European history: medieval period, middle ages

'In the tenth-century Annales Cambriae, which possibly goes back to contemporary sources, the entry about the Battle of Badon Hill mentions that Arthur "e;carried the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ on his shoulders for three days and three nights"e;.

'A mighty, panoramic history Firnhaber-Baker does a real service for those with an interest in France and England alike by providing a dexterous and engrossing account, a treasury for anyone with an interest in the royal, political and religious worlds of the high medieval period' Daily TelegraphThe sweeping story of one of the great epics of Europe's history: the rise and rise of the dynasty that dominated the Middle AgesStarting in the tenth century from an insecure foothold around Paris, the Capetians built a nation that stretched from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean and from the Rh ne to the Pyrenees.

This book compares two successful, elite women, Empress Adelheid (931-999) and Countess Matilda (1046-1115), for their relative ability to retain their wealth and power in the midst of the profound social changes of the eleventh century.

The first modern biography of medieval French scholar and bishop William of Auvergne.

From Vlad the Impaler and Tomas de Torquemada to Eustace the Monk and Reynald of Chatillon, some figures of the Middle Ages stand out and their stories simply beg to be told.

This book illuminates the pervasive interplay of 'sacred' and 'secular' phenomena in the literature, history, politics, and religion of the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods.

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

Tracing the development of the King Arthur story in the late Middle Ages, this book explores Arthur's depiction as a wilderness figure, the descendant of the northern Romano-British hunter/warrior god.

The legends of King Arthur have not only endured for centuries, but also flourished in constant retellings and new stories built around the central themes.

A collection which highlights "e;the range and richness of scholarship on medieval warfare, military institutions, and cultures of conflict that characterize the field"e;.

People power explores the history of the theory and practice of popular power.

A sweeping account of what medieval life was like for ordinary peopleIn The Axe and the Oath, one of the world's leading medieval historians presents a compelling picture of daily life in the Middle Ages as it was experienced by ordinary people.

Abbreviating Middle English: Scribal practices, Visual Texts and Medieval Multimodalities investigates the changing dynamics of scribal abbreviating practices in a corpus of late Middle English manuscripts of Richard Rolle's, John Lydgate's and John Gower's works and reinterprets these practices from new perspectives of visual pragmatics, medieval multimodalities and visual code-switching.

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With an imposter prince claiming he is Henry Tudor, Margaret Beaufort must play the game of kings very carefully in this richly-imagined medieval mystery.

The study of the Reformation in England and Wales, Ireland and Scotland has usually been treated by historians as a series of discrete national stories.

Ergründen Sie die Tiefen der Geschichte und stoßen Sie auf das wahre Gesicht der berüchtigten Assassinen.

Britain and Africa in the twenty-first century provides the first analysis of UK-Africa policy in the era of austerity, Conservative government and Brexit.

In Living Letters of the Law, Jeremy Cohen investigates the images of Jews and Judaism in the works of medieval Christian theologians from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas.

This fourth volume in Robert Burns's celebrated series on the warrior King Jaume the Conqueror's Kingdom of Valencia describes the crucial years of 1270 to 1273, a period during which Jaume continued his consolidation of political power for future territorial expansion.

A fresh look at the idea of bastard feudalism, deploying little-used records to provide new insights.

Die Edition von Rechnungs- und Amtsbüchern hat in der Forschung zunehmend an Bedeutung gewonnen.

Eingebettet in die fruchtbaren Ebenen des Po-Tals, entwickelte sich das Herzogtum Parma zu einem der faszinierendsten Schauplätze der Renaissance.

This book examines the Danish Empire, which for over four hundred years stretched from Northern Norway to Hamburg and was feared by small German principalities to the South.

This book explores the reign of Constantine the Great (306-337) and, more generally, the political history of the third century, thus putting Constantine's career and many of his decisions in context.

Ein bedeutendes Kloster im Spiegel seiner Urkunden – ein Grundlagenwerk zur niedersächsischen Kloster- und Territorialgeschichte.

In this compelling account of the "e;peasants' revolt"e; of 1381, in which rebels burned hundreds of official archives and attacked other symbols of authority, Steven Justice demonstrates that the rebellion was not an uncontrolled, inarticulate explosion of peasant resentment but an informed and tactical claim to literacy and rule.

Simultaneously real and unreal, the dead are people, yet they are not.

This book examines the gendered dimensions of emotions and the emotional aspects of gender within Byzantine culture and suggests possible readings of such instances.

The Journal of Medieval Military History continues to consolidate its now assured position as the leading academic vehicle for scholarly publication in the field of medieval warfare.

Studies of evidence of Charles d'Orleans as scholar, politician and poet during his 25 years of captivity in EnglandCharles, duc d'Orleans, prince and poet, was a captive in England for twenty-five years following the battle of Agincourt.

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

This book investigates relations between humans and animals over several centuries with a focus on the Middle Ages, since important features of our perceptions regarding animals have been rooted in that period.

People power explores the history of the theory and practice of popular power.

Gail Ramshaw provides ten insights into the three-year lectionaries to guide all who are interested in exploring the meaning and importance of the Revised Common Lectionary and the Lectionary for Mass.

Highlights "e;the range and richness of scholarship on medieval warfare, military institutions, and cultures of conflict that characterize the field"e;.

A study of the representation of education in material culture, at a period of considerable change and growth.

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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.

The idea that with the decline of the Roman Empire Europe entered into some immense dark age has long been viewed as inadequate by many historians.

A series which is a model of its kind.

In late July 1263 a public disputation was convened by King James I of Aragon, pitting Friar Paul Christian against the distinguished rabbi of Gerona, Moses ben Nahman.

Farming to halves is the English version of sharefarming, a system of letting land familiar in Europe and the New World, but thought to never have existed in England.

This book examines labouring-status women in late medieval Valencia as they negotiated the fundamentally defining experience of their lives: marriage.

InCollected Studies (Volume 2):Christian MajorityJewish Minority, Joseph Shatzmiller, the preeminent scholar of the Jews in Provence, examines the complex relationship between Christians and Jews during the Middle Ages.