European history: medieval period, middle ages

Volume 37- Literary Appropriations-examines medieval literature in a different light.

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

This is a collection of essays by diverse hands engaging, interrogating, and honoring the medieval scholarship of Terry Jones.

Medieval Healthcare and the Rise of Charitable Institutions: The History of the Municipal Hospital examines the development of medieval institutions of care, beginning with a survey of the earliest known hospitals in ancient times to the classical period, to the early Middle Ages, and finally to the explosion of hospitals in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

This book examines the views of Greek Church Fathers on hoarding, saving, and management of economic surplus, and their development primarily in urban centres of the Eastern Mediterranean, from the late first to the fifth century.

This is the first scholarly art-historical appraisal of Anglo-Saxon coinage, from its inception in the late sixth century to Offa's second reform of the penny c.

Representing Others in Medieval Iberian Literature explores the ways Arabic, Jewish and Christian intellectuals in medieval Iberia (courtiers and clerics) adapt and transform the Andalusi go-between figure in order to represent their own role as cultural intermediaries.

Veiled women in the West appear menacing.

Feud stands at the core of the Old Icelandic sagas.

People in the Middle Ages had chantry chapels, mortuary rolls, the daily observance of the Office of the Dead, and even purgatory-but they were still unable to talk about death.

Der Band bietet die im Domstiftsarchiv Brandenburg aufbewahrten und bisher kaum erschlossenen mittelalterlichen Quellen zur Geschichte der Mark Brandenburg (Urkunden, Akten, Rechnungen u.

Elves and elf-belief during the Anglo-Saxon period are reassessed in this lively and provocative study.

This book is the first of its kind to engage explicitly with the practice of conceptual history as it relates to the study of the Middle Ages, exploring the pay-offs and pitfalls of using concepts in medieval history.

Ross Dunn here recounts the great traveler's remarkable career, interpreting it within the cultural and social context of Islamic society and giving the reader both a biography of an extraordinary personality and a study of the hemispheric dimensions of human interchange in medieval times.

This book argues that literary and historiographical works written by Iberian Christians between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries promoted contradictory representations of Muslims in order to advocate for their colonization through the affirmation of Christian supremacy.

This volume presents the medieval cartulary of St Michael's Mount in Cornwall, a priory of the French abbey of Mont St-Michel.

A fascinating history of marginalized identities in the medieval worldWhile the term "e;intersectionality"e; was coined in 1989, the existence of marginalized identities extends back over millennia.

This book analyses the artistic and cultural legacy of Western Islamic societies and their interactions with Islamic, Christian and Jewish societies in the framework of the late medieval Mediterranean, from a range of multi-disciplinary perspectives.

Fantastic Histories explores the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century England, and the subsequent uses of fairy narratives in both insular and continental history and romance.

This long-awaited companion volume to Howard E.

Richard I.

This collection explores the intersection of gender and mobility across the Global Middle Ages.

How did towns and nobles use communication in their feuds in the Northwestern part of the Holy Roman Empire of the later Middle Ages between 1380 and 1480?

This Palgrave Pivot explores the representation of sea kings, sinners, and saints in the mid-thirteenth century Chronicles of the Kings of Man and the Isles, the single most important text for the history of the kingdoms of Man and the Isles, c.

This book shows how an encounter with everyday nationhood in the northern United Arab Emirates can make us revisit the classics of sociology as continuous analytical world-views.

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The articles in this volume, by scholars all pursuing careers in the United States, concern the theoretical approaches and methods of early medieval studies.

Essays offering new approaches to the changing forms of medieval religious masculinity.

In den majestätischen Bergen und fruchtbaren Tälern des Kaukasus formte sich eine der faszinierendsten Kulturen der Antike: das Königreich Georgien.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die Bistümer der Kirchenprovinz Mainz.

The friars represented a remarkable innovation in medieval religious life.

Der Tod als fundamentale kulturelle und religiöse Größe findet besondere Berücksichtigung bei der Schilderung des Ablebens eines Bischofs – doch wandeln sich sowohl die Vorstellungen vom Tod, die Anforderungen an Bischöfe und auch die Art, das Geschehene wiederzugeben.

In the heart of the medieval era, a transformative ruler emerged to reshape the political and cultural landscape of Europe.

Today, some Christians--as part of their own personal growth--and some churches--as part of their desire to reach the 'spiritual but not religious'--are adapting spiritual practices that have their roots in East Asian religions or in disciplines that emerge from New Age and New Spirituality.

This groundbreaking book examines the complex relationships between individuals and communities during the profound transitions of the early modern period.

How the medieval church drove state formation in EuropeSacred Foundations argues that the medieval church was a fundamental force in European state formation.

Caregiving practices in churches often center around listening and giving counsel, making referrals, and creating support groups for specific needs.

Chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Daily Telegraph, TLS, BBC History Magazine and Tablet'Compulsive, brilliantly clear and superbly well-written, it's a charismatic evocation of another world' Ian Mortimer, author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval EnglandThe Middle Ages were a time of wonder.

The Reformed tradition of worship in England has given the English-speaking world the Westminster Directory for the Public Worship of God, and the hymns of Isaac Watts.

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

The key to understanding the emergence of the independent Irish state lies in the history of Home Rule.