Historians look at the role of the three gentes, or ethnic people, in the transition of Europe from unity under the Roman Empire to multiplicity of the medieval kingdoms. Their topics include Frankish
This series comprises regional studies in the rural history of the European continent during the Middle Ages (concentrating on the period 1000-1500). Integrating written records, archaeology, and rese
Italian historian of philosophy and theology, d'Onofrio has reworked several of his articles into a flowing history of the blending of the two subjects in Christian thought from the earliest days thro
Fletcher (author of "Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini": A Thirteenth-Century Sermon for Advent and the Macaronic Style in England) has compiled an anthological cross-section of late medieval Orth
A selection of Vincent Gillespie's most significant essays on the religious writing of later medieval England. Looking in Holy Books is what Vincent Gillespie has been doing in most of his publication
A French team completed a salvage operation of the ancient city in 1976, just ahead of the water of Lake Assad, rising behind the Tabqa Dam. Only 10-20 hectares of the southern part of the city remain
For the latest in Brepols' series of medieval texts by and about women, Dockray-Miller (English, Lesley University) has edited and translated two Middle English saint's lives composed at Wilton Abbey
Buckley (Trinity College, Dublin) and Cyrus (Vanderbilt U.) have compiled a group of 17 articles by scholars in Europe, Australia, and the U.S. devoted to topics promoted by Brainard (d.2000), who org
The 15 papers of this beautifully produced volume were first presented at a conference called New Perspectives on the Chantilly Codex, held in September 2001 in Tours, France. Centering on the rich co
This festschrift for the eminent historian of ideas, Marcia Colish, reflects both the breadth of her interests and the profound scholarship of her work. The editors, Nederman (political science, Texas
Colleagues and former students of the late Ian Robertson (history, U. of Melbourne, 1961-97) present essays on religious rituals, the rhetoric of the image, and the written and oral word. Among their
Latinists of various stripes and related scholars present 14 papers, mostly on specific Latin texts or authors of the Middle Ages. Their topics include ethnogenesis and ethnic identity in Roman and ea
The first Lovis Corinth Colloquium was held in April 2003 at Emory University, and 14 of the presentations have been heavily revised to form the essays here. The inaugural gathering and volume explore
The sixth-century controversy provoked one of the most serious and long-lasting schisms of the early Medieval Church, exposing fault lines not only between East and West and between the Empire and the
The thought and career of 19 medievalists, some of whom are very well known figures in medieval history, philology, and literature Ernst Kantorowicz, Franois Louis Ganshof, Georges Duby, Marc Bloch, a
When the traditional medieval chronicle of the papacy Liber pontificalis discontinued in 1431, Bartolomeo Platina (1421-81) was one of several writers who attempted to treat the papacy within the cont
Based on presentations made at two conferences (in 2000: Life After Death: Commemoration in Medieval Utrecht; and in 2001: Care for the Here and the Hereafter), 12 papers (two are in German) and an ep
English, Irish, Welsh, and American medieval scholars construct images of the pre-modern English book in some of its myriad forms, and discuss the implications of doing so for the understanding of med
The medieval fascination with the mysterious language of Dionysius the Areopagite is nowhere more evident than in the thirteenth-century textbook edition of his treatise on liturgical rites. Dionysius
Until the 1970s, medieval manuscripts were studied for literary or artistic content alone with little interest shown in the circumstances under which they were made. Recently scholars have started loo
A specialist in urban history of the Middle Ages, Haemers (Ghent U.) looks at political ebbs and flows in Medieval Flanders. He begins with the state and the marriage of Mary and Maximilian, the war a
The Thornham Parva Retable is Britain's largest and most complete medieval altarpiece. It was found in a found in a loft above a stable at Thornham Hall in Suffolk in 1927, and soon afterwards it was
This volume addresses important questions in late-medieval book production and the history of the medieval book through original and substantial studies of one of the most remarkable surviving example
The Ways of Jewish Martyrdom discusses the phenomenon of Jewish Martyrdom in medieval Germany, northern France, and England from the time of the First Crusade (1096) until the mid-fourteenth century (
