Medieval category: 3965 books
Jean de Saintre
A Late Medieval Education in Love and Chivalry
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Written in 1456 and purporting to be the biography of the actual fourteenth-century knight of its title, Jean de Saintré has been called the first modern novel in French and one of the first historical novels in any language. Taken in hand at the age of thirteen by an older and much more experienced...
by Camille Bonnard
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Maidens in tasseled gowns and elaborate headpieces. Jousting knights in armor with swords and breastplates. Young men in flowing robes and wide-brimmed hats, others on horseback with decorative trappings. This superb collection displays a detailed gallery of costumes worn in the eleventh through fifteenth...
by Bernard Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2003
This book examines the way in which Christianity spread throughout the known world in the Middle Ages and also explores the great variety of forms which it took. It spans the centuries from A.D. 312, when Constantine the Great ended the persecution of the Church, to 1500, when European overseas expansion...
by Richard Rex
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2002
The Lollards offers a brief but insightful guide to the entire history of England's only native medieval heretical movement. Beginning with its fourteenth century origins in the theology of the Oxford professor, John Wyclif, Richard Rex examines the spread of Lollardy across much of England until...
The Mercenary Mediterranean
Sovereignty, Religion, and Violence in the Medieval Crown of Aragon
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Sometime in April 1285, five Muslim horsemen crossed from the Islamic kingdom of Granada into the realms of the Christian Crown of Aragon to meet with the king of Aragon, who showered them with gifts, including sumptuous cloth and decorative saddles, for agreeing to enter the Crown’s service.
They...
Crusader Landscapes in the Medieval Levant
The Archaeology and History of the Latin East
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2016
Written to celebrate the prestigious career of Professor Denys Pringle, this collection of articles produced by many of the leading archaeologists and historians in the field of crusades studies offers a compilation of pioneering scholarship on recent studies on the Latin East. The geographical breadth...
by David Grummitt
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
In this new assessment of Henry VI, David Grummitt synthesizes a wealth of detailed research into Lancastrian England that has taken place throughout the last three decades to provide a fresh appraisal of the house’s last King. The biography places Henry in the context of Lancastrian political culture...
Magna Carta
A Central European perspective of our common heritage of freedom
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
To mark the 800th anniversary of the ratification of the Magna Carta by King John at Runnymede, Magna Carta provides the central European perspectives on this monumental document and its impact on the political and legal experiences of freedom, from the medieval period to the present day. The volume...
The Hundred Years War
England and France at War c.1300–c.1450
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 1988
This is a comparative study of how the societies of late-medieval England and France reacted to the long period of conflict between them commonly known as the Hundred Years War. Beginning with an analysis of contemporary views regarding the war. Two chapters follow which describe the military aim...
Mother and Sons, Inc.
Martha de Cabanis in Medieval Montpellier
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
In the late 1320s, Martha de Cabanis was widowed with three young sons, eleven, eight, and four years of age. Her challenges would be many: to raise and train her children to carry on their father's business; to preserve that business until they were ready to take over; and to look after her own financial...
Social England in the Fifteenth Century (Routledge Revivals)
A Study of the Effects of Economic Conditions
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Annie Abram was born in London in 1869 and died in Sussex in 1930. She contributed significantly to the twentieth-century historiography of late medieval England, researching the social, cultural and religious mores of the English laity and clergy. First published in 1909, this title explores the...
by Francisco Gijón
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 15, 2013
De la mano de Francisco Gijón estudiaremos en este segundo volúmen el período que va desde el asentamiento de los invasores germanos hasta la decadencia del imperio almorávide. Conoceremos cuales fueron las intenciones de los musulmanes cuando llegaron a la Península Ibérica, el papel que jugó...
Cities and Solidarities
Urban Communities in Pre-Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Cities and Solidarities charts the ways in which the study of individuals and places can revitalise our understanding of urban communities as dynamic interconnections of solidarities in medieval and early modern Europe.
This volume sheds new light on the socio-economic conditions, the formal...
Random Riches
Gambling Past & Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Gambling is a fascinating subject which for many centuries has attracted public interest. Yet, despite its ubiquity, gambling (or gaming) leads a marginal existence within the boundaries of scholarly research. Providing a longue duree survey, this volume promotes a historical understanding of the...