European history: medieval period, middle ages

Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation from-or antidote to-ten centuries of misogyny.

In Trade and Romance, Michael Murrin examines the complex relations between the expansion of trade in Asia and the production of heroic romance in Europe from the second half of the thirteenth century through the late seventeenth century.

Pop culture portrayals of medieval and early modern monarchs are rife with tension between authenticity and modern mores, producing anachronisms such as a feminist Queen Isabel (in RTVE's Isabel) and a lesbian Queen Christina (in The Girl King).

Sometime in April 1285, five Muslim horsemen crossed from the Islamic kingdom of Granada into the realms of the Christian Crown of Aragon to meet with the king of Aragon, who showered them with gifts, including sumptuous cloth and decorative saddles, for agreeing to enter the Crown's service.

The curious paradox of romance is that, throughout its history, this genre has been dismissed as trivial and unintellectual, yet people have never ceased to flock to it with enthusiasm and even fervor.

A concise and entertaining explanation of how other accounts, and popular culture such as films, have misrepresented medieval warfare.

The Word in Season is a quarterly Christian devotional that connects faith and life in a timely reflection for each day.

The Word in Season is a quarterly Christian devotional that connects faith and life in a timely reflection for each day.

In recent decades the concept of Mediterranean has been cited with increasing frequency in relation to the study of medieval literatures.

This book, based on a fresh understanding of Scottish governmental records rooted in extensive archival research, offers the first study of these important institutions in a period of revived royal authority.

Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism is a cross-cultural analysis of the role that alcohol consumption played in literature, social and cultural history, and gender roles in the Middle Ages.

This book examines the lives and tenures of the consorts of the Plantagenet dynasty during the later Middle Ages, encompassing two major conflicts-the Hundred Years' War and the Wars of the Roses.

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.

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 demonstrates the evolution of resilience and recovery as a concept by applying it to a new context, that of courts and monarchies.

A history of global secularism and political feeling through colonial blasphemy law.

Winner of a honorable mention award in the family life category from the Catholic Media Association.

A medieval historian examines what we really know about the man who was "e;Merlin the Magician"e; and his impact on Britain.

Christ in Our Home is a quarterly Christian devotional that brings you a daily message of God's amazing grace.

Prophets and Promises continues the Christian tradition of setting aside time to prepare for the celebration of Jesus' birth and to anticipate his return.

Explains and contextualizes the rise and expansion of the Tang empire, which straddled the East Asian and Inner Asian worlds.

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Steinberg''s field-defining work shows how Boccaccio''s Decameron reveals unexpected connections between the contemporary emergence of literary realism and legal inquisition in early modern Europe.

Introduces the rich world of textiles made, traded, and exchanged across Eurasia from late antiquity to the late Middle Ages.

Die mittelalterlichen Urkunden der Stadt Rinteln, erstmals in edierter Form.

Liebe, Politik und Alltag in mittelalterlichen FrauenklösternDie Hälfte derer, die im Mittelalter in ein Kloster eintraten, waren Frauen.

Introduces the rich world of textiles made, traded, and exchanged across Eurasia from late antiquity to the late Middle Ages.

The first modern biography of medieval French scholar and bishop William of Auvergne.

A corporeal history of music-making in early modern Europe.

An expansive consideration of charms as a deeply integrated aspect of the English Middle Ages.

Die Pandemiesituation der vergangenen Jahre hat einen Diskurs um die Digitalität als Ersatz der Präsenz angeregt, bei der die Probleme der physischen Absenz für die Gesellschaft überdeutlich werden.

Im Jahr 1073 entlädt sich die lang aufgestaute Wut der sächsischen Bauern und Adligen über die Willkür einiger der von König Heinrich IV.

The Chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall, built on the ruins of a Roman fort, dates from the mid-seventh century and is one of the oldest largely intact churches in England.

Ross Dunn here recounts the great traveler's remarkable career, interpreting it within the cultural and social context of Islamic society and giving the reader both a biography of an extraordinary personality and a study of the hemispheric dimensions of human interchange in medieval times.

Theology and the Scientific Imagination is a pioneering work of intellectual history that transformed our understanding of the relationship between Christian theology and the development of science.

In Living Letters of the Law, Jeremy Cohen investigates the images of Jews and Judaism in the works of medieval Christian theologians from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas.

There are three archetypal and widespread Arthurian stories--the abduction of Guinevere, the Holy Grail, and Tristan.

Distilling a decade of research by leading experts on the Venerable Bede, Bede the scholar investigates the Northumbrian monk's place within the wider intellectual developments of the early medieval world.

A comienzos del siglo quinto de nuestra era, un acosado y exhausto Imperio romano abandonó Britania a su suerte, y la isla se precipitó en el caos y la ruina, asaltada por invasores venidos del otro lado del mar que se establecieron como nuevos amos.

A look at the history of censorship, science, and magic from the Middle Ages to the post-Reformation era.

This volume presents a penetrating interview and sixteen essays that explore key intersections of medieval religion and philosophy.

How and why early modern European artisans began to record their knowledge.

Conservative thinkers of the early Middle Ages conceived of sensual gratification as a demonic snare contrived to debase the higher faculties of humanity, and they identified pagan writing as one of the primary conduits of decadence.

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

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

All groups tell stories about their beginnings.

For premodern audiences, poetic form did not exist solely as meter, stanzas, or rhyme scheme.

Altes, wiederentdecktes Menschheitswissen – das uns neue Orientierung gibtWir leben im Zeitalter der Krise – und haben doch kaum eine Vorstellung davon, wie wir dem Imperativ des «Immer mehr» entkommen können.

Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are usually treated as autonomous religions, but in fact across the long course of their histories the three religions have developed in interaction with one another.