European history: medieval period, middle ages

Cheap street is a lively and scholarly account of London's street markets, which were an overlooked site of urban modernity and the most vigorous outgrowth of the informal economy that flourished below and beyond the recognised institutions of the consumer city.

This book examines the rise and fall of the aristocratic Lacy family in England, Ireland, Wales and Normandy.

Nest of Deheubarth was one of the most notorious women of the Middle Ages, mistress of Henry I and many other men, famously beautiful and strong-willed, object of one of the most notorious abduction/elopements of the period and ancestress of one of the most famous dynasties in medieval Ireland, the Fitzgeralds.

This book examines the rise and fall of the aristocratic Lacy family in England, Ireland, Wales and Normandy.

Is modern racism a product of secularisation and the decline of Christian universalism?

This collection of essays offers important new insights across a range of topics relating to medicine in early modern Ireland.

Scientific governance in Britain, 1914-79 examines the connected histories of how science was governed, and used in governance, in twentieth-century Britain.

This is the first study of the Anglo-Welsh border region in the period before the Norman arrival in England, from the fifth to the twelfth centuries.

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

Cheap street is a lively and scholarly account of London's street markets, which were an overlooked site of urban modernity and the most vigorous outgrowth of the informal economy that flourished below and beyond the recognised institutions of the consumer city.

This book explores the experiences of a range of women from the early days of 1914, through the big events of the war on the Eastern Front.

Looking at royal ritual in pre-revolutionary France, Death and the crown examines the deathbed and funeral of Louis XV in 1774, the lit de justice of November 1774 and the coronation of Louis XVI, including the ceremony of the royal healing touch for scrofula.

This groundbreaking book is an indispensable contribution to appreciating the dilemmas facing Ireland in the 'age of Brexit'.

This book explores the experiences of a range of women from the early days of 1914, through the big events of the war on the Eastern Front.

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

The key to understanding the emergence of the independent Irish state lies in the history of Home Rule.

Just look at the big differences between the medieval and the modern worlds!

This collection of essays offers important new insights across a range of topics relating to medicine in early modern Ireland.

This book provides a scholarly yet accessible account of the Irish nationalist youth organisation Na Fianna Eireann and its contribution to the Irish Revolution in the period 1909-23.

This book is a detailed but accessible treatment of the political thought of John of Salisbury, a twelfth-century author and educationalist who rose from a modest background to become Bishop of Chartres.

Crusading kings such as Louis IX of France and Richard I of England exert a unique hold on our historical imagination.

It's interesting to note that during the middle ages, Europe used a feudal system of government and society.

The Black Plague is depressing read but it's something that's forever embedded in history.

In the middle ages, there were nobles and knights who performed special roles in society.

History may have been started by the people before us but that story has molded our present.

Did you know that in ancient Europe the distribution of power is so great that nobles were very rich while the slaves were very poor?

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.

First comprehensive survey of how kinship rules were discussed and applied in medieval England.

Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims (d.

An exciting, fresh look at one of the most important questions of medieval scholarship - the decline of serfdom and its implications.

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

Erleben Sie die faszinierende und oft brutale Welt der Piraten, die die Ostsee über Jahrhunderte hinweg unsicher machten.

The Gender of Money in Middle English Literature: Value and Economy in Late Medieval England explores the vital and under-examined role that gender plays in the conceptualization of money and value in a period that precedes and shapes what we now recognize as the discipline of political economy.

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

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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.

This book examines the premodern encounter between the three monotheistic religions through the unique prism of a premodern literary work-The Parable of the Three Rings-a poignant and charming tale of a father who had three sons and one precious ring.

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

This Palgrave Pivot explores the representation of sea kings, sinners, and saints in the mid-thirteenth century Chronicles of the Kings of Man and the Isles, the single most important text for the history of the kingdoms of Man and the Isles, c.

This book investigates adaptations of The Lady of Shalott and Elaine of Astolat in Victorian and post-Victorian popular culture to explore their engagement with medievalism, social constructions of gender, and representations of the role of art in society.

This book explores how eleventh- and twelfth-century Anglo-Norman ecclesiastical authors attributed anger to kings in the exercise of their duties, and how such attributions related to larger expansions of royal authority.

This book explores the experience of childhood and adolescence in later medieval English rural society from 1250 to 1450.

In einer Welt, in der Mythen und Legenden die Grenzen zwischen Realität und Fiktion verwischen, erhebt sich die faszinierende Figur des Merlin als der geheimnisvolle Prophet und Zauberer.

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

This book analyzes how acts of feeling at a discursive, somatic, and rhetorical level were theorized and practiced in multiple medieval and early-modern sources (literary, medical, theological, and archival).

This book is the first English translation of Felice di Michele Brancacci's diary of his 1422 mission to the court of Sultan Al-Ashraf Seyf-ad-Din Barsbay of Egypt.

This book examines the remarkable Velestino hoard, found in Thessaly in the 1920s, and analyses the light that this collection of artifacts sheds on a poorly studied period of Byzantine history, and on largely neglected aspects of Byzantine civilization.

This book explores the history of banditry in the medieval Balkans between the ninth and fifteenth centuries.

This book explores the Byzantine city and the changes it went through from 610 to 1204.

This book explores modern representations of the Black Death, a medieval pandemic.