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  • Die sieben Monde des Jakobus

    Die große Jakobsweg-Saga | »Eine Spezialistin für historische Romane!« Nürnberger Nachrichten

    Ein episches Abenteuer in dunklen Zeiten: Der Historienroman »Die sieben Monde des Jakobus« von Bestsellerautorin Brigitte Riebe als eBook bei dotbooks. Das streng calvinistische Genf des 16. Jahrhunderts ist kein sicherer Ort für eine Katholikin - und so steht die junge Clara Weingarten nach dem Tod ihres Mannes nicht nur mittellos da, sondern muss auch gegen immer heftigere Anfeindungen und ... Read more

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  • L'uomo medievale

    Introduzione

    "L'uomo e gli uomini, gli uomini nella società dell'Occidente cristiano, nelle loro principali funzioni (ossia nei tratti essenziali, ma anche nella concretezza del loro status sociale, del loro mestiere, della loro professione), al tempo di un dittico medievale che nella prima faccia mostra il prodigioso sviluppo della Cristianità fra l'anno Mille e il secolo XIII, mentre la seconda rappresenta ... Read more

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  • Semiosis of Power in Early Medieval Culture: Myths, Monsters, Intertexts

    The book presents a semiotic approach to the study of power relations in the symbolic space of medieval culture.A critical analysis of medieval texts was carried out in accordance with the methodology of European structuralist and poststructuralist tradition (Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Umberto Eco, Jean Baudrillard), as well as Russian semiotic tradition (Mikhail Bakhtin, Juri Stepanov, Juri ... Read more

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  • The Wolf King

    Ibn Mardanish and the Construction of Power in al-Andalus

    Series series Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures
    The Wolf King explores how political power was conceptualized, constructed, and wielded in twelfth-century al-Andalus, focusing on the eventful reign of Muhammad ibn Sad ibn Ahmad ibn Mardanīsh (r. 1147–1172). Celebrated in Castilian and Latin sources as el rey lobo/rex lupus and denigrated by Almohad and later Arabic sources as irreligious and disloyal to fellow Muslims because he fought the ... Read more

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  • Living with Disfigurement in Early Medieval Europe

    Series series The New Middle Ages
    This book is open access under a CC-BY 4.0 license.This book examines social and medical responses to the disfigured face in early medieval Europe, arguing that the study of head and facial injuries can offer a new contribution to the history of early medieval medicine and culture, as well as exploring the language of violence and social interactions. Despite the prevalence of warfare and conflict ... Read more

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  • Transcultural Approaches to the Concept of Imperial Rule in the Middle Ages

    During the Middle Ages, rulers from different regions aspired to an idea of imperial hegemony. On the other hand, there were rulers who deliberately refused to be «emperors», although their reign showed characteristics of imperial rule. The contributions in this volume ask for the reasons why some rulers such as Charlemagne strove for imperial titles, whereas others voluntarily shrank from them. ... Read more

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  • Invisible Weapons

    Liturgy and the Making of Crusade Ideology

    Throughout the history of the Crusades, liturgical prayer, masses, and alms were all marshaled in the fight against Muslim armies. In Invisible Weapons, M. Cecilia Gaposchkin focuses on the ways in which Latin Christians communicated their ideas and aspirations for crusade to God through liturgy, how public worship was deployed, and how prayers and masses absorbed the ideals and priorities of ... Read more

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  • Baltic Hospitality from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century

    Receiving Strangers in Northeastern Europe

    Series series Palgrave Studies in Migration History
    Reflecting debate around hospitality and the Baltic Sea region, this open access book taps into wider discussions about reception, securitization and xenophobic attitudes towards migrants and strangers. Focusing on coastal and urban areas, the collection presents an overview of the responses of host communities to guests and strangers in the countries surrounding the Baltic Sea, from the early ... Read more

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  • Krieg im Namen Gottes

    Die Zeit der Kreuzzüge von 1095-1291

    Im Jahre 1095 rief Papst Urban II zum Kreuzzug zwecks Eroberung Jerusalems auf. In den folgenden Jahrhunderten kämpften Christen und Moslems im Namen Gottes gegeneinander, um Palästina für die eigene Seite zu sichern. Von den glorreichen Anfängen bis zum bitteren Ende berichtet dieses Werk von den historischen Ereignissen. Alle erzählten Vorfälle entsprechen den Tatsachen, die spärlich ... Read more

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  • Institutions of Hanseatic Trade

    Studies on the Political Economy of a Medieval Network Organisation

    The merchants of the medieval Hanse monopolised trade in the Baltic and North Sea areas. The authors describe the structure of their trade system in terms of network organisation and attempts to explain, on the grounds of institutional economics, the coordination of the merchants’ commercial exchange by reputation, trust and culture. The institutional economics approach also allows for a ... Read more

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  • Barbarian Europe

    Translated by Ewa Macura ...
    European culture has been greatly influenced by the Christian Church and Greek and Roman culture. However, the peoples of Europe’s remote past, whom the Greeks, Romans, and their medieval heirs called the «barbarians», also left their mark. Closely examining ancient and medieval narratives and the codifications of laws, this thoughtfully conducted comparative study sheds light on the illiterate ... Read more

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  • Acts of Care

    Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health

    by Sara Ritchey ...
    In Acts of Care**, Sara Ritchey recovers women's healthcare work by identifying previously overlooked tools of care: healing prayers, birthing indulgences, medical blessings, liturgical images, and penitential practices.** Ritchey demonstrates that women in premodern Europe were both deeply engaged with and highly knowledgeable about health, the body, and therapeutic practices, but their critical ... Read more

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  • Crusade: The Uses of a Word from the Middle Ages to the Present

    Edited by Benjamin Weber ...
    Series series Crusades - Subsidia
    The word ‘crusade’ covers today a wide variety of meanings in most European languages. The link between these uses and the historical phenomenon labelled as ‘crusade’ by historians is often very narrow and particularly changing. Understanding the real meaning of the word ‘crusade’, its connotations and implications, and thus the conscious or unconscious intentions of its uses requires a precise ... Read more

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  • La insolita storia

    quello che i libri di storia non dicono

    Curiosità, stravaganze, eccentricità. Dietro la storia "ufficiale" si nascondono tanti piccole briciole di storia quotidiana interessanti e curiose. Questo libro ne raccoglie alcune. ... Read more

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  • Medieval Arabic Historiography

    Authors as Actors

    Series series SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East
    Medieval Arabic Historiography is concerned with social contexts and narrative structures of pre-modern Islamic historiography written in Arabic in seventh and thirteenth-century Syria and Eygpt. Taking up recent theoretical reflections on historical writing in the European Middle Ages, this extraordinary study combines approaches drawn from social sciences and literary studies, with a particular ... Read more

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  • The Agency of Things in Medieval and Early Modern Art

    Materials, Power and Manipulation

    Series series Routledge Research in Art History
    This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in anthropology and archaeology, it is an innovative approach for art historical investigations. Each contributor takes as a point of departure active things: objects that were collected, exchanged, held in hand, carried on a body, assembled, cared for or ... Read more

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  • Monastic Women and Secular Economy in Later Medieval Europe, ca. 1200 to 1500

    This book aims to rewrite the narrative of women and power in medieval society. Based on a rich corpus of sources – systematically collected for the first time – it reveals female monasteries as central and economically able agents in feudal society.With a chronological focus on the late Middle Ages, this book focuses on four powerful convents located in modern-day France, Germany, and Switzerland ... Read more

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  • Il martirio di Jacques de Molay

    cronache del rogo dell’ultimo maestro

    Introduzione, traduzione, e breve commento delle principali fonti – contemporanee all’epoca dei fatti – relative al rogo dell’ultimo maestro Templare, Jacques de Molay, avvenuto a Parigi il 18 marzo 1314. I testi indagati provengono dalla Continuazione della Cronaca di Guillaume de Nangis, dalla Chronique métrique attribuita a Godefroy de Paris, e dalla Cronaca del Templare di Tiro. ... Read more

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  • The Black Death: A History from Beginning to End

    Sweeping across the known world with unchecked devastation, the Black Death claimed between 75 million and 200 million lives in four short years. In this engaging and well-researched book, the trajectory of the plague's march west across Eurasia and the cause of the great pandemic is thoroughly explored.Inside you will read about...✓ What was the Black Death?✓ A Short History of Pandemics✓ ... Read more

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  • Mama Chira (How to Negotiate with an Emperor)

    by Helen Pugh ...
    A drought-ridden region.A mighty emperor.A humble village woman.From the author of Intrepid Dudettes of the Inca Empire comes a retelling of the fascinating Inca legend of Mama Chira, passed down from generation to generation in southern Peru.Adapted for adults from Inca-tastic Tales. ... Read more

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  • Byzantine Ideas of Persia, 650–1461

    Series series Global Histories Before Globalisation
    This book offers a comprehensive study into the perceptions of ancient and medieval Iran in the Byzantine empire, exploring the effects of Persian culture upon Byzantine intellectualism, society and culture.Byzantine Ideas of Persia, 650-1461 focusses on the enduring position of ancient Persia in Byzantine cultural memory, encompassing both in the 'religious' and the 'secular' significance. By ... Read more

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  • Vlad the Impaler: A Life From Beginning to End

    The character Count Dracula is well-known throughout the world. He is a dark, seductive, pale man wearing a cape. His gaze is quite literally captivating, and he has the strength of ten men. The story, written by Bram Stoker in 1897, has been retold hundreds of times, but is there a historical figure upon whom the character is based? Is there really a Dracula? Many scholars argue that Vlad III ... Read more

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  • The Crusades: From Beginning to End

    by Henry Freeman ...
    The CrusadesMuch has been written and much has been omitted when it comes to the Crusades; especially in modern parlance. Many talking heads in recent times have conjured up the specter of the Crusades as if it should be a source of great shame and disgust for Western Civilization. And with even President Obama drawing odd parallels in light of the beheadings of ISIS; many are wondering once again ... Read more

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  • Banishment in the Late Medieval Eastern Netherlands

    Exile and Redemption in Kampen

    by Edda Frankot ...
    This open access book analyses the practice of banishment and what it can tell us about the values of late medieval society concerning morally acceptable behaviour. It focuses on the Dutch town of Kampen and considers the exclusion of offenders through banishment and the redemption of individuals after their exile. Banishment was a common punishment in late medieval Europe, especially for sexual ... Read more

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