Medieval category: 3965 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This volume brings together a set of key studies on the history of medieval Central Europe (Bohemia, Hungary, Poland), along with others specially commissioned for the book or translated, and a new introduction. This region was both an area of immigration, and one of polities in expansion. Such expansion...
Mary and the Art of Prayer
The Hours of the Virgin in Medieval Christian Life and Thought
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Would you like to learn to pray like a medieval Christian? In Mary and the Art of Prayer, Rachel Fulton Brown traces the history of the medieval practice of praising Mary through the complex of prayers known as the Hours of the Virgin. More than just a work of comprehensive historical scholarship,...
Pilgrims and Politics
Rediscovering the Power of the Pilgrimage
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
The objective of this book is to analyse the historical relationships between the phenomenon of Christian pilgrimage and political power within Europe, from the Middle Ages up to the present day. It establishes a discussion in which the twelve contributors to the volume can compare very different...
by J.B. Bury, Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
*Includes Table of ContentsCambridge Medieval History Volume 5: The Contest of Empire and Papacy compiled by J.B. Bury, is an expansive history of Western Europe from 1050 to 1220 A.D.. Curated by the famous historian J.B. Bury, this classic is an excellent reference for anyone studying Western Civilization...
Affectionate Authorities
Fathers and Fatherly Roles in Late Medieval Basel
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
In one of his sermons, the medieval preacher Bernardino of Siena listed seven ’fathers’ to whom one owed obedience: God, one’s natural father, godfather, confessor, benefactor, a government official, and any elderly man. This book seeks to answer the question of why medieval Europeans saw the...
by Matthew Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
The medieval period is often thought of as the Dark Ages, a period of cultural stagnation and little economic and political advancement. However, Britain in this period survived invasion upon invasion, absorbing aspects of Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman culture. Britain developed from a small and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Patrick J. Geary's highly acclaimed collection of source materials on the Western medieval world is well-known for offering an excellent selection of substantial excerpts—or entire documents wherever possible—from the most widely studied historical texts.
This much-anticipated fifth edition...
Arthur of England
English Attitudes to King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1987
Today, popular imagination peoples the Middle Ages with damsels in distress and knights riding to their rescue. Of such knights, King Arthur and his companions are the most celebrated. It is certainly true that this is the time when the Arthurian story took shape and Arthurian literature flourished,...
Mandeville's Travails
Merging Travel, Theory, and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
This book offers a critical methodology for analyzing travel literature. The subject of travel literature, as well as travel literatures, have not always been regarded with respect or given much critical attention. In order to amend this lack of positive reception, Francis Tobienne Jr. analyzes the...
by Greyson Beights
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Medieval LEGO takes you through real English history in the middle ages with a unique twist, with every event illustrated by a tiny little LEGO scene. With contributions by medievalists and scholars, this book brings medieval history to life in a fun, kid-friendly way.
Inside, you'll learn...
Exchanges in Exoticism
Cross-Cultural Marriage and the Making of the Mediterranean in Old French Romance
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Charting important new territory within medieval gender studies, Megan Moore explores the vital role that women played in transmitting knowledge and empire within Mediterranean cross-cultural marriages. Whereas cross-cultural exchange has typically been understood through the lens of male-centered...
Day of Reckoning
Power and Accountability in Medieval France
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Day of Reckoning: Power and Accountability in Medieval France applies recent approaches to literacy, legal studies, memory, ritual, and the manorial economy to reexamine the transformation of medieval power. Highlighting the relationship of archives and power, it draws on the rich documentary sources...
Trustworthy Men
How Inequality and Faith Made the Medieval Church
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
The medieval church was founded on and governed by concepts of faith and trust--but not in the way that is popularly assumed. Offering a radical new interpretation of the institutional church and its social consequences in England, Ian Forrest argues that between 1200 and 1500 the ability of bishops...
Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 39
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture: New Series
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
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...