European history: medieval period, middle ages

Despite attempts to suppress early women's speech, this study demonstrates that women were still actively engaged in cultural practices and speech strategies that were both complicit with the patriarchal ideology whilst also undermining it.

A microhistory of a never-married English gentlewoman named Elizabeth Isham, this book centres on an extremely rare piece of women's writing - a recently discovered 60,000-word spiritual autobiography held in Princeton's manuscript collections that she penned around 1639.

This book brings together theories of world society with poststructuralist and postcolonial work on modern subjectivity to understand the universalising and particularising processes of globalisation.

First comprehensive study of four important medieval saints' lives, setting them in their political and ecclesiastical context.

The historical relationship between the Catalan and Occitan languages had a definitive impact on the linguistic identity of the powerful Crown of Aragon and the emergent Spanish Empire.

Presents a wealth of original research findings on how medieval ports actually worked, providing new insights on shipping, trade, port society and culture, and systems of regional and international integration.

Die Forschung zur städtischen Geschichtsschreibung des Spätmittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten zahlreiche Impulse erhalten.

Angesichts aktueller Diskussionen über den Kulturraum Europa unternehmen es die Autoren des Bandes, die kartographisch-geographischen Grundlagen des Mittelalters zu erfassen und die kulturwissenschaftlich determinierten Funktionen des Kartierens am Beispiel Europa zu erläutern.

A story that follows a simple trajectory is seldom worth telling.

This book is based on the postmedieval journal special issue Critical Confessions Now.

What did it mean to be a man in medieval England?

People from the British and Irish Isles have, for centuries, migrated to all corners of the globe.

This book makes an important contribution to the ongoing debate over the emergence of an early modern 'public sphere'.

Kein Herrscher regiert alleine, sondern nur im Verbund mit anderen.

The early chroniclers of Britain presented the island as the promised land of the Roman goddess Diana.

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Detailed account and analysis of a major event of the Hundred Years War, stressing the logistical efforts behind the fighting.

The legend of King Arthur is embedded in British and American culture.

The end of Roman Britain and the arrival of the invading Saxons forms part of the most disruptive period in Britain's history.

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

This book is an investigation of the foundation and evolution of romance in Iceland.

First English translation of the chivalric biography of one of France's leading figures of the middle ages.

This book analyzes Byzantine examples of witness literature, a genre that focuses on eyewitness accounts written by slaves, prisoners, refugees, and other victims of historical atrocity.

The key to understanding the emergence of the independent Irish state lies in the history of Home Rule.

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

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Examining Malory's political language, this study offers a revisionary view of Arthur's kingship in the Morte Darthur and the role of the Round Table fellowship.

New investigation of John Wyclif's writings on the theory of the "e;just war"e; shows him to be the first genuine pacifist of medieval Europe.

Works on Anglo-Saxon kingship often take as their starting point the line from Beowulf: 'that was a good king'.

In this intimate portrait of one of the Middle Ages' most consequential men, Brian Patrick McGuire delves into the life of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux to offer a refreshing interpretation that finds within this grand historical figure a deeply spiritual human being who longed for the reflective quietude of the monastery even as he helped shape the destiny of a church and a continent.

A new and accessible translation of Hariulf's History of St Riquier, this book examines the history of a monastic community from the seventh to the eleventh century.

This book examines the social role of castles in late-medieval and early modern Ireland.

Old Norse texts offer different ideas about what it is to be female, presenting women in diverse social and economic positions.

Working at the intersection of medical, theological, cultural, and literary studies, this book offers an innovative approach to understanding maternity, genealogy and social identity as they are represented in popular literature in late-medieval England.

Essays looking at the links between England and Europe in the long thirteenth century.

Towards the end of the fourth century they emerge in the entourage of Roman officers, civil servants, and private persons--buccellarii.

Roadworks: Medieval Britain, medieval roads is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study of roads and wayfinding in medieval England, Wales and Scotland.

In dieser Geschichte der Gynäkologie des Spätmittelalters wertet Britta-Juliane Kruse bislang unbekannte Rezeptsammlungen und Traktate aus, auf deren Grundlage Ärztinnen und Hebammen Krankheiten therapierten oder die zur Eigenbehandlung von Frauen dienten.

If the vibrancy on display in Thinking in the Past Tense is any indication, the study of intellectual history is enjoying an unusually fertile period in both Europe and North America.

This book considers the ways that representations of Africa have contributed to the changing nature of British national identity.

Authoritative reference guide, using the documents in which arms and armour first appeared to explain and define them.

This is the first book in English to provide a comprehensive examination of the hospital movement that arose and prospered in northern Italy between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries.

Uno de los grandes temas históricos, el de las revoluciones burguesas en la Edad Media, fue abordado con singular fecundidad por los historiadores liberales, para quienes tales insurrecciones marcaron el lejano inicio de las revoluciones burguesas de Inglaterra en el siglo XVII y de Francia entre 1789 y 1830, o contribuyeron a la formación del capitalismo al impulsar el comercio y los burgos.

New perspectives on and interpretations of the popular medieval genre of the universal chronicle.