European history: medieval period, middle ages

The modern prison is commonly thought to be the fruit of an Enlightenment penology that stressed man's ability to reform his soul.

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.

Historians typically single out the hundred-year period from about 1050 to 1150 as the pivotal moment in the history of the Latin Church, for it was then that the Gregorian Reform movement established the ecclesiastical structure that would ensure Rome's dominance throughout the Middle Ages and beyond.

The medieval film genre is not, in general, concerned with constructing a historically accurate past, but much analysis nonetheless centers on highlighting anachronisms.

The four beautiful, cultured and clever daughters of the Count and Countess of Provence made illustrious marriages and lived at the epicentre of political power and intrigue in 13th-century Europe.

Using wide-ranging evidence, Martyn Whittock shines a light on Britain in the Middle Ages, bringing it vividly to life in this fascinating new portrait that brings together the everyday and the extraordinary.

An account of the naval commander Roger of Lauria and his command of warfare at sea.

From humble beginnings as slaves in Egypt, the Mamluks trained as soldiers and rose in status to seize control of the largest empire in Islam.

This book offers analyses of texts from medieval France influenced by Ovid's myth of Narcissus including the Lay of Narcissus, Alain de Lille's Plaint of Nature, Rene d'Anjou's Love-Smitten Heart, Chretien de Troyes's Story of the Grail and Guillaume de Machaut's Fountain of Love.

In the early medieval world, the way people remembered the past changed how they saw the present.

With its mix of family drama, sex and violence, Britain's Tudor dynasty (1485-1603) has long excited the interest of filmmakers and moviegoers.

Alice Chaucer, Countess of Salisbury and Duchess of Suffolk, is one of the very rare people, and the only woman, not born to nobility who became an important political player in the upheaval of fifteenth-century England.

Im mittelalterlichen Europa prägten Burgen und Schlösser nicht nur die Landschaft, sondern auch die politischen und gesellschaftlichen Strukturen ihrer Zeit.

Frederic Zangel zeigt in seiner Arbeit, dass die populäre Verknüpfung der Begriffe "Burgen" mit "Rittertum" zu kurz greift.

First collective study of the Anglo-Norman prose chronicles, bringing out their essential characteristics, setting them in context, and showing their writers' aims and objectives.

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This book illuminates Byzantines' relationship with woodland between the seventh and twelfth centuries.

*; Full-color, revised edition *; Plans for weddings, holiday parties, and Renaissance fairs *; Ideas for properly decorating the dining hall *; Lyrics and music for songs and dances *; Recipes for food and drink *; Patterns for period costumes *; Games and plays

The phrase "e;The Black Legend"e; was coined in 1912 by a Spanish journalist in protest of the characterization of Spain by other Europeans as a backward country defined by ignorance, superstition, and religious fanaticism, whose history could never recover from the black mark of its violent conquest of the Americas.

This book gathers contributions negotiating feminism's place within medieval studies.

The later twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a pivotal period for the development of European government and governance.

Memory and the future of Europe examines the role of collective memory in the origins and development of the European Union.

This vivid and and comprehensive account of the politics, religion, and culture of England in the century and a half after the Norman Conquest lays bare the patterns of everyday life, and increases our understanding of medieval society at a time when England was more closely tied to Europe than ever before.

This book investigates the troubled relationship between medieval studies and medievalism.

Das Hauptwerk Juan de Torquemadas (1388-1468), die Summa de Ecclesia, hatte einen erheblichen Anteil am Wiedererstarken des Papsttums nach den Wirren des Schismas.

A sweeping history of Islam and the West from the seventh century to todayEurope and the Islamic World sheds much-needed light on the shared roots of Islamic and Western cultures and on the richness of their inextricably intertwined histories, refuting once and for all the misguided notion of a "e;clash of civilizations"e; between the Muslim world and Europe.

An exciting, fresh look at one of the most important questions of medieval scholarship - the decline of serfdom and its implications.

A surprising look at how ancestry still determines social outcomesHow much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents?

This book seeks to explain how consumption - a horrible disease - came to be the glamorous and artistic Romantic malady.

Distinguished scholar James D.

Carmarthen Castle was one of the largest castles in medieval Wales.

A fresh consideration of the enduring tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins, showing its continuing post-medieval influence.

Contrary to the widespread view that women exercised economic autonomy only in widowhood, Hutton argues that marital status was not the chief determinant of women's economic activities in the mid-fourteenth century and that women managed their own wealth to a far greater extent than previously recognized.

This collection investigates how the late-medieval household acted as a sorter, user and disseminator of different kinds of ready information, from the traditional and authoritative to the innovative and newly made.

Seit Jahrhunderten inspiriert die Geschichte von Robin Hood Menschen weltweit – der edle Räuber, der den Reichen nahm und den Armen gab.

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People have been looking for the sites of the long-lost and mysterious battles of King Arthur for a thousand years.

Argues for a new context for the origins and development of crusading, as an imitation of Christ.

Cardiganshire County History Volume 2 is published by the University of Wales Press on behalf of the Ceredigion Historical Society, in association with the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.