In Perceiving War and the Military, Laury Sarti highlights the significance of a permanently increasing contact with armed violence for the gradual transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, analys
This book provides studies of narratives concerning the distant, ‘barbarian’ past, composed c.550–c.1000, ranging from Latin ‘national’ histories to Latin and vernacular epics and lays, and examines t
Wood (religion, U. of Manchester, the UK) looks at the writings of Isidore in the context of the politics of his day, focusing on both what role Isidore's histories played for the royal leaders and wh
Jones (history, Lake Forest College) presents a version of her 2003 Ph.D. dissertation at Columbia University examining the weighty role bishops played in the social, political, and religious change i
Graduate students of religion and classics explore the construction of social power through person, text, and space in early Christianity; but also the reception of that process, and with it indiffere
How did Christianity, Islam and Buddhism frame the emergence and significance of particular communities in medieval Eurasia? This volume of well-linked comparative studies addresses the terminology of
Drawing on numismatic, diplomatic, liturgical, and iconographic evidence, this book offers a comprehensive view of political signs, images, and fixed formulas in the Carolingian period and of their us
