Ideology and Royal Power is a collection of essays describing and assessing the ways in which royal publicists in medieval France conceived the authority of the crown, especially with regard to protecting and defending its Christian subjects from their alleged enemies at home and abroad--corrupt officials, Jews (particularly moneylenders), heretics, and Muslims.
This collection compiles essays by medievalist scholars that examine the variety of ways authors have fictionalized the medieval period while meeting the challenge of creating engaging literature.
This selection of articles by Robert-Henri Bautier deals with the political and institutional history of France between the 6th and 12th centuries, and is above all concerned with the changing extent of the rulers' power from the rise of the Carolingians onwards.
The articles here concern the period from the end of the Roman Empire up to the 10th-11th centuries and the lands between the Loire and the Rhine, most particularly the Low Countries.
'Inquisition' was the new form of criminal procedure that was developed by the lawyer-pope Innocent III and given definitive form at the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215.
Professor Somerville deals here with the history of Latin Christianity at a crucial time - the century of the Gregorian reform movement and of the Investiture conflict between the papacy and the empire.
Alice Chaucer, Countess of Salisbury and Duchess of Suffolk, is one of the very rare people, and the only woman, not born to nobility who became an important political player in the upheaval of fifteenth-century England.
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER The author of She-Wolves chronicles the lives and reigns of Richard II and Henry IV, two cousins whose rivalry brought their nation to the brink of disintegration - and back again*LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025**SHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY 2025**THE TELEGRAPH'S BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024*'A glorious work of history.
A cultural history of speech in medieval ItalyThe Unruly Tongue, a cultural history of speech in medieval Italy, offers a new account of how the power of words changed in Western thought.
These articles seek to understand the attitudes and reactions of medieval society to both external threat and internal dissension, whether real or imagined.
The calendar worked out by Bede remains essentially the one we still use today, yet the mathematical and scientific studies of the early medieval schools have been largely neglected in most discussions of the cultural and intellectual history of Latin Europe.
Die Umwelt wird zunehmend als vierte Grundkategorie der Geschichtswissenschaft neben Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur wahrgenommen, aber gerade zum Früh- und Hochmittelalter fehlten bislang systematisch vergleichende Untersuchungen der Naturereignisse.
In 'Die bekanntesten Sagen aus der Griechischen Mythologie' von Karl Friedrich Becker werden die faszinierenden Geschichten der griechischen Götter und Helden auf lebendige und ansprechende Weise präsentiert.
In 'The Art of War in the Middle Ages (378-1515),' Charles Oman provides a detailed and scholarly analysis of military strategies and tactics employed during the medieval period.
Die vorliegende Publikation versucht die Auswertung und Rekonstruktion des Bild- und Textprogramms aus der sogenannten "Weltkammer" im Sonnenheiligtum des Pharao Ne-user-Re aus der V.
This volume aims to present the current state of research on Roman roads and their foundations in a combined historical and archaeological perspective.
Von Anbeginn an suchten die Mönche in Ost und West Orte als Wirkstätten aus, die auf unterschiedliche Art und Weise Grenzen zwischen Natur und Kultur markieren: die Wüste, Berge, Inseln.
Die Umwelt wird zunehmend als vierte Grundkategorie der Geschichtswissenschaft neben Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur wahrgenommen, aber gerade zum Früh- und Hochmittelalter fehlten bislang systematisch vergleichende Untersuchungen der Naturereignisse.
Von Anbeginn an suchten die Mönche in Ost und West Orte als Wirkstätten aus, die auf unterschiedliche Art und Weise Grenzen zwischen Natur und Kultur markieren: die Wüste, Berge, Inseln.
This volume aims to present the current state of research on Roman roads and their foundations in a combined historical and archaeological perspective.
This book presents an interpretation of Maurice Sceve's lyric sequence Delie, object de plus haulte vertu (Lyon, 1544) in literary relation to the Vita nuova, Commedia, and other works of Dante Alighieri.
Ideology and Royal Power is a collection of essays describing and assessing the ways in which royal publicists in medieval France conceived the authority of the crown, especially with regard to protecting and defending its Christian subjects from their alleged enemies at home and abroad--corrupt officials, Jews (particularly moneylenders), heretics, and Muslims.
As part of the historicizing corpus of seventh-century Irish writing, the Lives framed the narrative of the early saints as an effective weapon in contemporary political and ecclesiastical conflicts.
