European history: medieval period, middle ages

Fruits of the most recent research on the thirteenth century in both England and Europe.

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A full, lavishly illustrated study of a nobleman whose exploits became the stuff of medieval romance, once recounted in the same breath as Robin Hood.

This groundbreaking book is an indispensable contribution to appreciating the dilemmas facing Ireland in the 'age of Brexit'.

This study offers a new interpretation of the debates over education and politics in the early years of the French Revolution.

This study of early modern queenship compares the reign of Henry VII's queen, Elizabeth of York, and those of her daughters-in-law, the six queens of Henry VIII.

This book explores the uncharted territory of the history of archaeology under Communism through the biographies of five women archaeologists from the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, and Poland.

This book examines the many ways Byzantines lived with their trees.

This is the first full-length study of a Welsh family of the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries who were not drawn from the princely class.

Pride in prejudice offers a concise introduction to extreme right cultures in Britain today, exploring the origins of this complex movement and the numerous groups and activists that make up Britain's contemporary extreme right.

Micro Middle Ages brings together five microhistorical case studies focusing on small or seemingly inconsequential evidence that leads to broader conclusions about  medieval history and the way we do and understand history in general.

Die hier erstmals veröffentlichte Ethikvorlesung spiegelt die Theologie Albrecht Ritschls (1822 – 1889) zu jener Zeit wider, als er mit seinem Hauptwerk „Rechtfertigung und Versöhnung” (1870 – 74) zum bedeutendsten evangelischen Theologen in Deutschland aufgestiegen war.

Clothing, jewelry, animal remains, ceramics, coins, and weaponry are among the artifacts that have been discovered in graves in Gaul dating from the fifth to eighth century.

Warum wurden in Zeiten von Krisen und Umbrüchen immer wieder unschuldige Menschen zu Sündenböcken gemacht?

2023 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards Best Jewish Food Culture Book; 2022 National Jewish Book Award FinalistA fascinating study that will appeal to both culinarians and readers interested in the intersecting histories of food, Sephardic Jewish culture, and the Mediterranean world of Iberia and northern Africa.

Medievalists have long taught that highly emotional Christian devotion, often called 'affective piety', appeared in Europe after the twelfth century and was primarily practiced by communities of mendicants, lay people and women.

The relationship between Anglo-Saxon kingship, law, and the functioning of power is explored via a number of different angles.

First survey of one of the most important pre-modern farming systems, and its effects on society and landscape.

A history of the development of Lowestoft from its origins to the flourishing medieval town it became.

Taking as its starting point an investigation into the physical topography and symbolism of the two cities of Athens and Jerusalem, this book offers a cultural history of the rival superpowers-the Byzantine Empire and Fatimid Caliphate-that between them dominated the Mediterranean world during the Central Middle Ages.

Indispensable immigrants recreates the world of peasants who streamed into the cities of late medieval and early modern northern Italy to carry crushingly heavy containers of wine.

The history of the Western church in the Middle Ages is the history of the most elaborate and thoroughly integrated system of religious thought and practice the world has ever known.

As cultural practice, the early modern duel both indicated and shaped the gender assumptions of wealthy young men; it served, in fact, as a nexus for different, often competing, notions of masculinity.

Examines a range of texts commemorating European holy women from the ninth through fifteenth centuries.

It has long been said that a woman's hair is her crowning glory.

Der Band bündelt exemplarische Zugänge zur Konfliktgeschichte der Religionen und Kulturen.

Medievalists reading and writing about and around authority-related themes lack clear definitions of its actual meanings in the medieval context.

Full-length study of the warfare between England and Scotland in the mid fourteenth century.

Lucrezia Marinella (1571-1653) is, by all accounts, a phenomenon in early modernity: a woman who wrote and published in many genres, whose fame shone brightly within and outside her native Venice, and whose voice is simultaneously original and reflective of her time and culture.

Crusading kings such as Louis IX of France and Richard I of England exert a unique hold on our historical imagination.

King Henry V saw his reign and military efforts in France as a holy crusade to reclaim the French throne for his ancestors.

Charlemagne's Mustache presents the reader with seven engaging studies, 'thick descriptions', of cultural life and thought in the Carolingian world.

In der Frage, wie sich die Reformation auf den Alltag der damaligen Menschen, ihre Wahrnehmung und ihre Selbstrepräsentation ausgewirkt hat, wurden Gegenstände der materiellen Kultur bisher nur am Rande berücksichtigt.

This book studies the way in which medieval ways of knowing the Oriental 'other' were constructed around the idea of a utopic East as located in the legend and Letter of Prester John (c.

In Truly Beyond Wonders Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis investigates texts and material evidence associated with healing pilgrimage in the Roman empire during the second century AD.

This practical text examines the various styles of music and features specific suggestions for each piece of service music, hymn, and song with the aim of assisting music leaders to enrich meaningful worship.