"Her Life Historical offers a major reconsideration of one of the most popular narrative forms in late medieval England - the lives of female saints - and one of the period's primary modes of interpretation - exemplarity. With lucidity and insight, Catherine Sanok shows that sai…
Her Life Historical offers a major reconsideration of one of the most popular narrative forms in late medieval England--the lives of female saints--and one of the period's primary modes of interpretation, exemplarity.
Early medieval women exercised public roles, rights, and responsibilities. Women contributed through their labor to the welfare of the community. Women played an important part in public affairs. They practiced birth control through abortion and infanticide. Women committed crim…
"In the first comprehensive study in English of Czech society and politics in the High Middle Ages, Lisa Wolverton paints a vivid portrait of a flourishing Christian community in the decades." "A systematic dissection of a medieval polity, Hastening Toward Prague is based on a c…
This is the first comprehensive study in English of Czech society and politics in the High Middle Ages. It paints a vivid portrait of a flourishing Christian community in the decades between 1050 and 1200. Bohemia's social and political landscape remained remarkably cohesive, ce…
The archaeology of Medieval Europe
by Graham-Campbell, James, Valor, Magdalena
fromActa Jutlandica
"This collection gathers together a range of scholars who reflect on recent historiographical developments in medieval rural history within their respective countries. Each contribution provides a survey of a recent area of research, as well as documenting its significant result…
"Focuses on conflict in village communities of late medieval Drenthe in order to depict a typical peasant society in late medieval Europe. Village communities were the heart of the medieval countryside. But how did they operate? This book seeks to find some answers to that quest…
