Medieval category: 3965 books
by Mary Bateson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
My object has been to keep social rather than political facts in view, and throughout to supply by illustration from contemporary accounts some of the characteristic detail which is apt to be crowded out in political histories. The story of social evolution may fairly be called the national story....
by Jennifer Wynne Hellwarth
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Allen J. Frantzen
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Food in the Middle Ages usually evokes images of feasting, speeches, and special occasions, even though most evidence of food culture consists of fragments of ordinary things such as knives, cooking pots, and grinding stones, which are rarely mentioned by contemporary writers. This book puts daily...
Our Old Monsters
Witches, Werewolves and Vampires from Medieval Theology to Horror Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
The witch, the vampire and the werewolf endure in modern horror. These “old monsters” have their origins in Aristotle as studied in the universities of medieval Europe, where Christian scholars reconciled works of natural philosophy and medicine with theological precepts. They codified divine...
Medieval Woman
Village Life in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
A history of peasants in the Middle Ages, the story takes the reader into the life of Marion, the carpenter's wife, and her extended family as they struggle to survive through hardship, featuring a year in their lives at the mercy of the weather and the Lord of the Manor. Existing without soap, paper...
by Paul B. Newman
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2001
Although life in the Middle Ages was not as comfortable and safe as it is for most people in industrialized countries today, the term "Dark Ages" is highly misleading. The era was not so primitive and crude as depictions in film and literature would suggest. Even during the worst years of...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2002
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Medieval Hostageship c.700-c.1500
Hostage, Captive, Prisoner of War, Guarantee, Peacemaker
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
This volume explores the issues of taking, using and being hostages in the Middle Ages. It brings together recent research in the areas of hostages and hostageships, looking at the act of hostage-taking and the hostages themselves through the lenses of political and social history. Building upon previous...
England's Medieval Navy 1066-1509
Ships, Men & Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
We are accustomed to think of England in terms of Shakespeare's 'precious stone set in a silver sea', safe behind its watery ramparts with its naval strength resisting all invaders. To the English of an earlier period – from the 8th to the 11th centuries – such a notion would have seemed ridiculous....
Childhood in History
Perceptions of Children in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Inquiring into childhood is one of the most appropriate ways to address the perennial and essential question of what it is that makes human beings – each of us – human. In Childhood in History: Perceptions of Children in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds, Aasgaard, Horn, and Cojocaru bring together...
The North Transept of Reims Cathedral
Design, Construction, and Visual Programs
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
This interdisciplinary volume in the AVISTA series is the first book to focus solely on the north transept of Reims Cathedral, the portion of the gothic building that served as the canons' primary entrance to the cathedral from their adjoining cloister in the thirteenth century. Despite the importance...
by Charles Homer Haskins, Theodor E. Mommsen
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The origin and nature of the earliest universities are the subjects of this famous and witty set of lectures by the man whom eminent scholars have called "without exaggeration... the soul of the renascence of medieval studies in the United States." Great as the differences are between the earliest...
by Alex Mallett
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
The issue of Muslim reactions to the Franks has been an important part of studies of both the Crusades and Islamic History, but rarely the main focus. This book examines the reactions of the Muslims of the Levant to the arrival and presence of the Franks in the crusading period, 1097-1291, focussing...
The Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World
Armenian Realpolitik in the Islamic World and Diverging Paradigmscase of Cilicia Eleventh to Fourteenth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
In the second of a three-volume work, Seta B. Dadoyan explores the Armenian condition from the 970s to the end of the fourteenth century. This period marked the gradual loss of semi-autonomy on the traditional mainland and the rise of Armenian power of diverging patterns in southeastern Asia Minor,...