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  • "Dits" et "Débats"

    Avec en appendice quelques poèmes de Guillaume de Machaut

    Series series Textes littéraires français
    Les dits sont des récits poétiques au contenu très varié: question de casuistique amoureuse, événements historiques, enseignement moral, allégorie, complainte ou même autobiographie. On trouve dans ce recueil, "le Temple d'Honneur", le "joli Mois de Mai", le "Dit de la Margherite", le "Dit du Bleu Chevalier", le "Débat dou Cheval et dou Levrier", et bien da'utres, dans un texte nouvellement établi ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • "Every Valley Shall Be Exalted"

    The Discourse of Opposites in Twelfth-Century Thought

    In high medieval France, men and women saw the world around them as the product of tensions between opposites. Imbued with a Christian culture in which a penniless preacher was also the King of Kings and the last were expected to be first, twelfth-century thinkers brought order to their lives through the creation of opposing categories. In a highly original work, Constance Brittain Bouchard ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • "Many a Song and Many a Leccherous Lay"

    Tradition and Individuality in Chaucer's Lyric Poetry

    by Jay Ruud ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Chaucer
    Originally published in 1992. Although they were apparently much appreciated in his own time, Chaucer’s lyrics have for most of the modern era been the most neglected of his poetic productions. This work offers a comprehensive overview of Chaucer’s lyric corpus. The author extends his scope to include in-depth discussions of literary and cultural influences that have their impact on Chaucer’s ... Read more

    $44.99 USD $29.99 USD

  • "Non c'è alternativa"

    Falso!

    Sembra che il mantra del ‘non c'è alternativa' sia destinato a dominare i nostri modi di pensare. Non c'è alternativa alle politiche di austerità, al giudizio dei mercati, alla resa al capitale finanziario globale, alla crescita delle ineguaglianze. Non c'è alternativa alla dissipazione dei nostri diritti e delle nostre opportunità di cittadinanza democratica. In nome di un realismo ipocrita, la ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • "Nunca mayor sobervia comidió Luçifer"

    Límites del conocimiento y cultura claustral en el Libro de Alexandre

    by Fernando Riva ...
    Series Book 27 - Medievalia Hispanica
    Analiza la representación del concepto de conocimiento en el Libro de Alexandre, poema castellano del primer tercio del siglo XIII. Esta obra medieval enfatiza la soberbia causada por una desmedida curiosidad intelectual y, por tanto, reflexiona sobre el problema del conocimiento humano. Tal tensión se encuentra encarnada en Alejandro de Macedonia, que es caracterizado como un monarca curioso, ... Read more

    $27.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "Sefer Hasidim" and the Ashkenazic Book in Medieval Europe

    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Composed in Germany in the early thirteenth century by Judah ben Samuel he-hasid, Sefer Hasidim, or "Book of the Pietists," is a compendium of religious instruction that portrays the everyday life of Jews as they lived together with and apart from Christians in towns such as Speyer, Worms, Mainz, and Regensburg. A charismatic religious teacher who recorded hundreds of original stories that ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • "Strong of Body, Brave and Noble"

    Chivalry and Society in Medieval France

    Medieval society was dominated by its knights and nobles. The literature created in medieval Europe was primarily a literature of knightly deeds, and the modern imagination has also been captured by these leaders and warriors. This book explores the nature of the nobility, focusing on France in the High Middle Ages (11th-13th centuries). Constance Brittain Bouchard examines their families; their ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • "When Brothers Dwell in Unity"

    Byzantine Christianity and Homosexuality

    In the world of early Byzantine Christianity, monastic rules acknowledged but discouraged the homosexual impulses of adult males. What most disturbed monastic leaders was adolescent males being accepted as novices; adult men were considered unable to control their sexual desires for these "beautiful boys." John Chrysostom, the Archbishop of Constantinople (397-407), virulently denounced ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • 'A Great Effusion of Blood'?

    Interpreting Medieval Violence

    'A great effusion of blood' was a phrase used frequently throughout medieval Europe as shorthand to describe the effects of immoderate interpersonal violence. Yet the ambiguity of this phrase poses numerous problems for modern readers and scholars in interpreting violence in medieval society and culture and its effect on medieval people. Understanding medieval violence is made even more complex by ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • 'Abd al-Mu'min

    Mahdism and Caliphate in the Islamic West

    Series series Makers of the Muslim World
    ‘Abd al-Mu’min (c.1094–1163) did not establish the first caliphate in the Islamic West, but his encompassed more territory than any that had preceded it. As leader of the Almohads, a politico-religious movement grounded in an uncompromising belief in the unity of God, he unified for the first time the whole of North Africa west of Egypt, and conquered much of southern Spain.Studying every facet of ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • 'Truthe is the beste'

    A Festschrift in Honour of A.V.C. Schmidt

    Series Book 1 - Court Cultures of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
    The thirteen essays in this book, presented in honour of Dr A.V.C. (Carl) Schmidt, are designed to reflect the range of his interests. Dr Schmidt, who was a Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford from 1972 until his retirement in 2011, is best known for his comprehensive four-text edition of Piers Plowman, the fruit of a lifetime’s work on that text. He has also made a major contribution to the study ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • (Re)writing History in Byzantium

    A Critical Study of Collections of Historical Excerpts

    Series series Routledge Research in Byzantine Studies
    Scholars have recently begun to study collections of Byzantine historical excerpts as autonomous pieces of literature. This book focuses on a series of minor collections that have received little or no scholarly attention, including the Epitome of the Seventh Century, the Excerpta Anonymi (tenth century), the Excerpta Salmasiana (eighth to eleventh centuries), and the Excerpta Planudea (thirteenth ... Read more

    Free

  • (Re-)Reading Bede

    The Ecclesiastical History in Context

    by N.J. Higham ...
    Bede's Ecclesiastical History is the most important single source for early medieval English history. Without it, we would be able to say very little about the conversion of the English to Christianity, or the nature of England before the Viking Age.Bede wrote for his contemporaries, not for a later audience, and it is only by an examination of the work itself that we can assess how best to ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • ... And the Policeman Smiled

    10,000 Children Escape from Nazi Europe

    For ten months before the Second World War, there was an organised movement of mainly Jewish children out of Nazi Europe. The children were bundled onto trains, waved goodbye to their parents and set off across Germany and Holland to the ferries which took them to England. Only a few spoke English, most had no family or friends here. Almost none ever saw their families again. The first memory of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • 1064, Barbastro

    Guerra Santa y Yihad en la España medieval

    Series series Alianza Ensayo
    ¿La toma de Barbastro, en 1064, fue un ensayo de lo que serían las Cruzadas o solo un episodio más de la Reconquista? Primavera de 1064, un ejército cristiano cruza los Pirineos en ayuda del joven rey Sancho Ramírez I de Aragón tras la muerte de su padre, Ramiro I, caído un año antes en la toma de Graus. Es un ejército "internacional", formado por varios millares de hombres de armas de los ... Read more

    $12.96 USD

  • 1066

    Der Kampf um Englands Krone

    by Jörg Peltzer ...
    Der fast 70 Meter lange Teppich von Bayeux, der noch im 11. Jahrhundert entstand, ist wohl die berühmteste Bildergeschichte der Welt; darin eingewoben sind die dramatischen Begebenheiten des Jahres 1066. Der international renommierte Mediaevist Jörg Peltzer erhellt Hintergründe, Verlauf und Folgen des Konflikts um England und bietet eine umfassende Darstellung eines der zentralen Ereignisse der ... Read more

    $23.19 USD

  • 1066

    A New History of the Norman Conquest

    by Peter Rex ...
    A radical retelling of the most important event in English history - the Norman invasion of 1066. The Norman Conquest is the single most important event in English history. On this invasion and 'regime change' pivoted the second millennium of English history. This is well recognised, what is not is how long and hard the English people fought to deny William 'the Bastard', Duke of Normandy his ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • 1066

    The Battles of York, Stamford Bridge & Hastings

    by Peter Marren ...
    Series series Battleground Britain
    The real story behind the best-known—and least-understood—battle in British history.If ever there was a year of destiny for the British Isles, 1066 must have a strong claim. King Harold faced invasion not just from William and the Normans across the English Channel, but from King Harald Hardrada of Norway.Before he fought the Normans at Hastings in October, he had fought at York and neighboring ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1066: Battle of Hastings

    by Francis Hayes ...
    Series Book 8 - Legendary Battles of History
    1066 – one of the most famous years in history.In that year England saw three kings sit on the throne, and the most pivotal battle in its long history.The interplay between the three kings – Edward, Henry and William – led to a year of upheaval that saw two of them dead and the third triumphantly imposing a Norman way of life upon a defeated English nation. For the next twenty years, the nation ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • 1066: History in an Hour

    by Kaye Jones ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.During the year 1066, England had three different kings and fought three huge battles in defence of the realm, including the bloody Battle of Hastings. The result was the Norman Conquest which defined England during the Middle Ages.1066 in an Hour will guide you through the politics and personalities of the Norman invasion. It will help you ... Read more

    $5.49 USD

  • 1066: The Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry

    A brilliant new reading of the Bayeux Tapestry that radically alters our understanding of the events of 1066 and reveals the astonishing story of the survival of early medieval Europe’s greatest treasure.This edition does not include illustrations.The Bayeux Tapestry was embroidered (it’s not really a tapestry) in the late eleventh century. As an artefact, it is priceless, incomparable – nothing ... Read more

    $6.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • 1097. Dalla prima crociata alla nascita del comune

    Il luglio 1097 segna un punto di partenza: i genovesi sono tra i primi a rispondere allappello lanciato da papa Urbano II alla fine del novembre 1095. Una flotta composta secondo la tradizione da dodici galee e un ‘sandalo parte da Genova alla volta della Terrasanta. È la risposta allappello alla prima crociata che allora, naturalmente, nessuno sapeva fosse tale. I genovesi hanno quindi il primato ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • 1217

    The Battles that Saved England

    An engrossing history of the pivotal year 1217 when invading French forces were defeated and the future of England secured.In 1215 King John had agreed to the terms of Magna Carta, but he then reneged on his word, plunging the kingdom into war. The rebellious barons offered the throne to the French prince Louis and set off the chain of events that almost changed the course of English history.Louis ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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