European history: medieval period, middle ages

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A close analysis of forgeries and historical writings at Saint Peter's, Ghent; Saint-Denis near Paris; and Christ Church, Canterbury, offering valuable access to why medieval people often rewrote their pasts.

This book argues that Levi Gersonides articulates a unique model of virtue ethics among medieval Jewish thinkers.

An examination of fifteenth-century British queens through literature and history.

SHORTLISTED for the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain's Hitchcock Medallion.

Peasants and historians is an examination of historical discussion of the medieval English peasantry.

The Carolingian period (c.

Papal Overlordship and European Princes, 1000-1270 offers a new perspective on the political history of the central Middle Ages by focusing on the alliances between popes and rulers who claimed a special relationship with the successor of St Peter.

This book compares the thought of Michael Oakeshott and Leo Strauss, bringing Oakeshott's desire for a renaissance of poetic individuality into dialogue with Strauss's recovery of the universality of philosophical enlightenment.

First in-depth investigation of the genealogies of medieval Wales, bringing out their full significance.

This is the first book in English to provide a comprehensive examination of the hospital movement that arose and prospered in northern Italy between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries.

Have you ever wondered how we got here?

The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe provides a comprehensive overview of the gender rules encountered in Europe in the period between approximately 500 and 1500 C.

From the early days of Christianity to the modern reforms of the Second Vatican Council, the intricate relationship between the papacy and nobility has profoundly shaped the trajectory of Western civilization.

Essays on aspects of iconography as manifested in the material culture of medieval England.

First full-length collection on one of the most significant and influential historians of the medieval period.

The medieval Welsh bardic grammars were composed and transmitted during a period of intense social and political change in Wales.

It has long been recognized that the landscape of Britain is one of the 'richest historical records we possess', but just how old is it?

An in-depth exploration of documentary forgery at the turn of the first millennium Forgery and Memory at the End of the First Millennium takes a fresh look at documentary forgery and historical memory in the Middle Ages.

A legendary figure in his own lifetime, Rabbi Eliahu ben Shlomo Zalman (1720-1797) was known as the "e;Gaon of Vilna.

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.

Stolen Song documents the act of cultural appropriation that created a founding moment for French literary history: the rescripting and domestication of troubadour song, a prestige corpus in the European sphere, as French.

The question of the "e;dramatic principle"e; in the Canterbury Tales, of whether and how the individual tales relate to the pilgrims who are supposed to tell them, has long been a central issue in the interpretation of Chaucer's work.

This book is an innovative study offering the first examination of how three fourteenth-century English queens, Margaret of France, Isabella of France, and Philippa of Hainault, exercised power and authority.

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La Generalitat Valenciana de l'època foral no va ser un 'unicum' en la història europea.

A true story of two women speaking from self-imposed exile.

Die Alte Eidgenossenschaft steht für Freiheit, Unabhängigkeit und Gemeinschaft, doch hinter dieser Fassade verbirgt sich eine faszinierende Geschichte der Eroberungen und territorialen Ausdehnung.

The Herules, Rugians and Gepids have usually been regarded as playing only a secondary role in history, overshadowed by the Goths and Huns.

Wide-ranging survey of current research in Anglo-Saxon studies - from literature and material culture to religion and politics.

Die Geschichte der Burgundischen Niederlande ist bestimmt von machtvollen Auseinandersetzungen, in deren Zentrum als treibende Kraft die Herzöge von Burgund aus dem Haus Valois standen.

Although the United Kingdom's entry to the European Community (EC) in 1973 was initially celebrated, by the end of the first year the mood in the UK had changed from 'hope to uncertainty'.

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

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

A fresh look at William of Malmesbury which not only demonstrates his real greatness as a historian and his European vision, but also the breadth of his learning across a number of other disciplines.

From 1400 through 1700, the number of reports of demonic possessions among European women was extraordinarily high.

In Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam, Jacob Lassner examines the triangular relationship that during the Middle Ages defined-and continues to define today-the political and cultural interaction among the three Abrahamic faiths.

2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award WinnerNew study and edition of the remarkable letter collection of Margaret of Anjou, bringing all her correspondence together in one volume for the first time.

How has corruption shaped - and undermined - the history of public life in modern Britain?