著者:Roger K Turvey
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2014年06月06日
The Welsh princes were one of the most important ruling elites in medieval western Europe. This volume examines their behaviour, influence and power in a period when the Welsh were struggling to mai……続きを見る
著者:Charles R. King
出版社: Three Kings Publishers
発売日: 2015年01月23日
Legacy of Strife: Warfare and Conflict from Classical to Modern Times, examines eleven battles, wars, or revolutionary transformations that were pivotal to western history. From the Peloponnesian Wa……続きを見る
著者:Charles R. King
出版社: Three Kings Publishers
発売日: 2015年01月23日
Birthright of War: Civilization's Struggles from Ancient to Modern Times, is a collection of over thirty short essays on battles, wars, or revolutionary transformations that were pivotal to western ……続きを見る
著者:Daisy Delogu
出版社: University of Toronto Press
発売日: 2015年01月23日
Allegorical Bodies begins with the paradoxical observation that at the same time as the royal administrators of late fourteenth and early fifteenth-century France excluded women from the royal succe……続きを見る
In justice to the author of “Queen Móo’s Talisman”, it may be recorded that at the time of its writing, there was no intention of allowing the verses to go into print; they were penned only for the ……続きを見る
出版社: University of Minnesota Press
発売日: 2013年02月15日
What is sex exactly? Does everyone agree on a definition? And does that definition hold when considering literary production in other times and places? Sex before Sex makes clear that we cannot simp……続きを見る
著者:Jim Bradbury
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2004年08月02日
This comprehensive volume provides easily-accessible factual material on all major areas of warfare in the medieval west. The whole geographical area of medieval Europe, including eastern Europe, is……続きを見る
The conversion to Christianity was a key cultural process that saw the transformation of Europe from classical to medieval world. The growth of the Church has been closely linked with the developmen……続きを見る
Immortalised by the chronicler Froissart as the most beautiful woman in England and the most loved, Joan was the wife of the Black Prince and the mother of Richard II, the first Princess of Wales an……続きを見る
著者:Kristie Dean
出版社: Amberley Publishing
発売日: 2015年02月15日
Richard III remains one of the most controversial rulers in history. Whether he was guilty of murdering his nephews or not is a mystery that perhaps will never be solved. Even the location of the ba……続きを見る
Like his crusading father before him, Simon de Montfort’s combination of charisma, determination and fearlessness, reinforced by a wife with similar qualities, made him one of the greatest men of hi……続きを見る
著者:Steven Justice
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2015年01月30日
Adam Usk, a Welsh lawyer in England and Rome during the first years of the fifteenth century, lived a peculiar life. He was, by turns, a professor, a royal advisor, a traitor, a schismatic, and a sp……続きを見る
著者:Jason Glenn
出版社: University of Toronto Press
発売日: 2015年05月22日
The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture is an introduction to medieval Europe unlike any other. These 26 essays, written by accomplished scholars all trained at the University of California, Berkeley, ……続きを見る
This fascinating account is the principal source for a number of momentous political developments leading up to the millennium. These include struggles among the Carolingians, the rise of the Saxon ……続きを見る
著者:Shaun Tougher
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2009年06月02日
The existence of eunuchs was one of the defining features of the Byzantine Empire. Covering the whole span of the history of the empire, from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries AD, Shaun Tougher ……続きを見る
The Second Crusade (1145-1149) was an extraordinarily bold attempt to overcome unbelievers on no less than three fronts. Crusader armies set out to defeat Muslims in the Holy Land and in Iberia as w……続きを見る
著者:Stephen Murray
出版社: University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2015年03月06日
A historian of medieval art and architecture with a rich appreciation of literary studies, Stephen Murray brings all those fields to bear on a new approach to understanding the great Gothic churches……続きを見る
After his marriage King Henry V went on a Royal Progress with his Queen Katherine. It is recorded that he visited 'his delightful (dilectum) Castle of Kenilworth and his Manor of Plesantmaris ……続きを見る
This volume in the landmark Oxford History of the Laws of England series, spans three centuries that encompassed the tumultuous years of the Norman conquest, and during which the common law as we kn……続きを見る
This was originally published in three volumes, but is now comprised in one volume. There is a linked table of contents for each volume as well as a detailed table of contents at the beginning of ea……続きを見る
This book presents twenty chapters by experts in their fields, providing a thorough and interdisciplinary overview of the theory and practice of magic in the West. Its chronological scope extends fr……続きを見る
Cross the threshold into the world of the High Middle Ages and explore the illuminating wisdom, beauty and art of the Gothic cathedrals, stunning wonders of the medieval era for all to see today. Fr……続きを見る
Profound and intriguing, Grettir's Saga is the last of the great Icelandic sagas. It tells of the life and death of Grettir, a great rebel, individualist, and romantic hero viewed unromantically. Gr……続きを見る
著者:John Elliott Jr.
出版社: University of Toronto Press
発売日: 2015年02月06日
Religious drama was one of the most vital art forms of the medieval era. In medieval mystery plays, God appeared as one of the characters, along with angels, saints, the devil, and others. Until ver……続きを見る
著者:John Hill
出版社: University of Toronto Press
発売日: 2015年02月06日
Beowulf is one of the most important poems in Old English and the first major poem in European vernacular language. It dramatizes behavior in a complex social worldーa martial, aristocratic world th……続きを見る
The rich medieval French tradition of vernacular devotional songs has not received much scrutiny. With 'Prions en chantant', Marcia Epstein aims to remedy that situation by offering an edition of la……続きを見る
The date of Beowulf, debated for almost a century, is a small question with large consequences. Does the poem provide us with an accurate if idealized view of early Germanic culture? Or is it rather……続きを見る
The cartulary of 1211 is the oldest surviving register produced by the chancery of the counts of Champagne. This first edition of the cartulary contains 121 letters received from the barons and prel……続きを見る
Guta Lag, the law of the independent island of Gotland, is one of the earliest laws of Scandinavia. The historical appendix to the law, Guta Saga, was written in the thirteenth or fourteenth century……続きを見る
著者:Paolo Squatriti
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
This innovative environmental history of the long-lived European chestnut tree and its woods offers valuable perspectives on the human transition from the Roman to the medieval world in Italy. Integ……続きを見る