Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe

• Paperback | Engels | Middle Ages
• In the popular imagination, the Middle Ages are often associated with lawlessness. As historians have long recognized, however, medieval culture was c... Lees meer

Power Play

Jenny Adams

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle Ages
• The game of chess reached western Europe by the year 1000, and within several generations it had become one of the most popular pastimes ever. Both me... Lees meer

God's Peace and King's Peace

Bruce R O'Brien

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle Ages
• Sometime before the middle of the twelfth century, an anonymous English writer composed the Leges Edwardi, a treatise purporting to contain the laws t... Lees meer

The Cistercian Evolution

Constance Hoffman Berman

• Paperback | Engels | Middle Ages
• According to the received history, the Cistercian order was founded in Cîteaux, France, in 1098 by a group of Benedictine monks who wished for a stric... Lees meer

Medieval Iberia, Second Edition

Constable Olivia Remie

• Paperback | Engels | Middle Ages
• For some historians, medieval Iberian society was one marked by peaceful coexistence and cross-cultural fertilization; others have sketched a harsher ... Lees meer

The Trotula

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle Ages
• The Trotula was the most influential compendium on women's medicine in medieval Europe. Scholarly debate has long focused on the traditional attributi... Lees meer

Maurice's Strategikon

• Paperback | Engels | Middle Ages
• ""The most important Byzantine military text. . . . The standard translation.""--Walter Kaegi, University of Chicago As a veteran campaigner, the Byza... Lees meer

A Feast of Creatures

• Paperback | Engels | Middle Ages
• In A Feast of Creatures , Craig Williamson recasts nearly one hundred Old English riddles of the Exeter Book into a modern verse mode that yokes the c... Lees meer

Inventing William of Norwich

Heather Blurton

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle Ages
• William of Norwich is the name of a young boy purported to have been killed by Jews in or about 1144, thus becoming the victim of the first recorded c... Lees meer

Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West

Georges Duby

• Paperback | Engels | Middle Ages
• In 1961 Georges Duby wrote what is still the best overview of European medieval rural history to date. Originally published in French and first transl... Lees meer

Promised Lands

Willem Pieter Blockmans, Wim Blockmans, Walter Prevenier

• Paperback | Engels | Middle Ages
• They were, in the words of one contemporary observer, ""the Promised Lands."" In all of Europe, only Northern Italy could rival the economic power and... Lees meer

From Boys to Men

Ruth Mazo Karras

• Paperback | Engels | Middle Ages
• While the social identity of women in medieval society hinged largely on the ritual of marriage, identity for men was derived from belonging to a part... Lees meer

The Song of Troilus

Thomas C Stillinger

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle Ages
• The Song of Troilus traces the origins of modern authorship in the formal experimentation of medieval writers. Thomas C. Stillinger analyzes a sequenc... Lees meer

Patriarchy and Families of Privilege in Fifteenth-Century England

Joel T Rosenthal

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle Ages
• There are, contends Joel Rosenthal, two suppositions that have achieved almost full and unquestionable acceptance in contemporary social history and f... Lees meer

The Conversion of Herman the Jew

Jean-Claude Schmitt

• Paperback | Engels | Middle Ages
• 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 i... Lees meer

Her Life Historical

Catherine Sanok

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle Ages
• Her Life Historical offers a major reconsideration of one of the most popular narrative forms in late medieval England--the lives of female saints--an... Lees meer

From Eden to Eternity

Alastair Minnis

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle Ages
• An impressively learned and beautifully illustrated review of medieval ideas about Paradise Did Adam and Eve need to eat in Eden in order to live? If ... Lees meer

Ordering Medieval Society

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle Ages
• What intellectual and practical tools did medieval peoples employ in situations of disorder? How did they attempt to maintain cultural stability? Argu... Lees meer

Between Christian and Jew

Paola Tartakoff

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle Ages
• In 1341 in Aragon, a Jewish convert to Christianity was sentenced to death, only to be pulled from the burning stake and into a formal religious inter... Lees meer

In Light of Another's Word

Shirin A Khanmohamadi

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle Ages
• Challenging the traditional conception of medieval Europe as insular and even xenophobic, Shirin A. Khanmohamadi's In Light of Another's Word looks to... Lees meer

Medieval Woman's Song

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle Ages
• The number of surviving medieval secular poems attributed to named female authors is small, some of the best known being those of the trobairitz the f... Lees meer

Last Things

• Paperback | Engels | Middle Ages
• When the medievals spoke of "last things" they were sometimes referring to events, such as the millennium or the appearance of the Antichrist, that wo... Lees meer

Crusade and Christendom

• Paperback | Engels | Middle Ages
• In 1213, Pope Innocent III issued his letter Vineam Domini , thundering against the enemies of Christendom--the "beasts of many kinds that are attempt... Lees meer

Shaping Romance

Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle Ages
• Examines a set of five twelfth-century romance texts--complete and fragmentary, canonical and now neglected, long and short--to map out the characteri... Lees meer