A key impulse of cultural transmission is engaging with the past for the benefit of the present. In 17 essays on subjects that range from Paschasius Radbertus to Orhan Pamuk, the Regularis Concordia to Kurt Weill, this book examines specific historical case studies that reveal 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…
"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…
