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Charisma and Religious Authority: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Preaching, 1200-1500
edited by Katherin L. Jansen and Miri Rubin
This volume of essays concentrates on the effects of preaching in late-medieval and early-modern Europe, particularly through the concept of charisma, a term introduced into the discussion of religion and politics by Max Weber. Used by Weber, the term indicates the power of a person to move others to action, to animate and mobilize them. The late-medieval and early-modern periods witnessed the emergence of preachers who became powerful public ...
Hardback. Price GB £51.00

The Tribunal of Zaragoza and Crypto-Judaism 1484-1515
edited by Anna Ysabel D'Abrera
Since the opening of the Inquisition's archives in Spain in the nineteenth century, historians and anthropologists alike have seized upon the institution and its remarkable archival legacy, and have scrutinized it from a multitude of political, socio-economic, and cultural angles. Perhaps one of the most contentious hypotheses to have recently emerged from the field has been Benzion Netanyahu's proposal that the inquisitors fabricated charges of ...
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Virgins and Scholars: A Fifteenth-Century Compilation of the Lives of John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Jerome, and Katherine of Alexandria
by Claire M. Waters
This collection of prose vitae of four virgins and scholars - Saints John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Jerome, and Katherine of Alexandria - was almost certainly copied, and the texts very likely composed, at Syon Abbey or Sheen Charterhouse in the mid-fifteenth century. The lives cover a wide range of hagiographic modes, from hagiographic romance to affective, devotional appreciation to doctrinal treatise in narrative form. From the life of ...
Hardback. Price GB £77.00

The Classics in the Medieval and Renaissance Classroom: The Role of Ancient Texts in the Arts Curriculum as Revealed by Surviving Manuscripts and Early Printed Books
edited by Juanita Feros Ruys, John O. Ward, and Melanie Heyworth
Medievalists and Renaissance specialists contribute to this compelling volume examining how and why the classics of Greek and Latin culture were taught in various Western European curricula (including in England, Scotland, France, Germany, and Italy) from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries. By analyzing some of the commentaries, glosses, and paraphrases of these classics that were deployed in medieval and Renaissance classrooms, and by offering ...
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Sociability and its Discontents: Civil Society, Social Capital, and their Alternatives in Late-Medieval and Early-Modern Europe
edited by N. Eckstein and N. Terpstra
This volume advances our knowledge of continuing trends over the longue durée of European history. It also exposes many differences separating contemporaries from their medieval and early-modern ancestors. In putting the concept of social capital to the test, the authors also expose the strengths, weaknesses, and limits of the 'Putnam thesis'. The essays address fourteenth-century English fears of old-age neglect; childhood, ...
Hardback. Price GB £55.00

Peche et pisciculture dans les eaux princières en Franche-Comté aux XIV et XV siècles
by Pierre Gresser
English info text: As freshwater fish were highly prized, rivers and lakes formed a significant part of the domain of the Counts of Burgundy in the late Middle Ages. To exploit this particular part of his estates in Franche-Comté, Duke-Count Eudes IV (1330-1349) created a new office, the gruerie, responsible for the administration and management of national waters and forests. This study is the second volume in a set of three dedicated ...
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Villes de Flandre et d'Italie (XIIIe-XVIe siècles): Les enseignements d'une comparaison
edited by E. Lecuppre-Desjardin and E. Crouzet-Pavan
English info text: This book is a study of basic themes such as demographic history, religion, official documents, folk memory and the concept of space to investigate the special features that fashioned the urban identities at each end of what was to be known as the Blue Banana of Europe. Seen against a background of trade relations and economic development, the profiles of the communities studied here become clearer and allow a more tangible ...
Paperback. Price GB £57.00

Entre la ville, la noblesse et l'Etat: Philippe de Cleves (1456-1528), homme politique et bibliophile
edited by J. Haemers, H. Wijsman, and C. Van Hoorebeeck
Philip of Cleves (1456-1528) was a remarkable man in more than one way. Philip was the son of Adolphe, seignior of Cleves and Ravenstein, and of Beatrice of Portugal and, like many aristocrats at the end of the Middle Ages, he enjoyed a luxurious lifestyle. The various contributions to this book provide an answer to the key question about Philip's political leanings during this troubled period: what priority did he place on his relations with the ...
Paperback. Price GB £53.00

Buyers and Sellers: Retail circuits and practices in medieval and early modern Europe
edited by B. Blondé, P. Stabel, I. Van Damme, and E. Welch
Consumption is now a critical issue in late medieval and early modern historical and cultural studies. While we know increasingly about regulatory systems, we know much less about the daily practice of buying and selling. This book brings together contributions from urban historians, social historians and art historians to explore the issues of exchange, shopping behavior, social interactions, gender and physical space. Contributions deal with ...
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Urban public debts, urban government and the market for annuities in Western Europe (14th-
by M. Boone, K. Davids, P. Janssens
The essays in this volume offer a state-of-the-art analysis of a heretofore somewhat neglected part of financial history: the way in which urban governments in Western Europe during the late Middle Ages and early Modern Times handled the public debts their cities were confronted with. The technical aspects of the sale of annuities (renten, rentes) may have already been abundantly studied, but the links with social and political history still ...
Paperback. Price GB £48.00