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Middle Ages without Feudalism
Essays in Criticism and Comparison on the Medieval West
Häftad, 2017
882 kr
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This volume brings together articles (including two hitherto unpublished pieces) that Susan Reynolds has written since the publication of her Fiefs and Vassals (1994). There she argued that the concepts of the fief and of vassalage, as generally understood by historians of medieval Europe, were …
Medieval Warfare: Technology, Military Revolutions, and Strategy
Häftad, 2026
731 kr
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This volume explores the topics of military revolutions, strategy, and tactics both separately and as they relate to each other. It makes important contributions to understanding European warfare in the Early, High, and especially the Late Middle Ages, as well the military transition to the Early …
Courts and Courtiers in Renaissance Northern Italy
Häftad, 2018
648 kr
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The extraordinary cultural Renaissance in the northern Italian courts of the late 15th and early 16th centuries is the subject of this volume. It starts with Baldessar Castiglione's Book of the Courtier (1528) which encapsulates this sense of renewal: his experiences at court and their subsequent …
Fire from Heaven
Studies in Syriac Theology and Liturgy
Inbunden, 2006
2525 kr
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This fourth collection by Sebastian Brock focuses on three areas: the christology of the Church of the East, the distinctive phraseology of the invocations to the Holy Spirit in the Syriac liturgical tradition, and two important early Commentaries on the Liturgy. The inclusion of the Church of the …
Islamic World, Russia and the Vikings, 750-900
The Numismatic Evidence
Inbunden, 1998
2600 kr
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Professor Noonan here sets out to examine what Islamic silver coins (dirhams) reveal about the great trade between the Islamic world, European Russia, and the Baltic during the early Viking Age. Particular attention is devoted to the origins of this international commerce and the role of such …
Studies in the Platonism of Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico
Inbunden, 2017
2904 kr
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Collected Studies CS1063Fifteen of these essays by one of the leading authorities on Renaissance Platonism explore the complex philosophical, hermeneutical, and mythological issues addressed by the Florentine, Marsilio Ficino (1433-99). Ficino was the pre-eminent Platonist of his time and a …
Aristotelian Tradition in Syriac
Av John W. Watt
Häftad, 2020
710 kr
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This volume presents a panorama of Syriac engagement with Aristotelian philosophy primarily situated in the 6th to the 9th centuries, but also ranging to the 13th. It offers a wide range of articles, opening with surveys on the most important philosophical writers of the period before providing …
Studies on the Jurchens and the Chin Dynasty
Inbunden, 1997
1274 kr
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The studies collected here derive in large part from the collaborative Chin history project, to which Professors Chan and Franke have made a massive contributuion. The Jurchens lived in northeastern Manchuria as hunters, fishers and farmers, until 1115 when they founded a dynastic state called Chin …
Merovingians
Kingship, Institutions, Law, and History
Häftad, 2024
671 kr
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The studies collected here cover a period of about 33 years, from 1986 to 2019, and represent a sustained effort to understand the institutions of the Merovingian kingdom and its history. There has long been a predisposition to cast the Merovingian period in the dark colours of barbarism or to …
Writing Normandy
Stories of Saints and Rulers
Inbunden, 2020
2600 kr
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Writing Normandy brings together eighteen articles by historian Felice Lifshitz, some of which are published here for the first time. The articles examine the various ways in which local and regional narratives about the past were created and revised in Normandy during the central Middle Ages. …
Hospitals and Healing from Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages
Häftad, 2019
716 kr
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The first part of this collection brings together a selection of Peregrine Horden's papers on the history of hospitals and related institutions of welfare provision from their origins in Late Antiquity to their medieval flourishing in Byzantium and the Islamic lands as well as in western Europe. …
History, Hagiography and Biblical Exegesis
Essays on Bede, Adomnán and Thomas Becket
Av Jennifer O'Reilly, Máirín MacCarron m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2759 kr
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When she died in 2016, Dr Jennifer O’Reilly left behind a body of published and unpublished work in three areas of medieval studies: the iconography of the Gospel Books produced in early medieval Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England; the writings of Bede and his older Irish contemporary, Adomnán of …
Music, Science, Philosophy
Models in the Universe of Thought
Häftad, 2019
695 kr
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This book stresses the interrelatedness of knowledge by extricating models that cut across traditional disciplinary boundaries. For example, science can find models from the technology and semantic field of music, music can find its models from the technology and semantic field of science, and each …
Early Performance: Courts and Audiences
Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies
Av Sarah Carpenter, John J McGavin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2904 kr
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These essays of Sarah Carpenter have been selected to reflect her career’s close focus on the relationship of performance and audience. They are drawn from the last 25 years of her writing, and this has enabled the editors to organise them not chronologically but rather to develop her central theme …
Early Medieval Text and Image Volume 1
The Insular Gospel Books
Av Jennifer O'Reilly, Carol A Farr m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2759 kr
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When she died in 2016, Dr Jennifer O’Reilly left behind a body of published and unpublished work in three areas of medieval studies: the iconography of the Gospel Books produced in early medieval Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England; the writings of Bede and his older Irish contemporary, Adomnán of …
Early Medieval Text and Image Volume 2
The Codex Amiatinus, the Book of Kells and Anglo-Saxon Art
Av Jennifer O'Reilly, Carol A Farr m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2842 kr
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When she died in 2016, Dr Jennifer O’Reilly left behind a body of published and unpublished work in three areas of medieval studies: the iconography of the Gospel Books produced in early medieval Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England; the writings of Bede and his older Irish contemporary, Adomnán of …
Boundless Sea
Writing Mediterranean History
Av Peregrine Horden, Nicholas Purcell
Inbunden, 2019
2600 kr
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This volume brings together for the first time a collection of twelve articles written both jointly and individually by Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell as they have participated in the debates generated by their major work, The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History (2000). One …
Mortality, Trade, Money and Credit in Late Medieval England (1285-1531)
Inbunden, 2020
2842 kr
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The eleven articles in this volume examine controversial subjects of central importance to medieval economic historians. Topics include the relative roles played by money and credit in financing the economy, whether credit could compensate for shortages of coin, and whether it could counteract the …
Power of Islam in Morocco
Historical and Anthropological Perspectives
Inbunden, 2019
2208 kr
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The study of Muslim societies has been for a long time the appanage of western Orientalists and European ethnographers whose view from the outside rarely accounted for the complex reality of these societies. This Variorum volume by an eminent North African historian follows the development of Islam …
Aspects of War in the Late Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2022
2600 kr
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This Variorum collection of articles is intended to illustrate that conflict in the late Middle Ages was not only about soldiers and fighting (about the makers and the making of war), important as these were. Just as it remains in our own day, war was a subject which attracted writers …
Christian Spain and Portugal in the Early Middle Ages
Texts and Societies
Av Wendy Davies
Inbunden, 2019
2600 kr
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A collection of papers in English by one of the foremost historians of the social and economic structure of medieval rural communities, who here examines local societies in rural northern Spain and Portugal in the early middle ages. Principal themes are scribal practice and the analysis of charter …
Religious Figural Imagery of Byzantine Lead Seals I
Studies on the Image of Christ, the Virgin and Narrative Scenes
Inbunden, 2020
2600 kr
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The articles republished in this volume are ground-breaking studies that employ a large body of religious figural imagery of Byzantine lead seals ranging from the 6th to the 15th century. A number of the studies present tables, charts and graphs in their analysis of iconographic trends and changing …
Religious Figural Imagery of Byzantine Lead Seals II
Studies on Images of the Saints and on Personal Piety
Inbunden, 2020
2208 kr
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The articles republished in this volume are ground-breaking studies that employ a large body of religious figural imagery of Byzantine lead seals ranging from the 6th to the 15th century. A number of the studies present tables, charts and graphs in their analysis of iconographic trends and changing …
Pathways from Slavery
British and Colonial Mobilizations in Global Perspective
Häftad, 2021
731 kr
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Seymour Drescher’s regular, deeply-thought and carefully nuanced arguments have periodically reshaped how we think of the subject of the history of slavery itself. He has discussed the impact of economic and cultural factors on human behaviour and has shown that historical evidence does not lead to …
Aspects of Recusant History
Av T.A. Birrell, Jos Blom m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2904 kr
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Thomas Anthony Birrell (1924–2011) was a man of many parts. For most of his working life he was Professor of English and American Literature in the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, where he was famous for his lively, humoristic and thought-provoking lectures. He was the author of some very …
Administration and Organization of War in Thirteenth-Century England
Inbunden, 2020
2600 kr
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The essays brought together in this volume examine the conduct of war by the Angevin kings of England during the long thirteenth century (1189-1307). Drawing upon a wide range of unpublished administrative records that have been largely ignored by previous scholarship, David S. Bachrach offers new …
Reading Texts for Performance and Performances as Texts
Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies
Av Pamela M. King, Alexandra F. Johnston
Inbunden, 2020
2466 kr
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This volume brings together nineteen important articles by Pamela M. King, one of the foremost British scholars working on Early English Drama. Unique to this collection are five articles on the ‘living’ traditions of performances in Spain, discussing their origins and the modes of production that …
Science, Enlightenment and Revolution
Selected Papers, 1976-2019
Inbunden, 2021
2600 kr
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Science, Enlightenment and Revolution brings together thirteen papers by renowned historian Dorinda Outram. Published between 1976 and 2019 and scattered in a variety of journals and collected volumes, these articles are published together here for the first time.During her distinguished career, …
Metaphysics and Hermeneutics in the Medieval Platonic Tradition
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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Metaphysics and Hermeneutics in the Medieval Platonic Tradition consists of twelve essays originally published between 2006 and 2015, dealing with main trends and specific figures within the medieval Platonic tradition. Three essays provide general surveys of the transmission of late ancient …
Ideology and Evolution in Nineteenth Century Britain
Embryos, Monsters, and Racial and Gendered Others in the Making of Evolutionary Theory and Culture
Häftad, 2022
731 kr
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Written over several decades and collected together for the first time, these richly detailed contextual studies by a leading historian of science examine the diverse ways in which cultural values and political and professional considerations impinged upon the construction, acceptance and …
