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Europe in the High Middle Ages
The Penguin History of Europe
Häftad, 2002
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171 kr
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'The most accessible, up-to-date introduction to its subject ... does full justice to the multifarious forces at work in high gothic Europe' Daily TelegraphThe years from AD 1000 to the beginning of the fourteenth century were the most formative period in European history: a time of intense social, …
Europe in the High Middle Ages
The Penguin History of Europe
E-bok, 2002
125 kr
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'The most accessible, up-to-date introduction to its subject ... does full justice to the multifarious forces at work in high gothic Europe' Daily TelegraphThe years from AD 1000 to the beginning of the fourteenth century were the most formative period in European history: a time of intense social, …
Great Famine
Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century
Häftad, 1998
491 kr
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The horrors of the Great Famine (1315-1322), one of the severest catastrophes ever to strike northern Europe, lived on for centuries in the minds of Europeans who recalled tales of widespread hunger, class warfare, epidemic disease, frighteningly high mortality, and unspeakable crimes. Until now, …
Tale of Two Monasteries
Westminster and Saint-Denis in the Thirteenth Century
Häftad, 2011
383 kr
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A Tale of Two Monasteries takes an unprecedented look at one of the great rivalries of the Middle Ages and offers it as a revealing lens through which to view the intertwined histories of medieval England and France. This is the first book to systematically compare Westminster Abbey and the abbey …
From England to France
Felony and Exile in the High Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2015
491 kr
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At the height of the Middle Ages, a peculiar system of perpetual exile--or abjuration--flourished in western Europe. It was a judicial form of exile, not political or religious, and it was meted out to felons for crimes deserving of severe corporal punishment or death. From England to France …
Unceasing Strife, Unending Fear
Jacques de Thérines and the Freedom of the Church in the Age of the Last Capetians
Häftad, 2016
487 kr
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This absorbing book explores the tensions within the Roman Catholic church and between the church and royal authority in France in the crucial period 1290-1321. During this time the crown tried to force churchmen to accept policies many considered inconsistent with ecclesiastical freedom and …
From England to France
Felony and Exile in the High Middle Ages
Häftad, 2017
271 kr
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At the height of the Middle Ages, a peculiar system of perpetual exile--or abjuration--flourished in western Europe. It was a judicial form of exile, not political or religious, and it was meted out to felons for crimes deserving of severe corporal punishment or death. From England to France …
Apple of His Eye
Converts from Islam in the Reign of Louis IX
Inbunden, 2019
417 kr
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The thirteenth century brought new urgency to Catholic efforts to convert non-Christians, and no Catholic ruler was more dedicated to this undertaking than King Louis IX of France. His military expeditions against Islam are well documented, but there was also a peaceful side to his encounter with …
Apple of His Eye
Converts from Islam in the Reign of Louis IX
E-bok, 2019
428 kr
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The thirteenth century brought new urgency to Catholic efforts to convert non-Christians, and no Catholic ruler was more dedicated to this undertaking than King Louis IX of France. His military expeditions against Islam are well documented, but there was also a peaceful side to his encounter with …
Apple of His Eye
Converts from Islam in the Reign of Louis IX
Häftad, 2020
315 kr
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The thirteenth century brought new urgency to Catholic efforts to convert non-Christians, and no Catholic ruler was more dedicated to this undertaking than King Louis IX of France. His military expeditions against Islam are well documented, but there was also a peaceful side to his encounter with …
Louis IX and the Challenge of the Crusade
A Study in Rulership
Häftad, 2015
517 kr
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Louis IX has long been known both as a saintly crusader and as the founder of effective royal administration in France. But, in spite of a vast amount of research, the details of what happened under his rule and why it happened have been little understood. Synthesizing this research from a thematic …
Order and Innovation in the Middle Ages
Essays in Honor of Joseph R. Strayer
Av William Chester Jordan, Bruce McNab m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
2018 kr
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The Middle Ages were for many years generally viewed as a period when faith and order supported a rigid society. By painstaking archival research, historians such as Joseph R. Strayer and the contributors to this volume have gradually replaced this view with a regard for the period as a time of …
Louis IX and the Challenge of the Crusade
A Study in Rulership
Inbunden, 2016
2138 kr
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Louis IX has long been known both as a saintly crusader and as the founder of effective royal administration in France. But, in spite of a vast amount of research, the details of what happened under his rule and why it happened have been little understood. Synthesizing this research from a thematic …
Order and Innovation in the Middle Ages
Essays in Honor of Joseph R. Strayer
Av William Chester Jordan, Bruce McNab m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
4475 kr
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The Middle Ages were for many years generally viewed as a period when faith and order supported a rigid society. By painstaking archival research, historians such as Joseph R. Strayer and the contributors to this volume have gradually replaced this view with a regard for the period as a time of …
Women and Credit in Pre-Industrial and Developing Societies
Inbunden, 1993
973 kr
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The active role of women in the labor force is not limited to recent decades, or even to the last century. As William Chester Jordan amply demonstrates in Women and Credit in Pre-Industrial and Developing Societies, women in premodern times played an integral part both as a source of labor and as …
From Servitude to Freedom
Manumission in the Sénonais in the Thirteenth Century
Inbunden, 1986
1119 kr
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During the thirteenth century, many great French nobles and churchmen who possessed serfs decided to grant freedom to them or at least to remove some of their disabilities. Manumission-that granting of freedom-was of major significance to medieval French society. William Chester Jordan studies the …
French Monarchy and the Jews
From Philip Augustus to the Last Capetians
Inbunden, 1989
1200 kr
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From 1179 to 1328 relations between French Christians and Jews were chronically unstable-exploitation, repression, and expulsion were sanctioned by a government dedicated to a purified Christian state. The French Monarchy and the Jews tells in rich and compelling detail the fate of the Jews in …
British Hispanism and the Challenge of Literary Theory
Av Barry Jordan, William Chester Jordan
Häftad
1044 kr
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Ideology and Royal Power in Medieval France
Kingship, Crusades and the Jews
Inbunden, 2001
2208 kr
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Ideology and Royal Power is a collection of essays describing and assessing the ways in which royal publicists in medieval France conceived the authority of the crown, especially with regard to protecting and defending its Christian subjects from their alleged enemies at home and abroad--corrupt …
Ideology and Royal Power in Medieval France
Kingship, Crusades and the Jews
E-bok, 2024
1030 kr
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Ideology and Royal Power is a collection of essays describing and assessing the ways in which royal publicists in medieval France conceived the authority of the crown, especially with regard to protecting and defending its Christian subjects from their alleged enemies at home and abroad--corrupt …
Ideology and Royal Power in Medieval France
Kingship, Crusades and the Jews
E-bok, 2024
1030 kr
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Ideology and Royal Power is a collection of essays describing and assessing the ways in which royal publicists in medieval France conceived the authority of the crown, especially with regard to protecting and defending its Christian subjects from their alleged enemies at home and abroad--corrupt …
Great Famine
Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century
E-bok, 1997
661 kr
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The horrors of the Great Famine (1315-1322), one of the severest catastrophes ever to strike northern Europe, lived on for centuries in the minds of Europeans who recalled tales of widespread hunger, class warfare, epidemic disease, frighteningly high mortality, and unspeakable crimes. Until now, …
Unceasing Strife, Unending Fear
Jacques de Thérines and the Freedom of the Church in the Age of the Last Capetians
E-bok, 2009
368 kr
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This absorbing book explores the tensions within the Roman Catholic church and between the church and royal authority in France in the crucial period 1290-1321. During this time the crown tried to force churchmen to accept policies many considered inconsistent with ecclesiastical freedom and …
Tale of Two Monasteries
Westminster and Saint-Denis in the Thirteenth Century
E-bok, 2009
500 kr
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A Tale of Two Monasteries takes an unprecedented look at one of the great rivalries of the Middle Ages and offers it as a revealing lens through which to view the intertwined histories of medieval England and France. This is the first book to systematically compare Westminster Abbey and the abbey …
From England to France
Felony and Exile in the High Middle Ages
E-bok, 2015
328 kr
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At the height of the Middle Ages, a peculiar system of perpetual exile—or abjuration—flourished in western Europe. It was a judicial form of exile, not political or religious, and it was meted out to felons for crimes deserving of severe corporal punishment or death. From England to France explores …
Louis IX and the Challenge of the Crusade
A Study in Rulership
E-bok, 2015
727 kr
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Louis IX has long been known both as a saintly crusader and as the founder of effective royal administration in France. But, in spite of a vast amount of research, the details of what happened under his rule and why it happened have been little understood. Synthesizing this research from a thematic …
Order and Innovation in the Middle Ages
Essays in Honor of Joseph R. Strayer
Av Teofilo F. Ruiz, Bruce McNab m. fl.
E-bok, 2015
1395 kr
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The Middle Ages were for many years generally viewed as a period when faith and order supported a rigid society. By painstaking archival research, historians such as Joseph R. Strayer and the contributors to this volume have gradually replaced this view with a regard for the period as a time of …
Servant of the Crown and Steward of the Church
The Career of Philippe of Cahors
Häftad, 2019
274 kr
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In the thirteenth century, radical reformers – churchmen, devout laywomen and laymen, and secular rulers – undertook Herculean efforts aimed at the moral reform of society. No principality was more affected by these impulses than France under its king, Louis IX or "Saint Louis." The monarch …
Servant of the Crown and Steward of the Church
The Career of Philippe of Cahors
E-bok, 2019
375 kr
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In the thirteenth century, radical reformers – churchmen, devout laywomen and laymen, and secular rulers – undertook Herculean efforts aimed at the moral reform of society. No principality was more affected by these impulses than France under its king, Louis IX or "Saint Louis." The monarch …
Servant of the Crown and Steward of the Church
The Career of Philippe of Cahors
E-bok, 2019
367 kr
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In the thirteenth century, radical reformers – churchmen, devout laywomen and laymen, and secular rulers – undertook Herculean efforts aimed at the moral reform of society. No principality was more affected by these impulses than France under its king, Louis IX or "Saint Louis." The monarch …
