European history: medieval period, middle ages

Werewolf Histories is the first academic book in English to address European werewolf history and folklore from antiquity to the twentieth century.

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.

These stories from the Star Chamber papers, first published in 1958, reveal the real, and sometimes comic, side of the functioning of the Star Chamber - an English court of Law from the Middle Ages, which was set up to ensure the fair enforcement of law against prominent people who were too powerful to be convicted by ordinary courts.

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

In his Birkbeck Lectures, first published in 1969, Professor Ullmann throws new light on a familiar subject.

This book explores the professional and social lives of the soldiers who served in the army of the Byzantine Empire in the sixth century.

Medieval Welsh Pilgrimage, c.

The medieval monster is a slippery construct, and its referents include a range of religious, racial, and corporeal aberrations.

In many respects this book, first published in 1961, marked a somewhat radical departure from contemporary historical writings.

This book challenges the standard conception of the Middle Ages as a time of persecution for Jews.

Medieval Christianity in Practice provides readers with a sweeping look at the religious practices of the European Middle Ages.

The unlikely king who saved England.

Most people have heard of Lady Godiva and her horseback tax protest in the 11th century and Joan of Arc who in the 15th century fought against the English for the French gaining sainthood in 1920.

The collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the late 5th century A.

In this first ever book-length treatment, 11 scholars with a variety of backgrounds in medieval studies, film studies, and medievalism discuss how historical and fictional medieval women have been portrayed on film and their connections to the feminist movements of the 20th and 21st centuries.

This essay collection is a wide-ranging exploration of Vikings, the television series that has successfully summoned the historical world of the Norse people for modern audiences to enjoy.

The Book of Gladness (ca.

Modern readers can sometimes be unsure about the language and the literary conventions of medieval and Renaissance verse--lyrical works written at a time before poetry was assumed to be about personal expression.

King Henry V saw his reign and military efforts in France as a holy crusade to reclaim the French throne for his ancestors.

The Westford Knight is a mysterious, controversial stone carving in Massachusetts.

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

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.

What are the origins of the imagery and designs on common jewelry and portable artwork between late antiquity and the Middle Ages?

Why did the most read work in English literature go without cinematic adaptation for so long?

This new English translation of the Faroe-Islander Saga (Faereyinga saga)--a great medieval Icelandic saga--tells the story of the first settlers on these wind-swept islands at the edge of the Scandinavian world.

What is known of the legendary King Arthur is mostly derived from folklore and literature.

The Renaissance was a revolution of ideas, arts and sciences alike, with Italy at its center.

The early chroniclers of Britain presented the island as the promised land of the Roman goddess Diana.

The Druids and the Arthurian legends are all most of us know about early Britain, from the Neolithic to the Iron Age (4500 BC-AD 43).

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 Orthodox Church has been characterized by some as "e;the best-kept secret in North America.

Although the United Kingdom's entry to the European Community (EC) in 1973 was initially celebrated, by the end of the first year the mood in the UK had changed from 'hope to uncertainty'.

Memory and the future of Europe examines the role of collective memory in the origins and development of the European Union.

This book is about the impact of decolonisation on British civic society in the 1960s.

This book provides a detailed analysis of women's involvement in litigation and other legal actions within their local communities in late-medieval England.

Medievalists have long taught that highly emotional Christian devotion, often called 'affective piety', appeared in Europe after the twelfth century and was primarily practiced by communities of mendicants, lay people and women.

Monastic experience in twelfth-century Germany provides a rare window on to monastery life in the tumultuous world of twelfth-century Swabia.

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

Sex, violence, power, and redemption.

Just look at the big differences between the medieval and the modern worlds!

It's interesting to note that during the middle ages, Europe used a feudal system of government and society.

The Black Plague is depressing read but it's something that's forever embedded in history.

In the middle ages, there were nobles and knights who performed special roles in society.

History may have been started by the people before us but that story has molded our present.

Did you know that in ancient Europe the distribution of power is so great that nobles were very rich while the slaves were very poor?

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The Year's Work in Medievalism includes vetted essays from the Studies in Medievalism--now International Society for the Study of Medievalism--annual conference and from submissions to the editor throughout the year.

The articles in the first part of this volume, two being a revised English version of an article originally in Spanish, examine the place of the city in the historical development of Castile.

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 focus of this collection of articles by Donald J.