Archaeology

ISBN: 9782503532394
Published by : Brepols
Kingships, aristocrats, peasants, and the Church are among the many shared features of most early medieval European societies. However, these also varied dramatically in time and space. Can petty regional kings, for instance, be compared to tho... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415606028
Published by : Routledge Ltd
This volume considers the relationship between myth and materiality in Scandinavia from the beginning of the post-Roman era and the European Migrations up until the coming of Christianity. It pursues an interdisciplinary interpretation of text... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415606042
Published by : Routledge Ltd
This volume considers the relationship between myth and materiality in Scandinavia from the beginning of the post-Roman era and the European Migrations up until the coming of Christianity. It pursues an interdisciplinary interpretation of text... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781849085038
Published by : Osprey
This book explains the varied developments in early medieval European battle tactics, which were far from being the undisciplined chaos of popular imagination. It traces the decline of cavalry as a battle winning weapon in the 'barbarian' king... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521763653
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This book explores the relationship between the city of Rome and the Aurelian Wall during the six centuries following its construction in the 270s AD, a period when the city changed and contracted almost beyond recognition, as it evolved from i... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780674053045
Published by : Harvard University Press
A new Latin-English edition of the Rule of Saint Benedict, which governed the lives of monks in monasteries across the medieval world. The rule, originally composed by Benedict of Nursia in the 6th century covers all aspects of organisation, w... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780884023630
Published by : Harvard University Press
In Charlemagnes Survey of the Holy Land, Michael McCormick rehabilitates and reinterprets one of the most neglected and extraordinary sources from Charlemagnes revival of the Roman empire: the report of a fact-finding mission to the Christian ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781409420415
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Centered in the Carolingian age, these papers explore how the seventh-century Visio Baronti was read in the ninth century and how social and cultural imperatives transformed the life of scholarship, schools and learning in Carolingian Europe. S... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781843836612
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
These essays explore aspects of early medieval Wales, Ireland and Scotland. The first half of the book focuses on historical, archaeological and epigraphic matters, with topics including political and ecclesiastical organisation, Viking age scu... .... Learn More