European history: medieval period, middle ages

Although Geoffrey Chaucer is the major author for Middle English studies, he often receives little notice in studies of children's literature.

Bishop Richard Fox of Winchester (1448-1528) was an important early modern English prelate whose tireless service to his church, to his king and to humanist studies single him out as one of the great shapers of the Tudor age.

The swearing of oaths is a cultural phenomenon that pervades English history and was remarkably important during the sixteenth century.

From the saviour of the realm to the subject of multiple attempted assassinations in the space of six years.

Fascination with royal pomp and circumstance is as old as kingship itself.

An examination of the growth of civic power in the turbulent arena of late medieval London.

The last Ice Age, which came to an end about 12,000 years ago, swept the bands of hunter gatherers from the face of the land that was to become Britain and Ireland, but as the ice sheets retreated and the climate improved so human groups spread slowly northwards, re-colonizing the land that had been laid waste.

In einer Welt, die von ständiger Veränderung geprägt ist, bleiben die Heiligen Jahre der katholischen Kirche ein kraftvolles Symbol für Besinnung, Buße und Erneuerung.

This is the first book in English to provide a comprehensive examination of the hospital movement that arose and prospered in northern Italy between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries.

The thirteenth century brought new urgency to Catholic efforts to convert non-Christians, and no Catholic ruler was more dedicated to this undertaking than King Louis IX of France.

Articles showcasing the fruits of the most recent scholarship in the field of fourteenth-century studies.

The Chivalric Turn examines the medieval obsession with defining and practising superior conduct, and the social consequences that followed from it.

A story that follows a simple trajectory is seldom worth telling.

The legend of King Arthur is embedded in British and American culture.

An exploration of small early folk communities prior to the eleventh century, showing their development and sophistication.

This book examines the social role of castles in late-medieval and early modern Ireland.

The idea of what an "e;eyewitness"e; account is here scrutinised through examination of key Crusading texts.

Essays on the discipline of medieval history and its practitioners, from the late eighteenth century onwards.

A gripping biography that brings together the most recent research to shed provocative new light on the life of Saint PatrickSaint Patrick was, by his own admission, a controversial figure.

Working at the intersection of medical, theological, cultural, and literary studies, this book offers an innovative approach to understanding maternity, genealogy and social identity as they are represented in popular literature in late-medieval England.

This book presents a picture focused on the T'ang period, one of China's acknowledged golden ages.

From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of the color white in visual culture, from antiquity to todayAs a pigment, white is often thought to represent an absence of color, but it is without doubt an important color in its own right, just like red, blue, green, or yellowand, like them, white has its own intriguing history.

A comprehensive study of every aspect of chivalry and chivalric culture.

Medievalists have long taught that highly emotional Christian devotion, often called 'affective piety', appeared in Europe after the twelfth century and was primarily practiced by communities of mendicants, lay people and women.

Examines the political development of Portugal between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries.

Modern readers can sometimes be unsure about the language and the literary conventions of medieval and Renaissance verse--lyrical works written at a time before poetry was assumed to be about personal expression.

Did medieval women have the power to choose?

The book shows how the Franciscans in Jerusalem in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries wrote works which standardized the cultural memory of the Holy Land.

The late-medieval movement into 'vernacular theology,' as it has come to be called, inspired many forms of literary expression, in all the languages of Europe.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Geschichte von Wales, einer Region voller Mythen, Traditionen und kultureller Vielfalt.

The Trinity of orthodox Christianity is harmonious.

This collection of nineteen essays, their previous publication dates scattered over a long career, is designed to indicate the velocity and variety of the inventiveness visible in medieval engineering and also to explore the relation of technology to the values of western medieval culture.

Renaissance Mass Murder explores the devastating impact of war on the men and women of the Renaissance.

2023 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards Best Jewish Food Culture Book; 2022 National Jewish Book Award FinalistA fascinating study that will appeal to both culinarians and readers interested in the intersecting histories of food, Sephardic Jewish culture, and the Mediterranean world of Iberia and northern Africa.

As a strategically located seat of European power, Paris was a prized target for invaders.

The fruits of new research on the politics, society and culture of England in the fourteenth century.

Jean Gerson and Gender examines the deployment of gendered rhetoric by the influential late medieval politically active theologian, Jean Gerson (1363-1429), as a means of understanding his reputation for political neutrality, the role played by royal women in the French royal court, and the rise of the European witch hunts.

Through interdisciplinary readings of medieval literature and devotional artifacts, The Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary shows how reliquaries shaped ideas about poetry and poetics in late-medieval England.

Based on an exhaustive and varied study of predominantly unpublished archival material as well as a variety of literary and non-literary sources, this book investigates the relation between patronage, piety and politics in the life and career of one Late Medieval Spain's most intriguing female personalities, Maria De Luna.

The Renaissance was a revolution of ideas, arts and sciences alike, with Italy at its center.

An important new contribution to the emerging field of late medieval supplicatory cultures.

This book illuminates Byzantines' relationship with woodland between the seventh and twelfth centuries.

Göttingen – eine Stadt, deren Geschichte so facettenreich ist wie die Epochen, die sie durchlebt hat.

In Popes and Jews, 1095-1291, Rebecca Rist explores the nature and scope of the relationship of the medieval papacy to the Jewish communities of western Europe.

This collection of essays offers fresh analysis of topics in the exciting area of Atlantic World studies.

In the West, monastic ideals and scholastic pursuits are complementary; monks are popularly imagined copying classics, preserving learning through the Middle Ages, and establishing the first universities.

'In the tenth-century Annales Cambriae, which possibly goes back to contemporary sources, the entry about the Battle of Badon Hill mentions that Arthur "e;carried the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ on his shoulders for three days and three nights"e;.