Of the twenty-five essays in this volume, most were published between 1961 and 2013, but four are printed here for the first time. They represent the work of a great and original scholar in Mediterran
Fifteen otherwise not readily available scholarly essays, 1975-95, investigate the values underlying competing views of monarchy and polity that ushered in early modern English politics and law. Guy (
Boorman presents a collection of essays on how aspects of printing, publishing, and performance affect present-day views of sixteenth-century music in terms of history, performance and compositional p
We assume that we have a clear understanding of how people in the Middle Ages thought and which attitudes they struck but in reality, this is a subhetc of enormous complexity of which conclusions can
Moving beyond the recent interest in the 1588 Spanish Armada incident, Loomie (history, Fordham U.) explores the policies of three Spanish Habsburg monarchs towards England in some of the less familia
From c. 1215 to 1368 China was part of the world empire of the Mongols, and during this period underwent many changes as the country was opened up to external influences - demographic, linguistic, rel
Starting with an essay on the Renaissance as the concluding phase of the Middle Ages and ending with appreciations of Paul Oskar Kristeller, the great twentieth-century scholar of the Renaissance, thi
This volume brings together a series of studies by Professor Blomquist on the evolution of banking in Lucca from the 12th and 13th centuries. They describe how the leading bankers operated, how they i
Finding the recent publications on the military religious orders voluminous but somewhat uneven, Luttrell offers again 19 detailed his studies based on primary document and archival research that firs
This third collection of articles by John Dillon covers the period 1996-2006, the decade since the appearance of The Great Tradition. Once again, the subjects covered range from Plato himself and the
Warfare dominated the classical phase of ancient history, largely because large and small political entities competed with each other in a complex system of layers, with each state informing the other
This is the first of three volumes collecting essays by Richard M. Frank (emeritus, Catholic U. of America) on kalam, Islamic theology. The 15 studies here provide both the lexical and intellectual co
This book has three main themes: the socio-economic history of Turkish society in the 17th-18th centuries; the outcome of the Tanzimat (Reforms) in the province of Jerusalem, as an example of the whol
The studies in this volume illuminate the thought and life of Philip Melanchthon, one of the most neglected major figures in Reformation history and theology. Melanchthon was one of the most widely pu
The history of the Reconquista - the Christian reconquest of Spain from the Arabs - has proved an increasingly stimulating field of historical research. On the one hand, the struggle forced Spanish so
A collection of 11 essays that were preparatory to and illustrative of the author's Pope Gregory VII, 1073-1085 (1998). A principle conclusion he hopes to establish is that Gregory was a pope of dee
The volume consists of sixteen papers on the history of Francia between the seventh and eleventh centuries. Originally published between 1979 and 2009, the papers are arranged around three interlinkin
This volume brings together Wendy Davies's pioneering early studies on the text of the Book of Llan DA￠v alongside later pieces which explore the place of Wales in the wider world of the early middle
This volume, organized by society and then chronologically by date of induction, incorporates extensive biographical sketches of members of the American Society for Propagating Useful Knowledge and th
In this sampling of his work since 1971, medievalist Reynolds (affiliation cryptic) arranges nine essays around two themes building on earlier work examining shifts in the theology of sacred orders fr
