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A Cultural History of Insects in the Medieval Age

A Cultural History of Insects in the Medieval Age covers the period from 500 to 1300, a time when the uses and value of insect products greatly increased. Silk, in particular, created economies and led to…

Edwin D. Craun

Strategies of the Silent in Medieval English Literature

Silence, like speech, is a mode of communication that can be used strategically. In Strategies of the Silent in Medieval English Literature, Edwin D. Craun investigates the silences in public life that pu…

Edwin D. Craun

Strategies of the Silent in Medieval English Literature

Silence, like speech, is a mode of communication that can be used strategically. In Strategies of the Silent in Medieval English Literature, Edwin D. Craun investigates the silences in public life that pu…

A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Medieval Age

A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Medieval Age covers the period from 500 to 1450, focusing in particular on the innovations in East and South Asia and in Islamicate cultures. With the invention of…

Jeannette Graulau

Medieval Mining and Power in Thirteenth-Century Europe

Studying mine-drainage works of a medieval principality living through times of war, social turmoil, and land reclamation, this book examines the relation between political power and mineral wealth. It ar…

Rebecca de Souza

Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile

Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile: Rereading and Refashioning al-Andalus traces the evolving memory of a dominant al-Andalus in medieval Castilian and, later, modern Spanish literatu…

Anthony Bale,

Reisen im Mittelalter

Farbig und anschaulich erzählt der Historiker Anthony Bale, wie es war, im Mittelalter durch die Welt zu reisen: Ob Pilgerinnen oder Kaufleute, Ritter, Mönche oder Spione - schon damals packte die Mensche…

Philippa of Lancaster and the Court Culture of Medieval Portugal

This contributed volume focuses on Philippa Plantagenet (1360-1415), queen of Portugal for almost three decades, and the complexion of the court. Chapters thoroughly examine the Portuguese royal court in …

James Harvey Robinson

Medieval and Modern Times, Part II (Yesterday's Classics)

This is Part II of Medieval and Modern Times, beginning with Chapter XVIII, "France under Louis IV" and continuing through Chapter XXXVI, "The Great War." An engaging history of Europe…

Sara Nair James

The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Medieval Italy

Late medieval Italy witnessed the widespread rise of the cult of the Virgin, as reflected in the profusion of paintings, sculptures, and fresco cycles created in her honor during this period. The cathedra…

Shaping the Sciences of the Ancient and Medieval World

This book contributes to a worldwide history of textual criticism and critical editions of ancient scientific texts. It first looks at ancient editorial practices, and at their impact on modern editions. …

Peter D Clarke

Clergy and Criminal Violence in Later Medieval England and Wales

Clergy formed a distinct and privileged group in later medieval society as regarded violent crime. Church law was intended to protect them from it, induce them to avoid it, and exempt them from secular ju…

The Oxford Handbook of Post-Medieval Archaeology in the Nordic Countries

Post-medieval archaeology in the Nordic countries has experienced rapid growth since the late 1990s, driven by urban development and increasing recognition of the period's importance. This volume provides…

Adam Franklin-Lyons

Shortage and Famine in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon

In the late fourteenth century, the medieval Crown of Aragon experienced a series of food crises that created conflict and led to widespread starvation. Adam Franklin-Lyons applies contemporary understand…

Isabella Lazzarini, Luciano Piffanelli, Diego Pirillo

Reframing Treaties in the Late Medieval and Early Modern West

The history of peacemaking has traditionally been reduced to isolated case studies and seen as the prelude to the presumed 'universal' and 'modern' international order. Countering this one-dimensional and…

Common Good and Self-Interest in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy

This open access volume provides an in-depth analysis of philosophical discussions concerning the common good and its relation to self-interest in the history of Western philosophy. The thirteen chapters …

The Power to Pardon in Medieval and Early Modern Christian Europe

In medieval and early modern Christian Europe, the power to exercise pardon over rigor of justice was one of the strongest manifestations of sovereignty and, as such, it was almost ubiquitous. For mercifu…

Heather Pulliam

Art, Nature, and the Body in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland

How did the living world - bodies, time, motion, and natural environment - frame the art of early medieval Britain and Ireland? In this study, Heather Pulliam investigates how the early medieval art produ…

Franco Battiato

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