Product Description: Cradle of northern Europe's later urban and industrial pre-eminence, medieval Flanders was a region of immense political and economic importance -- and already, as so often later, the battleground of foreign powers. Yet this book is, remarkably, the first comprehensive modern history of the region...read more

Product Description: In this book, Theodore M. Andersson, a leading scholar of the Norse sagas, introduces readers to the development of the Icelandic sagas between 1180 and 1280, a crucial period that witnessed a gradual shift of emphasis from tales of adventure and personal distinction to the analysis of political and historical propositions...read more

Product Description: The Google Generation examines original and secondary research evidence from international sources to determine whether there is a younger generation of learners who are adopting different styles of information search behaviour from older generations as a function of their patterns of use of online technologies...read more

Product Description: The Northern Lands: Germanic Europe, c.1270-c.1500 explores the unique regional identity that developed in the lands bordering the Baltic and North Seas during Europe's late medieval period. Offers an original thematic overview including government, law, language, family relations, urbanization, and economyMaintains a comparative perspectiveIncludes English translations from key original sourcesIncludes illustrations, maps, and original diagrams to enhance readers understandingFeatures a unique map of the Low Countries that includes the entire region and marks the frontiers between areas of Romance and Germanic languag...read more

Product Description: This unique book draws on research that constituted the first major nationwide evaluation of the use and impact of key digital health information platforms which were provided to thousands of health consumers in the UK. The authors offer the first comprehensive and detailed comparison of usage and impact of the three major ICT platforms delivering health information - the internet, touch-screen kiosks and digital interactive television...read more

Product Description: Reflecting the vigour of both urban and medieval history, this timely textbook by a leading scholar of urban studies is a broadly interdisciplinary work that breaks new ground by emphasising the links between the late medieval and early modern cities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A survey of the history of Europe during the three centuries traditionally seen as bridging the "late mediaeval" or "Renaissance" periods and the early modern age. It shows the important changes in the political configuration and governing institutions of Europe, economic developments and social problems, Europe's relations with the broader world, creative activity and religious attitudes that begin at the end of the 14th century and culminate in the early 17th...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Later Medieval City, 1300-1500, the second part of David Nicholas's ambitious two-volume study of cities and city life in the Middle Ages, fully lives up to its splendid precursor, The Growth of the Medieval City. (Like that volume it is fully self-sufficient, though many readers will want to use the two as a continuum...read more

Product Description: This is the first in a two-volume study of the medieval city. It traces the slow regeneration of urban life in the early-medieval period, showing where and how an urban tradition had survived from late antiquity, and when and why new urban communities began to form where there was no continuity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book covers a rich and complex subject in one volume. Professor Nicholas examines the long-term factors of continuity, evolution and change throughout Europe. He discusses the social and economic aspects of medieval civilization, and looks at their links with political, institutional and cultural development...read more

Product Description: Book by Nicholas, David, Erbach, Gertrud

Product Description: Traditionally enshrined in the pantheon of Flemish national heroes, James van Artevelde and his son Philip assumed extraordinary powers at Ghent in 1338 and in 1382, respectively, when they led the city in bold but futile battles against the Flemish counts and their overlords, the kings of France...read more

Describes the economic and social structures in fourteenth century Ghent, assesses the impact of the decline of its textile industry, and shows how the city was affected population decline and social dislocation