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The Normans and the 'Norman Edge' - Peoples, Polities and Identities on the Frontiers of Medieval Europe (Paperback):... The Normans and the 'Norman Edge' - Peoples, Polities and Identities on the Frontiers of Medieval Europe (Paperback)
Keith Stringer, Andrew Jotischky
R1,260 Discovery Miles 12 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Modern historians of the Normans have tended to treat their enterprises and achievements as a series of separate and discrete histories. Such treatments are valid and valuable, but historical understanding of the Normans also depends as much on broader approaches akin to those adopted in this book. As the successor volume to Norman Expansion: Connections, Continuities and Contrasts, it complements and significantly extends its findings to provide a fuller appreciation of the roles played by the Normans as one of the most dynamic and transformative forces in the history of medieval 'Outer Europe'. It includes panoramic essays that dissect the conceptual and methodological issues concerned, suggest strategies for avoiding associated pitfalls, and indicate how far and in what ways the Normans and their legacies served to reshape sociopolitical landscapes across a vast geography extending from the remoter corners of the British Isles to the Mediterranean basin. Leading experts in their fields also provide case-by-case analyses, set within and between different areas, of themes such as lordship and domination, identities and identification, naming patterns, marriage policies, saints' cults, intercultural exchanges, and diaspora- homeland connections. The Normans and the 'Norman Edge' therefore presents a potent combination of thought-provoking overviews and fresh insights derived from new research, and its wide-ranging comparative focus has the advantage of illuminating aspects of the Norman past that traditional regional or national histories often do not reveal so clearly. It likewise makes a major contribution to current Norman scholarship by reconsidering the links between Norman expansion and 'state-formation'; the extent to which Norman practices and priorities were distinctive; the balance between continuity and innovation; relations between the Normans and the indigenous peoples and cultures they encountered; and, not least, forms of Norman identity and their resilience over time. An extensive bibliography is also one of this book's strengths.

Valkyrie - The Women of the Viking World (Paperback): Johanna Katrin Fridriksdottir Valkyrie - The Women of the Viking World (Paperback)
Johanna Katrin Fridriksdottir
R394 Discovery Miles 3 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE Valkyries: the female supernatural beings that choose who dies and who lives on the battlefield. They protect some, but guide spears, arrows and sword blades into the bodies of others. Viking myths about valkyries attempt to elevate the banality of war - to make the pain and suffering, the lost limbs and deformities, the piles of lifeless bodies of young men, glorious and worthwhile. Rather than their death being futile, it is their destiny and good fortune, determined by divine beings. The women in these stories take full part in the power struggles and upheavals in their communities, for better or worse. Drawing on the latest historical and archaeological evidence, Valkyrie introduces readers to the dramatic and fascinating texts recorded in medieval Iceland, a culture able to imagine women in all kinds of roles carrying power, not just in this world, but pulling the strings in the other-world, too. In the process, this fascinating book uncovers the reality behind the myths and legends to reveal the dynamic, diverse lives of Viking women.

Catalonia: A New History (Hardcover): Andrew Dowling Catalonia: A New History (Hardcover)
Andrew Dowling
R4,057 Discovery Miles 40 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Catalonia: A New History revises many traditional and romantic conceptions in the historiography of a small nation. This book engages with the scholarship of the past decade and separates nationalist myth-history from real historical processes. It is thus able to provide the reader with an analytical account, situating each historical period within its temporal context. Catalonia emerges as a territory where complex social forces interact, where revolts and rebellions are frequent. This is a contested terrain where political ideologies have sought to impose their interpretation of Catalan reality. This book situates Catalonia within the wider currents of European and Spanish history, from pre-history to the contemporary independence movement, and makes an important contribution to our understanding of nation-making.

Henry VIII, the Duke of Albany and the Anglo-Scottish War of 1522-1524 (Hardcover): Neil Murphy Henry VIII, the Duke of Albany and the Anglo-Scottish War of 1522-1524 (Hardcover)
Neil Murphy
R2,273 Discovery Miles 22 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The first comprehensive study of this war helps us understand how each country to defend the frontier, and the political issues which drove the Anglo-Scottish wars of the 1520s. The Anglo-Scottish War of 1522-1524 saw the mobilisation of tens of thousands of men and vast amounts of resources in both England and Scotland. Beyond its British context, the war had a European significance: it formed an element in the wider Valois-Habsburg struggles over Italy, with the complex systems of alliances spreading the repercussions of this struggle far across the continent and to the borders of England and Scotland. Recent years have seen the emergence of a renewed debate around the status of the Anglo-Scottish frontier and the wider political and social conditions which predominated in the borderlands of each kingdom. Although there has been a move to present the Anglo-Scottish border as a porous frontier where the populations on either side were closely connected, these neighbourly links imploded rapidly in wartime when frontier populations were co-opted into a national struggle. It is significant that borderers were responsible for inflicting the heaviest violence on each other during the war. Drawing on an unprecedented access to English and Sottish sources of the conflict, this book offers an important new contribution to both Scottish and English history as well as the wider military history of late medieval and early modern Europe. Aspects of military mobilisation, logistics, the defence of frontiers, the use of violence against civilians and wartime espionage feature prominently.

The Register of Edward Story, bishop of Chichester 1478-1503 (Hardcover): Janet H. Stevenson The Register of Edward Story, bishop of Chichester 1478-1503 (Hardcover)
Janet H. Stevenson
R1,075 Discovery Miles 10 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Edition of the register of a late-medieval bishop's register sheds fascinating light on life at the time. Edward Story, fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and later master of Michaelhouse, was also, in two terms as chancellor, a university administrator. But it was as a royal servant that he rose to eminence from about 1460 to servesucceeding monarchs with the impartial efficiency of a career civil servant. Bishop of Carlisle from 1468, he was translated in 1478 to Chichester, which, although conterminous with the county of Sussex, contained several exempt jurisdictions, notably the archbishop of Canterbury's deanery of South Malling. The register begins with Story's primary visitation of his diocese.The full record reveals both the shortcomings of the cathedral chapter and of those religious houses subject to episcopal jurisdiction. Besides purely diocesan matters such as ordinations, collations and institutions, clerical indiscipline and the exercise of his judicial authority, the extraordinary actionsrequired of the bishop are reflected not only in reports of local suspicions of heresy, but also in matters of national importance such as summonses to convocation, clerical taxation, natural disasters such as plague, and external threats to the kingdom. The documents are presented here in translation with full notes and introduction. Janet Stevenson, formerly an assistant editor of the Victoria History of Wiltshire, has edited The Edington Cartulary (Wiltshire Record Society, 42, 1987) and The Durford Cartulary (Sussex Record Society, 90, 2006).

From Chanson de Geste to Epic Chronicle - Medieval Occitan Poetry of War (Paperback): Gerard Gouiran From Chanson de Geste to Epic Chronicle - Medieval Occitan Poetry of War (Paperback)
Gerard Gouiran; Edited by Linda Paterson
R1,232 Discovery Miles 12 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this collection of essays Gerard Gouiran, one of the world's leading and much-loved scholars of medieval Occitan literature, examines this literature from a primarily historical perspective. Through texts offering hitherto unexplored insights into the history and culture of medieval Europe, he studies topics such as the representation of alterity through female figures and Saracens in opposition to the ideal of the Christian knight; the ways in which the narrating of history can become resistance and propaganda discourse in the clash between the Catholic Church and the French on the one hand, and the Cathar heretics and the people of Occitania on the other; questions of intertextuality and intercultural relations; cultural representations fashioning the West in contact with the East; and Christian dissidence in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Written in an approachable style, the book will be of historical, literary and philological interest to scholars and students, as well as any reader curious about this hitherto little-known Occitan literature. (CS1087).

Disability in Medieval Christian Philosophy and Theology (Paperback): Scott M. Williams Disability in Medieval Christian Philosophy and Theology (Paperback)
Scott M. Williams
R1,248 Discovery Miles 12 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book uses the tools of analytic philosophy and close readings of medieval Christian philosophical and theological texts in order to survey what these thinkers said about what today we call 'disability.' The chapters also compare what these medieval authors say with modern and contemporary philosophers and theologians of disability. This dual approach enriches our understanding of the history of disability in medieval Christian philosophy and theology and opens up new avenues of research for contemporary scholars working on disability. The volume is divided into three parts. Part One addresses theoretical frameworks regarding disability, particularly on questions about the definition(s) of 'disability' and how disability relates to well-being. The chapters are then divided into two further parts in order to reflect ways that medieval philosophers and theologians theorized about disability. Part Two is on disability in this life, and Part Three is on disability in the afterlife. Taken as a whole, these chapters support two general observations. First, these philosophical theologians sometimes resist Greco-Roman ableist views by means of theological and philosophical anti-ableist arguments and counterexamples. Here we find some surprising disability-positive perspectives that are built into different accounts of a happy human life. We also find equal dignity of all human beings no matter ability or disability. Second, some of the seeds for modern and contemporary ableist views were developed in medieval Christian philosophy and theology, especially with regard to personhood and rationality, an intellectualist interpretation of the imago Dei, and the identification of human dignity with the use of reason. This volume surveys disability across a wide range of medieval Christian writers from the time of Augustine up to Francisco Suarez. It will be of interest to scholars and graduate students working in medieval philosophy and theology, or disability studies.

The Ganitatilaka and its Commentary - Two Medieval Sanskrit Mathematical Texts (Paperback): Alessandra Petrocchi The Ganitatilaka and its Commentary - Two Medieval Sanskrit Mathematical Texts (Paperback)
Alessandra Petrocchi
R1,244 Discovery Miles 12 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Ga?itatilaka and its Commentary: Two Medieval Sanskrit Mathematical Texts presents the first English annotated translation and analysis of the Ga?itatilaka by Sripati and its Sanskrit commentary by the Jaina monk Si?hatilakasuri (13th century CE). Si?hatilakasuri's commentary upon the Ga?itatilaka is a key text for the study of Sanskrit mathematical jargon and a precious source of information on mathematical practices of medieval India; this is, in fact, the first known Sanskrit mathematical commentary written by a Jaina monk, about whom we have substantial information, to survive to the present day. In presenting the first annotated translation of these two Sanskrit mathematical texts, this volume focusses on language in mathematics and puts forward a novel, fresh approach to Sanskrit mathematical literature which favours linguistic, literary features and textual data. This key resource makes these important texts available in English for the first time for students of Sanskrit, ancient and medieval mathematics, South Asian history, and philology.

Sensing the Sacred in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (Paperback): Robin Macdonald, Elizabeth L. Swann, Emilie Murphy Sensing the Sacred in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (Paperback)
Robin Macdonald, Elizabeth L. Swann, Emilie Murphy
R1,243 Discovery Miles 12 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume traces transformations in attitudes toward, ideas about, and experiences of religion and the senses in the medieval and early modern period. Broad in temporal and geographical scope, it challenges traditional notions of periodisation, highlighting continuities as well as change. Rather than focusing on individual senses, the volume's organisation emphasises the multisensoriality and embodied nature of religious practices and experiences, refusing easy distinctions between asceticism and excess. The senses were not passive, but rather active and reactive, res-ponding to and initiating change. As the contributions in this collection demonstrate, in the pre-modern era, sensing the sacred was a complex, vexed, and constantly evolving process, shaped by individuals, environment, and religious change. The volume will be essential reading not only for scholars of religion and the senses, but for anyone interested in histories of medieval and early modern bodies, material culture, affects, and affect theory.

Medieval Canon Law (Hardcover, 2nd edition): James A. Brundage, Melodie H. Eichbauer Medieval Canon Law (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
James A. Brundage, Melodie H. Eichbauer
R4,064 Discovery Miles 40 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Melodie H. EICHBAUER is Professor of Medieval History at Florida Gulf Coast University, USA. She is the editor of A Cultural History of Genocide, Vol. 2: The Middle Ages (2021) and The Use of Canon Law in Ecclesiastical Administration, 1000-1250 (2018) with Danica Summerlin and other volumes. Her research focuses on the dissemination of legal knowledge; the interpretation of law; and the ways in which social, political, and intellectual developments and trends shaped both between c.1000 and c.1500 James A BRUNDAGE (1929-2021) was Professor Emeritus of history and, prior to his retirement, Ahmanson-Murphy chair of medieval European history at the University of Kansas, USA. His publications included The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession: Canonists, Civilians, and Courts (2008), Handbook of Medieval Sexuality (1996) edited with Vern L. Bullough, and Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe (1987).

Making Miracles in Medieval England (Hardcover): Tom Lynch Making Miracles in Medieval England (Hardcover)
Tom Lynch
R4,055 Discovery Miles 40 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Making Miracles in Medieval England will appeal to all those interested in religious practices in medieval England, medieval English culture, and medieval perceptions of miracles.

Medieval Panjab in Transition - Authority, Resistance and Spirituality c.1500 - c.1700 (Hardcover): Surinder Singh Medieval Panjab in Transition - Authority, Resistance and Spirituality c.1500 - c.1700 (Hardcover)
Surinder Singh
R4,550 Discovery Miles 45 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book reconstructs the historical transition in the undivided Panjab during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It shows that the assertion of Mughal and Afghan suzerainty faced sustained resistance from local elements, particularly the autonomous tribes and hill chiefdoms. In central plains, Dulla Bhatti mobilized the toilers of his ancestral domain and, leading a relentless fight against the Mughal oppression, became an abiding symbol of resistance in the collective memory. The multicultural legacy of Panjab evolved through diverse strands of spirituality. The jogis, wedded to monastic discipline, supernatural abilities and land grants, gained acceptance through their exertions for social betterment. The Sabiri and Qadiri silsilas channelized mystical urges towards the technique of prime recitation. The popular verses of Shah Husain, Baba Lal and Sultan Bahu proposed a loving relation with God. The legendary lovers, perishing in the struggles against patriarchal forces, promoted a merger of dissent with spirituality. In the city of Lahore, the material pursuits and cultural life were visible in a mosaic of descriptions, including episodes of social tension. The book understands the upliftment of depressed castes as a defining feature of Sikhism. It places egalitarian concern of the Sikh Gurus alongside the anti-caste protests of Namdev, Kabir and Ravidas. Owing to scriptural authority and congregational equality, the members of depressed castes attained a numerical majority in the Sikh warrior bands that shook the foundations of the Mughal state. The work relies on evidence from the Persian chronicles, Mughal newsletters, Sufi writings, Sikh literature and Punjabi folklore. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Ethnic Identity, Memory, and Use of the Past in Italy's 'Dark Ages' (Paperback): Luigi Andrea Berto Ethnic Identity, Memory, and Use of the Past in Italy's 'Dark Ages' (Paperback)
Luigi Andrea Berto
R1,145 Discovery Miles 11 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Examining ethnic identity, memory, and use of the past through the lens of the history of Italy during the post-Roman/early Middle Ages, this book guides postgraduate and upper level undergraduate students through these new research areas and explores the importance of their study. The book focuses ethnic identity, memory, and use of the past. Particular attention is devoted to the way some authors were sometimes influenced by their own "present" in their reconstruction of the past. Enabling students to see how the past was 'used' by those who recorded it. The volume also assesses the challenges that the features of the primary sources and sometimes their scarcity poses to their interpretations, providing a useful guide for students engaging with these sources for the first time.

The Routledge History of Poverty, c.1450-1800 (Paperback): David Hitchcock, Julia Mcclure The Routledge History of Poverty, c.1450-1800 (Paperback)
David Hitchcock, Julia Mcclure
R1,409 Discovery Miles 14 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Routledge History of Poverty, c.1450-1800 is a pioneering exploration of both the lives of the very poorest during the early modern period, and of the vast edifices of compassion and coercion erected around them by individuals, institutions, and states. The essays chart critical new directions in poverty scholarship and connect poverty to the environment, debt and downward social mobility, material culture, empires, informal economies, disability, veterancy, and more. The volume contributes to the understanding of societal transformations across the early modern period, and places poverty and the poor at the centre of these transformations. It also argues for a wider definition of poverty in history which accounts for much more than economic and social circumstance and provides both analytically critical overviews and detailed case studies. By exploring poverty and the poor across early modern Europe, this study is essential reading for students and researchers of early modern society, economic history, state formation and empire, cultural representation, and mobility.

Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum - Origins, Reception and Significance (Hardcover): Grzegorz... Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum - Origins, Reception and Significance (Hardcover)
Grzegorz Bartusik, Radoslaw Biskup, Jakub Morawiec
R4,096 Discovery Miles 40 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The studies collected in this volume investigate the origins and context of the Gesta and will enable researchers to better understand and evaluate the historical veracity of the text / This will appeal to all those interested in Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum / This volume contains essays from leading researchers bring forward the latest studies in this topic.

The Seventh Century in the West Syrian Chronicles (Paperback, illustrated edition): Andrew Palmer The Seventh Century in the West Syrian Chronicles (Paperback, illustrated edition)
Andrew Palmer; Commentary by Andrew Palmer
R976 Discovery Miles 9 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"The Seventh Century in the West-Syrian Chronicles" makes accessible to a wide public sources vital for the reconstruction of events in the first Islamic century, covering the period which ends with the unsuccessful Arab siege of Constantinople, an event which both modern historians and Syriac chronographers see as making a decisive caesura in history. The general introduction enables a newcomer to the field to establish his bearings before tackling the texts.

Ethnic Identity, Memory, and Use of the Past in Italy's 'Dark Ages' (Hardcover): Luigi Andrea Berto Ethnic Identity, Memory, and Use of the Past in Italy's 'Dark Ages' (Hardcover)
Luigi Andrea Berto
R3,903 Discovery Miles 39 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Examining ethnic identity, memory, and use of the past through the lens of the history of Italy during the post-Roman/early Middle Ages, this book guides postgraduate and upper level undergraduate students through these new research areas and explores the importance of their study. The book focuses ethnic identity, memory, and use of the past. Particular attention is devoted to the way some authors were sometimes influenced by their own "present" in their reconstruction of the past. Enabling students to see how the past was 'used' by those who recorded it. The volume also assesses the challenges that the features of the primary sources and sometimes their scarcity poses to their interpretations, providing a useful guide for students engaging with these sources for the first time.

Julian the Apostate in Byzantine Culture (Hardcover): Stefano Trovato Julian the Apostate in Byzantine Culture (Hardcover)
Stefano Trovato
R4,063 Discovery Miles 40 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book analyses Julian from the perspectives of Byzantine Culture and will therefore appeal to all those interested in Byzantine perspectives on Late Roman history / Julian the Apostate in Byzantine Culture will appeal to researchers and students alike in Byzantine perspectives on Julian, Greco-Roman Paganism, and the Later Roman Empire / This book will also appeal to those interested in Byzantine Historiography.

A Social History of Disability in the Middle Ages - Cultural Considerations of Physical Impairment (Paperback): Irina Metzler A Social History of Disability in the Middle Ages - Cultural Considerations of Physical Impairment (Paperback)
Irina Metzler
R1,333 Discovery Miles 13 330 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

What was it like to be disabled in the Middle Ages? How did people become disabled? Did welfare support exist? This book discusses social and cultural factors affecting the lives of medieval crippled, deaf, mute and blind people, those nowadays collectively called "disabled." Although the word did not exist then, many of the experiences disabled people might have today can already be traced back to medieval social institutions and cultural attitudes. This volume informs our knowledge of the topic by investigating the impact medieval laws had on the social position of disabled people, and conversely, how people might become disabled through judicial actions; ideas of work and how work could both cause disability through industrial accidents but also provide continued ability to earn a living through occupational support networks; the disabling effects of old age and associated physical deteriorations; and the changing nature of attitudes towards welfare provision for the disabled and the ambivalent role of medieval institutions and charity in the support and care of disabled people.

Logistics of Warfare in the Age of the Crusades (Paperback): John H. Pryor Logistics of Warfare in the Age of the Crusades (Paperback)
John H. Pryor
R1,469 Discovery Miles 14 690 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

How were the Crusades made possible? There have been studies of ancient, medieval and early modern warfare, as well as work on the finances and planning of Crusades, but this volume is the first specifically to address the logistics of Crusading. Building on previous work, it brings together experts from the fields of medieval Western, Byzantine and Middle Eastern studies to examine how the marches and voyages were actually made. Questions of manpower, types and means of transportation by land and sea, supplies, financial resources, roads and natural land routes, sea lanes and natural sailing routes - all these topics and more are covered here. Of particular importance is the attention given to the horses and other animals on which transport of supplies and the movement of armies depended.

Paris - The Powers that Shaped the Medieval City (Hardcover): Alexandra Gajewski, John McNeill Paris - The Powers that Shaped the Medieval City (Hardcover)
Alexandra Gajewski, John McNeill
R4,068 Discovery Miles 40 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The chapters, written by an international group of scholars, cover the subject from many different angles. They encompass wide-ranging case studies that address architecture, manuscript illumination and stained glass, as well as questions of liturgy, religion and social life. Topics include the early medieval churches that preceded the current cathedral church of Notre-Dame and cultural production in the Paris area in the late 12th and early 13th centuries, as well as Paris’s chapels and bridges. There is new evidence for the source of the c. 1240 design for a celebrated window in the Sainte-Chapelle, an evaluation of the liturgical arrangements in the new shrine-choir of Saint-Denis, built 1140–44, and a valuable assessment of the properties held by the Cistercian order in Paris in the Middle Ages. Also investigated are relationships between manuscript illuminators in the fourteenth century and representations of Paris in manuscripts and other media up to the late 15th century. Paris: The Powers that shaped the Medieval City updates and enlarges our knowledge of this key city in the Middle Ages and is for Medieval Archaeologists and Historians.

The Making of Crusading Heroes and Villains - Engaging the Crusades, Volume Four (Paperback): Mike Horswell, Kristin Skottki The Making of Crusading Heroes and Villains - Engaging the Crusades, Volume Four (Paperback)
Mike Horswell, Kristin Skottki
R630 Discovery Miles 6 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Engaging the Crusades is a series of volumes which offer windows into a newly emerging field of historical study: the memory and legacy of the crusades. Together these volumes examine the reasons behind the enduring resonance of the crusades and present the memory of crusading in the modern period as a productive, exciting, and much needed area of investigation. This new volume explores the ways in which significant crusading figures have been employed as heroes and villains, and by whom. Each chapter analyses a case study relating to a key historical figure including the First Crusader Tancred; 'villains' Reynald of Chatillon and Conrad of Montferrat; the oft-overlooked Queen Melisende of Jerusalem; the entangled memories of Richard 'the Lionheart' and Saladin; and the appropriation of St Louis IX by the British. Through fresh approaches, such as a new translation of the inscriptions on the wreath laid on Saladin's tomb by Kaiser Wilhelm II, this book represents a significant cutting-edge intervention in thinking about memory, crusader medievalism, and the processes of making heroes and villains. The Making of Crusading Heroes and Villains is the perfect tool for scholars and students of the crusades, and for historians concerned with the development of reputations and memory.

Early Medieval Venice - Cultural Memory and History (Paperback): Luigi Andrea Berto Early Medieval Venice - Cultural Memory and History (Paperback)
Luigi Andrea Berto
R1,224 Discovery Miles 12 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Early Medieval Venice examines the significant changes that Venice underwent between the late-sixth and the early-eleventh centuries. From the periphery of the Byzantine Empire, Venice acquired complete independence and emerged as the major power in the Adriatic area. It also avoided absorption by neighbouring rulers, prevented serious destruction by raiders, and achieved a stable state organization, all the while progressively extending its trading activities to most of northern Italy and the eastern Mediterranean. This was not a linear process, but the Venetians obtained and defended these results with great tenacity, creating the foundations for the remarkable developments of the following centuries. This book presents the most relevant themes that characterized Venice during this epoch, including war, violence, and the manner in which 'others' were perceived. It examines how early medieval authors and modern scholars have portrayed this period, and how they were sometimes influenced by their own 'present' in their reconstruction of the past.

Records of the Medieval Sword (Hardcover, New Ed): Ewart Oakeshott Records of the Medieval Sword (Hardcover, New Ed)
Ewart Oakeshott
R1,010 R908 Discovery Miles 9 080 Save R102 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The origins, development and use of the two-edged knightly sword of the European middle ages, from the great migrations to the Renaissance. Forty years of intensive research into the specialised subject of the straight two-edged knightly sword of the European middle ages are contained in this classic study. Spanning the period from the great migrations to the Renaissance, Ewart Oakeshott emphasises the original purpose of the sword as an intensely intimate accessory of great significance and mystique. There are over 400 photographs and drawings, each fully annotated and described in detail, supported by a long introductory chapter with diagrams of the typological framework first presented in The Archaeology of Weapons and further elaborated in The Sword in the Age of Chivalry. There are appendices on inlaid blade inscriptions, scientific dating, the swordsmith's art, and a sword of Edward III. Reprinted as part of Boydell's History of the Sword series.

Disease and the Environment in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds (Hardcover): Lori Jones Disease and the Environment in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds (Hardcover)
Lori Jones
R4,054 Discovery Miles 40 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The virtue of an interdisciplinary and multi-authored collection such as this one is that it can gather the necessary range of expertise to look into the complexities of disease and environment from different perspectives - allowing for both a scientifically- and culturally-minded readership to find interest in the discussion of epidemic and other disease. The volume brings environmental history into dialogue with the histories of medicine, science, and environmental thought, reflecting one of the best new trends in current scholarship on the relationship between humanity and non-human Nature. This edited volume will be the first to provide students and scholars with a comprehensive look at both how the environment is implicated in pre-modern disease regimes and how contemporary populations made efforts to mitigate the challenges that these disease regimes generated. It is also the first volume to take a long view by examining the environment-disease relationship across the traditional medieval-early modern divide to show both change and continuity.

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