European history: medieval period, middle ages

This book analyses how the three books of visions by Hildegard of Bingen use the allegorical vision as a form of knowledge.

This book provides an annotated source edition of the only two extant documents related to the sorcery trial brought against Pes de Guoythie and Condesse de Beheythie in Lower Navarre, in 1370.

Constance of France: Womanhood and Agency in Twelfth-Century Europe is a biography of Constance of France, sister of King Louis VII of France.

This book examines discourses around infertility and views of childlessness in medieval and early modern Europe.

In recent decades the concept of Mediterranean has been cited with increasing frequency in relation to the study of medieval literatures.

This book synthesizes three fields of inquiry on the cutting edge of scholarship in medieval studies and world history: the history of medieval Sicily; the history of maritime violence, often named as piracy; and digital humanities.

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.

This book explores the reign of Constantine the Great (306-337) and, more generally, the political history of the third century, thus putting Constantine's career and many of his decisions in context.

Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to "e;plague writing"e; from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century.

Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism is a cross-cultural analysis of the role that alcohol consumption played in literature, social and cultural history, and gender roles in the Middle Ages.

Considerations about size and scale have always played a central role within Greek and Roman visual culture, deeply affecting sculptural production.

This book examines the Danish Empire, which for over four hundred years stretched from Northern Norway to Hamburg and was feared by small German principalities to the South.

This book explores modern representations of the Black Death, a medieval pandemic.

This book, based on a fresh understanding of Scottish governmental records rooted in extensive archival research, offers the first study of these important institutions in a period of revived royal authority.

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 explores one of the most significant medieval saints' cults, that of St.