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The Early Middle Ages
Europe 400-1000
Häftad, 2001
531 kr
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The Early Middle Ages (400-1000) was one of the most dynamic and crucial periods in the formation of Europe. It covers the transition from the relatively diverse world of Roman Empire in late antiquity, to the disparate world of early medieval Europe, where local differences assumed far greater …
The Early Middle Ages
Europe 400-1000
Inbunden, 2001
884 kr
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The Early Middle Ages (400-1000) was one of the most dynamic and crucial periods in the formation of Europe. It covers the transition from the relatively diverse world of Roman Empire in late antiquity, to the disparate world of early medieval Europe, where local differences assumed far greater …
Perceptions of the Past in the Early Middle Ages
Häftad, 2006
539 kr
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Contains essays that focus on the Frankish realms in the eight and ninth centuries. This volume also examines different methods and genres of historical writing in relation to the perceptions of time and chronology. It also explores the significance of Rome in Carolingian perceptions of the past.
Perceptions of the Past in the Early Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2006
1583 kr
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Historical writing of the early middle ages tends to be regarded as little more than a possible source of facts, but Rosamond McKitterick establishes that early medieval historians conveyed in their texts a sophisticated set of multiple perceptions of the past.
Hagiography and the Cult of Saints
The Diocese of Orléans, 800-1200
Av Thomas Head, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
502 kr
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This is a study of the place of patron saints in Frankish society during the Carolingian and early Capetian periods. The book focuses on the composition of works in praise of dead holy people - hagiography - and the veneration of their physical remains - the cult of saints. It examines the patrons …
Parisian Scholars in the Early Fourteenth Century
A Social Portrait
Av William J. Courtenay, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
738 kr
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This study of the social, geographical and disciplinary composition of the scholarly community at the University of Paris in the early fourteenth century is based on the reconstruction of a remarkable document: the financial record of tax levied on university members in the academic year 1329-1330. …
Kings, Barons and Justices
The Making and Enforcement of Legislation in Thirteenth-Century England
Av Paul Brand, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
705 kr
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This book is a study of two important and related pieces of thirteenth-century English legislation - the Provisions of Westminster of 1259 and the Statute of Marlborough of 1267 - and is the first on any of the statutes of this period of major legislative change. The Provisions of Westminster were …
The Household Knights of King John
Av S. D. Church, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
754 kr
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If the medieval king was the helmsman of the ship of state, the royal household was the ship's engine. It comprised men from most ranks of society, from the great magnates of the realm to simple servants who looked after the day-to-day needs of the king and his court. English government, in both …
Restoration and Reform, 1153-1165
Recovery from Civil War in England
Av Graeme J. White, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
921 kr
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This book examines the processes by which effective royal government was restored in England following the civil war of Stephen's reign. It questions the traditional view that Stephen presided over 'anarchy', arguing instead that the king and his rivals sought to maintain the administrative …
Colonisation and Conquest in Medieval Ireland
The English in Louth, 1170-1330
Av Brendan Smith, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
754 kr
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This book examines the development of English colonial society in the eastern coastal area of Ireland now known as county Louth, in the period 1170-1330. At its heart is the story of two relationships: that between settler and native in Louth, and that between the settlers and England. An important …
The English in Rome, 1362-1420
Portrait of an Expatriate Community
Av Margaret Harvey, Rosamond Mckitterick
Häftad, 2006
721 kr
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Centred on a study of the early archives of the Venerabile Collegio Inglese in Rome, the predecessor of the English College of today, this book is more than a study of the beginnings of English institutions in Rome. It attempts to place the English community there between 1362, when the first …
Brittany and the Angevins
Province and Empire 1158-1203
Av J. A. Everard, Rosamond Mckitterick
Häftad, 2006
820 kr
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The rule of the Angevins in Brittany is characterized usually as opening an isolated 'Celtic' society to a wider world and imposing new and alien institutions. This study of Brittany under the Angevins, first published in 2000, demonstrates that the opposite is true: that before the advent of Henry …
The Early Humiliati
Av Frances Andrews, Rosamond Mckitterick
Häftad, 2006
502 kr
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This book is the first major study in English of a group of late twelfth-century religious enthusiasts, the early Humiliati, who were condemned by the Church as heretics in 1184. However, in a remarkable transition, they were reconciled seventeen years later and went on to establish a highly …
State and Society in the Early Middle Ages
The Middle Rhine Valley, 400-1000
Av Matthew Innes, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
838 kr
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This book, first published in 2000, is a pioneering study of politics and society in the early Middle Ages. Whereas it is widely believed that the source materials for early medieval Europe are too sparse to allow sustained study of the workings of social and political relationships on the ground, …
At the Gate of Christendom
Jews, Muslims and 'Pagans' in Medieval Hungary, c.1000 - c.1300
Av Nora Berend, Rosamond Mckitterick
Häftad, 2006
491 kr
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Modern life in increasingly heterogeneous societies has directed attention to patterns of interaction, often using a framework of persecution and tolerance. This study of the economic, social, legal and religious position of three minorities (Jews, Muslims and pagan Turkic nomads) argues that …
Province and Empire
Brittany and the Carolingians
Av Julia M. H. Smith, Rosamond Mckitterick
Häftad, 2006
838 kr
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This book offers ideas about the processes of political and cultural change in the early Middle Ages. The main focus is on relations between the centre and periphery of the Carolingian empire, in particular on the development of Brittany as a territorial principality in the ninth and tenth …
The Monastic Order in Yorkshire, 1069-1215
Av Janet Burton, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
813 kr
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This 1999 book explores the dramatic growth of the monastic order in Yorkshire from the foundation of the first post-Conquest abbey at Selby in 1069 to 1215. The first half examines the dynamics of monastic expansion, discussing the influences on both its chronological development and its …
Ireland in Early Medieval Europe
Studies in Memory of Kathleen Hughes
Av Dorothy Whitelock, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
888 kr
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This 1982 collection of essays examines Ireland's relations with the rest of western Europe between AD 400 and 1200. They show the idiosyncratic ways in which Ireland responded to external stimuli and illustrate the view that early Irish history, religion, politics and art should be seen not in …
Rome across Time and Space
Cultural Transmission and the Exchange of Ideas, c.500-1400
Av Claudia Bolgia, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1928 kr
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Medieval Rome was uniquely important, both as a physical city and as an idea with immense cultural capital, encapsulating the legacy of the ancient Empire, the glorious world of the martyrs and the triumph of Christian faith. Rome across Time and Space explores these twin dimensions of 'place' and …
The Carolingians and the Written Word
Häftad, 1989
394 kr
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This pioneering book studies the function and status of the written word in Carolingian society in France and Germany in the eighth- and ninth-centuries. It demonstrates that literacy was by no means confined to a clerical élite, but was dispersed in lay society and used for government and …
The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 2, c.700-c.900
Inbunden, 1995
4702 kr
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This volume of The New Cambridge Medieval History covers most of the period of Frankish and Carolingian dominance in western Europe. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the authors consider developments in Europe as a whole, from Ireland to the Bosphorus and Iceland to Gibraltar. The chapters …
Kings, Barons and Justices
The Making and Enforcement of Legislation in Thirteenth-Century England
Av Paul Brand, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
2549 kr
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This book is a study of two important and related pieces of thirteenth-century English legislation - the Provisions of Westminster of 1259 and the Statute of Marlborough of 1267 - and is the first on any of the statutes of this period of major legislative change. The Provisions of Westminster were …
The Government of England under Henry I
Av Judith A. Green, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Häftad, 1989
754 kr
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The is a full-length analysis of the machinery and men of government under Henry I, which looks in much greater detail than is possible for other contemporary states at the way government worked and at the careers of royal servants. Royal government in England in the early twelfth-century was …
Carolingian Culture
Emulation and Innovation
Häftad, 1993
586 kr
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This volume of specially commissioned essays takes as its theme the legacy of Rome in Carolingian culture in eighth- and ninth-century Europe. No such comprehensive survey of this kind exists in any language. The book is made the more unusual by departing from the customary stress on the concept of …
William of Tyre
Historian of the Latin East
Av Peter W. Edbury, John Gordon Rowe m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
586 kr
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William, archbishop of Tyre from 1175 to c.1184, was a churchman, royal servant and scholar who lived in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. Born in Jerusalem around 1130, he studied in western Europe for almost twenty years until 1165, when he returned to the East to begin his career in public life. …
The Uses of Literacy in Early Mediaeval Europe
Häftad, 1992
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838 kr
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This book investigates the ways in which literacy was important in early mediaeval Europe, and examines the context of literacy, its uses, levels, and distribution, in a number of different early mediaeval societies between c. 400 and c. 1000. The studies, by leading scholars in the field, set out …
Lithuania Ascending
A Pagan Empire within East-Central Europe, 1295-1345
Av S. C. Rowell, Rosamond Mckitterick
Inbunden, 1994
2029 kr
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From 1250 to 1795 Lithuania covered a vast area of eastern and central Europe. Until 1387 the country was pagan. How this huge state came to expand, defend itself against western European crusaders and play a conspicuous part in European life are the main subjects of this book. Chapters are devoted …
Warfare in the Latin East, 1192-1291
Av Christopher Marshall, Rosamond McKitterick m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
594 kr
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This book offers a detailed examination of warfare in the Latin East from the end of the Third Crusade, to the demise of the Latin Kingdom in 1291. It considers both the crusades and the long periods of truce during which warfare was restricted to raiding expeditions and conflict among the …
Edward Gibbon and Empire
Av Rosamond McKitterick, Roland Quinault
Inbunden, 1996
1598 kr
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This book examines Gibbon's interpretations of empire and the intellectual context in which he formulated them against a background of the eighteenth- and late twentieth-century knowledge of late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Gibbon's ideas of empire, his understanding of monarchy and the balance …
Runaway Religious in Medieval England, c.1240-1540
Av F. Donald Logan, Rosamond Mckitterick
Häftad, 2002
737 kr
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The 'runaway religious' were monks, canons and friars who had taken vows of religion and who, with benefit of neither permission nor dispensation, fled their monasteries and returned to a life in the world, usually replacing the religious habit with lay clothes. No legal exit for the discontented …
