European history: medieval period, middle ages

With the rapid development of the cognitive sciences and their importance to how we contemplate questions about the mind and society, recent research in the humanities has been characterised by a 'cognitive turn'.

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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 explores the relationships between ancient witchcraft and its modern incarnation, and by doing so fills an important gap in the historiography.

Of all the sub-periods in which European medieval history has been divided over time, the later middle ages is possibly the one on which the burden of past and current grand narratives weighs the most.

In The Lay Saint, Mary Harvey Doyno investigates the phenomenon of saintly cults that formed around pious merchants, artisans, midwives, domestic servants, and others in the medieval communes of northern and central Italy.

Wahrend Regularkanoniker inzwischen ebenso gut erforscht sind wie das Monchtum und seine Entwicklung in den verschiedenen Orden, standen die Sakularkanoniker weitaus weniger im Fokus der historischen Wissenschaften.

This book provides an original and multidisciplinary approach on Magna Carta (1215) as a joint heritage, a source of inspiration both for long established democracies and countries which only recently experienced the Rule of Law.

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

What was it like to be poor in the Middle Ages?

How the medieval church drove state formation in EuropeSacred Foundations argues that the medieval church was a fundamental force in European state formation.

The Anglo-Saxon era was a pivotal one in England's history, and formed much of the England that we recognise today.

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

In the early medieval world, the way people remembered the past changed how they saw the present.

Traces the journey from ill health to miraculous cure through the lens of hagiographical texts from twelfth-century England.

This book investigates the troubled relationship between medieval studies and medievalism.

»Dieses hervorragende Buch ist wie eine klassische Sinfonie, perfekt komponiert und exquisit gespielt.

How science in medieval Europe originated in Buddhist AsiaWarriors of the Cloisters tells how key cultural innovations from Central Asia revolutionized medieval Europe and gave rise to the culture of science in the West.

This book will be a welcome addition to the libraries of those who are engaged in planning and leading worship.

This collection of highly original essays by leading early medieval historians honours the work and career of Dame Janet (Jinty) Nelson, one of the most respected and influential scholars of her generation.

How did the Welsh travel beyond their geographical borders in the Middle Ages?

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Femina'Ramirez blasts a powerful spotlight into the so-called Dark Ages' - Dan SnowSkulduggery, power struggles and politics, The Private Lives of the Saints offers an original and fascinating re-examination of life in Anglo-Saxon England.

Paracelsus – ein Name, der die Medizin des 16.

A new history of Christian-Muslim relations in the Carolingian period that provides a fresh account of events by drawing on Arabic as well as western sourcesIn the year 802, an elephant arrived at the court of the Emperor Charlemagne in Aachen, sent as a gift by the ?

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, objects, texts and people travelled around the world on board Dutch ships.

This book explores the relationships between ancient witchcraft and its modern incarnation, and by doing so fills an important gap in the historiography.

Trouble in the Diocese is a petulant, funny book of poetry.

Is modern racism a product of secularisation and the decline of Christian universalism?

Each generation asks in its own way, "e;What does it mean to be human?

The modern state, however we conceive of it today, is based on a pattern that emerged in Europe in the period from 1100 to 1600.

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.

How you can learn to focus like a monk without living like oneDistraction isn't a new problem.

'Popular history at its best' Spectator'Boisterous.

The Anglo-Saxon period was crucial to the development of the English landscape, but is rarely studied.

In the world of early Byzantine Christianity, monastic rules acknowledged but discouraged the homosexual impulses of adult males.

The world of medieval chivalry is at once glamorous and violent, alluring yet alien.

Enrich each day with wisdom from our greatest spiritual thinkers.

From the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, comes the story of King Edward III, who - like Elizabeth and Victoria after him - embodied the values of his age, forged a nation out of war and re-made England.

Ein historischer Roman über Seefahrt, Krieg, Handel und den Ursprung des JohanniterordensMan schreibt November 1095: Papst Urban ruft zum Kreuzzug ins "Heilige Land".