European history: medieval period, middle ages

A King Travels examines the scripting and performance of festivals in Spain between 1327 and 1620, offering an unprecedented look at the different types of festivals that were held in Iberia during this crucial period of European history.

This book describes in detail the various theories on the shape of the Earth from classical antiquity to the present day and examines how measurements of its form and dimensions have evolved throughout this period.

Seals and Society arises from a major project investigating seals and their use in medieval Wales, the Welsh March and neighbouring counties in England.

Im Vergleich zu anderen Mittelalterphilologien ist die Altnordistik aufgrund der besonderen Beschaffenheit der Literaturen des Nordens und insbesondere Islands von jeher auf Interdisziplinarität und methodische Vielfalt angelegt und angewiesen.

Argues the case for the individual as autonomous moral agent in the later Middle Ages.

Jeremy Citrome employs the language of contemporary psychoanalysis to explain how surgical metaphors became an important tool of ecclesiastical power in the wake of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215.

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This book is an investigation of the foundation and evolution of romance in Iceland.

To obtain sacred relics, medieval monks plundered tombs, avaricious merchants raided churches, and relic-mongers scoured the Roman catacombs.

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First full-length study of the use and perception of deceit in medieval warfare.

We are living in an age in which the relationship between reading and space is evolving swiftly.

In recent times, globalisation has made the world more interdependent than ever before.

This study provides extensive readings of overlooked American reconstructions of Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales from the colonial to postmodern periods, demonstrating how these repackagings convey uniquely American ideas.

Within the study of drama, the question of how to relate text and performance-and what interpretive tools are best suited to analyzing them-is a longstanding and contentious one.

Die Zähringer gehörten mit Staufern und Welfen zu den drei bedeutenden Fürstenhäusern im hochmittelalterlichen Schwaben.

This book offers an original interpretation of Britain's relationship with Europe over a 25 year period: 1959-84 and advances the argument that the current problems over EU membership resulted from much earlier political machinations.

A study of one of the most intense and formative periods of modern political history.

This book explores (mis)representations of two female claimants to the Tudor throne, Lady Jane Grey and Mary I of England.

The Liber de causis (De causis et processu universitatis a prima causa), a monotheistic reworking of Proclus' Elements of Theology, was translated from Arabic into Latin in the twelfth century, with an attribution to Aristotle.

This book is about the sexual and religious lives of Catholic women in post-war England.

Der Band verbindet im ersten Teil die wirtschaftlichen Entwicklungen des 15.

Byrhtferth of Ramsey was one of the most learned scholars of late Anglo-Saxon England, and his two saints' Lives-of Oswald, a powerful bishop of Worcester and York in the tenth century (d.

This collection of essays by European and American scholars addresses the changing nature and appeal of crusading during the period which extended from the battle of Nicopolis in 1396 to the battle of Mohacs in 1526.

Carola Goihl-Smuzcinski analysiert die soziale Mobilität in der Vormoderne am Beispiel der Kölner Gesellschaft des 14.

This book offers the first comprehensive study of nineteenth-century medical societies as scientific institutions.

This edited collection opens new ways to look at queenship in areas and countries not usually studied and reflects the increasingly interdisciplinary work and geographic range of the field.

The dramatic and shocking events of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 are to be the backdrop to Juliet Barker's latest book: a snapshot of what everyday life was like for ordinary people living in the middle ages.

A bold new history of the rise of the medieval Italian communeAmid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a new form of collective government-the commune-arose in the cities of northern and central Italy.

Lanfranc of Pavia was archbishop of Canterbury from 1070 to 1089, and so for nineteen critical years in the history of the Anglo-Norman church and kingdom after the Norman conquest of 1066.

This biographical history tells the story of 31 Gothic monarchs who fought in the crusades, enforced their feudal rights throughout the kingdom, sponsored the growth of representative government through a parliament, and ultimately created a military power that would dominate European affairs.

Witnesses to the disappearance of a text, palimpsest manuscripts bear the marks of their own genesis, with their original inscription rubbed out and written over on the same parchment.

The first systematic examination of the expectations people had of the law in the middle ages.

Crusading kings such as Louis IX of France and Richard I of England exert a unique hold on our historical imagination.

Essays on aspects of medieval military history, encompassing the most recent critical approaches.

How you can learn to focus like a monk without living like oneDistraction isn't a new problem.

This book offers analyses of texts from medieval France influenced by Ovid's myth of Narcissus including the Lay of Narcissus, Alain de Lille's Plaint of Nature, Rene d'Anjou's Love-Smitten Heart, Chretien de Troyes's Story of the Grail and Guillaume de Machaut's Fountain of Love.

First comprehensive survey of how kinship rules were discussed and applied in medieval England.

This book examines the Danish Empire, which for over four hundred years stretched from Northern Norway to Hamburg and was feared by small German principalities to the South.

For the first time, this volume explores the identities of leprosy sufferers and other people affected by the disease in medieval Europe.

In the competition for remarkable queens, Eleanor of Aquitaine tends to win.