European history: medieval period, middle ages

Zeikowitz explores both affirming and denigrating discourses of male same-sex desire in diverse fourteenth-century chivalric texts and describes the sociopolitical forces motivating those discourses.

Martyr worship is an important element of the Christian faith and was essential both for the internal cohesion of the faith group in its early founding phase as well as for its effective portrayal to the outside world, which was used for the conversion of non-Christians.

People from the British and Irish Isles have, for centuries, migrated to all corners of the globe.

This case study of the causes of the Thirty Years' War suggests an alternative framework to that of Absolutism, and views statebuilding as an interactive bargaining process that can engender challenges to political authority.

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

Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies.

Fictions of Witness in the Confessio Amantis details the first years of the Confessio's material history and offers a major revision to a century's old narrative of political revision and conversion around the trauma of 1400.

Examines the works of Paris theologians to show how they dealt with the questions of human pain and suffering.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der Scholastik – eine intellektuelle Bewegung, die Glaube und Vernunft in einer einzigartigen Synthese vereinte und das Denken des Mittelalters revolutionierte.

«In jeder Hinsicht ein bedeutendes Buch – überwältigend und beeindruckend.

This volume focuses on phenomena, structures and constellations of power and rule in the 12th century from a comparative perspective.

This collection of essays uncovers a wide array of medieval writings on cosmopolitan ethics and politics, writings generally ignored or glossed over in contemporary discourse.

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

The Crusades were a startling and spectacular phenomenon that exerted a powerful influence on European development over a period of many centuries.

This timely volume ventures into the subject of sadomasochism in varied aspects of medieval life.

In Making Martyrs East and West, Cathy Caridi examines how the practice of canonization developed in the West and in Russia, focusing on procedural elements that became established requirements for someone to be recognized as a saint and a martyr.

Soul-Health explores the connection between reading and healing.

This new edition contains the texts and translations of two key documents in medieval English history.

This book presents a picture focused on the T'ang period, one of China's acknowledged golden ages.

Our understanding of Celtic astrology is based mainly on the speculations of modern authors--mostly drawn from classical Greek and Roman writings--and suffers from many misconceptions.

This book explores one of the most significant medieval saints' cults, that of St.

Mistakes, disappointments, suffering, and heartbreak can prevent us from growing physically, emotionally, even spiritually, or they can propel us to a new way of life.

In this engaging work, Bruce L.

Seeking to live a Christian life in this American society can often evoke a wide range of emotions, and the precipitation sometimes looks like poetry.

Can words do damage?

This monograph recasts the modernisation of the Labour Party and sheds new light on Labour's years in the wilderness between 1979 and 1997.

Der spätantike habitus barbarus ist kein Phänomen, das nur mit dem Eindringen völkerwanderungszeitlicher Stämme mitsamt ihrer jeweils charakteristischen Kleidung in das römische Reich zu erklären wäre.

The poems in Things Not Seen are by turns playful, witty, and serious.

In this new verse translation of one of the great works of French literature, Dorothy Gilbert captures the vivacity, wit, and grace of the first known Arthurian romance.

Liturgy is not a religious frill or Sunday morning ceremonial exercise.

The leading academic vehicle for scholarly publication in the field of medieval warfare.

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

Answering the call for new rituals in our secular age, this book recognises the essential importance of rituals to the psychological, physical and spiritual health of individuals, families, organisations, and society as a whole.

This collection explores how situations of authority, governance, and influence were practised through both gender ideologies and affective performances in medieval and early modern England.

Striking cultural developments took place in the twelfth century which led to what historians have termed 'the emergence of the individual.

The words 'Listen daughter' (Audi filia, from Psalm 44 in the Latin Vulgate) were frequently used in exhortations to religious women in the twelfth century.