"This peer-reviewed book series is dedicated to innovative and transdisciplinary scholarly work on visualities and material cultures from the end of antiquity to the Renaissance. Since the editors desire to puncture the European, even Western European boundaries habitually drawn…
Julian Gardner's preeminent role in British studies of the art of the 13th and 14th centuries, particularly the interaction of papal and theological issues with its production and on either side of the Alps, is celebrated in these studies by his pupils. They discuss Roman works:…
by Faith, Rosamond, Banham, Debby
fromMedieval history and archaeology
This title studies farming in England before the Norman Conquest, in a period before trade was an important way of making a living, exploring what tools and methods were used in Anglo-Saxon farming, what kind of livestock was kept, and what crops were grown.
The High Middle Ages were remarkable for their coherent sense of 'Christendom': of people who belonged to a homogeneous Christian society marked by uniform rituals of birth and death and worship. That uniformity, which came under increasing strain as national European characteri…
This series focuses on Western Europe in the Early Middle Ages and covers work in the areas of history, language & literature, archeology, art history and religious studies. It brings together current scholarship on early medieval Britain with scholarship on western continental …
"Examines how the Jews in the Crown of Aragon in the twelfth through fourteenth centuries negotiated the overlapping jurisdictions and power relations of local lords and the crown"--Provided by publisher.
This volume explores the richness of Middle English and Latin material in prose and verse, concerning the preaching of the word of God in late medieval England. The focus of this volume, on Middle English and Latin material in prose and verse, concerns the preaching of the word …
The chapters in this book include: 'Preaching the Cross: Liturgy and Crusade Propaganda'; 'Un cas de prédication anti-chalcédonienne'; 'A Case of Medieval Political 'Flip-Flopping'?'; 'Talking about Kingship when Preaching about Saint Louis'; and much more.
