This study of Constantinoples monasteries within their urban framework during the last decades of Byzantium (13941453) explores the activity of monks, nuns, and affiliated laypeople such as patrons just before the citys Ottoman conquest and transfo...Lasīt vairāk
This volume celebrates the work and impact of Professor Helen Nicholson by bringing together 22 essays by colleagues, former students and friends which focus on her major research interests: the Military Orders, women in the Middle Ages, and the his...Lasīt vairāk
Exploring the reception and representation of Viking culture in audiovisual media, particularly in cinema and television, this book provides a comprehensive chronological exploration of films and television programmes produced from the early twentie...Lasīt vairāk
Drawing together both recent research and original sources, this concise and accessible biography reassesses the debates surrounding the life of King Edward IV. Edward IV remains essential reading for all students of late medieval England, the Wars...Lasīt vairāk
The chapters in this volume highlight the complexity and diversity of approaches to how ancient and medieval cultures understood martial masculinity and the significance warfare had on masculine values during the premodern era....Lasīt vairāk
Death and Afterlife in Medieval Christian Thought explores how medieval Christians conceived the changing ideas of death and what happens thereafter to both the material and immaterial aspects of a person....Lasīt vairāk
This book features a collection of essays which focus on the Hospitallers relations with others through military, social, and political channels within the broader Euro-Mediterranean region....Lasīt vairāk
Global Trade in the Premodern World offers an authoritative and expansive history of exchange and interaction across Eurasia from the prehistoric origins of trade to the integration of large parts of this world-system by the fifteenth century CE....Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the origins of complex political organisation in Inner Asia which enabled mighty empires, proto-state entities and confederacies such as the Cimmerians, Scythians and the Xiongnu Huns to emerge and dominate large swathes of the Eu...Lasīt vairāk
Romanesque Sculpture in Italy (1954) is an analysis of the resurgence of sculpture in Italy. The variety of the political, economic and racial conditions which existed towards the end of the eleventh century led to a corresponding diversity in the r...Lasīt vairāk
Using a topical approach and presenting the English translation and the Latin text of excerpts from The Chronicles of Saint Benedict of Cassino, this volume examines how the Cassinese historians narrated that tragic period and at the same time menti...Lasīt vairāk
The Book of Raymond of Aguilers is one of a handful of eyewitness accounts of the First Crusade. This new translation is the first to be based on the critical edition of the Latin text produced by John France and is intended primarily for the benefi...Lasīt vairāk
This volume examines a number of economic problems that highlight the limits of the current interpretative models, such as the existence of markets or the relation between trade and gift-giving, largely on the basis of the archaeological evidence fr...Lasīt vairāk
This is the first volume of essays explicitly to reassess the significance of the region, as well as the role of the archaeological evidence in studying ethnicity in the Middle Ages....Lasīt vairāk
Irish Kingship in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries examines the power of medieval Irish kings but treats power as a complex concept worthy of study in its own right. It starts from the premise that historians of medieval Ireland have interpreted p...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the transformation of market spaces in Portuguese cities during the intensification of trade driven by increasing profits from overseas exchanges, and how architectural structures and urban planning were directly impacted by these...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1938, the author traces the rise of the great European Universities from the Cathedral Schools of the tenth and eleventh centuries and their gradual development into republics of learning with power to treat on terms of equal...Lasīt vairāk
This book, originally published in 1980, examines the history of the papacy in the century between the end of the Great Schism and the start of the Reformation, and considers how, and at what price, the popes were able to re-establish their power af...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1986, this volume illuminates the predominant theatrical styles of a particular period in dramatic history. It does this by reconstructing as far as conjecture permits the manner in which five major plays of the late Middle...Lasīt vairāk
