In 1495, William, Viscount Beaumont, was declared unfit to take care of himself and given into the care of a guardian, due to unspecified mental health problems. Notably, his treatment was very kind, and runs contrary to many of our ideas of late med...Loe edasi...
In 1495, William, Viscount Beaumont, was declared unfit to take care of himself and given into the care of a guardian, due to unspecified mental health problems. Notably, his treatment was very kind, and runs contrary to many of our ideas of late med...Loe edasi...
Sari: Monsters, Prodigies, and Demons: Medieval and Early Modern Constructions of Alterity
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Jul-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Medieval Institute Publications, ISBN-13: 9781580442763)
At the center of this interdisciplinary study are court monsters--dwarves, hirsutes, and misshapen individuals--who, by their very presence, altered Renaissance ethics vis-a-vis anatomical difference, social virtues, and scientific knowledge. The stu...Loe edasi...
An exploration of how popes attempted to construct, maintain, and represent their power beyond Europes eastern frontiers during the Avignon period of the 14th century. After the main, numbered, crusades concluded with the loss of the Holy Land at t...Loe edasi...
An exploration of how popes attempted to construct, maintain, and represent their power beyond Europes eastern frontiers during the Avignon period of the 14th century. After the main, numbered, crusades concluded with the loss of the Holy Land at t...Loe edasi...
PRAISE FOR A CULTURAL HISTORY OF IDEAS: VOLUMES 1-6A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE2023 AAP PROSE AWARDS WINNER: BEST HUMANITIES REFERENCE WORKThis volume of A Cultural History of Ideas examines the roughly thousand years, from the end of the...Loe edasi...
PRAISE FOR A CULTURAL HISTORY OF IDEAS: VOLUMES 1-6A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE2023 AAP PROSE AWARDS WINNER: BEST HUMANITIES REFERENCE WORKThis volume of A Cultural History of Ideas examines the roughly thousand years, from the end of the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Apr-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Medieval Institute Publications, ISBN-13: 9781580442633)
The expression liturgical drama was formulated in 1834 as a metaphor and hardened into formal category only later in the nineteenth century. Prior to this invention, the medieval rites and representations that would forge the category were understo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Apr-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Medieval Institute Publications, ISBN-13: 9781580442084)
Although it seemed in the mid-1970s that the study of the troubadours and of Occitan literature had reached a sort of zenith, it has since become apparent that this moment was merely a plateau from which an intensive renewal was being launched. In th...Loe edasi...
Caroline M. Barron, Martha Carlin, Joel T. Rosenthal
Sari: Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Apr-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Medieval Institute Publications, ISBN-13: 9781580442572)
Caroline M. Barron is the worlds leading authority on the history of medieval London. For half a century she has investigated Londons role as medieval Englands political, cultural, and commercial capital, together with the urban landscape and t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040337547)
Originally published in 1951, this book discusses the cultural and social developments in Scandinavian countries from the beginning of the Dark Ages to the death of S. Olaf. It focusses on the effects of the Viking expansion and contact with other We...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040337615)
Originally published in 1951, this book discusses the cultural and social developments in Scandinavian countries from the beginning of the Dark Ages to the death of S. Olaf. It focusses on the effects of the Viking expansion and contact with other We...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040329481)
Originally published in 1931 and as a fifth edition in 1952, this book became a classic survey of European history which focusses on the pan-European features and tendencies of the Middle Ages. The book also looks beyond Europe at the history of Isla...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040321089)
Since its first publication in 2005, Ruling England has established itself as an authoritative account of English politics and the growth of royal power from 1042.Using chronicle and administrative records, it focuses on the aims and priorities of th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040330982)
Originally published in 1937 and as a third edition in 1951, this volume discusses the development of Europe and its component states by focussing on events and institutions such as the monarchy, religious wars, the development of agriculture, feudal...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040334485)
Originally published in 1957 and as a fourth edition in 1970 this is an accessible history of Byzantium from Constantine the Great to its final conquest by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. Despite internal dissensions and the almost perpetual threat of out...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040330753)
Originally published in 1950 and as a third edition in 1967, this volume traces the evolution of the English nation - the amalgamation of differing races and the unification of warring tribal princedoms into one monarchy under the stress of competiti...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040330968)
Originally published in 1937 and as a third edition in 1951, this volume discusses the development of Europe and its component states by focussing on events and institutions such as the monarchy, religious wars, the development of agriculture, feudal...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040329504)
Originally published in 1931 and as a fifth edition in 1952, this book became a classic survey of European history which focusses on the pan-European features and tendencies of the Middle Ages. The book also looks beyond Europe at the history of Isla...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040334447)
Originally published in 1957 and as a fourth edition in 1970 this is an accessible history of Byzantium from Constantine the Great to its final conquest by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. Despite internal dissensions and the almost perpetual threat of out...Loe edasi...
