European history: medieval period, middle ages

Although King John is remembered for his political and military failures, he also resided over a magnificent court.

Key scholars in the field of lesbian and sexuality studies take part in an innovative conversation that offers a radical new methodology for writing lesbian history and geography, drawing new conclusions on the important and often overlooked work being done on female same-sex desire and identity in relation to premodern cultures.

The essays within Beyond Catholicism trace the interconnections of belief, heresy, and mysticism in Italian culture from the Middle Ages to today.

In this fully illustrated ebook, TV's Dan Snow brings to life a cavalcade of medieval fortifications and allows the reader to experience the clashes up close.

The Muslim conquest of Iberia in 711 began nearly eight centuries of struggle for control of the peninsula.

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

The two-and-a-half centuries after 1066 were momentous ones in the history of Britain.

For almost forty years the study of the Iron Age in Britain has been dominated by Professor Sir Barry Cunliffe.

Demonic possession was a spiritual state that often had physical symptoms; however, in Demonic Possession and Lived Religion in Later Medieval Europe, Sari Katajala-Peltomaa argues that demonic possession was a social phenomenon which should be understood with regard to the community and culture.

In The Seigneurial Transformation, Alessio Fiore discusses the transformation of the fabric of power in the kingdom of Italy in the period between the late eleventh century and the early twelfth century.

First comprehensive study of miracles in Crusade narrative, showing how and why they were deployed by their authors.

This groundbreaking collection explores the key roles that Mediterranean queens played as wives, as mothers, and above all as political actors.

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 book explores intermedial compositional processes in later Byzantium, building on the Akathistos Hymnos.

Ross Dunn here recounts the great traveler's remarkable career, interpreting it within the cultural and social context of Islamic society and giving the reader both a biography of an extraordinary personality and a study of the hemispheric dimensions of human interchange in medieval times.

This case study of the causes of the Thirty Years' War suggests an alternative framework to that of Absolutism, and views statebuilding as an interactive bargaining process that can engender challenges to political authority.

This study of tangible and intangible cultural heritage explains the significance of nobles' conservationist traditions for public engagement with the history of France.

Superior Women examines the claims of abbesses of the abbey of Sainte-Croix in medieval Poitiers to authority from the abbey's foundation to its 1520 reform.

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.

Interdisciplinary study of chapels provides a more complex and fuller picture of engagement with the Church and Christianity in the Middle Ages.

This book examines the remarkable Velestino hoard, found in Thessaly in the 1920s, and analyses the light that this collection of artifacts sheds on a poorly studied period of Byzantine history, and on largely neglected aspects of Byzantine civilization.

A comprehensive account of the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine.

The Late Middle Ages (c.

In April 1204, the armies of Western Christendom wrote another bloodstained chapter in the history of holy war.

This book is aimed at students coming to the study of western European medieval history for the first time, and also graduate students on interdisciplinary medieval studies programmes.

What was the Holy Roman Empire in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries?

First full investigation into the men of Agincourt - their service, backgrounds, lives and experiences.

Joan of Arc is an unusual saint.

In Antike und Mittelalter sind im euromediterranen Raum nur vereinzelt Frauen als Herrscherinnen nachweisbar, die Regierungsgeschäfte aktiv und eigenständig führten.

Medieval Welsh Pilgrimage, c.

Chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Daily Telegraph, TLS, BBC History Magazine and Tablet'Compulsive, brilliantly clear and superbly well-written, it's a charismatic evocation of another world' Ian Mortimer, author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval EnglandThe Middle Ages were a time of wonder.

Written following the collapse of Rome's secular control over western Europe, the History of Gregory (c.

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

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Highlights "e;the range and richness of scholarship on medieval warfare, military institutions, and cultures of conflict that characterize the field"e;.

An interdisciplinary history of standardized measurements.

Moses Maimonides, bekannt als der Rambam, zahlt zu den einflussreichsten Denkern des Mittelalters.

Magic and Impotence in the Middle Ages investigates the common medieval belief that magic could cause impotence, focusing particularly on the period 1150-1450.

Creating Community with Food and Drink in Merovingian Gaul exposes the manner in which feasting and fasting, in other words, ritualized actions not performed solely for the purpose of nourishment, were central to social interaction in Gaul both prior and subsequent to Christianization of the mixed population of Franks and Gallo-Romans.

Tracing the subject from the Middle Ages to the present, David Nash outlines the history of blasphemy as a concept - from a species of heresy to modern understandings of it as a crime against the sacred and individual religious identity.

In Renaissance Europe, when 'leisure classes' used social gathering to define civility and the commercialization of leisure was beginning, the human need for recreation became a cultural topos.

This is a critical edition and translation of the medieval local history of Balkh, known as Fada?

This book uses Pseudo-Dionysius and his mystic theology to explore attitudes and beliefs about images in the early medieval West and Byzantium.

By the mid-sixteenth century, Jews in the cities of Italy were being crowded into compulsory ghettos as a result of the oppressive policies of Pope Paul IV and his successors.

A magisterial survey of Normandy from its origins in the tenth century to its conquest some two hundred years later.

The leading academic vehicle for scholarly publication in the field of medieval warfare.

Over six hundred years before John Milton's Paradise Lost, Anglo-Saxon authors told their own version of the fall of the angels.