John-Paul Ghobrial, Michael A Reynolds, Christian C Sahner, Jack Tannous
Series: Edinburgh Studies in Middle Eastern Christianity
(Pub. Date: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399524834)
Challenges the field of Middle Eastern studies by imagining the history of the region from the perspective of its Christian inhabitants....More info...
Originally published in English in 1976, this book discusses and makes clear the differences between the feudal and seigneurial organisation of society that developed with the disintegration of the State which followed the enormous enlargement of th...More info...
This open access book explores the history and historiography of the Heresy of the Free Spirit, the name given to a group of individuals in the late Middle Ages who believed that their spiritual perfection had reached such a state that they were una...More info...
Since the early days of mankind there seems to have been an urge to travel. The undertaking of arduous journeys to visit a sacred, or magical place seems to be an integral part of the human psyche. The peak of English pilgrimage was durin...More info...
Contextualizes the Czech Reformation in the setting of Prague University. The Czech Reformation offered a radical solution to the spiritual and institutional crisis of the late medieval church at the end of the fourteenth century. The...More info...
An in-depth study of a medieval manuscript of songs from the Cistercian monastery in Vyí Brod. Manuscript 42 from the Cistercian monastery in Vyí Brod (Hohenfurth), Czech Republic, compiled in 1410, today represents one of the most import...More info...
(Pub. Date: 28-May-2026, Hardback, Publisher: The British Academy, ISBN-13: 9781805966517)
This volume in the Corpus series surveys the counties of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Rutland and includes the Soke of Peterborough. Drawing on an extensive catalogue of some 700 sculptural fragments, the volume presents the remarkable array of...More info...
(Pub. Date: 28-May-2026, Hardback, Publisher: The British Academy, ISBN-13: 9781805965787)
The evangelisation of the peoples of western Europe to Christianity was arguably the single most important historical development of the early Middle Ages, shaping not only the beliefs and religious practices but also the social, political, cultural...More info...
Translated from the medieval French, this book is a landmark English-language version of the work of Gilles le Bouvier. As the senior herald to King Charles VII, the monarch on the French throne as they advanced to victory in the Hundred Ye...More info...
(Pub. Date: 28-May-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781805967262)
The Paulicians were perhaps the most curious threat to imperil the Roman Empire in the east. This mission triggered the composition of an unusual collection of works, including an extended history of the Paulicians, and three sermons and florilegia...More info...
Series: Oxford Studies In The New Medieval History
(Pub. Date: 28-May-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198910152)
Constructing the Medieval Maritime State: Identity, Violence, and Connection in the Mediterranean explores how the small medieval kingdom of Denia in Spain became a powerful maritime state after the collapse of the Umayyad Caliphate. Its rul...More info...
Unleash your inner heretic with this cheeky Lenormand inspired by the scandalous doodles of mischievous monks. Based on the offbeat imagery of medieval marginalia, The Marginal Lenormand brings traditional Lenorm...More info...
(Pub. Date: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Random House USA Inc, ISBN-13: 9780593129166)
A sweeping history of humanity’s greatest natural disaster—the Black Death—that reveals the true global impact and terrible human cost of this calamity, from the renowned author of The Crusades and The Greatest Knight.In...More info...
(Pub. Date: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Publisher: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781049801933)
This book offers an English translation of the Fuero real, Alfonso Xs code of municipal law and companion piece to his great legal compilation, the Siete Partidas....More info...
Susanna Barsella, William Caferro, Germano Maifreda
Series: Toronto Italian Studies
(Pub. Date: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Publisher: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487549879)
Cultures of Exchange examines the mercantile culture of the Italian peninsula, whose wealth and geographic location made it a focal point of cultural exchange in the Mediterranean. The volume explores the integration of the peninsula into...More info...
