European history: medieval period, middle ages

This book unites research in philosophy and cognitive science with cultural history to re-examine memory in early modern religious practices.

This is an important collection of pioneering essays penned by the late Simon Walker, a highly respected historian of late medieval England.

Das Byzantinische Reich war einer der wichtigsten Staaten des Mittelalters und hat die europäische Geschichte bis in die Neuzeit hinein maßgeblich beeinflusst.

This book is the first English translation of Felice di Michele Brancacci's diary of his 1422 mission to the court of Sultan Al-Ashraf Seyf-ad-Din Barsbay of Egypt.

Zur Pflichtlektüre für alle Germanisten und Mediävisten gehören seit jeher die Lieder und Epen Wolframs von Eschenbach.

A clear and accessibly written guide to the medieval cloth-making trade in England.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die Bistümer der Kirchenprovinz Köln.

Soon after meeting near the famed city of love, Paris, Heloiseand Abelard fall into a deep and passionate love.

Essays considering how information could be used and abused in the service of heresy and inquisition.

Essays on the discipline of medieval history and its practitioners, from the late eighteenth century onwards.

There are three archetypal and widespread Arthurian stories--the abduction of Guinevere, the Holy Grail, and Tristan.

A multi-disciplinary approach to two of the most important legal institutions of the Middle Ages.

This book provides a systematic analysis of the innovations that occurred in the display of royal power during John II's four years in English captivity.

Objects of affection recovers the emotional attraction of the medieval book through an engagement with a fifteenth-century literary collection known as Oxford, Bodleian Library Manuscript Ashmole 61.

Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) would have been an extraordinary person in any age.

The true importance of cathedrals during the Anglo-Norman period is here brought out, through an examination of the most important aspects of their history.

The fruits of new research on the politics, society and culture of England in the fourteenth century.

'Wonderfully written and characteristically brilliant' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Elegant, readable .

Chaucer s Pardoner and Gender Theory, the first book-length treatment of the character, examines the Pardoner in Chaucer s Canterbury Tales from the perspective of both medieval and twentieth-century theories of sex, gender, and erotic practice.

Geoffrey le Baker's chronicle covers the reigns of Edward II and Edward III up to the English victory at Poitiers.

This case study of two rural parishes in County Durham, England, provides an alternate view on the economic development involved in the transition from medieval to modern, partly explaining England's rise to global economic dominance in the seventeenth century.

In den Erlassen der karolingischen Herrscher (»Kapitularien«) bewegt sich die Sprache in einer Indifferenzzone zwischen Recht, Moral, Religion und Administration.

The most recent research into the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and Angevin worlds.

This study investigates the place of the royal court and the operation of patronage in several European kingdoms in the early Middle Ages.

This monumental study of medieval law and sexual conduct explores the origin and develpment of the Christian church's sex law and the systems of belief upon which that law rested.

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.

AM GRUNDE DER SCHLACHT VON HASTINGS LIEGT EIN VERBRECHEN AN ZWEI KLEINEN KINDERN.

The opulence of Byzantine art, with its extravagant use of gold and silver, is well known.

First full-scale account of the use of the Arthurian legend in the long twelfth century.

A valuable resource on the social and economic life of medieval EnglandInquisitions post mortem are the single most important source for the history of medieval English landed society and are indispensable to social, economic, and political historians of the later middle ages; they were compiled with the help of jurors from the area, as a county-by-county record of a deceased individual's land-holdings and associated rights, where the individual held land directly of the crown.

Born into a wealthy family in Toulouse, Gabrielle de Coignard (ca.

This book explores the function and symbolism of monumental wooden crosses and crucifixes from medieval and early modern Norway.

This new volume explores the surprisingly intense and complex relationships between East and West during the Middle Ages and the early modern world, combining a large number of critical studies representing such diverse fields as literary (German, French, Italian, English, Spanish, and Arabic) and other subdisciplines of history, religion, anthropology, and linguistics.

Women's Lives presents essays on the ways in which the lives and voices of women permeated medieval literature and culture.

The pattern of rural life in early medieval Spain is here vividly brought to life through careful examination of contemporary documents.

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.

Seit Jahrhunderten erhebt sich Notre Dame de Paris majestätisch über die Dächer der Stadt und prägt das Herz und die Seele von Paris wie kein anderes Bauwerk.

During the 2000's, online literature in Arabic language was popular among a larger readership.

Weshalb zogen Edelleute und Fürsten nicht nur aus Deutschland und den Niederlanden, sondern auch aus Schottland, England, Frankreich, Spanien und Italien auf langen Ritten oder zu Schiff immer wieder nach Preußen, um dort mit dem Deutschen Orden gegen die Litauer zu kämpfen und für all dies auch noch selbst zu bezahlen?