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  • The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession

    Canonists, Civilians, and Courts

    by James A. Brundage ...
    In the aftermath of sixth-century barbarian invasions, the legal profession that had grown and flourished during the Roman Empire vanished. Nonetheless, professional lawyers suddenly reappeared in Western Europe seven hundred years later during the 1230s when church councils and public authorities began to impose a body of ethical obligations on those who practiced law. James Brundage's The ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Crusades

    A Documentary Survey

    by James A. Brundage ...
    The Crusades: A Documentary Survey by James A. Brundage is one of the most compelling and accessible gateways into the world of medieval crusading — a curated journey through the letters, chronicles, papal decrees, eyewitness testimonies, and battlefield accounts that shaped one of history's most dramatic eras. Rather than retelling the Crusades as a distant narrative, Brundage allows readers to ... Read more

    $5.60 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Crusades, Holy War and Canon Law

    by James A. Brundage ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    This volume is concerned, above all, with the legal background and the juristic issues behind the ideology and practice of the medieval Crusades. This is an area that the author was the first to investigate systematically, and there are two particular reasons for his approach: one, the conviction that the historical phenomenon of the Crusades can only be adequately understood within the context of ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Medieval Sexuality

    Edited by Vern L. Bullough, James Brundage ...
    Like specialists in other fields in humanities and social sciences, medievalists have begun to investigate and write about sex and related topics such as courtship, concubinage, divorce, marriage, prostitution, and child rearing. The scholarship in this significant volume asserts that sexual conduct formed a crucial role in the lives, thoughts, hopes and fears both of individuals and of the ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Medieval Canon Law

    by James A. Brundage, Melodie H. Eichbauer ...
    Series series The Medieval World
    It is impossible to understand how the medieval church functioned and, in turn, influenced the lay world within its care without understanding "canon law". This book examines its development from its beginnings to the end of the Middle Ages, updating its findings in light of recent scholarly trends.This second edition has been fully revised and updated by Melodie H. Eichbauer to include additional ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Profession and Practice of Medieval Canon Law

    by James A. Brundage ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    This latest collection of studies by James Brundage deals with the emergence of the profession of canon law and with aspects of its practice in the period from the 12th to the 14th centuries. Substantial numbers of lawyers systematically trained in canon law first appeared in Western Europe during the second half of the 12th, century and in the 13th they began to dominate the hierarchy of the ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Magna Carta and the England of King John

    by Janet S. Loengard, R V Turner, Barbara A Hanawalt, David Crook, David Crouch, James A Brundage, James Masschaele, John B Gillingham, John Hudson ...
    Magna Carta marked a watershed in the relations between monarch and subject and as such has long been central to English constitutional and political history. This volume uses it as a springboard to focus on social, economic, legal, and religious institutions and attitudes in the early thirteenth century. What was England like between 1199 and 1215? And, no less important, how was King John ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • The Poor and the Perfect

    The Rise of Learning in the Franciscan Order, 1209–1310

    by Neslihan Şenocak ...
    One of the enduring ironies of medieval history is the fact that a group of Italian lay penitents, begging in sackcloths, led by a man who called himself simple and ignorant, turned in a short time into a very popular and respectable order, featuring cardinals and university professors among its ranks. Within a century of its foundation, the Order of Friars Minor could claim hundreds of permanent ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • A History of Medieval Political Thought

    300–1450

    by Joseph Canning ...
    First Published in 2005. The book covers four periods, each with a different focus. From 300 to 750 Canning examines Christian ideas of rulership. The often neglected centuries from 750 to 1050, the Carolingian period and its aftermath, are given special attention. From 1050 to 1290 the conflict between temporal and spiritual power and the revived legacy of antiquity comes to the fore. Finally in ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Women in Frankish Society

    Marriage and the Cloister, 5 to 9

    by Suzanne Fonay Wemple ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Women in Frankish Society is a careful and thorough study of women and their roles in the Merovingian and Carolingian periods of the Middle Ages. During the 5th through 9th centuries, Frankish society transformed from a relatively primitive tribal structure to a more complex hierarchical organization. Suzanne Fonay Wemple sets out to understand the forces at work in expanding and limiting women's ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Pope Innocent III and his World

    Edited by John Moore ...
    The year 1998 was the 800th anniversary of the election of Lotario dei Conti di Segni as Pope. At 37, he was one of the youngest men ever to hold that office, and he was to become one of the most important popes in the entire history of Christianity. Together with Gregory VII, he was one of the two most important popes of the Middle Ages. In his efforts to promote Christianity and defend it from ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Inquisition and Knowledge, 1200-1700

    by Professor Peter Biller, Dr. Reima Välimäki, Dr. Adam Poznański, Richard Kieckhefer, Dr. Harald Bollbuck, Dr. Luc Racaut, Dr. Shelagh Sneddon, Professor Michaela Valente, Dr. L J Sackville0, Professor Jessalynn Bird1, Dr. Alessandro Sala2, Jörg Feuchter3, Professor Paweł Kras4, Irene Bueno5 ...
    The collection, curation, and manipulation of knowledge were fundamental to the operation of inquisition. Its coercive power rested on its ability to control information and to produce authoritative discourses from it - a fact not lost on contemporaries, or on later commentators. Understanding that relationship between inquisition and knowledge has been one of the principal drivers of its long ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD