European history: medieval period, middle ages

To obtain sacred relics, medieval monks plundered tombs, avaricious merchants raided churches, and relic-mongers scoured the Roman catacombs.

A King Travels examines the scripting and performance of festivals in Spain between 1327 and 1620, offering an unprecedented look at the different types of festivals that were held in Iberia during this crucial period of European history.

Representing Others in Medieval Iberian Literature explores the ways Arabic, Jewish and Christian intellectuals in medieval Iberia (courtiers and clerics) adapt and transform the Andalusi go-between figure in order to represent their own role as cultural intermediaries.

Wie wird aus einer Adelsfamilie die bedeutendste Dynastie eines Königreichs?

The Malleus Maleficarum is one of the best-known treatises dealing with the problem of what to do with witches.

From Vlad the Impaler and Tomas de Torquemada to Eustace the Monk and Reynald of Chatillon, some figures of the Middle Ages stand out and their stories simply beg to be told.

"e;There are forces better recognized as belonging to human society than repressed or left to waste away or growl about upon its fringes.

An examination of the linguistic and cultural construction of one of the texts of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

This is the first detailed comparative study of patronage as an instrument of power in the relations between kings and bishops in England and Normandy after the Conquest.

The women in the family which ruled thirteenth-century Castile used maternity, familial and political strategy, and religious and cultural patronage to secure their personal power as well as to promote their lineage.

The ideas and practices that comprise conservation are often assumed to have arisen within the last two centuries.

The idea that with the decline of the Roman Empire Europe entered into some immense dark age has long been viewed as inadequate by many historians.

In thirteen studies of representations of rape in Medieval and Early Modern literature by such authors as Chaucer, Shakespeare and Spenser, this volume argues that some form of sexual violence against women serves as a foundation of Western culture.

Medieval Irish texts reveal distinctive and unexpected constructions of gender.

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.

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Examines a range of texts commemorating European holy women from the ninth through fifteenth centuries.

Malcolm Lambert investigates the histories of Christianity and Islam to trace the origins and development of crusade and jihad.

This is a collection of essays by diverse hands engaging, interrogating, and honoring the medieval scholarship of Terry Jones.

The Year's Work in Medievalism includes vetted essays from the Studies in Medievalism--now International Society for the Study of Medievalism--annual conference and from submissions to the editor throughout the year.

A "e;brisk and entertaining"e; (Wall Street Journal) journey into the mystery behind why the forbidden fruit became an apple, upending an explanation that stood for centuries.

This book provides a vivid and accessible history of first-generation immigrants to England in the later Middle Ages.

This is the first book devoted to the cultural history in the pre-modern period of people we now describe as having learning disabilities.

Volume XXII/2 of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles, book reviews, and bibliographical information, which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education.

This is the first comprehensive biography of Fulk Nerra, an important medieval ruler, who came to power in his teens and rose to be master in the west of the French Kingdom.

King Rene is little known beyond France, yet, through his controversial daughter Margaret of Anjou, he affected events in England during the Wars of the Roses.

The cataclysmic conquests of the eleventh century are here set together for the first time.

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Der Aachener Arzt, Lokalpolitiker und Visionär Heinrich Hahn gründete nach französischem Vorbild ein Missionswerk, heute missio.

Konstantin XI.

This book maps how working class life was transformed in England in the middle years of the twentieth century.

The stigmatization as 'bastards' of children born outside of wedlock is commonly thought to have emerged early in Medieval European history.

A fresh look at the idea of bastard feudalism, deploying little-used records to provide new insights.

The Thirteenth-Century Animal Turn: Medieval and Twenty-First-Century Perspectives examines a wide range of texts to argue in favour of a thirteenth-century animal turn which not only generated a heightened scholarly awareness of animals but also had major implications for society more generally.

For many, the middle ages depicted in Walt Disney movies have come to figure as the middle ages, forming the earliest visions of the medieval past for much of the contemporary Western (and increasingly Eastern) imagination.

This book examines the history of monastic exemption in France.

This collection of essays uncovers a wide array of medieval writings on cosmopolitan ethics and politics, writings generally ignored or glossed over in contemporary discourse.

Since the mid-twentieth century, political histories of late medieval England have focused almost exclusively on the relationship between the Crown and aristocratic landholders.

What is known of the legendary King Arthur is mostly derived from folklore and literature.

This collection addresses royal motherhood across Europe, from both the medieval and Early Modern periods, including (in)famous and not-so-famous royal mothers.

The third volume of Alison Weir s magisterial history of the queens of medieval England.

The Middle Ages inherited from Antiquity a tradition of prophesy and gave it fresh and exuberant life.

For women of the Italian Renaissance, the Virgin Mary was one of the most important role models.

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Of all the sub-periods in which European medieval history has been divided over time, the later middle ages is possibly the one on which the burden of past and current grand narratives weighs the most.