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Her Father's Daughter: Gender, Power, and Religion in the Early Spanish Kingdoms [Hardback]
Lucy K. Pick (Author)
£51.95ISBN: 9781501714320
Published by : Cornell University Press
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In Her Father's Daughter, Lucy K. Pick considers a group of royal women in the early medieval kingdoms of the Asturias and of León-Castilla; their lives say a great deal about structures of power and the roles of gender and religion within the ear... .... Learn More -
At the End of Great Moravia: Skeletons from the Second Church Cemetery at Pohansko-Břeclav (9th–10th Century A.D.) [Paperback]
Vladimir Sladek (Author); Jiri Machacek (Author)
£46.00ISBN: 9781407315768
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR S
Volume: 2836
This monograph summarizes the first anthropological survey of human skeletons excavated at the 2nd church cemetery in Pohansko-Břeclav (Czech Republic). The cemetery was discovered in 2006 in a north-eastern suburb of Pohansko and represents one o... .... Learn More -
Be a Perfect Man: Christian Masculinity and the Carolingian Aristocracy [Hardback]
Andrew J. Romig (Author)
£56.00ISBN: 9780812249248
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
Series: The Middle Ages Series
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The life of an aristocratic Carolingian man involved an array of behaviors and duties associated with his gender and rank: an education in arms and letters; training in horsemanship, soldiery, and hunting; betrothal, marriage, and the virile ... .... Learn More
Amalasuintha: The Transformation of Queenship in the Post-Roman World [Hardback]
Massimiliano Vitiello (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9780812249477
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
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In this book, Massimiliano Vitiello situates the life and career of the Ostrogothic queen Amalasuintha (c. 494/5-535), daughter of Theoderic the Great, in the context of the transitional time, after the fall of Rome, during which new dynastic regi... .... Learn More
Aristocrats and Statehood in Western Iberia, 300-600 C.E. [Hardback]
Damian Fernandez (Author)
£56.00ISBN: 9780812249460
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
Series: Empire and After
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In a distant corner of the late antique world, along the Atlantic river valleys of western Iberia, local elite populations lived through the ebb and flow of empire and kingdoms as historical agents with their own social strategies. Contrary to ear... .... Learn More
St Samson of Dol and the Earliest History of Brittany, Cornwall and Wales [Hardback]
Lynette Olson (Editor)
£60.00ISBN: 9781783272181
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The First Life of St Samson of Dol (Vita Prima Samsonis) is a key text for the study of early Welsh, Cornish, Breton and indeed west Frankish history. In the twentieth century it was the subject of unresolved scholarly controversy that tended to l... .... Learn More
Where Three Worlds Met: Sicily in the Early Medieval Mediterranean [Hardback]
Sarah Davis-Secord (Author)
£53.50ISBN: 9781501704642
Published by : Cornell University Press
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Sicily is a lush and culturally rich island at the center of the Mediterranean Sea. Throughout its history, the island has been conquered and colonized by successive waves of peoples from across the Mediterranean region. In the early and central M... .... Learn More
Vanantius Fortunatus: Poems [Hardback]
Michael Roberts (Editor)
£19.95ISBN: 9780674974920
Published by : Harvard University Press
Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
The eleven books of poetry by Venantius Fortunatus include well-loved hymns, figure poems, epigrams on miracles, and elegies in the voices of abandoned or exiled women. The sixth-century poet began his career in northern Italy before moving to Gau... .... Learn More
Language of Power: Feasting and Gift-Giving in Medieval Iceland and its Sagas [Hardback]
Vidar Palsson (Author)
£51.95ISBN: 9780935995213
Published by : Cornell University Press
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In Language of Power, Viðar Pálsson addresses pre-modern European power relationships that provide the context for narratives of feasts and exchanges of gifts so conspicuous in the Icelandic sagas. Viðar's point of departure considers "compar... .... Learn More
Noble Society: Five Lives from Twelfth-Century Germany [Hardback]
Jonathan R. Lyon (Editor)
£70.00ISBN: 9780719091025
Published by : Manchester University Press
Series: Manchester Medieval Sources
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This book provides scholars and students alike with a set of texts that can deepen their understanding of the culture and society of the twelfth-century German kingdom. The sources translated here bring to life the activities of five noblemen and ... .... Learn More
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