European history: medieval period, middle ages

Those on Crusade needed their interests at home to be protected; this volume looks at how this could be achieved, in both theory and practice.

Designed primarily for the layperson, The Catholic Imagination is a journey through the liturgical year by way of weekly reflections on the life of the church.

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Das heute in der Nationalbibliothek von Warschau aufbewahrte Sakramentar aus der Abtei Tyniec bei Krakau beeindruckt durch seine prächtige Ausgestaltung mit fast fünfzig Text- und Bildzierseiten sowie reichem Initialschmuck.

An order of warrior monks founded to protect pilgrims to Jerusalem, the Templars were among the wealthiest and most powerful bodies in the medieval world.

What are the origins of the imagery and designs on common jewelry and portable artwork between late antiquity and the Middle Ages?

In Giuseppe Arcimboldo's most famous paintings, grapes, fish, and even the beaks of birds form human hair.

This book examines the premodern encounter between the three monotheistic religions through the unique prism of a premodern literary work-The Parable of the Three Rings-a poignant and charming tale of a father who had three sons and one precious ring.

Groundbreaking essays show the variety and complexity of the roles played by inquisition in medieval England.

In Supreme emergency, an ex-Trident submarine captain considers the evolution of UK nuclear deterrence policy and the implications of a previously unacknowledged aversion to military strategies that threaten civilian casualties.

Ausgehend von aktuellen Forschungsdiskussionen der internationalen Mediävistik wie der Frühneuzeitforschung wird in den Beiträgen dieses Tagungsbandes das spätmittelalterliche Supplikenwesen in West-, Mittel- und Südeuropa einer eingehenden Analyse unterzogen.

Die Vielgestaltigkeit und Tiefe mittelalterlicher Bildung und Wissenschaft wird häufig unterschätzt.

More Sermon Nuggets contains ninety-five topics treated in hundreds of Fred R.

Simultaneously real and unreal, the dead are people, yet they are not.

A King Travels examines the scripting and performance of festivals in Spain between 1327 and 1620, offering an unprecedented look at the different types of festivals that were held in Iberia during this crucial period of European history.

Analyses of different aspects of the history of warfare in the Mediterranean in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

This collection of essays offers important new insights across a range of topics relating to medicine in early modern Ireland.

Introduces the rich world of textiles made, traded, and exchanged across Eurasia from late antiquity to the late Middle Ages.

In this bold approach to late antiquity, Garth Fowden shows how, from the second-century peak of Rome's prosperity to the ninth-century onset of the Islamic Empire's decline, powerful beliefs in One God were used to justify and strengthen "e;world empires.

Nearly a century after it was first published in 1925, Medieval Cities remains one of the most provocative works of medieval history ever written.

In a poststructuralist study of thirteenth-century French historical texts, Gabrielle Spiegel investigates the reasons for the rise of French vernacular prose historiography at this particular time.

Little attention has been focused the representation of Muslims in medieval Germany.

Das Wort ›christianitas‹ fand als Chiffre für die mittelalterliche Idee der Christenheit Einzug in die Geschichtserzählungen zu Christentum, Papst- und Kaisertum, Kreuzzügen und Europa.

Middle English devotional compilations - consisting of a series of texts or extracts of texts that have intentionally been put together to constitute new and unified devotional texts - have often been approached as complex collections of source texts that need to be linked with their originals.

Die Welt des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit stehen im Mittelpunkt dieses dritten Bandes.

In Living Letters of the Law, Jeremy Cohen investigates the images of Jews and Judaism in the works of medieval Christian theologians from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas.

This is the first scholarly art-historical appraisal of Anglo-Saxon coinage, from its inception in the late sixth century to Offa's second reform of the penny c.

'A fascinating story about a religion in a surprisingly precarious position' Dan Jones, Sunday Times'Superb storytelling .

Richard III and Henry Tudor's legendary battle: one that changed the course of English history.

Southern Italy was conquered by the Norman Hauteville dynasty in the late eleventh century after over five hundred years of continuous Byzantine rule.

Detailed research into documentary sources offers an exciting new identification of the "e;real"e; Robin Hood.

Legitimizing the Queen deals with a genre particular to the Middle Ages: the specula principum (mirror of prince).

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An investigation into how racial stereotypes were created and used in the European Middle Ages.

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The Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1350-1600  explores the roles that Scotland and England play in one another's imaginations.

Essays demonstrating the importance and inflence of Italian culture on medieval Britain.

Die beiden Bände gehen auf eine internationale Tagung im Oktober 2006 über die Goldene Bulle Kaiser Karls IV.

The twelfth century in Europe, hailed by historians as a time of intellectual and spiritual vitality, had a dark side.