Routledge, 2018. — 344 p. Contesting the Middle Ages is a thorough exploration of recent arguments surrounding nine hotly debated topics: the decline and fall of Rome, the Viking invasions, the Crusades, the persecution of minorities, sexuality in the Middle Ages, women within medieval society, intellectual and environmental history, the Black Death, and, lastly, the waning of...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 316 p. The Catalan kingdom of Majorca was established under the will of King James I of Aragon, who conquered Majorca in 1229, but it was ruled from 1276 to 1343 by a cadet dynasty. The kingdom included the key business centers of Montpellier and Perpignan, and other lands in what is now southern France. It was home to important...
Routledge, 2016. — 321 p. A pioneering account of the dynastic struggle between the kings of Aragon and the Angevin kings of Naples, which shaped the commercial as well as the political map of the Mediterranean and had a profound effect on the futures of Spain, France, Italy and Sicily. David Abulafia does it full justice, reclaiming from undeserved neglect one of the formative...
New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. — 464 p. In this important study, Abu-Lughod presents a groundbreaking reinterpretation of global economic evolution, arguing that the modern world economy had its roots not in the sixteenth century, as is widely supposed, but in the thirteenth century economy-a system far different from the European world system which emerged from it....
Brepols Publishers, 2004. — 369 p. This volume examines the various forms of contact between Scandinavia and the rest of Europe from 800 to 1350. It consists of twenty-five papers from international scholars specialising in archaeology, onomastics, literature, art history, epigraphy, religious history and linguistics. The volume is innovative in three respects: in transcending...
Ashgate, 2012. — 308 p. A key theme in this collection of thirteen essays is the creative tension between the Carolingian dynasty and its aristocratic followers across 250 years. The first section explores the rising dynasty's attempts to consolidate its power through war and rewards. The second section focuses on the exercise of authority through a complex system of governance...
University of Minnesota Press, 1998. — 168 p. "The Stranger in Medieval Society" was first published in 1998. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. "The Stranger in Medieval Society" examines the presence of outsiders in...
Ankara: Dost kitabevi, 2001. — 195 s. İçindekiler Önsöz Dilin büyüsü ya da büyüsün dini Anadoluda ve Avrupa Eski kültürlerde Antikçağı büyüsü Ortacağ halk geleneğinde büyü ve büyüsü Cadi kimliği Modern cadı kavramı
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 412 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-00027-8. Vegetius' late Roman text became a well known and highly respected 'classic' in the Middle Ages, transformed by its readers into the authority on the waging of war. Christopher Allmand analyses the medieval afterlife of the De Re Militari, tracing the growing interest in the text from the Carolingian world to...
Brepols Publishers, 2018. — 487 p. Slavery has played a significant role in the history of human society, not the least in the greater Mediterranean region, since ancient times. Long neglected by mainstream historians, the medieval history of slavery has received an increasing amount of attention by scholars, since the pioneering work of Charles Verlinden (1907–1996). Today...
Crowood Press, 2019. — 360 p. From their small county in the heart of France, the lords of Anjou - the Angevins - produced dynasties that became kings of Jerusalem, England, Sicily, Hungary and Poland from 900 - 1500. They were described by a contemporary as 'lords of the greater part of the world'. Here is their extraordinary story, including figures such as Geoffrey...
Omega Books Ltd, 1984. — 304 p. Throughout history man has sought permanent security by building fortifications, and every variation of landscape that Europe has to offer reveals evidence of this desire : lake villages. Bronze- or Iron-Age encampments dense with bracken and gorse. Roman town and frontier walls, a Norman motte standing like a large inverted pudding-basin, a...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2013. — 320 p. From the cucking stool to the iron maiden, an exhaustive catalog of the implements and methods used to torment prisoners in the Middle Ages. Dive into the macabre history of England and Old Europe in this treasure chest of historical sentences. In the pages of Medieval Punishments are abuses from a less enlightened period, creating a...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2013. — 320 p. From the cucking stool to the iron maiden, an exhaustive catalog of the implements and methods used to torment prisoners in the Middle Ages. Dive into the macabre history of England and Old Europe in this treasure chest of historical sentences. In the pages of Medieval Punishments are abuses from a less enlightened period, creating a...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 288 p. Beginning around 1559 and continuing through 1642, writers in England, Scotland, and France found themselves pre-occupied with an unusual sort of crime, a crime without a name which today we call "terrorism." These crimes were especially dangerous because they were aimed at violating not just the law but the fabric of law itself. Yet they...
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1993. — 690 p. — ISBN 0-674-39976-5; ISBN 0-674-40001-1. The second volume of A History of Private Life is a treasure trove of rich and colorful detail culled from an astounding variety of sources. This absorbing "secret epic" constructs a vivid picture of peasant and patrician life in the eleventh to fifteenth...
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd - 1976 - 111o. - ISBN: 0-7145-2551-0 Beginning as a series of lectures at Johns Hopkins University for translation and publication, this is French historian Philippe Ariès's explores how the Western World sees death. It explores death rituals/emotions/literature around death/etc through early medieval times, the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the...
Leiden: Brill, 2007. — 648 p. — (Essays in Honour of John H.A. Munro). Assembled in honour of John H. A. Munro (University of Toronto), the volume groups nineteen original studies by a diversified panel of scholars. The essays explore late medieval market mechanisms and associated institutional, fiscal and monetary, organizational, decision-making, legal and ethical issues, as...
Central European University Press, 2107. — 460 p. An encounter between a warring knight and the world of learning could seem a paradox. It is nonetheless related with the Twelfth-Century Renaissance, an essential intellectual movement for western history. Knights not only fought in battles, but also moved in sophisticated courts. Knights were interested in Latin classics, and...
Amsterdam; Bratislava, 1974. — 282 p. Einleitung. Das Schwarzmeergebiet im 6. Jhr. Das Awarische Khaganat in Pannonien. Exkurs I - Awaren und Duleben in der Nestorchronik. Exkurs II - Die Datierung der awarisch-byzantinischen Kämpfe.
University of Minnesota Press, 1977. — 228 p. This is the first study of early medieval Jewish policy in the West which examines the nature of this policy from the perspective and aims of its formulators. As the author points out, most specialists in Jewish history have been dominated by what the historian Salo Baron has called the "lachrymose conception,' a view which...
University of Minnesota Press, 1973. — 186 p. — ISBN: 0-8166-0678-1. Alans Beyond the Frontier. The Alans Come to the West. The Assimilation of the Alans. A History of how the Alans came to the West and how they are assimilated by the Franks.
Western Michigan University, 2012. — 376 p. This work features a section of appreciations of Bryce Lyon (1920-2007) from the three editors followed by three sections on the major areas on which Lyon's research concentrated: the legacy of Henri Pirenne, constitutional and legal history of England and the Continent, and the economic history of the Low Countries. Books and...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. — 462 p. The Worlds of Medieval Europe updates and revises traditional textbook representations of the Middle Ages by balancing the conventional focus on political affairs, especially those of northern Europe, with equally detailed attention to medieval society as it developed in the Mediterranean. The result is a nuanced portrayal of a...
Princeton University Press, 2014. — 336 p. Christianity and European-style monarchy--the cross and the scepter--were introduced to Scandinavia in the tenth century, a development that was to have profound implications for all of Europe. Cross and Scepter is a concise history of the Scandinavian kingdoms from the age of the Vikings to the Reformation, written by Scandinavia's...
Christian Buchet (Serie General Editor) — Boydell Press, 2017. — 1086 p. — (Sea in History / La Mer Dans L'histoire Serie; Bilingual edition). The Sea in History - The Medieval World covers the period from the end of the Roman Empire in the West up to around the year 1500. It demonstrates that for many peoples and states in this period the sea was central to their existence -...
Brepols Publishers, 2005. — 358 p. This book is concerned with the social and gendered meanings of love in medieval Norway and Iceland. In the Viking Age, to love would most often imply a submissive social position, while being loved by a woman could elevate a man above the status of her family. Women were supposed to love upwards in the social hierarchy, but could also use...
Routledge, 2000. — 304 p. The Cathars are one of the most famous heretical movements of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. They infiltrated the highest ranks of society and posed a major threat not only to the Catholic Church but also to secular authorities as well. The movement was finally smashed by the crusade and the inquisitional proceedings that followed....
Routledge, 2004. — 601 p. The social and economic structure The physical environment Social structure Economic development The Church The papacy The crusades Monasticism and the friars Popular religion and heresy Political change The Empire The Kingdom of Sicily The Italian city-states The Capetian monarchy The Kingdom of England The Iberian kingdoms The states of eastern and...
Boydell and Brewer Ltd., 1991. — 159 p. Pilgrimage, the journey to a distant sacred goal, is found in all the great religions of the world. It is a journey both outwards to hallowed places and inwards to spiritual improvement; it can express penance for past evils, or the search for future good; the pilgrim may pursue spiritual ecstasy in the sacred sites of a particular faith,...
The Boydell Press, 2001. — 469 p. The image of King Arthur has haunted the poets and writers of western Europe for nearly nine centuries, and there is no sign of an end to the reign of the 'once and future king' in the world of literature. The Arthurian epic is as popular a subject now as it was when it was first fashioned, and the stories about Arthur and the heroes associated...
Cornell University Press, 2018. — 275 p. Burning Bodies interrogates the ideas that the authors of historical and theological texts in the medieval West associated with the burning alive of Christian heretics. Michael Barbezat traces these instances from the eleventh century until the advent of the internal crusades of the thirteenth century, depicting the exclusionary fires of...
University of California Press, 1976. — 180 p. — ISBN10: 0520031059; ISBN13: 978-0520031050. Prelude to Charlemagne: the Frankish ascendancy. The Carolingian legacy. The decline and fall of the Carolingian empire. The impact of invasion. Feudal France: origins. Italian society from Charlemagne to Otto I. The rise of the German monarchy. The Anglo-Saxon achievement. The new...
Routledge, 2016. — 396 p. This book is a study of communities that drew their identity and livelihood from their relationships with water during a pivotal time in the creation of the social, economic and political landscapes of northern Europe. It focuses on the Baltic, North and Irish Seas in the Viking Age (ad 1050–1200), with a few later examples (such as the Scottish...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 470 p. Unlike monks and nuns, clergy have hitherto been sidelined in accounts of the Middle Ages, but they played an important role in medieval society. This first broad-ranging study in English of the secular clergy examines how ordination provided a framework for clerical life cycles and outlines the influence exerted on secular clergy by...
Penguin Books, 1994. — 448 p. — ISBN 978-0-14-192704-6. A wave of internal conquest, settlement and economic growth took place in Europe during the High Middle Ages, which transformed it from a world of small separate communities into a network of powerful kingdoms with distinctive cultures. In this vivid and provocative book, Robert Bartlett vividly shows how Europe was itself...
New York, London, Bombay, Calcutta: Longsmans, Green and Co, 1911. — 512 p. A sort of fairy-land all thethis miniature with queer places little ! A sort houses, of fairy- out of which come the most fascinating peasants, clad in bright scarlet dresses with lace-bordered black satin aprons and extraordinary gilt headdresses. A dear little strip of verdure, dotted with...
John Wiley & Sons, 2010. — 408 p. — (For Dummies). Is your knowledge of The Crusades less than tip-top? Maybe you're curious about Columbus, or you're desperate to read about the Black Death in all its gory detail? Whatever your starting point, this expert guide has it all - from kings, knights and anti-Popes, to invasion, famine, the Magna Carta and Joan of Arc (and a few...
Hambledon & London, 1994. — 336 p. The histories of England and of Normandy in the middle ages were inextricably linked. England and Normandy in the Middle Ages provides a synoptic view by leading scholars of not only political and military but also of ecclesiastical and cultural links. Taken together these essays provide an up-to-date scholarly account of relations between...
Bauer S. W., Lee J. R. The history of the medieval world: from the conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade.—1st ed. N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-393-05975-5 From the schism between Rome and Constantinople to the rise of the T'ang Dynasty, from the birth of Muhammad to the crowing of Charlemagne, this erducite book tells the fascinating, often violent...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2010. — 769 p. A masterful narrative of the Middle Ages, when religion became a weapon for kings all over the world. In her earlier work, The History of the Ancient World, Susan Wise Bauer wrote of the rise of kingship based on might. But in the years between the fourth and twelfth centuries, rulers had to find new justification for their power, and they...
Amsterdam University Press, 1999. — 206 p. In this book Jos Bazelmans offers a new perspective on the relationship between lord and retainer in early medieval society. This perspective goes beyond established politico-economic interpretations and aims for an interpretation of this relationship in ritual-cosmological terms. Drawing on recent developments within French...
Princeton University Press, 2012. — 211 p. Warriors of the Cloisters tells how key cultural innovations from Central Asia revolutionized medieval Europe and gave rise to the culture of science in the West. Medieval scholars rarely performed scientific experiments, but instead contested issues in natural science, philosophy, and theology using the recursive argument method. This...
University of Toronto Press, 2014. — 176 p. In Their Own Words examines early medieval history-writing through quotation practices in five works, each in some way the first of its kind. Nithard’s "Historiae de dissensionibus filiorum Ludovici Pii" is extraordinary for its quotation of vernacular oaths, the first recorded piece of French. The "Gesta Francorum" is the first...
Leiden: Brill, 2013. — 606 p. Publicly performed rituals and ceremonies form an essential part of medieval political practice and court culture. This applies not only to western feudal societies, but also to the linguistically and culturally highly diversified environment of Byzantium and the Mediterranean basin. The continuity of Roman traditions and cross-fertilization...
The Boydell Press, 2016. — 218 p. War and violence took many forms in medieval and early modern Europe, from political and territorial conflict to judicial and social spectacle; from religious persecution and crusade to self-mortification and martyrdom; from comedic brutality to civil and domestic aggression. Various cultural frameworks conditioned both the acceptance of these...
Manchester University Press, 2011. — 272 p. Peacemaking in the Middle Ages explores the making of peace in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries based on the experiences of the kings of England and the kings of Denmark. From dealing with owing allegiance to powerful neighbours to conquering the ‘barbarians’, this book offers a vision of how relationships between...
McGraw-Hill, 2011. — 417 p. — ISBN: 978-0-073385-50-6. Medieval Europe introduces today's students to the medieval roots of our own society. In an accessible and engaging narrative, it tells how the peoples of medieval Europe built, understood, and changed their world. Never losing sight of the neighboring civilizations of Byzantium and Islam, it has its feet firmly planted in...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 640 p. The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe provides a comprehensive overview of the gender rules encountered in Europe in the period between approximately 500 and 1500 C.E. The essays collected in this volume speak to interpretative challenges common to all fields of women's and gender history - that is, how best to...
Routledge, 2017. — 543 p. This volume brings together a set of key studies on the history of medieval Central Europe (Bohemia, Hungary, Poland), along with others specially commissioned for the book or translated, and a new introduction. This region was both an area of immigration, and one of polities in expansion. Such expansion included the settlement and exploitation of...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 546 p. This groundbreaking comparative history of the early centuries of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland sets the development of each polity in the context of the central European region as a whole. Focusing on the origins of the realms and their development in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the book concludes with the thirteenth century...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 376 p. Caves and rockshelters in Europe have traditionally been associated with prehistory, and in some regions cave archaeology has become synonymous with the Palaeolithic. However, there is abundant evidence that caves and rockshelters were important foci for activities in historic times. During the medieval period (here taken as AD 500–1500) caves were...
Brepols, 1994. — 336 p. La Bible latine et les gloses. Identifier un auteur ou une oeuvre du Moyen Age latin et frangais. Les traductions latines du grec, de l’arabe et de l ’hebreu. Les citations attribuees ou anonymes. Poesie et prieres. Proverbes et sentences. Les citations liturgiques. Droit romain. Droit canonique. Les decisions des conciles et synodes. Vies de saints et...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 164 p. This volume brings together an interesting range of papers discussing medieval buildings across Europe. They provide interesting insights to life in the medieval world in several understudied areas of Europe. The papers range from Croatia and Transylvania in the east, Scandinavia in the north and Britain in the west, providing insights into areas...
The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. - 302 p. ISBN: 0271021020. This text offers an up-to-date overview of a central theme in European history: the nature and meaning of the sacred rituals of kingship. Informed by the work of recent cultural anthropologists, Sergio Bertelli explores the culture of kingship, which pervaded the lives of hundreds of thousands of...
Routledge, 2010. — 350 p. This collection presents an innovative series of essays about the medieval culture of Feud and Violence. Featuring both prominent senior and younger scholars from the United States and Europe, the contributions offer various methods and points of view in their analyses. All, however, are indebted in some way to the work of Stephen D. White on legal...
Brepols, 2018. — 340 p. The Fourth Lateran Council of 1215 is often considered as the high water-mark for the Medieval Church with its decisions affecting the cultural, social, religious and intellectual history of the Later Medieval World. The council was also a major event in the history of the crusades not only because the reform of the church and the recovery of the Holy...
Princeton University Press, 2009. — 720 p. — ISBN 9780691137087. Medieval civilization came of age in thunderous events like the Norman Conquest and the First Crusade. Power fell into the hands of men around castles who imposed coercive new lordships in quest of nobility, heedless of the old public order. In The Crisis of the Twelfth Century, acclaimed historian Thomas Bisson...
Bibliotheque Quebecoisem 2005. — 149 p. On fait régulièrement du Moyen Âge le millénaire de toutes les horreurs et de toutes les stupidités. C’est pourquoi l’auteur du présent ouvrage a entrepris, à sa manière, de réhabiliter cette période, qualifiée bien à tort de grande noirceur . Il développe ici une vingtaine de thèmes qui font découvrir un Moyen Âge ingénieux, progressif,...
London; New York: Routledge, 2004. — 280 p. Feudal Society is the masterpiece of one of the greatest historians of the century. Marc Bloch's supreme achievement was to recreate the vivid and complex world of Western Europe from the ninth to the thirteenth centuries. For Bloch history was a living organism, and to write of it was an endless process of creative evolution and of...
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. — 304 p. This book is an account of one of the most striking political developments in the history of late medieval and early modern Europe: the formation of the state of the dukes of Burgundy in the Low Countries. The process of state formation began with the naming of Philip the Bold, son of King John II of France, as...
2nd Ed. — Routledge, 2014. — 508 p. Introduction to Medieval Europe 300-1500 provides a comprehensive survey of this complex and varied formative period of European history. Covering themes as diverse as barbarian migrations, the impact of Christianization, the formation of nations and states, the emergence of an expansionist commercial economy, the growth of cities, the...
Brill, 2011. — 608 p. Philippe de Mézières (1327-1405) was the quintessential man of all seasons of the fourteenth-century Mediterranean. A scholar, a soldier, a mystic, a man of affairs, a royal adviser and an incessant traveler around the Mediterranean, a prolific writer and an associate of religious orders, a champion of the crusade and no less an ardent advocate of peace in...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. - 248 p. - (The Middle Ages Series). When I first read The Visions of Ermine de Reims in June 2000, I was stunned and very moved. Reading about her tribulations brought tears to my eyes, not a very scholarly reaction to be sure but one that motivated me to pursue her story for many years. She interested me because she seemed to fit into...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988. - 214 p. - (The Middle Ages Series). "This book describes the roots of a set of ideals that effected a radical transformation of eleventh-century European society that led to the confrontation between church and monarchy known as the investiture struggle or Gregorian reform. Ideas cannot be divorced from reality, especially not in the...
Walter de Gruyter, 2014. — 353 p. We think of immigration as prototypical of our globalizing world, but migratory movement has long characterized human history. For the first time, this study seeks to examine the migrations that occurred during the medieval millennium. The volume will become an indispensable reference work for all who are interested in the Middle Ages from the...
Au cours du Moyen Âge se dessinent les contours d'une nouvelle Europe urbaine. Elle constitue l'armature du réseau des villes actuelles. Peut-on parler de « ville médiévale » ? En tout cas avec l'implosion du monde romain, la ville de l'Antiquité disparaît lentement tandis qu'apparaissent de nouvelles réalités urbaines qui ne se laissent plus circonscrire par le cadre politique...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. — 384 p. Franks, Moravians, and Magyars The Struggle for the Middle Danube, 788-907 Charles R. Bowlus Assembles evidence from Frankish, Moravian, and Byzantine documents; from archaeological finds; and details of the terrain to buttress the view that the center of the Slavic Moravian empire was in what is now Serbia, much farther...
Brill Academic Pub, 2015. - 410 p. - (The Northern World 74). In Vox regis: Royal Communication in High Medieval Norway, David Brégaint examines how the Norwegian monarchy gradually managed to infiltrate Norwegian society through the development of a communicative system during the High Middle Ages, from c. 1150 to c. 1300. Drawing on sagas, didactic literature, charters, and...
Free Press, 2010. — 306 p. Spanning the years 500 to 1000 A.D., this volume illustrates the conflict between brutality and civilization that seemed to characterize the period so often called - not improperly - the "Dark Ages". Islam and Byzantium, as much as Western Europe, figure in the twenty-two chapters of documents offered in this book, part of the ten-volume series,...
2nd ed. with an additional essay by the author — University of California Press, 1988. — 258 p. This book is not meant to be a definitive exploration of the whole of the two churches in any case. The attempt would be absurd. But the book is not meant, either, to be an intense exploration of "certain aspects" of the two churches. It is meant rather to be an extended essay about...
Routledge, 2016. — 234 p. The contributions to this volume enter into a dialogue about the routes, modes and institutions that transferred and transformed knowledge across the late antique Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf. Each contribution not only presents a different case study but also investigates a different type of question, ranging from how history-writing drew on...
The Catholic University of America Press, 2009. — 318 p. Benevolence toward the poor in medieval Europe rested upon ideological foundations established by Christianity and was practiced by a diverse body of clerics and lay people. Charity and Religion in Medieval Europe is the first comprehensive study of the ideas that underlie medieval generosity and of the institutions...
Brill, 2013. — 498 p. As the title suggests, "Beyond the Burghal Hidage" takes the study of Anglo-Saxon civil defence away from traditional historical and archaeological fields, and uses a groundbreaking interdisciplinary approach to examine warfare and public responses to organised violence through their impact on the landscape. By bringing together the evidence from a wide...
Cambridge University Press, 2011 - 384 p. Public religious practice lay at the heart of civic society in late medieval Europe. In this illuminating study, Andrew Brown draws on the rich and previously little-researched archives of Bruges, one of medieval Europe's wealthiest and most important towns, to explore the role of religion and ceremony in urban society. The author...
The Boydell Press, 1983. — 233 p. Norman Romanesque Sculpture: Regional Groups; Roman de Rouand the Norman Conquest; Bayeux Tapestry; Military Service before 1066; England and Byzantium; Abbatiale de Bernay; Sompting Church; William's Sheriffs; The House of Redvers and its Foundations; Anglo-Norman Verse; The Umfravilles in Northumberland; Chronicon ex Chronicis; Development of...
Manchester University Press, 2007. — 280 p. — (Manchester Medieval Sources). This volume examines the ceremonies and spectacles of society in the Low Countries. It is the first ever attempt to unite and translate some of the key texts which informed Johan Huizinga s famous study of the Burgundian court in The Waning of the Middle Ages, a work which has never gone out of print....
Routledge, 2010. — 344 p. The European Middle Ages have long attracted popular interest as an era characterised by violence, whether a reflection of societal brutality and lawlessness or part of a romantic vision of chivalry. Violence in Medieval Europe engages with current scholarly debate about the degree to which medieval European society was in fact shaped by such forces....
Crux Publishing, 2014. — 254 p. There is much more to the Norman story than the Battle of Hastings. These descendants of the Vikings who settled in France, England, and Italy - but were not strictly French, English, or Italian - played a large role in creating the modern world. They were the success story of the Middle Ages; a footloose band of individual adventurers who...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2009. — 329 p. Introduction: Genre, Witness, and Time in the ‘Book’ of Travels Late Medieval Ambassadors and the Practice of Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1250–1450 Ruy González de Clavijo’s Narrative of Courtly Life and Ceremony in Timur’s Samarqand, 1404 Copying Maps by Matthew Paris: Itineraries Fit for a King ‘A mirrour of mis-haps,/ A Mappe of Miserie’:...
Institute of Archaeology, University College London. — 406 p. Swords inspire endless fascination. They are prominent in the mythology and history of many cultures, from King Arthur’s Excalibur in the west, to Japanese Samurai katana in the east, via the weapons described by Islamic philosopher al-Kindi in his ninth-century treatise on sword-making (Hoyland and Gilmour 2006)....
Amsterdam University Press, 2017. — 219 p. Traditional scholarship on post-Roman western culture has tended to examine the ethnic identities of Goths, Franks, and similar groups while neglecting the Romans themselves, in part because modern scholars have viewed the concept of being Roman as one denoting primarily a cultural or legal affiliation. As this book demonstrates,...
London: Routledge, Warne & Routledge, 1862. — 432 p. In a lately-published historical sketch I endeavoured briefly to set forth the advantage of taking cities as the leading points of historical research, and to show the necessity of judging1 of antiquity rather from the greatness attained in these noble sites of ancient civilization, than by the more desultory wanderings...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. — 224 p. This book examines the place of the Middle Ages in modern popular culture, exploring the roots of the stereotypes that appear in films, on television and in the press. The book also asks whether "medieval" is indeed a useful category in terms of historical periodization. It investigates some of the particular challenges posed by medieval...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. — 253 p. In this book, William Caferro asks if the Renaissance was really a period of progress, reason, the emergence of the individual, and the beginning of modernity. An influential investigation into the nature of the European Renaissance. Summarizes scholarly debates about the nature of the Renaissance. Engages with specific controversies concerning...
Cornell University Press, 2014. — 280 p. Early medieval Ireland is remembered as the "Land of Saints and Scholars," due to the distinctive devotion to Christian faith and learning that permeated its culture. As early as the seventh century, however, questions were raised about Irish orthodoxy, primarily concerning Easter observances. Yet heresy trials did not occur in Ireland...
HarperCollins, 2016. — 477 p. — ISBN 0–688-12302–3; 9780062564290. In this ground-breaking work, Norman Cantor explains how our current notion of the Middle Ages — with its vivid images of wars, tournaments, plagues, saints and kings, knights and ladies — was born in the twentieth century. The medieval world was not simply excavated through systematic research. It had to be...
Pen And Sword Military, 2006. — 272 p. Warfare in the Medieval World explores how civilizations and cultures made war on the battlefields of the Near East and Europe in the period between the fall of Rome and the introduction of reliable gunpowder weapons during the Thirty Years' War. Through an exploration of thirty-three selected battles, military historian Brian Todd Carey...
London: Routledge, 1996. — 282 p. — (The History of Civilization). An examination of the spiritual & social questions in relation to the political history of the Dukes of Burgundy. Professor Cartellieri in this volume deals mainly with the by-ways of history, with social life & manners, with art, literature, music, & the position of the knight & the lady, & with that strange...
Vancouver: Les Éditions du Phare-Ouest, 2012. — 244 p. — ISBN: 978-2-921668-08-8 Décrit les batailles entre la France et l'Angleterre pendant deux siècles.
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 650 p. Through crusades and expulsions, Muslim communities survived for over 500 years, thriving in medieval Europe. This comprehensive study explores how the presence of Islamic minorities transformed Europe in everything from architecture to cooking, literature to science, and served as a stimulus for Christian society to define itself....
Brepols Publishers, 2018. — 619 p. The Council of Trent, studied for centuries as a crucial episode in European history, was also a world event. This book highlights the importance of not only looking at Europe through the lens of the Tridentine decrees, but also of looking across the oceans where the Church - and the legislative texts from the Council of Trent - can be seen...
Columbia University Press, 2005. — 308 p. As medieval pilgrims made their way to the places where Jesus Christ lived and suffered, they experienced, among other things: holy sites, the majesty of the Egyptian pyramids (often referred to as the "Pharaoh's granaries"), dips in the Dead Sea, unfamiliar desert landscapes, the perils of traveling along the Nile, the customs of their...
Routledge, 2011. — 224 p. The word "medieval" is often used in a negative way when talking about contemporary issues. "Why the Middle Ages Matter" refreshes our thinking about this historical era, and our own, by looking at some pressing concerns from today’s world, asking how these issues were really handled in the medieval period, and showing why the past matters now. The...
Blackwell, 2006. — 208 p. — (The Peoples of Europe) — ISBN-13: 978-0-631-18671-7 (alk. paper); 978-1-4051-4965-5 (paperback). This book provides the most comprehensive examination of the Normans available, examining the emergence of the Normans, their characteristics as a group, and their various achievements in war, culture and civilization. List of Plates. List of...
Leiden, Brill, 2006. — 272 p. This collection of articles offers new insights into warfare and its impact on medieval society, analyzing social and economic issues, military strategy, technology, medical developments, ideology and rhetoric, and addressing warfare in Europe, the Byzantine Empire and the Muslim world.
Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 2010. — 2736 p. Survey of Fundamental Reference Works in Medieval Studies Main Topics and Debates of the Last Decades and their Terminology and Results Important Terms in Today’s Medieval Studies Textual Genres in the Middle Ages Key Figures in Medieval Studies from ca. 1650 to 1950 (selection)
De Gruyter, 2012. — 610 p. — (Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, Book 11). All societies are constructed, based on specific rules, norms, and laws. Hence, all ethics and morality are predicated on perceived right or wrong behavior, and much of human culture proves to be the result of a larger discourse on vices and virtues, transgression and ideals, right and...
University of Bamberg Press, 2016. — 384 p. Kriegshandlungen waren in der mittelalterlichen Gesellschaft allgegenwärtig und oftmals eng mit dem Königtum verknüpft. Nahezu alle Könige des Mittelalters haben während ihrer Regierungszeit militärische Aktionen durchgeführt. Dabei agierten sie als Kriegsherren, militärische Anführer und immer wieder auch als aktive Kämpfer. Diese...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. — 290 p. An increased awareness of the importance of minority and subjugated voices to the histories and narratives which have previously excluded them has led to a wide-spread interest in the effects of colonization and displacement. This collection of essays is the first to apply post-colonial theory to the Middle Ages, and to critique that theory...
Monograph. - Minneapolis-London, University of Minnesota Press, 2003. - x + 337 p. In Medieval Identity Machines, Jeffrey J. Cohen examines the messiness, permeability, and perversity of medieval bodies, arguing that human identity always exceeds the limits of the flesh. Combining critical theory with a rigorous reading of medieval texts, Cohen asks if the category human isn’t...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 0195004566; ISBN13: 978-0195004564 The Middle Ages inherited from antiquity a tradition of prophecy and gave it new life. This tradition foretold a millennium in which humanity would enjoy a new paradise on earth, free from suffering and sin. This is the story of those millenarian fanaticisms, and points to their...
Harvard University Press, 2006. — 384 p. — ISBN: 9780674029675 In the 1960s, works by Barrington Moore, Jr., Eric Hobsbawm, George Rude, E. P. Thompson, and others, coupled with the student movements of that decade, stimulated a new vogue for the study of comparative revolts in early modern, modern, and contemporary Europe and elsewhere. Curiously, the trend did not extend to...
Macmillan Education Ltd., 1991. - 453 p. In this classic textbook history of early medieval Europe, Roger Collins provides a succinct account of the centuries during which Europe changed from being an abstract geographical expression to a new culturally coherent, if politically divided, entity. This comprehensive new edition explores key topics such as the fall of the Roman...
De Gruyter, 2016. — 346 p. This book provides a needed overview of the scholarship on medieval public culture and popular movements such as the Peace of God, heresy, and the crusades and illustrates how a changing sense of the populus, the importance of publics and public opinion and public spheres was influential in the evolution of medieval cultures. Public opinion did play...
Cambridge University Press, 2004 - 440 p. ISBN10: 0521819180 ISBN13: 9780521819183 (eng) The Greek pandocheion, the Arabic funduq, and Latin fondaco were hostelries for medieval Mediterranean travellers that evolved into centers of trade between Muslim and Christian regions. Olivia Remie Constable traces the evolution of this family of institutions from the pandocheion in Late...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 292 p. Making Early Medieval Societies explores a fundamental question: what held the small- and large-scale communities of the late Roman and early medieval West together, at a time when the world seemed to be falling apart? Historians and anthropologists have traditionally asked parallel questions about the rise and fall of empires and how...
Alianza Editorial, 2008. — 584 p. Los dos autores, José Ángel García de Cortázar y José Ángel Sesma Muñoz, catedráticos de Historia Medieval, respectivamente, en las universidades de Cantabria y Zaragoza, que, en 1997, nos ofrecieron su Historia de la Edad Media. Una síntesis interpretativa, presentan ahora su Manual de Historia Medieval. Con la misma estructura de la obra...
Brepols, 2017. — 306 p. The medieval bishop occupied a position of central importance in European society between 900 and 1400. Indeed, medieval bishops across Europe were involved in an assortment of ecclesiastical and secular affairs, a feature of the episcopal office in this period that ensured their place amongst the most influential figures in their respective milieux....
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 1280 p. At its height, the Carolingian empire spanned a million square kilometres of western Europe – from the English Channel to central Italy and northern Spain, and from the Atlantic to the fringes of modern Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic. As the largest political unit for centuries, the empire dominated the region and left an...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 410 p. Founded around the beginning of the eighth century in the Sabine hills north of Rome, the abbey of Farfa was for centuries a barometer of social and political change in central Italy. Conventionally, the region’s history in the early Middle Ages revolves around the rise of the papacy as a secular political power. But Farfa’s avoidance...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 453 p. — ISBN: 9780198208242 In this challenging new book Charles Coulson overturns many of the traditional assumptions about the nature and purpose of castle-building in the middle ages. Going back to the original sources, he proposes a new and more subtle understanding of the function and symbolism of castles as well as vivid insights into the...
Cambridge: At the Universite Press, 1947. — 801 p. British History 1066-1450, Social and Population History, History, Regional History Before 1500. With more than eight hundred illustrations, Medieval Panorama is an all-encompassing visual re-creation of the medieval world: its peoples, its defining characteristics, indeed, its whole culture in the widest sense. Every facet of...
Fair Winds Press, 2008. — 320 p. This richly detailed chronicle brings to life the personalities of Attila the Hun, Alaric the Goth, Genghis Khan, and many other barbarian kings and chieftains whose rampages across Europe, Asia, and North Africa changed the course of history. In this highly readable and authoritative book, author Thomas J. Craughwell draws upon the latest...
Fair Winds Press, 2008. — 320 p. This richly detailed chronicle brings to life the personalities of Attila the Hun, Alaric the Goth, Genghis Khan, and many other barbarian kings and chieftains whose rampages across Europe, Asia, and North Africa changed the course of history. In this highly readable and authoritative book, author Thomas J. Craughwell draws upon the latest...
Boydell and Brewer, 2016. — 271 p. The notion of "guilds" in civic society might conjure images of craft guilds, the organisations of butchers, bakers or brewers set up to regulate working practises. In the towns of medieval Flanders, however, a plethora of guilds existed which had little or nothing to do with the organisation of labour, including chambers of rhetoric, urban...
Chelsea House Publishers, 2002. — 110 p. — (Battles That Changed the World). When Edward the Confessor died, his distant kinsman, William of Normandy, claimed that he was the rightful heir to the English crown and began preparations to take it by force. The battle was joined between the forces of Harold, King of England, and the Norman army, and their methods of battle were a...
York Medieval Press, 2018. — 248 p. Viking settlers and their descendants inhabited both England and Normandy in the tenth century, but narratives discussing their origins diverged significantly. This comparative study explores the depictions of Scandinavia and the events of the Viking Age in genealogies, origin myths, hagiographies, and charters from the two regions. Analysis...
Routledge, 2005. — 384 p. For 300 years separate and mutually uncomprehending English and French historiographies have confused the history of medieval aristocracy. Unpicking the basic assumptions behind both national traditions, this book explains them, reconciles them and offers entirely new ways to take the study of aristocracy forward in both England and France.
London: Hambledon Continuum, 2007. — 345 p. "The Normans" is the history of a dynasty. It is also the history of ruthless ambition, rivalry and war between brothers and cousins. The Norman Conquest of England in 1066 was a critical moment in history. Following the death of Harold at the battle of Hastings, it established William, duke of Normandy, on the throne of England. By...
Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2015. – 529 p. – (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450. Vol. 32). — ISBN 978-90-04-22661-6; 978-90-04-30454-3. List of Figures, Maps and Diagrams. Abbreviation of Museums. Introduction. Objectives. History of Research. Antiquarian Perspective and Cataloguing Artefacts. Classification and Typology. Ethnic Interpretations and...
Brepols, 2002. — 300 p. The role of the court in early medieval polities has long been recognised as an essential force in the running of the kingdom. The court was not only an organ of central government but a sociological community with its own ideology and culture, and a place where royal power was both displayed and negotiated. The studies within this volume reflect the...
San Diego: ReferencePoint Press, Inc., 2014. — 96 p. — (History’s great structures). — ISBN: 978-1-60152-536-9 During the Middle Ages, workers from all walks of life designed and built hundreds of castlessome of them simple wooden buildings, others imposing structures made primarily of stone. Part fortress and part living quarters for the nobles who owned them, these castles...
Boydell Press, 2000. — 496 p. Accessible collections of primary sources covering the Hundred Years War are still remarkably few and far between, and teachers of the subject will find Curry's volume a valuable addition to their bibliographies and teaching aids. "Agincourt! Agincourt! Know ye not Agincourt?" So began a ballad of around 1600. Since the event itself [25 October...
The University of Michigan Press, 2005. — 400 p. — ISBN: 978-0-472-11498-6. The first book in English to blend history and archaeology for a period of history currently receiving much scholarly attention, East Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages examines key problems of the early medieval history of Eastern Europe, with particular reference to society, state,...
Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 496 p. — (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks, 39). — ISBN: 0-521-81539-8. Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages stood at a crossroads of trade and crusading routes and fell within the spheres of influence of both the Byzantine Orthodox Church and Latin Christendom. This authoritative survey draws on historical and...
Brill, 2019. — 1306 p. This book provides a comprehensive synthesis of scholarship on Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages. The goal is to offer an overview of the current state of research and a basic route map for navigating an abundant historiography available in more than 10 different languages. The literature published in English on the medieval history of Eastern Europe -...
Pen and Sword History, 2019. — 144 p. Have you ever found yourself watching a show or reading a novel and wondering what life was really like in the Middle Ages? What did people actually eat? Were they really filthy? And did they ever get to marry for love? In Life in Medieval Europe: Fact and Fiction , you'll find fast and fun answers to all your secret questions, from eating...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 253 p. It is well known that political, economic, and social power in the British Isles in the Middle Ages lay in the hands of a small group of domini-lords. In his final book, the late Sir Rees Davies explores the personalities of these magnates, the nature of their lordship, and the ways in which it was expressed in a diverse and divided...
London: Routledge, 2016. — 345 p. Recent advances in research show that the distinctive features of high medieval civilization began developing centuries earlier than previously thought. The era once dismissed as a "Dark Age" now turns out to have been the long morning of the medieval millennium: the centuries from AD 500 to 1000 witnessed the dawn of developments that were to...
Cornell University Press, 2017. — 316 p. Sicily is a lush and culturally rich island at the center of the Mediterranean Sea. Throughout its history, the island has been conquered and colonized by successive waves of peoples from across the Mediterranean region. In the early and central Middle Ages, the island was ruled and occupied in turn by Greek Christians, Muslims, and...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 336 p. This study shows how marriage symbolism emerged from the world of texts to become a social force affecting ordinary people. It covers the whole medieval period but identifies the decades around 1200 as decisive. New arguments for regarding preaching as a mass medium from the thirteenth century are presented, building on the author's...
Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, 2001. — 609 p. The 19 papers presented in this volume by North American and European historians and archaeologists discuss how early medieval political and religious elites constructed ‘places of power’, and how such places, in turn, created powerful people. They also examine how the ‘high-level’ power exercised by elites was transformed in the...
Routledge, 2014. — 176 p. What is the difference between a stabbing in a tavern in London and one in a hostelry in the South of France? What happens when a spinster living in Paris finds knight in her bedroom wanting to marry her? Why was there a crime wave following the Black Death? From Aberdeen to Cracow and from Stockholm to Sardinia, Trevor Dean ranges widely throughout...
Walter de Gruyter, 2015. — 232 p. For the first time, this book presents a comprehensive history of the spoils of war from Old Testament evidence of the Battle of Megiddo through the pre-Napoleonic period. It gives special consideration to the Burgundian Booty of 1476. Using contemporary texts, the author investigates the nature, use, and impact of war plunder, placing the...
Krems, 2013. — 197 p. Textual Obscurity in the Middle Ages (Introduction). “Clarifications” of Obscurity: Conditions for Proclus’s Allegorical Reading of Plato’s Parmenides. Lucifica nigris tunc nuntio regna figuris. Poétique textuelle de l’obscuritas dans les recueils d’énigmes latines du Haut moyen Age (VIIe-VIIIe s.). The Enigmatic Style in Twelfth-Century French Literature....
Greenwood Press, 2001. — 543 p. As part of a unique series covering the grand sweep of Western civilization from ancient to present times, this biographical dictionary provides introductory information on 315 leading cultural figures of late medieval and early modern Europe. Taking a cultural approach not typically found in general biographical dictionaries, the work includes...
Flammarion, 1984. - 280 p. Ce livre entend montrer la signification de l'art dans l'Europe du Moyen Age et les relations qui le lient à l'ensemble de la société et de la culture. De la création artistique médiévale, presque seuls les chefs-d'oeuvre ont survécu. Leur raffinement surplombait alors une masse épaisse de brutalité, de terreur et de misère. Afin qu'on ne l'oublie...
Polity Press, 1990. — 250 p. On Sunday, 27 July 1214, thousands of warriors plunged into battle near the bridge of Bouvines in Flanders. They were led by the kings of Germany and France. Entrusted by God to maintain the order of the world, they dared nevertheless to disobey the prescriptions of the church and to call their men to arms on the day of the Lord. And the victory...
University of Chicago Press, 1982. — 392 p. In The Three Orders , prominent Annales historian Georges Duby offers a tripartite construct of medieval French society, a construct which depicts men separating themselves hierarchically into those who pray, those who fight, and those who work. He considers how this medieval theory of orders originated, discusses its complex history,...
The Boydell Press, 2000. — 285 p. The great strength of this collection is its wide range...a valuable work for anyone interested in the social aspects of the medieval nobility. Articles on the origins and nature of "nobility", its relationship with the late Roman world, its acquisition and exercise of power, its association with military obligation, and its transformation into...
Presses universitaires de France, 2016. — 1680 p. Depuis trois décennies, le "barbare" a fait l'objet d'un intérêt accru. L'étude des civilisations se focalisait jusqu'ici sur les espaces plus documentés par les sources écrites, mais une attention nouvelle est désormais accordée aux mondes jugés extérieurs, aux zones de contact, aux pratiques d'échanges et aux formes de la...
Le Seuil, 2010. — 112 p. Entre la fin de l'Antiquité et le début du Moyen Âge, des peuples aux noms mystérieux apparaissent en Europe: Ostrogoths, Wisigoths, Vandales, Francs… D'où viennent ces conquérants? Pourquoi ont-ils détruit l'Empire romain qui les fascinait pourtant? L'épopée des Barbares ne se résume pas à la violence de guerriers armés de haches, buvant leur bière...
Fayard, 2005. — 804 p. Pourquoi l'Europe est-elle devenue chrétienne ? Une évangélisation pacifique des populations a bien évidemment existé; mais très tôt la force, et notamment la force publique vint s'ajouter ou se substituer au pouvoir de conviction des prédicateurs. Malgré la qualité de leur appareil législatif et administratif, les empereurs romains ne parvinrent...
New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1891. — XXVI, 588 p. It is generally considered that the most successful textbook on mediseval history in any language is M. Victor Duruy's Histoire dii Moyen Age. Its great merit consists in the fact that while it gives a very clear conception of the general currents of the period, it also gives a sufficient number of the facts and details of the...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 293 p. A New Middle Ages Community and Privacy Authority and Freedom Consumption and Investment Subsistence and Markets Work and Leisure
Brill, 2018. — 388 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450; v. 50). The collection Migration, Integration and Connectivity on the Southeastern Frontier of the Carolingian Empire offers insights into the Carolingian southeastern frontier-zone from historical, art-historical and archaeological perspectives. Chapters in this volume discuss the...
Leiden: Brill, 2018. — 416 p. The authors bring fresh approaches to the subject of royal and noble households in medieval and early modern Europe with a focus on the nuclear and extended royal family, their household attendants, noblemen and noblewomen as courtiers, and physicians. The work recorded in household accounts was vital. A house is a physical structure – a building...
Rochester: Boydell Press, 2010. — ISBN: 9781843835431. This book brings together for the first time the astonishing diversity of excavated furnishings and artefacts from medieval London homes. These include roofing and other structural items, decorative fixtures and fittings, and assortment of culinary utensils, writing instruments, and toys and weights. Illustrating some 1,000...
Rochester: Boydell Press, 2010. — ISBN: 9781843835431. This book brings together for the first time the astonishing diversity of excavated furnishings and artefacts from medieval London homes. These include roofing and other structural items, decorative fixtures and fittings, and assortment of culinary utensils, writing instruments, and toys and weights. Illustrating some 1,000...
Walter de Gruyter , 2015. - 788 p. The Handbook illustrates a new interdisciplinary conceptualization of the category “house” as evoked by current discussions in the social sciences and humanities. In addition, it offers readers a panorama of European research related to the historical dimensions of house, household, and domesticity.
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 143 p. As a 'Medieval Warm Period' prevailed in Western Europe during the tenth and eleventh centuries, the eastern Mediterranean region, from the Nile to the Oxus, was suffering from a series of climatic disasters which led to the decline of some of the most important civilisations and cultural centres of the time. This provocative study...
Four Courts Press, 1996. — 340 p. Lady with a Mead Cup is a broad-ranging, innovative and strikingly original study of the early medieval barbarian cup-offering ritual and its social, institutional and religious significance. Medievalists are familiar with the image of a queen offering a drink to a king or chieftain and to his retainers, the Wealhtheow scene in "Beowulf" being...
Böhlau Verlag, 2003. — 368 p. Dieses Buch über die mittelalterliche Lebenswelt der Bauern ist Quellenwerk und Darstellung zugleich. Der Leser erfährt, wie die Bauern mit Naturkatastrophen, Hungersnöten und Seuchen umgingen. Die Bestellung des Feldes, Ernte und Weinanbau sowie die Leistung von Abgaben und Frondiensten prägten den Rhythmus des Jahres. Schädlinge galt es zu...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. - 360 p. For a long time guilds have been condemned as a major obstacle to economic progress in the pre-industrial era. This re-examination of the role of guilds in the early modern European economy challenges that view by taking into account fresh research on innovation, technological change and entrepreneurship. Leading economic historians...
Bavaria, 2017. — 36 p. Bavarian Castles King Ludwig II’s Castles and the Bavarian Lakes River Castles The German Rivers Rhine, Moselle, Neckar and Main and their Castles Black Forest, Alsace and Switzerland Three Corners' Castles, Magnificent Scenery and Wine Christmas Markets King Ludwig II’s Castles and the Bavarian Christmas Markets Best of Germany and Austria Rhine and...
London: Routledge, 2002. Pp. xxxiv, 183. Series: Routledge Key Guides. Focussing on individuals whose ideas shaped intellectual life between 400 and 1500, "Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers" is an accessible introduction to those religious, philosophical and political concepts central to the medieval worldview. Including such diverse figures as Bede and Wyclif, each entry presents a...
Palgrave, London, 2011. - 305 An assessment of the role of the Middle Ages in national historiography and in modern conceptions of national identity, looking at relatively young nations, and regions which claim national traditions but were slow to achieve, or regain, separate statehood. Examples range from Ireland and Iceland through Austria and Italy to Finland and Greece.
Basic Books, 2006. — 368 p. What gave Christopher Columbus the confidence in 1492 to set out across the Atlantic Ocean? What persuaded the king and queen of Spain to commission the voyage? It would be convenient to believe that Columbus and his men were uniquely courageous. A more reasonable explanation, however, is that Columbus was heir to a body of knowledge about seas and...
Basic Books, 2006. — 368 p. What gave Christopher Columbus the confidence in 1492 to set out across the Atlantic Ocean? What persuaded the king and queen of Spain to commission the voyage? It would be convenient to believe that Columbus and his men were uniquely courageous. A more reasonable explanation, however, is that Columbus was heir to a body of knowledge about seas and...
London: Karnac Books Ltd, 2010. — ISBN: 978-1-85575-733-2. This is the first and only book to examine the Crusades from the added viewpoint of psychoanalysis, studying the hidden emotions and fantasies that drove the Crusaders and the Muslims to undertake their terrible wars. The reader will learn that the deepest and most powerful motives for the Crusades were not only...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 436 p. In 1311, at the council of Vienne, William Durant the Younger (c. 1266-1330), the French bishop and count, demanded that general councils ought to meet every ten years in order to place effective limits on the papal plenitude of power because 'what touches all must be approved by all'. This is the first systematic interpretation of...
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press B.V., 2016. — 237 p. A Family Affair. Leander, Isidore and the Legacy of Gregory the Great in Spain. Variations on a Theme. Isidore and Pliny on Human and Human-Instigated Anomaly. Putting the Pieces Back Together. Isidore and De Natura Rerum. The Politics of History-Writing. Problematizing the Historiographical Origins of Isidore of...
Brepols, 2011. — 232 p. Fiefs and Vassals after Twelve Years Economic and Political Aspects of Leases in the Kingdom of the Franks during the Eighth and Ninth Centuries: A Contribution to the Current Debate about Feudalism Vassaux et fiefs dans la France de l’an mil L’Aristocratie languedocienne et la société féodale: Le témoignage des sources (Midi de la France: XIe et XIIe...
Brepols, 2011. — 232 p. Fiefs and Vassals after Twelve Years Economic and Political Aspects of Leases in the Kingdom of the Franks during the Eighth and Ninth Centuries: A Contribution to the Current Debate about Feudalism Vassaux et fiefs dans la France de l’an mil L’Aristocratie languedocienne et la société féodale: Le témoignage des sources (Midi de la France: XIe et XIIe...
Fontana Press, 1998. — 700 p. The story of how Europe was converted to Christianity from 300 AD until the barbarian Lithuanians finally capitulated at the astonishingly late date of 1386. It is an epic tale from one of the most gifted historians of today. This remarkable book examines the conversion of Europe to the Christian faith in the period following the collapse of the...
Fontana Press, 1998. — 700 p. The story of how Europe was converted to Christianity from 300 AD until the barbarian Lithuanians finally capitulated at the astonishingly late date of 1386. It is an epic tale from one of the most gifted historians of today. This remarkable book examines the conversion of Europe to the Christian faith in the period following the collapse of the...
Blackwell, 2001. — 404 p. This is the first book devoted exclusively to the history of ′The Great Companies′, an assembly of mercenaries drawn from different European countries who came together to fight in the second half of the 14th century, sometimes in the employ of kings, the pope, princes or city republics, but frequently fighting on their own account.
Routledge, 2016. — 276 p. The Mediterranean and its hinterlands were the scene of intensive and transformative contact between cultures in the Middle Ages. From the seventh to the seventeenth century, the three civilizations into which the region came to be divided geographically – the Islamic Khalifate, the Byzantine Empire, and the Latin West – were busily redefining...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2008. — 415 p. — (History of Warfare 47). Mercenaries have always had a poor press. Theirs is one of the world's oldest professions, but the very word has profoundly negative connotations of infidelity and ruthlessness. But were they so different from soldiers? Why, in any case, were they so omnipresent in the warfare of the medieval and early modern...
Routledge, 2005. — 392 p. The Crusades and the Expansion of Catholic Christendom, 1000-1714 is a fascinating and accessible survey that places the medieval Crusades in their European context, and examines, for the first time, their impact on European expansion. Taking a unique approach that focuses on the motivation behind the Crusades, John France chronologically examines the...
London: Macmillan and Co., 1873. — 354 p. The present collection is that which was spoken of in the Preface to the second edition of ray former series of Essays. The Essays now reprinted chiefly relate to earlier periods of history than those which were dealt with in the former volume to the times commonly known as 'ancient' or 'classical.' I need hardly say that to me those...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1943 - 64 p. «What is an herb?" the scholar Alcuin is said to have inquired of his pupil Charlemagne. The reply was "The friend of physicians and the praise of cooks". This conversation may be apocryphal and not very profound and perhaps even a little ungrammatical but nevertheless Charlemagne's definition of mediaeval herbs is as succinctly true...
De Gruyter Akademie Forschung, 2012. — 182 s. Canossa war keine Wende. Canossa führte zu keiner Entzauberung der Welt. Dieses Canossa war ein Mythos, eine Legende. Tatsächlich schlossen Papst Gregor VII. und König Heinrich IV. in Canossa einen Friedensvertrag. Erinnerungsunkritische Kritik wollte diesen Pakt in Zweifel ziehen, als "neue Legende" voreilig dem Vergessen...
Harvard University Press, 2016. — 688 p. When Charlemagne died in 814 CE, he left behind a dominion and a legacy unlike anything seen in Western Europe since the fall of Rome. Distinguished historian and author of The Middle Ages Johannes Fried presents a new biographical study of the legendary Frankish king and emperor, illuminating the life and reign of a ruler who shaped...
Oldenbourg Verlag, 2008. — 368 s. Für die dritte Auflage hat Johannes Fried seinen Klassiker grundlegend überarbeitet; der Forschungsüberblick behandelt alle wichtigen Neuerscheinungen der letzten Jahre. "Was der Frankfurter Mediävist Johannes Fried auf hundert Seiten Darstellung, achtzig Seiten Forschungsbericht und noch einmal hundert Seiten Bibliographie vorlegt, ist eine...
De Gruyter, 2007. — 202 p. The Donation of Constantine is the most outrageous and powerful forgery in world history. The question of its precise time of origin alone kept generations of researchers occupied. But, what exactly is the Donation of Constantine? To find the answer, it is necessary to approach the question on two different semantic levels: First, as the Constitutum...
C.H. Beck, 2013. — 736 s. Wir wissen nur wenig über das Leben und die Person des größten mittelalterlichen Herrschers. Eine Karlsbiographie in modernem Sinne ist unmöglich. Doch wie Fried, der Meistererzähler und begnadete Mediävist, in seinem Opus magnum alle historischen Register zieht, anhand von Quellen und Artefakten, Indizien und Analogieschlüssen Karl nachspürt, Wissen,...
Belknap Press, 2015. — 632 p. — ISBN 978-0-674-05562-9. This book was originally published as Das Mittelalter , 3rd ed., copyright Verlag C. H. Beck oHG, Munchen 2009. Translated by Peter Lewis. Since the fifteenth century, when humanist writers began to speak of a “middle” period in history linking their time to the ancient world, the nature of the Middle Ages has been widely...
Oxford University Press, 2011. - 215 p. Beginning shortly after Charlemagne's death in 814, the inhabitants of his historical empire looked back upon his reign and saw in it an exemplar of Christian universality - Christendom. They mapped contemporary Christendom onto the past and so, during the ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries, the borders of his empire grew with each...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. - 198 p. These essays take advantage of a new, exciting trend towards interdisciplinary research on the Charlemagne legend. Written by historians, art historians, and literary scholars, these essays focus on the multifaceted ways the Charlemagne legend functioned in the Middle Ages and how central the shared (if nonetheless fictional) memory of the...
Routledge, 2018. — 234 p. Apocalypse and Reform from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages provides a range of perspectives on what reformist apocalypticism meant for the formation of Medieval Europe, from the Fall of Rome to the twelfth century. It explores and challenges accepted narratives about both the development of apocalyptic thought and the way it intersected with cultures...
Gale Group, 2001. — 267 p. Reader’s Guide Timeline of Events in the Middle Ages Words to Know Research and Activity Ideas The Middle Ages Understanding Medieval Times The Fall of the Roman Empire The Decline of the Roman Empire (A.D. 180–c. 350) The Fall of Rome (c. 350–476) The Merovingian Age Dividing Up Western Europe (400s–500s) The Church The Merovingians (481–751) The...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 634 p. This magisterial study proposes a revised and innovative view of the political history of Renaissance Italy. Drawing on comparative examples from across the peninsula and the kingdoms of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, an international team of leading scholars highlights the complexity and variety of the Italian world from the fourteenth...
London, Seeley and Co. Limited, 1897. — 100 p. It is the nature of islands to exhibit some peculiarities in their fauna and flora, and this insularity is no less pronounced in the manners and customs of the human beings inhabiting them. Thus even the stone implements of Britain of remote prehistoric days can readily be distinguished by the expert ; and we have the authority of...
Brill, 2008. - 417 p. - (Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages 16). This book is not a conventional political narrative of Carolingian history shaped by narrative sources, capitularies, and charter material. It is structured, instead, by numismatic, diplomatic, liturgical, and iconographic sources and deals with political signs, images, and fixed formulas in them as...
Turnhout: Brepols Publishers n.v., 2008. — 260 p. — ISBN: 978-2-503-52615-7. In recent decades, historians attempting to understand the transition from the world of late antiquity with its unitary imperial system to the medieval Europe of separate kingdoms have become increasingly concerned with the role of early medieval gentes, or peoples, in the end of the former and the...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — xxvi + 377 p. — (Oxford Studies in Medieval European History). Graphic Signs of Authority in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages presents a cultural history of graphic signs and examines how they were employed to communicate secular and divine authority in the late antique Mediterranean and early medieval Europe. Visual materials such as...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — xxvi + 377 p. — (Oxford Studies in Medieval European History). Graphic Signs of Authority in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages presents a cultural history of graphic signs and examines how they were employed to communicate secular and divine authority in the late antique Mediterranean and early medieval Europe. Visual materials such as...
Paris: Le leopard d'or, 1989. - 423 p. Sommaire. Avant-propos. Sommaire 11. Code des références et abréviations. Réalisme et symbolisme. Figuration du temps. Figuration actif/passif, en état/en action. Corrélations et contextes. Situation: double silhouetté. La tête. Gestes et positions de la main. Gestes et positions des bras. Relations avec le pied/la jambe. La boule. La...
Paris: Le leopard d'or, 1982. - 179 p. Table des matières. Avant-propos. Le langage iconographique. La documentation et son exploitation. Aspects generaux du langage iconographique - cadres et structures. Les elements. Les dimensions. Les situations. Les positions du corps. Positions et expressions de la tête. Gestes de la main et du bras. Positions et gestes des jambes et des...
Princeton University Press, 1990. — 235 p. To obtain sacred relics, medieval monks plundered tombs, avaricious merchants raided churches, and relic-mongers scoured the Roman catacombs. In a revised edition of "Furta Sacra", Patrick Geary considers the social and cultural context for these acts, asking how the relics were perceived and why the thefts met with the approval of...
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2009. — 272 p. The Material Culture of Death in Medieval Japan, by Karen M. Gerhart, is the first in the English language to explore the ways medieval Japanese sought to overcome their sense of powerlessness over death. By attending to both religious practice and ritual objects used in funerals in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, it...
Routledge, 2016. — 334 p. The fighting bishop or abbot is a familiar figure to medievalists and much of what is known of the military organization of England in this period is based on ecclesiastical evidence. Unfortunately the fighting cleric has generally been regarded as merely a baron in clerical dress and has consequently fallen into the gap between military and...
London: Routledge, 2016. — 417 p. — (Studies in Honour of John Pryor). The cutting-edge papers in this collection reflect the wide areas to which John Pryor has made significant contributions in the course of his scholarly career. They are written by some of the world's most distinguished practitioners in the fields of Crusading history and the maritime history of the medieval...
HarperPerennial, 1991. — ISBN 0-06-016215-5. The reissue of Joseph and Frances Gies’s classic bestseller on life in medieval villages. This new reissue of Life in a Medieval Village , by respected historians Joseph and Frances Gies, paints a lively, convincing portrait of rural people at work and at play in the Middle Ages. Focusing on the village of Elton, in the English East...
HarperPerennial, 1991. — 288 p. The reissue of Joseph and Frances Gies’s classic bestseller on life in medieval villages. This new reissue of "Life in a Medieval Village", by respected historians Joseph and Frances Gies, paints a lively, convincing portrait of rural people at work and at play in the Middle Ages. Focusing on the village of Elton, in the English East Midlands,...
Harper Perennial, 1979. — 320 p. Medieval history comes alive in Joseph and Frances Gies's "Life in a Medieval Castle", used as a research resource by George R. R. Martin in creating the world of "A Game of Thrones". Newly reissued for the first time in decades, "Life in a Medieval Castle" is the bestselling classic that has introduced countless readers to the wonders of the...
Harper Perennial, 1979. — 320 p. Medieval history comes alive in Joseph and Frances Gies's "Life in a Medieval Castle", used as a research resource by George R. R. Martin in creating the world of "A Game of Thrones". Newly reissued for the first time in decades, "Life in a Medieval Castle" is the bestselling classic that has introduced countless readers to the wonders of the...
HarperCollins, 1981. — 552 p. Medieval history comes alive in Frances and Joseph Gies’s "Life in a Medieval City", used as a research resource by George R. R. Martin in creating the world of "A Game of Thrones". Reissued for the first time in decades, Life in a Medieval City is the classic account of the year 1250 in the city of Troyes, in modern-day France. Acclaimed...
HarperCollins, 1981. — 552 p. Medieval history comes alive in Frances and Joseph Gies’s "Life in a Medieval City", used as a research resource by George R. R. Martin in creating the world of "A Game of Thrones". Reissued for the first time in decades, Life in a Medieval City is the classic account of the year 1250 in the city of Troyes, in modern-day France. Acclaimed...
Brepols, 2002. — 265 p. The authors of this publication explore new ways to understand barbarians in the early Middle Ages, and to analyze the images of the period constructed by modern scholarship. Ethnicity has been central to medieval studies since the Goths, Franks, Alamanni and other barbarian settlers of the Roman empire were first seen as part of Germanic antiquity....
The Boydell Press, 2003. — 238 p. The Battle Conference celebrated its quarter-centenary in 2002 in Glasgow, and this volume, while ranging from Norman Sicily to Scandinavia, has a particular focus on Scottish themes. There are six papers on aspects of Scottish history from the eleventh to the early thirteenth century: on kings and their followers, on the building of burghs,...
The Boydell Press, 2004. — 189 p. The emphasis in this collection of recent work on the Anglo-Norman realm is particularly on narrative sources: Dudo, Vita Ædwardi Regis, monastic chronicle audiences in the Fens, the chronicles of Anjou, the Warenne view of the past - and much later sources for stereotypical images of the Normans. There are also papers analysing both charter...
The Boydell Press, 2005. — 209 p. This volume contains the usual wide range of topics, and offers some unusual and provocative perspectives, including an examination of what the evidence of zooarchaeology can reveal about the Conquest. The other subjects discussed are the battle of Alençon; the impact of rebellion on Little Domesday; Lawrence of Durham; Thomas Becket; Peter of...
Brill, 2014. — 210 p. The Favor of Friends offers the first book-length exploration of intercession — aid and advocacy by one individual or group in behalf of another — within early medieval aristocratic societies. Drawing upon a variety of disciplines and historiographical traditions, Sean Gilsdorf demonstrates how this process operated, and how it was ideologically...
4. Auflage. — Darmstadt: WBG, 2011. — 160 S. Inhalt. Geschichte kompakt. Die Anfange: in communitate. In communitate -in der Gemeinschaft. Die Entwicklung des Christentums zur „Staatsreligion". In eremo- in der Wiiste. In eremo in communitate -gemeinschaftlich in der Wiiste 6Der Eremit Antonius. Die Gemeinden des Pachomius. Die Ausbreitung des Christentums im westlichen Teil...
Translated by Ghas. D. Meigs. — Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen, and Haffelfinger, 1869. — 438 p. I would not, at my advanced age of seventy-eight years, have thought of taking the trouble to write and publish a romance, even were I endowed with genius and learning sufficient to qualify me to produce a picture so admirable as this tale of the Twelfth Century, composed by you...
Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1999. — 412 S. »Moderne Mediävistik« - gibt es das überhaupt? In welchem Sinne kann das »finstere« Mittelalter dem ausgehenden 20. Jahrhundert von Bedeutung sein? Hans-Werner Goetz wagt nichts anderes als eine Bestandsaufnahme seines Faches. Die »Moderne Mediävistik« ist eine Pionierleistung, die Anlaß zu lebhaften Diskussionen in...
Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2003. – 718 p. – (The Transformation of the Roman World. Vol. 13). ISBN: 90-04-12524-8 Late Antiquity, no doubt, was a time of transition or rather transitions.In spite of extensive research on the Germanic (or, from the Roman point of view, barbarian) invasions and the successor states of the Roman Empire, comparatively littleattention has been paid to...
Oldenbourg Verlag, 2008. - 501 p. Der Gegenwartsbezug jeder Geschichtsschreibung ist bislang kaum systematisch untersucht worden. Das in diesem Buch behandelte hohe Mittelalter, eine wichtige "Umbruchs- und Krisenzeit" in der Geschichte sowohl des Denkens wie des Handelns innerhalb der Epoche des Mittelalters, eignet sich für einen solchen Ansatz in besonderer Weise: Es war,...
Berlin - New York: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, 2008. – 698 S. – (Millennium-Studien zu Kultur und Geschichte des ersten Jahrtausends n. Chr. Band 12). ISBN 978-3-11-018985-8 ISSN 1862-1139 Theoderich der Große (um 453–526) gehört zu den faszinierendsten Herrschergestalten der Völkerwanderungszeit. Wie kein anderer Germanenkönig beeindruckte und polarisierte der Ostgote...
A Dissertation Presented for the Doctor of Philosophy Degree The University of Tennessee. — Knoxville, 2011. — 247 p. Near the northern gate through the walls of the city of Toledo stands a very small but quite remarkable church. The church of Santa Cruz was originally the Bad-al-Mardum mosque, one of the few structures surviving today from the era when the city was the center...
London, Routledge, 1992. - 198 p. An accomplished collection of academic essays, originally published in 1992. These are the proceedings of a conference inspired by the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Otterburn, which was fought in 1388 between the English and the Scots. Colin Tyson examines the contemporary sources for the battle, attempting to determine its precise timing...
Leinden: Brill, 2010. — 719 p. How different was the practice of magic in the Latin West from that of the eastern Mediterranean basin? Was it just derivative from Greek practice, or did it have its own originality? The recent discovery of important new curse-tablets in Mainz and in the Fountain of Anna Perenna at Rome has made the question newly topical. This volume contains...
Górski K.: 1932-1989. Collection of works (52 works) on the history of the Teutonic Order, the Baltic states and the methodology of history by the leading Polish expert on the order and one of the leading Polish medievalists of the 20th century. Karol Gursky. Gorski K. Communitas, Princeps, Corona Regni studia selecta. 1976. Gorski K. Duchowość chrześcijańska. 1978. Gorski K....
State University of New York Press, 1997. — 288 p. Analyzes and illustrates the demonization of women and Jews in medieval sermon stories, retelling over one hundred of these tales in modern English. Contemporary misogyny and antisemitism have their roots in the demonization of women and Jews in medieval Christendom. In church art and mass preaching, the construct of the devil...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. — 226 p. Between the Fall of Rome and the Renaissance were the Middle Ages. Once seen as a thousand years of warfare, religious infighting, and cultural stagnation, they are now understood to be the vital connection between the past and the present. Along with the battles that helped shape the modern world are a rich heritage...
Leiden: Brill, 2016. — 392 p. — (The Collected Articles of Richard W. Kaeuper). In Kings, Knights, and Bankers, Richard Kaeuper presents a lifetime of medieval research on Italian financiers, English kingship, chivalric violence, and knightly piety. His foundational work on public finance connects Italian merchant banking with the growth of state power at the turn of the...
University of Toronto Press, 2014. — 296 p. In this fascinating book, Evelina Gužauskytė uses the names Columbus gave to places in the Caribbean Basin as a way to examine the complex encounter between Europeans and the native inhabitants. Gužauskytė challenges the common notion that Columbus’s acts of naming were merely an imperial attempt to impose his will on the terrain....
Brill, 2008. - 301 p. - (Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages 15). Seven of Guy Halsall's most important essays on the social interpretation of Merovingian cemetery archaeology are collected in this volume. The opening chapter discusses the relationships between documentary history and archaeology while the subsequent articles cover the interpretation of fourth-century...
Ashgate, 2015. — 332 p. — ISBN: 9781472419606 Few historians have argued so forcefully or persuasively as Bernard S. Bachrach for the study of warfare as not only worthy of scholarly attention, but demanding of it. In his many publications Bachrach has established unequivocally the relevance of military institutions and activity for an understanding of medieval European...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. – 615 p. – (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks). ISBN13: 978-0-511-45516-2 eBook (EBL) ISBN13: 978-0-521-43491-1 hardback This is a major new survey of the barbarian migrations and their role in the fall of the Roman Empire and the creation of early medieval Europe, one of the keyevents in European history. Unlike previous studies it...
London - New York: Routledge, 2003. – 341 p. ISBN 0-203-93007-X Master e-book ISBN 0–415–23939–7 (hbk) 0–415–23940–0 (pbk) Warfare was an integral part of early medieval life. It had a character of its own and was neither a pale shadow of Roman military practice nor an insignificant precursor to the warfare of the central Middle Ages. This book recovers its distinctiveness,...
London, New York: Routledge, 2006. — 517 p. — ISBN10: 0-415-25589-9 For many historians, military history begins with the classical Greeks. Waifare in rVorld History, for example, starts with the battle of Thermopylae {480 BCE}. The very useful Reader's Guide to Military History has one entry on ancient Egypt ,lI1d another on the ancient Near East, but eight on the classical...
Greenwood, 2009. - 371 p. Term Paper Resource Guide to Medieval History brings key historic events and individuals alive to enrich and stimulate students in challenging and enjoyable ways. Students from high school to college will be able to get a jump start on assignments with the hundreds of term paper projects and research information offered here. The book transforms and...
Oxford University Press, 1998. - 161 p. A brisk narrative of battles and plagues, monastic orders, heroic women, and knights-errant, barbaric tortures and tender romance, intrigue, scandals, and conquest, The Middle Ages: An Illustrated History mixes a spirited and entertaining writing style with exquisite, thorough scholarship. Barbara A. Hanawalt, a renowned medievalist,...
Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2007. — 224 p. Alongside the familiar pitched battles, regular sieges, and large-scale manoeuvres, medieval and early modern wars also involved assassination, abduction, treason and sabotage. These undercover operations were aimed chiefly against key individuals, mostly royalty or the leaders of the opposing army, and against key fortified places,...
New York, 2008. — 230 p. Acknowledgments Early Medieval Histories Sexuality in Late Lombard Italy, c.700–c.800 AD Sex and Text: The Afterlife of Medieval Penance in Britain and Ireland Saintly Sexualities When Sex Stopped Being a Social Disease: Sex and the Desert Fathers and Mothers Virtue and Violence: Saints, Monsters and Sexuality in Medieval Culture Consuming Passions “The...
The Boydell Press, 2007. - 403 p. Henry II is the most imposing figure among the medieval kings of England. His fiefs and domains extended from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, and his court was frequented by the greatest thinkers and men of letters of his time, besides ambassadors from all over Europe. Yet his is a reign of paradoxes: best known for his dramatic conflicts...
New York, London: Routledge, 2008. — 298 p. Introduction (by Stephen J. Harris) The Church Was the Medieval Church Corrupt? (by Frans Van Liere) Papal Infallibility (by Elaine M. Beretz) “The Age of Faith”: Everyone in the Middle Ages Believed in God (by Peter Dendle) Everyone was an Orthodox, Educated Roman Catholic (by Michael D.C. Drout) The Myth of The Virgin Nun (by Mary...
Random House, 2008. — 368 p. In this vibrantly told, meticulously researched book, Miles Harvey reveals one of the most fascinating and overlooked lives in American history. Like The Island of Lost Maps , his bestselling book about a legendary map thief, Painter in a Savage Land is a compelling search into the mysteries of the past. This is the thrilling story of Jacques Le...
Random House, 2008. — 368 p. In this vibrantly told, meticulously researched book, Miles Harvey reveals one of the most fascinating and overlooked lives in American history. Like The Island of Lost Maps , his bestselling book about a legendary map thief, Painter in a Savage Land is a compelling search into the mysteries of the past. This is the thrilling story of Jacques Le...
Third printing. — Seatle: University of Washington Press edition, 1996. — 178 p. — ISBN: 0-295-96231-3 Coffee has never been a mere beverage. Some three centuries have passed since it became the overnight rage among the fashionable and witty in cities throughout Europe. Even in the late twentieth century, however, it has yet to be relegated to the ranks of the more pedestrian...
Fully revised second edition. — A Wargames Research Group Publication, 1980. — 129 p. Byzantine, Sub-Roman, Pictish, Irish, Visigothic, Lombard, Merovingian, Carolingian, Ottomanian, Viking, Russian, Slav, Avar, Khazar, Magyar, Bulgar, Pecheneg, Chuzz, Alan, Armenian, Sassanid, Arab, Andalusian, Near Eastern, Saxon, Norman, Italian and Spanish armies
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 488 p. In 476 AD, the last of Romes emperors, known as «Augustulus,» was deposed by a barbarian general, the son of one of Attila the Huns henchmen. With the imperial vestments dispatched to Constantinople, the curtain fell on the Roman empire in Western Europe, its territories divided among successor kingdoms constructed around barbarian...
Oldenbourg, 2010. - 177 p. Es dürfte nur wenige Aspekte der mittelalterlichen Geschichte geben, die nicht in irgendeiner Form mit Adel, Ministerialität und Rittertum in Verbindung stehen. Der Adel war nicht nur die wichtigste, sondern im Grunde sogar die einzige Elite, die alle Bereiche von Gesellschaft und Politik nahezu unangefochten beherrschte. Das Buch gibt einen Überblick...
Brill, 2013. — 312 p. In Ports, Piracy, and Maritime War Thomas K. Heebøll-Holm presents a study of maritime predation in English and French waters around the year 1300. Following Cicero, pirates have traditionally been cast as especially depraved robbers and the enemy of all, but Heebøll-Holm shows that piracy was often part of private wars between English, French, and Gascon...
Paris: Perrin, 2012. — 308 p. Avant-propos L’or et l’argent Les mines du Soudan et l’or des caravaniers Les aventuriers sur les routes du Sahara Les Portugais en Afrique Serbie et Bohême, les mines d’argent Le change Les belles pièces, le poids et l’aloi Les trafics, métaux et monnaies Fausses monnaies, vilaines copies Le change Les prêts et l’usure « Gratis et amore Dei »,...
Basingstoke (UK) - New York (USA): Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, 2007. – 228 p. – (Medieval Culture and Society Series). ISBN-13: 978–0–333–78665–9 hardback ISBN-10: 0–333–78665–3 hardback «Roman Barbarians» investigates the nature of early medieval culture, and what place the royal court had in it. It explores the place of the royal court and the operation of patronage through it in...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 503 p. In The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages , Geraldine Heng questions the common assumption that the concepts of race and racisms only began in the modern era. Examining Europe's encounters with Jews, Muslims, Africans, Native Americans, Mongols, and the Romani ('Gypsies'), from the 12th through 15th centuries, she shows how...
Berlin - New York: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, 2007. – 617 p. – (Millenium Studies. Vol. 5/1). ISBN: 978-3-11-018356-6 ISSN: 1862-1139 Both specialists and the general public have been excited by the recent progress made in our knowledge and understanding of early medieval towns and economic archaeology by new research approaches and the use of scientific methods. This...
Berlin - New York: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, 2007. – 765 p. – (Millenium Studies. Vol. 5/2). ISBN: 978-3-11-018358-0 ISSN: 1862-1139. Acknownledgements Contributors of volume 2 Byzantium The reduction of the fortified city area in late antiquity: some reflections on the end of the ‘antique city’ in the lands of the Eastern Roman Empire. Chavdar Kirilov Amorium in the...
Harvard University Press, 1985. — 227 p. — (Studies in Cultural History). How should the medieval family be characterized? Who formed the household and what were the ties of kinship, law, and affection that bound the members together? David Herlihy explores these questions from ancient Greece to the households of fifteenth-century Tuscany, to provide a broad new interpretation...
Oxford, London, John Henry and James Parker, 1855. — 387 p. By whatever race Europe may have been originally peopled, this portion of the world seems to have been swept by successive tribes of adventurers from Central Asia. The so-called "Allophylian race" was displaced by the Celts; the Sclaves then drove the Celts to the west, and the Tshuds into the cold regions of the north...
Boydell Press, 2018. — 299 p. From as early as the first century AD, learned Romans knew of more than one group of people living in north-western Europe beyond their Empire's Gallic provinces whose names contained the element that gives us modern 'Frisian'. These were apparently Celtic-speaking peoples, but that population was probably completely replaced in the course of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 426 p. — (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks). As the very first book of its kind, An Environmental History of Medieval Europe provides a highly original survey of medieval relations with the natural world. Engaging with the interdisciplinary enterprise of environmental history, it examines the way in which natural forces affected people, how...
Brepols Publishers, 2015. — 471 p. Modern scholarship on medieval letters has often focused on the divide between fictionality and historicity. Attempts have been made to distinguish between 'real' letters and those that were used as stylistic models, and discussion has focused on how to make use of these texts as historical sources. In this volume, which draws on the...
Doubleday, 2009. — 512 p. A grand narrative history of the re-emergence of Europe following the collapse of the Roman Empire. At the approach of the first millennium, the Christians of Europe did not seem likely candidates for future greatness. Weak, fractured, and hemmed in by hostile nations, they saw no future beyond the widely anticipated Second Coming of Christ. But when...
Doubleday, 2009. — 512 p. A grand narrative history of the re-emergence of Europe following the collapse of the Roman Empire. At the approach of the first millennium, the Christians of Europe did not seem likely candidates for future greatness. Weak, fractured, and hemmed in by hostile nations, they saw no future beyond the widely anticipated Second Coming of Christ. But when...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 416 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-280133-3. This is the most authoritative account of life in Medieval Europe between the fall of the Roman Empire and the coming of the Renaissance. Full coverage is given to all aspects of life in a thousand-year period which saw the creation of western civilization: from the empires and kingdoms of Charlemagne, the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 343 p. A Note on Italy Clement VII and Rome Pope and Emperor Marone's Conspiracy and the League of Cognac Pope, Emperor and Rome The League at War The Colonna Raid The War against the Colonna The Advance of Bourbon Lannoy's Truce From Florence to Rome The Sack of Rome Rome after the Sack The Loss of the Church State The Pope Escapes The Pope in Exile...
Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 192 p. Warfare in the Middle Ages is often characterized as being dominated by lone, heroic knights or enormous mobs of plodding infantry. In this colorful and informative book, authors Hooper and Bennett debunk many of the myths surrounding medieval warfare to present a picture of a military culture as sophisticated as our modern one, with...
Brepols, 2010. — 364 p. — (Essays on the Art of State Building in Honour of W.P. Blockmans). The transformation of the myriad of medieval kingdoms, principalities, local lordships, city-'states' and peasant 'republics' into 'modern' states claiming some measure of sovereignty remains one of the core themes of European history, because it gets down to the very root of the (idea...
Brill, 2007. — 275 p. — (History of warfare 44). There are no book-length studies in any language on the military career of King Henry II of England (1154-1189). Historians have generally regarded his warfare as cautious and limited, and the king himself, while noted for his considerable political and legal accomplishments, is not considered one of the great commanders of the...
Brill, 2013. — 240 p. — (History of Warfare 89). The English scholar John of Salisbury was a major intellectual of the twelfth century whose contributions to the fields of education, grammar, political theory, and rhetoric are well-known. His significance is amplified further in John of Salisbury: Military Authority of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance, in which John D. Hosler...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 272 p. The fifty years that followed Mehmed II's capture of Constantinople in 1453 witnessed a substantial attempt to revive the crusade as the principal military mechanism for defending Christian Europe against the advance of the Ottoman Turks. Norman Housley's study investigates the origins, character, and significance of this ambitious...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 344 p. This collection of essays by eight leading scholars is a landmark event in the study of crusading in the late middle ages. It is the outcome of an international network funded by the Leverhulme Trust whose members examined the persistence of crusading activity in the fifteenth century from three viewpoints, goals, agencies and resonances. The...
Oxford University Press, 2002. - 248 p. Religious warfare has been a recurrent feature of European history. In this intelligent and readable new study, the distinguished Crusade historian Norman Housley describes and analyses the principal expressions of holy war in the period from the Hussite wars to the first generation of the Reformation. The context was one of both...
McFarland, 2014. — 312 p. While scholars have long documented the migration of people in ancient and medieval times, they have paid less attention to those who traveled across borders with some regularity. This study of early transnational relations explores the routine interaction of people across the boundaries of empires, tribal confederacies, kingdoms, and city-states,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 278 p. Prologue: The Medieval Atlantic Ocean Desert Islands: Europe’s Atlantic Archipelago as Ascetic Landscape Subsistence Whaling and the Norse Diaspora: Norsemen, Basques, and Whale Use in the Western North Atlantic, CA. AD 900–1640 Greenland Norse Knowledge of the North Atlantic Environment MeÐ Lögum Skal Land Vort Byggja (With Law Shall the Land...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 320 p. How exactly did political power operate in early medieval Europe? Taking Alsace as his focus, Hans Hummer offers an intriguing new case study on localized and centralized power and the relationship between the two from c. 600 to 1000. Providing a panoramic survey of the sources from the region, which include charters, notarial...
Cambridge University Press, 1999. — 277 p. A History of Business in Medieval Europe, 1200-1550, demolishes the widely held view that the phrase "medieval business" is an oxymoron. The authors review the entire range of business in medieval western Europe, probing its Roman and Christian heritage to discover the economic and political forces that shaped the organization of...
Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 336 p. List of figures page A note on nomenclature and citations Region, sources and scope Early medieval politics: problems of approach Gifts to the church: patterns and potential Spiritual patronage and gifts to the church Funerary ritual, inheritance and gift exchange Gifts of land and social power The implications of monastic landholding...
Moscow: Novoe izdatel’stvo, 2005. — 257 p. — (UCLA Slavic Studies. New Series. Vol. IV). — ISBN: 5-98379-028-5. This collection of essays examines a number of issues in late medieval East Slavic cultural and intellectual history with particular focus on Muscovy and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Among the central topics of this book are the multilingual and multiconfessional...
Moscow: Novoe izdatel’stvo, 2005. — 257 p. — (UCLA Slavic Studies. New Series. Vol. IV). — ISBN: 5-98379-028-5. This collection of essays examines a number of issues in late medieval East Slavic cultural and intellectual history with particular focus on Muscovy and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Among the central topics of this book are the multilingual and multiconfessional...
Yale University Press, 2017. — 640 p. An epic historical consideration of the Mongol conquest of Western Asia and the spread of Islam during the years of non-Muslim rule. The Mongol conquest of the Islamic world began in the early thirteenth century when Genghis Khan and his warriors overran Central Asia and devastated much of Iran. Distinguished historian Peter Jackson offers...
Yale University Press, 2017. — 640 p. An epic historical consideration of the Mongol conquest of Western Asia and the spread of Islam during the years of non-Muslim rule. The Mongol conquest of the Islamic world began in the early thirteenth century when Genghis Khan and his warriors overran Central Asia and devastated much of Iran. Distinguished historian Peter Jackson offers...
London: Chapman and Hall, 1874. — 594 p. The Early Middle Ages is a period in the history of Europe following the fall of the Western Roman Empire spanning roughly five centuries from AD 500 to 1000. [Events used to mark the period s beginning include the sack of Rome by the Goths (410)… Transmission of Greek philosophical ideas in the Middle Ages — The introduction of Greek...
Walter de Gruyter, 2003. — 334 p. Historical research into emotionality is at present generally enjoying an heightened level of interest. This bilingual volume documents the proceedings of an international conference, discussing current paradigms and perspectives in historical literary research into emotions and heightening awareness of the mediality of cultures of emotion in...
Punctum Books, 2017. — 240 p. What do medieval Icelanders mean when they say "troll"? What did they see when they saw a troll? What did the troll signify to them? And why did they see them? The principal subject of this book is the Norse idea of the troll, which the author uses to engage with the larger topic of paranormal experiences in the medieval North. The texts under...
McFarland, 2013. — 220 p. In medieval and Renaissance Europe, mercenaries--professional soldiers who fought for money or other rewards - played violent, colorful, international roles in warfare, but they have received relatively little scholarly attention. In this book a large number of vignettes portray their activities in Western Europe over a period of nearly 900 years, from...
Brill, 2012. — 514 p. The Holy Wars of King Wladislas and Sultan Murad comprises the first detailed treatment of the pivotal conflict between the Ottomans and Christendom from 1438-1444. Beginning with the Council of Florence and renewed Ottoman expansion it covers the election of Wladislas, the rise of John Hunyadi and the factional politics of the Porte. The author recounts...
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1995. — ISBN: 0-8014-3165-4. Jenny Jochens captures in fascinating detail the lives of women in pagan and early Christian Iceland and Norway — their work, sexual behavior, marriage customs, reproductive practices, familial relations, leisure activities, religious practices, and legal constraints and protections. Women in Old Norse Society...
Greenwood, 2011. - 790 p. All Things Medieval: An Encyclopedia of the Medieval World covers the widest definition of "medieval Europe" possible, not by covering history in the traditional, textbook manner of listing wars, leaders, and significant historic events, but by presenting detailed alphabetical entries that describe the artifacts of medieval Europe. By examining the...
Brill, 2011. - 241 p. - (Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages). Introduction: In Bishops We Honor or Deny the Lord. Ad locum sanctum, ad stipendia fratrum: The Bishop and His. Cathedral. If the Count Should Send a Bishop: Lay Authority and the Bishops of Aquitaine. Episcopal Authority at Religious Communities. Episcopal Foundation, Restoration, and Reform of Religious...
W. H. Allen & Co., 2015. — 352 p. Agincourt was an astonishing clash of arms, a pivotal moment in the Hundred Years War and the history of warfare in general. In August 1415, King Henry V claimed the throne of France and landed an army in Normandy. Two months later, outside the small village of Agincourt in Picardy, he was preparing for certain defeat. On 25 October his...
Penguin Books, 2005. — 144 p. The Middle Ages has an ambivalent place in contemporary culture. Unlike the well-defined periods to either side, it is often seen as a kind of waiting room between the much-admired Romans and the beginning of a recognizably modern society. It can seem alien, governed bu religious certainties that we no longer take for granted, by warfare and...
Boydell & Brewer, 1999. — 202 p. Different aspects of medieval warfare form the focus for this collection of essays by both established and new scholars. They range from a reconsideration of several problems of military historiography to explorations of the medieval view of divine influence on the battlefield, and the emergence of complex strategic and tactical norms of naval...
Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2015. – 158 p. – (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450. Vol. 34). ISSN: 1872-8103. ISBN: 978-90-04-28490-6 (hardback). ISBN: 978-90-04-30589-2 (e-book). 1 Points of view? Introduction. 2 Certainty and Doubts: Legenda Christiani in the Controversy of the Baroque and Enlightenment Era. 3 “Our Oldest Chronicle”: Josef Pekař and His...
De Gruyter, 2013. — 321 p. Medievalists reading and writing about and around authority-related themes lack clear definitions of its actual meanings in the medieval context. Authorities in the Middle Ages offers answers to this thorny issue through specialized investigations. This book considers the concept of authority and explores the various practices of creating authority in...
Copenhagen: The National Museum of Denmark, 2007. — 226 p. Papers from an International Research Project: The HANSA Network 2001–2006. History can be colourful and even very appetising when different research disciplines are melted together. In this book, botanical data from archaeological excavations are combined with historical knowledge on the use of plants during medieval...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. — 291 p. The Middle Ages are often viewed as a repository of tradition, yet what we think of as traditional marriage was far from the only available alternative to the single state in medieval Europe. Many people lived together in long-term, quasimarital heterosexual relationships, unable to marry if one was in holy orders or if the...
V.H. Zaleskaya, I.P. Zasetskaya, K.V. Kasparova, Z.A. Lvova, B.I. Marshak, I.V. Sokolova, M.B. Shchukin. — Sofia: Centre for Publicity and Print at the Committee for Culture, 1989. — 157 p. This exhibition is devoted to an epoch when most of the European peoples came into being. The exhibits trace a span of almost 600 years - from the 5th to the 11th century (with emphasis on...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 273 p. Intellectual developments pioneered by scholastic natural philosophers of the fourteenth century constituted a critical stage in the emergence of scientific thought. Beneath these technical developments lay a profound reconceptualization of nature. The purpose of this book is to analyze the components of this reconceptualization, and...
The Boydell Press, 1997. — 384 p. In recent decades historians have become increasingly aware of the value of prosopography as an auxiliary science standing at the crossroads between anthropology, genealogy, demography and social history. It is now developing as an independent research discipline of real benefit to medievalists. The geographically and chronologically...
Routledge, 2015. — 306 p. Many of the combatants in the European wars of the late middle ages fought for their own gain, but they observed a code of regulations, part chivalrous and part commercial which they called the ‘law of arms’. This book, originally published in 1965, examines this soldiers’ code, to understand its rules and how they were enforced. How did a soldier sue...
Cassell & Co, London, 2002. — 224 p. In the history of warfare it has generally been the case that military superiority lies with the wealthiest states and those with the most developed administration. It is, after all, these states who can afford to train and pay the best soldiers and offer them the most advanced weapons and the most regular supplies. At least since the...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. — 400 p. This is a comparative study dealing with the maritime practices which prevailed in the Byzantine and Islamic worlds around the Mediterranean from 7-10 centuries C.E. and consists of seven chapters. The first chapter describes the physical and legal significance of the ship, computation of capacity, and the importance of naming...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. - 216 p. - (The Middle Ages Series). Challenging the traditional conception of medieval Europe as insular and even xenophobic, Shirin A. Khanmohamadi's In Light of Another's Word looks to early ethnographic writers who were surprisingly aware of their own otherness, especially when faced with the far-flung peoples and cultures they meant...
The Boydell Press, 2007. — 269 p. Typical accounts of Anglo-Scottish relations over the whole fourteenth century tends to present a sustained period of bitter enmity, described routinely by stock-phrases such as 'endemic warfare', and typified by Battles, such as Bannockburn (1314), Neville's Cross (1346) or Otterburn (1388), border-raiding and the capture of James I of...
Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — (The New Middle Ages Series). — 380 p. This essay collection studies the Apocalypse and the end of the world, as these themes occupied the minds of biblical scholars, theologians, and ordinary people in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Early Modernity. It opens with an innovative series of studies on “Gendering the Apocalypse,”...
Brill, 2018. — 316 p. In this book Jukka Korpela offers an analysis of the trade in kidnapped Finns and Karelians into slavery in Eastern Europe. Blond slaves from the north of Europe were rare luxury items in Black Sea and Caspian markets, and the high prices they commanded stimulated and sustained a long-distance trade based on kidnapping in special robbery missions and war...
New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2002. — 270 p. Series Editor's Foreword AcknowledgmCl1ts Illustrations Appearance and Ideology: Creating Distinctions between Clerics and Lay Persons in Early Medieval Gaul From Self-Sufficiency to Commerce: Structural and Artlfactual Evidence for Textile Manufacture m Eastern England in the Pre-Conquest Period Dressmg the Part: DeplctlOns of Noble...
Brill, 2017. — 546 p. Between Sword and Prayer is a broad-ranging anthology focused on the involvement of medieval clergy in warfare and a variety of related military activities. The essays address, on the one hand, the issue of clerical participation in combat, in organizing military campaigns, and in armed defense, and on the other, questions surrounding the political,...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. - 316 p. - (The Middle Ages Series). A crusader, a hermit, a bishop, a plague victim, and even a repentant murderer by turns: the stories attached to Saint Gerald of Aurillac offer a strange and fragmented legacy. His two earliest biographies, written in the early tenth and early eleventh centuries, depicted the saint as a warrior who...
Oxford: University Press, 2003. — 360 p. Introduction: The Terribles espoirs of 1000 and the Tacit Fears of 2000 Awaiting the End of Time around the Turn of the Year 1000 The Apocalyptic Year 1000 in Medieval Thought Stalking the Signs: The Apocalyptic Commentaries Adso of Montier-en-Der and the Fear of the Year 1000 Thietland's Commentary on Second Thessalonians: Digressions...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 304 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs). This volume traces the logic of urban political conflict in late medieval Europe's most heavily urbanized regions, Italy and the Southern Low Countries. The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries are often associated with the increasing consolidation of states, but at the same time they also saw high levels...
Cornell University Press, 2013. — 290 p. Charlemagne never traveled farther east than Italy, but by the mid-tenth century a story had begun to circulate about the friendly alliances that the emperor had forged while visiting Jerusalem and Constantinople. This story gained wide currency throughout the Middle Ages, appearing frequently in chronicles, histories, imperial decrees,...
Leiden: Brill, 2008. — 634 p. This book is the first general work to be published on technology in Late Antiquity. It seeks to survey aspects of the technology of the period and to respond to questions about technological continuity, stagnation and decline. Acknowledgements (Introduction) Explaining Technological Change: Innovation, Stagnation, Recession and Replacement (Luke...
Zone Books, 1990. — 127 p. In this book one of the most esteemed contemporary historians of the Middle Ages presents a concise examination of the problem that usury posed for the medieval Church, which had long denounced the lending of money for interest. Jacques Le Goff describes how, as the structure of economic life inevitably began to include financial loans, the Church...
Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2005. — 289 p. — 0-631-22888-8. In this ground-breaking new study, Jacques Le Goff, arguably the leading medievalist of his generation, presents his view of the primacy of the Middle Ages in the development of European history. Le Goff places the genesis of Europe firmly in the Middle Ages. He contends that it was in the Middle Ages that many of the...
Jefferson, London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2002. — 329 p. — ISBN: 0-7864-1092-2. The Decline of Fortifications from the 5 th to the 9th Centuries Roman Fortifications The Barbarian Invasions The Merovingian Dynasty The Byzantine Empire The Arabs and Islam The Catholic Church The Carolingian Empire The Scandinavian Invasions Feudal Society The Revival of Military Architecture...
McFarland & Company, 2005. — 280 p. Hundreds of years after the close of the Middle Ages, the period continues to exert a unique emotional power over Western culture. The attitude of Westerners is ambivalent but never detached. A governmental system that is disliked is termed "medieval", yet Westerners continue to be drawn to tales of King Arthur, Ivanhoe, and Robin Hood. The...
Indiana University Press, 1988. — 213 p. — ISBN 0253347874. Emphasizing geographical, maritime, institutional, and economic factors, Lewis presents a wide-ranging story of the complex rise and fall of civilizations and explores new conceptual frontiers in the study of world history. The Matrix of Old World Civilizations East Asia and Greater India The World of Islamic...
The Boydell Press, 2006. — 187 p. The latest volume in the series concentrates, as always, on the half century before and the century after 1066, with papers which have many interconnections and range across different kinds of history. There is a particular focus on church history, with contributions on an Anglo-Saxon archiepiscopal manual, architecture and liturgy in...
The Boydell Press, 2008. — 230 p. The 2007 conference on Anglo-Norman Studies, the thirtieth in the annual series, was held in Wales, and there is a Welsh flavour to the proceedings now published. Five of the thirteen papers cover Welsh topics in the long twelfth century: Church reform, political culture, the supposed resurgence of Powys as a political entity, and interpreter...
The Boydell Press, 2009. — 195 p. The contemporary historians of Anglo-Norman England form a particular focus of this issue. There are contributions on Henry of Huntingdon's representation of civil war; on the political intent of the poems in the anonymous Life of Edward the Confessor; on William of Malmesbury's depiction of Henry I; and on the influence upon historians of the...
Macmillan Education, 1984. - 143 p. - (New Studies in Medieval History). The Shaping of Tradition. The New Hermits. The Origins and Development of the Movement: a Geographical Sketch. Problems of Organisation. Observances. Hermits, Reform and Preaching. Reactions to Hermits. The Adoption of an Order and Customs. The End of the Hermitages.
Online resource, 2018. — 371 p. This table identifies various pieces of armour worn from the medieval to Early Modern period in the West, mostly plate but some mail, arranged by the part of body that is protected and roughly by date. No attempt has been made to identify fastening components or various appendages such as lancerests or plumeholders or clothing such as tabards or...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. - 281 p. - (The Middle Ages Series). Literary and cultural historians typically cite Thomas More's 1516 Utopia as the source of both a genre and a concept. Karma Lochrie rejects this origin myth of utopianism along with the assumption that people in the Middle Ages were incapable of such thinking. In Nowhere in the Middle Ages, Lochrie...
London — New York: Routledge, 2002. — 384 p. In this fascinating survey, F. Donald Logan introduces the reader to the Christian church, from the conversion of the Celtic and Germanic peoples through to the discovery of the New World. He reveals how the church unified the people of Western Europe as they worshipped with the same ceremonies and used Latin as the language of...
Cambridge University Press, 1976. — 196 p. Professor Robert Lopez provides an incisive analysis of the economic structure of the Middle Ages. He makes use of modern economic concepts to explain how an underdeveloped economic system gave birth to the commercial revolution through which Europe succeeded in developing itself. The book goes far beyond the familiar picture of...
London: Routledge, 2013. — 380 p. — (The Expansion of Latin Europe, 1000-1500). As seen from the perspective of 1492, the medieval expansion of Latin Europe was nowhere as dramatic or enduring as in the Iberian Peninsula and the Atlantic. Its Christian kingdoms continued their advance against Al-Andalus up to 1492, whereas territorial expansion elsewhere against the Muslim...
York: York Medieval Press, 2017. — 240 p. Graham A. Loud and Martial Staub, Some Thoughts on the Making of the Middle Ages Imagining / Inventing the Middle Ages Jinty Nelson, Why Re-Inventing Medieval History is a Good Idea Ian Wood, Literary Composition and the Early Medieval Historian in the Nineteenth Century Constructing a European Identity Patrick Geary, European...
Springer, 2013. — 104 p. This volume offers a new perspective on social dynamics and culture change in the North Central European Plains (NCEP) from 600 to 900 CE. It discusses long-term causal processes leading to the formation of state at the fringes of the Merovingian and Frankish Kingdoms, the Carolingian and the Holy Roman Empire, the Scandinavian Kingdoms, the Czech...
Brill Academic Pub, 2013. - 469 p. - (The Northern World 61). The Highlander has never enjoyed a good press, and has been usually characterised as peripheral and barbaric in comparison to his Lowland neighbour, more inclined to fighting than serving God. In Clerics and Clansmen Iain MacDonald examines how the medieval Church in Gaelic Scotland, often regarded as isolated and...
Leiden - Boston: Brill, 2010. – 585 p. – (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450– 1450. Vol. 10). ISSN 1872-8103. ISBN 978-90-04-18208-0 (hardback: alk. paper) Methodology The archaeological method Depositional and post-depositional processes Archaeological records in formal space The archaeological record in geographic space Systems theory in archaeology...
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2009, -669 p. The Malleus Maleficarum, first published in 1486, is the standard medieval text on witchcraft and it remained in print throughout the early modern period. Its descriptions of the evil acts of witches and the ways to exterminate them continue to contribute to our knowledge of early modern law, religion and society. Mackay’s...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 281 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series) — ISBN: 9780521819459. This is a major study of the collapse of the pan-European Carolingian empire and the reign of its last ruler, Charles III 'the Fat' (876–888). The later decades of the empire are conventionally seen as a dismal period of decline and fall,...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 288 p. This is a major study of the collapse of the pan-European Carolingian empire and the reign of its last ruler, Charles III "the Fat" (876–888). The later decades of the empire are conventionally seen as a dismal period of decline and fall, scarred by internal feuding, unfettered aristocratic ambition and Viking onslaught. This book...
Cornell University Press, 2013. — 352 p. In The Sleep of Behemoth , Jehangir Yezdi Malegam explores the emergence of conflicting concepts of peace in western Europe during the High Middle Ages. Ever since the Early Church, Christian thinkers had conceived of their peace separate from the peace of the world, guarded by the sacraments and shared only grudgingly with powers and...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 320 p. One of the world's leading historians of Renaissance Italy brings to life here the vibrant - and violent--society of fifteenth-century Florence. His disturbing narrative opens up an entire culture, revealing the dark side of Renaissance man and politician Lorenzo de' Medici. On a Sunday in April 1478, assassins attacked Lorenzo and his...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 356 p. — ISBN: 0521872405 In 1209 Simon of Montfort led a war against the Cathars of Languedoc after Pope Innocent III preached a crusade condemning them as heretics. The suppression of heresy became a pretext for a vicious war that remains largely unstudied as a military conflict. Laurence Marvin here examines the Albigensian Crusade as...
Harper One, 2006. — 528 p. — ISBN: 9780060878078 This pocket edition of Richard McBrien's acclaimed Lives of the Popes is a practical quick reference tool for scholars, students, and anyone needing just a few concise facts about all the popes, from St. Peter to Benedict XVI.
York Medieval Press, 2004. — 187 p. Rites of passage' is a term and concept more used than considered, and no previous attempt has been made to apply and test its implications in the field of Medieval Studies. In this collection of essays, a group of medievalists from a range of disciplines consider the various theoretical models - folklorist, anthropological, psychoanalytical...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 310 p. The stigmatization as 'bastards' of children born outside of wedlock is commonly thought to have emerged early in Medieval European history. Christian ideas about legitimate marriage, it is assumed, set the standard for legitimate birth. Children born to anything other than marriage had fewer rights or opportunities. They certainly could...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 305 p. The writing and reading of history in the early Middle Ages form the key themes of this 2004 book. The primary focus is on the remarkable manifestations of historical writing in relation to historical memory in the Frankish kingdoms of the eighth and ninth centuries. It considers the audiences for history in the Frankish kingdoms, the...
Teacher Guide. Core Knowledge Foundation, 2016. — 224 p. The Middle Ages occurred between ancient and modern times, or from the fall of Rome in 476 CE to the years just before the early Renaissance, around 1350. During this period Christianity was the dominant religion in western Europe, and feudalism, a system in which land was offered in exchange for loyalty and military...
2 Auflage. — München: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2008. — 472 Seiten. — ISBN: 348658829X Eine Einladung ins Mittelalter! Das Oldenbourg Geschichte Lehrbuch Mittelalter bietet einen idealen Einstieg in die Epoche. Es gibt den Studierenden einen Leitfaden für ihre ersten Schritte auf diesem Feld an die Hand. Doch auch Fortgeschrittene, Dozenten und Lehrer profitieren von dem reichen...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 336 p. This book challenges a common historical narrative, which portrays medieval Jews as moneylenders who filled an essential economic role in Europe. It traces how and why this narrative was constructed as a philosemitic narrative in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in response to the rise of political antisemitism. This book also documents...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 336 p. This book challenges a common historical narrative, which portrays medieval Jews as moneylenders who filled an essential economic role in Europe. It traces how and why this narrative was constructed as a philosemitic narrative in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in response to the rise of political antisemitism. This book also documents...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 264 p. This book challenges a common historical narrative, which portrays medieval Jews as moneylenders who filled an essential economic role in Europe. Where Volume I traced the development of the narrative in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and refuted it with an in-depth study of English Jewry, Volume II explores the significance of...
Cambridge - New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. – 406 p. – (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth Series). ISBN-13 978-0-511-12746-5 eBook (EBL) ISBN-10 0-511-12746-4 eBook (EBL) ISBN-13 978-0-521-84601-1 hardback ISBN-10 0-521-84601-3 hardback The period from the fifth century to the eighth century witnessed massive political, social and religious...
Walter de Gruyter, 2006. — 349 S. Das Standardwerk zur Geschichte des 15. Jahrhunderts liegt nun neu überarbeitet vor - erweitert um neue Forschungsaspekte und jüngst erschienene Literatur. Vier Bereiche erwiesen sich als besonders forschungsstark und wurden deshalb neu akzentuiert: symbolische Kommunikation, Außenpolitik und Gesandtenwesen, die osmanische Expansion und ihre...
Cambridge University Press, 1987. — 1024 p. — ISBN: 0-521-08709-0 The second volume of The Cambridge Economic History of Europe, first published in 1952, was a survey by an international group of specialist scholars covering trade and industry in pre-Roman, Roman and Byzantine Europe, the medieval trade of northern and southern Europe, and the histories of medieval woollen...
New York: E.P. Dutton and company, 1908. — 675 p. Greece at the time of the Frankish conquest The Frankish conquest (1204-1207) The organization of the conquest (1207-1214) The zenith of prankish rule (1214-1262) The Greek revival (1262-1278) The angevins in Greece (1278-1307) The Catalan grand company (1302-1311) The Catalans and their neighbours (1311-1333) The rise of the...
Brill, 2018. - 422 p. Faces and Surfaces of Charisma. An Introductory Essay Medieval and Modern: The Hermeneutics of Charisma Charismatic Art Dazzling Reflections: Charismatic Art and Its Audience Mediation: The Intermediary Spaces of Charisma
London: Greenwood Press, 2007. — 243 p. Introduction: Investigating the Medieval Family. Section I: Defining the Family in the Middle Ages. The Late Roman Family and Transition to the Middle Ages. The Family in the Medieval West. The Family in the Byzantine East. The Family in the Islamic World. The Jewish Family in the Middle Ages. Section II: The Environment of the Family in...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2003. — 340 p. — ISBN: 9781423712138 This book is a biography of Pope Innocent III. Avoiding the many scholarly controversies concerning the pope, it offers a concise and balanced portrait of the man and his pontificate. Its chronological organization-unusual in biographies of Innocent-enables the reader to see how the pope was usually dealing with...
2nd edition. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2006. — 240 p. — ISBN 978-1-4051-2964-0. The tenth to the thirteenth centuries in Europe saw the appearance of popular heresy and the establishment of the Inquisition, the expropriation and mass murder of Jews, and the propagation of elaborate measures to segregate lepers from the healthy and curtail their civil rights. These were traditionally...
Profile Books, 2012. — 320 p. The war on heresy obsessed medieval Europe in the centuries after the first millennium. R. I. Moore's vivid narrative focuses on the motives and anxieties of those who declared and conducted the war: what were the beliefs and practices they saw as heretical? How might such beliefs have arisen? And why were they such a threat? In western Europe at...
Profile Books, 2012. — 320 p. The war on heresy obsessed medieval Europe in the centuries after the first millennium. R. I. Moore's vivid narrative focuses on the motives and anxieties of those who declared and conducted the war: what were the beliefs and practices they saw as heretical? How might such beliefs have arisen? And why were they such a threat? In western Europe at...
London: Routledge, 2013. — 356 p. In 400 year the mighty Roman Empire was almost as large as it had ever been; within three centuries, advances by Germanic peoples in western Europe, Slavs in eastern Europe and Arabs around the eastern and southern shores of the Mediterranean had brought about the loss of most of its territory. Ranging from Britain to Mesopotamia, this book...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 296 p. This is the story of the Franciscan friary in Cambridge, founded in 1225. It describes the new alliance between poverty and learning that was to give fresh vigour to the Order, deeply influencing the life of England as a whole. It provides biographical notes on many Cambridge Franciscans, including the Custodes, Wardens, Vice-Wardens...
Arc Humanities Press, 2019. — 288 p. New research methods allow us to explore how relics of the material culture of the medieval north can confront, corroborate, or disprove the depiction of social norms in the Old Norse-Icelandic literary corpus, which remains the most important source of our present-day knowledge of social development in the Viking Age and medieval...
The Boydell Press, 2008. — 182 p. — (The Haskins Society Journal 19). The latest volume of the Haskins Society Journal presents recent research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Viking and Angevin worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, broadly conceived, and includes topics ranging from analysis of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles for the early construction of English...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 244 p. What have a deaf nun, the mother of the first baby born to Europeans in North America, and a condemned heretic to do with one another? They are among the virtuous virgins, marvelous maidens, and fierce feminists of the Middle Ages who trail-blazed paths for women today. Without those first courageous souls who worked in fields dominated by men, women...
Brepols, 1999. — 318 p. — (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy). The Middle Ages witnessed a resurgence in the creation of written texts and a parallel increase in literacy across Europe. Six essays, covering late Antiquity to the Reformation, examine the terminology of medieval writing and the significance of religious and legal documents, as well as literature and more...
Routledge, 2009. — 434 p. Discussion of medieval European expansion tends to focus on expansion eastward and the crusades. The selection of studies reprinted here, however, focuses on the other end of Eurasia, where dwelled the warlike Celts, and beyond whom lay the north seas and the awesome Atlantic Ocean, formidable obstacles to expansion westward. This volume looks first at...
2nd ed. — Longman Group UK Limited, 1993. — 467 p. — (General History of Europe) — ISBN 0-582-49395-1; 0-582-08016-9. A broad survey of European history between 1150-1309 in which discussion (on a regional or continent-wide basis) of social, economic, administrative and intellectual themes is woven into a framework of political events. List Of Maps. Preface. Europe . Social...
Palgrave Pivot, 2016. — 126 p. 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. Neil Murphy shows how the French king’s competition with Edward III led to a revolution in the presentation of the royal image, manifesting through developments to the sacral character of the...
London: Routledge, 2016. — 369 p. The conversion of the lands on the southern and eastern shores of the Baltic Sea by Germans, Danes and Swedes in the period from 1150 to 1400 represented the last great struggle between Christianity and paganism on the European continent, but for the indigenous peoples of Finland, Livonia, Prussia, Lithuania and Pomerania, it was also a period...
The Boydell Press, 2018. — 250 p. The Wars waged by the English in France during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries led to the need for judicial agencies which could deal with disputes that arose on land and sea, beyond the reach of indigenous laws. This led to the jurisdictional development of the Courts of Chivalry and Admiralty, presiding over respectively heraldic and...
Brill, 2019. — 376 p. — (Reading Medieval Sources, Volume 1). Reading Medieval Sources is an exciting new series which leads scholars and students into some of the most challenging and rewarding sources from the European Middle Ages, and introduces the most important approaches to understanding them. Written by an international team of twelve leading scholars, this volume Money...
Leiden: Brill, 2017. — 413 p. — (Studies in Honor of Richard W. Kaeuper). Richard Kaeuper's career has examined three salient concerns of medieval society - knightly prowess and violence, lay and religious piety, and public order and government - most directly in three of his monographs: War, Justice, and Public Order (Oxford, 1988), Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 292 p. 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. The careers of the Ottonian queen and empress Adelheid and Countess Matilda of Tuscany reveal a growth of...
The Scarecrow Press, 2004. — 541 p. — (Historical Dictionaries of Ancient Civilizations and Historical Eras, No. 12). — ISBN: 0-8108-4867-8. The Historical Dictionary of the Renaissance is designed to be a handy reference covering the history of the European Renaissance, the period between about 1350 and the early 17th century. It emphasizes the new humanistic learning, the...
Scarecrow Press, 2013. — 537 p. — (The A to Z Guides). Few periods have given civilization such a strong impulse as the Renaissance, which started in Italy and then spread to the rest of Europe. During its brief epoch, most vigorously from the fourteen to the sixteenth centuries, Europe reached back to Ancient Greece and Rome, and pushed ahead in numerous fields: art,...
Brill, 2014 - 234 p. The witch-hunts in Europe are a phenomenon that both repulse and attract attention. The panics, instigated by the new witchcraft theories in the early modern period (1450–1750), are seen at the very least as a history of social exclusion and cynical exploitation, and frequently as a phenomenon characterized by persecution, bigotry, irrational hatred and...
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2004, -264 p. The history of avarice as the deadliest vice in western Europe has been said to begin in earnest only with the rise of capitalism or, earlier, the rise of a money economy. In this first full-length study of the early history of greed, Richard Newhauser shows that avaritia, the sin of greed for possessions, has a much longer...
Routledge, 1997. — 432 p. The first part of David Nicholas's massive two-volume study of the medieval city, this book is a major achievement in its own right. (It is also fully self-sufficient, though many readers will want to use it with its equally impressive sequel which is being published simultaneously.) In it, Professor Nicholas traces the slow regeneration of urban life...
New York; London: Routledge, 2013. — 463 p. The Sand that is upon the Seashore Flanders under Roman rule Germanic Flanders, fourth through eighth centuries The formation of the county of Flanders, 600-918 The Economic Development of Early Flanders Forest, field and village in early medieval Flanders Trade and Towns The Counts and the County, 918-1071 Arnulf the Great (918-65)...
London: Routledge, 1997. — 430 p. — (A History of Urban Society in Europe). The Later Medieval City, 1300-1500, the second part of David Nicholas's ambitious two-volume study of cities and city life in the Middle Ages, fully lives up to its splendid precursor, The Growth of the Medieval City. (Like that volume it is fully self-sufficient, though many readers will want to use...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 328 p. In the wake of modern genocide, we tend to think of violence against minorities as a sign of intolerance, or, even worse, a prelude to extermination. Violence in the Middle Ages, however, functioned differently, according to David Nirenberg. In this provocative book, he focuses on specific attacks against minorities in...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984. - 411 p. - (The Middle Ages Series). The Republic of St. Peter seeks to reclaim for central Italy an important part of its own history. Noble's thesis is at once original and controversial: that the Republic, an independent political entity, was in existence by the 730s and was not a creation of the Franks in the 750s. Noble examines the...
University of Notre Dame Press, 2012. — 562 p. The "long twelfth century"―1050 to 1215 — embraces one of the transformative moments in European history: the point, for some, at which Europe first truly became "Europe." Historians have used the terms "renaissance,""reformation,"and "revolution" to account for the dynamism of intellectual, religious, and structural renewal...
Routledge, 2006. — 432 p. This prestigious collection of essays by leading scholars provides a thorough reassessment of the medieval era which questions how, when and why the Middle Ages began, and how abruptly the shift from the Roman Empire to Barbarian Europe happened. Presenting the most current work including newly-available material such as translations of French and...
New York - Lincoln - Shanghai: iUniverse, Inc., 2004. – 665 p. ISSN 1404-8841. ISBN 0-595-78450-X The Goths – a rumored people first known by history around the river Vistula in present Poland – was the people that more than other contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire. It was however also the Goths who preserved the Roman culture against other Germanic tribes. Earlier it...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 344 p. The period 550 to 750 was one in which monastic culture became more firmly entrenched in Western Europe. The role of monasteries and their relationship to the social world around them was transformed during this period as monastic institutions became more integrated in social and political power networks. This collected volume of essays...
Dufour Editions, 1984. — 140 p. Describes the weapons and armor used by soldiers during the four-hundred-year period of invasions, wars, migrations, and unrest in Europe that followed the break-up of the stable patterns of the Roman Empire.
Rochester: The Boydell Press, 1999. — 359 p. — ISBN: 0-85115-559-6. Among the most plentiful objects surviving from Man's remote past in Europe are his weapons. The dead generally had arms laid in the grave with them, and great hoards of armour and arms and all the miscellaneous hardware of war were sacrificially deposited in hallowed spots. This is rich material for study, so...
Boydell Press, 1994. — 144 p. A history and typology of the European knightly sword. Oakeshott draws on his extensive research to trace its development from the knightly successors of the Viking weapon to the emergence of the Renaissance sword, using evidence from literature and art as well as from archaeology.
Ohio State University Press, 1966. - 224 p. The papers that constitute this volume (apart from the Introduction) were read at the Fourth Annual Conference on the Humanities sponsored by the Graduate School of Ohio State University under the same title as the volume, October 27 and 28, 1961. Introduction - Bernard O'Kelly. Philosophy and Humanism in Renaissance Perspective -...
Penguin, 2017. — 400 p. This extraordinary re-creation of the life of a medieval Italian merchant, Francesco di Marco Datini, is one of the greatest historical portraits written in the twentieth century. Drawing on an astonishing cache of letters unearthed centuries after Datini's death, it reveals to us a shrewd, enterprising, anxious man, as he makes deals, furnishes his...
Routledge, 2017. — 234 p. "Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe" provides imagined biographies of twenty different figures from all walks of life living in Eastern Europe from 900 to 1400. Moving beyond the usual boundaries of speculative history, the book presents innovative and creative interpretations of the people, places, and events of medieval Eastern Europe and provides...
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2012. — 335 p. Die Schlacht bei Tannenberg (poln. Grunwald, lit. Žalgiris), die 1410 die Vormachtstellung des Deutschen Ordens im Ostseeraum beendete, spielte für das polnisch-deutsche Verhältnis im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert eine entscheidende, geradezu beherrschende Rolle. Aus Anlass des 600-jährigen Gedenkens an diese Schlacht kamen polnische,...
Routledge, 2015. — 356 p. Guta Lag , the law of the independent island of Gotland, is one of the earliest laws of Scandinavia. The historical appendix to the law, Guta Saga , was written in the thirteenth or fourteenth century. Together, Guta Lag and its accompanying Saga provide an invaluable insight into the lives of the people living on Gotland, the largest of Sweden’s...
Leiden: Brill, 2015. — 387 p. A Companion to Priesthood and Holy Orders in the Middle Ages contains essays that examine the ontology and function of ordained bishops, priests and deacons throughout the medieval era as preachers, confessors and providers of pastoral care. In A Companion to Priesthood and Holy Orders in the Middle Ages, a select group of scholars explain the rise...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2003. — 366 p. This book reveals the social logic of the medieval rituals of reconciliation as showcased by the most potent rite, the kiss of peace. Ritual is presented as a contested ground on which individuals, groups, and political and moral authorities competed for and appropriated political sovereignty. The thesis of the study is that by...
Nuremberg, printed by Johann Schönsperger, 1517. - 592 p. Among the many endeavors undertaken by the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (1459–1519) to further his legacy was his plan of an epic retelling of his own life story in the form of several works. Of these, only Die geuerlicheiten vnd einsteils der geschichten des loblichen streytparen vnd hochberümbten helds vnd Ritters...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 336 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–871803–1. The Formation of Christian Europe analyses the Carolingians' efforts to form a Christian Empire with the organizing principle of the sacrament of baptism. Owen M. Phelan argues that baptism provided the foundation for this society, and offered a medium for the communication and the popularization of beliefs and...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. - 328 p. - (The Middle Ages Series). A distinct European perspective on Asia emerged in the late Middle Ages. Early reports of a homogeneous "India" of marvels and monsters gave way to accounts written by medieval travelers that indulged readers' curiosity about far-flung landscapes and cultures without exhibiting the attitudes evident in...
A Harvest Book, 1956. — 239 p. Henri Pirenne's reputation today rests on three contributions to European history: for what has become known as the Pirenne Thesis, concerning the origins of the Middle Ages in reactive state formation and shifts in trade; for a distinctive view of Belgium's medieval history; and for his model of the development of the medieval city. Pirenne...
Traduttore: Romeo E. Editore: Laterza, 2007. 131 pagine. Il percorso della città in Europa dalla tarda romanità fino al XII secolo. Con la sua caratteristica capacità di cogliere la vita pulsante delle comunità storiche, uno dei più grandi storici del Medioevo mostra l'evoluzione del commercio nel Mediterraneo fino alla fine dell'VIII secolo, la sua decadenza nel IX secolo e la...
Updated Edition. — Princeton University Press, 2014. — 208 p. — (Princeton Classics) — ISBN 978-0-691-16239-3. Translated from the French by Frank D. Halsey. Introduction by Michael McCormick. Nearly a century after it was first published in 1925, Medieval Cities remains one of the most provocative works of medieval history ever written. Here, Henri Pirenne argues that it was...
Dover Publications, 2001. — 304 p. The final work of the great Belgian historian Henri Pirenne, this remarkable classic - published after his death - offers a revolutionary perspective on how Europe under the influence of a Roman Empire centered in Constantinople evolved into the Europe of Charlemagne and the Middle Ages. Departing from the standard view that Germanic invasions...
Brill, 2018. — 416 p. Imagined Communities: Constructing Collective Identities in Medieval Europe offers a series of studies focusing on the problems of conceptualisation of social group identities, including national, royal, aristocratic, regional, urban, religious, and gendered communities. The geographical focus of the case studies presented in this volume range from Wales...
De Gruyter, 2018. — 596 p. Roman identity is one of the most interesting cases of social identity because in the course of time, it could mean so many different things: for instance, Greek-speaking subjects of the Byzantine empire, inhabitants of the city of Rome, autonomous civic or regional groups, Latin speakers under "barbarian" rule in the West or, increasingly,...
Brepols Publishers, 2013. — 580 p. What were the social contexts, cultural resources, and political consequences of the new models for identification which emerged during the transition from the Roman empire to the medieval world? This volume looks at changing identities during the transition from the Roman Empire to a political world defined by a different kingdoms and peoples...
Brepols Publishers, 2013. — 272 p. How were identities created in the early Middle Ages and when did they matter? This book explores different types of sources to understand the ways in which they contributed to making ethnic and religious communities meaningful: historiography and hagiography, biblical exegesis and works of theology, sermons and letters. Thus, it sets out to...
Ashgate Publishing, 2012. — 588 p. This volume looks at 'visions of community' in a comparative perspective, from Late Antiquity to the dawning of the age of crusades. It addresses the question of why and how distinctive new political cultures developed after the disintegration of the Roman World, and to what degree their differences had already emerged in the first post-Roman...
München: Verlag C. H. Beck, 1988. — 525 p. Einleitung. Die awarische Wanderung. Die neue Großmacht 567 - 590. Awaren und Slawen. Die Balkankriege des Maurikios 591 - 602. Strukturen und Lebensformen des frühen Awarenreiches. Das 7. Jahrhundert. Das Jahrhundert des Greifen.
Cornell University Press, 2018. — 666 p. The Avars arrived in Europe from the Central Asian steppes in the mid-sixth century CE and dominated much of Central and Eastern Europe for almost 250 years. Fierce warriors and canny power brokers, the Avars were more influential and durable than Attila's Huns, yet have remained hidden in history. Walter Pohl's epic narrative,...
Cambridge University Press, 1973. — 391 p. Credit in medieval trade. Private financial instruments in medieval England. Partnership in English medieval commerce. The trade of medieval Europe: the North. The economic and political relations of England and the Hanse from 1400 to 1475. Economic relations between eastern and western Europe. Italians and the economic development of...
Cambridge University Press, 1966. — 868 p. A quarter of a century has passed since the first volume of the Cambridge Economic History was published. In the meantime much more knowledge has accumulated and new points of view have emerged. The Editor and the publishers have therefore agreed that what was now required was not merely a reprint, nor even a corrected version, of the...
Cambridge University Press, 1965. - 690 p. Frontmatter Organization Policies Conceptions of Economy and Society by Gabriel Le Bras Appendix: Coinage and Currency by P. Spufford Bibliographies
Greenwood Press, 2005. - p. 235. Origins. The Urban Plan: Streets and Structures. The Urban Way of Life. The Church in the City. City Government. Urban Crafts and Trade. Health, Wealth, and Welfare. Conclusion: The City in History. Biographies and Places: Augsburg and the Fuggers. The Cinque Ports. The Fair Towns of Champagne. The Hanseatic League. The Laws of Breteuil. Ludlow,...
Ljubljana University Press, 2014. 337 s. Zbornik je rezultat 12. mednarodne kastelološke konference "Castrum Bene: Grad kot družbeni prostor", ki je potekala na Filozofski fakulteti v Ljubljani leta 2011. Katarina Predovnik The Castle as Social Space: An Introduction Katarina Predovnik Part I: the Social Dimensions of Medieval Buildings The Gozzoburg in Krems and the Hofburg in...
London: Thames & Hudson Ltd., 2014. — 288 p. This engrossing, exquisitely illustrated, often witty account tells the life stories of some seventy individuals who "made" the Middle Ages. There are kings and queens, popes and politicians, soldiers and merchants, scholars, authors and visionaries. They range from the important, such as El Cid or Frederick Barbarossa, to the little...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 283 p. — (Essays in Memory of Rees Davies). Collecting sixteen thought-provoking new essays by leading medievalists, this volume celebrates the work of the late Rees Davies. Reflecting Davies' interest in identities, political culture and the workings of power in medieval Britain, the essays range across ten centuries, looking at a variety of...
Brill, 2010. — 646 p. This ambitious work focuses on the emergence and the development of medieval towns in the two Romanian principalities of South-Eastern Europe, Wallachia and Moldavia, from their earliest days, in the 13th century, up to the 16th. It is the only work of its kind in English, but at the same time the first in the field seeking to identify and substantiate...
Ontario: Batoche Books, Kitchener, 2000. — 119 p. Introduction to the English Edition Origin And Geographical Distribution The Organization of the Guilds The Administration of the Guilds The Aims and Methods of the Guilds The Merits and Defects of the Guild System External Causes of Decay Internal Causes of Decay The Death of the Guilds Author’s Bibliography
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 537 p. This volume analyzes how, why, and when pre-modern Europeans documented their marriages – through property deeds, marital settlements, dotal charters, church court depositions, and other indicia of marital consent. The authors consider both the function of documentation in the process of marrying and what the surviving documents say...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001. — 544 p. Fiefs and Vassals is a book that will change our view of the medieval world. Offering a fundamental challenge to orthodox conceptions of feudalism, Susan Reynolds argues that the concepts of fiefs and vassalage that have been central to the understanding of medieval society for hundreds of years are in fact based on a misunderstanding of...
2nd Edition — Clarendon Press, 1997. — 466 p. This study is an exploration of the collective values and activities of lay society in Western Europe between the tenth century and the thirteenth. Arguing that medieval attitudes and behaviour have too readily been defined in terms of hierarchical structures of government, clerical thought,or narrow notion of kinship, the author...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978. — 336 p. In the growth of towns and the revival of commerce, historians have seen the development of a bourgeois and capitalist Europe, but Pierre Riché reminds us that Carolingians saw a world of forest and wasteland, in which scattered castles and villages were outposts against the savagery of nature, bands of outlaws, and a myriad of...
2nd Edition — Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016. — 558 p. This clear and comprehensive text covers the Middle Ages from the classical era to the late medieval period. Distinguished historian John Riddle provides a cogent analysis of the rulers, wars, and events - both natural and human - that defined the medieval era. Taking a broad geographical perspective, Riddle includes...
Boydell Press, 2006. — 255 p. — (Monastic Orders, 1). St Francis of Assisi is one of the most admired figures of the Middle Ages - and one of the most important in the Christian church, modeling his life on the literal observance of the Gospel and recovering an emphasis on the poverty experienced by Jesus Christ. From 1217 Francis sent communities of friars throughout...
University of Toronto Press, 2014. — 530 p. Barbara H. Rosenwein's bestselling survey text continues to stand out by integrating the history of three medieval civilizations (European, Byzantine, and Islamic) in a lively narrative that is complemented beautifully by 70 full-color plates, 46 maps, and 13 genealogies, many of them new to this edition. The fourth edition begins...
Cornell University Press, 1998. — 272 p. Books have rarely been written about the history of any emotion except love and shame, and this volume is the very first on the meaning of anger in the Middle Ages. Well aware of modern theories about the nature of anger, the authors consider the role of anger in the social lives and conceptual universes of a varied and significant...
3rd Edition — University of Toronto Press, 2018. — 344 p. The third edition of Reading the Middle Ages retains the strengths of previous editions - thematic and geographical diversity, clear and informative introductions, and close integration with A Short History of the Middle Ages - and adds significant new materials, especially on the Byzantine and Islamic worlds and the...
3rd Edition — University of Toronto Press, 2018. — 384 p. The third edition of Reading the Middle Ages retains the strengths of previous editions - thematic and geographical diversity, clear and informative introductions, and close integration with A Short History of the Middle Ages - and adds significant new materials, especially on the Byzantine and Islamic worlds and the...
5rd Edition — University of Toronto Press, 2018. — 392 p. In this newest edition of her bestselling book, Barbara H. Rosenwein integrates the history of European, Byzantine, and Islamic medieval cultures - as well as their Eurasian connections - in a dynamic narrative. The text has been significantly updated to reflect growing interest in the Islamic world and Mediterranean...
Brill, 2007. - 585 p. - (The Northern World 33). Mats Roslund discusses the presence of Slavic visitors in the area corresponding to modern Sweden during the period 900-1300 A.D. Ethnic and cultural identity are seen through the reproduction of a Slav style in every-day pottery. The interpretation is preceded by an introduction to Slav archaeology and cultural identity...
Oxford University Press, 2015. - 264 p. Guilds and fraternities, voluntary associations of men and women, proliferated in medieval Europe. The Art of Solidarity in the Middle Ages explores the motives and experiences of the many thousands of men and women who joined together in these family-like societies. Rarely confined to a single craft, the diversity of guild membership was...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 283 p. — (Very Short Introductions). The Middle Ages is a term coined around 1450 to describe a thousand years of European History. In this Very Short Introduction, Miri Rubin provides an exploration of the variety, change, dynamism, and sheer complexity that the period covers. From the provinces of the Roman Empire, which became Barbarian...
Cambridge University Press, 1975. — 332 p. The first systematic attempt to reconstruct from original manuscript sources and early printed books the medieval doctrines relating to the just war, the holy war and the crusade. Despite the frequency of wars and armed conflicts throughout the course of western history, no comprehensive survey has previously been made of the...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2016. — 301 p. In Transylvania in the Second Half of the Thirteenth Century Tudor Salagean describes the deep transformations of a country that was the scene of a fierce resistance against the great Mongol invasion of 1241-1242. In the second half of the thirteenth century, with the rise of the provincial nobility, Transylvania redefines its internal...
Greenwood, 2008. — 1174 p. The period we know as the Middle Ages, roughly the years 400-1400, saw the formation of ideas and institutions that mark modern societies. Developments as disparate as the foundation of Islam and the emergence of the middle class occurred during this pivotal millennium. Although historical study of the Middle Ages has traditionally focused on Western...
Routledge, 1994. — 220 p. The Beast Within illustrates how, as property, food and sexual objects, animals in the middle ages had a distinct, and at times, odd relationship with the people and world around them. For example, animals viewed as property during the period shared in labor and increased their owners' status. However, these animals were regularly punished for the act...
Amsterdam University Press, 2016. — 276 p. The roles of popes, saints, and crusaders were inextricably intertwined in the Middle Ages: papal administration was fundamental in the making and promulgating of new saints and in financing crusades, while crusaders used saints as propaganda to back up the authority of popes, and even occasionally they ended up being sanctified. Yet...
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2004. — 235 p. War is a powerful and enduring literary topos, a repeated theme in both secular and religious literary genres of the middle ages. The idea and practice of war is central to some of the most dominant subject matters in the medieval period - as well as to chivalry, to religion, to ideas of nationhood, to concepts of gender, the body and the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. - 239 p. Introduction Getting Post-Historical. Amorous Dispossessions: Knowledge, Desire, and the Poet’s Dead Body. Time Out of Memory. Historicism after Historicism. (Dis) Continuity: A History of Dreaming. The Negative Erotics of Medievalism. Naked Chaucer. Biography after Historicism: The Harley Lyrics, the Hereford Map, and the Life of Roger De...
Internet resource, 2018. — 208 p. The Late Middle Ages or Late Medieval Period was the period of European history lasting from 1250 to 1500 AD. The Late Middle Ages followed the High Middle Ages and preceded the onset of the early modern period (and in much of Europe, the Renaissance). Around 1300, centuries of prosperity and growth in Europe came to a halt. A series of famines...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. - 317 p. Sometime toward the middle of the twelfth century, it is supposed, an otherwise obscure figure, born a Jew in Cologne and later ordained as a priest in Cappenberg in Westphalia, wrote a Latin account of his conversion to Christianity. Known as the Opusculum, this book purportedly by "Herman, the former Jew" may well be the first...
Peter Lang Edition, 2017. - 379 p. During the Middle Ages, rulers from different regions aspired to an idea of imperial hegemony. On the other hand, there were rulers who deliberately refused to be «emperors», although their reign showed characteristics of imperial rule. The contributions in this volume ask for the reasons why some rulers such as Charlemagne strove for imperial...
Algora Publishing, 2014. — 153 p. Emmet Scott confronts conventional historians and looks at the evidence, archaeological and textual, for the proposition that three centuries, roughly between 615 and 915, never existed and are 'phantom' years. The author shows in detail how no archaeology exists for these three centuries, and that the material remains of the seventh century...
New English Review Press, 2012. — 272 p. During the 1920s Belgian historian Henri Pirenne came to an astonishing conclusion: the ancient classical civilization, which Rome had established throughout Europe and the Mediterranean world, was not destroyed by the Barbarians who invaded the western provinces in the fifth century, it was destroyed by the Arabs, whose conquest of the...
New English Review Press, 2012. — 272 p. During the 1920s Belgian historian Henri Pirenne came to an astonishing conclusion: the ancient classical civilization, which Rome had established throughout Europe and the Mediterranean world, was not destroyed by the Barbarians who invaded the western provinces in the fifth century, it was destroyed by the Arabs, whose conquest of the...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 539 p. This book provides the first comprehensive study of city‐states in medieval Europe for more than a century. Rather than highlighting the political and cultural achievements of city‐states, above all those of central and northern Italy, it offers a detailed comparison of city‐states in an urban belt which spanned the Alps from Italy to...
University of Washington Press. 1994 - 573 p. Although the Middle Ages saw brilliant achievements in the diverse nations of East Central Europe, this period has been almost totally neglected in Western historical scholarship. East Central Europe in the Middle Ages provides a much-needed overview of the history of the region from the time when the present nationalities...
London: Variorum, 1975. — 323 p. The Establishment of the Catalan Company in the Cities of Athens and Thebes. The Early Years and Chief Succsses of the Catalans in Greece. The French Failure to Regain Athens and the Period of Catalan Strength. The Dangers and Crises of the Middle Years of Catalan Rule. The Fortunes of the Florentines in Greece and the Misfortunes of Catalans....
Penguin Books, 1972. — 415 p. The military religious orders emerged during the Crusades as Christendom's stormtroopers in the savage conflict with Islam. Some of them still exist today, devoted to charitable works. The Monks of War is the first general history of these orders to have appeared since the eighteenth century. The Templars, the Hospitallers (later Knights of Malta),...
Brill Academic Pub, 2013. - 244 p. - (The Northern World 65). This volume contains the proceedings of a conference held in Oslo in late 2005, which brought together scholars working in a wide variety of disciplines from Scandinavia, Great Britain and Ireland. The papers here began as those read at the conference, augmented by two written immediately after by attendees, but have...
Brepols, 2009. — 220 p. How is the history of medieval Europe written? What national discourses shape the editing of medieval texts and their interpretation in historiography? And how can medieval historians confront these questions by reintegrating their fragmented field through the use of comparison and critiques across national boundaries? In his work, Timothy Reuter...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 282 p. This book examines social and medical responses to the disfigured face in early medieval Europe, arguing that the study of head and facial injuries can offer a new contribution to the history of early medieval medicine and culture, as well as exploring the language of violence and social interactions. Despite the prevalence of warfare and...
Brill, 2007. - 647 p. - (The Northern World 31). This volume, prepared in tribute to Barbara E. Crawford, covers the subject of Viking expansion westwards to Britain, Ireland and the North Atlantic. The 3 papers are arranged in four groups: History and Cultural Contacts; The Church and the Cult of Saints; Archaeology, Material Culture and Settlement; and Place-Names and Language.
Yale University Press, 1961. — 283 p. An acknolwedged classic of european history, R.W. Southern's "The Middle Ages" focuses on the period between 900 and 1200 A.D. His geopgraphic focus is mostly northern france, with some asides to Germany, Italy, Southern France and England. His main thesis is the idea that this period saw the emergence of a personal devotion to faith via...
Boydell & Brewer, 2014. — 188 p. Religion amongst ordinary men and women in Languedoc in the High Middle Ages is the subject of this book. Focusing on laypeople attached to the Cathar movement, it investigates the interplay between heresy and orthodoxy, and between spiritual and secular concerns, in people's lives, charting the ways in which these developed through life cycle:...
Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2009. – 565 p. – (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450– 1450. Vol. 6). ISSN 1872-8103. ISBN 978-90-04-17536-5 The Environment and its Relation to the Anthropic Element The Political History of the Carpathian-Dniester Region and of the Neighbouring Territories Tenth Century Eleventh Century Twelfth Century First Half of the Thirteenth...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2000. — 468 p. — (Technology and Change in History) Waterpower in Medieval Ireland Medieval England's Water-Related Technologies Hydraulic Engineering in the Netherlands during the Middle Ages Water Technology in Medieval Germany Medieval Hydraulics in France The Technologies of Water in Medieval Italy Hydraulic Systems and Technologies of Islamic...
Boydell Press, 2016. — 344 p. The rise of Norman naval power in the central Mediterranean in the eleventh and twelfth centuries prompted a seminal shift in the balance of power on the sea. Drawing from Latin, Greek, Jewish and Arabic sources, this book details how the House of Hauteville, particularly under Robert Guiscard and his brother Roger, used sea power to accomplish...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 208 p. States of Credit provides the first comprehensive look at the joint development of representative assemblies and public borrowing in Europe during the medieval and early modern eras. In this pioneering book, David Stasavage argues that unique advances in political representation allowed certain European states to gain early and...
Boydell Press, 2006 - 258 p. In the wake of his murder in December 1170, an extraordinarily large number of Lives of Thomas Becket were produced.They provide an invaluable witness to the life and death of Thomas and the dramatic events in which he was involved, but they are also works of great literary value, more complex and sophisticated than has been recognised. This book,...
Brepols Publishers, 2001. — 255 p. The fifteenth century was of crucial importance for the Low Countries. After centuries of gradual political disintegration, a rapid unification took place during the reign of the Burgundian dukes, Philip the Good and Charles the Bold. How did this new ‘state’ work? To most people the political high-points are well known; but the slow process...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 368 p. In the late fourteenth and the fifteenth centuries, the Dukes of Valois-Burgundy created a composite monarchy in the Netherlands, an area that had been dominated for centuries by several regional dynasties. In this way they laid the foundation for the modern states of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxemburg. The rise of the House of...
New York: NYU School of Law, 2011. — 17 p. Crime and its socio-legal impact may be used as a prism through which we can evaluate almost any given society, past or present, to explore the intersect between law and civilization. The Medieval Jewish Underworld project is a proposed new and comprehensive study that will collect, describe, and analyze evidence of Jewish involvement...
Brill Academic Pub, 2011. — 421 p. — (The Northern World 52). Ideology and power are central elements in the political, social, religious and cultural development of the North during the transition from the Viking to the Middle Ages. While the medieval European Christian ideology of rulership has been widely discussed, an analysis of the Nordic pre-Christian ideology, and of...
Brill, 2010. — 201 p. This book is about Steppe Eurasia and China, Persia, Byzantium, as well as the 'Inside' and 'Outside' Other. This dual approach helps the reader to better understand the attitudes of the Steppe to both the southern sedentary empires (in this book, the 'Outside' Other) and to the women and shamans/magicians within the nomadic confederations (in this book,...
Greenwood. 2005. - 251 p. Language: English. Marilyn Stokstad's Medieval Castles blends thirty illustrations with twenty brief biographies of rulers, builders, and histories of medieval castles, reviewing both military and social systems to consider the construction and popularity of castles and other fortifications of their times. From different castle purposes to the...
Theosophical Publishing House, Wheaton, Illinois, Chennai, India, 2011 - 137 p. A renewed interest in the esotericisms of an earlier time seems to be a trend today. In academic circles we’ve seen everything from Frances Yates’s fascinating but lamentably fl awed hermetic revival to Richard Kieckheff er’s forming of the scholarly Societas Magica to Christopher Lehrich’s...
GradivaIdioma, 1986. — 116 p. — ISBN: 9789726620891. Segundo Strayer, os estados europeus surgidos depois de 1100 combinaram com êxito certas características dos impérios antigos, como a vastidão e o poder, e das cidades-Estado, marcadas por um razoável grau de integração entre os súditos e por um sentimento de identidade comum. Por volta do ano 1000, depois de grandes...
Princeton University Press, 1973. — 120 p. The modern state, however we conceive of it today, is based on a pattern that emerged in Europe in the period from 1100 to 1600. Inspired by a lifetime of teaching and research, On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State is a classic work on what is known about the early history of the European state. This short, clear book book...
Böhlau Köln Verlag, 2011. — 204 s. Seit jeher haben Menschen ein reges Interesse daran, mehr über ihre Zukunft zu erfahren, wobei immer auch die Frage nach Schicksal und Freiheit des Individuums gestellt wird. Philosophen, Historiker und Philologen untersuchen in diesem Band zum einen verschiedene mantische Praktiken des Mittelalters auf deren theoretische Grundlagen und ihre...
Chicago: Yniversity of Chicago Press, 2011. — 368 p. There have been numerous studies in recent decades of the medieval inquisitions, most emphasizing larger social and political circumstances and neglecting the role of the inquisitors themselves. In this volume, Karen Sullivan sheds much-needed light on these individuals and reveals that they had choices - both the choice of...
Harper Collins Publishers, 2006. — 284 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-120892-8 On Christmas morning in the year 800, Pope Leo III placed the crown of imperial Rome on the brow of a Germanic king named Karl. With one gesture, the man later hailed as Charlemagne claimed his empire and forever shaped the destiny of Europe. Becoming Charlemagne tells the story of the international power...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2008. — 326 p. — (The Northern World 35). Medieval people viewed whales in complex and contradictory ways, from marvelous to monstrous to mundane, heaven-sent or hell-bent. Despite this, whales are conspicuous in their absence from most historical and archaeological dialogues on the Middle Ages. Drawing upon a wealth of legal, literary and material...
Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo, Delhi, Dubai, Tokyo: Cambridge University Press -The Edinburgh Building, 2010. — 394 p. The period 1350 to 1750 saw major developments in European warfare, which not only had a huge impact on the way wars were fought, but are also critical to long-standing controversies about state development, the global...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2004. — 425 p. — (The Northern World 6). This study offers a new model of political development for northern France through an analysis of the interrelationships between the counts of Boulogne and their neighbors in Flanders, Picardy, Normandy, and England. It also illuminates the little studied relations between less powerful counts and their...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 310 p. For decades, medieval scholarship has been dominated by the paradigm that women who wielded power after c. 1100 were exceptions to the "rule" of female exclusion from governance and the public sphere. This collection makes a powerful case for a new paradigm. Building on the premise that elite women in positions of authority were expected,...
Princeton University Press, 2018. — 664 p. A bold new religious history of the late antique and medieval Middle East that places ordinary Christians at the center of the story. In the second half of the first millennium CE, the Christian Middle East fractured irreparably into competing churches and Arabs conquered the region, setting in motion a process that would lead to its...
Princeton University Press, 2018. — 664 p. A bold new religious history of the late antique and medieval Middle East that places ordinary Christians at the center of the story. In the second half of the first millennium CE, the Christian Middle East fractured irreparably into competing churches and Arabs conquered the region, setting in motion a process that would lead to its...
London: Bradbury, Agnew & Company, 1904. — 284 p. Described with photos collection of medieval weapons and armor. The collection is located in Windsor castle. Little is known of the early history of the present contents of the Windsor Armoury, as no record remains of any list or inventory previous to its incorporation with the Carlton House Collection' formed by the Prince...
Teacher Guide. — Publication details not specified. — 124 p. Ancient history is the study of cultural and political events from the beginning of human history until the Early Middle Ages. Ancient history begins with the earliest writings — the Sumerian cuneiforms — from 5,000 to 5,500 years ago. This, according to historians, is the beginning of recorded history. This does not...
Boydell Press, 2014. - 280 p. The Norman expansion in eleventh-century Europe was a movement of enormous historical importance, which saw men and women from the duchy of Normandy settling in England, Italy, Sicily and the Middle East. The Norman establishment in the South is particularly interesting, because it represents the story of a few hundred mercenaries who managed to...
New York: W. Norton and Company Inc. Publishers, 1937. — 1092 p. In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or medieval period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. The Middle Ages is the middle period of the three traditional divisions of Western history: classical...
Stockholm: Kungl. Vitterhets Historie Och Antikvitets Akademien, 1939. — 640 p. The Battle of Wisby, at which 1800 hastily assembled peasants gathered in vain to defend their city from the onslaught of Waldemar of Denmark, is perhaps the most celebrated medieval battle in Scandinavia and yet, were it not for the mass graves of the defenders, it would be all but unknown to...
Stockholm: Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, 1940. — 150 p. The Battle of Wisby, at which 1800 hastily assembled peasants gathered in vain to defend their city from the onslaught of Waldemar of Denmark, is perhaps the most celebrated medieval battle in Scandinavia and yet, were it not for the mass graves of the defenders, it would be all but unknown to...
Ashgate Publishing, 2013. — 242 p. 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. A diverse assortment of interdisciplinary essays from scholars in Europe and North America contest or enlarge traditional approaches to and interpretations of vengeance in the...
The University of Chicago Press, 2008. — 234 p. Replete with shady merchants, scoundrels, hungry mercenaries, scheming nobles, and maneuvering cardinals, The Man Who Believed He Was King of France proves the adage that truth is often stranger than fiction — or at least as entertaining. The setting of this improbable but beguiling tale is 1354 and the Hundred Years’ War being...
Giraldi Cambriensis Opera. Topographia Hibernica. Distinctio I. Distinctio II. Distinctio III. Expugnatio Hibernica. Liber I. Liber II. Liber III. Giraldi Cambriensis Opera//Rerum Britannicorum Medii Aevi Scriptores. -ed. James F. Dimock. -London. : 1867. -586 p.
Georgetown University Press, 1963. — 599 p. A seminal work by Professor Cyril Toumanoff on various topics from the history of medieval Caucasus - Georgia and Armenia.
Bergen: Universitetsforlaget, 1968. — s. 63-114. De geistlige segl i Bergens bispedømme før reformasjonen var av samme slag som i alle romerkirkens dioceser. Man hadde segl for biskoper, kirkers kapitler, de enkelte proster, prester og klerker og for abbeder, abbedisser, klostrenes kapitler eller konventer og enkelte tjenestemenn i klostrene. De norske middelalderarkiver gikk...
New York, Ballantine Books, 1978. — 781 p. — eISBN: 978-0-307-79369-0. Barbara W. Tuchman — the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning classic The Guns of August — once again marshals her gift for character, history, and sparkling prose to compose an astonishing portrait of medieval Europe. The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a...
Turnhout (Belgium): Brepols Publishers n.v., 2006. – 266 p. – (Studies in the Early Middle Ages. Vol. 16). ISBN10: 2503518281 This volume explores the nature of narrative in texts used as sources for history by modern scholars of the early medieval West. Narrative is defined here broadly as how stories are told and the volume focuses on the interaction of what texts say and...
London: Routledge, 2010. — 238 p. In many respects this book, first published in 1961, marked a somewhat radical departure from contemporary historical writings. It is neither a constitutional nor a political history, but a historical definition and explanation of the main features which characterised the three kinds of government which can be discerned in the Middle Ages...
Windgather Press / Oxbow Books, 2019. — 224 p. Recent collaboration between the archaeological and metal-detectorist communities has transformed our understanding of early medieval economies. The great coastal emporia or wics like Hamwic, Dorestadt and Quentovic have in the past been the centre of scholarly attention. However, the identification of 'productive sites', mostly...
Windgather Press / Oxbow Books, 2019. — 224 p. Recent collaboration between the archaeological and metal-detectorist communities has transformed our understanding of early medieval economies. The great coastal emporia or wics like Hamwic, Dorestadt and Quentovic have in the past been the centre of scholarly attention. However, the identification of 'productive sites', mostly...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. — 319 p. The beer of today — brewed from malted grain and hops, manufactured by large and often multinational corporations, frequently associated with young adults, sports, and drunkenness — is largely the result of scientific and industrial developments of the nineteenth century. Modern beer, however, has little in common with the drink...
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1980. — 304 p. If your goal is an understanding of the changes to ship design through the medieval period and how these changes were a driver and were driven by the economies of the advancing world, do not miss the "A Note on Illustrations" introduction to this fine work. An assumption is made about both the vocabulary of the reader and their...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 474 p. In this engaging work, Malcolm Vale sets out to recapture the splendor of court culture in Western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Exploring the time between the death of St Louis and the rise of Burgundian power in the Low Countries, he illuminates a period in the history of princes and court life previously...
Leiden: University Leiden, 2016. — 168 p. Exploring the differentiation between besieged and non-besieged castles using military material, with a case study of eight castle in the county of Holland during the period 1250 – 1450. Nothing speaks more to the imagination of the medieval period than castles being besieged by knights rescuing princesses. This is romantic view, since...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 320 p. Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300 contains an analysis of the experience of married life by men and women in Christian medieval Europe, c. 900-1300. The study focusses on the social and emotional life of the married couple rather than on the institutional history of marriage, breaking it into three parts: Getting Married - the...
Leuven University Press, 2006. — 147 p. This volume addresses symbolic forms of communication in the late medieval towns of the Low Countries, northern France and the Swiss Confederation. In context of State centralisation, the political autonomy of these towns was threatened by tensions with higher levels of power. Within this conflict both rulers and towns employed symbolic...
Brill Academic Pub, 2023. — 354 p. This collection of studies investigates how people of the 10th to early 12th century experienced and represented processes of intentional change in the Church, and what the consequences are of modern scholars’ reliance on ‘reform’ to describe and interpret these processes.
New York: Barnes and Noble, 1973. — 491 p. Charles the Bold (1467-1477) was the last of the great Dukes of Burgundy. This historical and biographical work assesses his personality and his role as a ruler, and discusses his relationship with his subjects and his neighbours. It describes and analyses his policies, giving particular attention to his imperial plans and projects and...
New York: Barnes and Noble, 1966. — 320 p. John the Fearless, second Duke of Burgundy, is one of the more dramatic and puzzling characters among medieval rulers. He inherited the newly created duchy from his father, and defended and developed its power ruthlessly during his ducal reign (1404-1419). In the process, he allied himself with the English party in France, with whom he...
London, 1962. 280 p. A biography of Philip and a study of the emergence of the Burgundian state under his aegis in the years 1384-1404, paying particular attention to his crucial aquisition of Flanders. There is comprehensive analysis of how Philip's government worked. When in 1363 the duke of Burgundy died without an heir, the duchy returned to the French crown. John II's...
London: Longmans, 1970. — 456 p. Philip, who ruled from 1419 to 1467, was one of the most powerful and influential rulers of the fifteenth century. Forced into an alliance with the English, he soon found that he held the balance of power between England and France - reflected in the final crucial phase of the Hundred Years War. Under Philip the Good, grandson of the founder of...
Routledge, 2017. — 632 p. A Chronology of Early Medieval Western Europe uses a wide range of both primary and secondary sources to chart the history of Britain and Western Europe, with reference to the Celtic world, Scandinavia, the Mediterranean and North America. Extending from the middle of the fifth century to the Norman Conquest in 1066, the book is divided into five...
Boydell Press, 2002. — 410 p. Warfare is a major feature of the history of the middle ages, but its study has often been the province of amateurs; only recently have the technical details of warfare and its organisation been subject to proper scholarly investigation. Professor Verbruggen's major work, outstanding in its field, applies rigorous standards in analysing often very...
Revised edition — Boydell Press, 2002. — 294 p. On 11 July 1302, below the town walls of Courtrai, the most splendid army of knights in Christendom, the flower of the French nobility, was utterly defeated by Flemish rebels, common workers and peasants. The French knights, products of a lifetime's training, were ably led; but so too were the Courtrai townspeople, in addition to...
Truman State University Press, 2013. — 344 p. This collection of interdisciplinary essays introduce the history and culture of the lands ruled by the sovereign house of Savoy during the late medieval and early modern periods, territories now part of France, Italy, and Switzerland. Because the Sabaudian realms were geographically, linguistically, and culturally diverse and did...
Truman State University Press, 2012. — 304 p. — eISBN 978-1-61248-073-2 One of the most brilliant courtiers and military leaders in Renaissance France, Jacques de Savoie, duke of Nemours, was head of the cadet branch of the house of Savoy, a dynasty that had ruled over a collection of lands in the Western Alps since the eleventh century. Jacques' cousin Emanuel Filibert, duke...
The History Press, 2015. — 256 p. In August, 1424, the armies of England, Scotland, and France met in the open fields outside the walls of Verneuil in a battle that would decide the future of the English conquests in France. The hero king Henry V had been dead for two years, and the French felt that this was their chance to avenge their startling defeat at Agincourt, and...
The History Press, 2015. — 256 p. In August, 1424, the armies of England, Scotland, and France met in the open fields outside the walls of Verneuil in a battle that would decide the future of the English conquests in France. The hero king Henry V had been dead for two years, and the French felt that this was their chance to avenge their startling defeat at Agincourt, and...
The Boydell Press, 2012. — 202 p. Animals in the middle ages have often been discussed - but usually only as a source of food, as beasts of burden, or as aids for hunters. This book takes a completely different angle, showing that they were also beloved domestic companions to their human owners, whether they were dogs, cats, monkeys, squirrels, and parrots. It offers a full...
Routledge, 2016. — 314 p. "Women in Medieval Europe" explores the key areas of female experience in the later medieval period, from peasant women to Queens. It considers the women of the later Middle Ages in the context of their social relationships during a time of changing opportunities and activities, so that by 1500 the world of work was becoming increasingly restricted to...
Boydell & Brewer, 2009. — 272 p. Despite a background of war, piracy, depopulation, bullion shortages, adverse political decisions, legal uncertainties and deteriorating weather conditions, between the mid-fourteenth and the mid-fifteenth centuries the English merchant shipping industry thrived. New markets were developed, voyages became longer, ships and cargoes increased in...
BRILL, 2011 - 384 p. ISBN10: 9004206132 ISBN13: 9789004206137 (eng) The emergence of a Norwegian medieval state had consequences beyond Norway. Inspired by transnational research on state formation, this book presents a comprehensive study of the political incorporation and subsequent judicial and administrative integration of Iceland, the Faroes, Shetland, and Orkney, into the...
Wisconsin, Western Publishing Company Inc., 1993. — 61 p. — ISBN: 0-307-17874-9/ISBN: 0-307-62874-1 Dangerous Times Lords and Loyal Knights Within the Castle Walls Under the Castle's Shadow Raising the Castle Walls Drawbridges and Towers Dungeon Defending the Castle Arms and Armor Castle Comforts The Daily Lives of Nobles and Their Children A Noble Feast The Art of the Hunt...
Wisconsin, Western Publishing Company Inc., 1993. — 61 p. — ISBN: 0-307-17874-9/ISBN: 0-307-62874-1 Dangerous Times Lords and Loyal Knights Within the Castle Walls Under the Castle's Shadow Raising the Castle Walls Drawbridges and Towers Dungeons Defending the Castle Arms and Armor Castle Comforts The Daily Lives of Nobles and Their Children A Noble Feast The Art of the Hunt...
Constable, 2008. — 224 p. At the dawn of the fifteenth century, Islam invaded Europe from the East and it seemed that Christendom itself was under threat. In an attempt to save Christian world the Emperor Sigismund called the many nations of Europe together for a conference at Constance, beside the Rhine. The Conference attracted the greatest minds in the western world, as well...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. — 328 p. Historians commonly designate the High Middle Ages as the era of the "papal monarchy", when the popes of Rome vied with secular rulers for spiritual and temporal supremacy. Indeed, in many ways the story of the papal monarchy encapsulates that of medieval Europe as often remembered: a time before the modern age, when religious...
New York: Random House, 2004. - 464 p. Historian Wheatcroft (The Ottomans) adds another volume to the steadily growing literature on the history of Christian-Muslim relations. Part philosophical treatise, part history and part diatribe, Wheatcroft's study adds little that has not been covered already by more thorough and elegant studies such as F.E. Peters's recent The...
University of California Press, 2018. — 301 p. Being Christian in Vandal Africa investigates conflicts over Christian orthodoxy in the Vandal kingdom, the successor to Roman rule in North Africa, ca. 439 to 533 CE. Exploiting neglected texts, author Robin Whelan exposes a sophisticated culture of disputation between Nicene (“Catholic”) and Homoian (“Arian”) Christians and...
Brill Publishers, 2009. — 277 p. While recognising the sophistication of the practice of medieval warfare, many people still have problems reconciling the widespread use of surprise and deception with the code of chivalric warfare. Was chivalry really just a meaningless veneer? If true, perhaps more perplexing are the many cases where surprise or deception were not employed and...
New York: Chelsea House, 2010 The Grand Fleet of Treasure Ships. The Dark Ages or the Middle Ages? Pilgrims and Missionaries of the Early Middle Ages. The Vikings. Muslim Travelers of the Middle Ages. Europeans Seeking Asia. Marco Polo and his Travels. Mysteries, Legends, and Lies. Portugals’s Master Sailors. The Dawning of the Age of Discovery.
Oxford - New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. – 1019 p. ISBN 0–19–926449–X The Roman empire tends to be seen as a whole whereas the early middle ages tends to be seen as a collection of regional histories, roughly corresponding to the land-areas of modern nation states. As a result, early medieval history is much more fragmented, and there have been few convincing syntheses...
New York: Penguin Books, 2009. — 749 p. The Roman Empire and its Break-up, 400–550 The Weight of Empire Culture and Belief in the Christian Roman World Crisis and Continuity, 400–550 The Post-Roman West, 550–750 Merovingian Gaul and Germany, 500–751 The West Mediterranean Kingdoms: Spain and Italy, 550–750 Kings without States: Britain and Ireland, 400–800 Post-Roman Attitudes:...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 337 p. — ISBN: 978-0300208344. A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period — one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 352 p. The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period - one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages. Yet distinguished historian Chris Wickham has taken up the challenge in this landmark book, and he succeeds in producing the most riveting account...
Leiden; Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2015. — 352 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450. Vol. 33). This book offer a biography of a key East Central European ruler, Vladislaus Henry, who ruled the Margraviate of Moravia from 1198 to 1222 and, in cooperation with his brother, King Přemysl Otakar I of Bohemia, was involved in the transformation...
Brill, 2003. — 954 p. The suit of armour distinguishes the European Middle Ages & Renaissance from all other periods and cultures. Unlike flexible defences, popular everywhere else in the world, the rigid, articulated, exoskeleton of a "suit of armour" was a more extravagant and less adaptable means of personal protection. It required greater metallurgical resources to make,...
Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2016. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 1845197003; ISBN13: 978-1845197001 With his Letter of 1493 to the court of Spain, Christopher Columbus heralded his first voyage to the present-day Americas, creating visions that seduced the European imagination and birthing a fascination with those "new" lands and their inhabitants that continues today. Columbus's...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 192 p. — (The New Oxford World History). — ISBN: 978-0-19-516517-3. In The World from 1450 to 1700, historian John Wills takes a fresh look at one of the most fascinating and tumultuous periods in world history. Assuming a global perspective, rather than the traditional Eurocentric view, Wills traces the interwoven changes that led from the...
The Belknap Press, 2016. — 1008 p. The Holy Roman Empire lasted a thousand years, far longer than ancient Rome. Its continuity rested on the ideal of a unified Christian civilization. As Peter Wilson shows, the Empire tells the story of Europe better than histories of individual nation-states, and its legacy can be seen today in debates over the nature of the European Union.
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 268 p. This book offers new perspectives on the legal and intellectual developments of the twelfth century. Gratian’s collection of church law, the Decretum, was a key text in these developments. Compiled in around 1140, it remained a fundamental work on ecclesiastical law throughout and beyond the middle ages. Until now, the many mysteries...
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. — 496 p. In this biography of the German emperor Conrad II (990-1039), internationally renowned medievalist Herwig Wolfram paints a fascinating portrait of a consummate politician set against the background of a Europe entering a new millennium. Conrad was the founder of the Salian Dynasty, under whose almost century-long dominion...
Oxford University Press, 1991. — xii, 269 p. — ISBN: 0-19-504060-0; ISBN: 0-19-506951-X (pbk) Joan of Arc and Richard III loom large in the histories of their countries, but the myths surrounding them have always obscured just who they were and what they hoped to accomplish. In this book, medieval historian Charles Wood brings these fascinating figures to life through an...
Routledge, 2016. — 242 p. "Studying Late Medieval History" is an accessible introduction for undergraduate history students wishing to understand the major topics of late medieval history. Examining the period from 1300–1550, this introductory guide offers an overview of 250 years of transformation, which saw technology, borders and ruling dynasties across the continent change....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 302 p. This groundbreaking collection explores the key roles that Mediterranean queens played as wives, as mothers, and above all as political actors. Ranging from Byzantine empresses to regnants and consorts in the Italian peninsula, they offer a bracing new perspective on queenship in the medieval and Early Modern eras. Elena Woodacre is a...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. — 400 p. — ISBN: 0333971639. By investigating the major changes of world history during the past five hundred years, this book provides the necessary global perspective to understand the geopolitical and geoeconomic changes facing us today. We have reached a crucial transitional stage in world history in which the world will no longer be shaped by the...
Brill Academic Pub, 2013. - 303 p. - (The Northern World 60). The Hanse, an organization of towns and traders in medieval and early modern Europe, was a unique phenomenon. At the same time, it was embedded in the northern European urban and mercantile culture. The contributions in this volume therefore seek to highlight the atypical features of the Hanse, and place them in a...
Brill Academic Pub, 2013. - 289 p. - (The Northern World 62). In Across the German Sea: Early Modern Scottish Connections with the Wider Elbe-Weser Region Zickermann analyses the commercial, maritime and military relations between Scotland and the German cities (Hamburg, Bremen) and territories (Bremen and Verden, Holstein, Braunschweig-Lüneburg) located alongside the lower...
Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2016. – 432 p. – (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450. Vol. 35). ISSN: 1872-8103. ISBN: 978-90-04-21437-8 (hardback). ISBN: 978-90-04-30611-0 (e-book). 1 The Jayhānī Tradition. 1 The Personality of al-Jayhānī. 2 Al-Jayhānī’s Literary Activity and His Geographical Work. 3 The Sources of al-Jayhānī’s Geographical Work. Ibn...
Uppsala - Leipzig - París, 1922. — 291 S. In der folgenden Behandlung der Archäologie der Franken und der Westgoten wird das fränkische Material auf eine etwas andere Weise als das westgotische vorgelegt werden. Die fränkischen Altertümer treten in großer Menge auf und sind seit lange durch eine Reihe oft prachtvoll illustrierter französischer und deutscher Arbeiten bekannt....
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