"This volume is the first comprehensive study of the material imprint of slavery in early medieval Europe. While written sources attest to the ubiquity of slavery and slave trade in early medieval British Isles, Scandinavia and Slavic lands, it is still difficult to find materia…
This volume is the first comprehensive study of the material imprint of slavery in early medieval Europe. While written sources attest to the ubiquity of slavery and slave trade in early medieval British Isles, Scandinavia and Slavic lands, it is still difficult to find material…
American/Medieval goes North: earth and water in transit
by Nordvig, Mathias, Berger, Pamela, Boyer, Tina, Davies, Joshua, Ellard, Donna Beth, Lees, Clare, Lees, Clara A., Newell, Wayne, Pittenger, Bailey, Poirier, Barbara J., Sigal, Gale, Truitt, Elly, Zulick, Margaret, Hurley, Mary Kate
"This volume offers an in-depth exploration of the cultural connections between and across Britain, Ireland, and Iceland during the high and late Middle Ages. Drawing together new research from international scholars working in Celtic Studies, Norse, and English, the contributio…
"This book examines the experiences and interconnections of the Reformations, principally in Denmark-Norway and Britain and Ireland (but with an eye to the broader Scandinavian landscape as well), and also discusses instances of similarities between the Reformations in both real…
"Industrial transformation is a research and teaching field with a focus on the phenomenon and mechanisms of industrial development and renewal. It concerns changes in economic activities caused by innovation, competition and collaboration, and has a rich heritage of evolutionar…
"Periodicals were an essential medium during eighteenth-century Enlightenment. The era's growing number of newspapers and journals made possible a fast and vast dissemination of ideas and debates. Journals were a particularly important means of transmitting ideas, genres, texts,…
"This volume covers a period from the late fifteenth century to the seventeenth century and, in some cases, even later. This so-called 'Reformation' was definitively a transition period in the Baltic Sea region."--Page [17].
Our historical understanding of the Reformation in northern Europe has tended to privilege the idea of disruption and innovation over continuity--yet even the most powerful reformation movements drew on and exchanged ideas with earlier cultural and religious practices. This volu…
