European history: medieval period, middle ages

In The Last Ta'ifa, Anthony H.

In the early middle ages the Christian presence in the Middle East took a series of blows from often superior Muslim forces, only for a fresh wave of Crusaders to regain territory.

This innovative critical volume brings the study of Margery Kempe into the twenty-first century.

Die interdisziplinär angelegte Studie widmet sich der Untersuchung der Überlieferungs- und Textgeschichte, der literarischen Autorschaft und den Erzählverfahren frauenmystischer Viten- und Offenbarungsliteratur des Spätmittelalters.

This is Not a Grail Romance provides answers to some of the most important questions surrounding the medieval Welsh Arthurian tale Historia Peredur vab Efrawc, one of the few surviving medieval Welsh narrative compositions, and an important member of the 'Grail' family of medieval European narratives.

This collection examines gender and Otherness as tools to understand medieval and early modern art as products of their social environments.

In einer Zeit, in der die katholische Kirche durch das abendländische Schisma gespalten und die Christenheit tief verunsichert war, trat Gregor XII.

This book explores an alternate history of the power and agency of 30 Hungarian queens over 400 years by a rigorous examination of the material culture connected with their lives.

Is modern racism a product of secularisation and the decline of Christian universalism?

This book examines the emergence of the queen consort in medieval England, beginning with the pre-Conquest era and ending with death of Margaret of France, second wife of Edward I, in 1307.

This is a fascinating collection of essays illustrating the latest thought on the crucial decade of the 1670s in Britain.

First recent full-length analysis of a major medieval poem.

This study examines the monsters that haunt twelfth-century British texts, arguing that in these strange bodies are expressed fears and fantasies about community, identity and race during the period.

A new investigation into the twelfth-century accounts of the First Crusade, showing their complex relationship with the Bible.

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.

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

A fascinating history of marginalized identities in the medieval worldWhile the term "e;intersectionality"e; was coined in 1989, the existence of marginalized identities extends back over millennia.

Introduces the rich world of textiles made, traded, and exchanged across Eurasia from late antiquity to the late Middle Ages.

Magic is a universal phenomenon.

What comes to mind when we think of swans?

This collection of essays offers fresh analysis of topics in the exciting area of Atlantic World studies.

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

Humans have been uttering profane words and incurring the consequences for millennia.

Full of passion and betrayal, murder and war, the first volume of an epic new series from bestselling historian Alison Weir, bringing five of England's medieval queens to life.

Written to celebrate the prestigious career of Professor Denys Pringle, this collection of articles produced by many of the leading archaeologists and historians in the field of crusades studies offers a compilation of pioneering scholarship on recent studies on the Latin East.

How and why early modern European artisans began to record their knowledge.

In the tension between competing ideas of authority and the urge to literary experiment, writers of the High Middle Ages produced some of their most distinctive achievements.

A major reassessment of the vikings and their legacyThe Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by myth.

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

Taking as its starting point two uprisings in England and Germany (Richard Marshal in 1233-4 and Henry (VII) in 1234-5), this book offers a new take on the political culture of high medieval Europe.

Das umfangreiche geographische Lexikon, verfasst um 530 n.

Interest in Jewish mysticism is, in our generation, widespread and growing.

*; Examines the esoteric side of texts and tales from the Middle Ages, including the enduring presence of haunted areas and power places and the roles of witches, house spirits, rune priests, shapeshifters, and the undead*; Discusses the dividing line between magic and deviltry, as well as the significance of grimoires, bells, blacksmiths, storm callers, and more*; Serves as a guide to a still-present magical and imaginal realm, pointing readers to the borderlands and liminal thresholds that enable access to the other worldIn this new collection of his writings, scholar and Sorbonne professor Claude Lecouteux reveals that the magical world of the distant past is real and still very presentif you know where to look.

Valentio Di' Buondelmonte is a Tragedy in Five Acts, in two Parts, based on tragic historical events in Florence, Italy, in 1215 A.

Jews were excluded from most professions in medieval, predominantly Christian Europe.

First full-length examination of bastardy in Scotland during the period, exploring its many ramifications throughout society.

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.