European history: medieval period, middle ages

Marian maternity in late-medieval England takes advantage of the fifteenth century's intense interest in the Virgin Mary, the best-documented mother of the medieval period, to examine the constructions and performances of maternity in vernacular religious texts.

The importance of collective behavior in early medieval EuropeBy the fifth and sixth centuries, the bread and circuses and triumphal processions of the Roman Empire had given way to a quieter world.

The Protestant Reformation emphasized the centrality of scripture to Christian life; the twentieth-century liturgical movement emphasized the Bible‘s place at the heart of liturgy.

Spiritual Rationality: Papal Embargo as Cultural Practice offers the first book-length study of embargo in a pre-modern period and provides a unique exploration into the domestic implications of this tool of foreign policy.

From the 14th-century king consorts of Navarre to the modern European prince consorts of the 20th century, the male consort has been a peculiar yet recurrent historical figure.

A corporeal history of music-making in early modern Europe.

This book analyses how the three books of visions by Hildegard of Bingen use the allegorical vision as a form of knowledge.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die Inschriften des Kantons Wallis bis 1300" verfügbar.

This book explores the experiences of a range of women from the early days of 1914, through the big events of the war on the Eastern Front.

This book examines one of the most fundamental issues in twelfth-century English politics: justice.

At the beginning of the eleventh century, Catalonia was a patchwork of counties, viscounties, and lordships that bordered Islamic al-Andalus to the south.

Das Buch behandelt und konstruiert die Epochenschwelle Antike-Mittelalter exemplarisch anhand Augustins geistiger Entwicklung als Funktion seiner historischen Situiertheit zu Beginn des 5.

It was a dynasty with more wealth, passion, and power than the houses of Windsor, Kennedy, and Rockefeller combined.

A full and provocative reappraisal of the Bayeux "e;Tapestry"e;, its origins, design and patronage.

Der Band dokumentiert die Bezeugungen Dietrichs von Bern (und seines historischen Vorbilds, des Ostgotenkönigs Theoderich des Großen) in Literatur, Historiographie und bildender Kunst vom 6.

First full analysis of John Mirk's Festial, of particular importance for the evidence it offers for the debate over medieval heresy and orthodoxy.

From Dreams to Disillusionment is the first book to cover the planning experiment of the 1960s in full historical detail.

Seals and Society arises from a major project investigating seals and their use in medieval Wales, the Welsh March and neighbouring counties in England.

The Late Middle Ages (c.

Following the dissolution of the Western Roman Empire, local Christian leaders were confronted with the problem of how to conceptualize and administer their regional churches.

This book investigates the forms that the aggression and violence of peasant elites could take in early modern Fennoscandia, and their role within society.

Große Umwälzungen wirtschaftlicher, politischer und militärischer Natur prägten die zweite Hälfte des 11.

Auch das Vergessen hat seine Geschichte.

First full-length assessment of the role of the herald in medieval Europe.

Benedictow's magisterial study draws on records from across Europe to throw light on the nature of the disease, its origin, spread, mortality, and its impact on history.

This early work by Eva March Tappan was originally published in 1911 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.

The fate of Richard III's two nephews, Edward V and Richard of York, who disappeared after his coronation in 1483, has remained controversial centuries after Thomas More's history and Shakespeare's play laid the blame on their conniving uncle.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die Bistümer der Kirchenprovinz Mainz: Das Bistum Würzburg 5: Die Stifte in Schmalkalden und Römhild" verfügbar.

In medieval Italy the practice of revenge as criminal justice was still popular amongst members of all social classes, yet crime also was increasingly perceived as a public matter that needed to be dealt with by the government rather than private citizens.

This book explores the writing of church history during the early Byzantine period, reconsidering the evidence for the nature and authorship of a hypothetical 'Arian' source for many surviving medieval histories of the fourth century.

This book examines the social role of castles in late-medieval and early modern Ireland.

Historians and broadcasters Peter Snow and Ann MacMillan tell the real stories of the most powerful men and women in British history.

Monastic Wales - new approaches is an interdisciplinary collection of essays written by some of the leading scholars working on aspects of medieval Welsh history.

A new survey of major Templar landholdings offers fresh insights into key questions about their medieval history.

Göttingen – eine Stadt, deren Geschichte so facettenreich ist wie die Epochen, die sie durchlebt hat.

Der vorliegende Band gewinnt über die Vita Papst Gregors IX.

The Thirteenth-Century Animal Turn: Medieval and Twenty-First-Century Perspectives examines a wide range of texts to argue in favour of a thirteenth-century animal turn which not only generated a heightened scholarly awareness of animals but also had major implications for society more generally.

Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later.

Now in its 8th edition, Unlocking Equity and Trusts will help you grasp the main concepts of this core subject with ease.

Medieval Christianity in Practice provides readers with a sweeping look at the religious practices of the European Middle Ages.

This timely volume examines the commitments of historicism in the wake of New Historicism.