Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past – serie
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Bishop's Palace
Architecture and Authority in Medieval Italy
Inbunden, 2000
1026 kr
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This lavishly illustrated book looks at the art and architecture of episcopal palaces as expressions of power and ideology. Tracing the history of the bishop's residence in the urban centers of northern Italy over the Middle Ages, Maureen C. Miller asks why this once rudimentary and highly …
Order and Exclusion
Cluny and Christendom Face Heresy, Judaism, and Islam (1000–1150)
Inbunden, 2003
1148 kr
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Order and Exclusion is a rare and magnificent book of medieval history with clear relevance to today's headlines. Through the lens of the polemics of Peter the Venerable, abbot of Cluny, Dominique Iogna-Prat examines the process by which christianity transformed itself into Christendom, a powerful …
Unjust Seizure
Conflict, Interest, and Authority in an Early Medieval Society
Av Warren Brown
Inbunden, 2001
1008 kr
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Most scholarship in English on the political and social order of early medieval Europe concentrates on the Western Frankish regions. Warren Brown shifts the focus to the East, concentrating on conflicts and their resolutions to learn how a central authority could affect local societies in the …
Medieval Cruelty
Changing Perceptions, Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period
Av Daniel Baraz
Inbunden, 2003
892 kr
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The Middle Ages are often thought of as an era during which cruelty was a major aspect of life, a view that stems from the anti-Catholic polemics of the Reformation. Daniel Baraz makes the striking discovery that the concept of cruelty, which had been an important issue in late antiquity, received …
Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris
Gender, Ideology, and the Daily Lives of the Poor
Inbunden, 2001
739 kr
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This book about poor men and women in thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century Paris reveals the other side of the "age of cathedrals" in the very place where gothic architecture and scholastic theology were born. In Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris, Sharon Farmer extends and deepens the …
Divorce of Lothar II
Christian Marriage and Political Power in the Carolingian World
Inbunden, 2010
805 kr
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"She declares, so the bishops will write in their report on the council, that she is unworthy to continue as a married woman. 'Before God and his angels' she bares her heart and confesses to them 'every secret relating to the rumor that had arisen.' The 'rumor'—as will become apparent—concerns her …
Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours
Inbunden, 2001
739 kr
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Before France became France its territories included Occitania, roughly the present-day province of Languedoc. The city of Narbonne was a center of Occitanian commerce and culture during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. For most of the second half of the twelfth century, that city and its …
Shifting Landmarks
Property, Proof, and Dispute in Catalonia Around the Year 1000
Inbunden, 2004
979 kr
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In a major contribution to the debate among medievalists about the nature of social and political change in Europe around the turn of the millennium, Jeffrey A. Bowman explores how people contended over property during the tenth and eleventh centuries in the province of Narbonne. He examines the …
Rancor and Reconciliation in Medieval England
Inbunden, 2003
994 kr
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Duels and bloodfeuds have long been regarded as essentially Continental phenomena, counter to the staid and orderly British ways of settling differences. In this surprising work of social and legal history, Paul R. Hyams reveals a post-Conquest England not all that different from the realms across …
Passion and Order
Restraint of Grief in the Medieval Italian Communes
Inbunden, 2008
935 kr
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The way in which a society expresses grief can reveal how it views both intense emotions and public order. In thirteenth-century Italian communes, a conscious effort to change appropriate public reaction to death threw into sharp relief connections among urban politics, gender expectations, and …
Discerning Spirits
Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2003
739 kr
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Trance states, prophesying, convulsions, fasting, and other physical manifestations were often regarded as signs that a person was seized by spirits. In a book that sets out the prehistory of the early modern European witch craze, Nancy Caciola shows how medieval people decided whom to venerate as …
Consumption of Justice
Emotions, Publicity, and Legal Culture in Marseille, 1264–1423
Inbunden, 2003
805 kr
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In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the ideas and practices of justice in Europe underwent significant change as procedures were transformed and criminal and civil caseloads grew apace. Drawing on the rich judicial records of Marseille from the years 1264 to 1423, especially records of …
So Great a Light, So Great a Smoke
The Beguin Heretics of Languedoc
Inbunden, 2007
725 kr
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In So Great a Light, So Great a Smoke, Louisa A. Burnham takes us inside the world of a little-known heretical group in the south of France in the early fourteenth century. The Beguins were a small sect of priests and lay people allied to (and sharing many of the convictions of) the Spiritual …
Shaping a Monastic Identity
Liturgy and History at the Imperial Abbey of Farfa, 1000–1125
Inbunden, 2006
858 kr
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During the eleventh and early twelfth centuries, the imperial abbey of Farfa was one of the most powerful institutions on the Italian peninsula. In this period many of the lands of central Italy fell under its sway, and it enjoyed the protection of the emperor until the 1120s, when it passed …
Sephardic Frontier
The "Reconquista" and the Jewish Community in Medieval Iberia
Av Jonathan Ray
Inbunden, 2006
863 kr
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No subject looms larger over the historical landscape of medieval Spain than that of the reconquista, the rapid expansion of the power of the Christian kingdoms into the Muslim-populated lands of southern Iberia, which created a broad frontier zone that for two centuries remained a region of …
Transformation of a Religious Landscape
Medieval Southern Italy, 850–1150
Inbunden, 2006
877 kr
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The Transformation of a Religious Landscape paints a detailed picture of the sheer variety of early medieval Christian practice and organization, as well as the diverse modes in which church reform manifested itself in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.From the rich archives of the abbey of the …
Enemies and Familiars
Slavery and Mastery in Fifteenth-Century Valencia
Inbunden, 2009
776 kr
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A prominent Mediterranean port located near Islamic territories, the city of Valencia in the late fifteenth century boasted a slave population of pronounced religious and ethnic diversity: captive Moors and penally enslaved Mudejars, Greeks, Tartars, Russians, Circassians, and a growing population …
Common Stage
Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras
Av Carol Symes
Inbunden, 2007
947 kr
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Medieval Arras was a thriving town on the frontier between the kingdom of France and the county of Flanders, and home to Europe's earliest surviving vernacular plays: The Play of St. Nicholas, The Courtly Lad of Arras, The Boy and the Blind Man, The Play of the Bower, and The Play about Robin and …
Heresy and the Politics of Community
The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate
Inbunden, 2008
979 kr
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In a book with a bold new view of medieval Jewish history, written in a style accessible to nonspecialists and students as well as to scholars in the field, Marina Rustow changes our understanding of the origins and nature of heresy itself. Scholars have long believed that the Rabbanites and …
Heresy and the Politics of Community
The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate
Häftad, 2014
641 kr
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In a book with a bold new view of medieval Jewish history, written in a style accessible to nonspecialists and students as well as to scholars in the field, Marina Rustow changes our understanding of the origins and nature of heresy itself. Scholars have long believed that the Rabbanites and …
Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris
Gender, Ideology, and the Daily Lives of the Poor
Häftad, 2005
401 kr
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This book about poor men and women in thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century Paris reveals the other side of the "age of cathedrals" in the very place where gothic architecture and scholastic theology were born. In Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris, Sharon Farmer extends and deepens the …
Discerning Spirits
Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages
Häftad, 2006
415 kr
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Trance states, prophesying, convulsions, fasting, and other physical manifestations were often regarded as signs that a person was seized by spirits. In a book that sets out the prehistory of the early modern European witch craze, Nancy Caciola shows how medieval people decided whom to venerate as …
Sephardic Frontier
The "Reconquista" and the Jewish Community in Medieval Iberia
Av Jonathan Ray
Häftad, 2008
297 kr
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No subject looms larger over the historical landscape of medieval Spain than that of the reconquista, the rapid expansion of the power of the Christian kingdoms into the Muslim-populated lands of southern Iberia, which created a broad frontier zone that for two centuries remained a region of …
Struggle for Empire
Kingship and Conflict Under Louis the German, 817–876
Häftad, 2009
355 kr
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Struggle for Empire explores the contest for kingdoms and power among Charlemagne's descendants that shaped the formation of Europe. It examines this pivotal era through the reign of Charlemagne's grandson, Louis the German (826–876), one of the longest-ruling Carolingian kings. Eric J. Goldberg's …
Consumption of Justice
Emotions, Publicity, and Legal Culture in Marseille, 1264–1423
Häftad, 2013
341 kr
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In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the ideas and practices of justice in Europe underwent significant change as procedures were transformed and criminal and civil caseloads grew apace. Drawing on the rich judicial records of Marseille from the years 1264 to 1423, especially records of …
Bishop's Palace
Architecture and Authority in Medieval Italy
Häftad, 2002
413 kr
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This lavishly illustrated book looks at the art and architecture of episcopal palaces as expressions of power and ideology. Tracing the history of the bishop's residence in the urban centers of northern Italy over the Middle Ages, Maureen C. Miller asks why this once rudimentary and highly …
Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours
Häftad, 2004
542 kr
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Before France became France its territories included Occitania, roughly the present-day province of Languedoc. The city of Narbonne was a center of Occitanian commerce and culture during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. For most of the second half of the twelfth century, that city and its …
Speaking of Slavery
Color, Ethnicity, and Human Bondage in Italy
Häftad, 2018
413 kr
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In this highly original work, Steven A. Epstein shows that the ways Italians employ words and think about race and labor are profoundly affected by the language used in medieval Italy to sustain a system of slavery. The author's findings about the surprising persistence of the "language of slavery" …
Speaking of Slavery
Color, Ethnicity, and Human Bondage in Italy
Inbunden, 2001
841 kr
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In this highly original work, Steven A. Epstein shows that the ways Italians employ words and think about race and labor are profoundly affected by the language used in medieval Italy to sustain a system of slavery. The author's findings about the surprising persistence of the "language of slavery" …
Weaving Sacred Stories
French Choir Tapestries and the Performance of Clerical Identity
Inbunden, 2004
1053 kr
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Spanning the backs of choir stalls above the heads of the canons and their officials, large-scale tapestries of saints' lives functioned as both architectural elements and pictorial narratives in the late Middle Ages. In an extensively illustrated book that features sixteen color plates, Laura …
