European history: medieval period, middle ages

This study of tangible and intangible cultural heritage explains the significance of nobles' conservationist traditions for public engagement with the history of France.

This study of medieval women as postcolonial writers defines the literary strategies of subversion by which they authorized their alterity within the dominant tradition.

Saints' cults flourished in the medieval world, and the phenomenon is examined here in a series of studies.

Although there have been many regional studies of the proprietary church or particular aspects of it, this is the first extensive study of it covering most of western Europe, from the end of the Roman Empire in the West to about 1200.

In the early medieval world, the way people remembered the past changed how they saw the present.

Amid so much twenty-first-century talk of a "e;Christian-Muslim divide"e;--and the attendant controversy in some Western countries over policies toward minority Muslim communities--a historical fact has gone unnoticed: for more than four hundred years beginning in the mid-seventh century, some 50 percent of the world's Christians lived and worshipped under Muslim rule.

Essays on aspects of iconography as manifested in the material culture of medieval England.

A full-scale survey of crusading lyrics in Old French and Occitan.

A fascinating account of the phenomenon known as the Black Death, this volume offers a wealth of documentary material focused on the initial outbreak of the plague that ravaged the world in the 14th century.

In an innovative approach drawn from Memory Studies, this book seeks to uncover how the Norman Conquest is popularly "e;remembered"e;.

In this study of the manner in which medieval nuns lived, Penelope Johnson challenges facile stereotypes of nuns living passively under monastic rule, finding instead that collectively they were empowered by their communal privileges and status to think and act without many of the subordinate attitudes of secular women.

During the Middle Ages, castles and other fortified buildings were a common feature of the European landscape.

Der Speyerer Dom ist mehr als ein herausragendes Bauwerk der Romanik – er ist ein Zeugnis europäischer Geschichte, eine architektonische Meisterleistung und ein Symbol für Macht, Glaube und kulturelles Erbe.

This book explores the late medieval English cults which evolved around 'political martyrs'.

This book addresses works of the European Renaissance as they relate both to the world of their origins and to a modern culture that turns to the early moderns for methodological provocation and renewal.

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This biographical dictionary separates myth from history by differentiating and defining figures associated with Arthuriana.

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

Looking at royal ritual in pre-revolutionary France, Death and the crown examines the deathbed and funeral of Louis XV in 1774, the lit de justice of November 1774 and the coronation of Louis XVI, including the ceremony of the royal healing touch for scrofula.

The Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1350-1600  explores the roles that Scotland and England play in one another's imaginations.

Drawing upon the latest historical and archaeological research, Dr Peter Sarris provides a panoramic account of the history of Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Near East from the fall of Rome to the rise of Islam.

A sweeping history of Islam and the West from the seventh century to todayEurope and the Islamic World sheds much-needed light on the shared roots of Islamic and Western cultures and on the richness of their inextricably intertwined histories, refuting once and for all the misguided notion of a "e;clash of civilizations"e; between the Muslim world and Europe.

The societies of ancient Europe underwent a continual process of militarisation, and this would come to be a defining characteristic of the early Middle Ages.

Medieval Italian communes are known for their violence, feuds, and vendettas, yet beneath this tumult was a society preoccupied with peace.

Monastic experience in twelfth-century Germany provides a rare window on to monastery life in the tumultuous world of twelfth-century Swabia.

Investigation of the development of the Cathar heresy in south-west France, looking at how and why its growth differed across the regions.

Essays on costume, fabric and clothing in the Middle Ages and beyond.

This book asks how the inhabitants and neighbours of the Eastern Roman Empire understand their identity as Romans in the centuries following the emergence of Islam as a world-religion.

On 23 February 1820 a group of radicals were arrested in Cato Street off the Edgware Road in London.

This groundbreaking book is an indispensable contribution to appreciating the dilemmas facing Ireland in the 'age of Brexit'.

The story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table has a fascination which is universal.

A new survey of major Templar landholdings offers fresh insights into key questions about their medieval history.

For decades, medieval scholarship has been dominated by the paradigm that women who wielded power after c.

This contributed volume focuses on Philippa Plantagenet (1360-1415), queen of Portugal for almost three decades, and the complexion of the court.

This collection examines the intersection of the discourses of "e;disability"e; and "e;monstrosity"e; in a timely and necessary intervention in the scholarly fields of Disability Studies and Monster Studies.

This book significantly revises the conventional view that the Jewish experience in medieval Spain--over the century before the expulsion of 1492--was one of despair, persecution, and decline.

Cursed Kings tells the story of the destruction of France by the madness of its king and the greed and violence of his family.

Theology and the Scientific Imagination is a pioneering work of intellectual history that transformed our understanding of the relationship between Christian theology and the development of science.

Retracing the contours of a bitter controversy over the meaning of sacred architecture that flared up among some of the leading lights of the Carolingian renaissance, Collins explores how ninth-century authors articulated the relationship of form to function and ideal to reality in the ecclesiastical architecture of the Carolingian empire.

The Early Reformation on the Continent offers a fresh look at the formative years of the European Reformation and the origins of Protestant faith and practice.

This series [pushes] the boundaries of knowledge and [develops] new trends in approach and understanding.

First full-length examination of bastardy in Scotland during the period, exploring its many ramifications throughout society.

An in-depth exploration of four centuries of American occult and spiritual history, from colonial-era alchemists to 20th-century teachers*; Details how, from the very beginning, America was a vibrant blend of beliefs from all four corners of the world*; Looks at well-known figures such as Manly P.

The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the MuqaddimaIbn Khaldun (13321406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world--a genius who ranks as one of the world's great minds.

This volume publishes a survey of the manors of Duchy of Cornwall conducted in 1337.

A fascinating recreation of the world of one of England's most charismatic monarchs, from award-winning author and historian Richard BarberThe destruction of the French army at Cr cy in 1346 and the subsequent siege and capture of Calais marked a new era in European history.

Few figures have captured Hollywood's and the public's imagination as completely as have medieval heroes.