European history: medieval period, middle ages

Scholars have long accepted China's own view of its traditional foreign relations: that China devised its own world order and maintained it from the second century B.

A short but powerful study of one of the great watersheds of European historyAlthough for generations the Reformation was regarded as a major turning point in European history, in recent years its significance has been downgraded.

This absorbing book explores the tensions within the Roman Catholic church and between the church and royal authority in France in the crucial period 1290-1321.

The 1916 Revolt was a key event in the history of Central Asia, and of the Russian Empire in the First World War.

Domesday: Book of Judgement provides a unique study of the extraordinary eleventh-century survey, the Domesday Book.

In this unprecedented masterwork, The Scholar's Haggadah: Ashkenazic, Sephardic, and Oriental Versions, Heinrich Guggenheimer presents the first Haggadah to treat the texts of all Jewish groups on an equal footing and to use their divergences and concurrences as a key to the history of the text and an understanding of its development.

The Mystical Presence of Christ investigates the connections between exceptional experiences of Christ's presence and ordinary devotion to Christ in the late medieval West.

The traditions associated with a pope's death have changed from when they were buried in the catacombs of Rome.

The long-awaited prequel to Chronicles of the revolution covers the first twenty years (1377-97) of Richard II's reign.

The Protestant Reformation emphasized the centrality of scripture to Christian life; the twentieth-century liturgical movement emphasized the Bible‘s place at the heart of liturgy.

This is the first book-length study into crusading against Christians, examining this complex phenomenon from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries and across numerous regions, from France to Russia and from southern Italy to the Baltic.

Nearly a century after it was first published in 1925, Medieval Cities remains one of the most provocative works of medieval history ever written.

A new historical framework integrating Islam into European and Asian historyIslam emerged amid flourishing Christian and Jewish cultures, yet students of Antiquity and the Middle Ages mostly ignore it.

A comprehensive study of every aspect of chivalry and chivalric culture.

En la primera parte de este libro, José María García Martín establece las bases para la edición académica del Fuero Juzgo, traducción romance del Liber Iudiciorum visigodo ordenada en 1241 por Fernando III para otorgarlo a Córdoba.

This volume of essays explores the rise of parliament in the historical imagination of early modern England.

This absorbing book explores the tensions within the Roman Catholic church and between the church and royal authority in France in the crucial period 1290-1321.

This book offers a re-evaluation of the emergence, development and outcome of the peace process in Northern Ireland.

Is the world of George R.

In a work based on a meticulous analysis of sources, many of them previously unexplored, Catherine M.

This book examines labouring-status women in late medieval Valencia as they negotiated the fundamentally defining experience of their lives: marriage.

Exploration of the emotionologies of several medieval, romance emotional communities through both fictional and non-fictional narratives.

This is the first collection of translated sources on towns in medieval England.

The scholar Robin A.

This edited book examines the multilingual culture of medieval England, exploring its impact on the development of English and its textual manifestations from a multi-disciplinary perspective.

The Muslim conquest of Iberia in 711 began nearly eight centuries of struggle for control of the peninsula.

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Ancient Greeks and Romans often wrote that the best form of government consists of a mixture of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy.

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

Richard of Cornwall was born in 1209 as the youngest son of King John.

Hundreds of exceptional cartographic images are scattered throughout medieval and early modern Arabic, Persian, and Turkish manuscript collections.

John Wyclif (d.

By 1300, a region often referred to as the March of Wales had been created between England and the Principality of Wales.

Murders, mayhem and bloody struggles, warring families and deeds of chivalry and love are disclosed in tales from more than three hundred years of English history.

Weltgeistliche um 1400 – erfolgreich beim Pfründenerwerb und unterwegs im Auftrag ihres Braunschweiger Stifts und der welfischen Landesherren.

This study offers a new interpretation of the debates over education and politics in the early years of the French Revolution.

Medieval Christianity in Practice provides readers with a sweeping look at the religious practices of the European Middle Ages.

The intellectual, cultural, and political renaissance that characterized the Europe of Charlemagne was threatened severely by invasions from all sides.

A survey of the cult of St George in the middle ages, investigating its beginning and growth, and its manipulation for political and other ends.

Papal Overlordship and European Princes, 1000-1270 offers a new perspective on the political history of the central Middle Ages by focusing on the alliances between popes and rulers who claimed a special relationship with the successor of St Peter.

For decades, medieval scholarship has been dominated by the paradigm that women who wielded power after c.