Mothers and children

jewish family life in medieval Europe

This book presents a synthetic history of the family - the most basic building block of medieval Jewish communities - in Germany and northern France during the High Middle Ages. Concentrating on the special roles of mothers and children, it also advances recent efforts to write a ...

Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

The mention of the history of beer always brings a alugh or ata the very least a snicher. The history of beer for most people is not a serious topic of study. It seems to them frivolous and hardly worth more than a few diveting ...

Gala Placida

una soberana del Imperio cristiano

Elia Gala Placidia (392-450), hija del emperador romano Teodosio el Grande y de su segunda esposa Gala, está considerada por la historiografía actual como la figura política femenina más notoria de Occidente en la primera mitad del siglo V. Destinada desde su nacimiento, como tantas ...

Pour une anthropologie du prélèvement seigneurial dans les campagnes médiévales (XIe-XIVe siècles)

réalités et représentations paysannes: Colloque tenu à Medina del Campo du 31 mai au 3 juin 2000

Castles in medieval society

fortresses in England, France, and Ireland in the Cantral Middle Ages

The image of a medieval castle perched on a hill is a familiar one, but do we really know what castles were for? In this challenging new book Charles Coulson overturns many of the traditional assumptions about the nature and purpose of castle-building in the ...

Barbarians, marauders and infidels

the ways of medieval warfare

This vibrant and action-driven narrative examines the motivations for warfare in the Middle Ages, asserting that waging war was a condition defining the ruling groups of all societies. Barbarians, Marauders, and Infidels examines the motives and terrors of war during the Middle Ages, the rise ...

The kings and their hawks

falconry in Medieval England

In medieval Europe, falconry was perhaps the most popular form of hunting among the aristocracy. Owning a falcon, and the necessary falconer to go with it, was a status symbol throughout the middle ages. This book is the first broad history of English royal falconry ...

Swords of the viking age

This new work fills a gap in the literature in English on the swords made and used in northern Europe during the Viking age, between the mid eighth and the mid eleventh centuries. Ewart Oakeshott outlines the significance and diversity of these ancient heirlooms; co-author ...

The textura of society

medieval women in the Southern Low countries

This book proposes to examine the historical experience, both secular and religious, of women in Flanders, one of the most economically dynamic regions of medieval Europe. The articles in this collection are written within the framework of the thesis that medieval Flemish women were more ...

The medieval horse and its equipment

c. 1150-c.1450

Whether knight's charger or beast of burden, horses played a vital role in medieval life. The wealth of medieval finds excavated in London in recent years has, not surprisingly, included many objects associated with horses. This catalogue illustrates and discusses over four hundred such ...

A history of the life of Richard Coeur-de-Lion, King of England

The rise and fall of the feudal system comprises one of the most important periods of human history. During this time, magnificent upheavals occurred: an organised system of oppression gave way to rational liberty, bloody wars resulted in the refinement of society, and wanton aggression ...

Monstruos, demonios y maravillas a fines de la Edad Media

El monstruo medieval aparece a través de la obra de los pintores y los grabadores del fin de la Edad Media como una creación misteriosa: nuestra época, intentando encontrarle sentido, le imputa intenciones subversivas, orígenes patológicos, una inspiración deudora de los alucinógenos, etcétera (por ejemplo ...

A companion to Arthurian and celtic myth and legend

Authoritative illustrated guide to the people, events and places (including Scotland, Ireland and Brittany) linked to King Arthur.

The bridges of Medieval England

transport and society, 400-1800

Medieval bridges are startling achievements of civil engineering, which prove the importance of road transport and the sophistication of the medieval economy. The Bridges of Medieval England rewrites their history, offering new insights into many aspects of the subject. It has profound implications for our ...

La pratica agrimensoria nella tarda antichità e nell' alto medioevo

Le mutazioni prodotte dal Cristianesimo nella percezione del paesaggio romano tradizionale sono segnate talora da eventi traumatici (distruzione dei templi, per far posto a fondazioni ecclesiali o monastiche, abbattimento degli alberi, esorcismo di luoghi e simboli con l'apposizione di una croce), ma nell'insieme ...

The bridges of Medieval England

transport and society, 400-1800

Medieval bridges are startling achievements of civil engineering, which prove the importance of road transport and the sophistication of the medieval economy. The Bridges of Medieval England rewrites their history, offering new insights into many aspects of the subject. It has profound implications for our ...

Medieval fabrication

dress, textiles, clothwork and other cultural imaginings

The varied cultural functions of dress, textiles, and clothwork are used in this collection of essays to examine long-standing assumptions about the Middle Ages. At one end of the spectrum, questions of dress call up feminist theoretical investigations into the body and subjectivity, while broadening ...

The making of feudal agricultures?

Was there a discernible set of changes in the techniques of arable farming, animal husbandry and their associated technologies at the end of antiquity which marked a clear break with an established 'ancient world economy' and ushered in the 'new agricultures' of the early middle ...

El temps i l'espai del feudalisme

Reunió científica. VI cUrs d'Estiu Comtat d'Urgell (Balaguer, 11, 12 i 13 de juliol de 2001)

Aplega les actes dels cursos d'estiu del comtat d'Urgell que se celebra cada juliol a Balaguer des de l'any 1996. Aquests llibres contribueixen a renovar el coneixement de les arrels medievals de la mà dels millors especialistes d'Europa i Amèrica. Directors ...

Power and property in Medieval Germany

economic and social change c.900-1300

In Power and Property in Medieval Germany Professor Arnold takes a fresh look at the problems posed by power and property in a medieval society, in this case the German kingdom. In a series of interrelated studies covering the period 700-1500, but concentrating on the ...