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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “simon lebouteiller”
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  • Peacemaking and the Restraint of Violence in High Medieval Europe

    Edited by Simon Lebouteiller, Louisa Taylor ...
    Series series Studies in Medieval History and Culture
    The High Middle Ages have been seen as an important point within the development of governmental and administrative bureaucracy, as well as a time in which there was frequent conflict. This volume addresses the methods by which violence was regulated and mitigated, and peaceful relations were re-established in high medieval Europe. By studying the restraint of violence and the imposition of peace, ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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    A spirited history of the changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages: "A dazzling race through a complex millennium."— Publishers WeeklyThe millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period—one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages. Yet distinguished historian Chris ... Read more

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  • A Brief History of the Knights Templar

    by Professor in Medieval History Helen Nicholson ...
    Series series Brief Histories
    Much has been written about the Knights Templar in recent years. A leading specialist in the history of this legendary medieval order now writes a full account of the Knights of the Order of the Temple of Solomon, to give them their full title, bringing the latest findings to a general audience. Putting many of the myths finally to rest, Nicholson recounts a new history of these storm troopers of ... Read more

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  • The Knight in History

    by Frances Gies ...
    Series series Medieval Life
    A magisterial history of the origins, reality, and legend of the knight“A carefully researched, concise, readable, and entertaining account of an institution that remains a part of the Western imagination.” —Los Angeles TimesBorn out of the chaos of the early Middle Ages, the armored and highly mobile knight revolutionized warfare and quickly became a mythic figure in history. From the Knights ... Read more

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  • Charles V

    The World Emperor

    by Harald Kleinschmidt ...
    In his biography of Charles V Harald Kleidschmidt paints a vivid portrait of one of the most intriguing of the great European monarchs. ... Read more

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  • How to Plan a Crusade

    Reason and Religious War in the High Middle Ages

    by Christopher Tyerman ...
    'Wonderfully written and characteristically brilliant' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Elegant, readable ... an impressive synthesis ... Not many historians could have done it' - Jonathan Sumption, Spectator'Tyerman's book is fascinating not just for what it has to tell us about the Crusades, but for the mirror it holds up to today's religious extremism' - Tom Holland, SpectatorT... ... Read more

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  • Lionheart and Lackland

    King Richard, King John and the Wars of Conquest

    by Frank McLynn ...
    Anyone who has seen The Lion in Winter will remember the vicious, compelling world of the Plantagenets and readers of the romance of Robin Hood will be familiar with the typecasting of Good King Richard, defending Christendom in the Holy Land, and Bad King John who usurps the kingdom in his absence. But do these popular stereotypes correspond with reality?In this sweeping narrative, celebrated ... Read more

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  • Blondel's Song

    The capture, Imprisonment and Ransom of Richard the Lionheart

    by David Boyle ...
    On his way back from the crusades, one of England's most famous and romantic medieval kings was ship-wrecked and stranded near Venice. Trying to make his way home in disguise, he was arrested and imprisoned and effectively disappeared. He didn't return home for another fifteen months, and at enormous cost - a quarter of the entire wealth of England was paid to win his release.The extraordinary ... Read more

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  • The Carolingian World

    by Marios Costambeys, Matthew Innes, Simon MacLean ...
    Series series Cambridge Medieval Textbooks
    At its height, the Carolingian empire spanned a million square kilometres of western Europe - from the English Channel to central Italy and northern Spain, and from the Atlantic to the fringes of modern Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic. As the largest political unit for centuries, the empire dominated the region and left an enduring legacy for European culture. This comprehensive survey ... Read more

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  • Violence in Medieval Europe

    by Warren C. Brown ...
    Series series The Medieval World
    The European Middle Ages have long attracted popular interest as an era characterised by violence, whether a reflection of societal brutality and lawlessness or part of a romantic vision of chivalry. Violence in Medieval Europe engages with current scholarly debate about the degree to which medieval European society was in fact shaped by such forces.Drawing on a wide variety of primary sources, ... Read more

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  • Ethnicity in Medieval Europe, 950-1250

    Medicine, Power and Religion

    by Claire Weeda ...
    Students in twelfth-century Paris held slanging matches, branding the English drunkards, the Germans madmen and the French as arrogant. On crusade, army recruits from different ethnic backgrounds taunted each other's military skills. Men producing ethnography in monasteries and at court drafted derogatory descriptions of peoples dwelling in territories under colonisation, questioning their work ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The De Re Militari of Vegetius

    The Reception, Transmission and Legacy of a Roman Text in the Middle Ages

    by Christopher Allmand ...
    Vegetius' late Roman text became a well-known and highly respected 'classic' in the Middle Ages, transformed by its readers into the authority on the waging of war. Christopher Allmand analyses the medieval afterlife of the De Re Militari, tracing the growing interest in the text from the Carolingian world to the late Middle Ages, suggesting how the written word may have influenced the development ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD