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Publisher : Medieval Histories
ISBN 13 : 8792858058
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (928 download)
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Publisher : Medieval Histories
ISBN 13 : 8792858074
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (928 download)
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Publisher : Medieval Histories
ISBN 13 : 879285804X
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Medieval History 2012 2:2 written by and published by Medieval Histories. This book was released on with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Batchelor
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470664606
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Medieval History For Dummies written by Stephen Batchelor and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rattle through 1000 years of horrible history, from the fifth century to the sixteenth century Famine, plague and public execution – the medieval period wasn't the best time for some, but heroic rulers like Charlemagne, William the Conqueror and Henry V made sure that it was full of action. Brimming with facts, this book helps you get under the skin of the people who lived at the time, from impoverished peasants to opulent monarchs. From the Dark Ages to the Renaissance and all the upheavals in between, this book takes the pain out of medieval history. The Black Death – assess the deadly pandemic that swept through Britain and Europe killing millions of people The Holy Roman Empire strikes back – understand how the empire fought to maintain its position Falling apart – witness the arrival of powerful armies from the east and invaders from the north, and the dramatic effects of religious schisms Heading for the Holy Land – uncover the reasons why crusading became so popular, and ultimately so unsuccessful, between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries Living in the medieval world – understand the lives of monks and monarchs, peasants and popes, and travellers and traders of the period Waging conflicts, battles and wars – a look through the troubles that shaped the medieval age; from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Wars of the Roses Open the book and find: Why the peasants revolted Where Chaucer gained inspiration to write The Canterbury Tales Which religious groups fought for power How the Magna Carta shaped our present-day legal system Why the Vikings may have got to America before Columbus Profiles of the best and worst medieval monarchs How Joan of Arc made her name The great and grisly histories of surviving medieval castles Go to Dummies.com for videos, step-by-step examples, how-to articles or to shop!
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Publisher : Medieval Histories
ISBN 13 : 8792858066
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Medieval Histories 2012 4:1 written by and published by Medieval Histories. This book was released on with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick J. Geary
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442601167
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Readings in Medieval History written by Patrick J. Geary and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Geary's careful and wise selection of texts in his reader provides the best balance between range and depth necessary for a successful source book." - Nicholas Everett, University of Toronto
Author : Patricia Skinner
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503523590
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (235 download)
Download or read book Challenging the Boundaries of Medieval History written by Patricia Skinner and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores how the history of medieval Europe is written, as well as what national discourses shape the editing of medieval texts and their interpretation in historiography. The essays show medieval historians at work, questioning and reflecting on their practice.
Author : Sarah-Grace Heller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350114103
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Medieval Age written by Sarah-Grace Heller and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the medieval period, people invested heavily in looking good. The finest fashions demanded careful chemistry and compounds imported from great distances and at considerable risk to merchants; the Church became a major consumer of both the richest and humblest varieties of cloth, shoes, and adornment; and vernacular poets began to embroider their stories with hundreds of verses describing a plethora of dress styles, fabrics, and shopping experiences. Drawing on a wealth of pictorial, textual and object sources, the volume examines how dress cultures developed – often to a degree of dazzling sophistication – between the years 800 to 1450. Beautifully illustrated with 100 images, A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Medieval Age presents an overview of the period with essays on textiles, production and distribution, the body, belief, gender and sexuality, status, ethnicity, visual representations, and literary representations.
Author : N. Birns
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137364564
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Barbarian Memory: The Legacy of Early Medieval History in Early Modern Literature written by N. Birns and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of the use of Late Antique European history by late medieval and Renaissance writers such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Davenant, Trissino, and Corneille. The liminality of the late antique period and the issues of ethnicity and religion it raises makes it very different from that of the classical world in analogous writers.
Author : John France
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783270578
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Journal of Medieval Military History written by John France and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights the range and richness of scholarship on medieval warfare, military institutions, and cultures of conflict that characterize the field. History 95 (2010)
Author : Phillip I. Lieberman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009038591
Total Pages : 1216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 5, Jews in the Medieval Islamic World written by Phillip I. Lieberman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 5 examines the history of Judaism in the Islamic World from the rise of Islam in the early sixth century to the expulsion of Jews from Spain at the end of the fifteenth. This period witnessed radical transformations both within the Jewish community itself and in the broader contexts in which the Jews found themselves. The rise of Islam had a decisive influence on Jews and Judaism as the conditions of daily life and elite culture shifted throughout the Islamicate world. Islamic conquest and expansion affected the shape of the Jewish community as the center of gravity shifted west to the North African communities, and long-distance trading opportunities led to the establishment of trading diasporas and flourishing communities as far east as India. By the end of our period, many of the communities on the 'other' side of the Mediterranean had come into their own—while many of the Jewish communities in the Islamicate world had retreated from their high-water mark.
Author : Jaume Aurell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226032345
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Authoring the Past written by Jaume Aurell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-03-21 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authoring the Past surveys medieval Catalan historiography, shedding light on the emergence and evolution of historical writing and autobiography in the Middle Ages, on questions of authority and authorship, and on the links between history and politics during the period. Jaume Aurell examines texts from the late twelfth to the late fourteenth century—including the Latin Gesta comitum Barcinonensium and four texts in medieval Catalan: James I’s Llibre dels fets, the Crònica of Bernat Desclot, the Crònica of Ramon Muntaner, and the Crònica of Peter the Ceremonious—and outlines the different motivations for the writing of each. For Aurell, these chronicles are not mere archaeological artifacts but rather documents that speak to their writers’ specific contemporary social and political purposes. He argues that these Catalonian counts and Aragonese kings were attempting to use their role as authors to legitimize their monarchical status, their growing political and economic power, and their aggressive expansionist policies in the Mediterranean. By analyzing these texts alongside one another, Aurell demonstrates the shifting contexts in which chronicles were conceived, written, and read throughout the Middle Ages. The first study of its kind to make medieval Catalonian writings available to English-speaking audiences, Authoring the Past will be of interest to scholars of history and comparative literature, students of Hispanic and Romance medieval studies, and medievalists who study the chronicle tradition in other languages.
Author : John M. Riddle
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442246863
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book A History of the Middle Ages, 300–1500 written by John M. Riddle and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This clear and comprehensive text covers the Middle Ages from the classical era to the late medieval period. Distinguished historian John Riddle provides a cogent analysis of the rulers, wars, and events—both natural and human—that defined the medieval era. Taking a broad geographical perspective, Riddle includes northern and eastern Europe, Byzantine civilization, and the Islamic states. Each, he convincingly shows, offered values and institutions—religious devotion, toleration and intolerance, laws, ways of thinking, and changing roles of women—that presaged modernity. In addition to traditional topics of pen, sword, and word, the author explores other driving forces such as science, religion, and technology in ways that previous textbooks have not. He also examines such often-overlooked issues as medieval gender roles and medicine and seminal events such as the crusades from the vantage point of both Muslims and eastern and western Christians. In addition to a thorough chronological narrative, the text offers humanizing features to engage students. Each chapter opens with a theme-setting vignette about the lives of ordinary and extraordinary people. The book also introduces students to key controversies and themes in historiography by featuring in each chapter a prominent medieval historian and how his or her ideas have shaped contemporary thinking about the Middle Ages. Richly illustrated with color plates, this lively, engaging book will immerse readers in the medieval world, an era that shaped the foundation for the modern world.
Author : Catherine Rider
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780230745
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Magic and Religion in Medieval England written by Catherine Rider and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Middle Ages, many occult rituals and beliefs existed and were practiced alongside those officially sanctioned by the church. While educated clergy condemned some of these as magic, many of these practices involved religious language, rituals, or objects. For instance, charms recited to cure illnesses invoked God and the saints, and love spells used consecrated substances such as the Eucharist. Magic and Religion in Medieval England explores the entanglement of magical practices and the clergy during the Middle Ages, uncovering how churchmen decided which of these practices to deem acceptable and examining the ways they persuaded others to adopt their views. Covering the period from 1215 to the Reformation, Catherine Rider traces the change in the church’s attitude to vernacular forms of magic. She shows how this period brought the clergy more closely into contact with unofficial religious practices than ever before, and how this proximity prompted them to draw up precise guidelines on distinguishing magic from legitimate religion. Revealing the necessity of improving clerical education and the pastoral care of the laity, Magic and Religion in Medieval England provides a fascinating picture of religious life during this period.
Author : John Arnold
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745639321
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)
Download or read book What is Medieval History? written by John Arnold and published by Polity. This book was released on 2008 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it that medieval historians do? And how and why do they do it? What is Medieval History? provides an accessible, far-ranging and passionate guide to the study of medieval history. The book discusses the creation of the academic field, the nature of the sources, the intellectual tools used by medievalists, and some key areas of thematic importance from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Reformation. Students, teachers, researchers and interested general readers will find the book an invaluable guide. The author explores his field through numerous fascinating case studies, including a magical plot against a medieval pope, a fourteenth-century insurrection, and the importance of a kiss exchanged between two tenth-century noblemen. Throughout the book, readers are shown not only what medieval history is, but the cultural and political contexts in which medieval history has been written. And, above all, What is Medieval History? demonstrates why the pursuit of medieval history continues to be important to the present and future world.
Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0879074825
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Medieval Cistercian History written by Thomas Merton and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Merton’s deep roots in his own Cistercian tradition are on display in the two sets of conferences on the early days of the Order included in the present volume. The first surveys the relevant monastic background that led up to the foundation of the Abbey of Cîteaux in 1098 and goes on to consider the contributions of each of the first three abbots of the “New Monastery” that would become the epicenter of the most dynamic religious movement of the early twelfth century. The second set investigates the arc of medieval Cistercian history in the two centuries following the death of Saint Bernard, in which the Order moves from being ahead of its time, in its formative stages, to being representative of its time in its most powerful and influential phase, to becoming regressive with the rise of new religious currents that begin to flow in the thirteenth century. Merton stresses the need to respect the complexity of the actual lived reality of Cistercian life during this period, to “beware of easy generalizations” and instead consider the full range of factual data. The result is a richly nuanced picture of the development of early Cistercian life and thought that serves as a fitting concluding volume to the series of Merton’s novitiate conferences providing a thorough “Initiation into the Monastic Tradition.”
Author : Oliver Joseph Thatcher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (551 download)
Download or read book A Sourcebook for Medieval History written by Oliver Joseph Thatcher and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
