Society & Culture

ISBN: 9780691117195
Published by : Princeton University Press
Seven hundred years ago, executioners led a Welsh rebel named William Cragh to a wintry hill to be hanged. They placed a noose around his neck, dropped him from the gallows, and later pronounced him dead. But was he dead? While no less than nin... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780563487937
Published by : BBC Publications
Terry Jones, actor, director, author and Python, approaches this most `misrepresented and misunderstood' period in history through its principal characters. Accompanying a TV series, the book addresses and redresses many of the stereotypical image... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780563522751
Published by : BBC Publications
Terry Jones, actor, director, author and Python, approaches this most `misrepresented and misunderstood' period in history through its principal characters. Accompanying a TV series, the book addresses and redresses many of the stereotypical image... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781403963437
Published by : Palgrave
The depiction, representation and peception of gender and sexuality in medieval literature and culture in general was deeply affected by vision of readers and writers. This collection of twelve essays, taken from a conference organised by the Gend... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781584653912
Published by : University Press of New England
During the Talmudic period the lives of Jewish women were restricted and controlled although there was a discernible improvement in their status during the period AD 100-1300. It is this improvement that forms the focus of this study which is an a... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781584653929
Published by : University Press of New England
During the Talmudic period the lives of Jewish women were restricted and controlled although there was a discernible improvement in their status during the period AD 100-1300. It is this improvement that forms the focus of this study which is an a... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780268030698
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press
The idea of `home' means much more than a pile of bricks and mortar but the archaeological evidence of physical structures provides valuable information about how people in the past have used the space in their houses. Similarly documentary eviden... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780268030704
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press
The idea of `home' means much more than a pile of bricks and mortar but the archaeological evidence of physical structures provides valuable information about how people in the past have used the space in their houses. Similarly documentary eviden... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503517377
Published by : Brepols
Eigteen essays taken from an international colloquium held at the University of Poitiers in 2003 discuss the sources, methods and problems of writing family history in the medieval period. The contributions, which are primarily in French, cover a ... .... Learn More