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Medieval History

The Dark Side of Childhood in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
edited by Katariina Mustakallio and Christian Laes
This volume examines conceptions, ideas and habits connected with children in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, focusing on the "dark sides of childhood" in the pre-modern world. The authors investigate the long-term attitudes of people, as well as ruptures in habits and customs. The book is divided into three parts. "Unwanted" deals with parents who were unable to bring up their baby and handed it over to other people or the cruel whims of ...
Paperback. Price GB £28.00

Das Hamburger Antiphonar ND VI 471: Ein wiederentdecktes Musikdenkmal aus dem 15. Jahrhundert aus dem Hamburger Dom. Einführung - Edition - Faksimile
by Viacheslav Kartsovnik, edited by Jürgen Neubacher
English summary: The antiphonary ND VI 471 was created in the 15th Century and encompasses two layers with a total of 19 pages. It possibly served as a template (exemplum) as used in, among other things, scriptoria. In particular, two songs of great artistic value, which are preserved only here, draw from this oldest and most complete extant music manuscript. Therefore, this antiphonary is of outstanding importance for both Hamburg's and ...
Hardback. Price GB £55.00

The Battle of Brunanburh: A Casebook
edited by Michael Livingston
This casebook fills a major gap in our cultural knowledge of the Middle Ages. It gathers together for the first time the key historical and literary primary sources for the study of the Battle of Brunanburh (AD 937), a key moment in the history of the British Isles. Produced by a team of experts, the volume offers the sources in their language of origin - Old English, Old Norse, Welsh, Irish, Latin, Anglo-Norman, Middle English, Early Modern ...
Paperback. Price GB £25.00

Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen and Rebel
by Jean Flori, translated from the French by Olive Classe
Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124-1204) still fascinates and intrigues historians today, who continue to try to penetrate the mystery surrounding her extraordinary life. Twice queen - of France as the wife of Louis VII, then of England as the wife of Henry II - and mother of three kings, she came into contact with famous churchmen such as Suger, Bernard de Clairvaux, and Thomas Becket; travelled across Europe; lived to be eighty; reigned for sixty-seven ...
Hardback. Price GB £100.00

The Medieval Park: New Perspectives
edited by Robert Liddiard
The park - a feature of the landscape we always associate with the hunting of deer - played an important role in the psyche of Britain's medieval aristocracy. This well-illustrated book offers a reappraisal of the park by a new generation of landscape researchers, who use a diversity of approaches to assess its economy, ecology and social role. They show how parks actually had many functions other than deer management and hunting; they were ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £25.00, Our Price GB £9.95

De la destruction a la restauration
by T. Deswarte
The Reconquista is a historiographical concept denoting Christian expansion, to the detriment of the Muslims, in the Iberian Peninsula. Expansion occurred through warfare and resettlement. While some historians still see the warfare conducted by Christians from the Asturias and Leon as the essence of the Reconquista, other historians have more recently argued that this war only took on such an ideological dimension in the late ninth ...
Hardback. Price GB £68.00

Witchcraft & Magic in Europe 3: Middle Ages
by Karen Jolly, Catharina Raudvere and Edward Peters
This third volume in the series addresses the complex issue of magic and witchcraft in the Middle Ages and the gradual development of a common European concept of its meaning and role within society. Jolly's essay takes a historiographical, conceptual and contextual approach to the study of magic, considering paradigm shifts and changes in practices in both common and courtly contexts. Raudvere focuses on early medieval Scandinavia and the ...
Paperback. Price GB £27.99
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £80.00, Our Price GB £19.95

Historical Narratives and Christian Identity on a European Periphery: Early History Writing in Northern, East-Central, and Eastern Europe (c. 1070-1200)
edited by I.H. Garipzanov
This volume presents the first comprehensive overview of the major early historical narratives created in Northern, East-Central, and Eastern Europe between c. 1070 and c. 1200, with each chapter providing a short introduction to the narrative in question. Most chapters are written by established experts in their fields, who have published critical editions of the discussed narratives, their English translations, or analytical works dealing with ...
Hardback. Price GB £76.50

Vehicles of Transmission, Translation, and Transformation in Medieval Textual Culture
edited by Robert Wisnovsky, Faith Wallis, Jamie Fumo, and Carlos Fraenkel
This volume contains case studies that examine how medieval cultures (western European, Arab/Islamic and Jewish) adopted ideas from the past and from each other in fields such as philosophy, literature, religion, and medicine. In this volume the McGill University Research Group on Transmission, Translation, and Transformation in Medieval Cultures and their collaborators initiate a new reflection on the dynamics involved in receiving texts and ...
Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £70.00

Violence in Medieval Europe
by Warren C. Brown
Drawing on a wide variety of primary sources, Warren Brown examines the norms governing violence within medieval societies from the sixth to the fourteenth century, over an area covering the Romance and the Germanic speaking regions of the continent as well as England. He looks at how private individuals exercised violence in defence of their rights or in vengeance for wrongs within a set of clearly understood rules, and how over the course of ...
Paperback. Price GB £22.99