European history: medieval period, middle ages

A revised edition of Anna Komnene's Alexiad, to replace our existing 1969 edition.

Fresh and innovative takes on the dissemination of music in manuscript, print, and, now, electronic formats, revealing how the world has experienced music from the sixteenth century to the present.

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.

For a brief moment in 2019 Britain's politics looked like it might be transformed.

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

The essays within Beyond Catholicism trace the interconnections of belief, heresy, and mysticism in Italian culture from the Middle Ages to today.

The Lingua Ignota, "e;brought forth"e; by the twelfth-century German nun Hildegard of Bingen, provides 1012 neologisms for praise of Church and new expression of the things of her world.

First extended survey of the subject, looking at the knights' activities, roles, background and service.

Examination of the role played by key figures around the monarchy in the Wars of the Roses.

In "Die Schweizer Bürgerkriege im Spiegel der Zeit" entführt Anton L.

Reading has become a problem--not just of attention, comprehension, or growing rates of illiteracy, but of politics, society, and religion.

Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to "e;plague writing"e; from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century.

In pursuing how fourteenth-century English texts engage with philosophical, intellectual, and theological questions, the work of Denise N.

This work offers a theoretical introduction to the portrayal of medievalism in popular film.

The Black Death of 1348-9 is the most catastrophic event and worst pandemic in recorded history.

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.

An interdisciplinary approach to a crucial part of the systems of medieval authority and governance.

If it had not been for Owain Glyndwr's 15-year struggle against overwhelming odds, the Welsh would not have survived as Europe's oldest nation.

Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism is a cross-cultural analysis of the role that alcohol consumption played in literature, social and cultural history, and gender roles in the Middle Ages.

This book uses, principally but not only, a case study of the Denbighshire town of Ruthin to discuss both the significance of Englishness versus Welshness and of gender distinctions in the network of small Anglo-Welsh urban centres which emerged in north Wales following the English conquest of 1282.

Mit der GERMANIA SACRA werden Handbücher zur Geschichte der alten deutschen Reichskirche (bis 1803/6 ) geschaffen.

This volume extends the 'British Isles' approach pioneered by Robin Frame and Rees Davies to the later middle ages.

In Machines of the Mind, Katharine Breen proposes that medieval personifications should be understood neither as failed novelistic characters nor as instruments of heavy-handed didacticism.

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In 1135, Stephen of Blois usurped the throne, stealing it from his cousin Empress Matilda and sparking a nineteen-year civil war that would become known as the Anarchy, one of the bloodiest periods in English history.

This edited collection opens new ways to look at queenship in areas and countries not usually studied and reflects the increasingly interdisciplinary work and geographic range of the field.

This volume by Gracia Grindal introduces English-speaking readers to several significant yet unsung Lutheran women hymn writers from the sixteenth century to the present.

Studies the manifestations of Edward the Black Prince in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Marian maternity in late-medieval England takes advantage of the fifteenth century's intense interest in the Virgin Mary, the best-documented mother of the medieval period, to examine the constructions and performances of maternity in vernacular religious texts.

Although closely focused on the remarkable Hebrew First-Crusade narratives, Robert Chazan's new interpretation of these texts is anything but narrow, as his title, God, Humanity, and History, strongly suggests.

Most people have heard of Lady Godiva and her horseback tax protest in the 11th century and Joan of Arc who in the 15th century fought against the English for the French gaining sainthood in 1920.

A lavishly illustrated account of the buildings of the friars in the middle ages, bringing them vividly to life.

In die Lebenswelten spätmittelalterlicher Ehepaare gewähren die meisten Quellen nur unvollständige Einblicke.

'Grimly fascinating .

This study will significantly further our interpretations of the unique autobiography of Margery Kempe, lay woman turned mystic and visionary.

Whereas modern societies tend to banish the dead from the world of the living, medieval men and women accorded them a vital role in the community.

First comprehensive study of English artillery in the late Middle Ages, bringing out its full impact on areas beyond the military.

Sowenig sich die zeitgenössische herrschende Politiktheorie, etwa eines Machiavelli, eines Lipsius oder Hobbes, mit dem Hof an sich befaßte, statt dessen ganz auf die – gleichwohl eng damit zusammenhängenden – Fragen des Herrschafts- und Regierungsstils einging, so nachdrücklich wird der Hof der Frühen Neuzeit in der Hausväter- und Fürstenspiegelliteratur, in den Regimentstraktaten und Regierungslehren, in den Fürstentestamenten erwähnt.

Renowned scholar Thomas Asbridge brings to life medieval Englands most celebrated knight, William Marshalproviding an unprecedented and intimate view of this age and the legendary warrior class that shaped it.

The ritual of eating and drinking together is one of the most important Christian events.

In Forged in the Shadow of Mars, Peter W.

The author has determined in an earlier McFarland book (The Historic King Arthur, 1996, paperback 2007) that there was not a historic King Arthur during the sixth century.

Die Zähringer gehörten mit Staufern und Welfen zu den drei bedeutenden Fürstenhäusern im hochmittelalterlichen Schwaben.