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In Spenser's famous Flight, Patrick Cheney challenges the received wisdom about the shape and goal of Spenser's literary career. He contends that Spenser's idea of a literary career is not strictly ……続きを見る

Niketas Choniates was in Constantinople when it was burnt and looted by the soldiers of the Fourth Crusade and he wrote a history which has always been the mainstay for anyone wishing to learn about……続きを見る

Ce livre porte sur les armoiries de femmes des origines au XVIe siècle en France. À travers une vaste étude iconographique, nous sont révélés les sources, les usages et la fonction de l’héraldique f……続きを見る

This title was first published in 2002: Before the introduction of Greco-Arabic mathematical astronomy in the 12th century, what astronomy was there in the medieval West? While we know of developmen……続きを見る

The central argument of The Formation of the English Kingdom in the Tenth Century is that the English kingdom which existed at the time of the Norman Conquest was defined by the geographical paramet……続きを見る

C'est en replongeant dans le contexte social et géopolitique tourmenté du 15ème siècle que nous retrouvons ici l'histoire de Jeanne d'Arc, héroïne pour les uns, sorcière pour les autres. Mais qui fu……続きを見る

A History of the Muslim World to 1750 traces the development of Islamic civilization from the career of the Prophet Muhammad to the mid-eighteenth century. Encompassing a wide range of significant e……続きを見る

Die Benediktiner sind der älteste christliche Orden. Von seinen Anfängen im 6. Jahrhundert mit der alles überragenden Gründergestalt Benedikts von Nursia zeigt das Buch auf, wie sich der Orden im Mi……続きを見る

" Michel Zink, professeur au Collège de France, fait partager la sensualtié et le charme de la poésie en langue d'oc du XIIe siècle. Émouvant. " Le Monde Les troubadours sont, au XIIe siècle, les au……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Mit Feuer und Schwert: Historischer Roman" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Die Handlung des Historienepo……続きを見る

人魚、獨角獸、葛瑞芬、人馬、獨眼巨人、魔鬼......是真實存在，還是幻覺想像？ 還記得電影《魔戒》裡馱著弓箭手的大象，還有會走路的樹人嗎？或是《哈利波特》裡一連串的神奇生物：噴火龍、獨角獸、人馬、鳳凰、……続きを見る

How Thor Lost his Thunder is the first major English-language study of early medieval evidence for the Old Norse god, Thor. In this book, the most common modern representations of Thor are examined,……続きを見る

In 'Im Schmiedefeuer', dem historischen Roman von August Sperl, taucht der Leser ein in das Leben eines einfachen Schmieds im 17. Jahrhundert. Sperl beschreibt detailreich die Arbeitsweise und das L……続きを見る

The first portion of the classic volume written by Scott, Tales of a Grandfather, covering the history of Scotland up to Scott's time. 続きを見る

The workings of royal and ecclesiastical authority in Anglo-Saxon England can only be understood on the basis of direct engagement with original texts and material artefacts. This book, written by l……続きを見る

The Architecture of Medieval Churches investigates the impact of affective theology on architecture and artefacts, focusing on the Middle Ages as a period of high achievement of this synthesis. It e……続きを見る

In this major new study, Nicolas Tackett proposes that the Northern Song Dynasty (960–1127) witnessed both the maturation of an East Asian inter-state system and the emergence of a new worldview and……続きを見る

Medieval Ireland is often described as a backward-looking nation in which change only came about as a result of foreign invasions. By examining the wealth of under-explored evidence available, Downh……続きを見る

The construction of a church was undoubtedly one of the most demanding events to take place in the life of a medieval parish. It required a huge outlay of time, money and labour, and often a new org……続きを見る

Saharan trade has been much debated in modern times, but the main focus of interest remains the medieval and early modern periods, for which more abundant written sources survive. The pre-Islamic or……続きを見る

This fascinating volume examines the enduring influence of courtly tradition and courtly love, particularly in contemporary popular culture. The ten chapters explore topics including the impact of t……続きを見る

This book challenges a common historical narrative, which portrays medieval Jews as moneylenders who filled an essential economic role in Europe. Where Volume I traced the development of the narrati……続きを見る

This book analyzes how acts of feeling at a discursive, somatic, and rhetorical level were theorized and practiced in multiple medieval and early-modern sources (literary, medical, theological, and ……続きを見る

The Life of Anskar, written by his companion and successor Bishop Rimbert, which we have here translated, contains nearly all that is known of his life and work. A brief summary of what is told us b……続きを見る

This book offers a new appraisal of the ancestry and career of Godfrey of Bouillon (c.1060-1100), a leading participant in the First Crusade (1096-99), and the first ruler of Latin Jerusalem (1099-1……続きを見る

This concise and unique volume explores the vital relationship between testimony, memory, and the community in medieval society. Joel T. Rosenthal assembles various categories of testimonies to illu……続きを見る

Das Buch erzählt unter Nutzung historischer Fakten die reale Geschichte des letzten Königs der Obotriten, Niklot, welcher vor 870 Jahren endgültig vor die Entscheidung gestellt wurde, sein Land den ……続きを見る

This volume represents a departure from the prevailing emphasis on religion and war in the medieval and early modern periods. Instead, the book explores the relationship between religion and peace i……続きを見る

This collection examines gender and Otherness as tools to understand medieval and early modern art as products of their social environments. The essays, uniting up-and-coming and established scholar……続きを見る

Byzantine Ecocriticism: Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance applies literary ecocriticism to the imaginative fiction of the Greek world from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. Th……続きを見る