Medieval Europe (c. 1000 – 1500)
All aspects of the Middle Ages throughout Europe from AD 1000 to 1500: history and archaeology, society and economy, language and literature, art and architecture, religion and philosophy.
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Knights: Chivalry and Violence [Paperback]
John Sadler and Rosie Serdiville
£7.99ISBN: 9781612005171
Published by : Casemate UK
Series: Casemate Short History
Originally warriors mounted on horseback, knights became associated with the concept of chivalry as it was popularised in medieval European literature. Knights were expected to fight bravely and honourably and be loyal to their lord until death if... .... Learn More -
Episcopal Acts and Cognate Documents Relating to Welsh Dioceses 1066-1272: Volume III: The Acts of the Dioceses of St Asaph and Bangor, and Indexes [Hardback]
James Conway Davies (Author); Professor G. Rex Smith (Editor)
£95.00ISBN: 9781409451792
Published by : Routledge
In 1946 and 1948, James Conway Davies published volumes one and two of his Episcopal Acts and Cognate Documents Relating to Welsh Dioceses 1066-1272. These volumes included over 400 pages of introduction (on such topics as sources, the Norman conq... .... Learn More -
Pope Gregory IX (1227-41) [Hardback]
Christoph Egger (Editor); Dr. Damian J. Smith (Editor)
£95.00ISBN: 9781409441847
Published by : Routledge
Series: Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West
As Cardinal Hugolino and as pope, Gregory was one of the dominant figures in the history of the papacy of the High Middle Ages. His pontificate was a key stage in the development of papal relations with many of the realms of Christendom, as well a... .... Learn More -
Animals and Archaeology in Northern Medieval Russia: Zooarchaeological Studies in Novgorod and its Region [Hardback]
Mark Maltby (Editor)
Regular Price: £65.00
Special Price: £45.00
ISBN: 9781842172773
Published by : Oxbow Books
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This is the third book on material studies in this series on medieval Novgorod and its territory, and deals with a substantial body of animal bones that has been recovered over the last decade. The zooarchaeological evidence is discussed by the... .... Learn More -
Pier Candido Decembrio: Lives of the Milanese Tyrants [Hardback]
Gary Ianziti (Editor); Massimo Zaggia (Editor)
£19.95ISBN: 9780674987524
Published by : Harvard University Press
Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library
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Lives of the Milanese Tyrants brings together two biographies by the most important Milanese humanist of the early fifteenth century. Pier Candido Decembrio (1399-1477) served as secretary and envoy to the bizarre and powerful Filippo Maria Viscon... .... Learn More -
Giovanni Gioviano Pontano: The Virtues and Vices of Speech [Hardback]
G. W. Pigman III (Editor)
£19.95ISBN: 9780674987500
Published by : Harvard University Press
Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library
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Giovanni Pontano, who adopted the academic sobriquet "Gioviano," was prime minister to several kings of Naples and the most important Neapolitan humanist of the quattrocento. Best known today as a Latin poet, he also composed dialogues depicting t... .... Learn More -
Tria sunt: An Art of Poetry and Prose [Hardback]
Martin Camargo (Editor)
£19.95ISBN: 9780674987531
Published by : Harvard University Press
Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
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The Tria sunt, named for its opening words, was a widely used and highly ambitious book composed in England in the late fourteenth century during a revival of interest in the art of poetry and prose. The backbone of this comprehensive guide to wr... .... Learn More -
The Anglo-Latin Gesta Romanorum [Hardback]
Philippa Bright (Editor)
£95.00ISBN: 9780198205562
Published by : Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Medieval Texts
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This volume presents, for the first time, an edition and facing English translation of all of the stories that belong to the Anglo-Latin corpus of the immensely popular and influential collection of moralized stories from the Middle Ages, known as... .... Learn More -
The City Lament: Jerusalem across the Medieval Mediterranean [Hardback]
Tamar M. Boyadjian (Author)
£41.95ISBN: 9781501730535
Published by : Cornell University Press
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Poetic elegies for lost or fallen cities are seemingly as old as cities themselves. In the Judeo-Christian tradition, this genre finds its purest expression in the Book of Lamentations, which mourns the destruction of Jerusalem; in Arabic, this ge... .... Learn More -
Burning Bodies: Communities, Eschatology, and the Punishment of Heresy in the Middle Ages [Hardback]
Michael D. Barbezat (Author)
£43.95ISBN: 9781501716805
Published by : Cornell University Press
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Burning Bodies interrogates the ideas that the authors of historical and theological texts in the medieval West associated with the burning alive of Christian heretics. Michael Barbezat traces these instances from the eleventh century until the ad... .... Learn More
