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The Making of Lay Religion in Southern France, c. 1000-1350
Inbunden, 2024
2332 kr
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What was Christianity like for ordinary people between the turn of the millennium and the coming of the Black Death? What changed and what continued, in their experiences, habits, feelings, hopes, and fears? How did they know themselves to be Christians, and indeed to be good Christians? This book …
Papal Overlordship and European Princes, 1000-1270
Inbunden, 2021
1540 kr
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Papal Overlordship and European Princes, 1000-1270 offers a new perspective on the political history of the central Middle Ages by focusing on the alliances between popes and rulers who claimed a special relationship with the successor of St Peter. Rather than seeing these relationships as attempts …
Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300
Häftad, 2022
477 kr
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Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300 contains an analysis of the experience of married life by men and women in Christian medieval Europe, c. 900-1300. The study focusses on the social and emotional life of the married couple rather than on the institutional history of marriage, breaking it …
Venice, the Ottomans, and the Sea (1381–1517)
Inbunden, 2025
1549 kr
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The later Middle Ages and the early modern period were important and overlapping historical moments for both Venice and the Ottoman Empire, yet the two--both the periods themselves and the Republic and Empire more generally--have often been considered in isolation. Seeking to understand better this …
Slavery After Rome, 500-1100
Av Alice Rio
Inbunden, 2017
2328 kr
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Slavery After Rome, 500-1100 offers a substantially new interpretation of what happened to slavery in Western Europe in the centuries that followed the fall of the Roman Empire. The periods at either end of the early middle ages are associated with iconic forms of unfreedom: Roman slavery at one …
Contesting the City
The Politics of Citizenship in English Towns, 1250 - 1530
Inbunden, 2017
1806 kr
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The political narrative of late medieval English towns is often reduced to the story of the gradual intensification of oligarchy, in which power was exercised and projected by an ever smaller ruling group over an increasingly subservient urban population. Contesting the City takes its inspiration …
Urban Panegyric and the Transformation of the Medieval City, 1100-1300
Inbunden, 2019
2328 kr
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This study offers the first extensive analysis of the function and significance of urban panegyric in the Central Middle Ages, a flexible literary genre which enjoyed a marked and renewed popularity in the period 1100 to 1300. In doing so, it connects the production of urban panegyric to major …
Communication and Conflict
Italian Diplomacy in the Early Renaissance, 1350-1520
Inbunden, 2015
2658 kr
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Diplomacy has never been a politically-neutral research field, even when it was confined to merely reconstructing the backgrounds of wars and revolutions. In the nineteenth century, diplomacy was integral to the grand narrative of the building of the modern 'nation-State'. This is the first overall …
Anglo-Papal Relations in the Early Fourteenth Century
A Study in Medieval Diplomacy
Inbunden, 2019
1576 kr
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This volume is concerned with diplomacy between England and the papal curia during the first phase of the Anglo-French conflict known as the Hundred Years' War (1305-1360). On the one hand, Barbara Bombi compares how the practice of diplomacy, conducted through both official and unofficial …
The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland, 1124-1290
Av Alice Taylor
Inbunden, 2016
1880 kr
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This is the first full-length study of Scottish royal government in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries ever to have been written. It uses untapped legal evidence to set out a new narrative of governmental development. Between 1124 and 1290, the way in which kings of Scots ruled their kingdom …
Magnanimous Dukes and Rising States
The Unification of the Burgundian Netherlands, 1380-1480
Av Robert Stein
Inbunden, 2017
2800 kr
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In the late fourteenth and the fifteenth centuries, the Dukes of Valois-Burgundy created a composite monarchy in the Netherlands, an area that had been dominated for centuries by several regional dynasties. In this way they laid the foundation for the modern states of the Netherlands, Belgium, and …
The Chivalric Turn
Conduct and Hegemony in Europe before 1300
Av David Crouch
Inbunden, 2019
1880 kr
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The Chivalric Turn examines the medieval obsession with defining and practising superior conduct, and the social consequences that followed from it. Historians since the seventeenth century have tended to understand medieval conduct through the eyes of the writers of the Enlightenment, viewing …
Royal Bastards
The Birth of Illegitimacy, 800-1230
Inbunden, 2016
2234 kr
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The stigmatization as 'bastards' of children born outside of wedlock is commonly thought to have emerged early in Medieval European history. Christian ideas about legitimate marriage, it is assumed, set the standard for legitimate birth. Children born to anything other than marriage had fewer …
Visions of Kinship in Medieval Europe
Av Hans Hummer
Inbunden, 2018
1985 kr
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What meaning did human kinship possess in a world regulated by Biblical time, committed to the primacy of spiritual relationships, and bound by the sinews of divine love? In the process of exploring this question, Hans Hummer offers a searching re-examination of kinship in Europe between late Roman …
Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300
Inbunden, 2019
1623 kr
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Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300 contains an analysis of the experience of married life by men and women in Christian medieval Europe, c. 900-1300. The study focusses on the social and emotional life of the married couple rather than on the institutional history of marriage, breaking it …
Medieval Rome
Stability and Crisis of a City, 900-1150
Häftad, 2017
504 kr
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Medieval Rome analyses the history of the city of Rome between 900 and 1150, a period of major change in the city. This volume doesn't merely seek to tell the story of the city from the traditional Church standpoint; instead, it engages in studies of the city's processions, material culture, legal …
Graphic Signs of Authority in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, 300-900
Inbunden, 2018
2483 kr
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Graphic Signs of Authority in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages presents a cultural history of graphic signs and examines how they were employed to communicate secular and divine authority in the late antique Mediterranean and early medieval Europe. Visual materials such as the sign of the …
The Clash of Legitimacies
The State-Building Process in Late Medieval Lombardy
Inbunden, 2018
1549 kr
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The Clash of Legitimacies makes an innovative contribution to the history of the state-building process in late medieval Lombardy (during the 13th to 15th centuries), by illuminating myriad conflicts attending the legitimacy of power and authority at different levels of society. Through the …
The Seigneurial Transformation
Power Structures and Political Communication in the Countryside of Central and Northern Italy, 1080-1130
Inbunden, 2020
1512 kr
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In The Seigneurial Transformation, Alessio Fiore discusses the transformation of the fabric of power in the kingdom of Italy in the period between the late eleventh century and the early twelfth century. The study analyses the major socio-political change of this period, the crisis of royal and …
The Chivalric Turn
Conduct and Hegemony in Europe Before 1300
Av David Crouch
Häftad, 2020
551 kr
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The Chivalric Turn examines the medieval obsession with defining and practising superior conduct, and the social consequences that followed from it. Historians since the seventeenth century have tended to understand medieval conduct through the eyes of the writers of the Enlightenment, viewing …
On Hospitals
Welfare, Law, and Christianity in Western Europe, 400-1320
Inbunden, 2020
2333 kr
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This ground-breaking study explores welfare institutions in western law in the middle ages and establishes, for the first time, a legal model for the hospital. On Hospitals takes us beyond canon law, Carolingian capitularies, and Justinian's Code and Novels, to late Roman testamentary law, …
Demonic Possession and Lived Religion in Later Medieval Europe
Inbunden, 2020
1332 kr
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Demonic possession was a spiritual state that often had physical symptoms; however, in Demonic Possession and Lived Religion in Later Medieval Europe, Sari Katajala-Peltomaa argues that demonic possession was a social phenomenon which should be understood with regard to the community and culture. …
The Jacquerie of 1358
A French Peasants' Revolt
Inbunden, 2021
1586 kr
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The Jacquerie of 1358 is one of the most famous and mysterious peasant uprisings of the Middle Ages. Beginning in a small village but eventually overrunning most of northern France, the Jacquerie rebels destroyed noble castles and killed dozens of noblemen before being put down in a bloody wave of …
The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland, 1124-1290
Av Alice Taylor
Häftad, 2020
668 kr
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This is the first full-length study of Scottish royal government in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries ever to have been written. It uses untapped legal evidence to set out a new narrative of governmental development. Between 1124 and 1290, the way in which kings of Scots ruled their kingdom …
Slavery After Rome, 500-1100
Av Alice Rio
Häftad, 2020
624 kr
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Slavery After Rome, 500-1100 offers a substantially new interpretation of what happened to slavery in Western Europe in the centuries that followed the fall of the Roman Empire. The periods at either end of the early middle ages are associated with iconic forms of unfreedom: Roman slavery at one …
Stephen I, the First Christian King of Hungary
From Medieval Myth to Modern Legend
Av Nora Berend
Inbunden, 2024
1402 kr
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Stephen I, Hungary's first Christian king (reigned 997-1038) has been celebrated as the founder of the Hungarian state and church. Despite the scarcity of medieval sources, and consequent limitations on historical knowledge, he has had a central importance in narratives of Hungarian history and …
Heraldry in Urban Society
Visual Culture and Communication in Late Medieval England and Germany
Av Marcus Meer
Inbunden, 2024
1549 kr
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Heraldry is often seen as a traditional prerogative of the nobility. But it was not just knights, princes, kings, and emperors who bore coats of arms to show off their status in the Middle Ages. The merchants and craftsmen who lived in cities, too, adopted coats of arms and used heraldic customs, …
Lordship, Capitalism, and the State in Flanders (c. 1250–1570)
Av Frederik Buylaert, Miet Adriaens
Inbunden, 2025
2033 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.Until recently, historians tended to assume that in the late medieval …
Medieval Rome
Stability and Crisis of a City, 900-1150
Inbunden, 2014
1058 kr
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Medieval Rome analyses the history of the city of Rome between 900 and 1150, a period of major change in the city. This volume doesn't merely seek to tell the story of the city from the traditional Church standpoint; instead, it engages in studies of the city's processions, material culture, legal …
