European history: medieval period, middle ages

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La guerra ha ejercido una importante influencia sobre la civilización y las estructuras sociales de la Europa medieval.

This book explores social cohesion in rural settlements in western Europe from 700-1050, asking to what extent settlements, or districts, constituted units of social organisation.

Der Band beschäftigt sich mit dem Facettenreichtum religiösen Lebens in Oberschwaben am Vorabend der Reformation.

Political prophecy was a common mode of literature in the British Isles and much of Europe from the Middle Ages to at least as late as the Renaissance.

Europa ist mit rund 250 Mio.

A Tale of Two Monasteries takes an unprecedented look at one of the great rivalries of the Middle Ages and offers it as a revealing lens through which to view the intertwined histories of medieval England and France.

The Children's Crusade was possibly the most extraordinary event in the history of the crusades.

This book explores the experiences of a range of women from the early days of 1914, through the big events of the war on the Eastern Front.

The medieval church was founded on and governed by concepts of faith and trust--but not in the way that is popularly assumed.

This concise and unique volume explores the vital relationship between testimony, memory, and the community in medieval society.

From the saviour of the realm to the subject of multiple attempted assassinations in the space of six years.

This study of tangible and intangible cultural heritage explains the significance of nobles' conservationist traditions for public engagement with the history of France.

First full examination of the medieval livery collar, form, function, and significance.

Die rätselhafte Prophezeiung des Heiligen Malachias, die angeblich das Schicksal aller Päpste bis zum Ende der Zeiten vorhersagt, hat über Jahrhunderte hinweg Gläubige und Historiker gleichermaßen fasziniert.

Der Arzt und Historiker Leopold Öhler schildert die "laidige Contagion", wie die Pest auch genannt wurde, er erzählt vom Alltag während der Pestzeit, den Schwierigkeiten bei der Lebensmittelbeschaffung, der medizinischen Versorgung und den menschlichen Tragödien.

An examination of the growth and different varieties of anchoritism throughout medieval Europe.

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Für die dritte Auflage hat Johannes Fried seinen Klassiker grundlegend überarbeitet; der Forschungsüberblick behandelt alle wichtigen Neuerscheinungen der letzten Jahre.

In the Middle Ages, religious crusaders took up arms, prayed, bade farewell to their families, and marched off to fight in holy wars.

This Element will reevaluate the relationship between monasticism and the city in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages.

Nest of Deheubarth was one of the most notorious women of the Middle Ages, mistress of Henry I and many other men, famously beautiful and strong-willed, object of one of the most notorious abduction/elopements of the period and ancestress of one of the most famous dynasties in medieval Ireland, the Fitzgeralds.

This volume examines the antagonism between tradition and innovation in the Middle Ages.

Heilige waren im Mittelalter omnipräsent.

A new approach to a vital historical source of the twelfth century, examining its author's ethical purpose in its creation.

A range of apocryphal and pseudepigraphic texts from Late Antiquity points to the importance of Sunday as a holiday for baptized Christians.

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Die Benediktiner sind der älteste christliche Orden.

Paul Doherty's twenty-third medieval mystery featuring Sir Hugh Corbett is a gripping and gruesome tale of murder and mayhem sure to appeal to fans of C.

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Ludwig der Bayer – ein Name, der untrennbar mit den Machtkämpfen und Intrigen des mittelalterlichen Heiligen Römischen Reiches verbunden ist.

This book examines the varied and fascinating ways that Westminster - traditionally home to the royal court, the fashionable West End and parliament - became the seat of the successive, non-monarchical regimes of the 1640s and 1650s.

King Rene is little known beyond France, yet, through his controversial daughter Margaret of Anjou, he affected events in England during the Wars of the Roses.

Die "Historische Kommission zu Berlin" betreibt die Erforschung der Landesgeschichte und der Historischen Landeskunde Berlin-Brandenburgs bzw.

What is known of the legendary King Arthur is mostly derived from folklore and literature.

This innovative critical volume brings the study of Margery Kempe into the twenty-first century.

This student-friendly volume brings together English translations of the main narrative sources, and a small number of other relevant documents, for the reign of Roger II, the founder of the kingdom of Sicily.

How did the Welsh travel beyond their geographical borders in the Middle Ages?

The Norman Conquest in the eleventh century is one of the best-known events in English history, but the French attempts to invade England three hundred years later are largely ignored and misunderstood.

An account of the naval commander Roger of Lauria and his command of warfare at sea.

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.