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 is the first biography to explore in detail the life of Dark Age historian, The Venerable Bede. Based on the most up-to-date research and historical and archaeological evidence, this book pieces together Bedes life and those of the monks and nu...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...
Relive the battle for a nation.As 8,000 Scottish soldiers, most of them spearmen, faced 18,000 English infantrymen, archers and mounted knights in June 1314 near the Bannock Burn, many would have thought that the result a foregone conclusion. But two...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...
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, the stimulus of foreign inva...Loe edasi...
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. Ólaf. It focusses on the effects of the Viking expansion and contact with other W...Loe edasi...
Originally published 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, feudalism, legal...Loe edasi...
A peoples history of Italy from the Fall of Rome to the RenassianceMike Corradis The History of Italy is a popular podcast that explains the history of Italy in an easy, readable fashion. We have taken his podcast to make it avai...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526187772)
Letter writing in the Northumbrian Kingdom offers a pioneering exploration of Northumbrias epistolary culture, demonstrating how letters functioned as a medium for intellectual exchange, political diplomacy, and religious expression....Loe edasi...
This book discusses the Lusignan kingdom of Cyprus and its interactions with Latin Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean under King Henry II (1285–1324). This book discusses the Lusignan kingdom of Cyprus and its interactions with La...Loe edasi...
Andrew D Buck, Katy Mortimer, James H. Kane, Stephen J Spencer, Edward Caddy, Peter W Edbury, Susan B. Edgington, Katrine Funding Højgaard, Katherine J Lewis, Mark McCabe...
This collection offers a holistic understanding of the impact of both crusading and settlement on the literary cultures of Latin Christendom....Loe edasi...
Stephen H Rigby, Shannon McSheffrey, Alex T Brown, David Crook, Anne Curry, Louisa Foroughi, Helen Fulton, Martin Heale, Katherine J Lewis, John Marshall...
Offers a comprehensive thematic introduction to a wide range of medieval writings about the outlaw-hero from a series of different historical perspectives....Loe edasi...
John-Paul Ghobrial, Michael A Reynolds, Christian C Sahner, Jack Tannous
Sari: Edinburgh Studies in Middle Eastern Christianity
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: 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....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...
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...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: 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...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: 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...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: 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...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: 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...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: 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....Loe edasi...
Susanna Barsella, William Caferro, Germano Maifreda
Sari: Toronto Italian Studies
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: 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...Loe edasi...
Coexistence in Medieval Christian and Muslim Societies offers the first comparative study of medieval Iberia and Anatolia and is ideal for scholars and students of medieval history, Mediterranean studies, and interfaith relations, as well a...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 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 book investigates issues of identity and narrativity in late Byzantine romances in a Mediterranean context, covering the chronological span from the capture of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204 to the sixteenth century....Loe edasi...
Dissident Women, Beguines and the Quest for Spiritual Authority focuses on the responses of a group of twenty-first century women to the lives and writings of thirteenth-century beguine mystics. It will be of particular interest to scholars of mysti...Loe edasi...
This book demonstrates how the political economy of mercantilism was not simply a Western invention by various cities and kingdoms during the Renaissance....Loe edasi...
This book argues that claims of divine revelation, resistant to any attempts to monopolize them, provided a powerful means of speaking with authority for all participants in Frankish political discourse....Loe edasi...
This book provides an accessible introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders, exploring cultural and historical contexts. Authored by an expert, it examines themes like belief systems, family dynamics, and gender roles. It covers diverse medieval tales,...Loe edasi...
This volume explores how crusading rhetoric, iconography, and historiography have been purposed by far-right, nationalist, and related groups in the recent past....Loe edasi...
The Dala Law is known through only one remaining medieval manuscript, written c.1335 1353, and shows strong influence from older Swedish provincial law. It is one of the oldest known texts revealing details of life and conditions in Dalar during th...Loe edasi...
