History
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Before the Gregorian Reform: The Latin Church at the Turn of the First Millennium [Paperback]
John Howe (Author)
£22.99ISBN: 9781501732683
Published by : Cornell University Press
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Historians typically single out the hundred-year period from about 1050 to 1150 as the pivotal moment in the history of the Latin Church, for it was then that the Gregorian Reform movement established the ecclesiastical structure that would ensure... .... Learn More -
Carolingian Catalonia: Politics, Culture and the Creation of an Imperial Province, 778-987 [Hardback]
Cullen Chandler (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9781108474641
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
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The Avars: A Steppe Empire in Central Europe, 567-822 [Hardback]
Walter Pohl (Author)
£56.00ISBN: 9780801442100
Published by : Cornell University Press
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The Avars arrived in Europe from the Central Asian steppes in the mid-sixth century CE and dominated much of Central and Eastern Europe for almost 250 years. Fierce warriors and canny power brokers, the Avars were more influential and durable than... .... Learn More -
Italy and Early Medieval Europe: Papers for Chris Wickham [Hardback]
Ross Balzaretti (Editor); Julia Barrow (Editor); Patricia Skinner (Editor)
£85.00ISBN: 9780198777601
Published by : Oxford University Press
Series: The Past and Present Book Series
A comprehensive survey of recent work in Medieval Italian history and archaeology by an international cast of contributors, arranged within a broader context of studies on other regions and major historical transitions in Europe, c.400 to c.1400CE... .... Learn More -
Conquerors of the Roman Empire: The Franks [Hardback]
Simon MacDowall (Author)
£19.99ISBN: 9781473837423
Published by : Pen & Sword
Simon MacDowall examines how this relatively small group of Germans came to be overlords of all of the former Roman province of Gaul, giving their name to France in the process. From their earliest incursions into the Empire, down to the Battle of... .... Learn More -
The Construction of Ottonian Kingship: Narratives and Myth in Tenth-Century Germany [Hardback]
Antoni Grabowski (Author)
£84.91ISBN: 9789462987234
Published by : Amsterdam University Press
Series: Intellectual and Political History
Volume: 3
German historians long assumed that the German Kingdom was created with Henry the Fowler's coronation in 919. The reigns of both Henry the Fowler, and his son Otto the Great, were studied and researched mainly through Widukind of Corvey's chronicl... .... Learn More -
Founder, Fighter, Saxon Queen: Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians [Hardback]
Margaret C. Jones (Author)
£19.99ISBN: 9781526733962
Published by : Pen & Sword
Alfred the Great's daughter defied all expectations of a well-bred Saxon princess. The first Saxon woman ever to rule a kingdom, Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, led her army in battle against Viking invaders. She further broke with convention b... .... Learn More -
Jonas of Bobbio and the Legacy of Columbanus [Hardback]
Alexander O'Hara (Author)
£55.00ISBN: 9780190858001
Published by : Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
Jonas of Bobbio, writing in the mid seventh century, was not only a major Latin monastic author, but also an historical figure in his own right. Born in the ancient Roman town of Susa at the foothills of the Italian Alps, he became a monk of Bobbi... .... Learn More -
Religion, Politics and the Arts in Early Medieval Italy: Iconophilia [Hardback]
Francesca Dell'Acqua (Author)
£95.00ISBN: 9780415793728
Published by : Routledge
Series: Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies
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Through case studies examined in a comparative East-West approach, this book analyses how Byzantine iconoclasm (ca. 720s-843) impacted on the West and how it shaped a papal reaction in Rome. The policy on the production and veneration of sacred im... .... Learn More -
The Chronicle of Ireland [Paperback]
T. M. Charles-Edwards (Editor)
£39.95ISBN: 9781786941749
Published by : Liverpool University Press
Series: Translated Texts for Historians
Volume: 44
The Chronicle of Ireland is the principal source for the history of events not only in Ireland itself but also in what is now Scotland up to 911. It incorporated annals compiled on Iona up to c. 740 - a monastery which played a major role in the h... .... Learn More
