Medieval 71

This volume, which continues the same author's Early Byzantine Historians , is the first book to analyze the lives and works of all forty-three significant Byzantine historians from the seventh to t……続きを見る

This book explores the world of religious thinking on imprisonment, and how images of imprisonment were used in monastic thought, the cult of saints, the early inquisitions, preaching and hagiograph……続きを見る

An examination of fifteenth-century British queens through literature and history. 続きを見る

After establishing a feminist-historicist perspective on the tradition of biblical commentary, Tinkle develops in-depth case studies that situate scholars reading the bible in three distinct histori……続きを見る

Contrary to the widespread view that women exercised economic autonomy only in widowhood, Hutton argues that marital status was not the chief determinant of women's economic activities in the mid-fo……続きを見る

Little attention has been focused the representation of Muslims in medieval Germany. Proceeding from a grounded use of contemporary cultural theory and close textual analysis, this study focuses Mus……続きを見る

Based on refractions of earlier beliefs, modern angels - at once terrible and comforting, frighteningly other and reassuringly beneficent - have acquired a powerful symbolic value. This interdiscipl……続きを見る

Examining French literature from the medieval period, Findley revises our understanding of medieval literary composition as a largely masculine activity, suggesting instead that writing is seen in t……続きを見る

This book is an innovative study offering the first examination of how three fourteenth-century English queens, Margaret of France, Isabella of France, and Philippa of Hainault, exercised power and ……続きを見る

This collection addresses royal motherhood across Europe, from both the medieval and Early Modern periods, including (in)famous and not-so-famous royal mothers. The essays in this collection reveal ……続きを見る

Ever since the time of Francis of Assisi, a commitment to voluntary poverty has been a controversial aspect of religious life. This volume explores the interaction between poverty and religious devo……続きを見る

Tra la caduta dell’Impero romano d’Occidente e la scoperta dell’America intercorrono più di mille anni. In quel tempo lunghissimo le culture alimentari europee, dapprima distanti, inaugurano e svilu……続きを見る

Emerging in the medieval period, chivalry embodied ideals that elite warriors cherished and practices that formed their profession. In this major new overview, Richard Kaeuper examines how chivalry ……続きを見る

The term 'medieval martial arts' conjures images of armour-clad knights wielding sword, lance and axe. While the image is correct, at the foundation of knightly combat was a sophisticated form of cl……続きを見る

Courtly love is a medieval literary concept of love emphasizing nobility and chivalry. Stories of noble knights riding off on adventure for the love of a fair lady abound in the Middle Ages. "Love a……続きを見る

Gilles de Rais, an esteemed knight and the Marshall of France, who fought alongside Joan of Arc. Then he turned to the occult and tried to deal with the devil. Gilles isn’t remembered as a hero of F……続きを見る

You've seen the award winning television show now read the history behind Pope Alexander VI, Lucretia and Cesare Borgias. The Borgias became prominent in ecclesiastical and political affairs in the ……続きを見る

Medieval scholars and cultural historians have recently turned their attention to the question of “smells” and what olfactory sensations reveal about society in general and holiness in particular. S……続きを見る

La véritable histoire de Barbe-bleue. C'est l'oeuvre d'un grand médiéviste que fatiguent les légendes. Il met en cause les ouvrages plus ou moins romancés qui ont fait de Gilles de Rais le "grand-ch……続きを見る

Une synthèse exhaustive de trois siècles dramatiques et flamboyants. La référence indispensable. Michel Roquebert a reconstitué avec une minutie inégalée la société cathare, son histoire et celle de……続きを見る

Une biographie de référence, puisée aux sources les plus récentes de la recherche historique, au ton alerte d'une fresque, et débarrassant Louis XI de sa légende. En s'appuyant sur une documentation……続きを見る

L'histoire de la première croisade en 1095 qui jette sur les routes des milliers de pélerins jusqu'à leur arrivée à Jérusalem quatre ans plus tard. Le récit d'une entreprise stupéfiante. Déclenchée ……続きを見る

Mille ans de l'histoire de France à travers une chronologie commentée de Clovis à Louis XI. Au cours de mille ans qui séparent le règne de Clovis de celui de Louis XI, la France s'est constituée en ……続きを見る

Une période et un aspect historique mal connus : l'esclavage des Noirs en pays d'islam, qui ne prit fin qu'au XIXe siècle dans l'ignorance quasi générale. L'histoire de l'esclavage, généralement lim……続きを見る

Byzantine princess Anna Komnene is known for two things: plotting to murder her brother to usurp the throne, and writing the Alexiad, an epic history of her father Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118) tha……続きを見る

In the modern world, angels can often seem to be no more than a symbol, but in the Middle Ages men and women thought differently. Some offered prayers intended to secure the angelic assistance for t……続きを見る

This book represents the first attempt to analyze historical and cultural developments in late medieval and early modern southeastern Europe as a set of mutually intertwined regional histories, burd……続きを見る

This book challenges the notion that economic crises are modern phenomena through its exploration of the tumultuous ‘credit-crunch’ of the later Middle Ages. It illustrates clearly how influences su……続きを見る

This book presents the first full length study in English of monumental bronzes in the Middle Ages. Taking as its point of departure the common medieval reception of bronze sculpture as living or an……続きを見る

This book examines the heretofore unsuspected complexity of Lorenzo Ghiberti's sculpted representations of Old Testament narratives in his Gates of Paradise (1425–52), the second set of doors he mad……続きを見る