European history: medieval period, middle ages

This book explores the widespread mass conversions to Christianity and Islam that took place in Europe and Asia in the ninth to eleventh centuries.

This book is aimed at students coming to the study of western European medieval history for the first time, and also graduate students on interdisciplinary medieval studies programmes.

Heresy and inquisition in France, 1200-1300 is an invaluable collection of primary sources in translation, aimed at students and academics alike.

This book explores the function and symbolism of monumental wooden crosses and crucifixes from medieval and early modern Norway.

The Italian Renaissance shaped Western culture - but it was far stranger and darker than many of us realise.

This book presents a new and accessible translation of a well-known yet enigmatic text: the 'Epitaph for Arsenius' by the monk and scholar Paschasius Radbertus (Radbert) of Corbie.

Thomas Asbridge zeichnet ein prächtiges Porträt des besten aller Ritter: Guillaume le Maréchal war der eigentliche Lancelot seiner Zeit, der Inbegriff des Ritters.

This is a history of Europe unlike any other: a theory-informed history of its language use.

Agincourt was an astonishing clash of arms, a pivotal moment in the Hundred Years War and the history of warfare in general.

This book is based on the postmedieval journal special issue Prophetic Futures.

The Druids and the Arthurian legends are all most of us know about early Britain, from the Neolithic to the Iron Age (4500 BC-AD 43).

John Gower's poetry offers an important and immediate response to the turbulent events of his day.

This book is the history of the Eastern Vikings, the Rus and the Varangians, from their earliest mentions in the narrative sources to the late medieval period, when the Eastern Vikings had become stock figures in Old Norse Romances.

This book examines the legacies and depictions of monarchs in an international context, focusing on both self-representation and commemoration by others.

The importance of collective behavior in early medieval EuropeBy the fifth and sixth centuries, the bread and circuses and triumphal processions of the Roman Empire had given way to a quieter world.

Analyzing the renowned Saint Birgitta of Sweden from the perspectives of power, authority, and gender, this probing study investigates how Birgitta went about establishing her influence during the first ten years of her career as a living saint, in 1340-1349.

Henry V is regarded as the great English hero.

In den Jahrzehnten um 1100 fand ein Mentalitätswandel statt, der mitunter als "Entdeckung des Individuums" bezeichnet wird: Das Verständnis für die Motive, Bedürfnisse und Ansprüche einer Person wuchs ebenso wie die Bereitschaft, ihnen mehr Raum zu geben.

The importance of baptism within Christian history, theology, and practice is of the first order.

An illuminating history of how religious belief lost its uncontested status in the WestThis landmark book traces the history of belief in the Christian West from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, revealing for the first time how a distinctively modern category of belief came into being.

This book investigates the actions of marriage tribunals by analyzing the richest source of marriage suits extant in Italy, those of the Venetian ecclesiastical tribunal, between 1420 and the opening of the Council of Trent.

Mother of Mercy, Bane of the Jews explores a key moment in the rise of the cult of the Virgin Mary and the way the Jews became central to her story.

A fresh approach to the implications of obtaining, preparing, and consuming food, concentrating on the little-investigated routines of everyday life.

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.

This book is about what it meant to build a city in Germany at the turn of the twentieth century.

'I know there are but few steps between the prisons and graves of princes' Charles IThe experience of exile and captivity, usually in war, was not uncommon for medieval kings and princes.

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The Westford Knight is a mysterious, controversial stone carving in Massachusetts.

This book examines the gendered dimensions of emotions and the emotional aspects of gender within Byzantine culture and suggests possible readings of such instances.

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.

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This collection of essays by eight leading scholars is a landmark event in the study of crusading in the late middle ages.

An interdisciplinary synthesis that offers a new understanding of childhood in the Middle Ages as a form of master-servant relation embedded in an ancient sense of time as a correspondence between earthly change and eternal order.

This is a book about how Catalans use their past, real and imagined, in the construction of their present and future.

The links between Cornwall, a county frequently considered remote and separate in the Middle Ages, and the wider realm of England are newly discussed.

This book reads the surprisingly widespread representations of cannibals and cannibalism in medieval English literature as political metaphors that were central to England's on-going process of articulating cultural and national identity.

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, competing scholarly communities sought to define a Spain that was, at least officially, entirely Christian, even if many suspected that newer converts from Islam and Judaism were Christian in name only.

This book explores the rich, complex, literary tradition of the medieval go-between.

This volume brings together contemporary popular entertainment, current political subjects, and medieval history and culture to investigate the intersecting and often tangled relations between politics, aesthetics, reality and fiction, in relation to issues of morality, identity, social values, power, and justice, both in the past and the present.

On the eight-hundredth anniversary of the Magna Carta, Women and the Magna Carta investigates what the charter meant for women's rights and freedoms from an historical and legal perspective.

This book argues that Levi Gersonides articulates a unique model of virtue ethics among medieval Jewish thinkers.