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Early Medieval Bible Illumination and the Ashburnham Pentateuch
This book focuses on the Ashburnham Pentateuch, an early medieval illuminated manuscript of the Old Testament whose pictures are among the earliest surviving and most extensive biblical illustrations. Dorothy Verkerk...
Monastic Women and Religious Orders in Late Medieval Bologna
Sherri Franks Johnson explores the roles of religious women in the changing ecclesiastical and civic structure of late medieval Bologna, demonstrating how convents negotiated a place in their urban context...
The Life and Legend of a Rebel Leader: Wat Tyler
In 1381, England was on the brink - the poor suffered the effects of war, the Black Death, and Poll Tax. At this time the brave Wat Tyler arose to...
English Collusion and the Norman Conquest
The reality of war, in any period, is its totality. Warfare affects everyone in a society. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive analysis of eleventh century warfare as...
Lordship, Reform, and the Development of Civil Society in Medieval Italy: The Bishopric Of Orvieto, 1100-1250
In his examination of the bishopric of Orvieto from 1100 to 1250, David Foote reveals how three defining developments of the High Middle Ages-the feudal revolution, ecclesiastical reform, and state...
Early Medieval Bible Illumination and the Ashburnham Pentateuch
This book focuses on the Ashburnham Pentateuch, an early medieval illuminated manuscript of the Old Testament whose pictures are among the earliest surviving and most extensive biblical illustrations. Dorothy Verkerk...
The Legitimacy of Bastards: The Place of Illegitimate Children in Later Medieval England
For the nobility and gentry in later medieval England, land was a source of wealth and status. Their marriages were arranged with this in mind, and it is not surprising...
The Vikings in History
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Out of Love for My Kin: Aristocratic Family Life in the Lands of the Loire, 1000-1200
In Out of Love for My Kin, Amy Livingstone examines the personal dimensions of the lives of aristocrats in the Loire region of France during the eleventh and twelfth centuries....
The Black Prince and the Capture of a King: Poitiers 1356
A new detailed account of the battle of Poitiers in 1356 which saw one of the most sensational episodes of the Hundred Years War: the capture of the French King...
Excommunication for Debt in Late Medieval France: The Business of Salvation
Late medieval church courts frequently excommunicated debtors at the request of their creditors. Tyler Lange analyzes over 11,000 excommunications between 1380 and 1530 in order to explore the forms, rhythms,...
The Murder of Charles the Good
"And it should be known that I, Galbert, a notary, though I had no suitable place for writing, set down on tablets a summary of events... and in the midst...
Following in the Footsteps of Edward II: A Historical Guide to the Medieval King
Edward II is famously one of England s most unsuccessful kings, as utterly different from his war-like father Edward I as any man possibly could be, and the first English...
The Legitimacy of Bastards: The Place of Illegitimate Children in Later Medieval England
For the nobility and gentry in later medieval England, land was a source of wealth and status. Their marriages were arranged with this in mind, and it is not surprising...
Summulae de Dialectica
This volume is the first annotated translation in any language of the entire text of the Summulae de dialectica, by the Parisian master of arts John Buridan (1300-1358). One of...
Il Gigante: Michelangelo, Florence and the David, 1492-1504
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War, Politics and Finance in Late Medieval English Towns: Bristol, York and the Crown, 1350-1400
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The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe
Author: James Belich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age....
Constantinople: The Last Great Siege, 1453
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The Italian Renaissance - Culture & Society in Italy (Paper): Culture and Society in Italy
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Women, Work, and Life Cycle in a Medieval Economy: Women in York and Yorkshire c.1300-1520
Author: P. J. P. Goldberg (Lecturer in History, Lecturer in History, University of York)Format: Hardback, 147mm x 225mm, 680g, 420 pagesPublished: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, 1992This is an innovative...
Architecture and the Turkish City: An Urban History of Istanbul since the Ottomans
Author: Murat GulFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 671g, 336 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2017Architecture and urban planning have always been used by political regimes to stamp their ideologies...
Medieval Warfare
Author: James GrantFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 234mm, 224 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2013James Grant (1822 - 1887) was a Scottish author and was born in Edinburgh,...
Women, Work, and Life Cycle in a Medieval Economy: Women in York and Yorkshire c.1300-1520
Author: P. J. P. Goldberg (Lecturer in History, Lecturer in History, University of York)Format: Hardback, 147mm x 225mm, 680g, 420 pagesPublished: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, 1992This is an innovative...
The Silk Industries of Medieval Paris: Artisanal Migration, Technological Innovation, and Gendered Experience
Author: Sharon FarmerFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 368 pagesPublished: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States, 2016For more than one hundred years, from the last decade of the thirteenth century to...
Portraiture in South Asia since the Mughals: Art, Representation and History
Author: Crispin BranfootFormat: Hardback, 138mm x 216mm, 676g, 320 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2018One of the most remarkable artistic achievements of the Mughal Empire was the emergence in...
Medieval Muslims, Christians and Jews in Dialogue: The Apparicion Maistre Jehan de Meun of Honorat Bovet. A Critical Edition with English Translation. (MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE TEXTS & STUDIES)
Author: Michael Hanly
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The Enterprise of England: The Spanish Armada
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The Elizabethan Renaissance
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The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450-1700
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England Under the Tudors
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