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Medieval Studies

Patrons, Authors and Workshops: Books and Book Production in Paris around 1400
edited by G. Croenen and P. Ainsworth
"Patrons, Authors and Workshops" invokes a cross-disciplinary approach to the study of late medieval books and book production in Paris, from the troubled years of the early fifteenth century onwards. It shows the extent to which such activity was able to flourish even against the backdrop of the endemic struggle between Burgundians and Armagnacs, or the subsequent English invasion which led to Agincourt and the regency of Bedford. Extensive ...
Paperback. Price US$101.00

Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages
edited by Manuele Gragnolati, Tristan Kay, Elena Lombardi and Francesca Southerden
This volume takes Dante's rich and multifaceted discourse of desire, from the Vita Nova to the Commedia, as a point of departure in investigating medieval concepts of desire in all their multiplicity, fragmentation and interrelation. As well as offering several original contributions on this fundamental aspect of Dante's work, it seeks to situate the Florentine more effectively within the broader spectrum of medieval culture and to establish ...
Hardback. Price US$89.50

Bagage van een Woelige Periode: De Vroege Middeleeuwen
edited by T. Dhoop, M. Lodewijckx, B. Meijns and K. Pazmany
English summary: The term "Early Middle Ages" conjures images of a dark, barbaric age, but, as this volume demonstrates, there was more to this age than just bloodshed and savagery. Artifacts recovered from archaeological excavations of Merovingian sites and presented here show examples of precious metalwork, sophisticated weapons, and beautiful ceramic and glass objects. Dutch text.

Dutch description: Bij het horen van de ...
Paperback. Price US$22.00

Emperor Sigismund and the Orthodox World
edited by Ekaterini Mitsiou, Mihailo Popovic, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller and Alexandru Simon
Sigismund of Luxembourg (1368-1437), king of Hungary, Roman German king and finally emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, is not only a prominent figure of the late Middle Ages in "Catholic" Western Europe; always closely associated with him are his contacts with the "Orthodox World" in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. These contacts did not only include his crusade against the Ottomans, which failed at Nicopolis in 1396; they continued until the end ...
Paperback. Price US$76.00

Reichsmünzwesen im späten Mittelalter, Teil 1: Das 14. Jahrhundert
by Hendrik Maekeler
English summary: Wilhelm Röpke once remarked that one could not understand the history of peoples and cultures if you give no attention to their money. Following this insight, Hendrik Mäkeler studies the history and importance of money in the German lands of the late Middle Ages, especially as it has to do with constitutional issues. These show, for example, the beginnings of the Hundred Years War and the election of King Charles ...
Hardback. Price US$94.00

Arbeit und Willensfreiheit im Mittelalter
by Verena Postel
How did people perceive work during the Middle Ages? Was is simply the just punishment for a sinful humanity, or could an individual gain salvation through hard labor? In other words: Was eternal life completely dependent on God and his mercy or could man contribute through his own actions? This study on medieval work ethics discusses these and other philosophical and theological questions by looking at selected sources from Augustine to Thomas ...
Paperback. Price US$59.00

Frankreich am Rhein - vom Mittelalter bis heute
edited by Franz J. Felten
English summary: The contributions of this volume recount the French presence on the Rhine in its entire historical depth. It addresses the time before the emergence of France and Germany when the Treaty of Verdun added the lands along the Rhine from Mainz to Speyer to the kingdom of Louis the German in 843 AD. In the west, the ancient heartland of the Karlsreich had not been forgotten, but any attempts by the West Frankish kings to occupy ...
Paperback. Price US$44.00

Lire la Bible au Moyen-Age: Essais dherméneutique médiévale
by Gilbert Dahan
Through a carefully chosen collection of documents, Gilbert Dahan examines Biblical exegesis in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Dahan studies the construction of a coherent scientific system of analysis of Biblical language, demonstrating that hermeneutic intentions are as applicable to the Middle Ages as they are to contemporary research. French text. 448p (Librairie Droz 2009)
Hardback. Price US$40.00

Mainz im Mittelalter
edited by Mechthild Dreyer and Jörg Rogge
English summary: Free city or seat of the Prince Elector, archiepiscopal and cultural metropolis - there is probably no other era in which Mainz had been so important and multifaceted as in the Middle Ages.

The ongoing conflict between worldly and ecclesiastic power led to literature and art prospering and one of the most important universities of the time was founded. This volume treats, e.g., the relationship between Jews and ...
Hardback. Price US$60.00

Recueil de décrets de trois ères méthodiquement classés, livres 8 à 20: Traduction commentée du Ruijû sandai kyaku
by Francine Hérail
Considerable quantities of decrees were issued in Japan after the implementation of the administrative and penal codes in 702. Parts of these decrees were officially compiled in 820, 869 and 907, and these three compilations were recast in the eleventh century under the title " Methodically Arranged Decrees of Three Eras ", Ruijû sandai kyaku. The texts were arranged categorically : religious worship, administration, taxation, defense, ...
Paperback. Price US$137.00