European history: medieval period, middle ages

This book demonstrates the evolution of resilience and recovery as a concept by applying it to a new context, that of courts and monarchies.

This book investigates adaptations of The Lady of Shalott and Elaine of Astolat in Victorian and post-Victorian popular culture to explore their engagement with medievalism, social constructions of gender, and representations of the role of art in society.

This ground-breaking study explores welfare institutions in western law in the middle ages and establishes, for the first time, a legal model for the hospital.

An order of warrior monks founded to protect pilgrims to Jerusalem, the Templars were among the wealthiest and most powerful bodies in the medieval world.

This book explores the experience of childhood and adolescence in later medieval English rural society from 1250 to 1450.

The Late Middle Ages (c.

From its inception in Greek antiquity, the science of optics was aimed primarily at explaining sight and accounting for why things look as they do.

This volume concerns premodern understandings of vegetal nature that encompass multiple semantics and perspectives.

In the 13th century, a group of heretics in southwest France, the Cathars, became a serious threat to the Catholic church.

This book provides a detailed analysis of women's involvement in litigation and other legal actions within their local communities in late-medieval England.

In an effort to counter the confusion and isolation often experienced by a novice synagogue-goer, as well as by many who regularly attend synagogue, The Synagogue Survival Kit: A Guide to Understanding Jewish Religious Services offers introductions and instructions for all aspects of the synagogue experience.

Mit außergewöhnlicher Schaffenskraft und immensem innovativen Gespür hat der Hamburger Historiker und Professor für mittelalterliche Geschichte Jürgen Sarnowsky die geschichtswissenschaftliche Forschung entscheidend geprägt.

A look at the history of censorship, science, and magic from the Middle Ages to the post-Reformation era.

This study re-examines Morgan le Fay in early medieval and contemporary Arthurian sources, arguing that she embodies the concerns of each era even as she defies social and gender expectations.

Das Mittelalter ist anders, fremd und für uns heute oft unverständlich & viele Forschungen der letzten Jahre befassten sich intensiv mit der Alterität, der Andersartigkeit des Mittelalters und seiner Akteure.

This book explores matters that have negatively affected the public image and led to distorted depictions of Islam from the late nineteenth century to the present.

Henry V, King of England and claimant to the throne of France, looked out across the field of Agincourt, the site of a remarkable victory, but there were few scenes of glory that met his eyes.

The key to understanding the emergence of the independent Irish state lies in the history of Home Rule.

This book investigates the pronounced enthusiasm that many traditions display for codes of ethics characterised by a multitude of rules.

Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of factual and fictional stories, The Golden Legend was perhaps the most widely read book, after the Bible, during the late Middle Ages.

This Encyclopedia is the first to compile pseudonyms from all over the world, from all ages and occupations in a single work: some 500,000 pseudonyms of roughly 270,000 people are deciphered here.

This study addresses the need to learn what medieval thinkers had to say about the concept of work by examining the thought of Peter Damian and numerous other religious leaders and groups of the High Middle Ages for evidence of their contributions, deepening our understanding of this concept.

Miriamne Ara Krummel challenges the accepted history of the English Middle Ages as a monolithic age of Christian faith.

This book examines the rise and fall of the aristocratic Lacy family in England, Ireland, Wales and Normandy.

The Staufers were indisputably one of the most powerful dynasties of the High Middle Ages, and also amongst the most fascinating.

Die Geschichte der Burgundischen Niederlande ist bestimmt von machtvollen Auseinandersetzungen, in deren Zentrum als treibende Kraft die Herzöge von Burgund aus dem Haus Valois standen.

This is the first comprehensive biography of Fulk Nerra, an important medieval ruler, who came to power in his teens and rose to be master in the west of the French Kingdom.

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

Between late antiquity and the fifteenth century, theologians, philosophers, and poets struggled to articulate the correct relationship between sound and sense, creating taxonomies of sounds based on their capacity to carry meaning.

Across history, the ideas and practices of male identity have varied much between time and place: masculinity proves to be a slippery concept, not available to all men, sometimes even applied to women.

Das Ende der 1980er Jahre brachte nicht nur große politische Umbrüche in Europa, sondern auch einen Paradigmenwechsel in der Geschichtswissenschaft.

What comes to mind when we think of swans?

A comprehensive account of the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine.

The extraordinary growth and development of the cult of St Thomas Becket is investigated here, with a particular focus on its material culture.

New interpretations of the effect of Magna Carta and other aspects of the reign of King John.

This book provides an interpretive narrative of the wars fought by Bulgaria against the Byzantine Empire for dominant control of the Balkan Peninsula during the early medieval era.

This volume examines the teaching of Jewishness within the context of medieval England.

This volume explores a range of premodern rulers and their depictions in historiography, literature, art and material culture to gain a broader understanding of their sexualities.