European history: medieval period, middle ages

Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England explores English legal culture and practice across the Anglo-Saxon period, beginning with the essentially pre-Christian laws enshrined in writing by King thelberht of Kent in c.

High and Mighty Queens of Early Modern England is a truly interdisciplinary anthology of essays including articles on such actual queen regnants as Mary I and Elizabeth I, and queen consorts such as Anne Boleyn, Anna of Denmark, and Henrietta Maria.

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Napoleon Bonaparte's character and achievements have always divided critics and commentators.

This is the first English translation and study of George Akropolites' History, the main Greek source for the history of Byzantium between 1204 and 1261.

This book provides a detailed analysis of women's involvement in litigation and other legal actions within their local communities in late-medieval England.

Fruits of the most recent research on the worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

Civilised by beasts tells the story of nineteenth-century Dublin through human-animal relationships.

While scholars have long documented the migration of people in ancient and medieval times, they have paid less attention to those who traveled across borders with some regularity.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

The saints' Lives in this book were written in Italy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

An investigation into how racial stereotypes were created and used in the European Middle Ages.

In Supreme emergency, an ex-Trident submarine captain considers the evolution of UK nuclear deterrence policy and the implications of a previously unacknowledged aversion to military strategies that threaten civilian casualties.

Trees were of fundamental importance in Anglo-Saxon society.

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First full-scale account of the use of the Arthurian legend in the long twelfth century.

"e;I have read everything written on Marco Polo, and John Man's book is, by far, my favorite work on the subject.

Abbreviating Middle English: Scribal practices, Visual Texts and Medieval Multimodalities investigates the changing dynamics of scribal abbreviating practices in a corpus of late Middle English manuscripts of Richard Rolle's, John Lydgate's and John Gower's works and reinterprets these practices from new perspectives of visual pragmatics, medieval multimodalities and visual code-switching.

John Morton - Cardinal, Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor - bestrode the Wars of the Roses.

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

Wide-ranging survey of current research in Anglo-Saxon studies - from literature and material culture to religion and politics.

Steinberg''s field-defining work shows how Boccaccio''s Decameron reveals unexpected connections between the contemporary emergence of literary realism and legal inquisition in early modern Europe.

This book addresses the history of the senses in relation to affective piety and its role in devotional practices in the late Middle Ages, focusing on the sense of touch.

A vital sourcebook for information on clothing and textiles in the middle ages, containing many previously unprinted documents.

A major reassessment of the vikings and their legacyThe Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by myth.

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.

Essays on strategic thinking and practice in medieval warfare.

A sweeping, authoritative, and entertaining history of the Christian cult of the saints from its origin to the ReformationFrom its earliest centuries, one of the most notable features of Christianity has been the veneration of the saints-the holy dead.

It is well known that political, economic, and social power in the British Isles in the Middle Ages lay in the hands of a small group of domini-lords.

Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation from-or antidote to-ten centuries of misogyny.

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

The Children's Crusade was possibly the most extraordinary event in the history of the crusades.

Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs is the first detailed consideration of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon society dealt with social outcasts.

This book offers an original interpretation of Britain's relationship with Europe over a 25 year period: 1959-84 and advances the argument that the current problems over EU membership resulted from much earlier political machinations.

The extraordinary growth and development of the cult of St Thomas Becket is investigated here, with a particular focus on its material culture.

A brilliant polymath and part of the 'first wave' of British Romanticism, Thomas Manning was one of the first Englishmen to study Chinese language and culture.

An account of the naval commander Roger of Lauria and his command of warfare at sea.

There were tens of thousands of different local law-courts in late-medieval England, providing the most common forums for the working out of disputes and the making of decisions about local governance.

This case study of two rural parishes in County Durham, England, provides an alternate view on the economic development involved in the transition from medieval to modern, partly explaining England's rise to global economic dominance in the seventeenth century.

Fresh investigations into heresy after 1300, demonstrating its continuing importance and influence.

This multi-disciplinary collection of essays draws on various theoretical approaches to explore the highly visual nature of the Middle Ages and expose new facets of old texts and artefacts.

A sweeping account of what medieval life was like for ordinary peopleIn The Axe and the Oath, one of the world's leading medieval historians presents a compelling picture of daily life in the Middle Ages as it was experienced by ordinary people.

New approaches to the political culture of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, considering its complex relation to monarchy and state.

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Between the 1460s and the 1630s Ireland was transformed from a medieval into a modern society.

Most of what has been written on the economy of the middle ages is deeply influenced by abstract concepts and theories.

Conservative thinkers of the early Middle Ages conceived of sensual gratification as a demonic snare contrived to debase the higher faculties of humanity, and they identified pagan writing as one of the primary conduits of decadence.