Product Description: This selection of articles, published for the 50th anniversary of the author's doctorate at Gottingen, opens with studies on his teacher, Percy Ernst Schramm, and his contribution to the study of the medieval state and continues with examples of state symbology from Central Europe...read more

Product Description: Vikings plagued the coasts of Ireland and Britain in the 790s AD. Over time, their raids became more intense and by the mid 9th century, Vikings had established a number of settlements in Ireland and Britain and had become heavily involved with local politics...read more

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Product Description: This volume discusses German historiography from the c. 950 to 1150 through a close examination of six works. In contrast to most earlier scholarship, it focuses on the narrative as an expression of the authors' way of finding meaning in the sequence of events, and as evidence for their understanding of society, politics, and human behaviour...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The essays in this volume constitute a series of investigations into the limitations on thought and power as conceived by thinkers in the medieval West and they draw on material ranging from law to literature. The author deals with limits on the human desire for knowledge, the passion with which knowledge could legitimately be pursued, and the propriety of the knowledge sought, as well as the limits that might be tolerable and tolerated in the case of royal incapacity or misbehaviour...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The ideas and practices involved in early medieval royal family politics are the central theme of this collection of papers by Janet L. Nelson. She first examines King Alfred of Wessex (871-99) in the context of Anglo-Saxon conditions and in comparison with his Carolingian contemporaries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Did the years between 1471 and 1534 see the transformation of the medieval state with the assertion of monarchical authority and government? Can we speak of a "New Monarchy" in this period? This account of changes in the theory and mechanisms of government under the Yorkists and early Tudors focuses on their relationship to social attitudes and problems...read more

Examines the origins and reasons for the predominance of royal rule in medieval Europe and traces the rise and decline of feudalism