European history: medieval period, middle ages

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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.

This book examines the Franciscan alchemist Roger Bacon's (1220-1292) interest in the role of alchemy in medicine, and how this interest connected with the thirteenth-century milieu in which he was writing.

This richly illustrated book explores over seven hundred years of European warfare, from the time of Charlemagne to the end of the middle ages (c.

This volume investigates the physical evidence for magic in medieval and modern Britain, including ritual mark, concealed objects, amulets, and magical equipment.

This book is about the sexual and religious lives of Catholic women in post-war England.

In a rare combination of comprehensive coverage and sustained critical focus, this book examines Japan's progress through its entire history to its current status as an economic, technological, and cultural superpower.

This book provides the first comprehensive treatment of Albert the Great's (c.

This book presents new research on the histories and legacies of the German Expressionist group Blaue Reiter, the founding force behind modernist abstraction.

Heute bewirkt der Klimawandel ein Überdenken globaler Ernährungsweisen, wie Forschungen zu klimaresistenten Getreidesorten, In-vitro-Fleisch und vegane Konsumtrends zeigen.

Bestsellers and masterpieces: The changing medieval canon addresses the strange fact that, in both European and Middle Eastern medieval studies, those texts that we now study and teach as the most canonical representations of their era were in fact not popular or even widely read in their day.

Saint Augustine famously "e;wept for Dido, who killed herself by the sword,"e; and many later medieval schoolboys were taught to respond in similarly emotional ways to the pain of female characters in Virgil's Aeneid and other classical texts.

The first book to deal with all the principal treatments of heresy and anti-heretical writings during their heyday in the thirteenth century.

'An endlessly fascinating and enjoyable book' Neil MacGregor'Full of delights' Tom StoppardAn extraordinary exploration of the medieval world - the most beguiling history book of the yearThis is a book about why medieval manuscripts matter.

One of the oldest monotheistic religions known to humankind, Judaism has withstood the tests of time.

Die anonyme Erzählung von Alexander und Semiramis geht auf eine persisch-osmanische Vorlage des "Turandot"-Stoffes zurück, die nach den Konventionen des späten byzantinischen Liebesromans umgearbeitet wurde.

Der vorliegende Band ist die letzte Veröffentlichung des DFG-Netzwerkes Forum für Frauenstiftsforschung.

Richard III (2 October 1452 - 22 August 1485) was King of England from 1483 until his death in 1485 in the Battle of Bosworth Field.

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

Essays on the turbulent history of Syon Abbey, focussing on the role played by reading and writing in constructing its identity and experience.

Fourteenth Century England has quickly established for itself a deserved reputation for its scope and scholarship and for admirably filling a gap in the publication of medieval studies.

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

This book is the first to systematically examine the sources of medieval statistics.

Focussing on late medieval and early modern philosophy and medicine, this edited collection explores the replacement of hylomorphism-the dominant theory of bodies in the Middle Ages-with new theories of matter such as corpuscularianism and atomism at the dawn of the Modern period.

This interdisciplinary work, the first of two volumes, presents essays on various aspects of disease, medicine, and healing in different locations in and around the Indian Ocean from the ninth century to the early modern period.

This book examines the history of monastic exemption in France.

This collection of essays offers important new insights across a range of topics relating to medicine in early modern Ireland.

Written to celebrate the prestigious career of Professor Denys Pringle, this collection of articles produced by many of the leading archaeologists and historians in the field of crusades studies offers a compilation of pioneering scholarship on recent studies on the Latin East.

Im Jahre 1903 erschien, herausgegeben von Paul Kaiser, die erste neuzeitliche Ausgabe des Werkes "Cause et Cure".

This book is about the impact of decolonisation on British civic society in the 1960s.

Market Power explores society and economy in medieval Iberia, examining the intersection of regional commercial interests, lordship, and royal authority as part of the evolution of a small village into a rural market town.

The first comprehensive survey of the Irish literary elite in the early middle ages.

This text provides original documents which are designed to help the reader evaluate claims that World War II introduced a new sense of social solidarity and social idealism which led to a consensus on welfare state reform.

This book examines the Avar siege of Constantinople in 626, one of the most significant events of the seventh century, and the impact and repercussions this had on the political, military, economic and religious structures of the Byzantine Empire.

This book is an exploration of political memory and disgrace in the reigns of Constantine and his sons.

The Jagiellon dynasty is part of the most significant dynasties in mid-eastern Europe.

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

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