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Cover of The Politics of Law in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy
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Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011

The Politics of Law in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy features original contributions by international scholars on the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Lauro Martines' Lawyers and Statecraft in Renaissance Florence, which is recognized as a groundbreaking study challenging traditional...
Cover of Medieval Europe
by Chris Wickham
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016

A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period—one not easily chronicled within the scope...
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Authoring the Past

History, Autobiography, and Politics in Medieval Catalonia

by Jaume Aurell
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012

Authoring the Past surveys medieval Catalan historiography, shedding light on the emergence and evolution of historical writing and autobiography in the Middle Ages, on questions of authority and authorship, and on the links between history and politics during the period. Jaume Aurell examines texts...
Cover of Women and Pilgrimage in Medieval Galicia
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Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016

For many in the Middle Ages, pilgrimages were seen to represent a clear risk of moral and religious perdition for women, and they were strongly discouraged from making them; this exhortation would have been universally disseminated and generally followed, except, of course, in the case of the virtuous...
Cover of The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy
by Christina van Dyke
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014

The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy comprises over fifty specially commissioned essays by experts on the philosophy of this period. Starting in the late eighth century, with the renewal of learning some centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire, a sequence of chapters takes the reader through...
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Polemic

Language as Violence in Medieval and Early Modern Discourse

by Almut Suerbaum, George Southcombe
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016

If terms are associated with particular historical periods, then ’polemic’ is firmly rooted within early modern print culture, the apparently inevitable result of religious controversy and the rise of print media. Taking a broad European approach, this collection brings together specialists on...
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Crusading and Chronicle Writing on the Medieval Baltic Frontier

A Companion to the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia

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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016

The Chronicle of Henry of Livonia, written by a missionary priest in the early thirteenth century to record the history of the crusades to Livonia and Estonia around 1186-1227, offers one of the most vivid examples of the early thirteenth century crusading ideology in practice. Step by step, it has...
Cover of The Medieval World
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018

Ranging from Connacht to Constantinople and from Tynemouth to Timbuktu, the forty-four contributors to The Medieval World seek to bring the Middle Ages to life, offering definitive appraisals of the distinctive features of the period. This second edition includes six additional chapters, covering...
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Death in Medieval Europe

Death Scripted and Death Choreographed

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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016

Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed explores new cultural research into death and funeral practices in medieval Europe and demonstrates the important relationship between death and the world of the living in the Middle Ages. Across ten chapters, the articles in...
Cover of Vernacular and Latin Literary Discourses of the Muslim Other in Medieval Germany
by J. Frakes
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011

Little attention has been focused the representation of Muslims in medieval Germany. Proceeding from a grounded use of contemporary cultural theory and close textual analysis, this study focuses Muslims in several core texts representing drama, epic, and lyric written by the most important writers...
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Mirror In Parchment

The Luttrell Psalter and the Making of Medieval England

by Michael Camille
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013

What is the status of visual evidence in history? Can we actually see the past through images? Where are the traces of previous lives deposited? Michael Camille addresses these important questions in Mirror in Parchment, a lively, searching study of one medieval manuscript, its patron, producers,...
Cover of Medieval People: Vivid Lives in a Distant Landscape
by Michael Prestwich
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014

A rich and revelatory exploration of the medieval world, conveyed through intimate biographies by a renowned historian This engrossing, exquisitely illustrated, often witty account tells the life stories of some seventy individuals who "made" the Middle Ages. There are kings and queens,...
Cover of Medieval Andalusian Courtly Culture in the Mediterranean
by Cynthia Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2006

Medieval Andalusian Courtly Culture discusses the unicum manuscript of the Hadîth Bayâd wa Riyâd, the only illustrated manuscript known to have survived for more than eight centuries of Muslim and Arabic-speaking presence in present-day Spain. The manuscript is of paramount importance as it contains...
Cover of The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History
by María Rosa Menocal
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010

Arabic culture was a central and shaping phenomenon in medieval Europe, yet its influence on medieval literature has been ignored or marginalized for the last two centuries. In this ground-breaking book, now returned to print with a new afterword by the author, María Rosa Menocal argues that major...
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