European history: medieval period, middle ages

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Adel verpflichtet - Ein Leben zwischen Thron und WochenbettWas weiß man über das Leben einer österreichischen Adeligen im Mittelalter?

This collection compiles essays by medievalist scholars that examine the variety of ways authors have fictionalized the medieval period while meeting the challenge of creating engaging literature.

Der heldenhafte und hartnäckige Freiheitskampf der Schotten erlangte durch Filme wie Braveheart Weltruhm.

Over the course of several centuries, Venice fashioned and refined a portrait of itself that responded to and exploited historical circumstance.

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

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.

This book is the first English translation of Felice di Michele Brancacci's diary of his 1422 mission to the court of Sultan Al-Ashraf Seyf-ad-Din Barsbay of Egypt.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Geschichte Maltas, einer kleinen Insel, die eine zentrale Rolle in der Entwicklung mediterraner Zivilisationen spielte.

Die von den Kölner Erzbischöfen und ihren Vertretern auf Synoden oder in deren zeitlicher Nähe veröffentlichten Statuten vermittelten den Klerikern und Laien ihrer Diözese die von den Päpsten und allgemeinen Konzilien erlassenen kanonischen Vorschriften in einer ihrem Verständnishorizont und den regionalen Gegebenheiten angepassten Form.

Draws attention to an understudied mode of pre-modern publishing culture by highlighting the role and authority of the monastic superior.

Living on an island at the edge of the known world, the medieval Irish were in a unique position to examine the spaces of the North Atlantic region and contemplate how geography can shape a people.

In Constantine XI: The Last Emperor of Byzantium, Pavlos Papadopoulos brings to life the gripping tale of the final days of one of history's greatest empires.

A fascinating recreation of the world of one of England's most charismatic monarchs, from award-winning author and historian Richard BarberThe destruction of the French army at Cr cy in 1346 and the subsequent siege and capture of Calais marked a new era in European history.

New study sets the medieval palatinate of Durham firmly in the context of a community built round the cult of St Cuthbert.

The motivations behind those who went on the Third Crusade examined through close investigation of their social networks.

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 examines the remarkable Velestino hoard, found in Thessaly in the 1920s, and analyses the light that this collection of artifacts sheds on a poorly studied period of Byzantine history, and on largely neglected aspects of Byzantine civilization.

Exciting fresh perspectives on Edward I as man, king and administrator.

How do the dark moments of suffering which we all encounter at some point in our lives connect with the divine?

The chastity belt is one of those objects people have commonly identified with the 'dark' Middle Ages.

The first of three volumes of the English translation of Rumi's great poem on Muslim mysticism.

This collection of essays focuses attention on how medieval gender intersects with other categories of difference, particularly religion and ethnicity.

The scholar Robin A.

This book explores how eleventh- and twelfth-century Anglo-Norman ecclesiastical authors attributed anger to kings in the exercise of their duties, and how such attributions related to larger expansions of royal authority.

Jeder, der bei den Hochkulturen Vorderasiens nur an Mesopotamien denkt, wird durch Hans J.

The book shows how the Franciscans in Jerusalem in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries wrote works which standardized the cultural memory of the Holy Land.

For premodern audiences, poetic form did not exist solely as meter, stanzas, or rhyme scheme.

The Low Countries were at the heart of innovation in Europe in the fifteenth century.

Reading Illegitimacy in Early Iberian Literature presents illegitimacy as a fluid, creative, and negotiable concept in early literature which challenges society's definition of what is acceptable.

Der diesjährige Band der Tiroler Heimat präsentiert neueste Forschungen vom Frühmittelalter bis zur Gegenwart.

Professor Daniel A.

The ideas and practices that comprise conservation are often assumed to have arisen within the last two centuries.

Examination and analysis of one of the most important artefacts of Anglo-Saxon society, the cruciform brooch, setting it in a wider context.

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This book examines the views of Greek Church Fathers on hoarding, saving, and management of economic surplus, and their development primarily in urban centres of the Eastern Mediterranean, from the late first to the fifth century.

Essays address plague and disease in the fifteenth century, as manifested throughout Europe.

This book is an attempt at defining the genre of medieval film by describing its features and analyzing its effects and their significance, there being few works presently available that work toward such definition.

In the eighth and ninth centuries, three Byzantine empresses-Irene, Euphrosyne, and Theodora-changed history.

From Larry Siedentop, acclaimed author of Democracy in Europe, Inventing the Individual is a highly original rethinking of how our moral beliefs were formed and their impact on western society today'Magisterial, timeless, beautifully written .

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.