This book explores the writing of church history during the early Byzantine period, reconsidering the evidence for the nature and authorship of a hypothetical 'Arian' source for many surviving medieval histories of the fourth century.
This is a unique volume in which a critical introduction and multiple chapters offer a wide-ranging discussion of medieval conceptions of the nature of humankind, its relationship with the universe, and the processes of thinking by which both are conceptualized.
This is a unique volume in which a critical introduction and multiple chapters offer a wide-ranging discussion of medieval conceptions of the nature of humankind, its relationship with the universe, and the processes of thinking by which both are conceptualized.
This book delves into the profound challenges posed by the negative emotions-fear, pity, and disgust-that persons with atypical bodies often evoke in their non-disabled peers.
This book delves into the profound challenges posed by the negative emotions-fear, pity, and disgust-that persons with atypical bodies often evoke in their non-disabled peers.
Higher Education in Constantinople in the Fifteenth Century explores the intellectual life and educational institutions of fifteenth-century Constantinople, a period often overlooked in the history of Byzantine scholarship.
The courtroom drama that denied the legitimacy of slavery in late medieval EuropeIn 1387, a young Muslim woman from North Africa was captured on a galley in the Bay of Naples and brought to Marseille as a slave.
Ya desde los primeros siglos del cristianismo, los fieles creian de forma algo confusa en la posibilidad de redimir ciertos pecados despues de la muerte.
'This is history and storytelling at their absolute best' Tracy Borman'Triumphant' Catherine Hanley'One of our greatest popular historians' Daily Mail Triumph and tragedy, love and loss, murder and malice in the lives of five fifteenth-century queensJoan of Navarre, Katherine of Valois, Margaret of Anjou, Elizabeth Widville and Anne Neville were the queens at the heart of the turbulent English royal court.
Through an examination of the Opus maius, Roger Bacon's great scientific work of 1267, this book offers insight into Bacon's understanding of the role of science in society and the study and practice of science in the later Middle Ages.
Albrecht von Wallenstein, der schillernde und umstrittene Herzog von Friedland, tritt aus den Nebeln des Dreißigjährigen Krieges hervor und prägt eine ganze Epoche.
Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Spross eines alten fränkischen Adelsgeschlechts, war eine der schillerndsten und zugleich umstrittensten Figuren des Dreißigjährigen Krieges.
A stimulating and provocative collection, these essays challenge received notions about the culture and history of medieval Russia and offer fresh approaches to problems of textual interpretation, the theory of the medieval text, and the analysis of alternative, nonverbal texts.
By the mid-sixteenth century, Jews in the cities of Italy were being crowded into compulsory ghettos as a result of the oppressive policies of Pope Paul IV and his successors.
While the Middle Ages represent a topic of perennial interest, most studies have addressed the western parts of the European continent, often from the angle of the written sources.
Combining the resources of new historicism, feminism, and postmodern textual analysis, Eric Mallin reveals how contemporary pressures left their marks on three Shakespeare plays written at the end of Elizabeth's reign.
Originally published in 1958 and as a third edition in 1971, this comprehensive account of political thought in the Middle Ages presents medieval thinking against the historical background which animated it.
First published in 1969, Conflict and Stability in Fifteenth-Century England is a study of a much neglected and misinterpreted century of English history-the century of the Wars of the Roses which, the author shows, had only a comparatively small effect on English life.
