From the 14th-century king consorts of Navarre to the modern European prince consorts of the 20th century, the male consort has been a peculiar yet recurrent historical figure.
Addressing the myriad ways in which heresy accusations could fulfill political aims during the Middle Ages, this collection shows acts of heresy were not just influenced by religion.
This volume, which continues the same author's Early Byzantine Historians , is the first book to analyze the lives and works of all forty-three significant Byzantine historians from the seventh to the thirteenth century, including the authors of three of the world's greatest histories: Michael Psellus, Princess Anna Comnena, and Nicetas Choniates.
Published over forty years ago, the original edition of Titled Elizabethans provided a ready reference source to Elizabethan court, state, and household.
New perspectives on early globalisms from objects and imagesTales Things Tell offers new perspectives on histories of connectivity between Africa, Asia, and Europe in the period before the Mongol conquests of the thirteenth century.
Die "Tiroler Heimat" ist die traditionsreichste wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift, die sich der Geschichte und Kultur der historischen Region Tirol widmet.
Die "Tiroler Heimat" ist die traditionsreichste wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift, die sich der Geschichte und Kultur der historischen Region Tirol widmet.
"e;The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audiences for years to come.
As with viewing a mosaic, the more closely the reader examines this book, the more it shows forth rich meaning and inspiration for preachers, lay readers, and all who desire to encounter Jesus Christ in the scriptures.
This book explores the different functions and metaphorical concepts of alchemy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English poetry and bridges them together with the exempla tradition in late medieval English literature.
Una aportación fundamental para el conocimiento de la historia y el arte de España en una crónica excepcional, que nos introduce con profundidad en el panorama mundial del siglo XIII.
InCollected Studies (Volume 2):Christian MajorityJewish Minority, Joseph Shatzmiller, the preeminent scholar of the Jews in Provence, examines the complex relationship between Christians and Jews during the Middle Ages.
Drawing on sources from archaeology and written texts, the author brings out the full significance of trees in both pagan and Christian Anglo-Saxon religion.
The Wars of the Roses, which saw England and Wales ravaged by warfare for three decades and dynasties rise and fall, decimated the nobility of an entire generation, and saw the rise of the merchant class, the decline of medieval feudalism and opened the country to the enlightened ideals of the Renaissance.
Trabajo documental, reflexión teórica y debate historiográfico se articulan aquí, en pocas palabras, para ofrecer una lectura posible del estrecho vínculo entre "política" y "religión" en la Baja Edad Media y la temprana Modernidad, un problema clave para la comprensión de las sociedades premodernas.
King Henry VIII and Emperor Charles V both ruled for almost forty years at a time when momentous changes in society, politics and religion were taking place in England and across Europe.
King Henry VIII and Emperor Charles V both ruled for almost forty years at a time when momentous changes in society, politics and religion were taking place in England and across Europe.
This book focuses on the characters that populate the Game of Thrones universe and on one of the most salient features of their interaction: violence and warfare.
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.
Der 1190 im Heiligen Land gegründete Deutsche Orden schuf mit dem Deutschordensstaat in Preußen und Livland ein bedeutendes Staatswesen des Mittelalters.
The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval EnglandWe tend to think of the Middle Ages as a dark, backward and unchanging time characterised by violence, ignorance and superstition.
El estudio de la vivienda y de su contenido incorpora un amplio abanico de posibilidades de conocer multitud de aspectos sobre lo que representaba el espacio doméstico para los hombres y mujeres del pasado.
