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The Laws of the Salian Franks

• Paperback | Engels | Middle Ages
• Following the collapse of the western Roman Empire, the Franks established in northern Gaul one of the most enduring of the Germanic barbarian kingdom... Lees meer

Poetics of the Incarnation

Cristina Maria Cervone

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle Ages
• The Gospel of John describes the Incarnation of Christ as "the Word made flesh"--an intriguing phrase that uses the logic of metaphor but is not tradi... Lees meer

Voice of My Beloved

E Ann Matter

• Paperback | Engels | Middle Ages
• The Song of Songs, eight chapters of love lyrics found in the collection of wisdom literature attributed to Solomon, is the most enigmatic book of the... Lees meer

Gilding the Market

Susan Mosher Stuard

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle Ages
• In the fourteenth century, garish ornaments, bright colors, gilt, and military effects helped usher in the age of fashion in Italy. Over a short span ... Lees meer

Las Siete Partidas, Volume 1

• Paperback | Engels | Middle Ages
• Las Siete Partidas , or Seven Divisions, is the major law code of thirteenth-century Spain, compiled by Alfonso X the Learned of Castile. Seven centur... Lees meer

Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia

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• Hardcover | Engels | Middle Ages
• The enslaved population of medieval Iberia composed only a small percentage of the general populace at any given point, and slave labor was not essent... Lees meer

Lives of the Anchoresses

Anneke B Mulder-Bakker

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle Ages
• In cities and towns across northern Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a new type of religious woman took up authoritative positions in s... Lees meer

Medieval Woman's Song

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle Ages
• The number of surviving medieval secular poems attributed to named female authors is small, some of the best known being those of the trobairitz the f... Lees meer

Dino Compagni's Chronicle of Florence

• Paperback | Engels | Middle Ages
• Dino Campagni's classic chronicle gives a detailed account of a crucial period in the history of Florence, beginning about 1280 and ending in the firs... Lees meer

The Permeable Self

Barbara Newman

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle Ages
• How, Barbara Newman asks, did the myth of the separable heart take such a firm hold in the Middle Ages, from lovers exchanging hearts with one another... Lees meer

Maurice's Strategikon

• Paperback | Engels | Middle Ages
• ""The most important Byzantine military text. . . . The standard translation.""--Walter Kaegi, University of Chicago As a veteran campaigner, the Byza... Lees meer

The Middle English Bible

Henry Ansgar Kelly

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle Ages
• In the last quarter of the fourteenth century, the complete Old and New Testaments were translated from Latin into English, first very literally, and ... Lees meer

The Hundred Years War, Volume 3

Jonathan Sumption

• Paperback | Engels | Middle Ages
• Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title The Hundred Years War was a vicious, costly, and, most dramatically, drawn out struggle t... Lees meer

The Barons' Crusade

Michael Lower

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle Ages
• In December 1235, Pope Gregory IX altered the mission of a crusade he had begun to preach the year before. Instead of calling for Christian magnates t... Lees meer

Before Orientalism

Kim M Phillips

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle Ages
• A distinct European perspective on Asia emerged in the late Middle Ages. Early reports of a homogeneous "India" of marvels and monsters gave way to ac... Lees meer

Nordic Religions in the Viking Age

Thomas DuBois

• Paperback | Engels | Middle Ages
• The popular image of the Viking as a horn-helmeted berserker plying the ocean in a dragon-headed long boat is firmly fixed in history. Imagining Vikin... Lees meer

Promised Lands

Willem Pieter Blockmans, Wim Blockmans, Walter Prevenier

• Paperback | Engels | Middle Ages
• They were, in the words of one contemporary observer, ""the Promised Lands."" In all of Europe, only Northern Italy could rival the economic power and... Lees meer

The Trotula

• Paperback | Engels | Middle Ages
• The Trotula was the most influential compendium of women's medicine in medieval Europe. Scholarly debate has long focused on the traditional attributi... Lees meer

The Beguines of Medieval Paris

Tanya Stabler Miller

• Paperback | Engels | Middle Ages
• In the thirteenth century, Paris was the largest city in Western Europe, the royal capital of France, and the seat of one of Europe's most important u... Lees meer

Righteous Persecution

Christine Caldwell Ames

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle Ages
• Righteous Persecution examines the long-controversial involvement of the Order of Preachers, or Dominicans, with inquisitions into heresy in medieval ... Lees meer

Dear Sister

• Paperback | Engels | Middle Ages
• Explored in this book are women's contributions to letter writing in western Europe from the sixth to the sixteenth centuries. The essays represent th... Lees meer

The Measure of Woman

Marie A Kelleher

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle Ages
• By the end of the Middle Ages, the ius commune--the combination of canon and Roman law--had formed the basis for all law in continental Europe, along ... Lees meer

Medieval Theory of Authorship

Alastair Minnis

• Paperback | Engels | Middle Ages
• It has often been held that scholasticism destroyed the literary theory that was emerging during the twelfth-century Renaissance, and hence discussion... Lees meer

The Cistercian Evolution

Constance Hoffman Berman

• Paperback | Engels | Middle Ages
• According to the received history, the Cistercian order was founded in Cîteaux, France, in 1098 by a group of Benedictine monks who wished for a stric... Lees meer