European history: medieval period, middle ages

An examination of coined money and its significance to rulers, aristocrats and peasants in early medieval EuropeBetween the end of the Roman Empire in the fifth century and the economic transformations of the twelfth, coined money in western Europe was scarce and high in value, difficult for the majority of the population to make use of.

Mother of Mercy, Bane of the Jews explores a key moment in the rise of the cult of the Virgin Mary and the way the Jews became central to her story.

The thirteenth century brought new urgency to Catholic efforts to convert non-Christians, and no Catholic ruler was more dedicated to this undertaking than King Louis IX of France.

This source book offers a comprehensive treatment of solitary religious lives in England in the late Middle Ages.

Hans-Christof Kraus analysiert die wichtigsten Entwicklungen in den Bereichen Kultur, Bildung und Wissenschaft in Deutschland während des 19.

Drawing on new historical principles, this book examines literary and historical narratives, legal statutes and records, sermons, lyric poetry, and biblical exegesis circulating in medieval England in order to theorize the figure of the outlaw and uncover the legal, ethical, and social assumptions that underlie the practice of outlawry.

Die Geschichte von Rungholt, der einst wohlhabenden Handelsmetropole, die in den Fluten der Nordsee verschwand, fasziniert seit Jahrhunderten.

This source book offers a comprehensive treatment of solitary religious lives in England in the late Middle Ages.

This book is the first to systematically examine the sources of medieval statistics.

Das Konzept der 'Kontingenz' liefert neue Erkenntnisse zum Übergang zwischen Spätantike und Frühmittelalter abseits altbekannter Meistererzählungen und Forschungsnarrative.

Civic identity and public space, focussing on Belfast, and bringing together the work of a historian and two social scientists, offers a new perspective on the sometimes lethal conflicts over parades, flags and other issues that continue to disrupt political life in Northern Ireland.

This book takes readers on a philosophical discovery of a forgotten treasure, one born in the 14th century but which appears to belong to the 21st.

Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation from-or antidote to-ten centuries of misogyny.

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.

John Morton - Cardinal, Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor - bestrode the Wars of the Roses.

Von den beeindruckenden Anfängen im Mittelalter bis zum unvermeidlichen Niedergang im 13.

Richard Whittington, known to many as Dick Whittington, was the hero of modern pantomime.

The theme of warfare as a collective enterprise investigated in the theatres of both land and sea.

In this intriguing book, best-selling author Alf Mapp, Jr.

This book challenges a common historical narrative, which portrays medieval Jews as moneylenders who filled an essential economic role in Europe.

Essays on costume, fabric and clothing in the Middle Ages and beyond.

Frühjahr 1101: Markgräfin Ida, die Mutter Leopolds "des Heiligen", bricht mit den Konventionen – sie unternimmt einen Kreuzzug ins ferne Heilige Land.

This is the first in-depth study of post-war female religious life.

First full-length study of the role and duties of the medieval cantor.

This volume brings together a team of leading scholars in Spanish studies to interrogate the contemporary significance of the medieval past, offering a counterbalance to intellectual withdrawal from urgent public debates.

In medieval literature, when humans and animals meet-whether as friends or foes-issues of mastery and submission are often at stake.

Essays throwing fresh light on what it was like to be a medieval soldier, drawing on archival research.

English Women's Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood uncovers a tradition of women's utopianism that extends back to medieval women's monasticism, overturning accounts of utopia that trace its origins solely to Thomas More.

An examination of changes in religious practice over the course of the long fourteenth century.

This book analyzes the interaction between gender and species in Chaucer's poetry and strives to understand his adaptation of medieval discourse through an ecofeminist lens.

This volume of essays explores the rise of parliament in the historical imagination of early modern England.

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Das visuelle Gesamtbild der durch die päpstliche Kanzlei ausgefertigten Urkunden zeichnete sich vom 12.

This collection of essays examines the history of urban leisure cultures in Europe during the transition from the early modern to the modern period.

This is the first book to examine the full range of the evidence for Irish charms, from medieval to modern times.

Schlafer looks at the preacher's task at the "e;high times"e; of the church and the secular year, those occasions on which expectations run high and emotions can be intense.

Kinderlosigkeit ist kein biologisches Schicksal, sondern sozial und kulturell geprägt, argumentiert Regina Toepfer.

Based on refractions of earlier beliefs, modern angels - at once terrible and comforting, frighteningly other and reassuringly beneficent - have acquired a powerful symbolic value.

This landmark book, the product of years of research by a team of two dozen historians, reveals that resistance to occupation by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy during the Second World War was not narrowly delineated by country but startlingly international.

As part of the historicizing corpus of seventh-century Irish writing, the Lives framed the narrative of the early saints as an effective weapon in contemporary political and ecclesiastical conflicts.