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Fortress-Churches of Languedoc

Author : Sheila Bonde
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521052023
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Fortress-Churches of Languedoc written by Sheila Bonde and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fortress-Churches of Languedoc traces the changing relationship between military and religious realms as expressed in architecture across medieval Europe. The scholarship of medieval architecture has traditionally imposed a division between military and ecclesiastical structures. Often, however, medieval churches were provided with fortified enclosures, crenellations, iron-barred doors and other elements of defence, demonstrating the strong link between Church and state, and the military and religious realms. In her study of fortress-churches, Sheila Bonde focuses on three twelfth-century monuments in southern France - Maguelone, Agde and Saint-Pon-de-Thomière, which are among the earliest examples of the type. She analyses her archaeological surveys of these structures, and also re-examines their documentation, which is here presented both in the original Latin and in English translations. The book also explores the larger context of fortification and authority in twelfth-century Languedoc and examines the dynamics of architectural exchange and innovation in the Mediterranean at a moment of critical historical importance.

Castles of God

Author : Peter Harrison
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843830665
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Castles of God written by Peter Harrison and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, great faiths have been subjected to persecution and attack from beyond the wall - literally walls, in Peter Harrison's remarkable book of the great monastery-fortresses, and church-fortresses, of the world.

Behind the Castle Gate

Author : Matthew Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135135657
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Behind the Castle Gate written by Matthew Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging book Matthew Johnson looks 'behind the castle gate' to discover the truth about castles in England at the end of the Middle Ages. Traditional studies have seen castles as compromises between the needs of comfort and of defence, and as statements of wealth or power or both. By encouraging the reader to view castles in relation to their inhabitants, Matthew Johnson uncovers a whole new vantage point. He shows how castles functioned as stage-settings against which people played out roles of lord and servant, husband and wife, father and son. Building, rebuilding and living in a castle was as complex an experience as a piece of medieval art. Behind the Castle Gate brings castles and their inhabitants alive. Combining ground-breaking scholarship with fascinating narratives it will be read avidly by all with an interest in castles.

The Idea of the Castle in Medieval England

Author : Abigail Wheatley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1903153611
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (31 download)

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Book Synopsis The Idea of the Castle in Medieval England by : Abigail Wheatley

Download or read book The Idea of the Castle in Medieval England written by Abigail Wheatley and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval castles have traditionally been examined as feats of military engineering & tools of feudal control. This book presents a different perspective, by exploring the castle as a cultural reflection of the society that produced it, seen through art & literature.

The Southern French Nobility and the Albigensian Crusade

Author : Elaine Graham-Leigh
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843831297
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (312 download)

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Book Synopsis The Southern French Nobility and the Albigensian Crusade by : Elaine Graham-Leigh

Download or read book The Southern French Nobility and the Albigensian Crusade written by Elaine Graham-Leigh and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study takes the case of the Trencavel Viscounts of Beziers and Carcassonne, who were the only members of the higher nobility to lose their lands to the crusade, and argues that an understanding of how the Occitan nobility fared in the crusade years must be based in the context of the politics of the noble society of Languedoc, not only in the thirteenth century but also in the twelfth."--BOOK JACKET.

Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France

Author : Elise Whitlock Rose
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France written by Elise Whitlock Rose and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Heresy in Medieval France

Author : Claire Taylor
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 0861932765
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Heresy in Medieval France written by Claire Taylor and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2005 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigation of heresy in south-west France, including a new assessment of the role of Catharism and the Albigensian Crusade.

Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours

Author : Fredric L. Cheyette
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801489259
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours written by Fredric L. Cheyette and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fredric L. Cheyette's illustrated book is a biography of an extraordinary warrior woman and of a unique, vulnerable, doomed society. Throughout her long reign, viscountess Ermengard roamed Occitania receiving oaths of fidelity, negotiating treaties, settling disputes among the lords of her lands, and camping with her armies before the walls of besieged cities.

The Medieval Castle

Author : Kathryn L. Reyerson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816620032
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book The Medieval Castle written by Kathryn L. Reyerson and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1991-02-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Medieval Castle was first published in 1991. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

The Bishop Reformed

Author : Anna Trumbore Jones
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351893920
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book The Bishop Reformed written by Anna Trumbore Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the period following the collapse of the Carolingian Empire up to the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), the episcopate everywhere in Europe experienced substantial and important change, brought about by a variety of factors: the pressures of ecclesiastical reform; the devolution and recovery of royal authority; the growth of papal involvement in regional matters and in diocesan administration; the emergence of the "crowd" onto the European stage around 1000 and the proliferation of autonomous municipal governments; the explosion of new devotional and religious energies; the expansion of Christendom's borders; and the proliferation of new monastic orders and new forms of religious life, among other changes. This socio-political, religious, economic, and cultural ferment challenged bishops, often in unaccustomed ways. How did the medieval bishop, unquestionably one of the most powerful figures of the Middle Ages, respond to these and other historical changes? Somewhat surprisingly, this question has seldom been answered from the bishop's perspective. This volume of interdisciplinary studies, drawn from literary scholarship, art history, canon law, and history, seeks to break scholarship of the medieval episcopacy free from the ideological stasis imposed by the study of church reform and episcopal lordship. The editors and contributors propose less a conventional socio-political reading of the episcopate and more of a cultural reading of bishops that is particularly concerned with issues such as episcopal (self-)representation, conceptualization of office and authority, cultural production (images, texts, material objects, space) and ecclesiology/ideology. They contend that ideas about episcopal office and conduct were conditioned by and contingent upon time, place and pastoral constituency. What made a "good" bishop in one time and place may not have sufficed for another time and place and imposing the absolute standards of prescriptive ideologies, medieval and modern, obfuscates rather than clarifies our understanding of the medieval bishop and his world.

The Art of the Sacred

Author : Graham Howes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857710613
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book The Art of the Sacred written by Graham Howes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-11-24 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of 'art and religion' is fast becoming one of the most dynamic areas of religious studies. Uniquely, "The Art of the Sacred" explores the relationship between religion and the visual arts - and vice versa - within Christianity and other major religious traditions. It identifies and describes the main historical, theological, sociological and aesthetic dimensions of 'religious' art, with particular attention to 'popular' as well as 'high' culture, and within societies of the developing world. It also attempts to locate, and predict, the forms and functions of such art in a changing contemporary context of obligation, modernity, secularism and fundamentalism. The author concentrates on four chief dimensions where religious art and religious belief converge: the iconographic; the didactic; the institutional; and the aesthetic. This clear, well-organised and imaginative treatment of the subject should prove especially attractive to students of religion and visual culture, as well as to artists and art historians.

Heresy and the Persecuting Society in the Middle Ages

Author : Michael Frassetto
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047409485
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Heresy and the Persecuting Society in the Middle Ages written by Michael Frassetto and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book provide new insights into the history of heresy and the formation of the persecuting society in the Middle Ages and explores the shifting understanding of orthodoxy and heterodoxy in medieval and modern times.

A History of the Late Medieval Siege, 1200-1500

Author : Peter Fraser Purton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843834499
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book A History of the Late Medieval Siege, 1200-1500 written by Peter Fraser Purton and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2009 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of a two-volume history of siege warfare and techniques in Europe and the Middle and Far East covering the period 450-1500. --

Fortress-churches in Croatia

Author : Sekulic-Gvozdanovic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Fortress-churches in Croatia written by Sekulic-Gvozdanovic and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Remembering Kings Past

Author : Amy Goodrich Remensnyder
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801429545
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Remembering Kings Past written by Amy Goodrich Remensnyder and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the center of the legends stand three kings whom the monks favored as founders: Clovis, Pippin the Short, and, above all, Charlemagne. Remensnyder reveals the many implications of this legendary affection for kings, a startling predilection on the part of monks living in a region where actual rulers hardly ventured during the period.

The English Castle

Author : A. Hamilton Thompson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486164349
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book The English Castle written by A. Hamilton Thompson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once a seat of government as well as the private residence of its owners, the medieval castle was also a military base and stronghold for the surrounding geographical area. The development of these sturdy fortifications in England during the Middle Ages is carefully examined in this profusely illustrated book. From early chapters dealing with primitive earthworks and Roman stations, the text goes on to explore the construction of the English castle following the Norman Conquest, the beginnings of the stone castle and the Norman keep, bastions of the thirteenth century, military architecture, fortified towns in the later Middle Ages, and more. Students of architecture, military history, and medieval studies—as well as anyone interested in the evolution of castle construction—will find this work a fascinating and valuable reference.

Medieval Religion and its Anxieties

Author : Thomas A. Fudgé
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137566108
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Religion and its Anxieties written by Thomas A. Fudgé and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the broad varieties of religious belief, religious practices, and the influence of religion within medieval society. Religion in the Middle Ages was not monolithic. Medieval religion and the Latin Church are not synonymous. While theology and liturgy are important, an examination of animal trials, gargoyles, last judgments, various aspects of the medieval underworld, and the quest for salvation illuminate lesser known dimensions of religion in the Middle Ages. Several themes run throughout the book including visual culture, heresy and heretics, law and legal procedure, along with sexuality and an awareness of mentalities and anxieties. Although an expanse of 800 years has passed, the remains of those other Middle Ages can be seen today, forcing us to reassess our evaluations of this alluring and often overlooked past.