History

ISBN: 9780801477881
Published by : Cornell Univ Press
Valerie L. Garver offers a fresh appraisal of the cultural and social history of eighth- and ninth-century women. Examining changes in women's lives and in the ways others perceived women during the early Middle Ages, she shows that lay and rel... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004179769
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
Between the reigns of Clovis and Charlemagne (AD 511-768) at least eighty councils assembled, often on royal command, to discuss issues of concern to the episcopal and clerical attendees. Their published canons were intended to communicate ecc... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004179998
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
Seven of Guy Halsall's most important essays on the social interpretation of Merovingian cemetery archaeology are collected in this volume. The opening chapter discusses the relationships between documentary history and archaeology while the su... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780754668985
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
These collected papers explore the religion of secular rulers, the religion (or relative lack of it) of bishops and churches, the religion of custodians at shrines or of recluses or artists, as well as religious phenomena such as angelic appari... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780300155389
Published by : Yale University Press
This, the first of a trilogy which will examine the part played by the Middle Ages in the development of modern political thought, examines the Classical inheritance and early medieval theories of kingship and regal sacrality. Oakley argues tha... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780300154443
Published by : Yale University Press
With superb production values matching its importance, this excellent volume provides the first full synthetic study of the pre-Romanesque churches of Ireland. It is their architectural simplicity which has led to this neglect, but O Carragain ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503533162
Published by : Brepols
This book explores the morphology of early medieval Irish religious settlement. It suggests that the enclosure and zoning of religious space was primarily inspired by depictions of the Jerusalem Temple through the medium of a universally receiv... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781841588858
Published by : Birlinn Ltd
Into the already murky waters of Dark Age Scotland, Alistair Moffat aims to delve still deeper, for this book focuses not on the success stories of the first Millennium AD, but on those kingdoms and polities which failed, conquered and absorbed... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781841589589
Published by : Birlinn Ltd
Into the already murky waters of Dark Age Scotland, Alistair Moffat aims to delve still deeper, for this book focuses not on the success stories of the first Millennium AD, but on those kingdoms and polities which failed, conquered and absorbed... .... Learn More