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This entertaining and learned volume contains book reviews, lectures, and hard to find articles from the late C. S. Lewis, whose constant aim was to show the twentieth–century reader how to read and……続きを見る

The fascinating story of the fortunes of one medieval family over the course of a century, from bestselling historians Frances and Joseph Gies. The Pastons were members of the English gentryーa tiny……続きを見る

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From acclaimed historians Frances and Joseph Gies comes the reissue of their classic book on day-to-day life in medieval cities, which was a source for George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones series. E……続きを見る

“These essays gather up Rome and hold it before us, bristling and dense and dreamlike, with every scene drenched in the sound of fountains, of leaping and falling water.” ー The New Yorker “Perhaps ……続きを見る

The Allegory of Love is a study in medieval traditionーthe rise of both the sentiment called "Courtly Love" and of the allegorical methodーfrom eleventh-century Languedoc through sixteenth-century E……続きを見る

From bestselling historians Frances and Joseph Gies, authors of the classic “Medieval Life” series, comes this compelling, lucid, and highly readable account of the family unit as it evolved through……続きを見る

A renowned scholar brings to life medieval England’s most celebrated knight, William Marshalーproviding an unprecedented and intimate view of this age and the legendary warrior class that shaped it.……続きを見る

In The Discarded Image, C.S. Lewis paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It descri……続きを見る

#1 Bestseller in the U.K. From the New York Times bestselling author and master of martial fiction comes the definitive, illustrated history of one of the greatest battles ever foughtーa riveting no……続きを見る

"No better explanation of medievalism is available to the general reader." --Booklist A revised and expanded edition of Norman Cantor's splendidly detailed and lively history of the Middle Ages, an ……続きを見る

Science in the Public Sphere presents a broad yet detailed picture of the history of science popularization from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century. Global in focus, it provides an original……続きを見る

This book is a comparative study of military practice in Sui-Tang China and the Byzantine Empire between approximately 600 and 700 CE. It covers all aspects of the military art from weapons and batt……続きを見る

Zwischen 1414 und 1418 war die Stadt Konstanz das Zentrum der europäischen Politik. Das Konstanzer Konzil sollte die Spaltung der Kirche, zumindest für den Moment, lösen – in trauriger Erinnerung ge……続きを見る

Ketzer werden gemacht. Das Hochmittelalter hat die Ketzer als ein Mittel erfunden, um Gegner zu religiösen Abweichlern zu stempeln. Sie gehen nicht nur des eigenen Heils verlustig, sondern bedrohen ……続きを見る

The formation of England occurred against the odds: an island divided into rival kingdoms, under savage assault from Viking hordes. But, after King Alfred ensured the survival of Wessex and his son ……続きを見る

China's extraordinary rise as an economic powerhouse in the past two decades poses a challenge to many long-held assumptions about the relationship between political institutions and economic develo……続きを見る

From the bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World comes this first book in an exciting new series of narrative “biographies” of Paris’s great neighborhoods, beginning with Saint-Ge……続きを見る

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In one of his sermons, the medieval preacher Bernardino of Siena listed seven ’fathers’ to whom one owed obedience: God, one’s natural father, godfather, confessor, benefactor, a government official……続きを見る

Katherine of Alexandria was a major object of devotion within medieval Europe, ranking second only to the Virgin Mary in the canon of female saints. Yet despite her undoubted importance, relatively ……続きを見る

Starting with the hypothesis that not only human intelligence but also its antithesis 'intellectual disability' are nothing more than historical contingencies, C.F. Goodey's paradigm-shifting study ……続きを見る

Accounts of Jack Cade's 1450 Rebellion-an uprising of some 30,000 middle-class citizens, protesting Henry VI's policies, and resulting in hundreds of deaths as well as the leaders' execution-form th……続きを見る

This is the first English translation of the main contemporary accounts of the Crusade and death of the German Frederick I Barbarossa (ruled 1152-90). The most important of these, the 'History of th……続きを見る

The Displacement of the Body in Ælfric's Virgin Martyr Lives addresses 10th-century Old English hagiographical translations, from Latin source material, by the abbot and grammarian Ælfric. The vit……続きを見る

La principessa francese dimenticata il cui coraggio ha creato la dinastia Tudor. La guerra l'ha fatta regina d'Inghilterra. Il suo amore per un uomo del Galles l'ha resa immortale. Meglio conosciuta……続きを見る

In 1144, the mutilated body of William of Norwich, a young apprentice leatherworker, was found abandoned outside the city's walls. The boy bore disturbing signs of torture, and a story spread that i……続きを見る