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  • - Liturgy and History at the Imperial Abbey of Farfa, 1000-1125
    af Susan Boynton
    828,95 kr.

    During the eleventh and early twelfth centuries, the imperial abbey of Farfa was one of the most powerful institutions on the Italian peninsula. In this period many of the lands of central Italy fell under its sway, and it enjoyed the protection of...

  • - Slavery and Mastery in Fifteenth-Century Valencia
    af Debra Blumenthal
    711,95 kr.

    A prominent Mediterranean port located near Islamic territories, the city of Valencia in the late fifteenth century boasted a slave population of pronounced religious and ethnic diversity: captive Moors and penally enslaved Mudejars, Greeks, Tartars...

  • - Medieval Southern Italy, 850-1150
    af Valerie Ramseyer
    973,95 kr.

    Ramseyer traces the efforts by the archbishop of Salerno and the abbey of Cava to centralize ecclesiastical structures and standardize religious practices in medieval southern Italy.

  • - The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate
    af Marina Rustow
    629,95 - 1.108,95 kr.

    A new perspective on the factional conflict between two medieval Jewish sects: the Rabbanites and the Qaraites.

  • - The Beguin Heretics of Languedoc
    af Louisa A. Burnham
    678,95 kr.

    Using inquisitorial depositions, notarial records, and the previously unknown Beguin martyrology, Burnham vividly recreates the world in which the Beguins lived and died for their beliefs.

  • - Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras
    af Carol Symes
    783,95 kr.

    A Common Stage challenges the prevalent understanding of theater history while offering the first comprehensive history of a community often credited with the invention of French as a powerful literary language.

  • - Restraint of Grief in the Medieval Italian Communes
    af Carol Lansing
    1.023,95 kr.

    The way in which a society expresses grief can reveal how it views both intense emotions and public order. In thirteenth-century Italian communes, a conscious effort to change appropriate public reaction to death threw into sharp relief connections...

  • - Architecture and Authority in Medieval Italy
    af Maureen C. Miller
    364,95 - 833,95 kr.

    This lavishly illustrated book looks at the art and architecture of episcopal palaces as expressions of power and ideology. Tracing the history of the bishop's residence in the urban centers of northern Italy over the Middle Ages, Maureen C. Miller...

  • - Kingship and Conflict under Louis the German, 817-876
    af Eric J. Goldberg
    307,95 kr.

    Struggle for Empire explores the contest for kingdoms and power among Charlemagne's descendants that shaped the formation of Europe through the reign of Charlemagne's grandson, Louis the German (826-876).

  • - Gender, Ideology, and the Daily Lives of the Poor
    af Sharon Farmer
    378,95 - 873,95 kr.

    This book about poor men and women in thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century Paris reveals the other side of the "age of cathedrals" in the very place where gothic architecture and scholastic theology were born. In Surviving Poverty in Medieval...

  • - French Choir Tapestries and the Performance of Clerical Identity
    af Laura Weigert
    1.028,95 kr.

    Spanning the backs of choir stalls above the heads of the canons and their officials, large-scale tapestries of saints' lives functioned as both architectural elements and pictorial narratives in the late Middle Ages. In an extensively illustrated...

  • - Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages
    af Nancy Mandeville Caciola
    398,95 - 710,95 kr.

    Analyzes a broad array of sources-from saints' lives to medical treatises, exorcists' manuals to miracle accounts-to find that observers came to rely on the discernment of bodies rather than seeking to distinguish between divine and demonic possession in purely spiritual terms.

  • - Emotions, Publicity, and Legal Culture in Marseille, 1264-1423
    af Daniel Lord Smail
    295,95 - 583,95 kr.

    Drawing on the rich judicial records of Marseille from the years 1264 to 1423, especially records of civil litigation, this book approaches the courts of law from the perspective of the users of the courts.

  • - Changing Perceptions, Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period
    af Daniel Baraz
    805,95 kr.

    The Middle Ages are often thought of as an era during which cruelty was a major aspect of life, a view that stems from the anti-Catholic polemics of the Reformation. Daniel Baraz makes the striking discovery that the concept of cruelty, which had been...

  • af Paul R. Hyams
    1.093,95 kr.

    Duels and bloodfeuds have long been regarded as essentially Continental phenomena, counter to the staid and orderly British ways of settling differences. In this surprising work of social and legal history, Paul R. Hyams reveals a post-Conquest...

  • - Conflict, Interest, and Authority in an Early Medieval Society
    af Warren Brown
    1.108,95 kr.

    Most scholarship in English on the political and social order of early medieval Europe concentrates on the Western Frankish regions. Warren Brown shifts the focus to the East, concentrating on conflicts and their resolutions to learn how a central...

  • - Property, Proof, and Dispute in Catalonia around the Year 1000
    af Jeffrey A. Bowman
    875,95 kr.

    In a major contribution to the debate among medievalists about the nature of social and political change in Europe around the turn of the millennium, Jeffrey A. Bowman explores how people contended over property during the tenth and eleventh centuries...

  • af Fredric L. Cheyette
    529,95 - 714,95 kr.

    Before France became France its territories included Occitania, roughly the present-day province of Languedoc. The city of Narbonne was a center of Occitanian commerce and culture during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. For most of the second half...

  • - Christian Marriage and Political Power in the Carolingian World
    af Karl J. Heidecker
    729,95 kr.

    "She declares, so the bishops will write in their report on the council, that she is unworthy to continue as a married woman. 'Before God and his angels' she bares her heart and confesses to them 'every secret relating to the rumor that had arisen.'...

  • - Color, Ethnicity, and Human Bondage in Italy
    af Steven A. Epstein
    377,95 - 762,95 kr.

    The language of slavery is the last but steep price any society must pay for having tolerated the institution and profited from it.... The hypocrisies, the racism, the sexism, the brutality bound up with the daily practice of slavery live on in...

  • - The "Reconquista" and the Jewish Community in Medieval Iberia
    af Jonathan Ray
    249,95 - 618,95 kr.

    Reveals a fluid, often volatile society that transcended religious boundaries and attracted Jewish colonists from throughout the peninsula and beyond.

  • - Cluny and Christendom Face Heresy, Judaism, and Islam (1000-1150)
    af Dominique Iogna-Prat
    1.094,95 kr.

    Order and Exclusion is a rare and magnificent book of medieval history with clear relevance to today's headlines. Through the lens of the polemics of Peter the Venerable, abbot of Cluny, Dominique Iogna-Prat examines the process by which christianity...

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