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  • Ethnicity in Medieval Europe, 950-1250

    Medicine, Power and Religion

    by Claire Weeda ...
    Students in twelfth-century Paris held slanging matches, branding the English drunkards, the Germans madmen and the French as arrogant. On crusade, army recruits from different ethnic backgrounds taunted each other's military skills. Men producing ethnography in monasteries and at court drafted derogatory descriptions of peoples dwelling in territories under colonisation, questioning their work ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe

    Edited by Carole Rawcliffe, Claire Weeda ...
    Series series Premodern Crime and Punishment
    Tapping into a combination of court documents, urban statutes, material artefacts, health guides and treatises, Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe offers a unique perspective on how premodern public authorities tried to create a clean, healthy environment. Overturning many preconceptions about medieval dirt and squalor, it presents the most outstanding recent scholarship on how ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Imagining Communities

    Historical Reflections on the Process of Community Formation

    Edited by Gemma Blok, Vincent Kuitenbrouwer, Claire Weeda ...
    Series series Heritage and Memory Studies
    In his groundbreaking Imagined Communities, first published in 1983, Benedict Anderson argued that members of a community experience a deep, horizontal camaraderie. Despite being strangers, members feel connected in a web of imagined experiences., Yet while Anderson's insights have been hugely influential, they remain abstract: it is difficult to imagine imagined communities. How do they evolve ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Reframing the Feudal Revolution

    Political and Social Transformation between Marne and Moselle, c.800–c.1100

    by Charles West ...
    Series Book 90 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
    The profound changes that took place between 800 and 1100 in the transition from Carolingian to post-Carolingian Europe have long been the subject of vigorous historical controversy. Looking beyond the notion of a 'Feudal Revolution', this book reveals that a radical shift in the patterns of social organisation did occur in this period, but as a continuation of processes unleashed by Carolingian ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Cities, Texts and Social Networks, 400–1500

    Experiences and Perceptions of Medieval Urban Space

    Edited by Caroline Goodson, Anne E. Lester, Carol Symes ...
    Cities, Texts and Social Networks examines the experiences of urban life from late antiquity through the close of the fifteenth century, in regions ranging from late Imperial Rome to Muslim Syria, Iraq and al-Andalus, England, the territories of medieval Francia, Flanders, the Low Countries, Italy and Germany. Together, the volume's contributors move beyond attempts to define 'the city' in purely ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Morality and Masculinity in the Carolingian Empire

    by Rachel Stone ...
    Series Book 81 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
    What did it mean to be a Frankish nobleman in an age of reform? How could Carolingian lay nobles maintain their masculinity and their social position, while adhering to new and stricter moral demands by reformers concerning behaviour in war, sexual conduct and the correct use of power? This book explores the complex interaction between Christian moral ideals and social realities, and between ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Long Morning of Medieval Europe

    New Directions in Early Medieval Studies

    by Jennifer R. Davis ...
    Recent advances in research show that the distinctive features of high medieval civilization began developing centuries earlier than previously thought. The era once dismissed as a "Dark Age" now turns out to have been the long morning of the medieval millennium: the centuries from AD 500 to 1000 witnessed the dawn of developments that were to shape Europe for centuries to come. In 2004, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Freedom and the Construction of Europe: Volume 1, Religious Freedom and Civil Liberty

    Edited by Quentin Skinner, Martin van Gelderen ...
    Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the Construction of Europe an international group of scholars explore the richness, diversity and complexity of thinking about freedom in the shaping of modernity. Volume 1 examines debates about religious and constitutional liberties, as well as exploring the tensions ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Money and the Church in Medieval Europe, 1000-1200

    Practice, Morality and Thought

    by Giles E. M. Gasper, Svein H. Gullbekk ...
    Series series Religion and Money in the Middle Ages
    Bringing together essays from experts in a variety of disciplines, this collection explores two of the most important facets of life within the medieval Europe: money and the church. By focusing on the interactions between these subjects, the volume addresses four key themes. Firstly it offers new perspectives on the role of churchmen in providing conceptual frameworks, from outright condemnation, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Gender and Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Destroying Order, Structuring Disorder

    by Susan Broomhall ...
    States of emotion were vital as a foundation to society in the premodern period, employed as a force of order to structure diplomatic transactions, shape dynastic and familial relationships, and align religious beliefs, practices and communities. At the same time, societies understood that affective states had the potential to destroy order, creating undesirable disorder and instability that had ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Origins of Nationalism

    An Alternative History from Ancient Rome to Early Modern Germany

    by Caspar Hirschi ...
    In this wide-ranging work, Caspar Hirschi offers new perspectives on the origins of nationalism and the formation of European nations. Based on extensive study of written and visual sources dating from the ancient to the early modern period, the author re-integrates the history of pre-modern Europe into the study of nationalism, describing it as an unintended and unavoidable consequence of the ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Great Wave : Price Revolutions And The Rhythm Of History

    by David Hackett Fischer ...
    David Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive--even stories as familiar as Paul Revere's ride, or as complicated as the assimilation of British culture in North America. Now, in The Great Wave, Fischer has done it again, marshaling an astonishing array of historical facts in lucid and compelling prose to outline a history of ... Read more

    $20.89 USD