History
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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
Drawing on a range of evidence related to royal authority, political events and literate culture, this study traces how kings and emperors involved themselves in the affairs of the Spanish March, and examines how actively people in Catalonia parti... .... Learn More -
Before the Gregorian Reform: The Latin Church at the Turn of the First Millennium [Paperback]
John Howe (Author)
£23.99ISBN: 9781501732683
Published by : Cornell University Press
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 -
The Avars: A Steppe Empire in Central Europe, 567-822 [Hardback]
Walter Pohl (Author)
£58.00ISBN: 9780801442100
Published by : Cornell University Press
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 -
Migration, Integration and Connectivity on the Southeastern Frontier of the Carolingian Empire [Hardback]
Danijel Dzino (Editor); Ante Milosevic (Editor); Trpimir Vedris (Editor)
£134.00ISBN: 9789004349483
Published by : Brill
Series: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450
Volume: 50
The collection Migration, Integration and Connectivity on the Southeastern Frontier of the Carolingian Empire offers insights into the Carolingian southeastern frontier-zone from historical, art-historical and archaeological perspectives. Chapters... .... Learn More -
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)
£75.00ISBN: 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 -
The Irish Scholarly Presence at St. Gall: Networks of Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages [Hardback]
Sven Meeder (Author)
£85.00ISBN: 9781350038677
Published by : Bloomsbury
Series: Studies in Early Medieval History
The Carolingian period represented a Golden Age for the abbey of St Gall, an Alpine monastery in modern-day Switzerland. Its bloom of intellectual activity resulted in an impressive number of scholarly texts being copied into often beautifully wri... .... Learn More -
Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe: A Ritual Interpretation [Hardback]
Nathan Ristuccia (Author)
£70.00ISBN: 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 schol... .... Learn More -
Heresy and Dissent in the Carolingian Empire: The Case of Gottschalk of Orbais [Hardback]
Matthew Bryan Gillis (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9780198797586
Published by : Oxford University Press
Heresy and Dissent in the Carolingian Empire recounts the history of an exceptional ninth-century religious outlaw, Gottschalk of Orbais. Frankish Christianity required obedience to ecclesiastical superiors, voluntary participation in reform, and ... .... Learn More -
Early Medieval Ireland 400-1200 [Paperback]
Daibhi O Croinin (Author)
£33.99ISBN: 9781138885431
Published by : Routledge
This impressive survey covers the early history of Ireland from the coming of Christianity to the Norman settlement. Within a broad political framework it explores the nature of Irish society, the spiritual and secular roles of the Church and the ... .... Learn More
