European history: medieval period, middle ages

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These studies explore the history of the Jewish minority of Ashkenaz (northern France and the German Empire) during the High Middle Ages.

These studies explore the history of the Jewish minority of Ashkenaz (northern France and the German Empire) during the High Middle Ages.

In 1445 a fifteen-year-old French girl left her homeland to marry the son of the great warrior Henry V.

Explains and contextualizes the rise and expansion of the Tang empire, which straddled the East Asian and Inner Asian worlds.

In a time when men fought and women stayed home, Nicholaa de la Haye held Lincoln Castle against all-comers.

In a time when men fought and women stayed home, Nicholaa de la Haye held Lincoln Castle against all-comers.

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

This book is the coming together of several disciplines under the thematic umbrella of Viking Camps and provides the very latest research presented by the leading researchers in the field, making it the most comprehensive compilation of the phenomenon of Viking camps to date.

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

The mythical medieval beasts are part of Europe's ancient history.

A fascinating history of marginalized identities in the medieval worldWhile the term "e;intersectionality"e; was coined in 1989, the existence of marginalized identities extends back over millennia.

Did you know that for the longest time women were considered inferior to men?

Your child must learn to like history and you are the key to making it happen.

To obtain sacred relics, medieval monks plundered tombs, avaricious merchants raided churches, and relic-mongers scoured the Roman catacombs.

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

The Muslim conquest of Iberia in 711 began nearly eight centuries of struggle for control of the peninsula.

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This book is about the sexual and religious lives of Catholic women in post-war England.

Practicing shame investigates how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to safeguard their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against the possibility of sexual shame.

Bishop Richard Fox of Winchester (1448-1528) was an important early modern English prelate whose tireless service to his church, to his king and to humanist studies single him out as one of the great shapers of the Tudor age.

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.

This collection investigates how the late-medieval household acted as a sorter, user and disseminator of different kinds of ready information, from the traditional and authoritative to the innovative and newly made.

This biographical history tells the story of 31 Gothic monarchs who fought in the crusades, enforced their feudal rights throughout the kingdom, sponsored the growth of representative government through a parliament, and ultimately created a military power that would dominate European affairs.

The renewal of radicalism maps the trajectory of Labour politics from its origins in the mid-Victorian tradition of working-class radicalism through to its emergence as a major electoral force in the 1920s.

This book explores social cohesion in rural settlements in western Europe from 700-1050, asking to what extent settlements, or districts, constituted units of social organisation.

With its mix of family drama, sex and violence, Britain's Tudor dynasty (1485-1603) has long excited the interest of filmmakers and moviegoers.

Proposing a fresh theoretical approach to the study of cinematic portrayals of the Middle Ages, this book uses both semiotics and historiography to demonstrate how contemporary filmmakers have attempted to recreate the past in a way that, while largely imagined, is also logical, meaningful, and as truthful as possible.

A groundbreaking history of how the Christian "e;West"e; emerged from the ancient Mediterranean worldIn this acclaimed history of Early Christendom, Judith Herrin shows how-from the sack of Rome in 410 to the coronation of Charlemagne in 800-the Christian "e;West"e; grew out of an ancient Mediterranean world divided between the Roman west, the Byzantine east, and the Muslim south.

This source book offers a comprehensive treatment of solitary religious lives in England in the late Middle Ages.

This is the first in-depth study of post-war female religious life.

Gives a vivid description about how the Templars were formed as a strict religious-military order, how they got the political and financial power beyond the military power, and their passed down legends.

Nearly a century after it was first published in 1925, Medieval Cities remains one of the most provocative works of medieval history ever written.

A radical rethinking of the Anglo-Saxon world that draws on the latest archaeological discoveriesThis beautifully illustrated book draws on the latest archaeological discoveries to present a radical reappraisal of the Anglo-Saxon built environment and its inhabitants.

This volume explores the political, cultural, and ecclesiastical forces that linked the metropolis of Byzantium to the margins of its far-flung empire.

In this intriguing book, best-selling author Alf Mapp, Jr.

An ambitious history of how medieval writers came to terms with paganismFrom the turn of the fifth century to the beginning of the eighteenth, Christian writers were fascinated and troubled by the "e;Problem of Paganism,"e; which this book identifies and examines for the first time.

This collection of essays explores the literary legacy of medieval England by examining the writers, editors and exemplars of medieval English texts.

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.

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

This book breaks with three common scholarly barriers of periodization, discipline and geography in its exploration of the related themes of heresy, magic and witchcraft.

Medieval Healthcare and the Rise of Charitable Institutions: The History of the Municipal Hospital examines the development of medieval institutions of care, beginning with a survey of the earliest known hospitals in ancient times to the classical period, to the early Middle Ages, and finally to the explosion of hospitals in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

This book explores the place of loyalty in the relationship between the monarchy and their subjects in late medieval and early modern Britain.

This book provides an interpretive narrative of the wars fought by Bulgaria against the Byzantine Empire for dominant control of the Balkan Peninsula during the early medieval era.

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

This fascinating volume examines the enduring influence of courtly tradition and courtly love, particularly in contemporary popular culture.

This book explores the changing perspective of astrology from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era.

From one of today's leading historians of the early medieval period, an enthralling chronicle of thelstan, England's founder king whose achievements of 927 rival the Norman Conquest of 1066 in shaping Britain as we know itThe First King of England is a foundational biography of thelstan (d.