This study of Constantinoples monasteries within their urban framework during the last decades of Byzantium (13941453) explores the activity of monks, nuns, and affiliated laypeople such as patrons just before the citys Ottoman conquest and transfo...Loe edasi...
This volume celebrates the work and impact of Professor Helen Nicholson by bringing together 22 essays by colleagues, former students and friends which focus on her major research interests: the Military Orders, women in the Middle Ages, and the his...Loe edasi...
Exploring the reception and representation of Viking culture in audiovisual media, particularly in cinema and television, this book provides a comprehensive chronological exploration of films and television programmes produced from the early twentie...Loe edasi...
The chapters in this volume highlight the complexity and diversity of approaches to how ancient and medieval cultures understood martial masculinity and the significance warfare had on masculine values during the premodern era....Loe edasi...
This book features a collection of essays which focus on the Hospitallers relations with others through military, social, and political channels within the broader Euro-Mediterranean region....Loe edasi...
Global Trade in the Premodern World offers an authoritative and expansive history of exchange and interaction across Eurasia from the prehistoric origins of trade to the integration of large parts of this world-system by the fifteenth century CE....Loe edasi...
This book explores the origins of complex political organisation in Inner Asia which enabled mighty empires, proto-state entities and confederacies such as the Cimmerians, Scythians and the Xiongnu Huns to emerge and dominate large swathes of the Eu...Loe edasi...
Using a topical approach and presenting the English translation and the Latin text of excerpts from The Chronicles of Saint Benedict of Cassino, this volume examines how the Cassinese historians narrated that tragic period and at the same time menti...Loe edasi...
The Book of Raymond of Aguilers is one of a handful of eyewitness accounts of the First Crusade. This new translation is the first to be based on the critical edition of the Latin text produced by John France and is intended primarily for the benefi...Loe edasi...
This volume examines a number of economic problems that highlight the limits of the current interpretative models, such as the existence of markets or the relation between trade and gift-giving, largely on the basis of the archaeological evidence fr...Loe edasi...
This is the first volume of essays explicitly to reassess the significance of the region, as well as the role of the archaeological evidence in studying ethnicity in the Middle Ages....Loe edasi...
Irish Kingship in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries examines the power of medieval Irish kings but treats power as a complex concept worthy of study in its own right. It starts from the premise that historians of medieval Ireland have interpreted p...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1938, the author traces the rise of the great European Universities from the Cathedral Schools of the tenth and eleventh centuries and their gradual development into republics of learning with power to treat on terms of equal...Loe edasi...
This book, originally published in 1980, examines the history of the papacy in the century between the end of the Great Schism and the start of the Reformation, and considers how, and at what price, the popes were able to re-establish their power af...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1986, this volume illuminates the predominant theatrical styles of a particular period in dramatic history. It does this by reconstructing as far as conjecture permits the manner in which five major plays of the late Middle...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1972, Medieval Song assembles the whole tradition of early European poetry, from the writings of the late Roman Empire to the time of the Hundred Years War. It covers a vast range of languages and cultures, beginning with the...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1930, this book outlines the system of local government at work in the reign of Edward I. The Hundreds were the districts of England into which every county was subdivided. The Hundred Rolls were a complete statement as to th...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1958 and as a third edition in 1971, this comprehensive account of political thought in the Middle Ages presents medieval thinking against the historical background which animated it....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1973, this book examines the urban community of Southampton through its early and formative years. Southampton is one of the most interesting and important medieval towns, because of its position as a gateway between England...Loe edasi...
The author of this book, originally published in 1926, was a strong advocate for the use of original source documents in the study of history. He compiled this volume with the aim of giving easy access to important documents of political history for...Loe edasi...
Originally published in English in 1985, this book concentrates on the people of the Middle Ages and how they saw the world they lived in. This book discusses the most important concepts of medieval culture space and time, law, the attitude towards...Loe edasi...
From the evidence of Chinese documents, East African excavations and the researches of scholars and historians, the author of this book, originally published in English in 1972, gives a fascinating account of Chinas early relations with Africa....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1978, this global comparative survey investigates the political, social and economic features of feudalism. While Europe remains its point of departures, it considers many other societies and their history, such as China and...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...
Originally published in English in 1964, this book threw new light on the positive value and significance of the Middle Ages. It discusses Constantine and the triumph of Christianity; the clash between the German tribes and Roman civilization; the f...Loe edasi...
This volume focuses on the major issues and debates in the study of Jews and Judaism in late antiquity (3rd to 7th c. C.E.), providing cutting-edge surveys of the state of scholarship, main topics and research questions, methodological approaches, a...Loe edasi...
This volume explores the relationship of mendicant men and women to cities and their inhabitants in the Mediterranean world, c.1200 to 1500....Loe edasi...
Records of the household and wardrobe are important sources for understanding English royal medieval government. This book outlines their functions, organisation and development, along with the activities and accounts of the various officials and de...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...
