(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...
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...
(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 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...
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...
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...
(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...
(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...
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...
(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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Calendar, Kirjastus: Flame Tree Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781806941414)
This beautiful Bodleian Libraries mini calendar features 12 incredible illustrations of animals and birds, real or legendary, which were used to draw out moral and religious lessons from the accompanying stories. Printed on FSC-certified paper, with...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 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...
