Early history: c 500 to c 1450&1500 books

Presents the systematic review of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon studies have evolved from their beginnings to the...  Read More >>

Privileging culture and language over politics, this book offers an expanded understanding of what it means to study...  Read More >>

""An updated collection of essays on the European cultural history of the period 950-1150, with new research and...  Read More >>

The eleven essays presented here lead the reader through the earliest manifestations of the chantry, the origins...  Read More >>

Divided into five chronological sections (Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Modern and Contemporary)...  Read More >>

Featuring work by researchers in the fields of early modern studies, Italian studies, ecclesiastical history and...  Read More >>

Using the epistemological thought of Saint Augustine as the key to thematic continuity, this book reads Pearl, Cleanness,...  Read More >>

Taking a broad European approach, this collection brings together...  Read More >>

This collection ranges far and wide - from early Christian pilgrims to fifteenth-century Ethiopia; from the Islamisation...  Read More >>

The twenty-five essays in this volume - four of which are published here for the first time - represent the work...  Read More >>

Reminding readers of John Dryden’s persistent use of occult rhetoric, Armistead argues that Dryden’s otherworldliness...  Read More >>

In this volume scholars from an array of different disciplines have embraced what biography can offer them, expanding...  Read More >>

The first book length study of the motif of impotency in poetry from early antiquity through to the late Restoration,...  Read More >>

Covering a broad range of topics - encompassing legal, social, cultural, theological and political history - the...  Read More >>

This book brings together experts from around the world to explore how sanitation affected our ancestors. By its...  Read More >>

This book explores the multiple resonances and representations of the Arma Christi, the ’instruments of the Passion,’...  Read More >>

This volume looks at the writings and actions of Franciscus Zabarella (1360-1417), the professor of canon law at...  Read More >>

This volume brings together important records of medieval theatre practice between 1400 and 1580. The records are...  Read More >>

The essays in this volume look at questions of Norman traditions in some of the peripheral Norman dominions. Divided...  Read More >>

At the heart of this volume is a concern with exploring levels of interaction between two particular objects of...  Read More >>

This collection of essays reflects both the broad range of topics...  Read More >>

Examining the portrayal of childhood and youth in a large sample of medieval French verse narratives, this study...  Read More >>

Using five case studies set in fifteenth-century Naples, Poetry and Identity in Quattrocento Naples investigates...  Read More >>

The Emergence of León-Castile brings together the current research of colleagues, students and friends of Joseph...  Read More >>

The belief that God eternally and unalterably decrees the election of one part of humankind and the reprobation...  Read More >>