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by Anita Ganeri
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Step inside the lord's castle where Sir Gilbert is training to become a knight. Find out what it takes to survive and succeed in these times of chivalry and danger as he teaches you how to:
● joust in tournaments
● gallop into battle
● feast after victory
● survive a stint in a dungeon
Do you have the skills and guts to be a medieval knight?
by Margaux Baum, David Hilliam
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
As modern tourist destinations, museums, and sites of archaeological and architectural study, medieval castles continue to captivate students of history and laymen alike. Medieval cathedrals, many refurbished and still in use, also inspire awe, inspiration, and historical interest. In this book, readers...
Medievalism
The Middle Ages in Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Now reissued in an updated paperback edition, this groundbreaking account of the Medieval Revival movement examines the ways in which the style of the medieval period was re-established in post-Enlightenment England—from Walpole and Scott, Pugin, Ruskin, and Tennyson to Pound, Tolkien, and Rowling....
Famine and Scarcity in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
The Regulation of Grain Marketing, 1256–1631
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Surveying government and crowd responses ranging from the late Middle Ages through to the early modern era, Buchanan Sharp's illuminating study examines how the English government responded to one of the most intractable problems of the period: famine and scarcity. The book provides a comprehensive...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
This book brings together twelve outstanding articles by eminent historians to throw light on the evolution of medieval towns and the lives of their inhabitants. The essays span the period from the dramatic urban expansion of the thirteenth century to the crises in the fifteenth century as a result...
An Environmental History of the Middle Ages
The Crucible of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
The Middle Ages was a critical and formative time for Western approaches to our natural surroundings. An Environmental History of the Middle Ages is a unique and unprecedented cultural survey of attitudes towards the environment during this period. Humankind’s relationship with the environment...
Saracens
Islam in the Medieval European Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
In the first century of Islam, most of the former Christian Roman Empire, from Syria to Spain, was brought under Muslim control in a conquest of unprecedented proportions. Confronted by the world of Islam, countless medieval Christians experienced a profound ambivalence, awed by its opulence, they...
by Anne Lawrence-Mathers
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Merlin the Magician has remained an enthralling and curious individual since he was first introduced in the twelfth century though the pages of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae. But although the Merlin of literature and Arthurian myth is well known, Merlin the historical’ figure...
European Medieval Tactics (2)
New Infantry, New Weapons 1260–1500
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
With the development in the 13th century of co-operative tactics using crossbowmen and heavy spearmen, circumstance began to arise in which the charge by Muslim horse-archers, and then by European armoured knights, could be defied. Infantry were far cheaper and easier to train than knights, and potentially...
Miracles and Wonders
The Development of the Concept of Miracle, 1150-1350
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Beginning in the late twelfth century, scholastic theologians such as William of Auvergne, Thomas Aquinas and Engelbert of Admont attempted to provide a rational foundation to the Christian belief in miracles, bolstered by the Aristotelian theory of natural law. Similarly in this period a tension...
Textiles and the Medieval Economy
Production, Trade, and Consumption of Textiles, 8th–16th Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Archaeologists and textile historians bring together 16 papers to investigate the production, trade and consumption of textiles in Scandinavia and across parts of northern and Mediterranean Europe throughout the medieval period. Archaeological evidence is used to demonstrate the existence or otherwise...
African Dominion
A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
A groundbreaking history that puts early and medieval West Africa in a global context
Pick up almost any book on early and medieval world history and empire, and where do you find West Africa? On the periphery. This pioneering book, the first on this period of the region’s history in a generation,...
Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages
Science, Rationalism, and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
T. M. Rudavsky presents a new account of the development of Jewish philosophy from the tenth century to Spinoza in the seventeenth, viewed as part of an ongoing dialogue with medieval Christian and Islamic thought. Her aim is to provide a broad historical survey of major figures and schools within...
With a Bended Bow
Archery in Mediaeval and Renaissance Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
An exceptional insight into the tools, training, and fighting techniques of the kind of soldier who defined medieval warfare
Through centuries of war in Europe, the English medieval archer was the most powerful force on the battlefield. Based on the study of medieval writings and period artefacts,...