Author: de Baroncelli, Joanna Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In "My Days with Charlemagne" Denis, his vassal, tells of his adoption by the great 8th century King Charles and later emperor, at a time when a new education system was being set up in Francia. King ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This authoritative survey of Britain in the later Middle Ages comprises 28 chapters written by leading figures in the field.Covers social, economic, political, religious, and cultural history in Engla...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Drawing on 28 original essays, A Companion to the Early Middle Ages takes an inclusive approach to the history of Britain and Ireland from c.500 to c.1100 to overcome artificial distinctions of modern...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Drawing on the expertise of 26 distinguished scholars, this important volume covers the major issues in the study of medieval Europe, highlighting the significant impact the time period had on cultura...
Author: Murray, Stephen Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this groundbreaking work, Stephen Murray seizes a rare opportunity to explore the relationship between verbal and visual culture by presenting a sermon that may have been preached during the second...
Author: James, David Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The Akhb?r majm?'a, or 'Collected Accounts', deal with the Muslim conquest of the Iberian peninsula in 711 and subsequent events in al-Andalus, down to and including the reign of 'Abd al-Rahm?n III (9...
Author: James, David Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Akhb?r majm?'a, or 'Collected Accounts', deal with the Muslim conquest of the Iberian peninsula in 711 and subsequent events in al-Andalus, down to and including the reign of 'Abd al-Rahm?n III (9...
Author: McGerr, Rosemarie Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This seminal study addresses one of the most beautifully decorated 15th-century copies of the New Statutes of England, uncovering how the manuscript's unique interweaving of legal, religious, and lite...
Author: Jordan, William Chester Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Tale of Two Monasteries takes an unprecedented look at one of the great rivalries of the Middle Ages and offers it as a revealing lens through which to view the intertwined histories of medieval Eng...
Author: Pfeiffer, Madame Ida Publisher: Waking Lion Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Informative 1852 travelogue by an adventurous and interesting woman. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.
Author: McNamer, Sarah Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book offers a new history of a major medieval genre, affective meditations on the Passion. It argues that women were instrumental in the creation of this genre, and it illuminates how these scrip...
Author: Di Cosmo, Nicola Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Relations between Inner Asian nomads and Chinese are a continuous theme throughout Chinese history. By investigating the formation of nomadic cultures, by analyzing the evolution of patterns of intera...
Author: Johns, Jeremy Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the late eleventh century, Sicily - originally part of the Islamic world - was captured by Norman, French and Italian adventurers, led by Roger de Hauteville. For the next 150 years, Roger and his ...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "This elegantly written volume turns upside down prejudices and idées reçues concerning society, family, and women in the Middle Ages."—The Medieval Review
Author: Kreutz, Barbara Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Kreutz writes the first modern study in English of the land, political structures, and cultures of southern Italy in the two centuries before the Norman conquest.
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: There is a growing interest in the history of relations between the English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish as the United Kingdom and Ireland begin to construct new political arrangements and to become mor...
Author: Holo, Joshua Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Using primary sources, Joshua Holo uncovers the day-to-day workings of the Byzantine-Jewish economy in the middle Byzantine period. Built on a web of exchange systems both exclusive to the Jewish comm...
Author: Collins, Roger Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Roger Collins, a leading historian, investigates a time in Spanish history known for its multi-religious society - when Christians, Jews and Muslims lived in apparent harmony - revealing a fuller, mor...
Author: N/A Publisher: Hakluyt Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Follows on from Second Series 33, 37, 38, being part of the revised edition of First Series 36 (1866) and 37 (1866).This volume covers Ibn Battuta's travels in Bengal and China, c. 1347, and the journ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Hakluyt Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Volume I followed (Second Series 38). A revised edition of First Series 36 (1866) and 37 (1866) above, whose title page was followed. The appendix contains a Latin and an Italian text of Friar Odoric'...
Author: Thijssen, Thijssen Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The book documents thirty cases in which university-trained scholars were condemned for disseminating allegedly erroneous opinions in their teaching or writing.
Author: N/A Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: During the thirteenth century, the widespread conviction that the Christian lands in Syria and Palestine were of utmost importance to Christendom, and that their loss was a sure sign of God's displeas...
Author: Zabinski, Grzegorz Publisher: Paladin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Codex Wallerstein is one of the best known of the late medieval fencing treatises still in existence. Though perhaps not as widely known as Talhoffer 1467 or Flos Duellatorum, it is just as impor...
Author: Maier, Christoph T. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book presents an edition of seventeen ad status model sermons for the preaching of the crusades from the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. The majority of these texts have never been pri...
Author: Ellenblum,Ronnie Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: For the last 150 years the historiography of the Crusades has been dominated by nationalist and colonialist discourses in Europe and the Levant. These modern histories have interpreted the Crusades in...
Author: Coon, Lynda Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Dark Age Bodies reconstructs the gender ideology of monastic masculinity through an investigation of early medieval readings of the body and its parts. It brings together scholarship in architectural ...
Author: Kaye, Joel Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book provides new perspectives on the ways in which scholastic natural philosophy anticipated and contributed to the emergence of scientific thought. Historians of medieval science have hesitated...
Author: Liang, Yuen-Gen Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book explores how the Fernández de Córdoba family established networks of kin and clients that horizontally connected disparate imperial territories, binding together religious comm...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Theodore Evergates has assembled, translated, and annotated some two hundred documents from the country of Champagne into a sourcebook that focuses on the political, economic, and legal workings of a ...
Author: Evans, G.R. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Focusing on individuals whose ideas shaped intellectual life between 400 and 1500, "Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers" is an accessible introduction to those religious, philosophical and political concepts ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In 300 C.E. the Roman Empire stretched from Britain to Mesopotamia, from the North Sea to the Sahara Desert. A mere three hundred years later the Roman imperial structure was gone, replaced by a serie...
Author: Geary, Patrick J. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: To obtain sacred relics, medieval monks plundered tombs, avaricious merchants raided churches, and relic-mongers scoured the Roman catacombs. In a revised edition of Furta Sacra, Patrick Geary conside...
Author: McSheffrey, Shannon Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Shannon McSheffrey studies the communities of the late medieval English heretics, the Lollards, and presents unexpected conclusions about the precise ways in which gender shaped participation and inte...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Throughout the Middle Ages and early modern Europe theological uniformity was synonymous with social cohesion in societies that regarded themselves as bound together at their most fundamental levels b...
Author: Merrills, A. H. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The period from the fifth century to the eighth century witnessed massive political, social and religious change in Europe. Geographical and historical thought, long rooted to Roman ideologies, had to...
Author: Southern, R. W. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book makes a selection of writings by the great medieval historian, Sir Richard Southern, available to the wider audience they deserve.A collection of writings by the great medieval historian, Si...
Author: Bremen, Adam of Publisher: Columbia University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Adam of Bremen's history of the see of Hamburg and of Christian missions in northern Europe from the late eighth to the late eleventh century is the primary source of our knowledge of the history, geo...
Author: Deacon, Paul Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "The History of the Lombards constitutes one of the most important literary sources for the early history of Europe, and the vision and energy of its author make it . . . the most complex of the histo...
Author: Musto, Ronald G. Publisher: Italica Press, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Originally published in Renaissance Society and Culture: Essays in Honor of Eugene F. Rice, Jr., edited by John Monfasani and Ronald G. Musto (New York: Italica Press, 1991).
Author: Castleden, Rodney Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: King Arthur: The Truth Behind the Legend offers a more complete picture of Arthur's Britain and his place in it than ever before. Its bold approach and compelling arguments will be welcomed by all rea...
Author: Castleden, Rodney Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In his quest for the real King Arthur, Rodney Castleden uses up-to-date archaeological and documentary evidence to recreate the history and society of Dark Age Britain. He offers a more complete pictu...
Author: MacLean, Simon Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the first major study in any language of the collapse of the pan-European Carolingian empire and the reign of its last ruler, Charles III 'the Fat' (876-888). The later decades of the empire a...
Author: Elukin, Jonathan Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book challenges the standard conception of the Middle Ages as a time of persecution for Jews. Jonathan Elukin traces the experience of Jews in Europe from late antiquity through the Renaissance a...
Author: Elukin, Jonathan Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This book challenges the standard conception of the Middle Ages as a time of persecution for Jews. Jonathan Elukin traces the experience of Jews in Europe from late antiquity through the Renaissance a...