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.
"e;The Original Blue-Beard - The History of Gilles De Retz"e; is Thomas Wilson's 1899 biography of Gilles de Rais (1405-1440), a French knight and lord who led the French army and was one of Joan of Arc's companion-in-arms.
Die mittelalterliche Welt kennt eine bemerkenswerte Vielzahl von Rechtsfiguren, durch die Frauen standesunabhängig, formalisiert oder qua Gewohnheit, Ehemänner oder Söhne vertreten konnten.
In the twelfth century, Christians in Europe began to build a completely new kind of church - soaring, spacious monuments flooded with light from immense windows.
A sweeping, authoritative, and entertaining history of the Christian cult of the saints from its origin to the ReformationFrom its earliest centuries, one of the most notable features of Christianity has been the veneration of the saints-the holy dead.
This book compares two successful, elite women, Empress Adelheid (931-999) and Countess Matilda (1046-1115), for their relative ability to retain their wealth and power in the midst of the profound social changes of the eleventh century.
Joanna Smereka legt mit dieser Untersuchung eine der wenigen sprachwissenschaftlichen Studien vor, die die Untersuchung einer historischen Textsorte zum Gegenstand hat.
This book asks how the inhabitants and neighbours of the Eastern Roman Empire understand their identity as Romans in the centuries following the emergence of Islam as a world-religion.
This ground-breaking book contains contributions from 12 different religious traditions: Hinduism, African Traditional Religion, Judaism, Jainism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Shintoism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, Unitarianism and Baha'i.
This book focuses on the characters that populate the Game of Thrones universe and on one of the most salient features of their interaction: violence and warfare.
Richard III is probably the House of York's best-known figure, but the other members of the family are just as intriguing as the king who fell on Bosworth Field.
The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages.
In den dunklen Gassen des mittelalterlichen Europas lauerten nicht nur die Schatten der Nacht, sondern auch die ständige Gefahr der Verfolgung durch die Inquisition.
This book brings together several strands of medieval and medievalist work in the history of emotions, with a focus on literary, historical and cinema studies.
This book examines the legacies and depictions of monarchs in an international context, focusing on both self-representation and commemoration by others.
Scholars have long accepted China's own view of its traditional foreign relations: that China devised its own world order and maintained it from the second century B.