodies
Power and Gender in Late Medieval France
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Allegorical Bodies begins with the paradoxical observation that at the same time as the royal administrators of late fourteenth and early fifteenth-century France excluded women from the royal succession through the codification of Salic law, writers of the period adopted the female form as the allegorical...
Reading the Middle Ages
Sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic World, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
The third edition of Reading the Middle Ages retains the strengths of previous editions—thematic and geographical diversity, clear and informative introductions, and close integration with A Short History of the Middle Ages—and adds significant new materials, especially on the Byzantine and Islamic...
A Short History of the Middle Ages, Volume I
From c.300 to c.1150, Fifth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
In this newest edition of her bestselling book, Barbara H. Rosenwein integrates the history of European, Byzantine, and Islamic medieval cultures—as well as their Eurasian connections—in a dynamic narrative. This volume spans the period *c.*300 to *c.*1150. The text has been significantly updated...
by Barbara H. Rosenwein
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
In this newest edition of her bestselling book, Barbara H. Rosenwein integrates the history of European, Byzantine, and Islamic medieval cultures—as well as their Eurasian connections—in a dynamic narrative. The text has been significantly updated to reflect growing interest in the Islamic world...
A Short History of the Middle Ages, Volume II
From c.900 to c.1500, Fifth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
In this newest edition of her bestselling book, Barbara H. Rosenwein integrates the history of European, Byzantine, and Islamic medieval cultures—as well as their Eurasian connections—in a dynamic narrative. This volume spans the period *c.*900 to *c.*1500. The text has been significantly updated...
The Ties that Bind
Essays in Medieval British History in Honor of Barbara Hanawalt
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
This collection of essays, whose title echoes that of her most well-known book, celebrates the career of Barbara A. Hanawalt, emerita George III Professor of British Studies at The Ohio State University. The volume's contents -- ranging from politics to family histories, from intimate portraits to...
The Creation of Lancastrian Kingship
Literature, Language and Politics in Late Medieval England
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
The arguments used to justify the deposition of Richard II in 1399 created new forms of political discussion which developed alongside new expectations of kingship itself and which shaped political action and debate for centuries to come. This interdisciplinary study analyses the political language...
Language as the Site of Revolt in Medieval and Early Modern England
Speaking as a Woman
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2011
Despite attempts to suppress early women's speech, this study demonstrates that women were still actively engaged in cultural practices and speech strategies that were both complicit with the patriarchal ideology whilst also undermining it.
Farming Transformed in Anglo-Saxon England
Agriculture in the Long Eighth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Anglo-Saxon farming has traditionally been seen as the wellspring of English agriculture, setting the pattern for 1000 years to come – but it was more important than that. A rich harvest of archaeological data is now revealing the untold story of agricultural innovation, the beginnings of a revolution,...