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  • - Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565
    av Walter Simons
    414,-

    "The definitive study... A learned, lively, and highly readable book, now the essential introduction to the subject."-Choice

  • av Maya Maskarinec
    469 - 753,-

  • - The Laws of Edward the Confessor
    av Bruce R. O'Brien
    753,-

    Includes the first readable English translation of the Laws of Edward the Confessor and a much-needed critical edition of its Latin text.

  • - The Conversion of Western Europe
    av J. N. Hillgarth
    328,-

    Using sermons, exorcisms, letters, biographies of the saints, inscriptions, autobiographical and legal documents—some of which are translated nowhere else—J. N. Hillgarth shows how the Christian church went about the formidable task of converting western Europe. The book covers such topics as the relationship between the Church and the Roman state, Christian attitudes toward the barbarians, and the missions to northern Europe. It documents as well the cult of relics in popular Christianity and the emergence of consciously Christian monarchies.

  • - Book of Constitutions or Law of Gundobad; Additional Enactments
     
    283,-

    "Gives the reader a portrayal of the social institutions of a Germanic people far richer and more exhaustive than any other available source."—from the Foreword, by Edward PetersFrom the bloody clashes of the third and fourth centuries there emerged a society that was neither Roman nor Burgundian, but a compound of both. The Burgundian Code offers historians and anthropologists alike illuminating insights into a crucial period of contact between a developed and a tribal society.

  • - On the Uses of the Past
    av Brian Stock
    328,-

    Contains essays about a segment of the past that runs roughly from the end of antiquity to the thirteenth century. This volume includes essays about the past that is written about and the writing that brings it to life.

  • av Thomas DuBois
    328,-

    Thomas DuBois unravels for the first time the history of the Nordic religions in the Viking Age. "A seminal study of Nordic religions that future scholars will not be able to avoid."-Church History

  • - Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe
    av Ruth Mazo Karras
    344,-

    "The book ... will find a broad audience. It would work well in the classroom... Effectively combating the nonspecialist's view of the Middle Ages as a monolithic and static society, it will encourage more subtle thinking about gender identities in the past and in the present.-American Historical Review

  • - Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church
    av Richard Firth Green
    411 - 753,-

    Starting from the assumption of a far greater cultural gulf between the learned and the lay in the medieval world than between rich and poor, Elf Queens explores the church's systematic campaign to demonize fairies and infernalize fairyland and the responses this provoked in vernacular romance.

  • - Gender, Patronage, and Spiritual Authority
    av Tanya Stabler Miller
    372,-

    This book reconstructs the history of beguine communities in Paris, one of medieval Europe's most vibrant and cosmopolitan cities. Drawing on an array of archival sources, Miller illuminates the important role beguines played in the economic, intellectual, and religious life of the city.

  • - The Complexity of One in Late Medieval French Didactic Poetry
    av Sarah Kay
    798,-

    "This book is quite simply the most important, intellectually ambitious, and far-reaching endeavor in recent years."-Stephen G. Nichols, Johns Hopkins University

  • - Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art
    av E. R. Truitt
    323,-

    Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, or silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct while others performed surveillance or discipline. Medieval Robots explores the forgotten history of real and imagined machines that captivated Europe from the ninth through the fourteenth centuries.

  • av R. D. Fulk
    969,-

    In A History of Old English Meter, R. D. Fulk offers a wide-ranging reference on Anglo-Saxon meter. Fulk examines the evidence for chronological and regional variation in the meter of Old English verse, studying such linguistic variables as the treatment of West Germanic parasite vowels, contracted vowels, and short syllables under secondary and tertiary stress, as well as a variety of supposed dialect features. Fulk''s study of such variables points the way to a revised understanding of the role of syllable length in the construction of early Germanic meters and furnishes criteria for distinguishing dialectal from poetic features in the language of the major Old English poetic codices. On this basis, it is possible to draw conclusions about the probable dialect origins of much verse, to delineate the characteristics of at least four discrete periods in the development of Old English meter, and with some probability to assign to them many of the longer poems, such as Genesis A, Beowulf, and the works of Cynewulf.A History of Old English Meter will be of interest to scholars of Anglo-Saxon, historians of the English language, Germanic philologists, and historical linguists.

  • - Structures of Governance in Medieval Austria
    av Otto Brunner
    967,-

    Originally published in 1939 and available here in English, Land and Lordship has been one of the most influential works of the twentieth-century medieval scholarship.

  • - Text, Context, and Translation
     
    376,-

    Provides a facing-page translation of the "Book of Chivalry". This book describes the prowess and piety of knights, their capacity to express themselves, their common assumptions, and their views on masculine virtue, women, and love.

  • - Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages
    av Barbara Newman
    416,-

    Explores the idea that the medieval religious imagination did not restrict itself to masculine images of God but envisaged the divine in multiple forms.

  • - Handbook of Byzantine Military Strategy
     
    323,-

    Describing in detail weaponry and armor, daily life on the march or in camp, clothing, food, medical care, military law, and titles of the Byzantine army of the seventh century, this text offers insights into the Byzantine military ethos. It also provides data for the historian, and even for the ethnologist.

  • - Prelude to Empire
    av Bernard S. Bachrach
    416,-

    Charlemagne could not have revived the Roman empire in the West without the military machine built up over the course of the eighth century. Early Carolingian Warfare is the first book to study how the Frankish dynasty established its power and cultivated its military expertise in order to reestablish the regnum Francorum.

  • - A Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine
     
    929,-

    "This long-awaited book makes available . . . the most important collection of material on women's diseases and their treatments for the period from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries."-Social History of Medicine

  • - Civilizing Trends and the Formation of Courtly Ideals, 939-1210
    av C. Stephen Jaeger
    376,-

  • av Edward Peters
    257,-

    "Helps to place our understanding of medieval witchcraft into a broader context... Sheds light on the various genres of literature in which magic was discussed."-Speculum

  • - "Letters of Two Lovers" in Context
     
    398,-

    Can the Letters of Two Lovers be the previously lost love letters of Abelard and Heloise? Making Love in the Twelfth Century presents a new literary translation of the collection, along with a full commentary and two extended essays that parse its literary and intellectual contexts and chart the course of the doomed affair.

  • - English Society, 1200-1250
     
    416,-

    Drawn from two medieval collections of form letters for all manner of business and personal affairs, Lost Letters of Medieval Life depicts early thirteenth-century England through the everyday correspondence of people of all classes, from peasants and shopkeepers to bishops and earls.

  • - Text, Image, Reception
     
    376,-

    Represents all the major areas of current work on the Romance of the Rose, both in America and in Europe.

  • av Philippe de Beaumanoir
    1 254,-

    This is the first English translation of a 13th-century work which set down the customary law of Clermont in the Beauvais region of France as it was practiced and understood. The work covers both procedural and substantive law, including the facts and decisions of nearly 100 cases.

  • - Lordship, Status, and Process in Twelfth-Century Europe
     
    416,-

    Proffers diverse perspectives on the prehistory of government in Northern France, Spain, Germany, the Low Countries, and England. This book brings political, social, ecclesiastical, and cultural history to bear on topics such as aristocracies, women, rituals, commemoration, and manifestations of power through literary, legal, and scriptural means.

  • av Paul the Deacon
    394,-

    "The History of the Lombards constitutes one of the most important literary sources for the early history of Europe, and the vision and energy of its author make it ... the most complex of the histories of the Germanic peoples between the sixth and the ninth centuries."-from the Introduction

  • - The Performance of Law in Early Ireland
    av Robin Chapman Stacey
    800,-

    In Dark Speech, Robin Chapman Stacey explores the fascinating interaction between performance and law in Ireland between the seventh and ninth centuries.

  • - Power and Accountability in Medieval France
    av Robert F. Berkhofer III
    855,-

    Applies approaches to literacy, legal studies, memory, ritual, and the manorial economy to reexamine the transformation of medieval power. This book opens up perspectives on problems of power, in particular the idea and practice of accountability.

  • - A Call to Arms and Its Consequences
    av Michael Lower
    798,-

    This first full-length treatment of the Barons' Crusade examines the call for holy war and its consequences in Hungary, France, England, Constantinople, and the Holy Land.

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