European history: medieval period, middle ages

Hundert Jahre nach dem Erscheinen des ersten Bandes der Italia Pontificia (1906) zieht der vorliegende Band in 24 Einzelbeiträgen namhafter italienischer und deutscher Autoren eine Bilanz des Erreichten, formuliert noch ausstehende Desiderata für den Abschluss der Italia Pontificia und demonstriert beispielhaft die Nutzbarkeit des Grundlagenwerkes für moderne Fragestellungen.

Erotic Discourse and Early English Religious Writing discusses the role of sexuality in medieval devotional practice, looking in particular at religious writings circulating in England in the tenth to thirteenth centuries.

Examinations of the culture - artistic, material, musical - of English monasteries in the six centuries between the Conquest and the Dissolution.

The Arundell family of Lanherne, near Newquay, was one of the richest and most important in Cornwall in the late Middle Ages, having extensive property in most parts of the county as well as elsewhere (notably Devon and Dorset).

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Wie kaum ein zweiter hat sich der Berliner Mediävist Johannes Helmrath in seinen Forschungen dem sprachlichen Ausdruck der Welt sowie des menschlichen Wissens und Wollens gewidmet – und dabei seinen Erkenntnissen stets einen ganz eigenen rhetorischen Glanz verliehen.

The life of "e;that notorious woman"e;, Lucy de Thweng, is used as a prism through which to consider the agency of aristocratic women in the Middle Ages.

This series [pushes] the boundaries of knowledge and [develops] new trends in approach and understanding.

Historians and broadcasters Peter Snow and Ann MacMillan tell the real stories of the most powerful men and women in British history.

This book breaks with three common scholarly barriers of periodization, discipline and geography in its exploration of the related themes of heresy, magic and witchcraft.

Demonstrating that similarities between Jewish and Christian art in the Middle Ages were more than coincidental, Cultural Exchange meticulously combines a wide range of sources to show how Jews and Christians exchanged artistic and material culture.

In this first ever book-length treatment, 11 scholars with a variety of backgrounds in medieval studies, film studies, and medievalism discuss how historical and fictional medieval women have been portrayed on film and their connections to the feminist movements of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Das Byzantinische Reich hat in seiner knapp tausendjährigen Geschichte die Entwicklung Europas wesentlich bestimmt und bis heute tiefgreifende kulturelle Spuren hinterlassen.

In Negotiation and Resistance, Constance Brittain Bouchard challenges familiar depictions of the peasantry as an undifferentiated mass of impoverished and powerless workers.

Amid so much twenty-first-century talk of a "e;Christian-Muslim divide"e;--and the attendant controversy in some Western countries over policies toward minority Muslim communities--a historical fact has gone unnoticed: for more than four hundred years beginning in the mid-seventh century, some 50 percent of the world's Christians lived and worshipped under Muslim rule.

This book provides a detailed analysis of women's involvement in litigation and other legal actions within their local communities in late-medieval England.

Described by Christopher Marlowe as the 'She-Wolf of France', Isabella was one of the most notorious femme fatales in history.

Wie weit ging die katholische Kirche, um ihre Macht zu sichern?

A collection of tales from the Middle Ages that reveal voyages to Heaven and Hell, the realm of the Faery, mystical lands, and encounters with mythic beasts *; Shares travelers' accounts of voyages into the afterlife, alarming creatures of unparalleled strangeness, encounters with doppelgangers and angels, chivalric romantic misadventures, and legends of heroes *; Explains how travelers' tales from the Middle Ages drew on geographies, encyclopedias, travel accounts, bestiaries, and herbals for material to capture the imagination of their audiences *; Includes rare illustrations from incunabula and medieval manuscripts Heading off to discover unknown lands was always a risky undertaking during the Middle Ages due to the countless dangers lying in wait for the traveler--if we can believe what the written accounts tell us.

This is an exploration the intellectual consequences of one of the most fundamental shifts in late medieval English society: the first national labour regulation in the wake of the 1348 plague.

A radical rethinking of the Anglo-Saxon world that draws on the latest archaeological discoveriesThis beautifully illustrated book draws on the latest archaeological discoveries to present a radical reappraisal of the Anglo-Saxon built environment and its inhabitants.

Über vier Generationen führten die Staufer riesige Armeen in den Orient.

In The Chastity Plot, Lisabeth During tells the story of the rise, fall, and transformation of the ideal of chastity.

Explains and contextualizes the rise and expansion of the Tang empire, which straddled the East Asian and Inner Asian worlds.

Living on an island at the edge of the known world, the medieval Irish were in a unique position to examine the spaces of the North Atlantic region and contemplate how geography can shape a people.

This fascinating book explores the status of women in medieval England, both before and after the Norman Conquest.

This is the first book-length study into crusading against Christians, examining this complex phenomenon from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries and across numerous regions, from France to Russia and from southern Italy to the Baltic.

Traces the journey from ill health to miraculous cure through the lens of hagiographical texts from twelfth-century England.

Kann ein Herrscher ein Versager sein?

Twelve medieval scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including law, literature, and religion address the question: What did it mean to possess a voice - or to be without one - during the Middle Ages?

In The Lay Saint, Mary Harvey Doyno investigates the phenomenon of saintly cults that formed around pious merchants, artisans, midwives, domestic servants, and others in the medieval communes of northern and central Italy.

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

Die Monographie untersucht anhand der deutschen Franziskaner den Anteil der Bettelmönche am sozialen Wandel des späten Mittelalters.

Archbishop Wulfstan of York (d.

Draws attention to an understudied mode of pre-modern publishing culture by highlighting the role and authority of the monastic superior.

Unlike such romanticized renegades as Robin Hood and Jesse James, there is another kind of outlaw hero, one who lives between the law and his own personal code.

Strange Beauty provides a new perspective on early Celtic stories of the Otherworld and their relevance to today's ecological concerns, arguing for a contemporary re-reading of the Otherworld trope in relation to physical experience.

Feud stands at the core of the Old Icelandic sagas.

Concerned to think intentionally about liturgy in Baptist life and thought, this book aims to address the practices of Christian worship in a theological light, examining how each brings individual Christian believers and communities of faith to a greater understanding and embodiment of the gospel.

This book examines discourses around infertility and views of childlessness in medieval and early modern Europe.