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Trotula
An English Translation of the Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine
Häftad, 2002
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374 kr
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The Trotula was the most influential compendium of women's medicine in medieval Europe. Scholarly debate has long focused on the traditional attribution of the work to the mysterious Trotula, said to have been the first female professor of medicine in eleventh- or twelfth-century Salerno, just …
Nordic Religions in the Viking Age
Häftad, 1999
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369 kr
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The popular image of the Viking as a horn-helmeted berserker plying the ocean in a dragon-headed long boat is firmly fixed in history. Imagining Viking "conquerors" as much more numerous, technologically superior, and somehow inherently more warlike than their neighbors has overshadowed the …
Knight's Own Book of Chivalry
Häftad, 2005
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316 kr
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On the great influence of a valiant lord: "The companions, who see that good warriors are honored by the great lords for their prowess, become more determined to attain this level of prowess."On the lady who sees her knight honored: "All of this makes the noble lady rejoice greatly within herself …
Chronicle of Theophanes
Anni Mundi 6095-6305 (a.D. 602-813)
Häftad, 1982
375 kr
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The most important illuminating source that survived from the two centuries termed "the dark ages of Byzantium" is the chronicle of the monk Theophanes (d. 817 or 818). In it Theophanes paints a vivid picture of the Empire's struggle in the seventh and eighth centuries both to withstand foreign …
Daily Life in the World of Charlemagne
Av Pierre Riché, Jo Ann McNamara m. fl.
Häftad, 1988
454 kr
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In the growth of towns and the revival of commerce, historians have seen the development of a bourgeois and capitalist Europe, but Pierre RichÉ reminds us that Carolingians saw a world of forest and wasteland, in which scattered castles and villages were outposts against the savagery of nature, …
Two Powers
The Papacy, the Empire, and the Struggle for Sovereignty in the Thirteenth Century
Inbunden, 2019
1243 kr
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Historians commonly designate the High Middle Ages as the era of the "papal monarchy," when the popes of Rome vied with secular rulers for spiritual and temporal supremacy. Indeed, in many ways the story of the papal monarchy encapsulates that of medieval Europe as often remembered: a time before …
Maurice's Strategikon
Handbook of Byzantine Military Strategy
Häftad, 2025
334 kr
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This military handbook, attributed to the Byzantine emperor Maurice (582–602), is an invaluable source not only for early Byzantine history, but also for the history of the art of war. Intended as a guide for field commanders and campaigners, the Strategikon contains a wealth of information on …
Manly Priest
Clerical Celibacy, Masculinity, and Reform in England and Normandy, 166-13
E-bok, 2015
1101 kr
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During the High Middle Ages, members of the Anglo-Norman clergy not only routinely took wives but also often prepared their own sons for ecclesiastical careers. As the Anglo-Norman Church began to impose clerical celibacy on the priesthood, reform needed to be carefully negotiated, as it relied on …
Medieval Robots
Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art
Av E. R. Truitt
Häftad, 2016
430 kr
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A thousand years before Isaac Asimov set down his Three Laws of Robotics, real and imagined automata appeared in European courts, liturgies, and literary texts. Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, and silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct …
Barbarian Tides
The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire
Häftad, 2009
396 kr
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The Migration Age is still envisioned as an onrush of expansionary "Germans" pouring unwanted into the Roman Empire and subjecting it to pressures so great that its western parts collapsed under the weight. Further developing the themes set forth in his classic Barbarians and Romans, Walter Goffart …
The Hundred Years War, Volume 2: Trial by Fire
Häftad, 2001
1208 kr
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A succession of catastrophes in the middle years of the fourteenth century brought France to the brink of destruction. The bankruptcy of the French state and a bitter civil war within the royal family were followed by the defeat and capture of the King of France by the Black Prince at Poitiers. A …
Gibraltar Crusade
Castile and the Battle for the Strait
Häftad, 2014
512 kr
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The epic battle for control of the Strait of Gibraltar waged by Castile, Morocco, and Granada in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries is a major, but often overlooked, chapter in the history of the Christian reconquest of Spain. After the Castilian conquest of Seville in 1248 and the …
Cities of Ladies
Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565
E-bok, 2010
489 kr
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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleIn the early thirteenth century, semireligious communities of women began to form in the cities and towns of the Low Countries. These beguines, as the women came to be known, led lives of contemplation and prayer and earned their livings …
Investiture Controversy
Church and Monarchy from the Ninth to the Twelfth Century
E-bok, 2010
424 kr
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"This book describes the roots of a set of ideals that effected a radical transformation of eleventh-century European society that led to the confrontation between church and monarchy known as the investiture struggle or Gregorian reform. Ideas cannot be divorced from reality, especially not in the …
From Virile Woman to WomanChrist
Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature
E-bok, 2011
562 kr
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Why did hagiographers of the late Middle Ages praise mothers for abandoning small children? How did a group of female mystics come to define themselves as "apostles to the dead" and end by challenging God's right to damn? Why did certain heretics around 1300 venerate a woman as the Holy Spirit …
Barbarian Tides
The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire
E-bok, 2010
504 kr
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The Migration Age is still envisioned as an onrush of expansionary "Germans" pouring unwanted into the Roman Empire and subjecting it to pressures so great that its western parts collapsed under the weight. Further developing the themes set forth in his classic Barbarians and Romans, Walter Goffart …
Envy of Angels
Cathedral Schools and Social Ideals in Medieval Europe, 950-1200
E-bok, 2013
985 kr
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Before the rise of universities, cathedral schools educated students in a course of studies aimed at perfecting their physical presence, their manners, and their eloquence. The formula of cathedral schools was "letters and manners" (litterae et mores), which asserts a pedagogic program as broad as …
Aquinas and the Jews
E-bok, 2010
375 kr
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Hood's study contends that Aquinas's writings remain resistant to or skeptical of anti-Jewish trends in thirteenth-century theology. Aquinas sets out simply to clarify and systematize received theological and canonistic teachings on the Jews.
Feudal Society in Medieval France
Documents from the County of Champagne
E-bok, 2011
437 kr
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Theodore Evergates has assembled, translated, and annotated some two hundred documents from the country of Champagne into a sourcebook that focuses on the political, economic, and legal workings of a feudal society, uncovering the details of private life and social history that are embedded in the …
Laws of the Salian Franks
E-bok, 2012
437 kr
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Following the collapse of the western Roman Empire, the Franks established in northern Gaul one of the most enduring of the Germanic barbarian kingdoms. They produced a legal code (which they called the Salic law) at approximately the same time that the Visigoths and Burgundians produced theirs, …
Book of Sainte Foy
E-bok, 2010
493 kr
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The miracle stories surrounding Sainte Foy form one of the most complete sets of material relating to a medieval saint's cult and its practices. Pamela Sheingorn's superb translation from the Medieval Latin texts now makes this literature available in English. The Book of Sainte Foy recounts the …
History of the Counts of Guines and Lords of Ardres
E-bok, 2010
437 kr
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The History of the Counts of Guines and Lords of Ardres, a work made famous by Georges Duby, now appears in an expert translation by Leah Shopkow. Consisting of 154 surviving chapters, Lambert's chronicle is just one of many local genealogies produced in Flanders during the high Middle Ages. It is …
Voice of My Beloved
The Song of Songs in Western Medieval Christianity
E-bok, 2010
415 kr
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The Song of Songs, eight chapters of love lyrics found in the collection of wisdom literature attributed to Solomon, is the most enigmatic book of the Bible. For thousands of years Jews and Christians alike have preserved it in the canon of scripture and used it in liturgy. Exegetes saw it as a …
Aristocratic Women in Medieval France
E-bok, 2010
504 kr
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Were aristocratic women in medieval France little more than appendages to patrilineal families, valued as objects of exchange and necessary only for the production of male heirs? Such was the view proposed by the great French historian Georges Duby more than three decades ago and still widely …
Ennobling Love
In Search of a Lost Sensibility
E-bok, 2010
504 kr
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"Richard, Duke of Aquitaine, son of the King of England, remained with Philip, the King of France, who so honored him for so long that they ate every day at the same table and from the same dish, and at night their beds did not separate them. And the King of France loved him as his own soul; and …
Promised Lands
The Low Countries Under Burgundian Rule, 1369-1530
Av Wim Blockmans, Walter Prevenier m. fl.
E-bok, 2010
504 kr
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They were, in the words of one contemporary observer, "the Promised Lands." In all of Europe, only Northern Italy could rival the economic power and cultural wealth of the Low Countries in the later Middle Ages.In The Promised Lands, Wim Blockmans and Walter Prevenier trace the relations between …
Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History
A Forgotten Heritage
E-bok, 2010
562 kr
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Arabic culture was a central and shaping phenomenon in medieval Europe, yet its influence on medieval literature has been ignored or marginalized for the last two centuries. In this ground-breaking book, now returned to print with a new afterword by the author, MarÍa Rosa Menocal argues that major …
Fallen Bodies
Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages
Av Dyan Elliott
E-bok, 2010
489 kr
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Medieval clerics believed that original sin had rendered their "fallen bodies" vulnerable to corrupting impulses-particularly those of a sexual nature. They feared that their corporeal frailty left them susceptible to demonic forces bent on penetrating and polluting their bodies and souls.Drawing …
Cistercian Evolution
The Invention of a Religious Order in Twelfth-Century Europe
E-bok, 2010
554 kr
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According to the received history, the Cistercian order was founded in CÎteaux, France, in 1098 by a group of Benedictine monks who wished for a stricter community. They sought a monastic life that called for extreme asceticism, rejection of feudal revenues, and manual labor for monks. Their third …
Anatomy of a Crusade, 1213-1221
E-bok, 2010
504 kr
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James M. Powell here offers a new interpretation of the Fifth Crusade's historical and social impact, and a richly rewarding view of life in the thirteenth century. Powell addresses such questions as the degree of popular interest in the crusades, the religious climate of the period, the social …
