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...
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...
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...
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: 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...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...
Excavations at the Austin Friary, Hull, Yorkshire, 1994 and 1999, Part 2, details the excavations of the Austin Friary in Hull, a house founded in 1316/17 and surrendered to the Crown in 1539. Excavations at the Austin Fri...Loe edasi...
Excavations at the Austin Friary, Hull, Yorkshire, 1994 and 1999, Part 2, details the excavations of the Austin Friary in Hull, a house founded in 1316/17 and surrendered to the Crown in 1539. Excavations at the Austin Fri...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 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...
World history continues to evolve as one of the most popular and widely discussed approaches to the study of history. The second edition of World History: The Basics offers an updated introduction of this fast-growing field, addressing key...Loe edasi...
World history continues to evolve as one of the most popular and widely discussed approaches to the study of history. The second edition of World History: The Basics offers an updated introduction of this fast-growing field, addressing ke...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 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...
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...
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...
Hartmann Schedels Weltchronik was a groundbreaking illustrated encyclopedia and the most lavishly illustrated book ever printed in Europe. Featuring over 1,800 woodcuts, this complete facsimile faithfully reproduces a rare hand-colored copy, offerin...Loe edasi...
A Waterstones Best History Book 2025BBC History Magazine‘Learned, entertaining and highly approachable’ BOB MORTIMER‘A treat’ ALICE LOXTON‘Five stars from me…’ AL MURRAYAn unmissable collaboration between two comedy legends – an irresistible, family-...Loe edasi...
A stunning hardcover boxed set celebrating J.R.R. Tolkiens work inspired by the myths and legends of Europe, featuring double-sided dustjackets. This unique set contains Finn and Hengest, The Story of Kullervo, The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun and The B...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...
A History of Medieval Astrology analyses the contributions of the Kraków Astronomy and Astrology School, part of the University of Kraków one of the fastest growing universities in fifteenth-century Europe....Loe edasi...
Italian merchants played a pivotal role in the international trade of England and the Low Countries during the late Middle Ages. While the field is well established, the examination of a vast array of Italian business sources kept in private and p...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...
A critical examination of the life and legacy of Charles IV. Charles IV, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor, has been called “one of the most learned and diplomatically skillful sovereigns” of the fourteenth century. Having moved t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501787096)
The triumph of Christianity (100-450 CE) must be disaggregated into three distinct phenomena: the rise to political hegemony of Christianitys religious experts; the acknowledgment of its ontological reality among the set of available religious co...Loe edasi...
Archaeologists and textile experts share insights into the history of recording textile tools, how to identify less well known tools and textile production equipment in archaeological contexts and suggests new methodologies for integrating these find...Loe edasi...
