The economy of the Roman Empire was predominantly agrarian: Roman landowners, agricultural laborers, and small tenant farmers were highly dependent upon one another for assuring stability.
Hunting was a major economic and leisure activity throughout the later European Middle Ages, but while aristocratic practices have featured in studies of romantic and narrative literature, hunting in its wider sense across the social spectrum and with attendant male and female roles - has largely been ignored by modern medieval historians.
When Edward I's troops forced the destruction of Dafydd ap Gruffudd in 1283 they brought to an end the line of truly independent native rulers in Wales that had endured throughout recorded history.
Have you ever stood upon ground so saturated with faith, blood, and imperial grandeur that the sheer weight of history seemed to physically reverberate through the soles of your feet?
What if you could stand inside the very moment history transformed, feeling the chill of miraculous snow on an August morning or gazing upon the raw wood that cradled the Infant Christ in Bethlehem?
1918: The Endgame follows the dramatic final year of the First World War, when exhausted empires, collapsing armies, revolutions, and desperate offensives pushed the conflict toward its devastating conclusion.
When you stand on the razor-thin precipice of Mount Penna, looking out over the misty valleys of the Casentino near Arezzo, do you merely see rugged Tuscan geography—or do you feel the lingering tremor of a moment that altered Catholic history forever?
When you look upon an ancient church, do you merely see weathered stone and classical craft, or do you feel the heavy weight of prayers whispered across centuries?
The first study based on a large national sample of both urban and rural districts examines the Nazi constituency how it was formed, from which social groups, under what conditions, and with what promises.
Nancy Reagin analyzes the rhetoric, strategies, and programs of more than eighty bourgeois womens associations in Hanover, a large provincial capital, from the Imperial period to the Nazi seizure of power.
Exploring medieval economy through its artifacts, this book presents 50 object biographies that illuminate daily life, economic ethics, production, trade, and finance, offering a tangible perspective on the systems of the long medieval period.
Can a man truly understand the soul of the Renaissance without standing upon the very stones where its greatest minds prayed, bled, and were laid to eternal rest?
This book examines the Court Beguinages, a fascinating group of semi-monastic female communities that were endemic to cities of the Southern Low Countries from the thirteenth century into the twentieth.
This volume will focus on the products that are the most closely associated with pharmacy and on their commodification during the course of the century.
Seventeen centuries after the first ecumenical council of Nicaea (325), we should not only think about the contribution of the most prominent personalities of that event, but also that of the participants who were less involved in the doctrinal debates, but whose presence gave weight and authority to the final document approved there, such as St.
On a pitch-black night in September 1943, a daring Australian commando unit launches a covert raid on Singapore Harbour, sinking and damaging numerous Japanese ships.
Bodies and Ruins explores changing German memories of World War II as it analyzes the construction of narratives in the postwar period including the depiction of the bombing of individual German cities.
Exploring medieval economy through its artifacts, this book presents 50 object biographies that illuminate daily life, economic ethics, production, trade, and finance, offering a tangible perspective on the systems of the long medieval period.
Originally published in 1983, this is a detailed and hard-headed analysis of events in Poland from summer 1980 to December 1981, the period in which the efforts of Solidarity to achieve a free trade union and some degree of autonomy for working people were met with a final clampdown by the authorities.
