Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures – serie
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36 produkter
Mongol Archive in Late Medieval France
Texts, Objects, Encounters, 1221–1422
Av Mark Cruse
Inbunden, 2025
788 kr
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The Mongol Archive in Late Medieval France is the first comprehensive study of contact between France and the Mongols in the late Middle Ages. As these realms expanded across Eurasia—the French through crusade and settlement, the Mongols through conquest—their encounters altered each other's …
Cultures of the Medieval Kingdom of Jerusalem
Frontier Inventiveness in the Age of the Crusades
Inbunden, 2025
391 kr
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Cultures of the Medieval Kingdom of Jerusalem is a revelatory portrait of the Frankish Levant at the time of the Crusades. Following victory in the First Crusade in 1099, the newcomers from Europe, or Franks, ruled a Christian kingdom in Jerusalem, then Acre, until 1291. Historians have written off …
Radiances
Unpublished Essays on Gods, Kingship, and Images of the State
Av Ernst Kantorowicz, Robert E. Lerner
Inbunden, 2025
1898 kr
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Radiances gathers previously unpublished essays by one of the greatest historians of the twentieth century. Although best known for The King's Two Bodies (1957), Ernst Kantorowicz's scholarly expertise ranged from classical antiquity to early modernity and from political pageantry to numismatics. …
Dynasties Intertwined
The Zirids of Ifriqiya and the Normans of Sicily
Av Matt King
Inbunden, 2022
730 kr
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Dynasties Intertwined traces the turbulent relationship between the Zirids of Ifriqiya and the Normans of Sicily during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. In doing so, it reveals the complex web of economic, political, cultural, and military connections that linked the two dynasties to each other …
Salvation of Israel
Jews in Christian Eschatology from Paul to the Puritans
Av Jeremy Cohen
Inbunden, 2022
1635 kr
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The Salvation of Israel investigates Christianity's eschatological Jew: the role and characteristics of the Jews at the end of days in the Christian imagination. It explores the depth of Christian ambivalence regarding these Jews, from Paul's Epistle to the Romans, through late antiquity and the …
Mystical Presence of Christ
The Exceptional and the Ordinary in Late Medieval Religion
Inbunden, 2022
806 kr
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The Mystical Presence of Christ investigates the connections between exceptional experiences of Christ's presence and ordinary devotion to Christ in the late medieval West. Unsettling the notion that experiences of seeing Christ's figure or hearing Christ speak are simply exceptional events that …
Wolf King
Ibn Mardanish and the Construction of Power in Al-Andalus
Inbunden, 2023
1650 kr
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Winner of the Wallace K. Ferguson PrizeWinner of the Dionisius A. Agius Book PrizeThe Wolf King explores how political power was conceptualized, constructed, and wielded in twelfth-century al-Andalus, focusing on the eventful reign of Muhammad ibn Sad ibn Ahmad ibn Mardanīsh (r. 1147–1172). …
Pastoral Care and Community in Late Medieval Germany
Albert of Diessen's "Mirror of Priests"
Inbunden, 2022
730 kr
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Pastoral Care and Community in Late Medieval Germany explores how local religious culture was constructed in medieval European Christian society through close study of a set of neglected, late fourteenth-century manuscripts. The Mirror of Priests is a pastoral work written by Albert, an Augustinian …
To Govern Is to Serve
An Essay on Medieval Democracy
Inbunden, 2023
1650 kr
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To Govern Is to Serve explores the practices of collective governance in medieval religious orders that turned the precepts of the Gospels—most notably that "the first will be last, the last will be first"—into practices of communal deliberation and the election of superiors. Jacques Dalarun argues …
To Govern Is to Serve
An Essay on Medieval Democracy
Häftad, 2023
333 kr
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To Govern Is to Serve explores the practices of collective governance in medieval religious orders that turned the precepts of the Gospels—most notably that "the first will be last, the last will be first"—into practices of communal deliberation and the election of superiors. Jacques Dalarun argues …
Tree and the Column
The Bronze Door of Hildesheim
Häftad, 2024
358 kr
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The Tree and the Column examines the bronze door of Hildesheim Cathedral, which is not only a masterpiece of Ottonian art but is among the most recognizable and studied works of medieval sculpture. Commissioned by Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim and cast around 1015, the door's two leaves feature the …
Diabolical Voice
Heresy and the Reception of the Latin "Mirror of Simple Souls" in Late Medieval Europe
Inbunden, 2023
790 kr
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In A Diabolical Voice, Justine L. Trombley traces the afterlife of the Mirror of Simple Souls, which circulated anonymously for two centuries in four languages, though not without controversy or condemnation. Widely recognized as one of the most unusual and important mystical treatises of the late …
Splendor and Opulence of the Past
Studying the Middle Ages in Enlightenment Catalonia
Inbunden, 2023
687 kr
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The Splendor and Opulence of the Past traces the career of Jaume Caresmar (1717–1791), a church historian and a key figure of the Catalan Enlightenment who transcribed tens of thousands of parchments to preserve and glorify Catalonia's medieval past in the face of its diminishing autonomy. As Paul …
Geoffroy of Villehardouin, Marshal of Champagne
His Life and Memoirs of the Fourth Crusade
Inbunden, 2024
594 kr
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Geoffroy of Villehardouin, Marshal of Champagne by Theodore Evergates traces the remarkable life of Geoffroy of Villehardouin (c. 1148–c. 1217) from his earliest years in Champagne through his last years in Greece after the crusade. The fourth son of a knight, Geoffroy became marshal of Champagne, …
Last Ta'ifa
The Banu Hud and the Struggle for Political Legitimacy in Al-Andalus
Inbunden, 2024
602 kr
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In The Last Ta'ifa, Anthony H. Minnema shows how the Banu Hud, an Arab dynasty from Zaragoza, created and recreated their vision of an autonomous city-state (ta'ifa) in ways that reveal changes to legitimating strategies in al-Andalus and across the Mediterranean. In 1110, the Banu Hud lost control …
Byzantine Media Subjects
Inbunden, 2024
1684 kr
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Byzantine Media Subjects invites readers into a world replete with images—icons, frescoes, and mosaics filling places of worship, politics, and community. Glenn Peers asks readers to think themselves into a world where representation reigned and humans followed, and indeed were formed. …
Queen of Sorrows
Plague, Piety, and Power in Late Medieval Italy
Inbunden, 2024
659 kr
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Queen of Sorrows takes an original approach to both late-medieval Italian history and the history of Christianity, using quantitative and qualitative analyses of a remarkable archive of 1,904 testaments to determine patterns in giving to the Virgin of Loreto shrine in the late fourteenth and early …
Byzantine Media Subjects
Häftad, 2024
368 kr
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Byzantine Media Subjects invites readers into a world replete with images—icons, frescoes, and mosaics filling places of worship, politics, and community. Glenn Peers asks readers to think themselves into a world where representation reigned and humans followed, and indeed were formed. …
Shrines, Relics, and Saints
Christian Sanctuaries from Late Antiquity Through the Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2026
1650 kr
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In Shrines, Relics, and Saints,the eminent medievalist André Vauchez explores the evolution of spaces in Christianity – chapels, monasteries, holy wells, grottos, and other holy places – that are considered sacred because they house the relics of a saint or because they preserve the memory of an …
Bounded Wilderness
Land and Reform at the Hermitage of Fonte Avellana, Ca. 1035-1072
Inbunden, 2024
630 kr
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In Bounded Wilderness, Kathryn Jasper focuses on the innovations undertaken at the hermitage of Fonte Avellana in central Italy during the eleventh century by its prior, Peter Damian (d. 1072). The congregation of Fonte Avellana experimented with reforming practices that led to new ways of managing …
Hungry City
A Year in the Life of Medieval Barcelona
Inbunden, 2025
576 kr
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The Hungry City is the story of medieval Barcelona, retold through the lens of food and famine. Between the summer of 1333 and the spring of 1334, severe weather-related grain shortages spread throughout the Mediterranean, and Barcelona's leaders struggled to bring food to the city as its residents …
Crusader's Death and Life in Acre
The 1266 Account-Inventory of Eudes of Nevers
Av Anne E. Lester, Laura K. Morreale
Häftad, 2025
354 kr
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A Crusader's Death and Life in Acre uses five parchment rolls that inventoried the possessions of Eudes of Nevers, son of the duke of Burgundy, at his death in Acre in 1266 to open out a panorama of Christian crusader life. The contents of the rolls, or rouleaux, span from the pay rendered to …
Wolf King
Ibn Mardanish and the Construction of Power in Al-Andalus
Häftad, 2025
375 kr
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Winner of the Wallace K. Ferguson PrizeWinner of the Dionisius A. Agius Book PrizeThe Wolf King explores how political power was conceptualized, constructed, and wielded in twelfth-century al-Andalus, focusing on the eventful reign of Muhammad ibn Sad ibn Ahmad ibn Mardanīsh (r. 1147–1172). …
Gender and Authority in the Late Medieval Church
A New History
Av Ian Forrest
Inbunden, 2025
616 kr
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Gender and Authority in the Late Medieval Church asks a deceptively simple question: How did the governance of the medieval institutional church remain exclusively male, despite plentiful evidence of women being as capable and devout as men? The remarkable endurance of an all-male clergy is an …
Microliteratures
The Production of the Margin in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Books
Inbunden, 2025
1898 kr
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Microliteratures is an innovative examination of writings done in the margins of medieval manuscripts and early modern books. Not always as formal as glosses, sometimes feverish and abbreviated, these marginal writings or, "microliteratures," are the product of readers thinking with the text at the …
Microliteratures
The Production of the Margin in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Books
Häftad, 2025
448 kr
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Microliteratures is an innovative examination of writings done in the margins of medieval manuscripts and early modern books. Not always as formal as glosses, sometimes feverish and abbreviated, these marginal writings or, "microliteratures," are the product of readers thinking with the text at the …
Radiances
Unpublished Essays on Gods, Kingship, and Images of the State
Av Ernst Kantorowicz, Robert E. Lerner
Häftad, 2025
448 kr
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Radiances gathers previously unpublished essays by one of the greatest historians of the twentieth century. Although best known for The King's Two Bodies (1957), Ernst Kantorowicz's scholarly expertise ranged from classical antiquity to early modernity and from political pageantry to numismatics. …
Salvation of Israel
Jews in Christian Eschatology from Paul to the Puritans
Av Jeremy Cohen
Häftad, 2026
361 kr
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The Salvation of Israel investigates Christianity's eschatological Jew: the role and characteristics of the Jews at the end of days in the Christian imagination. It explores the depth of Christian ambivalence regarding these Jews, from Paul's Epistle to the Romans, through late antiquity and the …
Beyond the Elite
Everyday Jewish Lives in Medieval Northern Europe
Av Elisheva Baumgarten, Elisheva Baumgarten
Inbunden, 2026
1650 kr
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Beyond the Elite focuses on the everyday social history of Jews in medieval northern and central Europe using four interpretive lenses: people, space, objects, and rituals. Contributors to this innovative volume discuss aspects of daily life through which non-elite Jews interacted with their …
Beyond the Elite
Everyday Jewish Lives in Medieval Northern Europe
Av Elisheva Baumgarten, Elisheva Baumgarten
Häftad, 2026
370 kr
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Beyond the Elite focuses on the everyday social history of Jews in medieval northern and central Europe using four interpretive lenses: people, space, objects, and rituals. Contributors to this innovative volume discuss aspects of daily life through which non-elite Jews interacted with their …
