Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series – serie
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Stolen Women in Medieval England
Rape, Abduction, and Adultery, 1100-1500
Häftad, 2017
586 kr
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This study of illicit sexuality in medieval England explores links between marriage and sex, law and disorder, and property and power. Some medieval Englishwomen endured rape or were kidnapped for forced marriages, yet most ravished women were married and many 'wife-thefts' were not forced …
Making the Holy Roman Empire Holy
Frederick Barbarossa, Saint Charlemagne and the sacrum imperium
Häftad, 2026
420 kr
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How did the Holy Roman Empire (sacrum imperium) become Holy? In this innovative book, Vedran Sulovsky explores the reign of Frederick Barbarossa (1152-1190), offering a new analysis of the key documents, artworks, and contemporary scholarship used to celebrate and commemorate the imperial regime, …
Power and Patronage in Early Medieval Italy
Local Society, Italian Politics and the Abbey of Farfa, c.700-900
Inbunden, 2007
1777 kr
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Founded around the beginning of the eighth century in the Sabine hills north of Rome, the abbey of Farfa was for centuries a barometer of social and political change in central Italy. Conventionally, the region's history in the early Middle Ages revolves around the rise of the papacy as a secular …
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 …
The Making of the Slavs
History and Archaeology of the Lower Danube Region, c.500-700
Av Florin Curta
Häftad, 2007
871 kr
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This book offers an alternative approach to the problem of Slavic ethnicity in south-eastern Europe between c. 500 and c. 700, from the perspective of current anthropological theories. The conceptual emphasis here is on the relation between material culture and ethnicity. The author demonstrates …
The Victors and the Vanquished
Christians and Muslims of Catalonia and Aragon, 1050-1300
Häftad, 2007
938 kr
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This is a revisionary study of Muslims living under Christian rule during the Spanish 'reconquest'. It looks beyond the obvious religious distinctions and delves into the subtleties of identity in the thirteenth-century Crown of Aragon, uncovering a social dynamic in which sectarian differences …
Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia
Power, Order, and the Written Word, 1000-1200
Häftad, 2007
502 kr
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This study examines the role of written agreements in eleventh- and twelfth-century Catalonia, and how they determined the social and political order. By tracing the fate of these agreements - or convenientiae - from their first appearance to the late twelfth century, it is possible to demonstrate …
Politics and History in the Tenth Century
The Work and World of Richer of Reims
Av Jason Glenn
Häftad, 2007
902 kr
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This book stands at the intersection of recent work in historiography and the study of political culture in the early Middle Ages. It takes the autograph manuscript of a tenth-century monk, Richer, as a point of entry into the author's world, and asks how he and his contemporaries in the religious …
Kingship and Politics in the Late Ninth Century
Charles the Fat and the End of the Carolingian Empire
Häftad, 2007
821 kr
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This is a major study of the collapse of the pan-European Carolingian empire and the reign of its last ruler, Charles III 'the Fat' (876-888). The later decades of the empire are conventionally seen as a dismal period of decline and fall, scarred by internal feuding, unfettered aristocratic …
The Making of Gratian's Decretum
Häftad, 2007
770 kr
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This book offers perspectives on the legal and intellectual developments of the twelfth century. Gratian's collection of Church law, the Decretum, was a key text in these developments. Compiled in around 1140, it remained a fundamental work throughout and beyond the Middle Ages. Until now, the many …
Philosophy and Politics in the Thought of John Wyclif
Häftad, 2008
601 kr
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John Wyclif was the fourteenth-century English thinker responsible for the first English Bible, and for the Lollard movement which was persecuted widely for its attempts to reform the Church through empowerment of the laity. Wyclif had also been an Oxford philosopher, and was in the service of John …
The Reform of the Frankish Church
Chrodegang of Metz and the Regula canonicorum in the Eighth Century
Häftad, 2008
687 kr
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Chrodegang of Metz (c. 712-766) was a leading figure of the late Merovingian and early Carolingian Church. Born to one of the principal aristocratic families in Austrasia, he served as referendary of Charles Martel, and was appointed bishop of Metz in the 740s. As bishop, Chrodegang became one of …
A Marginal Economy?
East Anglian Breckland in the Later Middle Ages
Av Mark Bailey
Häftad, 2008
754 kr
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A theory of the margin has long featured in the work of medieval historians. Marginal regions are taken to be those of poor soil or geographical remoteness, where farmers experienced particular difficulties in grain production. It is argued that such regions were cultivated only when demographic …
History and Geography in Late Antiquity
Häftad, 2008
838 kr
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The period from the fifth century to the eighth century witnessed massive political, social and religious change in Europe. Geographical and historical thought, long rooted to Roman ideologies, had to adopt the new perspectives of late antiquity. In the light of expanding Christianity and the …
The Royal Saints of Anglo-Saxon England
A Study of West Saxon and East Anglian Cults
Häftad, 2008
754 kr
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Within Anglo-Saxon England there was a strong and enduring tradition of royal sanctity - of men and women of royal birth who, in an age before the development of papal canonisation, came to be venerated as saints by the regional church. This study, which focuses on some of the best-documented cults …
The Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries
Av Daniel Power
Häftad, 2008
720 kr
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The twelfth-century borderlands of the duchy of Normandy formed the cockpit for dynastic rivalries between the kings of England and France. This 2004 book examines how the political divisions between Normandy and its neighbours shaped the communities of the Norman frontier. It traces the region's …
The Beaumont Twins
The Roots and Branches of Power in the Twelfth Century
Av David Crouch
Häftad, 2008
653 kr
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This book combines a simple dual biographical study of Waleran of Meulan and Robert of Leicester, the twin sons of Robert, Count of Meulan and Earl of Leicester, with an exploration of the exercise of power in twelfth-century Normandy and England. The twins were dominant and colourful characters, …
Life on the English Manor
A Study of Peasant Conditions 1150-1400
Häftad, 1937
586 kr
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This book gives a picture of the daily and yearly round of the English peasant in the Middle Ages. H. S. Bennett explains the feudal system which linked the poor man to the soil and to the service of his lord and the church in a pattern of customary dues and rights, payments, labours and small …
