The 15 essays in this volume attempt to show that familiar medieval sources can be read in new ways to yield more information about the status and role of women. The topics examined include: women in Old Norse sources, evidence of women in English legal records and Italian commercial documents.

Product Description: There are, contends Joel Rosenthal, two suppositions that have achieved almost full and unquestionable acceptance in contemporary social history and family studies. The first is that at any given time in any given culture one particular form or model of the family dominates; the second is that historical changes in the family operate in a single and compelling direction...read more

Product Description: This volume is the first part of Rosenthal's cataloging of historical scholarship on Ricardian, Lancastrian, and Yorkist England, and covers categories from political and legal history to social and intellectual history and the arts...read more

Product Description: In Old Age in Late Medieval England, Joel T. Rosenthal explores the life spans, sustained activities, behaviors, and mentalites of the individuals who approached and who passed the biblically stipulated span of three score and ten in late medieval England...read more

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'Medieval England is a topic that has perennial fascination: King Arthur, Robin Hood, chivalry, and Beowulf seem to have obtained a permanent place in high-school reading lists and the popular imagination. Spanning the 5th through the 15th century, this encyclopedia covers broad topics such as music, women, and language, as well as specific topics such as people, famous buildings, printing, monastic orders, prostitution, and stained glass. There are helpful charts of the kings and queens of England, archbishops of Canterbury and York, and the popes. Black-and-white illustrations abound, and each entry contains a bibliography for further research.'--'Outstanding Reference Sources : the 1999 Selection of New Titles', American Libraries, May 1999. Comp. by the Reference Sources Committee, RUSA, ALA.' (view table of contents)

Product Description: These essays consider three thematic categories that were dominant in most of Sheehan's own scholarly work. These are the role, position, and contributions of medieval women; the development of Christian marriage, especially in the High Middle Ages; and the secular family with its legal and emotional relationships...read more

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Product Description: The volume represents the second part of Rosenthal's cataloging of historical scholarship on Ricardian, Lancastrian, and Yorkist England, covering categories from political and legal history to social and intellectual history and the arts...read more

Product Description: One of the great challenges facing historians of any era is to make the strangeness of the past comprehensible in the present. This task is especially difficult for scholars of the Middle Ages, a period that can seem particularly alien to modern sensibilities...read more

Product Description: This volume contains collected papers on medieval England's names and naming patterns-mostly forenames or Christian names, but with some attention to family names. According to Rosenthal, there are three lines of assault upon the culture and practice by way of analysis of names and naming-micro-social or family dynamic, village life, and limited name stock that confronts us when we tally the range of names that served the bulk of the population...read more