This is a collection of the most important charter materials from medieval Sardinia. Translated into English for the first time, they open up an important, but little-known, history of an island at the very centre of the medieval Mediterranean....Loe edasi...
Nicholas of Cusa (Nicolaus Cusanus), the 15th-century church lawyer, bishop, and cardinal, fascinates up to this day as an independent mind. His original scholarly work emerges from a critical distance to the scholastic universities of his age. At t...Loe edasi...
Anselm of Canterburys monastic world was woven from scriptural material, yet the Bibles selective presence (and absence) in his writings remains a puzzle. In Anselms program of faith seeking understanding, where does scripture stand? This...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9789463721363)
This book explains how the late medieval Cistercian order and its communities in Central Europe engaged with, adopted and supported a broad range of saints’ cults as an element of their relationship with the outside world, within their network and...Loe edasi...
This is first full account of the most portrayed figural subject in Anglo-Saxon sculpture: the Crucifixion. It brings together in a single volume a record of every known stone depiction related to the Crucifixion from the pre-Conquest kingdoms, from...Loe edasi...
Churchmen in the Middle Ages were, in theory, men of peace; in reality, the Church became inextricably enmeshed in the violence of the age, not infrequently functioning as a major contributing factor. This collection of essays explores th...Loe edasi...
From the late eleventh to the early fourteenth century, western Europeans established the crusader states of the Levant and had unprecedented commercial, cultural, and military exchanges with the Middle East. Through a focused analysis of fifty ob...Loe edasi...
From the late eleventh to the early fourteenth century, western Europeans established the crusader states of the Levant and had unprecedented commercial, cultural, and military exchanges with the Middle East. From the late eleventh...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9789463720731)
This book tells the story of the ‘Charity’ of Montpellier, a city-wide distribution of alms held once a year from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century. It addresses graduates, postgraduates and scholars interested in medieval history, charity,...Loe edasi...
This book highlights significant social and political developments in the late antique Mediterranean world. It will appeal to scholars and readers interested in the military, political, and social history of Late Antiquity, as well as those working...Loe edasi...
This book presents a comprehensive overview of womens activities in various spheres of life in medieval Poland and its neighbouring countries, seeking to move beyond the commonly accepted perspective of queens and higher nobility from the social...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198794721)
This book explores Paris-educated intellectuals in the thirteenth century. It outlines their attempts to combine promotion of social and moral reforms with recruiting for crusade campaigns, and assesses their impact on contemporary secular and eccle...Loe edasi...
Published to coincide with the 700-year anniversary of her death, Busse-Wilsons study caused a storm of controversy. Translated for the first time into English, this book reintroduces to a contemporary audience this long-forgotten but still provocat...Loe edasi...
This book examines the wide and important geographical tradition that arose from the description of the world in the Imago mundi a medieval encyclopedic bestseller, almost unrivalled in popularity from its composition in the 1110s well into the a...Loe edasi...
The volume deals with Jerusalem as an idea and traces it not only in time but in various forms of art as well – such as architecture, book and wall-painting, and different literary genres – with the aim of covering the whole spectrum of Jerusalem ima...Loe edasi...
A major new history of the Crusades that illuminates the strength and sophistication of the Western and Muslim armies During the Crusades, the Western and Muslim armies developed various highly sophisticated strategies of both att...Loe edasi...
This book analyses the interconnection of space and experience in Roman Antiquity, Byzantium, and the Middle Ages, ca. 100 BCE – 1500 CE....Loe edasi...
This book examines the history of goblins from the Middle Ages to the present. It shows that goblins—whether interpreted as creatures, objects, ideas, or people—were historically contingent and grounded in an often-hazy interplay...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
This book gathers vital contributions examining rhetoric in the Middle Byzantine Period, focusing on the ‘corpus Hermogenianum.’ This much-read compendium of treatises and exercises was first consolidated in the fifth and sixth centuries CE, then...Loe edasi...
This textbook explores vital networks and relationships among geographies and cultures that shaped medieval societies. Designed for students new to the subject, this second edition has been fully updated to include expanded coverage of Africa, the...Loe edasi...
This textbook explores vital networks and relationships among geographies and cultures that shaped medieval societies. Designed for students new to the subject, this second edition has been fully updated to include expanded coverage of Africa, the...Loe edasi...
A tour of Tudor England through the coroners reports of ordinary peoples various grizzly fatal accidents. A Horrible History for adults by leading Oxford historians....Loe edasi...
The Crusader Storm traces the rise and fall of the Crusader States from the First Crusade to Saladins conquest of Jerusalem, exploring how diverse cultures collided, coexisted, and reshaped the medieval Middle East. Through the eyes of rulers, rebe...Loe edasi...
The story of the Norse Earls of Orkney, whose lands once covered much of Scotland, and whose reach extended as far as Scandinavia, continental Europe and even the Mediterranean.Lords of the Salt Road reveals the dramatic hist...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1949, and as a third revised edition in 1966, this is a fascinating, lucid and comprehensive survey of the complicated succession of colonial empires in east and west....Loe edasi...
This is a collection of the most important charter materials from medieval Sardinia. Translated into English for the first time, they open up an important, but little-known, history of an island at the very centre of the medieval Mediterranean....Loe edasi...
Nicholas of Cusa (Nicolaus Cusanus), the 15th-century church lawyer, bishop, and cardinal, fascinates up to this day as an independent mind. His original scholarly work emerges from a critical distance to the scholastic universities of his age. At t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: John Donald, ISBN-13: 9780859767484)
Winner of the Frank Watson Book Prize for the best book published on Scottish History. The legendary Scottish king Máel Coluim III, also known as Malcolm Canmore, is often held to epitomise Scotlands ancient Gaelic k...Loe edasi...
Anselm of Canterburys monastic world was woven from scriptural material, yet the Bibles selective presence (and absence) in his writings remains a puzzle. In Anselms program of faith seeking understanding, where does scripture stand? This...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9789463721363)
This book explains how the late medieval Cistercian order and its communities in Central Europe engaged with, adopted and supported a broad range of saints’ cults as an element of their relationship with the outside world, within their network and...Loe edasi...
This is first full account of the most portrayed figural subject in Anglo-Saxon sculpture: the Crucifixion. It brings together in a single volume a record of every known stone depiction related to the Crucifixion from the pre-Conquest kingdoms, from...Loe edasi...
Churchmen in the Middle Ages were, in theory, men of peace; in reality, the Church became inextricably enmeshed in the violence of the age, not infrequently functioning as a major contributing factor. This collection of essays explores th...Loe edasi...
From the late eleventh to the early fourteenth century, western Europeans established the crusader states of the Levant and had unprecedented commercial, cultural, and military exchanges with the Middle East. Through a focused analysis of fifty ob...Loe edasi...
From the late eleventh to the early fourteenth century, western Europeans established the crusader states of the Levant and had unprecedented commercial, cultural, and military exchanges with the Middle East. From the late eleventh...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9789463720731)
This book tells the story of the ‘Charity’ of Montpellier, a city-wide distribution of alms held once a year from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century. It addresses graduates, postgraduates and scholars interested in medieval history, charity,...Loe edasi...
This book highlights significant social and political developments in the late antique Mediterranean world. It will appeal to scholars and readers interested in the military, political, and social history of Late Antiquity, as well as those working...Loe edasi...
A ground-breaking examination of the Sword in the Stone tale, connecting it to cultures as distant as the Caribbean and Japan, and breaking down its astronomical origins....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501787294)
Trees abound in Shakespeares plays, and in Tree-Becoming Shannon Kelley explores how he uses his characters identification with cypress, balsam, bay-laurel, myrrh, and pine trees as metaphors to express emotional distress...Loe edasi...
Trees abound in Shakespeares plays, and in Tree-Becoming Shannon Kelley explores how he uses his characters identification with cypress, balsam, bay laurel, myrrh, and pine trees as metaphors to express emotional distress. Opening new avenues for...Loe edasi...
This book presents a comprehensive overview of womens activities in various spheres of life in medieval Poland and its neighbouring countries, seeking to move beyond the commonly accepted perspective of queens and higher nobility from the social...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198794721)
This book explores Paris-educated intellectuals in the thirteenth century. It outlines their attempts to combine promotion of social and moral reforms with recruiting for crusade campaigns, and assesses their impact on contemporary secular and eccle...Loe edasi...
Published to coincide with the 700-year anniversary of her death, Busse-Wilsons study caused a storm of controversy. Translated for the first time into English, this book reintroduces to a contemporary audience this long-forgotten but still provocat...Loe edasi...
This book examines the wide and important geographical tradition that arose from the description of the world in the Imago mundi a medieval encyclopedic bestseller, almost unrivalled in popularity from its composition in the 1110s well into the a...Loe edasi...
