European history: medieval period, middle ages

This book challenges the notion that economic crises aremodern phenomena through its exploration of the tumultuous credit-crunch ofthe later Middle Ages.

First full-scale account of the medieval realm of Powys.

A fascinating account of the phenomenon known as the Black Death, this volume offers a wealth of documentary material focused on the initial outbreak of the plague that ravaged the world in the 14th century.

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

"e;The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audiences for years to come.

Published over forty years ago, the original edition of Titled Elizabethans provided a ready reference source to Elizabethan court, state, and household.

Charlemagne is probably the most well-known ruler of the Middle Ages: the most important offspring of the Carolingians, as a "constructor of Europe", he coined the times in the long-term and fascinated subsequent generations.

The dominant Mediterranean power in the fifth and sixth centuries, by the time of its demise at the hands of the Ottomans in 1453 the Byzantine empire was a shadow of its former self restricted essentially to the city of Constantinople, modern Istanbul.

The curious paradox of romance is that, throughout its history, this genre has been dismissed as trivial and unintellectual, yet people have never ceased to flock to it with enthusiasm and even fervor.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der Merowinger, der ersten fränkischen Königsfamilie, deren Geheimnisse und Mythen bis heute die Geschichtswissenschaften herausfordern.

Civilised by beasts tells the story of nineteenth-century Dublin through human-animal relationships.

This book explores social cohesion in rural settlements in western Europe from 700-1050, asking to what extent settlements, or districts, constituted units of social organisation.

This collection of essays explores the literary legacy of medieval England by examining the writers, editors and exemplars of medieval English texts.

The Malleus Maleficarum is one of the best-known treatises dealing with the problem of what to do with witches.

Yolande of Aragon is one of the most intriguing of late medieval queens who contrived to be everywhere and nowhere, operating seamlessly from backstage and center stage.

This book is the culmination of and a collection of distinguished scholar Lawrence Officer's principal research over 50 years of scholarly activity.

This book explores the uncharted territory of the history of archaeology under Communism through the biographies of five women archaeologists from the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, and Poland.

A comprehensive survey of the origins, development, and influence of the most important monastic order in the middle ages.

In Imagination, Meditation, and Cognition in the Middle Ages, Michelle Karnes revises the history of medieval imagination with a detailed analysis of its role in the period's meditations and theories of cognition.

For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe s transition to the modern world: Byzantium.

Food and diet are central to understanding daily life in the middle ages.

Legitimizing the Queen deals with a genre particular to the Middle Ages: the specula principum (mirror of prince).

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.

A "e;brisk and entertaining"e; (Wall Street Journal) journey into the mystery behind why the forbidden fruit became an apple, upending an explanation that stood for centuries.

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

Considering a wide array of sources, this book reveals the tenacity with which Alfonso II (1162-1196) and his son Peter II (1196-1213) of the Crown of Aragon forged a tighter Mediterranean regional network and augmented their regional success.

The Woodville family are synonymous with the Wars of the Roses.

The period from the late tenth to the early fourteenth centuries was one of the most dynamic in European history.

This book uses, principally but not only, a case study of the Denbighshire town of Ruthin to discuss both the significance of Englishness versus Welshness and of gender distinctions in the network of small Anglo-Welsh urban centres which emerged in north Wales following the English conquest of 1282.

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This ground-breaking book traces the story of castles at war in England and Wales from their introduction by the Normans in the eleventh century until the end of the reign of Henry VIII in the sixteenth century.

A landmark of scholarship on medieval Scotland.

One of the most popular and widely read books of the Middle Ages, Physiologus contains allegories of beasts, stones, and trees both real and imaginary, infused by their anonymous author with the spirit of Christian moral and mystical teaching.

Im April 1024 zogen die ersten Mönche in die neu gegründete Benediktinerabtei St.

Scholar, churchman, diplomat and theologian, Gerald of Wales was one of the most fascinating figures of the Middle Ages and The Journey Through Wales describes his eventful tour of the country as a missionary in 1188.

Erleben Sie die faszinierende Geschichte der Habsburger-Dynastie, die ihren Ursprung in der bescheidenen Landschaft der Schweiz nahm und sich zu einer der mächtigsten Herrscherfamilien Europas entwickelte.

During the late 12th century, the Arthurian legends first took their form in the imagination of French-speaking romancers.

The Chronicles of Froissart (1337-1410) are one of the greatest contemporary records of fourteenth-century England and France.

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

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