Medieval category: 3965 books
Forgetful of Their Sex
Female Sanctity and Society, ca. 500-1100
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
In this remarkable study of over 2,200 female and male saints, Jane Schulenburg explores women's status and experience in early medieval society and in the Church by examining factors such as family wealth and power, patronage, monasticism, virginity, and motherhood. The result is a unique depiction...
The Briennes
The Rise and Fall of a Champenois Dynasty in the Age of the Crusades, c. 950–1356
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
The Briennes were a highly important aristocratic family who hailed from the Champagne region of north-eastern France, but whose reach and impact extended across Europe and into the Crusader States in the Middle East. It is a highly dramatic and wide-ranging story of medieval mobility, not only up...
Unveiling Eve
Reading Gender in Medieval Hebrew Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
Unveiling Eve is the first feminist inquiry into the Hebrew poetry and prose forms cultivated in Muslim and Christian Spain, Italy, and Provence in the eleventh through fourteenth centuries. In the Jewish Middle Ages, writing was...
Medieval Islamic Economic Thought
Filling the Great Gap in European Economics
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2004
This book is a collection of papers on the origins of economic thought discovered in the writings of some prominent Islamic scholars, during the five centuries prior to the Latin Scholastics, who include St. Thomas Aquinas. This period of time was labelled by Joseph Schumpeter as representing the...
Imperial College Sports Grounds and RMC Land, Harlington
The development of prehistoric and later communities in the Colne Valley and on the Heathrow Terraces
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
This volume brings together the results from the excavations at the former Imperial College Sports Ground, RMC Land and Land East of Wall Garden Farm, near the villages of Harlington and Sipson in the London Borough of Hillingdon. The excavations revealed parts of an archaeological landscape with...
by James G. Clark
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
The men and women that followed the sixth-century customs of Benedict of Nursia (c.480-c.547) formed the most enduring, influential, numerous and widespread religious order of the Latin middle ages. Their liturgical practice, and their acquired taste for learning, served as a model for the medieval...
by Anna Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
This is a comprehensive guide to a literary period characterized by great variety and imagination, and vividly alert to the social transformations overtaking society. Spanning almost two centuries, it introduces the reader to a diverse range of authors writing for a fast-developing readership of both...
Order and Chivalry
Knighthood and Citizenship in Late Medieval Castile
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Knighthood and chivalry are commonly associated with courtly aristocracy and military prowess. Instead of focusing on the relationship between chivalry and nobility, Jesús D. Rodríguez-Velasco asks different questions. Does chivalry have anything to do with the emergence of an urban bourgeoisie?...
The Transformation of a Religious Landscape
Medieval Southern Italy, 850–1150
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
The Transformation of a Religious Landscape paints a detailed picture of the sheer variety of early medieval Christian practice and organization, as well as the diverse modes in which church reform manifested itself in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
From the rich archives of the abbey...
by Roisin Cossar
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Roisin Cossar examines how clerics managed efforts to reform their domestic lives in the decades after the Black Death. Despite reformers’ desire for clerics to remain celibate, clerical households resembled those of the laity, and priests’ lives included apprenticeships in youth, fatherhood in middle age, and reliance on their families in old age.
The Medieval Military Orders
1120-1314
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
This new addition to the popular Seminar Studies series looks at the origins, development and organisation of the Military Orders during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, showing how they functioned as a form of religious life and concentrating on their role in the Crusades and in the government...
Crusading and Warfare in the Middle Ages
Realities and Representations. Essays in Honour of John France
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This volume has been created by scholars from a range of disciplines who wish to show their appreciation for Professor John France and to celebrate his career and achievements. For many decades, Professor France’s work has been instrumental in many of the advances made in the fields of crusader...
The Holy Grail
History and Legend
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
The Holy Grail is one of the most fascinating themes in medieval literature. It was described as the vessel used by Jesus to celebrate the first Eucharist and it became the object of the greatest quest undertaken by King Arthur’s knight. This book examines the traditions attached to the Holy Grail...
Nidrstigningar Saga
Sources, Transmission, and Theology of the Old Norse “Descent into Hell”
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
The Evangelium Nicodemi, or Gospel of Nicodemus, was the most widely circulated apocryphal writing in medieval Europe. It depicted the trial, Passion, and crucifixion of Christ as well as his Harrowing of Hell. During the twelfth-century renaissance, some exemplars of the Evangelium Nicodemi found...