European history: medieval period, middle ages

Kiel – eine Stadt, die Geschichte atmet.

The links between Cornwall, a county frequently considered remote and separate in the Middle Ages, and the wider realm of England are newly discussed.

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 .

New insights into interpretive problems in the history of England and Europe between the eighth and thirteenth centuries.

Paracelsus – ein Name, der die Medizin des 16.

This book is about what it meant to build a city in Germany at the turn of the twentieth century.

The Origins of the English Parliament is a magisterial account of the evolution of parliament, from its earliest beginnings in the late Anglo-Saxon period.

The received wisdom about the nature of the Greek Orthodox Church in the Ottoman Empire is that Sultan Mehmed II reestablished the Patriarchate of Constantinople as both a political and a religious authority to govern the post-Byzantine Greek community.

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

For the first time, this volume explores the identities of leprosy sufferers and other people affected by the disease in medieval Europe.

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

During the late 12th century, the Arthurian legends first took their form in the imagination of French-speaking romancers.

This is the first major study in English of the queens of the Ottonian dynasty (919-1024).

The societies of ancient Europe underwent a continual process of militarisation, and this would come to be a defining characteristic of the early Middle Ages.

Despite reliance on ingredients like horse dung, Old English remedies for women's medicine speak to contemporary reproductive concerns.

Eight kings of England were the named Henry, but only two of them were born as heirs to the throne and these - the third and sixth - proved to be the weakest.

The Reformation transformed English religion.

This ground-breaking study explores welfare institutions in western law in the middle ages and establishes, for the first time, a legal model for the hospital.

Lordship and Faith takes as its subject the many hundreds of parish churches built in England in the Middle Ages by the gentry, the knights and esquires, and the lords of country manors.

For more than a century, scholars have believed that Italian humanism was predominantly civic in outlook.

Peasants and historians is an examination of historical discussion of the medieval English peasantry.

The power of the prince versus the rights of his subjects is one of the basic struggles in the history of law and government.

A collection which highlights "e;the range and richness of scholarship on medieval warfare, military institutions, and cultures of conflict that characterize the field"e;.

Demonstrating that similarities between Jewish and Christian art in the Middle Ages were more than coincidental, Cultural Exchange meticulously combines a wide range of sources to show how Jews and Christians exchanged artistic and material culture.

Taking as its starting point an investigation into the physical topography and symbolism of the two cities of Athens and Jerusalem, this book offers a cultural history of the rival superpowers-the Byzantine Empire and Fatimid Caliphate-that between them dominated the Mediterranean world during the Central Middle Ages.

Dissenter from the Fourth Crusade, disseised earl of Leicester, leader of the Albigensian Crusade, prince of southern France: Simon of Montfort led a remarkable career of ascent from mid-level French baron to semi-independent count before his violent death before the walls of Toulouse in 1218.

From 1400 through 1700, the number of reports of demonic possessions among European women was extraordinarily high.

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).

What was it like to be poor in the Middle Ages?

The state is the most powerful and contested of political ideas, loved for its promise of order but hated for its threat of coercion.

Die rätselhafte Prophezeiung des Heiligen Malachias, die angeblich das Schicksal aller Päpste bis zum Ende der Zeiten vorhersagt, hat über Jahrhunderte hinweg Gläubige und Historiker gleichermaßen fasziniert.

This book is an exploration of political memory and disgrace in the reigns of Constantine and his sons.

Richard II (1377-99) has long suffered from an unusually unmanly reputation.

'A mighty, panoramic history Firnhaber-Baker does a real service for those with an interest in France and England alike by providing a dexterous and engrossing account, a treasury for anyone with an interest in the royal, political and religious worlds of the high medieval period' Daily TelegraphThe sweeping story of one of the great epics of Europe's history: the rise and rise of the dynasty that dominated the Middle AgesStarting in the tenth century from an insecure foothold around Paris, the Capetians built a nation that stretched from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean and from the Rh ne to the Pyrenees.

First recent full-length analysis of a major medieval poem.

The Jacquerie of 1358 is one of the most famous and mysterious peasant uprisings of the Middle Ages.

Seven hundred years ago, executioners led a Welsh rebel named William Cragh to a wintry hill to be hanged.

At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of enormous wealth, power and influence.

A groundbreaking history that puts early and medieval West Africa in a global contextPick up almost any book on early and medieval world history and empire, and where do you find West Africa?

This study offers a new interpretation of the debates over education and politics in the early years of the French Revolution.

No detailed comparison of the city-state in medieval Europe has been undertaken over the last century.

This ground-breaking book traces the story of castles at war in England and Wales from their introduction by the Normans in the eleventh century until the end of the reign of Henry VIII in the sixteenth century.

Renaissance Mass Murder explores the devastating impact of war on the men and women of the Renaissance.

Essays on the turbulent history of Syon Abbey, focussing on the role played by reading and writing in constructing its identity and experience.

This book is the first to systematically examine the sources of medieval statistics.

The Hundred Years War was a struggle for control over the French throne, fought as a series of conflicts between England, France, and their respective allies.

This text provides original documents which are designed to help the reader evaluate claims that World War II introduced a new sense of social solidarity and social idealism which led to a consensus on welfare state reform.