European history: medieval period, middle ages

The letters of Heloise and Abelard will remain one of the great, romantic and intellectual documents of human civilization while they, themselves, are probably second only to Romeo and Juliet in the fame accrued by tragic lovers.

Essays exploring medieval castration, as reflected in archaeology, law, historical record, and literary motifs.

In einer Welt, die von ständiger Veränderung geprägt ist, bleiben die Heiligen Jahre der katholischen Kirche ein kraftvolles Symbol für Besinnung, Buße und Erneuerung.

Modern readers can sometimes be unsure about the language and the literary conventions of medieval and Renaissance verse--lyrical works written at a time before poetry was assumed to be about personal expression.

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This original study, focussing on the impact of the crusading movement in medieval Wales, considers both the enthusiasm of the Welsh and those living in Wales and its borders for the crusades, as well as the domestic impact of the movement on warfare, literature, politics and patronage.

A brilliant polymath and part of the 'first wave' of British Romanticism, Thomas Manning was one of the first Englishmen to study Chinese language and culture.

The Sagas of Icelanders are enduring stories from Viking-age Iceland filled with love and romance, battles and feuds, tragedy and comedy.

This long-awaited companion volume to Howard E.

In what varieties of ways is late medieval literature inflected by spiritual insight and desires?

This collection raises incisive questions about the links between the postcolonial carceral system, which thrived in Ireland after 1922, and larger questions of gender, sexuality, identity, class, race and religion.

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Die vorliegende biographische Studie zu Lothar I.

A pioneering approach to contemporary historical writing on the First Crusade, looking at the texts as cultural artefacts rather than simply for the evidence they contain.

Micro Middle Ages brings together five microhistorical case studies focusing on small or seemingly inconsequential evidence that leads to broader conclusions about  medieval history and the way we do and understand history in general.

Distinguished historian Robert Brentano provides an entirely new perspective on the character of the church, religion, and society in the medieval Italian diocese of Rieti from 1188 to 1378.

Die "Tiroler Heimat" ist die traditionsreichste wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift, die sich der Geschichte und Kultur der historischen Region Tirol widmet.

Clerics in the Middle Ages were subjected to differing ideals of masculinity, both from within the Church and from lay society.

The Staufers were indisputably one of the most powerful dynasties of the High Middle Ages, and also amongst the most fascinating.

This book is a reference volume and a digest of more than a century of scholarly work on troubadour poetry.

This book explores the place of loyalty in the relationship between the monarchy and their subjects in late medieval and early modern Britain.

Die Kategorie der Zeit ist als eine fundamentale Bedingung von Geschichte zu begreifen: Faktisches Geschehen in der Vergangenheit als materiale Grundlage und historisches Erzählen vollziehen sich in der Zeit.

Fresh insights into the development of the tournament as an opportunity for social display.

This volume in honour of Mayke De Jong offers twenty-five essays focused upon the importance of religion to Frankish politics, a discourse to which De Jong herself has contributed greatly in her academic career.

Cheap street is a lively and scholarly account of London's street markets, which were an overlooked site of urban modernity and the most vigorous outgrowth of the informal economy that flourished below and beyond the recognised institutions of the consumer city.

New research into medieval women from the Anglo-Saxon to the late medieval period demonstrates their energy, defiance and wit.

A scholarly review of early Christian history and its policies against heresy and lessons for today's church leaders and reformersAncient heresies have modern expressions that influence our churches and culture, creating cruel dilemmas for today's Christian in the form of error, sin, and various distortions on orthodox faith.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die Bistümer der Kirchenprovinz Trier.

Through extended readings of English, French, and Italian writers of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth centuries, Claustrophilia shows that medieval enclosures actually make room for desires and communities that a poetics of pure openness would exclude.

Vienna's 'respectable' antisemites offers a radical challenge to conventional accounts of one of the darkest periods in the city's history: the rise of organised, politically directed antisemitism between the late-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries.

Kiel – eine Stadt, die Geschichte atmet.

Looking at royal ritual in pre-revolutionary France, Death and the crown examines the deathbed and funeral of Louis XV in 1774, the lit de justice of November 1774 and the coronation of Louis XVI, including the ceremony of the royal healing touch for scrofula.

Monastic experience in twelfth-century Germany provides a rare window on to monastery life in the tumultuous world of twelfth-century Swabia.

With the decision to provide of a scholarly edition of the Works of John Wesley in the 1950s, Methodist Studies emerged as a fresh academic venture.

Godwin and his family dominated English politics for almost half a century, establishing themselves as the most influential and powerful dynasty in Anglo-Saxon England.

Eckhart gehört zu den anziehendsten Gestalten christlicher Überlieferung.

This book explores the Byzantine city and the changes it went through from 610 to 1204.

Fourteenth Century England has quickly established for itself a deserved reputation for its scope and scholarship and for admirably filling a gap in the publication of medieval studies.