Medieval category: 3965 books
Sacred Plunder
Venice and the Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
In Sacred Plunder, David Perry argues that plundered relics, and narratives about them, played a central role in shaping the memorial legacy of the Fourth Crusade and the development of Venice’s civic identity in the thirteenth century. After the Fourth Crusade ended in 1204, the disputes over the...
The Abacus and the Cross
The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
The medieval Catholic Church, widely considered a source of intolerance and inquisitorial fervor, was not anti-science during the Dark Ages-in fact, the pope in the year 1000 was the leading mathematician and astronomer of his day. Called The Scientist Pope,” Gerbert of Aurillac rose from peasant...
Empires of Faith
The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Drawing upon the latest historical and archaeological research, Dr Peter Sarris provides a panoramic account of the history of Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Near East from the fall of Rome to the rise of Islam. The formation of a new social and economic order in western Europe in the fifth, sixth,...
Sacred Violence
The European Crusades to the Middle East, 1095-1396
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
In Sacred Violence, renowned medieval historian Jill N. Claster examines warfare between Christians and Muslims for control of the embattled city of Jerusalem. Beyond the battlefield, however, Claster explains the relationship of Jews, Christians, and Muslims to the Holy City and how that relationship...
by Anne Curry
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Accessible collections of primary sources covering the Hundred Years War are still remarkably few and far between, and teachers of the subject will find Curry's volume a valuable addition to their bibliographies and teaching aids. FRENCH HISTORY "Agincourt! Agincourt! Know ye not Agincourt?"...
Making Love in the Twelfth Century
"Letters of Two Lovers" in Context
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Nine hundred years ago in Paris, a teacher and his brilliant female student fell in love and chronicled their affair in a passionate correspondence. Their 116 surviving letters, some whole and some fragmentary, are composed in eloquent, highly rhetorical Latin. Since their discovery in the late twentieth...
A History of Europe (Routledge Revivals)
From the Invasions to the XVI Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
First published in 1939, this is a reissue of Henri Pirenne's extremely popular and influential history of Europe in the Middle Ages. It begins with the Barbarian and Musulman invasions in the fifth century AD, which signalled the end of the Roman world in the West, and ends in the middle of the sixteenth...
by Lisi Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
The laws of Æthelbert of Kent (ca. 600), Hlohere and Eadric (685x686), and Wihtred (695), are the earliest laws from Anglo-Saxon England, and the first Germanic laws written in the vernacular. They are of unique importance as the only extant early medieval English laws that delineate the progress...
The Lost Dark Age Kingdom of Rheged
the Discovery of a Royal Stronghold at Trusty’s Hill, Galloway
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Trusty's Hill is an early medieval fort at Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries and Galloway. The hillfort comprises a fortified citadel defined by a vitrified rampart around its summit, with a number of enclosures looping out along lower-lying terraces and crags. The approach to its summit is flanked on...
Laws of Early Iceland
Gragas I
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2014
The laws of Medieval Iceland provide detailed and fascinating insight into the society that produced the Icelandic sagas. Known collectively as Gragas (Greygoose), this great legal code offers a wealth of information about early European legal systems and the society of the Middles Ages. This first translation of Gragas is in two volumes.
by J.b. Bury
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
THE present series of lectures is designed to give a broad and general view of the long sequence of the migratory movements of the northern barbarians which began in the third and fourth centuries A.D. and cannot be said to have terminated till the ninth. This long process shaped Europe into its present...
Defining Boundaries in al-Andalus
Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Islamic Iberia
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Al-Andalus, the Arabic name for the medieval Islamic state in Iberia, endured for over 750 years following the Arab and Berber conquest of Hispania in 711. While the popular perception of al-Andalus is that of a land of religious tolerance and cultural cooperation, the fact is that we know relatively...
Concubines and Courtesans
Women and Slavery in Islamic History
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Concubines and Courtesans contains sixteen essays that consider, from a variety of viewpoints, enslaved and freed women across medieval and pre-modern Islamic social history. The essays bring together arguments regarding slavery, gender, social networking, cultural production (songs, poetry and instrumental...
by Averroes
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
"In one fashion or another, the question with which this introduction begins is a question for every serious reader of Plato's Republic: Of what use is this philosophy to me? Averroes clearly finds that the Republic speaks to his own time and to his own situation.... Perhaps the greatest use he makes...