European history: medieval period, middle ages

The book is an annotated critical edition of an unpublished collection of hymnographical texts, preserved in the eleventh-century Greek manuscript 11 of the library of Leimonos monastery, Lesbos, Greece.

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.

The notion of Christianity as a religion of peace was severely tested during the Middle Ages, when killing in the name of God became a sanctified act.

In the Labyrinth of Grief40 Words of God that Offer ComfortBrief meditations for those in sorrowWhen death enters our life, a process begins that we refer to as grieving.

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 provides an annotated source edition of the only two extant documents related to the sorcery trial brought against Pes de Guoythie and Condesse de Beheythie in Lower Navarre, in 1370.

This study explores the extraordinary afterlife of the Spanish legend of King Roderick and La Cava in plays, poems, novels and operas from the Eighth century to the present day.

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

This book follows a middle-class knightly family from France to England in 1066 and its journey over the next six centuries.

Spiele sind ein wichtiger Bestandteil populärer (Kirchen-)Geschichtskulturen.

Ein historischer Roman über Seefahrt, Krieg, Handel und den Ursprung des JohanniterordensMan schreibt November 1095: Papst Urban ruft zum Kreuzzug ins "Heilige Land".

Humans have been uttering profane words and incurring the consequences for millennia.

Michael Borgolte, Lehrstuhl für Mittelalterliche Geschichte I sowie Leiter des Instituts für vergleichende Geschichte Europas im Mittelalter an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin und Ordentliches Mitglied der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, konnte am 16.

This book provides a vivid and accessible history of first-generation immigrants to England in the later Middle Ages.

This book investigates the agency and influence of medieval queens in late fourteenth-century England, focusing on the patronage and intercessory activities of the queens Philippa of Hainault and Anne of Bohemia, as well as the princess Joan of Kent.

This book provides an annotated source edition of the only two extant documents related to the sorcery trial brought against Pes de Guoythie and Condesse de Beheythie in Lower Navarre, in 1370.

This book examines the Franciscan alchemist Roger Bacon's (1220-1292) interest in the role of alchemy in medicine, and how this interest connected with the thirteenth-century milieu in which he was writing.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Sachsenspiegel" verfügbar.

Standing on Holy Ground in the Middle Ages illuminates how the floor surface shaped the ways in which people in medieval western Europe and beyond experienced sacred spaces.

A microhistory of a never-married English gentlewoman named Elizabeth Isham, this book centres on an extremely rare piece of women's writing - a recently discovered 60,000-word spiritual autobiography held in Princeton's manuscript collections that she penned around 1639.

This book explores the history of banditry in the medieval Balkans between the ninth and fifteenth centuries.

The first English translation of the book that reveals the Cathar stronghold at Montsgur to be the repository of the Holy Grail *; Presents the history of the Papal persecution of the Cathars that lies hidden in the medieval epic Parzival and in the poetry of the troubadours *; Provides new insights into the life and death of this gifted and controversial author Crusade Against the Grail is the daring book that popularized the legend of the Cathars and the Holy Grail.

Transgender people are among the most marginalized and vulnerable populations in the world.

Through close readings of both familiar and obscure medieval texts, the contributors to this volume attempt to read England as a singularly powerful entity within a vast geopolitical network.

This biographical dictionary separates myth from history by differentiating and defining figures associated with Arthuriana.

Queer Love in the Middle Ages points out queer themes in the works of the French canon, including Perceval , the Romance of the Rose and the Roman d'Eneas .

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

Robes and Honor is a fascinating exploration of the possible common origin and subsequent developments of investiture across medieval Christianity and medieval Islam.

Provides a comprehensive introduction and essential guide to one of the most important institutions in medieval England and to its substantial archive.

A comprehensive account of the abbey of Evesham and its surroundings, demonstrating its full significance in the wider history of the time.

Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation from-or antidote to-ten centuries of misogyny.

A close analysis of forgeries and historical writings at Saint Peter's, Ghent; Saint-Denis near Paris; and Christ Church, Canterbury, offering valuable access to why medieval people often rewrote their pasts.

The Middle Ages as they were lived in Eastern Europe are covered in this encyclopedia.

A series which is a model of its kind: Edmund KingThe wide-ranging articles collected here represent the cutting edge of recent Anglo-Norman scholarship.

A Companion to Piers Plowman is the first comprehensive guide to William Langland's fourteenth-century masterpiece.

'An enthralling guide to one of the world's great cities - that blends history and insights into the present day from one of the most astute commentators on the politics of Istanbul' PETER FRANKOPAN'A love letter to this ancient capital' THE TIMESWalking along the crumbling defensive walls of Istanbul and talking to those he passes, Alexander Christie-Miller finds a distillation of the country's history, a mirror of its present, and a shadow of its future.

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.

First full-length analysis of Norman military organisation in the Balkans: events, strategy, and tactics.

Im spätantiken Gallien entstanden zwischen dem vierten und achten Jahrhundert annähernd fünfzig hagiographische Dossiers.

The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were times of tumultuous change in medieval Europe; they witnessed the Black Death, the Great Papal Schism, heightened fears of the apocalypse, and the elimination of Spain's non-Christian population.