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An Introduction to the Crusades [Hardback]
S. J. Allen (Author)
£37.99ISBN: 9781442600249
Published by : University of Toronto Press
Not yet published - available for pre-order
An Introduction to the Crusades is the perfect guide to a very complex historical period. It begins with a brief overview of the Crusades before immersing the reader in the logistics of crusading and the day-to-day life of a crusader, explaining a... .... Learn More -
Medieval Liege at the Crossroads of Europe: Monastic Society and Culture, 1000-1300 [Hardback]
Jay Diehl (Editor); Tjamke Snijders (Editor); Steven Vanderputten (Editor)
£85.00ISBN: 9782503545400
Published by : Brepols
Series: Medieval Church Studies
Volume: 37
Not yet published - available for pre-order
During the high Middle Ages, the bishopric of Liège found itself at a cultural crossroads between the German Empire and the French lordships. The Liègeois themselves summed up the situation when they declared that: ‘Gaul considers us its most dist... .... Learn More -
The Capetian Century, 1214 to 1314 [Hardback]
William Chester Jordan (Editor); Jenna Rebecca Phillips (Editor)
£85.00ISBN: 9782503567181
Published by : Brepols
Series: Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Volume: 22
This volume provides a fresh look at the Capetian century (1214-1314), a period that changed the cultural and political fabric and laid the foundation for the modernisation of the medieval West.
The period from the birth of Loui... .... Learn More -
The Teutonic Knights in the Holy Land, 1190-1291 [Paperback]
Nicholas Morton (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9781783271818
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
The Teutonic Order was founded in 1190 to provide medical care for crusaders in the
kingdom of Jerusalem. In time, it assumed a military role and played an important part in the defence of the Christian territories in the Eastern Mediterranea... .... Learn More -
The Ideal Ruler in Medieval Bohemia [Hardback]
Robert Antonin (Author)
£144.00ISBN: 9789004279285
Published by : Brill
Series: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450
Volume: 44
The Ideal Ruler in Medieval Bohemia discusses the development of medieval concepts and ideas about just and unjust rulership in medieval Bohemia. This theme is examined in the context of the European political thinking between 6th and 14th centuri... .... Learn More -
Mulieres Suadentes - Persuasive Women: Female Royal Saints in Medieval East Central and Eastern Europe [Hardback]
Martin Homza (Author)
£111.00ISBN: 9789004314665
Published by : Brill
Series: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450
Volume: 42
In Mulieres suadentes - Persuasive Women, Martin Homza scrutinises the genesis of ruler ideology among the most prominent East Central and Eastern European dynasties from the early and later Middle Ages. At the center of attention are the Premysl... .... Learn More -
Magnanimous Dukes and Rising States: The Unification of the Burgundian Netherlands, 1380-1480 [Hardback]
Robert Stein (Author)
£85.00ISBN: 9780198757108
Published by : Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Studies in Medieval European History
In the late fourteenth and the fifteenth centuries, the Dukes of Valois-Burgundy created a composite monarchy in the Netherlands, an area that had been dominated for centuries by several regional dynasties. In this way they laid the foundation for... .... Learn More -
The Knight, the Cross, and the Song: Crusade Propaganda and Chivalric Literature, 1100-1400 [Hardback]
Stefan Vander Elst (Author)
£47.00ISBN: 9780812248968
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
Series: The Middle Ages Series
The Knight, the Cross, and the Song offers a new perspective on the driving forces of crusading in the period 1100-1400. Although religious devotion has long been identified as the primary motivation of those who took the cross, Stefan Vander Elst... .... Learn More -
God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of All Crusaders: Reynald de Chatillon [Paperback]
Jeffrey Lee (Author)
£9.99ISBN: 9781782399285
Published by : Atlantic Books
In 2010, a parcel bomb was sent from Yemen by an al-Qaeda operative with the intention of blowing up a plane over America. The device was intercepted before the plan could be put into action, but what puzzled investigators was the name of the pers... .... Learn More -
The “Chivalric Biography” of Boucicaut (Jean II le Meingre) [Hardback]
Craig Taylor (Translator); Jane H. M. Taylor (Translator)
£60.00ISBN: 9781783271665
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
Jean le Maingre, Maréchal Boucicaut (1364-1421), was the very flower of chivalry. From his earliest years at the royal court in Paris, he distinguished himself in knightly pursuits - sorties against seditious French nobles, ceremonial jousts again... .... Learn More
