European history: medieval period, middle ages

This volume presents a penetrating interview and sixteen essays that explore key intersections of medieval religion and philosophy.

First full collection on the seven most significant English mappae mundi from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

L'Arxiu Municipal de Vila-real conserva un total de seixanta-quatre Manuals de Consells que abasten des de l'any 1377 fins al 1521, cinc dels quals –els corresponents al segle XIV– són els transcrits en aquest volum (1377-1378; 1382-1383; 1383-1384; 1388-1389 i 1393-1394).

Exploring Latin texts, as well as Old French, Castilian and Occitan songs and lyrics, Remembering the Crusades in Medieval Texts and Songs takes inspiration from the new ways scholars are looking to trace the dissemination and influence of the memories and narratives surrounding the crusading past in medieval Europe.

Faszination Stadt – auch im Unterricht?

This book is a detailed but accessible treatment of the political thought of John of Salisbury, a twelfth-century author and educationalist who rose from a modest background to become Bishop of Chartres.

In 1445 a fifteen-year-old French girl left her homeland to marry the son of the great warrior Henry V.

This book presents new research on the histories and legacies of the German Expressionist group Blaue Reiter, the founding force behind modernist abstraction.

The Reformed tradition of worship in England has given the English-speaking world the Westminster Directory for the Public Worship of God, and the hymns of Isaac Watts.

Die in der Stiftsbibliothek Kremsmünster verwahrte Handschrift CC 264 entstand kurz vor 1500 in der Gegend von Nürnberg und diente als "Hausbuch" dem praktischen Gebrauch in verschiedenen Lebenslagen: Astrologische, prognostische und medizinische Texte belehren seine Benützer*innen, welche Tätigkeiten man an bestimmten Tagen unglücksfrei verrichten kann und welche zu meiden sind, welche Speisen man an ihnen essen soll, wie die Planeten auf Gesundheit, Krankheit und soziale Beziehungen einwirken und wie man Träume deutet.

This book provides an analytical overview of the vast range of historiography which was produced in western Europe over a thousand-year period between c.

Proposing a fresh theoretical approach to the study of cinematic portrayals of the Middle Ages, this book uses both semiotics and historiography to demonstrate how contemporary filmmakers have attempted to recreate the past in a way that, while largely imagined, is also logical, meaningful, and as truthful as possible.

The medieval church was founded on and governed by concepts of faith and trust--but not in the way that is popularly assumed.

A new historical framework integrating Islam into European and Asian historyIslam emerged amid flourishing Christian and Jewish cultures, yet students of Antiquity and the Middle Ages mostly ignore it.

The story of the war at sea in the reign of Edward III, including the important sea battles, and an analysis of the development of the English navy in the period.

Seine Geschichte wird man nicht los, sie sitzt einem in den Knochen und in der Seele.

Groundbreaking new approach to the idea of treason in medieval England, showing the profound effect played by gender.

In this exciting collection of hymns, Kim Fabricius not only skillfully guides us through the Christian year--from Advent and Christmas, through Lent, to Easter and Pentecost--he also imaginatively explores the church's perennial themes: the mystery of God, creation and providence, suffering and death, worship and prayer.

The Repentant Abelard is both an innovative study and English translation of the late poetic works of controversial medieval philosopher and logician Peter Abelard, written for his beloved wife Heloise and son Astralabe.

This collection investigates the wide array of local antiquarian practices that developed across Europe in the early modern era.

Who governs Britain?

A bold new religious history of the late antique and medieval Middle East that places ordinary Christians at the center of the storyIn the second half of the first millennium CE, the Christian Middle East fractured irreparably into competing churches and Arabs conquered the region, setting in motion a process that would lead to its eventual conversion to Islam.

A collection of the most significant articles in castle studies, with contributions from scholars in history, archaeology, historic buildings and landscape archaeology.

Leonardo von Pisa – besser bekannt als Fibonacci – revolutionierte das europäische Verständnis von Mathematik.

The brilliantly compelling new biography of the treacherous and tyrannical King John, published to coincide with the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.

First translation into English of a wide-ranging military treatise from the late middle ages.

The Middle Ages in Western Europe extended from roughly 500 to 1500 c.

Edmund Spenser's vast epic poem The Faerie Queene is the most challenging masterpiece in early modern literature and is praised as the work most representative of the Elizabethan age.

This book examines the power held by the French medieval queens during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and their larger roles within the kingdom at a time when women were excluded from succession to the throne.

Modern scholarship generally treats the "e;debate about women"e; (querelle des femmes) as a late medieval phenomenon, perhaps touched upon by canonic authors like Chaucer but truly begun by Christine de Pizan (1364-1429), and therefore primarily of English and French origin.

It has long been an accepted assumption that the abstracted mode of visual representation that emerged in late antiquity reflected a collective shift from the outer-directed and 'material' world-view of classical antiquity to an inner-directed, 'spiritual' mentality informed by Christianity: the purpose of this volume is to offer a more nuanced and diverse image of the nature and meanings of abstraction and symbolism in late antique and early medieval art, beyond normative intepretation models, and from a number of different methodological and interpretative perspectives.

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

Science, the Singular, and the Question of Theology explores the role that the singular plays in the theories of science of Robert Grosseteste, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, Marsilius of Inghen, and Pierre d'Ailly.

With the rapid development of the cognitive sciences and their importance to how we contemplate questions about the mind and society, recent research in the humanities has been characterised by a 'cognitive turn'.

All groups tell stories about their beginnings.

In the West, monastic ideals and scholastic pursuits are complementary; monks are popularly imagined copying classics, preserving learning through the Middle Ages, and establishing the first universities.

This book presents a series of narratives that reflect the compelling and sometimes dangerous allure of the world of books - and the world in books - in late-medieval Britain.

This groundbreaking interdisciplinary collection of essays by American, British, and Iberian scholars examines the literary, historical, and artistic exchanges between England and Iberia from the Twelfth to Fifteenth century.

A collection of essays by leading scholars that investigates the significance of Wales's medieval religious houses in the development of Welsh society, politics and culture.

Scientific governance in Britain, 1914-79 examines the connected histories of how science was governed, and used in governance, in twentieth-century Britain.

First full analysis of the rich records surviving from medieval English town courts.

The varied cultural functions of dress, textiles, and clothwork are used in this collection of essays to examine long-standing assumptions about the Middle Ages.