"Many historical processes exhibit recurrent patterns of change. Century-long periods of population expansion come before long periods of stagnation and decline; the dynamics of prices mirror population oscillations; and states go through strong expansionist phases followed by p…
The author rewrites the history of political theory. She traces the development of the Western tradition from classical antiquity through to the Middle Ages in the perspective of social history. From the Ancient Greek polis of Plato, Aristotle, Aeschylus and Sophocles, through t…
This book illuminates Byzantines' relationship with woodland between the seventh and twelfth centuries. Using the oak and the olive as objects of study, this work explores shifting economic strategies, environmental change, and the transformation of material culture throughout t…
From the publisher. Today we usually think of a book of poems as composed by a poet, rather than assembled or adapted by a network of poets and readers. But the earliest European vernacular poetries challenge these assumptions. Medieval songbooks remind us how lyric poetry was o…
'Songbook' treats what poetry was before the emergence of the modern category 'poetry': that is, how vernacular songbooks of the 13th to 15th centuries shaped our modern understanding of poetry by establishing expectations of what is a poem, what is a poet, and what is lyric poe…
From the publisher. Today we usually think of a book of poems as composed by a poet, rather than assembled or adapted by a network of poets and readers. But the earliest European vernacular poetries challenge these assumptions. Medieval songbooks remind us how lyric poetry was o…
'Songbook' treats what poetry was before the emergence of the modern category 'poetry': that is, how vernacular songbooks of the 13th to 15th centuries shaped our modern understanding of poetry by establishing expectations of what is a poem, what is a poet, and what is lyric poe…
