Medieval category: 3965 books
Tradition and Diversity
Christianity in a World Context to 1500
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
This text is designed to serve as a primary source reader. It addresses medieval Christendom in the context of world history. It combines the traditional approach (the medieval Christian tradition found in the church hierarchy and theological development) with the newer approach to cultural diversity...
Medievalismi italiani - Italian medievalisms
(Secoli XIX-XXI) - (Centuries XIX-XXI)
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 19, 2019
Collana Chiaroscuro. Ricerche di storia e storia dell'arte diretta da Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri e Grazia Maria Fachechi L'Italia ha una lunga tradizione medievistica. Sono infatti numerosi e autorevoli gli studiosi italiani che hanno dedicato la loro attività di ricerca all'indagine dell'affascinante...
by Paul B. Newman
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
Dangerous and difficult for both mother and child—what was the birth experience like in the Middle Ages? Dependent, in part, on social class, what pastimes did children enjoy? What games did they play? With often uncomfortable and even harsh living conditions, what kind of care did children receive...
by J.A.F. Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
A detailed survey which examines the major developments in English society during this period of social crises, population decline, agarian unrest, the introduction to enclosures - and political tensions particularly over succession.
Hospitals and charity
Religious culture and civic life in medieval northern Italy
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
This is the first book in English to provide a comprehensive examination of the hospital movement that arose and prospered in northern Italy between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries. Throughout this flourishing urbanised area hundreds of independent semi-religious facilities appeared, offering...
by Paul Rorem
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2019
This book introduces Augustine of Hippo and his influence on Christian theology. Part One works through all thirteen books of the Confessions, introducing the life and thought of the bishop of Hippo with commentary on frequent but brief quotations. The Confessions reveal Augustine’s major doctrinal...
Muslim Fortresses in the Levant
Between Crusaders and Mongols
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
During much of the twelfth century the Crusaders dominated the military scene in the Levant. The unification of Egypt and Syria by Saladin gradually changed the balance of power, which slowly begun to tilt in favour of the Muslims. This book examines the development and role of Muslim fortresses in...
Hacia un nuevo Averroes
Naturalismo y crítica en el pensador andalusí que revolucionó Europa
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 1, 2018
El libro está integrado por una serie de trabajos sobre Averroes que abordan un tema de ética (la amistad y la felicidad), otro de psicología (sobre el deseo), la reconstrucción de su famosa polémica con el teólogo iraní al-Gazzali en defensa de la filosofía y una panorámica de su recepción...
by Richard Winston
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
From his father, Charlemagne inherited only a part of the Frankish kingdom - little more than half of modern France and the Low Countries. Before his astonishing career had ended, he had conquered half of Europe and his armies had marched through Italy, Germany, and Spain. In a glittering Christmas...
Queen of the Conqueror
The Life of Matilda, Wife of William I
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
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Around the year 1049, William, Duke of Normandy and future conqueror of England, raced to the palace of Baldwin V, Count of Flanders. The count’s eldest daughter, Matilda, had refused William’s offer of marriage and publicly denounced him as a bastard. Encountering...
by Einhard, Notker the Stammerer
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Einhard's Life of Charlemagne is an absorbing chronicle of one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers, written by a close friend and adviser. In elegant prose it describes Charlemagne's personal life, details his achievements in reviving learning and the arts, recounts his military...
Alfred the Great
Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
Asser's Life of King Alfred, written in 893, is a revealing account of one of the greatest of medieval kings. Composed by a monk of St David's in Wales who became Bishop of Sherborne in Alfred's service and worked with him in his efforts to revive religion and learning in his kingdom, this life is...
The Maid and the Queen
The Secret History of Joan of Arc
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
“Attention, ‘Game of Thrones’ fans: The most enjoyably sensational aspects of medieval politics—double-crosses, ambushes, bizarre personal obsessions, lunacy and naked self-interest—are in abundant evidence in Nancy Goldstone's The Maid and the Queen.” (Laura Miller, Salon.com)
Politically...
Maimonides
Life and Thought
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2013
Maimonides was the greatest Jewish philosopher and legal scholar of the medieval period, a towering figure who has had a profound and lasting influence on Jewish law, philosophy, and religious consciousness. This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to his life and work, revealing...