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Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050-1250, Volume I
Material Resources
Av Bjørn Poulsen, Helle Vogt m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2586 kr
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This book, first in a series of three, examines the social elites in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland, and which social, political, and cultural resources went into their creation. The elite controlled enormous economic resources and exercised power over people. Power over agrarian production …
Social Fabric of Fifteenth-Century Florence
Identities and Change in the World of Second-Hand Dealers
Inbunden, 2019
2197 kr
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The Arte dei rigattieri (merchants of second-hand goods in Florence) has never been the subject of a systematic study, even in scholarship devoted to the history of trades. Underpinned by a large collection of archival material, this book analyzes the social life and economic activity of …
Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050–1250, Volume III
Legitimacy and Glory
Av Wojtek Jezierski, Kim Esmark m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2586 kr
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This book explores the practical and symbolic resources of legitimacy which the elites of medieval Scandinavia employed to establish, justify, and reproduce their social and political standing between the end of the Viking Age and the rise of kingdoms in the thirteenth century. Geographically the …
Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050–1250, Volume III
Legitimacy and Glory
Av Wojtek Jezierski, Kim Esmark m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
727 kr
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This book explores the practical and symbolic resources of legitimacy which the elites of medieval Scandinavia employed to establish, justify, and reproduce their social and political standing between the end of the Viking Age and the rise of kingdoms in the thirteenth century. Geographically the …
Family, Work, and Household in Late Medieval Iberia
A Social History of Manresa at the Time of the Black Death
Häftad, 2020
727 kr
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Family, Work, and Household presents the social and occupational life of a late medieval Iberian town in rich, unprecedented detail. The book combines a diachronic study of two regionally prominent families—one knightly and one mercantile—with a detailed cross-sectional urban study of household and …
Plow, the Pen and the Sword
Images and Self-Images of Medieval People in the Low Countries
Av Rudi Künzel
Häftad, 2020
727 kr
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This book compares the cultures of the different social groups living in the Low Countries in the early Middle Ages. Clergy, nobility, peasants and townsmen greatly varied in their attitudes to labor, property, violence, and the handling and showing of emotions. Künzel explores how these social …
Jewish-Christian Encounter in Medieval Preaching
Av Jonathan Adams, Jussi Hanska
Häftad, 2020
727 kr
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This book explores the complexity of preaching as a phenomenon in the medieval Jewish-Christian encounter. This was not only an "encounter" as physical meeting or confrontation (such as the forced attendance of Jews at Christian sermons that took place across Europe), but also an "imaginary" or …
Agrarian Change and Crisis in Europe, 1200-1500
Häftad, 2020
727 kr
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Agrarian Change and Crisis in Europe, 1200-1500 addresses one of the classic subjects on economic history: the process of aggregate economic growth and the crisis that engulfed the European continent during the late Middle Ages. This was not an ordinary crisis. During the period 1200-1500, Europe …
Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050–1250, Volume II
Social Networks
Av Kim Esmark, Lars Hermanson m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
727 kr
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Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050-1250, Volume II explores the structures and workings of social networks within the elites of medieval Scandinavia to reveal the intricate relationship between power and status. Section one of this volume categorizes basic types of personal bonds, both …
Wonder and Skepticism in the Middle Ages
Häftad, 2019
757 kr
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Wonder and Skepticism in the Middle Ages explores the response by medieval society to tales of marvels and the supernatural, which ranged from firm belief to outright rejection, and asks why the believers believed, and why the skeptical disbelieved. Despite living in a world whose structures more …
Medieval Hostageship c.700-c.1500
Hostage, Captive, Prisoner of War, Guarantee, Peacemaker
Av Matthew Bennett, Katherine Weikert
Häftad, 2019
832 kr
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This volume explores the issues of taking, using and being hostages in the Middle Ages. It brings together recent research in the areas of hostages and hostageships, looking at the act of hostage-taking and the hostages themselves through the lenses of political and social history. Building upon …
Colonies of Genoa in the Black Sea Region
Evolution and Transformation
Häftad, 2019
727 kr
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This book focuses on the network of the Genoese colonies in the Black Sea area and their diverse multi-ethnic societies. It raises the problems of continuity of the colonial patterns, reveals the importance of the formation of the late medieval / early modern colonialism, the urban demography, and …
How Thor Lost His Thunder
The Changing Faces of an Old Norse God
Häftad, 2019
757 kr
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How Thor Lost his Thunder is the first major English-language study of early medieval evidence for the Old Norse god, Thor. In this book, the most common modern representations of Thor are examined, such as images of him wreathed in lightning, and battling against monsters and giants. The origins …
New Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Gdansk, Poland and Prussia
Häftad, 2019
727 kr
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New Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Poland and Prussia: The Impact of Gdańsk draws together the latest reseach conducted by local historians and archaeologists on the city of Gdańsk and its impact on the surrounding region of Pomerania and Poland as a whole. Beginning with Gdańsk’s early …
Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050–1250, Volume II
Social Networks
Av Kim Esmark, Lars Hermanson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2586 kr
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Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050-1250, Volume II explores the structures and workings of social networks within the elites of medieval Scandinavia to reveal the intricate relationship between power and status. Section one of this volume categorizes basic types of personal bonds, both …
Generation of Identity in Late Medieval Hagiography
Speaking the Saint
Av Gail Ashton
Inbunden, 1999
2888 kr
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In this interdisciplinary and boundary-breaking study, Gail Ashton examines the portrayals of women saints in a wide range of medieval texts. She deploys the French feminist critical theory of Cixous and Iriguray to illuminate these depictions of women by men and to further our understanding of …
Women Pilgrims in Late Medieval England
Inbunden, 2000
2512 kr
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This thought-provoking book explores medieval perceptions of pilgrimage, gender and space. It examines real life evidence for the widespread presence of women pilgrims, as well as secular and literary texts concerning pilgrimage and women pilgrims represented in the visual arts. Women pilgrims were …
Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2000
2888 kr
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This book challenges the belief that female virginity can be reliably and unambiguously defined, tested and verified. Kelly analyses a variety of medieval Western European texts - including medical treatises and their Classical antecedents - and historical and legal documents. The main focus is the …
Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages
Häftad, 2014
1046 kr
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This book challenges the belief that female virginity can be reliably and unambiguously defined, tested and verified. Kelly analyses a variety of medieval Western European texts - including medical treatises and their Classical antecedents - and historical and legal documents. The main focus is the …
Divorce in Medieval England
From One to Two Persons in Law
Inbunden, 2013
2586 kr
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Divorce in Medieval England is intended to reorient scholarly perceptions concerning divorce in the medieval period. Divorce, as we think of it today, is usually considered to be a modern invention. This book challenges that viewpoint, documenting the many and varied uses of divorce in the medieval …
Medieval Islamic Historiography
Remembering Rebellion
Inbunden, 2013
2586 kr
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This book is a comparative analysis of the medieval Sunni historiography of the caliphate of Uthman b. Affan and the revolt against him. By comparing treatments of Uthman in pietistic literature and universal chronicles, the work traces the gradual silencing of more critical accounts in favor of …
Theorizing Medieval Geopolitics
War and World Order in the Age of the Crusades
Inbunden, 2011
2586 kr
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Over the past two decades or so, medieval geopolitics have come to occupy an increasingly prominent place in the collective imagination—and writings—of International Relations scholars. Although these accounts differ significantly in terms of their respective analytical assumptions, theoretical …
Pluralism in the Middle Ages
Hybrid Identities, Conversion, and Mixed Marriages in Medieval Iberia
Inbunden, 2011
2826 kr
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The challenges of cultural and religious diversity that face European and American societies today are not a new phenomenon. People in the Middle Ages lived in pluralistic societies, and they found highly interesting ways of dealing with religious and cultural diversity. While religious and …
Agrarian Change and Crisis in Europe, 1200-1500
Inbunden, 2011
2586 kr
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Agrarian Change and Crisis in Europe, 1200-1500 addresses one of the classic subjects on economic history: the process of aggregate economic growth and the crisis that engulfed the European continent during the late Middle Ages. This was not an ordinary crisis. During the period 1200-1500, Europe …
Social Fabric of Fifteenth-Century Florence
Identities and Change in the World of Second-Hand Dealers
Häftad, 2021
727 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Arte dei rigattieri (merchants of second-hand goods in Florence) has never been the subject of a systematic study, even in scholarship devoted to the history of trades. Underpinned by a large collection of archival material, this book analyzes the social life and economic activity of …
Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050-1250, Volume I
Material Resources
Av Bjørn Poulsen, Helle Vogt m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
727 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book, first in a series of three, examines the social elites in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland, and which social, political, and cultural resources went into their creation. The elite controlled enormous economic resources and exercised power over people. Power over agrarian production …
Pluralism in the Middle Ages
Hybrid Identities, Conversion, and Mixed Marriages in Medieval Iberia
Häftad, 2024
652 kr
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The challenges of cultural and religious diversity that face European and American societies today are not a new phenomenon. People in the Middle Ages lived in pluralistic societies, and they found highly interesting ways of dealing with religious and cultural diversity. While religious and …
Medieval Islamic Historiography
Remembering Rebellion
E-bok, 2013
785 kr
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This book is a comparative analysis of the medieval Sunni historiography of the caliphate of Uthman b. Affan and the revolt against him. By comparing treatments of Uthman in pietistic literature and universal chronicles, the work traces the gradual silencing of more critical accounts in favor of …
Medieval Islamic Historiography
Remembering Rebellion
E-bok, 2013
768 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book is a comparative analysis of the medieval Sunni historiography of the caliphate of Uthman b. Affan and the revolt against him. By comparing treatments of Uthman in pietistic literature and universal chronicles, the work traces the gradual silencing of more critical accounts in favor of …
Women Pilgrims in Late Medieval England
Häftad, 2014
750 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This thought-provoking book explores medieval perceptions of pilgrimage, gender and space. It examines real life evidence for the widespread presence of women pilgrims, as well as secular and literary texts concerning pilgrimage and women pilgrims represented in the visual arts. Women pilgrims were …
