European history: medieval period, middle ages

This book explores an alternate history of the power and agency of 30 Hungarian queens over 400 years by a rigorous examination of the material culture connected with their lives.

This is the first book-length study to investigate the place of lay Catholic women in modern Irish history.

This book portrays the great variety of work that medieval English juries carried out while highlighting the dramatic increase in demands for jury service that occurred during this period.

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.

In the mid-ninth century, Francia was rocked by the first royal divorce scandal of the Middle Ages: the attempt by King Lothar II of Lotharingia to rid himself of his queen, Theutberga and remarry.

This volume of essays explores the rise of parliament in the historical imagination of early modern England.

The full significance and influence of the part played by the Prior of the Knights Hospitaller in the middle ages is brought out here in a wide-ranging survey.

Theatre and empire looks at the genesis of British national identity in the reign of King James VI and I.

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An investigation of the growth and influence of the cult of St Edmund, and how it manifested itself in medieval material culture.

First full examination of why and how certain locations were chosen for opposition to power, and the meaning they conveyed.

New perspectives on early globalisms from objects and imagesTales Things Tell offers new perspectives on histories of connectivity between Africa, Asia, and Europe in the period before the Mongol conquests of the thirteenth century.

Der Kölner Dom ist mehr als nur ein architektonisches Meisterwerk – er ist ein Symbol des Glaubens, der Macht und der Ausdauer.

The fourteenth century was a time of fabled crusades and chivalry, glittering cathedrals and grand castles.

The twelfth century in Europe, hailed by historians as a time of intellectual and spiritual vitality, had a dark side.

"e;There are forces better recognized as belonging to human society than repressed or left to waste away or growl about upon its fringes.

New approaches to the political culture of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, considering its complex relation to monarchy and state.

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In recent years, work on the medieval English peasant has tended to stress the degree of interaction between the village and the world beyond its bounds.

The medieval outlaws of Britain maintain a hold on the present-day imagination, judging by their presence in literature and on film.

Welche Bedeutung haben internationale Organisationen angesichts wachsender globaler Probleme?

Inmitten der prächtigen Höfe Frankreichs diente eine Gruppe tapferer Männer, die zu einem unverwechselbaren Symbol für Treue und Stärke wurde: die Schweizergarde.

Over the last twenty-five years, the 'history of emotion' field has become one of the most dynamic and productive areas for humanities research.

This landmark book, the product of years of research by a team of two dozen historians, reveals that resistance to occupation by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy during the Second World War was not narrowly delineated by country but startlingly international.

A series which is a model of its kind.

This interdisciplinary volume of essays examines the real and imagined role of Classical and Celtic influence in the history of British identity formation, from late antiquity to the present day.

This book is a social history of the ritual and custom of churching, a liturgical rite of purification after childbirth performed on a woman's first visit to church after giving birth.

Peter Abelard's autobiography, the Historia calamitatum, is one of the best-known medieval texts, especially because of the story of his love for Heloise which it recounts.

In Suspect Saints and Holy Heretics Janine Larmon Peterson investigates regional saints whose holiness was contested.

As an old proverb puts it, 'Two Jews, three opinions.

Investigating the impact of Arabic medieval astrological and magical theories on early modern occult philosophy, this book argues that they provided a naturalistic explanation of astral influences and magical efficacy based on Aristotelian notions of causality.

Der Speyerer Dom ist mehr als ein herausragendes Bauwerk der Romanik – er ist ein Zeugnis europäischer Geschichte, eine architektonische Meisterleistung und ein Symbol für Macht, Glaube und kulturelles Erbe.

Every generation reinvents Shakespeare for its own needs, imagining through its particular choices and emphases the Shakespeare that it values.

This book explores why Ethiopian kings pursued long-distance diplomatic contacts with Latin Europe in the late Middle Ages.

An investigation of two manuals of inquisition reveals much about the practice in action.

Diese ausführliche und anschauliche Darstellung der karolingischen Dynastie - beginnend bei den Arnulfingern und Pippiniden des 7.

Der spannende, prämierte Mittelalter-Topseller der spanischen Star-Autorin Eva Garcia SáenzDas Jahr 1137: Der Herzog von Aquitanien, der umkämpftesten Region Frankreichs, wird in Santiago de Compostela tot aufgefunden.

These essays take advantage of a new, exciting trend towards interdisciplinary research on the Charlemagne legend.

This book explores (mis)representations of two female claimants to the Tudor throne, Lady Jane Grey and Mary I of England.

The primary purpose of Prophetic Liturgy is to inquire into the prophetic dimension of the liturgy.

A comprehensive overview of the activities of the British navy in the Baltic Sea from the earliest times until the twentieth century.

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

Most Christians worship on a regular basis on the Lord's Day.