History
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Before the Military Revolution: European Warfare and the Rise of the Early Modern State 1300-1490 [Hardback]
Alexander Querengässer (Author)
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ISBN: 9781789256697
Published by : Oxbow Books
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The model of a military revolution, the idea that military developments influenced the statebuilding process in Europe, is adapted to a couple of periods in early modern Europe. This book examines European Warfare in the late Middle Ages from 1300... .... 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 -
Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe: A Ritual Interpretation [Hardback]
Nathan Ristuccia (Author)
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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 -
The Formation of Christian Europe [Hardback]
Owen M. Phelan (Author)
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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)
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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
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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 -
Being an Islander: Production and Identity at Quoygrew, Orkney, AD 900-1600 [Hardback]
James H. Barrett (Editor)
Regular Price: £56.00
Special Price: £19.95
ISBN: 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)
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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 -
Empty Bottles of Gentilism [Hardback]
Francis Oakley (Author)
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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 -
Divorce of Lothar II [Hardback]
K. Heidecker (Author)
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ISBN: 9780801439292
Published by : Cornell University Press
The Divorce of Lothar II illuminates the origin and development of Western notions of marriage and divorce and the separation of church and state in the context of a notorious royal divorce in late Carolingian Europe. In 857, Lothar II, king of Lo... .... Learn More
