Medieval category: 3965 books
by Joseph F. O'Callaghan
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Drawing from both Christian and Islamic sources, Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain demonstrates that the clash of arms between Christians and Muslims in the Iberian peninsula that began in the early eighth century was transformed into a crusade by the papacy during the twelfth and thirteenth...
A King Travels
Festive Traditions in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
A King Travels examines the scripting and performance of festivals in Spain between 1327 and 1620, offering an unprecedented look at the different types of festivals that were held in Iberia during this crucial period of European history. Bridging the gap between the medieval and early modern eras,...
Jan Hus between Time and Eternity
Reconsidering a Medieval Heretic
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
This study is a reconsideration of Jan Hus, a late medieval Bohemian priest who was burned at the stake six hundred years ago. His death sparked a social revolution. This book considers his role as a priest and reformer in Prague, his martyrdom in Germany, and his legacy. It attempts to provide an...
The Secret Within
Hermits, Recluses, and Spiritual Outsiders in Medieval England
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Spiritual seekers throughout history have sought illumination through solitary contemplation. In the Christian tradition, medieval England stands out for its remarkable array of hermits, recluses, and spiritual outsiders—from Cuthbert, Godric of Fichale, and Christina of Markyate to Richard Rolle,...
The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade
A Sourcebook
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade brings together a rich and diverse range of medieval sources to examine key aspects of the growth of heresy and dissent in southern France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and the Church’s response to that threat through the subsequent authorisation...
by Stephen Batchelor
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Is your knowledge of The Crusades less than tip-top? Maybe you're curious about Columbus, or you're desperate to read about the Black Death in all its gory detail? Whatever your starting point, this expert guide has it all - from kings, knights and anti-Popes, to invasion, famine, the Magna Carta...
From Memory to Written Record
England 1066 - 1307
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
This seminal work of scholarship, which traces the development of literacy in medieval England, is now fully updated in a third edition.
This book serves as an introduction to medieval books and documents for graduate students throughout the world
Features a completely re-written first chapter,...
The Medieval March of Wales
The Creation and Perception of a Frontier, 1066–1283
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2010
This book examines the making of the March of Wales and the crucial role its lords played in the politics of medieval Britain between the Norman conquest of England of 1066 and the English conquest of Wales in 1283. Max Lieberman argues that the Welsh borders of Shropshire, which were first, from...
Unmarriages
Women, Men, and Sexual Unions in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
The Middle Ages are often viewed as a repository of tradition, yet what we think of as traditional marriage was far from the only available alternative to the single state in medieval Europe. Many people lived together in long-term, quasimarital heterosexual relationships, unable to marry if one was...
by Bernard F. Reilly
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 1993
This book traces the political evolution of the Iberian peninsula from a group of late Roman imperial provinces to the Spanish and Portuguese monarchies of the Trastamara and Braganza dynasties of the mid-fifteenth century. The book is planned as a series of essays on the main chronological periods...
Women in Medieval Europe 1200-1500
1200-1500
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Women in Medieval Europe explores the key areas of female experience in the later medieval period, from peasant women to Queens. It considers the women of the later Middle Ages in the context of their social relationships during a time of changing opportunities and activities, so that by 1500 the...
by Joseph R. Strayer
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
The modern state, however we conceive of it today, is based on a pattern that emerged in Europe in the period from 1100 to 1600. Inspired by a lifetime of teaching and research, On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State is a classic work on what is known about the early history of the European state....
Conflict and Compromise in the Late Medieval Countryside
Lords and Peasants in Durham, 1349-1400
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Larson examines the changing relations between lords and peasants in post-Black Death Durham. This was a time period of upheaval and change, part of the transition from ‘medieval’ to ‘modern.’ Many historians have argued about the nature of this change and its causes, often putting forth a...
by Robyn Malo
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Relics and Writing in Late Medieval England uncovers a wide-ranging medieval discourse that had an expansive influence on English literary traditions. Drawing from Latin and vernacular hagiography, miracle stories, relic lists, and architectural history, this study demonstrates that, as the shrines...