Medieval category: 3965 books
by Warren C. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The European Middle Ages have long attracted popular interest as an era characterised by violence, whether a reflection of societal brutality and lawlessness or part of a romantic vision of chivalry. Violence in Medieval Europe engages with current scholarly debate about the degree to which medieval...
The Medieval Hero on Screen
Representations from Beowulf to Buffy
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2003
Few figures have captured Hollywood’s and the public’s imagination as completely as have medieval heroes. Cast as chivalric knight, warrior princess, “alpha male in tights,” or an amalgamation, and as likely to appear in Hong Kong action flicks and spaghetti westerns as films set in the Middle...
Great Medieval Projects
You Can Build Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Great Medieval Projects You Can Build Yourself brings the Middle Ages in Europe alive through hands-on activities for kids ages 9-12. Addressing various aspects of medieval life, this book provides historically accurate details of the period leading up to the Renaissance. From monastic life to castle...
Growing Up in Medieval London
The Experience of Childhood in History
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 1995
When Barbara Hanawalt's acclaimed history The Ties That Bound first appeared, it was hailed for its unprecedented research and vivid re-creation of medieval life. David Levine, writing in The New York Times Book Review, called Hanawalt's book "as stimulating for the questions it asks as for the answers...
Pleyn Delit
Medieval Cookery for Modern Cooks
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 1996
This is a completely revised edition of the classic cookbook that makes genuine medieval meals available to modern cooks. Using the best recipes from the first edition as a base, Constance Hieatt and Brenda Hosington have added many new recipes from more countries to add depth and flavour to our understanding...
The Forest in Medieval German Literature
Ecocritical Readings from a Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
By pursuing an ecocritical reading, The Forest in Medieval German Literature examines passages in medieval German texts where protagonists operated in the forest and found themselves either in conflictual situations or in refuge. By probing the way the individual authors dealt with the forest, illustrating...
Sexuality in Medieval Europe
Doing Unto Others
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Challenging the way the Middle Ages have been treated in general histories of sexuality, Sexuality in Medieval Europe shows how views at the time were conflicted and complicated; there was no single medieval attitude towards sexuality any more than there is one modern attitude. Focusing on marital...
Life in Medieval Landscapes
People and Places in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2011
Life in Medieval Landscapes presents new studies on key themes in the economic and social history of the medieval landscape. The book draws together papers by medieval historians and archaeologists, with contributions by leading scholars in each field. The first part explores the nature of landscape...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
The Middle Ages are all around us in Britain. The Tower of London and the castles of Scotland and Wales are mainstays of cultural tourism and an inspiring cross-section of later medieval finds can now be seen on display in museums across England, Scotland, and Wales. Medieval institutions from Parliament...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe provides imagined biographies of twenty different figures from all walks of life living in Eastern Europe from 900 to 1400. Moving beyond the usual boundaries of speculative history, the book presents innovative and creative interpretations of the people, places,...
Divorce in Medieval England
From One to Two Persons in Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Divorce in Medieval England is intended to reorient scholarly perceptions concerning divorce in the medieval period. Divorce, as we think of it today, is usually considered to be a modern invention. This book challenges that viewpoint, documenting the many and varied uses of divorce in the medieval...
Warriors of the Cloisters
The Central Asian Origins of Science in the Medieval World
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2012
Warriors of the Cloisters tells how key cultural innovations from Central Asia revolutionized medieval Europe and gave rise to the culture of science in the West. Medieval scholars rarely performed scientific experiments, but instead contested issues in natural science, philosophy, and theology using...
by Walter Ullmann
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2010
Upon its original publication in 1946, this work represented a new approach to medieval studies, offering indispensable analysis to the historian of legal, political and social ideas. Research into the original sources leads the author through unexplored realms of medieval thought. By contrasting...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
In Rethinking the Medieval Legacy for Contemporary Theology, six distinguished theologians bridge medieval and contemporary theologies by developing the theological significance of medieval insights in response to contemporary issues. Their nuanced readings of medieval texts, extended to major theological...