Medieval category: 3965 books
English Houses 1300-1800
Vernacular Architecture, Social Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Houses are more than a shelter from the elements: they also offer an unparalleled insight into the beliefs, ideas and experiences of the people who built and lived in them.
In this engaging book, Matthew Johnson looks at the traditional houses that still exist throughout the English countryside...
God’s Patients
Chaucer, Agency, and the Nature of Laws
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2018
God’s Patients approaches some of Chaucer’s most challenging poems with two philosophical questions in mind: How does action relate to passion, to being-acted-on? And what does it mean to submit one’s will to a law? Responding to critics (Jill Mann, Mark Miller) who have pointed out the subtlety...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
This book brings together the most current interpretations of the Wooing Group from scholars currently working on the fields of medieval spirituality, gender, and the anchoritic tradition, providing literary, theological, linguistic, and cultural context for the works associated with the Wooing Group...
by Nigel Baker, Pat Hughes, Richard K. Morriss
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
The cathedral city of Hereford is one of the best-kept historical secrets of the Welsh Marches. Although its Anglo-Saxon development is well known from a series of classic excavations in the 1960s and ’70s, what is less widely known is that the city boasts an astonishingly well-preserved medieval...
Fools and idiots?
Intellectual disability in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Fools and idiots? is the first book devoted to the cultural history in the pre-modern period of people we now describe as having learning disabilities. Using an interdisciplinary approach, including historical semantics, medicine, natural philosophy and law, Irina Metzler considers a neglected field...
Visions and ruins
Cultural memory and the untimely Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Visions and ruins explores the production of cultural memory in the Middle Ages and the uses the medieval past has been put to in modernity. Working with texts in Old English, Middle English and Latin, as well as visual and material culture, it traces connections in time, place, language and media...
Cultural Exchange and Identity in Late Medieval Ireland
The English and Irish of the Four Obedient Shires
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Irish inhabitants of the 'four obedient shires' - a term commonly used to describe the region at the heart of the English colony in the later Middle Ages - were significantly anglicised, taking on English names, dress, and even legal status. However, the processes of cultural exchange went both ways....
Jonas of Bobbio and the Legacy of Columbanus
Sanctity and Community in the Seventh Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Jonas of Bobbio, writing in the mid seventh century, was not only a major Latin monastic author, but also an historical figure in his own right. Born in the ancient Roman town of Susa in the foothills of the Italian Alps, he became a monk of Bobbio, the monastery founded by the Irish exile Columbanus,...
Victory's Shadow
Conquest and Governance in Medieval Catalonia
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2019
At the beginning of the eleventh century, Catalonia was a patchwork of counties, viscounties, and lordships that bordered Islamic al-Andalus to the south. Over the next two centuries, the region underwent a dramatic transformation. The counts of Barcelona secured title to the neighboring kingdom of...
by Susan Rose
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
Wine has held its place for centuries at the heart of social and cultural life in western Europe. This book explains how and why this came about, providing a thematic history of wine and the wine trade in Europe in the middle ages from c.1000 to c.1500.Wine was one of the earliest commodities to be...
Empowering Collaborations
Writing Partnerships between Religious Women and Scribes in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
This study examines partnerships between medieval women and scribes. Kimberly Benedict argues that medieval female visionaries often play prominent roles in collaboration while their male amanuenses serves as supports and foils.
History of the Middle Ages
300-1500
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
First published in 1931, this book covers the broad period of time between the Christian Roman Empire instituted in the fourth century and the period of the Renaissance. The author traces the main events of medieval history — striking a balance between political, institutional, social and cultural...
by Eileen Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Social history sometimes suffers from the reproach that it is vague and general, unable to compete with the attractions of political history either for the student or for the general reader, because of its lack of outstanding personalities. In point of fact there is often as much material for reconstructing...
by Henry Morley
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
This volume of "Mediæval Tales" is in four parts, containing severally, (1) Turpin's "History of Charles the Great and Orlando," which is an old source of Charlemagne romance; (2) Spanish Ballads, relating chiefly to the romance of Charlemagne, these being taken from the spirited...