European history: medieval period, middle ages

A bold new religious history of the late antique and medieval Middle East that places ordinary Christians at the center of the storyIn the second half of the first millennium CE, the Christian Middle East fractured irreparably into competing churches and Arabs conquered the region, setting in motion a process that would lead to its eventual conversion to Islam.

This is the first book devoted entirely to exploring Zizek's peculiar kind of Paulinism.

Funerals are among the most important life events in Western society, and fashioning a personalized ceremony for yourself or for a loved one is often the most meaningful way to celebrate the life of the deceased.

With its mix of family drama, sex and violence, Britain's Tudor dynasty (1485-1603) has long excited the interest of filmmakers and moviegoers.

Amid so much twenty-first-century talk of a "e;Christian-Muslim divide"e;--and the attendant controversy in some Western countries over policies toward minority Muslim communities--a historical fact has gone unnoticed: for more than four hundred years beginning in the mid-seventh century, some 50 percent of the world's Christians lived and worshipped under Muslim rule.

This chronicle of the Byzantine Empire, beginning in 1025, shows a profound understanding of the power politics that characterized the empire and led to its decline.

The Reformation transformed English religion.

A riveting history of the city that led the West out of the ruins of the Roman EmpireAt the end of the fourth century, as the power of Rome faded and Constantinople became the seat of empire, a new capital city was rising in the West.

In medieval literature, when humans and animals meet-whether as friends or foes-issues of mastery and submission are often at stake.

Following the dissolution of the Western Roman Empire, local Christian leaders were confronted with the problem of how to conceptualize and administer their regional churches.

This book explores the changing perspective of astrology from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era.

Rapins Hortorum libri IV sind ein antikisierendes Lehrgedicht, das den zeitgenössischen Gartenbau in Frankreich als Höhepunkt der Entwicklung auf diesem Gebiet feiert.

Few figures have captured Hollywood's and the public's imagination as completely as have medieval heroes.

As an old proverb puts it, 'Two Jews, three opinions.

Über die Verbindung religiöser und rassistischer Diskriminierung.

First modern study devoted to one of the twelfth-century's most enigmatic, influential and fascinating figures.

In the Middle Ages, religious crusaders took up arms, prayed, bade farewell to their families, and marched off to fight in holy wars.

This book provides an interpretive narrative of the wars fought by Bulgaria against the Byzantine Empire for dominant control of the Balkan Peninsula during the early medieval era.

Although Geoffrey Chaucer is the major author for Middle English studies, he often receives little notice in studies of children's literature.

This book examines the scholarly construction of Geoffrey Chaucer in different historical eras, and challenges long-standing assumptions to enhance the theoretical dialogue on Chaucer's historical reception.

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

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.

This collection brings together academics and practitioners to consider the increasingly central role that memory and recalling the past plays in determining contemporary politics and the future direction of Northern Irish society.

Saint Augustine famously "e;wept for Dido, who killed herself by the sword,"e; and many later medieval schoolboys were taught to respond in similarly emotional ways to the pain of female characters in Virgil's Aeneid and other classical texts.

The first modern edition of eight contemporary chronicles covering the Wars of the Roses up to the return of Edward IV in 1471.

This monograph recasts the modernisation of the Labour Party and sheds new light on Labour's years in the wilderness between 1979 and 1997.

In this fascinating new book, Malcolm Vale sets out to recapture the splendour of the court culture of western Europe in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

For much of Christian history, pastors not only served as theologians and preachers, but also as poets and hymn writers.

In "Mythen im Herzen der Schweizer Identität" entführt uns der Autor Peter Helfenstein in die faszinierende Welt der Schweizer Gründungsmythen und legt dar, wie diese tief verwurzelten Erzählungen die nationale Identität und das kollektive Bewusstsein der Schweiz bis heute prägen.

Die Schlacht bei Sempach im Jahr 1386 gilt als Wendepunkt in der Geschichte der Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft.

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

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As one of the greatest of the military orders that were generated in the Church, the Order of the Hospital of St John was a major landowner and a significant political presence in most European states.

This edited collection focuses on the Roman empire during the period from AD 337 to 361.

This innovative how-to guide and reference book on the Jewish holidays provides a well-rounded foundation for both knowledge and action.

Founded in 1935 by a young publisher disillusioned with the class prejudices of the interwar publishing trade, Penguin Books set out to make good books available to all.

This book takes readers on a philosophical discovery of a forgotten treasure, one born in the 14th century but which appears to belong to the 21st.

Seven hundred years ago, executioners led a Welsh rebel named William Cragh to a wintry hill to be hanged.

Those tales of old--King Arthur, Robin Hood, The Crusades, Marco Polo, Joan of Arc--have been told and retold, and the tradition of their telling has been gloriously upheld by filmmaking from its very inception.

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

By the end of the fifteenth century, Cassandra Fedele (1465-1558), a learned middle-class woman of Venice, was arguably the most famous woman writer and scholar in Europe.

This book is a microhistory of eleventh-century Byzantium, built around the biography of the state official Michael Attaleiates.

The life of Emperor Basil I (867–886), the founder of the Macedonian Dynasty, is the only extant secular biography in Byzantine literature; in its importance and as an instance of the genre it is comparable to Einhard’s Vita Caroli Magni.