European history: medieval period, middle ages

The Cult of St Anna in Byzantium is the first undertaking in Byzantine research to study the phenomenon of St Anna's cult from the sixth to the fifteenth centuries.

The Cult of St Anna in Byzantium is the first undertaking in Byzantine research to study the phenomenon of St Anna's cult from the sixth to the fifteenth centuries.

Seven hundred years after the dissolution of the order, the trial of the Templars still arouses enormous controversy and speculation.

Seven hundred years after the dissolution of the order, the trial of the Templars still arouses enormous controversy and speculation.

First commissioned by Bishop Gerard I of Cambrai (1012-1051) in 1023 or 1024, the Gesta episcoporum Cameracensium was the work of two authors, the second of whom completed the text shortly after the death of Bishop Gerard.

Modern historiography has become accustomed to portraying the emperor Theophilos of Byzantium (829-842) in a favourable light, taking at face value the legendary account that makes of him a righteous and learned ruler, and excusing as ill fortune his apparent military failures against the Muslims.

Modern historiography has become accustomed to portraying the emperor Theophilos of Byzantium (829-842) in a favourable light, taking at face value the legendary account that makes of him a righteous and learned ruler, and excusing as ill fortune his apparent military failures against the Muslims.

Modern study of the Hospitallers, of other military-religious orders, and of their activities both in the Mediterranean and in Europe has been deeply influenced by the work of Anthony Luttrell.

Modern study of the Hospitallers, of other military-religious orders, and of their activities both in the Mediterranean and in Europe has been deeply influenced by the work of Anthony Luttrell.

Early modern Venice was an exceptional city.

Early modern Venice was an exceptional city.

Few historians have argued so forcefully or persuasively as Bernard S.

Few historians have argued so forcefully or persuasively as Bernard S.

George Gemistos Plethon (c.

George Gemistos Plethon (c.

The history of medieval Germany is still rarely studied in the English-speaking world.

The history of medieval Germany is still rarely studied in the English-speaking world.

Modern historians of the Normans have tended to treat their enterprises and achievements as a series of separate and discrete histories.

Modern historians of the Normans have tended to treat their enterprises and achievements as a series of separate and discrete histories.

This major study is a comprehensive scholarly work on a key moment in the history of Europe, the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.

This major study is a comprehensive scholarly work on a key moment in the history of Europe, the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.

Scholars have made conflicting claims for Byzantine hospitals as medical institutions and as the forebears of the modern hospital.

This collection of essays, whose title echoes that of her most well-known book, celebrates the career of Barbara A.

This collection of essays, whose title echoes that of her most well-known book, celebrates the career of Barbara A.

This volume aims to balance the traditional literature available on medieval feuding with an exploration of other aspects of vengeance and culture in the Middle Ages.

This volume aims to balance the traditional literature available on medieval feuding with an exploration of other aspects of vengeance and culture in the Middle Ages.

Each chapter of this volume provides a window into the vibrant world of Middle and Late Byzantium, offering new insights into the complexities of Byzantine ecclesiastical spaces.

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A thriving port, a frontier base for the lords of Gower and a multi-cultural urban community, the south Wales town of Swansea was an important centre in the Middle Ages, at a nexus of multiple identities, cultural practices and configurations of power.

A thriving port, a frontier base for the lords of Gower and a multi-cultural urban community, the south Wales town of Swansea was an important centre in the Middle Ages, at a nexus of multiple identities, cultural practices and configurations of power.

This book critically explores ways in which our understanding of late medieval liturgy can be enhanced through present-day enactment.

This book critically explores ways in which our understanding of late medieval liturgy can be enhanced through present-day enactment.

How different are we from those in the past?

How different are we from those in the past?

The author and acclaimed historian of this book, originally published in 1926, was a strong advocate for the use of original source documents in the study of history, maintaining that applying historical criticism to documents, and balancing one document against another was a process of 'the highest educational value'.

Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed explores new cultural research into death and funeral practices in medieval Europe and demonstrates the important relationship between death and the world of the living in the Middle Ages.

Forty papers link the study of the military orders' cultural life and output with their involvement in political and social conflicts during the medieval and early modern period.

Forty papers link the study of the military orders' cultural life and output with their involvement in political and social conflicts during the medieval and early modern period.

This book compares two successful, elite women, Empress Adelheid (931-999) and Countess Matilda (1046-1115), for their relative ability to retain their wealth and power in the midst of the profound social changes of the eleventh century.

This interdisciplinary work, the first of two volumes, presents essays on various aspects of disease, medicine, and healing in different locations in and around the Indian Ocean from the ninth century to the early modern period.

This book examines the broad varieties of religious belief, religious practices, and the influence of religion within medieval society.

This book examines the views of Greek Church Fathers on hoarding, saving, and management of economic surplus, and their development primarily in urban centres of the Eastern Mediterranean, from the late first to the fifth century.

This volume questions the extent to which Medieval studies has emphasized the period as one of change and development through reexamining aspects of the medieval world that remained static.

This book explores the professional and social lives of the soldiers who served in the army of the Byzantine Empire in the sixth century.

On the eight-hundredth anniversary of the Magna Carta, Women and the Magna Carta investigates what the charter meant for women's rights and freedoms from an historical and legal perspective.

Although Chaucer is typically labeled as the "e;Father of English Literature,"e; evidence shows that his work appealed to Europe and specifically European women.

This collection explores how situations of authority, governance, and influence were practised through both gender ideologies and affective performances in medieval and early modern England.

Werewolf Histories is the first academic book in English to address European werewolf history and folklore from antiquity to the twentieth century.

This book provides a systematic analysis of the innovations that occurred in the display of royal power during John II's four years in English captivity.

The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were times of tumultuous change in medieval Europe; they witnessed the Black Death, the Great Papal Schism, heightened fears of the apocalypse, and the elimination of Spain's non-Christian population.