Medieval category: 3965 books
Creating Cistercian Nuns
The Women's Religious Movement and Its Reform in Thirteenth-Century Champagne
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
In Creating Cistercian Nuns, Anne E. Lester addresses a central issue in the history of the medieval church: the role of women in the rise of the religious reform movement of the thirteenth century. Focusing on the county of Champagne in France, Lester reconstructs the history of the women’s religious...
Sacred Folly
A New History of the Feast of Fools
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
For centuries, the Feast of Fools has been condemned and occasionally celebrated as a disorderly, even transgressive Christian festival, in which reveling clergy elected a burlesque Lord of Misrule, presided over the divine office wearing animal masks or women’s clothes, sang obscene songs, swung...
by Donald Prudlo
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Peter Martyr was one of the central Dominican saints of the thirteenth century, in some cases eclipsing Dominic himself. Born in Verona around 1206 to those with Cathar sympathies, he became a convert to Catholicism. As one of the first generations of Dominicans, he represents aspects of their primitive...
Certain Sainthood
Canonization and the Origins of Papal Infallibility in the Medieval Church
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
The doctrine of papal infallibility is a central tenet of Roman Catholicism, and yet it is frequently misunderstood by Catholics and non-Catholics alike. Much of the present-day theological discussion points to the definition of papal infallibility made at Vatican I in 1870, but the origins of the...
Avignon and Its Papacy, 1309–1417
Popes, Institutions, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
With the arrival of Clement V in 1309, seven popes ruled the Western Church from Avignon until 1378. Joëlle Rollo-Koster traces the compelling story of the transplanted papacy in Avignon, the city the popes transformed into their capital. Through an engaging blend of political and social history,...
The Devil's World
Heresy and Society 1100-1300
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Exploring the relationship of heresy, dissent and society in the 12th and 13th Centuries,The Devil’s World shows how people made conscious choices between heresy and orthodoxy in the middle ages and were not afraid to exert their power as ‘consumers’ of religion. The book gives an account of...
by Sharan Newman
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
The medieval historian who revealed The Real History Behind the Da Vinci Code uncloaks the Templars.
In the year 1119, these noblemen found their calling as protectors of the faithful on a dangerous pilgrimage to newly conquered Jerusalem. Now, historian Sharan Newman elucidates the mysteries...
by Jean Froissart
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 1978
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 1978
The Chronicles of Froissart (1337-1410) are one of the greatest contemporary records of fourteenth-century England and France. Depicting the great age of Anglo-French rivalry from the deposition of Edward II to the downfall of Richard II, Froissart powerfully portrays the deeds of knights in battle...
Coire Sois, The Cauldron of Knowledge
A Companion to Early Irish Saga
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Coire Sois, The Cauldron of Knowledge: A Companion to Early Irish Saga offers thirty-one previously published essays by Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, which together constitute a magisterial survey of early Irish narrative literature in the vernacular.
Ó Cathasaigh has been called “the father of...
by John Marsden
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
One of the greatest medieval warriors Harald Sigurdsson, nicknamed Hardrada (Harold the Ruthless or hard ruler) fell in battle in an attempt to snatch the crown of England. The spectacular and heroic career which ended at Stamford Bridge in Yorkshire on 25 September 1066 had taken Harald from Norway...
The Crisis of the Twelfth Century
Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Medieval civilization came of age in thunderous events like the Norman Conquest and the First Crusade. Power fell into the hands of men who imposed coercive new lordships in quest of nobility. Rethinking a familiar history, Thomas Bisson explores the circumstances that impelled knights, emperors,...
To Follow in Their Footsteps
The Crusades and Family Memory in the High Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
When the First Crusade ended with the conquest of Jerusalem in 1099, jubilant crusaders returned home to Europe bringing with them stories, sacred relics, and other memorabilia, including banners, jewelry, and weapons. In the ensuing decades, the memory of the crusaders' bravery and pious sacrifice...
In the Wake of the Plague
The Black Death and the World It Made
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Much of what we know about the greatest medical disaster ever, the Black Plague of the fourteenth century, is wrong. The details of the Plague etched in the minds of terrified schoolchildren -- the hideous black welts, the high fever, and the final, awful end by respiratory failure -- are more or...
by Geoffrey Hindley
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Why did the medieval Church bless William of Normandy's invasion of Christian England in 1066 and authorise cultural genocide in Provence? How could a Christian army sack Christian Constantinople in 1204? Why did thousands of ordinary men and women, led by knights and ladies, kings and queens, embark...