European history: medieval period, middle ages

Der vorliegende Band prasentiert die Forschungsergebnisse eines vom Betrieb Sudtiroler Landesmuseen getragenen Projektes zur Stamser Grablege der Tiroler Grafen.

Eleventh-century Europe was diverse and fast-changing.

Eleventh-century Europe was diverse and fast-changing.

This volume presents the first edition and translation of the Dyalogus de potentia summi pontifices, a little known, fragmentary work of fourteenth-century political theory by the Dominican Dondinus of Pavia.

Pinning down Byzantium (or East Rome) is as difficult today as it was for contemporaries during its 1,000-year-long existence.

What caused the world's great republics to falland what their fate reveals about the dangers facing modern democracies todayIn this timely book, distinguished historian Thomas Madden explores the people, events, and factors that led to the collapse of some of the world's most enduring republicsfrom Carthage to Rome to Venice and beyondand examines the worrying lessons these failures hold for the United States and other democracies today.

What caused the world's great republics to falland what their fate reveals about the dangers facing modern democracies todayIn this timely book, distinguished historian Thomas Madden explores the people, events, and factors that led to the collapse of some of the world's most enduring republicsfrom Carthage to Rome to Venice and beyondand examines the worrying lessons these failures hold for the United States and other democracies today.

This is a richly detailed account of Muslim life throughout the kingdoms of Spain, from the fall of Seville, which signaled the beginning of the retreat of Islam, to the Christian reconquest.

Making Domesday presents a fresh interpretation of William the Conqueror's survey of England, made possible by a major collaborative study and a new online edition of Exon Domesday, the earliest of the three original manuscripts to survive from the Domesday survey.

The Birth of the Archive traces the history of archives from their emergence in the Late Middle Ages through the Early Modern Period, and vividly shows how archives permeated and fundamentally changed European culture.

The series of rebellions against royal authority and the violent clashes between aristocratic families that occurred in England between 1455 and 1487 have long been characterized as the 'Wars of the Roses'.

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Despite the multidirectional nature of modern research, the interpretation of the political history of thirteenth-century England has remained locked into a traditional framework bequeathed by the mid-twentieth-century historian, R.

Making Domesday presents a fresh interpretation of William the Conqueror's survey of England, made possible by a major collaborative study and a new online edition of Exon Domesday, the earliest of the three original manuscripts to survive from the Domesday survey.

Despite the multidirectional nature of modern research, the interpretation of the political history of thirteenth-century England has remained locked into a traditional framework bequeathed by the mid-twentieth-century historian, R.

The series of rebellions against royal authority and the violent clashes between aristocratic families that occurred in England between 1455 and 1487 have long been characterized as the 'Wars of the Roses'.

The Order of the Hermits of St Augustine has long been sidelined as a pale imitator of the Franciscans.

A Poetry Precise and Free collects 150 lyric poems by the Renaissance Italian poet Giovanni Battista Guarini in new translations, accompanied by the Italian originals and commentary that will enlighten and engage both scholars and general readers.

Nationalism, like medieval romance literature, recasts history as a mythologized and seamless image of reality.

Research for and the writing of this book was funded by the award of a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship.

Medieval Jerusalem examines an old question that has recently surfaced and given rise to spirited discussion among Islamic historians and archeologists: what role did a city revered for its holiness play in the unfolding politics of the early Islamic period?

A Poetry Precise and Free collects 150 lyric poems by the Renaissance Italian poet Giovanni Battista Guarini in new translations, accompanied by the Italian originals and commentary that will enlighten and engage both scholars and general readers.

Medieval Jerusalem examines an old question that has recently surfaced and given rise to spirited discussion among Islamic historians and archeologists: what role did a city revered for its holiness play in the unfolding politics of the early Islamic period?

Nationalism, like medieval romance literature, recasts history as a mythologized and seamless image of reality.

The first combined history of two of the great Islamic empires of the 10th-13th centuriesAfrican invaders of Spain?

The first combined history of two of the great Islamic empires of the 10th-13th centuriesAfrican invaders of Spain?

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Charlemagne and Rome is a wide-ranging exploration of cultural politics in the age of Charlemagne.

Byzantium was a strange entity--a relic of classical antiquity which survived deep into the Middle Ages.

Inspired by analogies betwen the construction of heresy and the representation of madness described by Michael Foucault in in Histoire de la folie a l'age classique (Madness and Civilization), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries demonstrates how the concept of heresy emerges in the work of Justin Matyr.

Inspired by analogies betwen the construction of heresy and the representation of madness described by Michael Foucault in in Histoire de la folie a l'age classique (Madness and Civilization), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries demonstrates how the concept of heresy emerges in the work of Justin Matyr.

The Birth of the Archive traces the history of archives from their emergence in the Late Middle Ages through the Early Modern Period, and vividly shows how archives permeated and fundamentally changed European culture.

The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Orthodox Christianity investigates the various ways in which Orthodox Christian, i.

The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Orthodox Christianity investigates the various ways in which Orthodox Christian, i.

Byzantium was a strange entity--a relic of classical antiquity which survived deep into the Middle Ages.

Following a survey of the biblical and classical background, Wisdom in Christian Tradition offers a detailed exploration of the theme of wisdom in patristic, Byzantine, and medieval theology, up to and including Gregory Palamas and Thomas Aquinas in Greek East and Latin West, respectively.

Following a survey of the biblical and classical background, Wisdom in Christian Tradition offers a detailed exploration of the theme of wisdom in patristic, Byzantine, and medieval theology, up to and including Gregory Palamas and Thomas Aquinas in Greek East and Latin West, respectively.

This is a richly detailed account of Muslim life throughout the kingdoms of Spain, from the fall of Seville, which signaled the beginning of the retreat of Islam, to the Christian reconquest.

Pinning down Byzantium (or East Rome) is as difficult today as it was for contemporaries during its 1,000-year-long existence.

Der Konfessionswechsel vom Deutschordensstaat zum Herzogtum Preuen 1525 erforderte landesweit lutherische Pfarrer, die noch rar waren und zudem von verarmten Gemeinden schlecht besoldet wurden.

The Remaking of the Medieval World, 1204 allows students to understand and experience one of the greatest medieval atrocities, the sack of the Constantinople by a crusader army, and the subsequent reshaping of the Byzantine Empire.

More than a thousand years pass between the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the discovery of America.

Das Buch stellt erstmals die architekturhistorischen Deutungen der mittelalterlichen Kathedrale zusammen, welche die Forschung in den letzten rund 150 Jahren erarbeitet hat.

Das Buch stellt erstmals die architekturhistorischen Deutungen der mittelalterlichen Kathedrale zusammen, welche die Forschung in den letzten rund 150 Jahren erarbeitet hat.