Brings to life the forgotten experiences and voices of some of the most extraordinary women in history, among them Wynflæd, Egeria, Gudrid and Mary Astell. This exploration of the lives of women living between the last days of Rome and the Enlightenment overturns the idea that w…
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A comparison and contrasting of health-care practices in seven different cultures from around the world
In this book - the first volume in his groundbreaking trilogy on the emergence of western political thought - Francis Oakley explores the roots of secular political thinking by examining the political ideology and institutions of Hellenistic and late Roman antiquity and of the e…
Examines the history and folklore of the beings that dwelt in rocks, streams, oceans, stones, and plants, working more closely with humans than the gods did. Includes a translation of the Icelandic skaldic poem "Berg-dweller's song."
Through a focused and systematic examination of late medieval scholastic writers - theologians, philosophers and jurists - Joseph Canning explores how ideas about power and legitimate authority were developed over the 'long fourteenth century'. The author provides a new model fo…
Europe and the rise of capitalism
by Hall, John A., Mann, Michael, Baechler, Jean
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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…