Product Description: This groundbreaking study reveals the distinctive impact of apocalyptic ideas about time, evil and power on church and society in the Latin West, c.400-c.1050. Drawing on evidence from late antiquity, the Frankish kingdoms, Anglo-Saxon England, Spain and Byzantium and sociological models, James Palmer shows that apocalyptic thought was a more powerful part of mainstream political ideologies and religious reform than many historians believe...read more

Itinerant bard Tralane avoids capture by the Sorcerer King by stealing a powerful amulet, the Eye of Wyden, that allows him to escape to a variant world, stalked by the Jade Warrior and his own destiny

Product Description: Islam emerged amid flourishing Christian and Jewish cultures, yet students of Antiquity and the Middle Ages mostly ignore it. Despite intensive study of late Antiquity over the last fifty years, even generous definitions of this period have reached only the eighth century, whereas Islam did not mature sufficiently to compare with Christianity or rabbinic Judaism until the tenth century...read more

Product Description: Dieser Band bietet erstmalig eine umfassende Geschichte der Kriegsbeute von Megiddo uber die alttestamentlichen Belege bis in die vornapoleonische Zeit. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit gilt der Burgunderbeute von 1476. Anhand zeitgenossischer Texte werden Zusammensetzung, Verwendung und Wirkung von Beuten untersucht und in grosseren historischen Zusammenhangen verortet...read more

The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne's empire was in ruins, most of Spain had been claimed by Moorish invaders, and even the papacy in Rome was embroiled in petty, provincial conflicts. To many historians, it was a prime example of the ignorance and uncertainty of the Dark Ages. Yet according to historian Paul Collins, the story of the tenth century is the story of our culture's birth, of the emergence of our civilization into the light of day.The Birth of the West tells the story of a transformation from chaos to order, exploring the alien landscape of Europe in transition. It is a fascinatingnarrative that thoroughly renovates older conceptions of feudalism and what medieval life was actually like. The result is a wholly new vision of how civilization sprang from the unlikeliest of origins, and proof that our tenth-century ancestors are not as remote as we might think.

Product Description: This exciting new textbook offers a sweeping survey of Europe in the later Middle Ages, examining a period of huge crisis, conflict and religious change. The Body Broken takes a thematic approach to the period 1300- 1520, covering everything from the Black Death and the Reformation to the Peasant’s Revolt and the Renaissance...read more

Product Description: Discover the real techniques behind how castles were built, and the lives of the brilliant craftspeople who made them.

Medievalism - the creative interpretation or recreation of the European Middle Ages - has had a major presence in the cultural memory of the modern West, and has grown in scale to become a global phenomenon. Countless examples across aesthetic, material and political domains reveal that the medieval period has long provided a fund of images and ideas that have been vital to defining 'the modern'. Bringing together local, national and global examples and tracing medievalism's unpredictable course from early modern poetry to contemporary digital culture, this authoritative Companion offers a panoramic view of the historical, aesthetic, ideological and conceptual dimensions of this phenomenon. It showcases a range of critical positions and approaches to discussing medievalism, from more 'traditional' historicist and close-reading practices through to theoretically engaged methods. It also acquaints readers with key terms and provides them with a sophisticated conceptual vocabulary for discussing the medieval afterlife in the modern.

Product Description: Center and Periphery honors Willliam Chester Jordan on the occasion of his 65th birthday. The essays by his former doctoral students examine the complexity of negotiating power at the center and margins of society in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean.

Product Description: Charlemagne demeure, au moins jusqu'au debut du XXe siecle, une reference essentielle, une incarnation du grand homme tel que l'on peut le rever a cette epoque. Il est vrai que, mis a part Louis XIV et Napoleon, la figure de pouvoir a laquelle il est fait le plus souvent reference est celle de Charlemagne, dans un phenomene de reappropriation d'une identite francaise qui doit beaucoup aux legendes historiographiques mises en place au Moyen Age pour legitimer la monarchie francaise...read more

Product Description: In Cistercian Architecture and Medieval Society Maximilian Sternberg offers an account of the social functions of the built environment in medieval monasticism. Few medieval monuments hold so privileged a place in the modern imagination as Cistercian abbeys, yet Sternberg suggests, it is precisely our own, peculiarly modern fascination with the idea of 'Cistercian aesthetics' that has hindered a full view of the complex social meanings of their architecture...read more

Product Description: [This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.] [Read by Frederick Davidson] In 1963 Norman F. Cantor published his breakthrough narrative history of the Middle Ages. Here is a significant revision, update, and expansion of that work...read more