Medieval category: 3965 books
Ranulf de Blondeville
The First English Hero
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A full, lavishly illustrated study of a nobleman whose exploits became the stuff of medieval romance, once recounted in the same breath as Robin Hood. Ranulf de Blondeville was fabulously rich and powerful. He served six kings, endured difficult regime-change, fought his way across half of France...
From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World Volume II
The Masculine Mystique from Feudalism to the French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
“Filled with fascinating detail . . . this second volume of French’s massive and valuable work is an example of scholarship and clear vision.” —Publishers Weekly
This volume of New York Times–bestselling author Marilyn French’s monumental history analyzes and evaluates the lives...
by Valerie Garver
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Despite the wealth of scholarship in recent decades on medieval women, we still know much less about the experiences of women in the early Middle Ages than we do about those in later centuries. In Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World, Valerie L. Garver offers a fresh appraisal of...
A Lancastrian Mirror for Princes
The Yale Law School New Statutes of England
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
This seminal study addresses one of the most beautifully decorated 15th-century copies of the New Statutes of England, uncovering how the manuscript’s unique interweaving of legal, religious, and literary discourses frames the reader’s perception of the work. Taking internal and external evidence...
by Hourly History
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
What do you think of when you consider the Middle Ages?
Knights in armor and damsels in distress?
Vikings plundering monasteries?
Religious dissenters burning at the stake?
The dead bodies piling up as war, famine, and plague devastated Europe?
Think again.
While all these are part of the...
Legal Plunder
Households and Debt Collection in Late Medieval Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
As a Europe grew rich in the Middle Ages, the well-made clothes, linens, and wares of households often substituted for hard currency. Pawnbrokers kept goods in circulation, and sergeants of the law marched into debtors’ homes to seize belongings equal in value to debts owed. David Smail describes a material world on the cusp of modern capitalism.
Growing Old in the Middle Ages
'Winter Clothes Us in Shadow and Pain'
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
The social realities of old age have undergone profound changes since the middle ages. This study shows, however, that the images, attitudes and expectations of old people have changed for less.
Shulamith Shahar shows how the status and social participation of the elderly varied according to...
by Jesse L Byock
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2001
Medieval Iceland was unique amongst Western Europe, with no foreign policy, no defence forces, no king, no lords, no peasants and few battles. It should have been a utopia yet its literature is dominated by brutality and killing. The reasons for this, argues Jesse Byock, lie in the underlying structures...
Hidden Interests in Credit and Finance
Power, Ethics, and Social Capital across the Last Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
In this book, James B. Greenberg and Thomas K. Park take an anthropological approach to the economic history of the past one thousand years and define credit as a potentially transformative force involving inequalties, rather than an exchange of equal valued commodites. Guiding readers through the...
Between the Middle Ages and Modernity
Individual and Community in the Early Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2006
This groundbreaking book examines the complex relationships between individuals and communities during the profound transitions of the early modern period. Historians have traditionally identified the origins of a modern individualist spirit in the European Renaissance and Reformation. Yet since the...
by Mathias Piana, Christer Carlsson
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
As elite communities in medieval societies the Military Orders were driven by the ambition to develop built environments that fulfilled monastic needs as well as military requirements and, in addition, residential and representational purposes. Growing affluence and an international orientation provided...
The Age of the Crusades
The Near East from the Eleventh Century to 1517
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
The kaleidoscopic political changes during the years covered by this volume include the rise and fall of the Crusader states, the expansion of the Mongol empire, the rise of the Mamluk sultanate and of its ultimate conquerors, the Ottomans. To all of these Professor Holt is a clear and skilful guide....
by Sean Martin
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
The Black Death is the name most commonly given to the pandemic of bubonic plague that ravaged the medieval world in the late 1340s. From Central Asia, the plague swept through Europe, leaving millions of dead in its wake. Between a quarter and a third of Europe's population died, and in England the...
by Reiko Shinno
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Under the rule of the descendants of Chinggis Khan (1167-1227), China saw the development of a new culture in which medical practice came to be considered a highly respected occupation for elite men. During this period, further major steps were also taken towards the codification of medical knowledge...