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The debate over clerical celibacy and marriage had its origins in the early Christian centuries, and is still very much alive in the modern church. The content and form of controversy have remained ……続きを見る

The Normans have long been recognised as one of the most dynamic forces within medieval western Europe. With a reputation for aggression and conquest, they rapidly expanded their powerbase from Norm……続きを見る

Late medieval and early modern cities are often depicted as cradles of artistic creativity and hotbeds of new material culture. Cities in renaissance Italy and in seventeenth and eighteenth-century ……続きを見る

As Europe began to grow rich during the Middle Ages, its wealth materialized in the well-made clothes, linens, and wares of ordinary households. Such items were indicators of one’s station in life i……続きを見る

Frederick Barbarossa, born of two of Germany’s most powerful families, swept to the imperial throne in a coup d’état in 1152. A leading monarch of the Middle Ages, he legalized the dualism between t……続きを見る

The life and work of Jerome of Prague have been overlooked outside Czech historiography, but represent an important chapter in the understanding of late medieval European history. Thomas A. Fudge ma……続きを見る

The Summa Contra Gentiles, one of Aquinas's best known works after the Summa Theologiae, is a philosophical and theological synthesis that examines what can be known of God both by reason and by div……続きを見る

A timely and vivid look at Scotland’s long and difficult road to nationhood, re-exploring some cherished myths and unearthing a wealth of fascinating new detail. This edition contains a limited numb……続きを見る

What have a deaf nun, the mother of the first baby born to Europeans in North America, and a condemned heretic to do with one another? They are among the virtuous virgins, marvelous maidens, and fie……続きを見る

A millennium ago, Baghdad was the capital of one of history’s greatest civilizations. A new Islamic era was under way. Yet despite the profound cultural achievements, many Muslims felt their society……続きを見る

The Moors in Spain by the British orientalist and archaeologist, Stanley Lane-Poole.This book is about history in Spain,at Moors. 続きを見る

The Emperor John II Komnenos (1118–1143) has been overshadowed by both his father Alexios I and his son Manuel I. Written sources have not left us much evidence regarding his reign, although authors……続きを見る

Joseph Bédier [1864-1938] n'était pas de la génération de Brunetière [1849-1938], dont il fut l'admirateur dévoué. Mais, dès ses premiers trav……続きを見る

The Hundred Years’ War between England and France is a story of an epic conflict between two nations whose destinies became inextricably entwined throughout the later Middle Ages. During that time t……続きを見る

In January of 1208, a papal legate was murdered on the banks of the Rhone in southern France. A furious Pope Innocent III accused heretics of the crime and called upon all Christians to exterminate ……続きを見る

The pontificate of Innocent II (1130-1143) has long been recognized as a watershed in the history of the papacy, marking the transition from the age of reform to the so-called papal monarchy, when a……続きを見る

Saracens and Franks in 12th - 15th Century European and Near Eastern Literature examines the tension between two competing discourses in the medieval Muslim Mediterranean and medieval Christian Euro……続きを見る

Medical texts written in English during the late Middle Ages have in recent years attracted increasing attention among scholars. From approximately 1375 onwards, the use of English began to gain a f……続きを見る

Über Hexen und Hexenverfolgung wurde schon viel geschrieben. Selten jedoch war ein Autor so nah dran an der Realität wie Hansjörg Rabanser, kaum einer hat so detailreich erforscht, wie es wirklich w……続きを見る

The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical ……続きを見る

Increasingly, historians acknowledge the significance of crusading activity in the fifteenth century, and they have started to explore the different ways in which it shaped contemporary European soc……続きを見る

History of the Wars, Books III and IV by the prominent late antique scholar from Palaestina Prima, Procopius.Accompanying the Roman general Belisarius in the wars of the Emperor Justinian, he became……続きを見る

8 de enero de 1642, hora 14:12: a las afueras de Florencia, en la Villa Il Gioiello, el científico pisano Galileo Galilei le relata a sus hijos los extraños y dolorosos hechos que lo llevaran a ser ……続きを見る

Twenty-three contributions by leading archaeologists from across Europe explore the varied forms, functions and significances of fortified settlements in the 8th to 10th centuries AD. These could be……続きを見る

Über viele Jahrhunderte hinweg war das Osmanische Reich die stärkste Macht im östlichen Mittelmeerraum. Nach der erfolgreichen ersten Schlacht unter der Führung Osmans I. gegen das Byzantinische Rei……続きを見る

In questo numero: Guerre e Soldati della Dinastia Han(parte I), La Battaglia di San Romano nelle cronache coeve e nei dipinti di Paolo Uccello, L’Esercito e la Marina di Venezia nella guerra de……続きを見る

Distinguished scholar James D. Tracy shows how the Ottoman advance across Europe stalled in the western Balkans, where three great powers confronted one another in three adjoining provinces: Habsbur……続きを見る

This book offers an introduction to the thought of Robert Holcot, a great and influential but often underappreciated medieval thinker. Holcot was a Dominican friar who flourished in the 1330's and p……続きを見る

The thirteenth-century Jewish mystical classic Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Splendor), commonly known as the Zohar, took shape against a backdrop of rising anti-Judaism in Spain. Mystical Resistance ……続きを見る

India: The Ancient Past provides a clear and systematic introduction to the cultural, political, economic, social and geographical history of ancient India from the time of the pre-Harappan culture ……続きを見る