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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 …
The Trotula
An English Translation of the Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine
Häftad, 2002
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375 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 …
A 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 …
The Chronicle of Theophanes
Anni Mundi 6095-6305 (a.D. 602-813)
Häftad, 1982
373 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, …
The 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 …
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 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 …
Allegory and Philosophy in Avicenna (Ibn Sînâ)
With a Translation of the Book of the Prophet Muhammad's Ascent to Heaven
Av Peter Heath
Inbunden, 1992
850 kr
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Islamic allegory is the product of a cohesive literary tradition to which few contributed as significantly as Ibn Sina (Avicenna), the eleventh-century Muslim philosopher. Peter Heath here offers a detailed examination of Avicenna's contribution, paying special attention to Avicenna's psychology …
Christian Society and the Crusades, 1198-1229
Sources in Translation, Including "the Capture of Damietta" by Oliver of Paderborn
Häftad, 1971
396 kr
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During the thirteenth century, the widespread conviction that the Christian lands in Syria and Palestine were of utmost importance to Christendom, and that their loss was a sure sign of God's displeasure with Christian society, pervaded nearly all levels of thought. Yet this same society faced …
The Burgundian Code
Book of Constitutions or Law of Gundobad; Additional Enactments
Häftad, 1972
287 kr
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"Gives the reader a portrayal of the social institutions of a Germanic people far richer and more exhaustive than any other available source."-from the Foreword, by Edward PetersFrom the bloody clashes of the third and fourth centuries there emerged a society that was neither Roman nor Burgundian, …
The Lombard Laws
Häftad, 1973
454 kr
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Here presented for the first time in English are the law codes of the Lombard kings who ruled Italy from the sixth to the eighth centuries. The documents afford unparalleled insight into the structure and values of Germanic society.
The Scientific Achievement of the Middle Ages
Häftad, 1973
329 kr
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The scientists of the twelfth century were daring, original, inventive, and above all determined to discover purely rational explanations of natural phenomena. Their intense interest in the natural world for its own sake, their habits of precise observation, and the high value they place on man as …
The Ordeal
Häftad, 1973
339 kr
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Henry Charles Lea was one of the first American historians to use what would later be termed comparative and anthropological approaches to history. Under his pen, the study of the medieval ordeal becomes a study in cultural history.Reprinted here from the fourth revised edition of 1892, the book …
History of the Lombards
Av Paul the Deacon, Edward Peters
Häftad, 1975
430 kr
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History of the Lombards, by Paul the Deacon (c. 720-c. 799), is among the most important and oldest accounts of the Germanic nation. The book preserves many ancient myths and popular traditions and draws from sources that are now lost. The history traces the changing fortunes of the Lombards, the …
The World of "Piers Plowman"
Av Jeanne Krochalis, Edward Peters
Häftad, 1975
443 kr
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Next to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, William Langland's Piers Plowman is perhaps the best-known literary picture of fourteenth-century England. Langland's work, more socially concerned and critical than Chaucer's, reflected an age of religious controversy, social upheaval, and political unrest. The …
Women in Medieval Society
Häftad, 1976
396 kr
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Early medieval women exercised public roles, rights, and responsibilities. Women contributed through their labor to the welfare of the community. Women played an important part in public affairs. They practiced birth control through abortion and infanticide. Women committed crimes and were …
The Magician, the Witch, and the Law
Häftad, 1982
329 kr
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In the early Middle Ages, magic was considered a practical science, requiring study and skill. But as European society became more articulate and self-conscious, the old tradition of magic as a science became associated with heresy and sorcery. Thereafter the Middle Ages knew no safe, learned magic …
Heresy and Authority in Medieval Europe
Häftad, 1980
454 kr
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Throughout the Middle Ages and early modern Europe theological uniformity was synonymous with social cohesion in societies that regarded themselves as bound together at their most fundamental levels by a religion. To maintain a belief in opposition to the orthodoxy was to set oneself in opposition …
Women in Frankish Society
Marriage and the Cloister, 500 to 900
Häftad, 1985
512 kr
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Women in Frankish Society is a careful and thorough study of women and their roles in the Merovingian and Carolingian periods of the Middle Ages. During the 5th through 9th centuries, Frankish society transformed from a relatively primitive tribal structure to a more complex hierarchical …
Christianity and Paganism, 350-750
The Conversion of Western Europe
Häftad, 1985
385 kr
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Using sermons, exorcisms, letters, biographies of the saints, inscriptions, autobiographical and legal documents-some of which are translated nowhere else-J. N. Hillgarth shows how the Christian church went about the formidable task of converting western Europe. The book covers such topics as the …
Dino Compagni's Chronicle of Florence
Häftad, 1986
396 kr
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Dino Campagni's classic chronicle gives a detailed account of a crucial period in the history of Florence, beginning about 1280 and ending in the first decade of the fourteenth century. During that time Florence was one of the largest cities in Europe and a center of commerce and culture. Its gold …
The Republic of St. Peter
The Birth of the Papal State, 680-825
Häftad, 1986
512 kr
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The Republic of St. Peter seeks to reclaim for central Italy an important part of its own history. Noble's thesis is at once original and controversial: that the Republic, an independent political entity, was in existence by the 730s and was not a creation of the Franks in the 750s.Noble examines …
Medieval Theory of Authorship
Scholastic Literary Attitudes in the Later Middle Ages
Häftad, 2010
572 kr
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It has often been held that scholasticism destroyed the literary theory that was emerging during the twelfth-century Renaissance, and hence discussion of late medieval literary works has tended to derive its critical vocabulary from modern, not medieval, theory. In Medieval Theory of Authorship, …
The Origins of Courtliness
Civilizing Trends and the Formation of Courtly Ideals, 939-1210
Häftad, 1985
454 kr
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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic BookArgues that the origins of courtliness lie in the German courts, their courtier class, and the education for court service in the tenth and eleventh centuries.
The Laws of the Salian Franks
Häftad, 1991
443 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, …
Anatomy of a Crusade, 1213-1221
Häftad, 1990
454 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 …
The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History
A Forgotten Heritage
Häftad, 1990
507 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 …
