Fantastic Histories explores the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century England, and the subsequent uses of fairy narratives in both insular and continental history and romance.
Von ihren mythenumwobenen Anfängen bis zu ihrem glanzvollen Höhepunkt – die Farnese waren nicht nur eine Familie, sondern eine Institution, die Italien und Europa nach-haltig prägte.
In these meditations on the lesser feasts and fasts of the church calendar Sam Portaro asks the question, "e;What do these saints and commemorations have to say to Christians today?
In an age when the so-called prosperity gospel holds sway in many Christian communities or the good news of Christ is reduced to feel-good bromides, it would seem that death has little place in contemporary preaching.
Hace cuarenta anos, en una epoca de enormes incertidumbres y esperanzas, la Inquisicion espanola dejaba de ser un tema ideologico controvertido para animar la fecunda tarea investigadora de un gran numero de historiadores jovenes.
Der Westminster Palast, eines der berühmtesten Bauwerke der Welt, steht als Sinnbild für die politische Macht Großbritanniens und die wechselvolle Geschichte der Nation.
While there is an growing body of work on space and place in many disciplines, less attention has been paid to how a spatial approach illuminates the societies and cultures of the past.
This reference work provides a tool with which the scholar of Byzantine literature can speedily establish the identity, authorship and place of issue of a poem from its opening line.
This book offers an integrated study of the English princess and Castilian queen Catherine of Lancaster (1373-1418), drawing on available archival, architectural, and poetic sources in England and Spain.
Scientific governance in Britain, 1914-79 examines the connected histories of how science was governed, and used in governance, in twentieth-century Britain.
Im Fokus der Arbeit stehen mit den Ministerialen rechtlich unfreie Funktions- und Herrschaftsträger, die den im Hochmittelalter stattfindenden sozialen Wandel sowohl wesentlich prägten als auch von diesem Wandel selbst hervorgebracht wurden.
A groundbreaking history of the ethics of war in the ancient Near EastOrigins of the Just War reveals the incredible richness and complexity of ethical thought about war in the three millennia preceding the Greco-Roman period, establishing the extent to which ancient just war thought prefigured much of what we now consider to be the building blocks of the Western just war tradition.
It has long been an accepted assumption that the abstracted mode of visual representation that emerged in late antiquity reflected a collective shift from the outer-directed and 'material' world-view of classical antiquity to an inner-directed, 'spiritual' mentality informed by Christianity: the purpose of this volume is to offer a more nuanced and diverse image of the nature and meanings of abstraction and symbolism in late antique and early medieval art, beyond normative intepretation models, and from a number of different methodological and interpretative perspectives.
Studies of varied ways in which medieval people imagined the future, reasons behind such representations, and the implications for an understanding of medieval society as a whole.
Altes, wiederentdecktes Menschheitswissen – das uns neue Orientierung gibtWir leben im Zeitalter der Krise – und haben doch kaum eine Vorstellung davon, wie wir dem Imperativ des «Immer mehr» entkommen können.
This collection of essays in two volumes explores patterns of medieval society and culture, spanning from the close of the late antique period to the beginnings of the Renaissance.
This book investigates relations between humans and animals over several centuries with a focus on the Middle Ages, since important features of our perceptions regarding animals have been rooted in that period.
This is a major contribution to the study of medieval Wales by a group of outstanding British historians, writing in honour of one of Wales's most distinguished scholars and the biographer of Prince Llywelyn ap Gruffudd.
Der Schwerpunkt des vorliegenden Sammelbandes liegt auf den frühmittelalterlichen Personennamen, die sowohl aus der Sicht von Sprachwissenschaftlern als auch von Historikern unter dem Aspekt ihres Quellenwertes beleuchtet werden.
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 der Sache hat der Autor - nicht zuletzt nach neuerlich von Gerd Tellenbach ausgelösten Diskussionen, denen sich in diesen Tagen ein von Cinzio Violante und Johannes Fried betreuter Band zugesellt (II secolo XI: una svolta?
Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England sifts through the historical evidence to describe and analyze a world of violence and intrigue, where mothers needed to devise their own systems to protect, nurture, and teach their children.
Herausgegeben von Lothar Gall, in Verbindung mit Peter Blickle, Elisabeth Fehrenbach, Johannes Fried, Klaus Hildebrand, Karl Heinrich Kaufhold, Horst Möller, Otto Gerhard Oexle, Klaus Tenfelde.
The book deals with the legitimising authority of the papacy, the nature of the crusade vow and of the privilege accorded to crusaders, the developments of the indulgence, and the role of Military Orders.
