Medieval category: 3965 books
Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 40
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture: New Series
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international...
Women's Networks in Medieval France
Gender and Community in Montpellier, 1300-1350
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This book illuminates the connections and interaction among women and between women and men during the medieval period. To do this, Kathryn L. Reyerson focuses specifically on the experiences of Agnes de Bossones, widow of a changer of the mercantile elite of Montpellier. Agnes was a real estate mogul...
by Jim Bradbury
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This comprehensive volume provides easily-accessible factual material on all major areas of warfare in the medieval west. The whole geographical area of medieval Europe, including eastern Europe, is covered, including essential elements from outside Europe such as Byzantine warfare, nomadic horde...
Violence in Medieval Courtly Literature
A Casebook
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Although courtly literature is often associated with a chivalrous and idyllic life, the fifteen original essays in this collection demonstrate that the quest for love in the world of medieval courtly literature was underpinned by violence. Lovers were rejected, mistrust ruled, rape was a rampant problem,...
Idols in the East
European Representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100–1450
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Representations of Muslims have never been more common in the Western imagination than they are today. Building on Orientalist stereotypes constructed over centuries, the figure of the wily Arab has given rise, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, to the "Islamist" terrorist. In Idols in the East,...
Understanding Medieval Liturgy
Essays in Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This book provides an introduction to current work and new directions in the study of medieval liturgy. It focuses primarily on so-called occasional rituals such as burial, church consecration, exorcism and excommunication rather than on the Mass and Office. Recent research on such rites challenges...
Mothers and Children
Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
This book presents a synthetic history of the family--the most basic building block of medieval Jewish communities--in Germany and northern France during the High Middle Ages. Concentrating on the special roles of mothers and children, it also advances recent efforts to write a comparative Jewish-Christian...
by Benjamin Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
In the rapidly changing world of the early Middle Ages, depictions of the cosmos represented a consistent point of reference across the three dominant states—the Frankish, Byzantine, and Islamic Empires. As these empires diverged from their Greco-Roman roots between 700 and 1000 A.D. and established...
The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity
A Sociohistorical Approach to Religious Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 1996
While historians of Christianity have generally acknowledged some degree of Germanic influence in the development of early medieval Christianity, Russell goes further, arguing for a fundamental Germanic reinterpretation of Christianity. This first full-scale treatment of the subject follows a truly...
Between Islam and Byzantium
Aght`amar and the Visual Construction of Medieval Armenian Rulership
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Between Islam and Byzantium provides the first complete analysis of the development of the visual expression of medieval Armenian rulership during the years 884-1045 CE. During this period, the Armenian rulers had loosened the ties that subjected them to the Arab caliphate, but by its end the Byzantine...
Making Early Medieval Societies
Conflict and Belonging in the Latin West, 300–1200
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Making Early Medieval Societies explores a fundamental question: what held the small- and large-scale communities of the late Roman and early medieval West together, at a time when the world seemed to be falling apart? Historians and anthropologists have traditionally asked parallel questions about...
by Autori Vari
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
‘Communication’ has become one of the most vibrant areas of current research on medieval and early modern Europe, almost paralleling the heightened popularity of conflict study since the 1980s. However, the nature of this concept seems to be ambiguous and has been defined with multiple nuances....
John of Rupescissa´s VADE MECUM IN TRIBULACIONE (1356)
A Late Medieval Eschatological Manual for the Forthcoming Thirteen Years of Horror and Hardship
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
The VADE MECUM IN TRIBULACIONE was meant as an eschatological manual for the thirteen catastrophic years between its composition in December 1356 and the Thousand-Year Reign of Christ expected to begin in 1370. This manual, permeated by passion for clerical reform, was intended to give righteous...
by Hourly History
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Sweeping across the known world with unchecked devastation, the Black Death claimed between 75 million and 200 million lives in four short years. In this engaging and well-researched book, the trajectory of the plague's march west across Eurasia and the cause of the great pandemic is thoroughly explored.
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