This monograph examines the appropriation and ludification of the Germanic heroic tradition in video games as a digital medium, a process that unfolds on the margins of official discourse about the early Middle Ages.
This monograph examines the appropriation and ludification of the Germanic heroic tradition in video games as a digital medium, a process that unfolds on the margins of official discourse about the early Middle Ages.
»Infografik« ist ein zeitgemäßer Begriff – doch können ähnliche kreative Visualisierungspraktiken bereits in der Lehre und Wissenschaft des Mittelalters aufgezeigt werden.
This book explores understudied aspects of eunuchs in Byzantium from the sixth through mid-eleventh centuries, with a particular emphasis on the imperial attitudes toward eunuchs and castration reflected in imperial legislation.
This book examines the relationship between the emergence of Byzantine archaeology and British colonialism during the period of the British Mandate in Palestine.
This book examines the relationship between the emergence of Byzantine archaeology and British colonialism during the period of the British Mandate in Palestine.
This book explores understudied aspects of eunuchs in Byzantium from the sixth through mid-eleventh centuries, with a particular emphasis on the imperial attitudes toward eunuchs and castration reflected in imperial legislation.
This book analyzes the relation between the Churches’ official teachings regarding ‘desired’ and forbidden forms of sexual behaviour on the one hand, and mundane practice on the other hand, focusing on perspectives ‘from below’.
This book analyzes the relation between the Churches’ official teachings regarding ‘desired’ and forbidden forms of sexual behaviour on the one hand, and mundane practice on the other hand, focusing on perspectives ‘from below’.
Between Dung and Blood investigates the stories of two sixteenth-century saints: the Spanish Christian Teresa de Jess and the Moroccan Sufi Sd Riwn al-Januw, both from families of converts.
This book investigates environmental issues traced through the epistolography of the late Byzantine period, which spans roughly the end of the twelfth century to the mid-fifteenth century.
This book investigates environmental issues traced through the epistolography of the late Byzantine period, which spans roughly the end of the twelfth century to the mid-fifteenth century.
As some are pointing at rent to claim that we are moving out of capitalism and into techno-feudalism, it seems urgent to rethink the relation between capital and rent.
Warfare, Raiding and Defence in early medieval Britain is an examination of warfare in the period AD400-850, often called the Dark Ages, which is roughly the period between the end of Roman rule and the arrival of large Viking armies.
The studies in this volume present some of the major “historiographical wars” over the medieval Balkan past fought by the historians of competing nation states in the region.
The studies in this volume present some of the major “historiographical wars” over the medieval Balkan past fought by the historians of competing nation states in the region.
Die herrscherlichen Siegel und Bullen waren im Mittelalter ein Bildmedium, das in verschiedenen Situationen – wie Dynastiewechseln, Thronstreitsituationen oder dem Mitkönigtum eines Königssohns – strategisch genutzt wurden, um das gewünschte Bild des Herrschers zu präsentieren.
Europa als Kommunikationsgemeinschaft entstand auch durch die Ehen von Königstöchtern mit Herrschern anderer Reiche - ihre Rolle als »Heiratsmigrantinnen« gestalteten die Frauen mitunter sehr selbstbewusst.
Die Studie befasst sich mit der Frage, welche Rolle und welchen Einfluss der berühmte Geschichtsschreiber Otto von Freising in seinen Schriften dem Menschen für den Verlauf der Geschichte beimaß.
Dante's Emotions: Tears and Smiles between Time and Eternity reveals the centrality of tears and smiles in the development of Dante's poetics and in his theological reflection, suggesting, for the first time, the paramount role which Dante played within the history of emotions.
Dante's Emotions: Tears and Smiles between Time and Eternity reveals the centrality of tears and smiles in the development of Dante's poetics and in his theological reflection, suggesting, for the first time, the paramount role which Dante played within the history of emotions.
This is a history of the kingdom of Wessex told through its more than twenty regnal kings, from its early foundations under Cerdic circa 500 to its apogee in 886 under Alfred the Great.
Der Band versammelt die Nachdrucke von 35 Aufsätzen aus Fachzeitschriften, Sammelbänden und Ausstellungskatalogen zu Themen der mittelalterlichen österreichischen Geschichte, besonders zur Zeit der Babenberger, zur Frauengeschichte, teils aus der Pionierzeit ihrer Erforschung, und zur Hexenforschung.
Der Sammelband behandelt für den westeuropäischen Raum die zahlreichen Anstöße (impetus), die von den Bischöfen ausgingen und die Gesellschaft, die Kultur und auch die Wirtschaft in der Zeit vom 4.
Georg Hamann erzählt vom harten Alltag jener Menschen, die in der Geschichte oft vernachlässigt werden: Von jenen, die aufgrund von Herkunft, Beruf oder Krankheit am Rand der Gesellschaft standen und keine Möglichkeit hatten, je zu Ansehen oder Geld zu gelangen.
Edmund and Richard de la Pole were the last princes of the House of York to actively seek the English throne - their epic thirty year struggle against Henry VII and Henry VIII saw them plunged into a murderous maelstrom of international intrigue.
