European history: medieval period, middle ages

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This book uses Pseudo-Dionysius and his mystic theology to explore attitudes and beliefs about images in the early medieval West and Byzantium.

This collection examines the intersection of the discourses of "e;disability"e; and "e;monstrosity"e; in a timely and necessary intervention in the scholarly fields of Disability Studies and Monster Studies.

This Palgrave Pivot explores the representation of sea kings, sinners, and saints in the mid-thirteenth century Chronicles of the Kings of Man and the Isles, the single most important text for the history of the kingdoms of Man and the Isles, c.

This book examines the Avar siege of Constantinople in 626, one of the most significant events of the seventh century, and the impact and repercussions this had on the political, military, economic and religious structures of the Byzantine Empire.

This essay collection studies the Apocalypse and the end of the world, as these themes occupied the minds of biblical scholars, theologians, and ordinary people in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Early Modernity.

This book explores how eleventh- and twelfth-century Anglo-Norman ecclesiastical authors attributed anger to kings in the exercise of their duties, and how such attributions related to larger expansions of royal authority.

This book explores the changing perspective of astrology from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era.

This book examines the remarkable Velestino hoard, found in Thessaly in the 1920s, and analyses the light that this collection of artifacts sheds on a poorly studied period of Byzantine history, and on largely neglected aspects of Byzantine civilization.

This book is a microhistory of eleventh-century Byzantium, built around the biography of the state official Michael Attaleiates.

This book explores the experience of childhood and adolescence in later medieval English rural society from 1250 to 1450.

Medieval Healthcare and the Rise of Charitable Institutions: The History of the Municipal Hospital examines the development of medieval institutions of care, beginning with a survey of the earliest known hospitals in ancient times to the classical period, to the early Middle Ages, and finally to the explosion of hospitals in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

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.

For decades, medieval scholarship has been dominated by the paradigm that women who wielded power after c.

In seinem fesselnden Werk "Richard III.

Die Schweizergarde hat im Laufe der Jahrhunderte eine unvergleichliche Rolle in der europäischen Militärgeschichte gespielt.

In einer Epoche der Machtspiele und der opulenten Prachtentfaltung der Kirche erhebt sich eine Figur, die durch ihre schlichte Existenz den pompösen Vatikan erschüttert: Coelestin V.

A unique and fascinating look at Victorian society through the remarkable lives of an enlightened and philanthropic aristocratic couple, the Marquess and Marchioness of Aberdeen, who tried to change the world for the better but paid a heavy price.

Il primo libro di una nuova serie di monografie di storia militare, intitolato "Warriors and soldiers of Italy" e interamente prodotto con materiali originali nel nostro Paese: un testo agile e molto informativo, adatto a qualsiasi tipo di lettore e avulsione da parte del "mondo accademico" pesantezza, con tavole a colori originali, realizzate appositamente a supporto del testo e raffiguranti i soldati descritti nel libro, un ampio apparato iconografico che combina immagini vintage con ricostruzioni moderne prodotte fedelmente dai migliori gruppi di reenactors e riprodotte in foto ad alta definizione.

Seasons for Fasting, a late Old English poem probably composed in the early eleventh century, focuses on proper fasting observances in England.

Seasons for Fasting, a late Old English poem probably composed in the early eleventh century, focuses on proper fasting observances in England.

Fictions of Witness in the Confessio Amantis details the first years of the Confessio's material history and offers a major revision to a century's old narrative of political revision and conversion around the trauma of 1400.

Warfare in the Age of Crusades: The Latin East explores in fascinating detail the key campaigns, battles and sieges that shaped the crusading period of the Middle Ages, giving special attention to military technologies, tactics and strategies.

This is a critical edition and translation of the medieval local history of Balkh, known as Fada?

This is a critical edition and translation of the medieval local history of Balkh, known as Fada?

In this illustrated book Celtic myths are retold and explained for the modern reader, with personalities and their mythologies described.

When Sybella arrived at the doorstep of St Mortain half mad with grief and despair, the convent was only too happy to offer her refuge - but at a price.

Young, beautiful and deadly.

A look at what world history might have been like if not for the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

Warfare in the Medieval World explores how civilizations and cultures made war on the battlefields of the Near East and Europe in the period between the fall of Rome and the introduction of reliable gunpowder weapons during the Thirty Years War.

In 1485 the Battle of Bosworth marked an epoch in the lives of two great houses: the house of York fell to the ground when Richard III died on the field of battle; and the house of Tudor rose from the massacre to reign for the next hundred years.

Previously published as The King's Grave.

Archbishop Wulfstan of York (d.

This book explores the life, thought and political commitments of the free-thinker John Toland (1670-1722).

New, completely revised and re-written edition.

The Malleus Maleficarum is one of the best-known treatises dealing with the problem of what to do with witches.

This book provides an analytical overview of the vast range of historiography which was produced in western Europe over a thousand-year period between c.

This book provides an analytical overview of the vast range of historiography which was produced in western Europe over a thousand-year period between c.

Monasticism in late medieval England, c.

Malcolm Lambert investigates the histories of Christianity and Islam to trace the origins and development of crusade and jihad.

The Medici are famous as the rulers of Florence at the high point of the Renaissance.

In the twenty-first century, religion is making a comeback, bringing in its wake extremism of all kinds.

Eight hundred years ago, the Cathars, a group of heretical Christians from all walks of society, high and low, flourished in what is now the Languedoc in Southern France.

The war on heresy obsessed medieval Europe in the centuries after the first millennium.