European history: medieval period, middle ages

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

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

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.

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

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.

A guide to meaningful life choices for living an ethical life without theology or religious faith.

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?

Praying in the Spirit of Christ offers contemporary readers a compelling and holistic vision of what life in Christ can mean for them.

Breakfast with Barth: Daily Devotions provides extracts from the writings of theologian Karl Barth.

Spirituality is a hot topic in today's culture.

A nineteen-year-old chemistry major at Rhodes College is selected to spend the summer after her freshman year doing research at St.

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.

People of God have for many centuries read devotional works along with holy Scripture, especially during Advent and Lent.

Genesis offers insight and encouragement to those who live and minister in urban environments.

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.

The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages.

This book explores the manifold ways of knowing-and knowing about- preternatural beings such as demons, angels, fairies, and other spirits that inhabited and were believed to act in early modern European worlds.

This book examines the many ways Byzantines lived with their trees.

In tenth-century Europe and particularly in Germany, imperial women were able to wield power in ways that were scarcely imaginable in earlier centuries.

This book examines the legacies and depictions of monarchs in an international context, focusing on both self-representation and commemoration by others.

This book explores an alternate history of the power and agency of 30 Hungarian queens over 400 years by a rigorous examination of the material culture connected with their lives.

This book is the first of its kind to engage explicitly with the practice of conceptual history as it relates to the study of the Middle Ages, exploring the pay-offs and pitfalls of using concepts in medieval history.