Heroes and Marvels of the Middle Ages is a history like no other: it is a history of the imagination, presented through two celebrated groups of the period. One group consists of heroes: Charlemagne, El Cid, King Arthur, Orlando, Pope Joan, Melusine, Merlin the Wizard, and also …
"Robert Couzin's Right and Left in Early Christian and Medieval Art is the first in-depth study of handedness, position, and direction in the visual culture of Europe and Byzantium from the fourth to the fourteenth century. Heretofore largely unnoticed or ignored, the pre-eminen…
"Pierluigi Leone Gatti beleuchtet die Geschichte der philologischen Rezeption von Ovids Werk. Anhand von exegetischem Material (Scholien, Glossen und Zusammenfassungen) verfolgt er die Stellung Ovids und seiner Werke von der Antike bis ins Mittelalter. Die verschiedenen Sprachte…
This book contains translations of the four most important medieval Danish Laws written in the vernacular. -- back cover.
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…
Richard Kaeuper presents a lifetime of medieval research on Italian financiers, English kingship, chivalric violence, and knightly piety. His foundational work on public finance connects Italian merchant banking with the growth of state power at the turn of the fourteenth centur…
This volume brings together articles (including two hitherto unpublished pieces) that Susan Reynolds has written since the publication of her Fiefs and Vassals (1994) There she argued that the concepts of the fief and of vassalage, as generally understood by historians of mediev…
This volume brings together articles that Susan Reynolds has written since the publication of her 'Fiefs and Vassals' (1994). Six of the essays reprinted here continue her argument that feudalism is unhelpful to understanding medieval society, while eight more discuss other aspe…
