In the early Islamic age, the city of Balkh was one of the largest and most influential cities in the world. Situated on the northern plains of modern Afghanistan, Balkh flourished from the 7th to the 13th centuries, home to a wide variety of schola...Loe edasi...
A detailed thematic examination of the dynamics of power and governance in Lombard Italy. The Age of Liutprand provides a thematic analysis of Lombard Italy in the pivotal early part of the 8th century. It surveys the crucial role and...Loe edasi...
Coming soon! Infrastructure Sustainability and Urban Resilience in Medieval England by Roberta J. Magnusson.Coming soon! Infrastructure Sustainability and Urban Resilience in Medieval England by Roberta J. Magnusson....Loe edasi...
Sari: Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300186277)
This volume of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization covers the religious, political, economic, and geographic transformations of Jewish life through the early Middle Ages Volume 3 of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civiliza...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526199799)
A new translation of an important source for medieval monastic history that provides interesting insights the background to the Norman Conquest of England. -- ....Loe edasi...
A close analysis of forgeries and historical writings at Saint Peters, Ghent; Saint-Denis near Paris; and Christ Church, Canterbury, offering valuable access to why medieval people often rewrote their pasts....Loe edasi...
This volume consists of 15 articles published between 1991 and 2018. It falls into three sections, reflecting different areas of Liz James’s interests. This volume consists of 15 articles published between 1991 and 2018. It f...Loe edasi...
This book addresses the reception of Islamic visual culture by the northern Iberian kingdoms, by systematically comparing works of art from both sides and fleshing out their historical context....Loe edasi...
Living images have been the object of devotion as well as targets of destruction, and they have been marginalised in both culture and cultural studies for their ambivalence and transgressive nature. This volume aims to recuperate the living image, t...Loe edasi...
Analysing the thirty-four surviving manuscript copies, this book studies the way the text was transcribed, the notes that readers made in the margins, and the contexts in which it was copied. Islam and Papal Power in Late...Loe edasi...
The book will appeal to scholars and students alike interested in identity formation and expression in the Byzantine provinces, as well as those researching the social history of the poor in Byzantium, and the mechanisms of hierarchies, social margi...Loe edasi...
The Conquest of al-Andalus: A Translation of Fat al-Andalus provides the first English-language in-depth study and complete English translation of the work Fat al-Andalus (The Conquest of al-Andalus)....Loe edasi...
This book provides an in-depth study of depictions of England in the Saga of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur), examining their utility as sources for the history of Viking Age Anglo-Scandinavian cultural contact....Loe edasi...
This book provides the first comprehensive reassessment in over 30 years of the Danelaw, an area of north-eastern England, established in the late 9th century in a treaty made between King Alfred of Wessex and King Guthrum of East Anglia. It revisit...Loe edasi...
This book provides readers with the first biography in English on Leonor of England, bringing to life an understudied figure who has been overshadowed by her famed parents and brothers. Leonor, or Eleanor, was queen consort of Castile (1170-1214), t...Loe edasi...
This book provides readers with the first biography in English on Leonor of England, bringing to life an understudied figure who has been overshadowed by her famed parents and brothers. Leonor, or Eleanor, was queen consort of Castile (1170-1214), t...Loe edasi...
Continuity and Change in Medieval East Central Europe explores the crucial societal, political, and cultural dynamics that defined medieval East Central Europe during the early and high Middle Ages....Loe edasi...
This Handbook is the first to consider the interrelated subjects of gender and sexuality in the Eastern Roman empire from an interdisciplinary perspective....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 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...
The volume provides an up-to-date introduction to the historical contexts and the present relevance of the philosophy and theology, mathematical and scientific work of Nicholas of Cusa (Nicolaus Cusanus), 15th-century church lawyer, bishop, cardinal,...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...
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...
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...
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...
In the early Islamic age, the city of Balkh was one of the largest and most influential cities in the world. Situated on the northern plains of modern Afghanistan, Balkh flourished from the 7th to the 13th centuries, home to a wide variety of schola...Loe edasi...
Dark and strange and wonderful MARK HADDON, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Hilarious, moving, and delightfully weird JO HARKIN, author of The Pretender A bold, vivid and fiercely imaginative his...Loe edasi...
A detailed thematic examination of the dynamics of power and governance in Lombard Italy. The Age of Liutprand provides a thematic analysis of Lombard Italy in the pivotal early part of the 8th century. It surveys the crucial role and...Loe edasi...
For three centuries, the Vikings changed the political world of northern and western Europe. This encyclopedia explores exactly how they did it in a highly readable and informative resource volume....Loe edasi...
Coming soon! Infrastructure Sustainability and Urban Resilience in Medieval England by Roberta J. Magnusson.Coming soon! Infrastructure Sustainability and Urban Resilience in Medieval England by Roberta J. Magnusson....Loe edasi...
Sari: Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300186277)
This volume of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization covers the religious, political, economic, and geographic transformations of Jewish life through the early Middle Ages Volume 3 of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civiliza...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526199799)
A new translation of an important source for medieval monastic history that provides interesting insights the background to the Norman Conquest of England. -- ....Loe edasi...
A close analysis of forgeries and historical writings at Saint Peters, Ghent; Saint-Denis near Paris; and Christ Church, Canterbury, offering valuable access to why medieval people often rewrote their pasts....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783112253106)
Millennium transcends boundaries between epochs and regions, and between disciplines. Like the journal Millennium-Jahrbuch, the Millennium-Studien pursues an international, interdisciplinary approach that cuts across historical eras. The editorial...Loe edasi...
This volume consists of 15 articles published between 1991 and 2018. It falls into three sections, reflecting different areas of Liz James’s interests. This volume consists of 15 articles published between 1991 and 2018. It f...Loe edasi...
This book addresses the reception of Islamic visual culture by the northern Iberian kingdoms, by systematically comparing works of art from both sides and fleshing out their historical context....Loe edasi...
Living images have been the object of devotion as well as targets of destruction, and they have been marginalised in both culture and cultural studies for their ambivalence and transgressive nature. This volume aims to recuperate the living image, t...Loe edasi...
Analysing the thirty-four surviving manuscript copies, this book studies the way the text was transcribed, the notes that readers made in the margins, and the contexts in which it was copied. Islam and Papal Power in Late...Loe edasi...
The book will appeal to scholars and students alike interested in identity formation and expression in the Byzantine provinces, as well as those researching the social history of the poor in Byzantium, and the mechanisms of hierarchies, social margi...Loe edasi...
The Conquest of al-Andalus: A Translation of Fat al-Andalus provides the first English-language in-depth study and complete English translation of the work Fat al-Andalus (The Conquest of al-Andalus)....Loe edasi...
This book provides an in-depth study of depictions of England in the Saga of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur), examining their utility as sources for the history of Viking Age Anglo-Scandinavian cultural contact....Loe edasi...
This book provides the first comprehensive reassessment in over 30 years of the Danelaw, an area of north-eastern England, established in the late 9th century in a treaty made between King Alfred of Wessex and King Guthrum of East Anglia. It revisit...Loe edasi...
