European history: medieval period, middle ages

Karl Martell blieb der Nachwelt vor allem durch seine militärischen Erfolge im Gedächtnis.

Why did the most read work in English literature go without cinematic adaptation for so long?

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An integrative approach to Jewish and Muslim philosophy in al-AndalusAl-Andalus, the Iberian territory ruled by Islam from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries, was home to a flourishing philosophical culture among Muslims and the Jews who lived in their midst.

Das Wirken des Philosophen, Humanisten und Kirchenreformers Nicolaus Cusanus (1401-1464) zwischen Deutschland und Italien gestaltete sich als eine singuläre kulturelle Vermittlungsleistung von europäischen Dimensionen.

This book explores the world of religious thinking on imprisonment, and how images of imprisonment were used in monastic thought, the cult of saints, the early inquisitions, preaching and hagiographical literature and the world of the crusades to describe a conception of inclusion and freedom that was especially meaningful to medieval Christians.

A comprehensive analysis of European craft guilds through eight centuries of economic historyGuilds ruled many crafts and trades from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution, and have always attracted debate and controversy.

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The Franks, for the first time labelled as such by roman authors, were initially no homogenous people, but formed at the end of the 3rd century out of various small Germanic tribes settling between the Rhine, the Weser and the Ijsselmeer.

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.

The relationship between people and parish in the late medieval ages illuminated by this study of a remarkable survival from the period.

Der Begriff "Burgund" weckt viele Assoziationen: vom Wein bis hin zur Region Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.

Essays into numerous aspects of the Domesday Book, shedding fresh light on its mysteries.

Für eine moderne Stadtgeschichtsforschung hat sich die Wiederaneignung von Max Webers überlegungen zum Typus der okzidentalen Stadt als besonders inspirierend erwiesen.

Prince William and Kate Middleton's fairytale romance is the greatest love story of the century, with a happy ending to come - a Royal wedding that will truly capture the hearts of the British people.

This is a sweeping tour of the Mediterranean world from the Atlantic to Persia during the last half-century of the Roman Empire.

Eight kings of England were the named Henry, but only two of them were born as heirs to the throne and these - the third and sixth - proved to be the weakest.

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.

This book provides an analytical overview of the vast range of historiography which was produced in western Europe over a thousand-year period between c.

This book examines the varied and fascinating ways that Westminster - traditionally home to the royal court, the fashionable West End and parliament - became the seat of the successive, non-monarchical regimes of the 1640s and 1650s.

This book challenges a common historical narrative, which portrays medieval Jews as moneylenders who filled an essential economic role in Europe.

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.

Anyone who has seen The Lion in Winter will remember the vicious, compelling world of the Plantagenets and readers of the romance of Robin Hood will be familiar with the typecasting of Good King Richard, defending Christendom in the Holy Land, and Bad King John who usurps the kingdom in his absence.

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A powerful exploration of trees in both the real and the imagined Anglo-Saxon landscape.

This book illuminates the connections and interaction among women and between women and men during the medieval period.

A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern ageIn 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its neighbours.

Historians have long engaged with Roy Porter's call for histories that incorporate patients' voices and experiences.

In Supreme emergency, an ex-Trident submarine captain considers the evolution of UK nuclear deterrence policy and the implications of a previously unacknowledged aversion to military strategies that threaten civilian casualties.

Die Beiträge des Bandes gehen der Frage nach, wie spätmittelalterliche Gemeinschaften Entscheidungen im Kontext ihrer gesellschaftlichen Ordnungsstrukturen, sozialen Herrschaftskonstellationen und kulturellen Deutungsmuster vorbereitet, getroffen und vermittelt haben.

This ground-breaking study explores welfare institutions in western law in the middle ages and establishes, for the first time, a legal model for the hospital.

By 1300, a region often referred to as the March of Wales had been created between England and the Principality of Wales.

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

Als erste Bundesländer legen Niedersachsen und Bremen eine vollständige Edition ihrer Papsturkunden bis zum Ende des 12.

This is a unique volume in which a critical introduction and multiple chapters offer a wide-ranging discussion of medieval conceptions of the nature of humankind, its relationship with the universe, and the processes of thinking by which both are conceptualized.

This book provides scholars and students alike with a set of texts that can deepen their understanding of the culture and society of the twelfth-century German kingdom.

An exploration into the beliefs and origins of the Druids, this book examines the role the Druids may have played in the story of King Arthur and the founding of Britain.