The Medieval Python

Historians from many countries present 33 papers, a few in French or German, on such topics as watermills in the Balearic Islands during the Muslim period, cereal processing in Scotland 1100-1750, arc

"An interdisciplinary collection of essays examining Irish and Anglo-Saxon art in the early medieval period"--Provided by publisher.

This richly illustrated book provides an overview of the medieval world and a guide to the typical battlefield and the armies that populated it. From the Battle of Hastings to the Battle of Agincourt,

Framed by the decline of the Heian aristocracy in the late 1100s and the rise of the Tokugawa shogunate in the early 1600s, Japan’s medieval era was a chaotic period of diffuse political power and fre

An unusually fine volume, in terms of the breadth of scholarship, and quality of the images, this volume offers a thorough survey of the creation and use of manuscripts and early printed books in Brit

"Lively and deeply productive discussions have focused on the topics of "Magnificence" and "the Sublime" in the art and literature of antiquity, the Renaissance and the ages following, including the t

This book gives an insight into panegyrics, a genre central to understanding medieval Near Eastern Society. Poets in this multi-ethnic society would address the majority of their verse to rulers, gene

Medieval Andalusian Courtly Culture discusses the unicum manuscript of the Hadith Bayad wa Riyad, the only illustrated manuscript known to have survived for more than eight centuries of Muslim and Ara

Ibn Battuta was, without doubt, one of the world’s truly great travelers. Born in fourteenth-century Morocco, and a contemporary of Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta left an account in his own words of his rema

Ibn Battuta was, without doubt, one of the world’s truly great travelers. Born in fourteenth-century Morocco, and a contemporary of Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta left an account in his own words of his rema

With an unusually broad scope encompassing how Europeans taught and learned reading and writing at all levels, Classroom Commentaries: Teaching the Poetria Nova across Medieval and Renaissance Europe

The papers reprinted here all have to do with the very varied ways in which religion made an impact upon, or was intertwined with, political and social life. They span the period from 600 to 1200, wit

Machacek (Medieval Archaeology, Masaryk University) examines archaeological evidence from important early medieval centers in order to understand the transformation that took place across the European

What did medieval readers think of romance? Their attitudes to it, and the implications for the genre, are explored in this provocative study.

This is the second volume reporting on the archaeological survey project examining Bodmin Moor, a granite moorland in northeastern Cornwall, UK (the first volume was publish in 1994). The report inclu

Focusing on the "wandering kabbalist" Isaac ben Samuel of Akko, Fishbane (Jewish Theological Seminary, New York) brings to light the mystical writings of a little-studied 13th-14th century kabbalist w

Merton College, Oxford, the University's oldest, was founded in the 1270s. Its library contains some 325 complete medieval manuscript books (plus several hundred fragments in, or extracted from, the

After introducing historian Natalie Z. Davis (Society and Culture in Early Modern France, 1974) as a pioneer in the historiography of early modern Europe, Rubin (medieval and early modern history, Que

By 1300, a Marcher region had been created between England and Wales, consisting of about forty castle-centered lordships that extended along the Anglo-Welsh border and much of southern Wales. Express

Medicine and astronomy are the oldest of all the sciences. They appear at first glance to be the original "odd couple." Their union gave birth to a progeny that populated the Western world for more th

Essays published in this title are culled from a 2003 meeting of the British Archaeological Association convened in Mainz, Germany. Topics include the archaeological and architectural research at the

Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material and conclusions of the first. While responding to new directions in research inspired by the original, this new edition devotes much more attention to the role of trained memory in composition, whether of literature, music, architecture, or manuscript books. The new edition will reignite the debate on memory in medieval studies and, like the first, will be essential reading for scholars of history, music, the arts and literature, as well as those interested in issues of orality and literacy (anthropology), in the working and design of memory (both neuropsychology and artificial memory), and in the disciplines of meditation (religion).

In recent years, the post-medieval landscape has attracted new interest from archaeologists, historians, and geographers concerned to understand the development of the historic environment. One of th

For nearly two thousand years the Chinese have been carving on rocks, stones and cliff sides. This art is called moya. The most ancient of these calligraphies have been the subject of studies since th

The papers in this second selection of articles by Professor Colish focus on thinkers of the patristic age, and relate to her three monographic studies in this area published over the last two decades

In Singing the New Song, Katherine Zieman examines the institutions and practices of the liturgy as central to changes in late medieval English understandings of the written word. Where previous stud

Lansing (history, University of California at Santa Barbara) is well known for her scholarly work on the communes of medieval Italy. This study of how the town leaders managed to legislate public mour

St Katherine of Alexandria was one of the most popular saints in both the Orthodox and Latin Churches in the later Middle Ages, yet there has been little study of how her cult developed before c. 1200

The essays in Living Dangerously, written by some of the leading scholars in the fields of history and literature, examine the lives of those who lived on the margins of medieval and early modern Euro

This book is a collection of papers on the origins of economic thought discovered in the writings of some prominent Islamic scholars, during the five centuries prior to the Latin Scholastics, who incl

With original translations of primary texts and articles by leading researchers in the field, Sanctity in the North provides an introduction to the literary production associated with the cult of the

With original translations of primary texts and articles by leading researchers in the field, Sanctity in the North provides an introduction to the literary production associated with the cult of the

Renowned for their technical inventiveness, variety, and beauty, Islamic ceramics first began to flourish in the medieval period. This handsome book presents over one hundred works from the unparallel

Medieval Andalusian Courtly Culture discusses the unicum manuscript of the Hadith Bayad wa Riyad, the only illustrated manuscript known to have survived for more than eight centuries of Muslim and Ara

"The 14 essays in this book encompass diverse theoretical perspectives and are grouped loosely around distinct functions of medievalism, including the exposure of recent social concerns; the use of me

They describe the last wishes of a woman wishing to please God, the means of assessing and collecting taxes in a new state, and the nicer points of transferring property between Muslims and Christians