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| This detailed study of Normandy s frontiers in the twelfth century explores how the dukes of Normandy who were also usually kings of England controlled the borders of their realm and how the local aristocracy responded to their rule. The book discusses... more | $39.99 $34.77 FREE shipping go to store |
| The intellectual history of the fourteenth century is still little known. Apart from the great figures like Ockham and Wyclif we have no detailed knowledge of the leading thinkers or the movements which may be deduced from their work. Dr Leff explains... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| Against the background of the struggle between Christianity and Islam for the control of the Spanish Peninsula this book examines the internal condition of the Spanish Church in the thirteenth century its relations with the Christian kings and with a... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| Ivo of Chartres was one of the most learned scholars of his time a powerful bishop and a major figure in the so-called Investiture Contest . Christof Rolker here offers a major new study of Ivo his works and the role he played in the intellectual... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| This book examines the relationship between the royal monasteries in tenth- and eleventh-century Germany and the German monarchs. It focuses on the practical aspects of governing without a capital and while constantly in motion and on the payments and... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| This study of illicit sexuality in medieval England explores links between marriage and sex law and disorder and property and power. Some medieval Englishwomen endured rape or were kidnapped for forced marriages yet most ravished women were married and... more | go to store |
| Nobility and Kingship in Medieval England is a major new account of the relationship between Edward I and his earls and of the role of the English nobility in thirteenth-century governance. Re-evaluating crown-noble relations of the period Spencer... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth: The Medieval March of Wales (Paperback) This book examines the making of the March of Wales and the crucial role its lords played in the politics of medieval Britain between the Norman conquest of England of 1066 and the English conquest of Wales in 1283. Max Lieberman argues that the Welsh... more | go to store |
| This study of illicit sexuality in medieval England explores links between marriage and sex law and disorder and property and power. Some medieval Englishwomen endured rape or were kidnapped for forced marriages yet most ravished women were married and... more | $109.99 $94.90 FREE shipping go to store |
| What did it mean to be Roman once the Roman Empire had collapsed in the West? Staying Roman examines Roman identities in the region of modern Tunisia and Algeria between the fifth-century Vandal conquest and the seventh-century Islamic invasions. Using... more | $116.00 $110.34 FREE shipping go to store |
| The union of Normandy and England in 1066 recast the political map of western Europe and marked the beginning of a new era in the region s international history. This book is a groundbreaking investigation of the relations and exchanges between the... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| The profound changes that took place between 800 and 1100 in the transition from Carolingian to post-Carolingian Europe have long been the subject of vigorous historical controversy. Looking beyond the notion of a Feudal Revolution this book reveals... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| This broad-ranging study explores the nature of national sentiment in fourteenth-century England and sets it in its political and constitutional context for the first time. Andrea Ruddick reveals that despite the problematic relationship between... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| This engaging study focuses on the role of assemblies in later Anglo-Saxon politics challenging and nuancing existing models of the late Anglo-Saxon state. Its ten chapters investigate both traditional constitutional aspects of assemblies - who... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| Nobility and Kingship in Medieval England is a major new account of the relationship between Edward I and his earls and of the role of the English nobility in thirteenth-century governance. Re-evaluating crown-noble relations of the period Spencer... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| This important exploration of the reign of Edward I - one of England s most lionised feared and successful monarchs - presents his kingship in a radical new light. Through detailed case studies of Shropshire Warwickshire and Kent Caroline Burt examines... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and T The Royal Saints of Anglo-Saxon England Book 9 (Paperback) Within Anglo-Saxon England there was a strong and enduring tradition of royal sanctity - of men and women of royal birth who in an age before the development of papal canonisation came to be venerated as saints by the regional church. This study which... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and T Kings and Lords in Conquest England Book 15 (Paperback) This is a study of landholding and alliance in England in the years 950 to 1086 a period in which the fortunes of lay lords and their families rose and fell dramatically. It was also a period of dizzying tenurial change in which the fluctuations in... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| This book shows just how much can be discovered about the so-called Dark Ages between the fall of Rome and the high Middle Ages. Whereas it is believed widely that the source materials for early medieval Europe are too sparse to allow sustained study... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| Drawing on a range of evidence related to royal authority political events and literate culture this study traces how kings and emperors involved themselves in the affairs of the Spanish March and examines how actively people in Catalonia participated... more | go to store |
| The monastic community of Fulda was one of the most powerful institutions in early medieval Europe. This book traces the development of the community from its foundation in the 740s over one and a half centuries a period richly documented by a variety... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| The English Franciscan Roger Bacon (ca.1214-92) holds a controversial but important position in the development of modern science. He has been portrayed as an isolated figure at odds with his influential order and ultimately condemned by it. This major... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| Examining the role of envoys from the establishment of the first barbarian kingdoms in the West to the eve of Justinian s wars of reconquest this study reveals how Roman imperial administration influenced new patterns of political interaction in the... more | $104.31 $86.58 FREE shipping go to store |
| By exploring the uniquely dense urban network of the Low Countries Janna Coomans debunks the myth of medieval cities as apathetic towards filth and disease. Based on new archival research and adopting a bio-political and spatial-material approach... more | $29.99 $25.53 go to store |
| The Rise and Decline of an Iberian Bourgeoisie is one of the first long-term studies in English of an Iberian town during the late medieval crisis. Focusing on the Catalonian city of Manresa Jeff Fynn-Paul expertly integrates Iberian historiography... more | go to store |
| This groundbreaking study of coinage in early medieval England is the first to take account of the very significant additions to the corpus of southern English coins discovered in recent years and to situate this evidence within the wider historical... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| The Variae of Cassiodorus have long been valued as an epistolary collection offering a window into political and cultural life in a so-called barbarian successor state in sixth-century Italy. However this study is the first to treat them as more than... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| In the fourteenth century with the encouragement of King Edward III textile workers from the Low Countries - predominantly Flanders but also Brabant - settled in England. Using extensive and original resources from both sides of the English Channel... more | $130.00 $121.54 go to store |
| Focusing on the way bishops in the eleventh century used the ecclesiastical tithe - church taxes - to develop or re-order ties of loyalty and dependence within their dioceses this book offers a new perspective on episcopacy in medieval Germany and... more | $88.58 $72.00 FREE shipping go to store |
| Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and T Barcelona and Its Rulers 1096-1291 Book 26 (Paperback) Based on extensive archival research this volume examines the early growth of Barcelona in order to understand the causes of the European economic take-off. The city did not at first grow because of overseas trade but because of market-oriented... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and T The Victors and the Vanquished Book 59 (Hardcover) This revisionary study of Muslims living under Christian rule during the Spanish reconquest delves into the subtleties of identity under the thirteenth-century Crown rule of Aragon. Brian Catlos uncovers a social dynamic in which sectarian differences... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| The barbarians of the fifth and sixth centuries were long thought to be races tribes or ethnic groups who toppled the Roman Empire. This book proposes a new view through a case study of the Goths of Italy between 489 and 554. The author suggests wholly... more | $68.99 $49.99 FREE shipping go to store |
| Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Arthurian Narrative in Latin Tradition Book 36 (Hardcover) This book takes a unique look at the Latin Arthurian tradition placing authors such as Geoffrey of Monmouth in the context of Latin histories monastic chronicles saints lives and other Latin prose Arthurian narratives. Placing them against a background... more | $149.00 $136.65 FREE shipping go to store |
| Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies: The Life of Thomas Chatterton (Paperback) The poet and forger Thomas Chatterton (1752-70) is known today to have been the author of the Rowley poems a series of compositions in medieval English. Chatterton claimed to have transcribed them from manuscripts written by a fifteenth-century monk... more | $38.82 $33.76 go to store |
| Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization: In the Mirror of Persian Kings (Paperback) For a period of nearly eight hundred years Perso-Islamic kingship was the source for the dominant social and cultural paradigms organising Indian political life. In the medieval world of South Asia Persian kingship took the form of a hybridized and... more | go to store |
| 9780521792394. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Pages: 392. 392 p. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series . 6 Tables unspecified; 1 Maps. Intended for professional and scholarly audience. This study examines the role of... more | $88.49 $46.49 FREE shipping go to store |
| Pre-Owned Medieval Popular Culture (Paperback) 0521386586 9780521386586 9780521386586. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Pages: 295. Trade paperback (US). 295 p. Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture . Worked examples or Exercises. Intended for college/higher education audience. By scrutinizing the lives... more | $8.69 $5.53 FREE shipping go to store |
| English Monastic Finances in the Later Middle Ages (Paperback) Originally published in 1926 as part of the Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought series this book was formed from an essay that won the Prince Consort Prize in 1912. It provides a discussion of the finances and administration of monasteries... more | go to store |
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