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
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
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
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
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
Originally published in 1972, Medieval Song assembles the whole tradition of early European poetry, from the writings of the late Roman Empire to the time of the Hundred Years War. It covers a vast range of languages and cultures, beginning with the...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1930, this book outlines the system of local government at work in the reign of Edward I. The Hundreds were the districts of England into which every county was subdivided. The Hundred Rolls were a complete statement as to th...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1958 and as a third edition in 1971, this comprehensive account of political thought in the Middle Ages presents medieval thinking against the historical background which animated it....Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1973, this book examines the urban community of Southampton through its early and formative years. Southampton is one of the most interesting and important medieval towns, because of its position as a gateway between England...Lasīt vairāk
