History
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A History of Muslim Sicily [Paperback]
Leonard Chiarelli (Author)
£31.00ISBN: 9789993276456
Published by : Midsea Books
The book, now in it’s second revised edition, covers the period of Muslim Arab rule on the island from A.D. 827 to the Norman conquest in A.D. 1070. It is the first detailed study in English covering the various aspects of this 243-year period. It... .... Learn More -
Late Antique Calendrical Thought and Its Reception in the Early Middle Ages: Proceedings from the Third International Conference on the Science of Computus in Ireland and Europe, Galway, 16-18 July, 2010 [Paperback]
Daibhi O Croinin (Editor)
Regular Price: £75.00
Special Price: £55.00
ISBN: 9782503577098
Published by : Brepols
Series: Studia Traditionis Theologiae
Volume: 26
Late antique and early medieval science is commonly defined by the quadrivium, the four subjects of the seven liberal arts relating to natural science: astronomy, geometry, arithmetic, and music. The seven-fold division of learning was designed in... .... Learn More -
Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe: A Ritual Interpretation [Hardback]
Nathan Ristuccia (Author)
Regular Price: £70.00
Special Price: £50.00
ISBN: 9780198810209
Published by : Oxford University Press
Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe re-examines the alterations in Western European life that followed widespread conversion to Christianity-the phenomena traditionally termed "Christianization". It refocuses scholarly parad... .... Learn More -
In Search of the First Venetians [Hardback]
Luigi Andrea Berto (Author)
Regular Price: £93.50
Special Price: £30.00
ISBN: 9782503541013
Published by : Brepols
This prosopographical study provides information about each Venetian living in the early Middle Ages, from the invasion of the Lombards in 569 - an action that forced part of northeast Italy’s population to seek refuge on the islands of the Veneti... .... Learn More -
The Formation of Christian Europe [Hardback]
Owen M. Phelan (Author)
Regular Price: £83.00
Special Price: £30.00
ISBN: 9780198718031
Published by : Oxford University Press
The Formation of Christian Europe analyses the Carolingians' efforts to form a Christian Empire with the organizing principle of the sacrament of baptism. Owen M. Phelan argues that baptism provided the foundation for this society, and offered a m... .... Learn More -
Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia: A Study of Manuscript Transmission and Monastic Culture [Hardback]
Felice Lifshitz (Author)
Regular Price: £45.00
Special Price: £14.95
ISBN: 9780823256877
Published by : Fordham University Press
In 1993, the doyenne of women's history, Gerda Lerner, described the creation of feminist consciousness in Europe as beginning at least as early as the seventh century. She insisted that "women's resistance to patriarchal ideas" and "feminist oppo... .... Learn More -
The Making and Unmaking of a Saint [Hardback]
Mathew Kuefler (Author)
Regular Price: £66.00
Special Price: £14.95
ISBN: 9780812245523
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
A crusader, a hermit, a bishop, a plague victim, and even a repentant murderer by turns: the stories attached to Saint Gerald of Aurillac offer a strange and fragmented legacy. His two earliest biographies, written in the early tenth and early ele... .... Learn More -
Venice: A New History [Hardback]
Thomas F. Madden (Author)
Regular Price: £25.00
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9780670025428
Published by : Viking
An accessible, yet authoritative look at the whole sweep of Venetian history, from its early medieval origins to the present day. It is the city's medieval heyday which occupies the centre of Maddern's work, as he focuses on the construction of th... .... Learn More -
Being an Islander: Production and Identity at Quoygrew, Orkney, AD 900-1600 [Hardback]
James H. Barrett (Editor)
£56.00ISBN: 9781902937618
Published by : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Series: McDonald Institute Monographs
Quoygrew - a settlement of farmers and fishers on the island of Westray in Orkney - was continuously occupied from the tenth century until 1937. Focusing on the archaeology of its first 700 years, this volume explores how 'small worlds' both refle... .... Learn More -
The Eucharist in Pre-Norman Ireland [Paperback]
Neil Xavier O'Donoghue (Author)
Regular Price: £47.50
Special Price: £14.95
ISBN: 9780268037321
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press
In addition to reassessing the available texts for the liturgy of the Eucharist in the pre-Norman Irish church this study considers the social dimension of the Eucharist, its treatment in art and architecture, and its treatment as reflected by ... .... Learn More
