European history: medieval period, middle ages

Die Regesta Habsburgica, Regesten der Grafen von Habsburg und Herzoge von Österreich aus dem Hause Habsburg, 1894 von Oswald Redlich als Forschungsgroßprojekt am Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung begründet und im Jahre 2007 nach mehr als siebzigjähriger Unterbrechung wieder aufgenommen, besitzen zentrale Bedeutung für die Erschließung von Quellen zur spätmittelalterlichen Geschichte Österreichs.

Auf der Grundlage des neuen Kirchenverständnisses des Papsttums entwarfen die Inquisitoren des 13.

The Book of Gladness (ca.

The fascinating story of the fortunes of one medieval family over the course of a century, from bestselling historians Frances and Joseph Gies.

Byzantine Ecocriticism: Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance applies literary ecocriticism to the imaginative fiction of the Greek world from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries.

Indispensable immigrants recreates the world of peasants who streamed into the cities of late medieval and early modern northern Italy to carry crushingly heavy containers of wine.

This book explores the different functions and metaphorical concepts of alchemy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English poetry and bridges them together with the exempla tradition in late medieval English literature.

Highly commended for the Royal Studies Journal Book Prize, 2022Detailed examination of the letters of Edward I reveals them to be powerful and sophisticated political tools.

Die Untersuchung greift ein in der buchistorischen Forschung bisher vernachlässigtes Phänomen auf: die zentrale Bedeutung der deutschen Buchdrucker im 15.

Fresh approaches to one of the most important poems from medieval Scotland.

This book surveys the economy of Wales from the first Norman intrusions of 1067 to the Act of Union of England and Wales in 1536.

This book offers an integrated study of the English princess and Castilian queen Catherine of Lancaster (1373-1418), drawing on available archival, architectural, and poetic sources in England and Spain.

Gerald of Wales (c.

Lillian Daniel shares how her congregation re-appropriated the practice of testimony one Lenten season, a practice that would eventually revitalize their worship and transform their congregational culture.

A new analysis of the difficulties in normalising opposition in the Irish Free State, this book analyses the collision between nineteenth-century monolithic nationalist movements with the norms and expectations of multiparty parliamentary democracy.

This collection of essays in two volumes explores patterns of medieval society and culture, spanning from the close of the late antique period to the beginnings of the Renaissance.

This book examines the story of the 'discovery of America' through the prism of the history of the Franciscans, a socio-religious movement with a unique doctrine of voluntary poverty.

This book is based on the postmedieval journal special issue Contact zones: Fur, minerals, milk, and other things.

In this fully illustrated ebook, TV's Dan Snow brings to life a cavalcade of medieval fortifications and allows the reader to experience the clashes up close.

Through combinations of instructive prose and incantatory verse, liturgical rituals and herbal recipes, Latinate learning and oral tradition, the Old English remedies offer hope not only for bodily ailments but also for such dangers as solitary travel, swarming bees and stolen cattle.

The author writes:"e;The focus of this book is on Judaism as it expresses itself in the Jewish holidays.

Boris Godunow – eine der faszinierendsten und zugleich kontroversesten Figuren der russischen Geschichte.

This lively and far-reaching account of the politics, religion, and culture of England in the century and a half after the Norman Conquest provides a vivid picture of everyday existence, and increases our understanding of all aspects of medieval society.

Renard the Fox is the first modern translation into English of one of the most important and influential medieval books.

This book investigates the agency and influence of medieval queens in late fourteenth-century England, focusing on the patronage and intercessory activities of the queens Philippa of Hainault and Anne of Bohemia, as well as the princess Joan of Kent.

The first translation of Baldric's Historia Ierosolimitana, a spirited account of the First Crusade, into modern English.

This book examines the rise and fall of the aristocratic Lacy family in England, Ireland, Wales and Normandy.

Authoring the Past surveys medieval Catalan historiography, shedding light on the emergence and evolution of historical writing and autobiography in the Middle Ages, on questions of authority and authorship, and on the links between history and politics during the period.

This collection re-evaluates the work of fifteenth-century poet John Lydgate in light of medieval material culture.

Was there international law in the Middle Ages?

Werewolf Histories is the first academic book in English to address European werewolf history and folklore from antiquity to the twentieth century.

In this compelling account of the "e;peasants' revolt"e; of 1381, in which rebels burned hundreds of official archives and attacked other symbols of authority, Steven Justice demonstrates that the rebellion was not an uncontrolled, inarticulate explosion of peasant resentment but an informed and tactical claim to literacy and rule.

This book uses original research and interviews to consider the views of contemporary members of the Orange Order in Canada, including their sense of political and societal purpose, awareness of the decline of influence, views on their present circumstances, and hopes for the future of Orangeism in Canada.

Dieser Sammelband vereinigt sechsundzwanzig Beiträge zur byzantinischen Literatur, in denen renommierte Byzantinisten Themen aus dem Bereich der Epistolografie, Historiografie, Hagiografie, Philologie und Prosopografie behandeln.

Temporal Circumstances provides powerful and detailed interpretations of the most important and challenging of the Canterbury Tales.

Essays reflecting the most recent research on the thirteenth century, with a timely focus on the Treaty of Paris.

This book brings together the most current interpretations of the Wooing Group from scholars currently working on the fields of medieval spirituality, gender, and the anchoritic tradition, providing literary, theological, linguistic, and cultural context for the works associated with the Wooing Group (a collection of texts in English written by an unknown author in the late twelfth to early thirteenth centuries).

The Sagas of Icelanders are enduring stories from Viking-age Iceland filled with love and romance, battles and feuds, tragedy and comedy.