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The Heads of Religious Housesby David M. Smith
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 78.00Final volume of Heads of Religious Houses: England and Wales takes the lists from 1377 to 1540. more...
The Princeby MobileReference
MobileReference.com 2008; US$ 3.99This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography and book analysis. This booktable of contents linked to every chapter and subchapter. Contents:. Chapter I: How Many Kinds Of Principalities There Are. Chapter II: Concerning Hereditary Principalities. Chapter III: Concerning Mixed Principalities. Chapter IV: Why The Kingdom Of Darius, Conquered By Alexander. Chapter V: Concerning The Way To Govern Cities Or Principalities. Chapter VI: Concerning New Principalities Which Are Acquired. Chapter VII: Concerning New Principalities Which Are Acquired. Chapter VIII: Concerning Those Who Have Obtained A Principality. Chapter IX: Concerning A Civil Principality. Chapter X: Concerning The Way In Which The Strength. Chapter... more...
Heresy in Transitionby Ian Hunter; John Christian Laursen; Cary J. Nederman
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 130.00The essays in this volume offer readers a unique insight into the changing concepts of heresy from the Middle Ages to the early modern period, c.1100 to c.1800. The contributors explore the role of nationalism and linguistic identity in constructions of heresy, its analogies with treason and madness, the role of class and status in the responses to heresy, and provide insights into the roots of the historicization of heresy. more...
Two Lives of Charlemagneby Einhard; Notker the Stammerer
Penguin Group Inc. 2008; US$ 12.99Two revealingly different accounts of the life of the most important figure of the Roman Empire Charlemage -known as the father of Europe-was one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers. The biographies brought together here provide a rich and varied portrait of the king from two perspectives: that of Einhard, a close friend and adviser, and of Notker, a monastic scholar and musician writing fifty years after Charlemagne's death. more...
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Global Medieval Life and Cultureby Joyce Salisbury; Nancy Sullivan
ABC-CLIO 2008; US$ 350.00The period we know as the Middle Ages, roughly the years 400-1400, saw the formation of ideas and institutions that mark modern societies. Developments as disparate as the foundation of Islam and the emergence of the middle class occurred during this pivotal millennium. Although historical study of the Middle Ages has traditionally focused on Western Europe, modern historians recognize the complex global nature of this era. For all major world regions, this three-volume work offers in-depth essays on broad themes, short entries on specific topics, and carefully selected primary documents to help readers more fully understand this critically important period.||Edited by Joyce Salisbury, who is general editor of the award-winning Greenwood Encyclopedia... more...
Water and Society in Early Medieval Italy, AD 4001000by Paolo Squatriti
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 38.00A discussion of the relationship between people and water in medieval Italy. more...
Generation of Identity in Late Medieval Hagiographyby Gail Ashton
Routledge 1999; US$ 198.00In this interdisciplinary and boundary breaking study, Gail Ashton examines the depiction of female saints in a wide range of medieval texts. more...
Byzantine Empressesby Lynda Garland
Routledge 1998; US$ 145.00Byzantine Empresses provides a series of biographical portraits of the most significant Byzantine women who ruled or shared the throne between 527 and 1204. more...
Archaeology of the Medieval English Monarchyby John Steane
Routledge 1998; US$ 49.95This book restores many details of the lives and deaths of the great and powerful monarchs of the Middle Ages and reveals past public splendours as well as more private insights. more...
Earliest English Kingsby D.P. Kirby
Routledge 2000; US$ 37.95A fascinating survey of Anglo-Saxon history from the sixth century to the eighth century and the death of King Alfred. This book reveals the complex, distant and tumultuous events of Anglo-Saxon politics. more...