Epstein shows that the ways Italians employ words and think about race and labor are profoundly affected by the language used in medieval Italy to sustain a system of slavery. The language of slavery is the last but steep price any societ...Loe edasi...
A new perspective on the factional conflict between two medieval Jewish sects: the Rabbanites and the... In a book with a bold new view of medieval Jewish history, written in a style accessible to nonspecialists and students as well as to...Loe edasi...
In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the ideas and practices of justice in Europe underwent significant change as procedures were transformed and criminal and civil caseloads grew apace. Drawing on the rich judicial records of Marseille fro...Loe edasi...
Sari: Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Feb-2010, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9780801439292)
"She declares, so the bishops will write in their report on the council, that she is unworthy to continue as a married woman. Before God and his angels she bares her heart and confesses to them every secret relating to the rumor that had aris...Loe edasi...
Sari: Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-May-2009, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9780801445026)
A prominent Mediterranean port located near Islamic territories, the city of Valencia in the late fifteenth century boasted a slave population of pronounced religious and ethnic diversity: captive Moors and penally enslaved Mudejars, Greeks, Tarta...Loe edasi...
Struggle for Empire explores the contest for kingdoms and power among Charlemagnes descendants that shaped the formation of Europe through the reign of Charlemagnes grandson, Louis the German (826–876). Struggle for Emp...Loe edasi...
Sari: Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Jul-2008, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9780801445828)
In a book with a bold new view of medieval Jewish history, written in a style accessible to nonspecialists and students as well as to scholars in the field, Marina Rustow changes our understanding of the origins and nature of heresy itself. Schola...Loe edasi...
No subject looms larger over the historical landscape of medieval Spain than that of the reconquista, the rapid expansion of the power of the Christian kingdoms into the Muslim-populated lands of southern Iberia, which created a broad frontier zon...Loe edasi...
Sari: Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jan-2008, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9780801440625)
Lansing (history, University of California at Santa Barbara) is well known for her scholarly work on the communes of medieval Italy. This study of how the town leaders managed to legislate public mourning and how that changed behavior and attitudes t...Loe edasi...
Sari: Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Dec-2007, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9780801441318)
In So Great a Light, So Great a Smoke, Louisa A. Burnham takes us inside the world of a little-known heretical group in the south of France in the early fourteenth century. The Beguins were a small sect of priests and lay people allied to...Loe edasi...
Sari: Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Aug-2007, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9780801445811)
In the 13th century, two hundred years before the celebrated Corpus Christi cycles in England, vernacular plays were being performed and scripts being copied in the French town of Arras. Rather than merely describing the material within the categorie...Loe edasi...
Trance states, prophesying, convulsions, fasting, and other physical manifestations were often regarded as signs that a person was seized by spirits. In a book that sets out the prehistory of the early modern European witch craze, Nancy Caciola shows...Loe edasi...
Sari: Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2006, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9780801444012)
Discusses how the Jews of Spain and Portugal found a space for themselves on the expanding frontiers of the Christian kingdoms while under the leadership of dynamic individuals....Loe edasi...
Sari: Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2006, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9780801444036)
The Transformation of a Religious Landscape paints a detailed picture of the sheer variety of early medieval Christian practice and organization, as well as the diverse modes in which church reform manifested itself in the eleventh and tw...Loe edasi...
Sari: Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Feb-2006, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9780801443817)
During the eleventh and early twelfth centuries, the imperial abbey of Farfa was one of the most powerful institutions on the Italian peninsula. In this period many of the lands of central Italy fell under its sway, and it enjoyed the protection of t...Loe edasi...
This book about poor men and women in thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century Paris reveals the other side of the age of cathedrals in the very place where gothic architecture and scholastic theology were born. In Surviving Poverty in Medieval Par...Loe edasi...
Sari: Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Apr-2004, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9780801440083)
Spanning the backs of choir stalls above the heads of the canons and their officials, large-scale tapestries of saints lives functioned as both architectural elements and pictorial narratives in the late Middle Ages. In an extensively illustrated......Loe edasi...
Before France became France its territories included Occitania, roughly the present-day province of Languedoc. The city of Narbonne was a center of Occitanian commerce and culture during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. For most of the second half...Loe edasi...
Sari: Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Jan-2004, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9780801439902)
In a major contribution to the debate among medievalists about the nature of social and political change in Europe around the turn of the millennium, Jeffrey A. Bowman explores how people contended over property during the tenth and eleventh centu...Loe edasi...
Sari: Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2003, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9780801439964)
Hyams (Medieval studies and history, Cornell U.) explores how people responded to perceptions that they had been wronged in England during the three centuries from the late Anglo- Saxon to the Angevin periods, emphasizing the literature on feud and v...Loe edasi...
