European history: medieval period, middle ages

'Deus Vult' - or 'God wills it' - were the words allegedly uttered by the crowd of people present when Pope Urban II's rousing speech caused the start of the First Crusade.

This multi-disciplinary collection of essays draws on various theoretical approaches to explore the highly visual nature of the Middle Ages and expose new facets of old texts and artefacts.

In July 1484 Tudor agent William Collingbourne - executed for treason in 1484 - tacked up a lampoon to the walls of St Paul's Cathedral: The Catte, the Ratte and Lovell our dogge rulyth all Englande under a hogge.

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 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.

The 1916 Revolt was a key event in the history of Central Asia, and of the Russian Empire in the First World War.

First full study devoted to the archery and crossbow guilds which grew up in Flanders in the middle ages.

A surprising look at how ancestry still determines social outcomesHow much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents?

"e;Dayspring, my dictionary tells me, is an archaic word meaning 'dawn.

In den letzten Jahren hat die Forschung zur mittelalterlichen Brieftheorie ebenso wie zur Briefpraxis erhebliche Fortschritte gemacht.

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.

Der wissenschaftliche Beirat des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Rom hat im Jahr 1992 die Begründung einer parallelen Reihe zum „Repertorium Germanicum“ beschlossen, das „Repertorium Poenitentiariae Germanicum“.

In seinem fesselnden Werk "Richard III.

Der «Niederrheinische Orientbericht», in der zweiten Hälfte des 14.

Theoderich der Große, König der Ostgoten, steht als eine der faszinierendsten Persönlichkeiten der Spätantike und des frühen Mittelalters im Mittelpunkt einer Epoche des Wandels.

Wie groß war die Distanz des europäischen Mittelalters zur klassischen Mythologie der Griechen und Römer wirklich?

This book synthesizes three fields of inquiry on the cutting edge of scholarship in medieval studies and world history: the history of medieval Sicily; the history of maritime violence, often named as piracy; and digital humanities.

Cunning Folk transports us to a time when magic was used to solve life s day-to-day problems as well as some of deadly importance.

This book significantly revises the conventional view that the Jewish experience in medieval Spain--over the century before the expulsion of 1492--was one of despair, persecution, and decline.

First extended study of the ways in which the Irish church changed radically in the twelfth century in response to reform movements from Europe.

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 combines the approaches of history and criminology to study parricide and non-fatal violence against parents from across traditional period and geographical boundaries, encompassing research on Asia as well as Europe and North America.

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

Karel Hruza zählt zu den wenigen Historikern, die ungezwungen zwischen der Mediävistik und der Geschichte des 20.

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Robert the Bruce is a man of both history and legend.

A rich collection of articles on multiple aspects of Anglo-Norman and Norman studies, forming an indispensable addition to an understanding of this important period of history.

The project discusses Hezbollah's political ideology and how it evolves over time and the conditions that lead to the change of ideology.

The forgotten story of Central Asia's enlightenment-its rise, fall, and enduring legacyIn this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S.

In seiner neuartigen Geschichte der Beziehung von Slawen und Deutschen führt uns Thomas Wünsch Vielfalt und Reichtum der Kulturkontakte in Mittel- und Osteuropa zwischen Tschechen und Polen sowie Südslawen und Russen zu Deutschen vor Augen.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Zweite Reformation und städtische Autonomie im königlichen Preussen" verfügbar.

The 'Northern Crusades', inspired by the Pope's call for a Holy War, are less celebrated than those in the Middle East, but they were also more successful: vast new territories became and remain Christian, such as Finland, Estonia and Prussia.

Knights and ladies, giants and dragons, tournaments, battles, quests and crusades are commonplace in stories for children.

Aspects of the turbulent rule of Richard II freshly examined.

The swearing of oaths is a cultural phenomenon that pervades English history and was remarkably important during the sixteenth century.

This series [pushes] the boundaries of knowledge and [develops] new trends in approach and understanding.

In Deutschland haben die Anjou-Plantagenets noch keine angemessene Würdigung erfahren, obwohl sie zu den wichtigsten Dynastien Englands zählen.

Welche Rolle spielte Olfaktorik (Geruchssinn und Geruch) in der mittelalterlichen (Frauen-)Mystik?

Magic is a universal phenomenon.

This is a translation of the eleventh-century Latin Annals of Lampert, monk of Hersfeld, with detailed commentary and introduction.

This edited volume explores the Israeli-Turkish relations in the 2000s from a multi-dimensional perspective providing a comparative analysis on the subjects of politics, ideology, civil society, identity, energy, and economic relations.

This book offers the first comprehensive study of nineteenth-century medical societies as scientific institutions.

First recent full-length analysis of a major medieval poem.

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

The third volume of the series of religious concepts in the Early and High Middle Ages analyses the medieval concepts of God's creatures from a historical perspective.