Offers a new perspective on the ""feudal revolution"" by comparing forms of social and political organization in the Kingdom of the Rus and Latin Europe.
The Contemporary Medieval in Practice looks at early medieval British culture, often termed Anglo-Saxon Studies (c. 500-1100), and its relation with, use of, and re-working in contemporary visual, poetic, and material culture (after 1950).
The Bavarian Commentary and Ovid is the first complete critical edition and translation of the earliest preserved commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses.Today, Ovid's famous work is one of the touchstones of ancient literature, but we have only a handful of scraps and quotations to …
Early Thirteenth-Century English Franciscan Thought
During the 13th century, the Franciscan school became prominent among the first universities such as Oxford and Paris and other European centres of learning. This volume explores the contributions to scholarship of some of the major English Franciscans or Franciscan associates w…
This volume offers the author's central articles on the medieval and early modern history of cartography for the first time in English translation. A first group of essays gives an overview of medieval cartography, illustrating the methods of cartographers. Another analyzes worl…
The prevalent image of the late Carolingian age is one of decline and fall. Charles III the Simple's (893/898−923) rule, which has hardly received any scholarly attention since the late 19th century, is perceived to have been the classic example of this development. Enthroned by…
The prevalent image of the late Carolingian age is one of decline and fall. Charles III the Simple's (893/898-923) rule, which has hardly received any scholarly attention since the late 19th century, is perceived to have been the classic example of this development. Enthroned by…
The Legacy of Early fraciscan Thought
The influence of later medieval fraciscans on subsequent scholarly developments has been widely acknowledged. However, the legacy of early fraciscan thought, as it developed in fraciscan thinkers who worked in the first half of the 13th century, remains unknown. Leading scholars…
This book addresses various aspects of materiality and mediality in the manuscript culture of Scandinavia represented in epigraphic writing with runes, the introduction of Roman script and the earliest period of print. The materiality, in stone, lead amulets, parchment and paper…
Neomedievalisms are cultural practices that breathe a bouquet of premoderns as permanent rehearsals of coming events. Where medievalists may be prone to police the post-medieval weald for inauthentic medievalisms, neomedievalists embrace the articulation and mobilisation of meta…
The volume extends the mainly European focus of the series 'Historiography and ldentity' to probe into a more global perspective, exploring the historiographical cultures of a number of Eurasian macro-regions: China, Japan, Iran, South Arabia, Syria, Byzantium, Lotharingia, and …
"This book provides an analysis of the ideology of power in Norway and Iceland as reflected in sources written during the period 1150-1250. The main focus is explaining the way that Kings' power in Norway, and that of chieftains in Iceland, was idealised in important texts from …
Steven P. Marrone traces the mutual interactions and boundaries of science, religion and magic in medieval and early modern Europe. Woven together, these three narratives help explain the simultaneous emergence of modern science and early modern social order in Europe. --Provide…
"In 902 the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily fell, and the island would remain under Muslim control until the arrival of the Normans in the eleventh century. Drawing on a lifetime of translating and linguistic experience, William Granara here focuses on the various ways in wh…
Although the long reign of Emperor Justinian I (527-565 CE) and the military history of late antiquity have been frequent subjects of ancient historical research, the emperor's military policy has not been closely studied until now. This study contributes to our understanding th…
"This book explores the relationship between the papacy and reform against the backdrop of social and religious change in later tenth and eleventh-century Europe. Placing this relationship in the context of the debate about 'transformation', it reverses the recent trend among hi…
