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  • Queenship, Gender, and Reputation in the Medieval and Early Modern West, 1060-1600

    Edited by Zita Eva Rohr, Lisa Benz ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This edited collection opens new ways to look at queenship in areas and countries not usually studied and reflects the increasingly interdisciplinary work and geographic range of the field. This book is a forerunner in queenship and re-invents the reputations of the women and some of the men. The contributors answers questions about the nature of queenship, reputation of queens, and gender roles ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Queenship and the Women of Westeros

    Female Agency and Advice in Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire

    Edited by Zita Eva Rohr, Lisa Benz ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Is the world of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO’s Game of Thrones really medieval? How accurately does it reflect the real Middle Ages? Historians have been addressing these questions since the book and television series exploded into a cultural phenomenon. For scholars of medieval and early modern women, they offer a unique vantage point from which to study the intersections ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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  • Voltaire

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Nicholas Cronk ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Voltaire (1694-1778), best remembered as the author of Candide, is one of the central actors -- arguably the defining personality -- of the European Enlightenment. In this Very Short Introduction, Nicholas Cronk explores Voltaire's remarkable career and demonstrates how his thinking is pivotal to our notion and understanding of the Enlightenment. In a fresh and modern examination of his writings, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • 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

    $17.99 USD

  • Demonic Possession and Exorcism

    In Early Modern France

    by Sarah Ferber ...
    This is a highly original study of demon possession and the ritual of exorcism, both of which were rife in early modern times, and which reached epidemic proportions in France. Catholics at the time believed that the Devil was everywhere present, in the rise of the heretics, in the activities of witches, and even in the bodies of pious young women. The rite of exorcism was intended to heal the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • 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

    $50.89 USD

  • Women in Medieval Europe 1200-1500

    by Jennifer Ward ...
    Women in Medieval Europe explores the key areas of female experience in the later medieval period, from peasant women to Queens. It considers the women of the later Middle Ages in the context of their social relationships during a time of changing opportunities and activities, so that by 1500 the world of work was becoming increasingly restricted to women. The chapters are arranged thematically to ... Read more

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  • The Corruption of Angels

    The Great Inquisition of 1245-1246

    by Mark Gregory Pegg ...
    On two hundred and one days between May 1, 1245, and August 1, 1246, more than five thousand people from the Lauragais were questioned in Toulouse about the heresy of the good men and the good women (more commonly known as Catharism). Nobles and diviners, butchers and monks, concubines and physicians, blacksmiths and pregnant girls--in short, all men over fourteen and women over twelve--were ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Holy Warriors

    The Religious Ideology of Chivalry

    by Richard W. Kaeuper ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    The medieval code of chivalry demanded that warrior elites demonstrate fierce courage in battle, display prowess with weaponry, and avenge any strike against their honor. They were also required to be devout Christians. How, then, could knights pledge fealty to the Prince of Peace, who enjoined the faithful to turn the other cheek rather than seek vengeance and who taught that the meek, rather ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Generations of Feeling

    A History of Emotions, 600–1700

    by Barbara H. Rosenwein ...
    Generations of Feeling is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of emotions in pre- and early modern Western Europe. Charting the varieties, transformations and constants of human sentiments over the course of eleven centuries, Barbara H. Rosenwein explores the feelings expressed in a wide range of 'emotional communities' as well as the theories that served to inform and reflect their ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Beguine, the Angel, and the Inquisitor

    The Trials of Marguerite Porete and Guiard of Cressonessart

    by Sean L. Field ...
    On 31 May 1310, at the Place de Grève in Paris, the Dominican inquisitor William of Paris read out a sentence that declared Marguerite “called Porete,” a beguine from Hainault, to be a relapsed heretic, released her to secular authority for punishment, and ordered that all copies of a book she had written be confiscated. William next consigned Guiard of Cressonessart, an apocalyptic activist in ... Read more

    $37.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To Follow in Their Footsteps

    The Crusades and Family Memory in the High Middle Ages

    by Nicholas L. Paul ...
    When the First Crusade ended with the conquest of Jerusalem in 1099, jubilant crusaders returned home to Europe bringing with them stories, sacred relics, and other memorabilia, including banners, jewelry, and weapons. In the ensuing decades, the memory of the crusaders' bravery and pious sacrifice was invoked widely among the noble families of western Christendom. Popes preaching future crusades ... Read more

    $24.69 USD