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  • Phantoms of Remembrance

    Memory and Oblivion at the End of the First Millennium

    by Patrick J. Geary ...
    In Phantoms of Remembrance, Patrick Geary makes important new inroads into the widely discussed topic of historical memory, vividly evoking the everyday lives of eleventh-century people and both their written and nonwritten ways of preserving the past. Women praying for their dead, monks creating and re-creating their archives, scribes choosing which royal families of the past to applaud and which ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Furta Sacra

    Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages - Revised Edition

    by Patrick J. Geary ...
    To obtain sacred relics, medieval monks plundered tombs, avaricious merchants raided churches, and relic-mongers scoured the Roman catacombs. In a revised edition of Furta Sacra, Patrick Geary considers the social and cultural context for these acts, asking how the relics were perceived and why the thefts met with the approval of medieval Christians. ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • Language and Power in the Early Middle Ages

    by Patrick J. Geary ...
    Series series The Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures
    The eminent historian Patrick J. Geary has written a provocative book, based on lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel about the role of language and ideology in the study and history of the early Middle Ages. He includes a fascinating discussion of the rush by nationalist philologists to rediscover the medieval roots of their respective vernaculars, the rivalry between vernacular ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Women at the Beginning

    Origin Myths from the Amazons to the Virgin Mary

    by Patrick J. Geary ...
    In these four artfully crafted essays, Patrick Geary explores the way ancient and medieval authors wrote about women. Geary describes the often marginal role women played in origin legends from antiquity until the twelfth century.Not confining himself to one religious tradition or region, he probes the tensions between women in biblical, classical, and medieval myths (such as Eve, Mary, Amazons, ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Resequencing the Middle Ages through Archaeogenetics

    Interpreting the Past through Science and History

    by Patrick J. Geary ...
    Series series Debates in Archaeology
    Offering a clear and accessible introduction to the fast-growing field of archaeogenetics, this book pays particular attention to the methods and approaches that are reshaping how archaeologists and historians think about the past.Written for readers with no prior background in genetics, it explains in straightforward terms how genomic research can shed light on mobility, population change, social ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Readings in Medieval History, Volume I

    The Early Middle Ages, Fifth Edition

    Edited by Patrick Geary ...
    Patrick J. Geary's highly acclaimed collection of source materials on the medieval period is well-known for offering an excellent selection of substantial excerpts—or whole documents wherever possible—from the most widely studied historical texts.This much-anticipated fifth edition features a larger format, as well as enlarged type, to make the collection more reader-friendly. Study questions have ... Read more

    $45.89 USD

  • Readings in Medieval History, Fifth Edition

    Edited by Patrick Geary ...
    Patrick J. Geary's highly acclaimed collection of source materials on the Western medieval world is well-known for offering an excellent selection of substantial excerpts—or entire documents wherever possible—from the most widely studied historical texts.This much-anticipated fifth edition features a larger format, as well as enlarged type, to make the collection more reader-friendly. Study ... Read more

    $60.29 USD

  • Readings in Medieval History, Volume II

    The Later Middle Ages, Fifth Edition

    Edited by Patrick Geary ...
    Patrick J. Geary's highly acclaimed collection of source materials on the medieval period is well-known for offering an excellent selection of substantial excerpts—or whole documents wherever possible—from the most widely studied historical texts.This much-anticipated fifth edition features a larger format, as well as enlarged type, to make the collection more reader-friendly. Study questions have ... Read more

    $45.89 USD

  • The Making of Medieval History

    by Graham Loud, Joep Leerssen, Martial Staub, Michael Borgolte, Patrick Geary, Professor Peter Biller, Richard Hitchcock, Bastian Schlütter, Bernhard Jussen0, Christian Lübke1, Christine Ames2, Professor Ian Nicholas Wood3, Janet L Nelson4 ...
    A hugely interesting set of essays, reflecting on a variety of ways in which medieval history has developed to the present time. Scholarship of the highest standard, deeply thought-provoking and deeply engaged with the inheritances and future tasks of medieval academic history. The collection will be essential reading for all medievalists. John Arnold, Professor of Medieval History, University of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Authors of the Middle Ages, Volume II, Nos 5–6

    Historical and Religious Writers of the Latin West

    by Constant J. Mews ...
    Series series Authors of the Middle Ages
    Volume II of the AUTHORS OF THE MIDDLE AGES series contains nos. 5-6 in the series: 'Peter Abelard' by Constant J. Mews and 'Honorius Augustodunensis' by V.I.J. Flint. PETER ABELARD (1079-1142) was one of the most creative and controversial thinkers of the 12th century. This study traces his life as a logician and theologian, paying particular attention to the many scholarly debates provoked by ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Authors of the Middle Ages, Volume IV, Nos 12–13

    Historical and Religious Writers of the Latin West

    Edited by Patrick J. Geary ...
    Series series Authors of the Middle Ages
    The anonymous author who has come to be known as Fredegar put together a collection of historical sources, together with items of his own composing in the second half of the 7th century. His work forms the most important source for the history of France in the period 594 to 642. It was added to in the mid 8th century, in two continuations that provide vital evidence for their own time. Gregory I ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • 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