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A concise history of the crusades - whose chief goal was the
liberation and preservation of the 'holy places' of the middle east
- from the first calls to arms in the later twelfth century to the
fall of the last crusader strongholds in Syria and Palestine in
1291. This is the ideal introductory textbook for all students of
the crusades. Professor Richard considers the consequences of the
crusades, such as the establishment of the Latin east, and its
organisation into a group of feudal states, as well as crusading
contacts with the Muslim world, eastern Christians, Byzantines, and
Mongols. Also considered are the organisation of expeditions, the
financing of such expeditionary forces, and the organisation of
operations and supply. Jean Richard is one of the world's great
crusader historians and this work, the distillation of over forty
years' research and contemplation, is the only one of its kind in
English.
The Inquisition was the most powerful disciplinary institution in
the early modern world, responsible for 300,000 trials and over 1.5
million denunciations. How did it root itself in different social
and ethnic environments? Why did it last for three centuries? What
cultural, social and political changes led to its abolition? In
this first global comparative study, Francisco Bethencourt examines
the Inquisition's activities in Spain, Italy, Portugal and overseas
Iberian colonies. He demonstrates that the Inquisition played a
crucial role in the Catholic Reformation, imposing its own members
in papal elections, reshaping ecclesiastical hierarchy, defining
orthodoxy, controlling information and knowledge, influencing
politics and framing daily life. He challenges both traditionalist
and revisionist perceptions of the tribunal. Bethencourt shows the
Inquisition as an ever evolving body, eager to enlarge jurisdiction
and obtain political support to implement its system of values, but
also vulnerable to manipulation by rulers, cardinals, and local
social elites.
This book is first and foremost an extended examination and
discussion of the enslavement of men and women by others of their
society and in particular of the means and causes of the gradual
end of slavery in early medieval Europe between 500 and 1200.
Drawing upon a very wide range of primary and archival sources,
Professor Bonnassie places fresh findings about subjection,
servitude and lordship in relation to the prevailing understanding
of social history which has developed since the work of Marc Bloch.
The author explains how slavery long persisted in southern France
and Spain, as part of a public order that also sheltered free
peasants, giving way in the tenth and eleventh centuries to a new
regime of harsh lordships that mark the beginnings of feudalism. He
shows that feudalism in south-western Europe was no less
significant than in northern European lands.
This is a revised and translated edition of Gilbert Dagron's
Empereur et pretre, an acknowledged masterwork by one of the great
Byzantine scholars of our time. The figure of the Byzantine
emperor, a ruler who sometimes was also designated a priest, has
long fascinated the western imagination. This book studies in
detail the imperial union of 'two powers', temporal and spiritual,
against a wide background of relations between Church and state and
religious and political spheres. Presenting much unfamiliar
material in complex, brilliant style, it is aimed at all historians
concerned with royal and ecclesiastical sources of power.
This book discusses the 'marginal' people of late medieval Paris,
the large and shifting group of men and women who existed on the
margins of conventional organized society. Professor Geremek
examines the various groups which made up the marginal world -
beggars, prostitutes, procuresses and pimps, petty criminals,
casual workers and the unemployed - their haunts in and around
Paris, their way of life, and their relation to 'normal' society.
Professor Geremek has made with this book a major contribution to
the study of late medieval society which illuminates the
little-known area of the medieval underworld in a fascinating and
very accessible manner. Translated by Jean Birrell from the French
edition of 1976, this edition includes a new introduction by
Jean-Claude Schmitt, which offers a frank appraisal of the author's
life and career to date.
This is a standard work of reference for the study of the religious
history of western Christianity in the later middle ages which,
since its original publication in French in 1981, has come to be
regarded as one of the great contributions to medieval studies of
recent times. Hagiographical texts and reports of the processes of
canonisation - a mode of investigation into saints' lives and their
miracles implemented by the popes from the end of the twelfth
century - are here used for the first time as major source
materials. The book illuminates the main features of the medieval
religious mind, and highlights the popes' attempts to gain firmer
control over the wide variety of expressions of faith towards the
saints in order to promote a higher pattern of devotion and moral
behaviour among Christians.
This book is a study of dress in France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In it Roche discusses general approaches to the history of dress, locates the subject within current French historiography and uses a large sample of inventories to explore the differences between the various social classes in the amount they spent on clothes and the kind of clothes they wore.
The figure of the Byzantine emperor, a ruler who sometimes was also designated a priest, has long fascinated the western imagination. Written by one of the world's leading Byzantine scholars, this classic book studies in detail the imperial union of "two powers," temporal and spiritual, against the broad background of the relationship between church and state and religious and political spheres.
This book presents a concise, general history of the crusades--whose chief goal was the liberation and preservation of the "holy places" of the Middle East--from the first calls to arms in the later eleventh century to the fall of the last crusader strongholds in Syria and Palestine in 1291. Written by one of the world's great crusader historians, this unique work is the distillation of over forty years' research and contemplation, and the ideal introductory textbook for all students of the crusades.
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