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  • The Black Death and the Transformation of the West

    par David Herlihy ...
    In this small book David Herlihy makes subtle and subversive inquiries that challenge historical thinking about the Black Death. Looking beyond the view of the plague as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy finds evidence for its role in the advent of new population controls, the establishment of universities, the spread of Christianity, the dissemination of vernacular cultures, and even the rise of ... En savoir plus

    $29.69 CAD

  • Medieval Households

    par David Herlihy ...
    Collections series
    How should the medieval family be characterized? Who formed the household and what were the ties of kinship, law, and affection that bound the members together? David Herlihy explores these questions from ancient Greece to the households of fifteenth-century Tuscany, to provide a broad new interpretation of family life. In a series of bold hypotheses, he presents his ideas about the emergence of a ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

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  • A History of Law in Europe

    From the Early Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century

    par Antonio Padoa-Schioppa ...
    Traduit par Caterina Fitzgerald ...
    With its roots in ancient Greece, Roman law and Christianity, European legal history is the history of a common civilisation. The exchange of legislative models, doctrines and customs within Europe included English common law and has been extensive from the early middle ages to the present time. In this seminal work which spans from the fifth to the twentieth century, Antonio Padoa-Schioppa ... En savoir plus

    $61.99 CAD

  • Reviving the Eternal City

    Rome and the Papal Court, 1420-1447

    par Elizabeth McCahill ...
    Collections Livre 11 - I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
    In 1420, after more than one hundred years of the Avignon Exile and the Western Schism, the papal court returned to Rome, which had become depopulated, dangerous, and impoverished in the papacy's absence. Reviving the Eternal City examines the culture of Rome and the papal court during the first half of the fifteenth century, a crucial transitional period before the city's rebirth. As Elizabeth ... En savoir plus

    $70.39 CAD

  • The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

    How the World Became Modern

    par Stephen Greenblatt ...
    Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-FictionWinner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-FictionOne of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $22.99 CAD Maintenant $18.99 CAD

  • Roman Aristocrats in Barbarian Gaul

    Strategies for Survival in an Age of Transition

    par Ralph Whitney Mathisen ...
    A study of the collapse of Roman rule in ancient Gaul and the shift to Germanic power.Skin-clad barbarians ransacking Rome remains a popular image of the "decline and fall" of the Roman Empire, but why, when, and how the Empire actually fell are still matters of debate among students of classical history. In this pioneering study, Ralph W. Mathisen examines the "fall" in one part of the western ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Great Mortality

    An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time

    par John Kelly ...
    “Powerful, rich with details, moving, humane, and full of important lessons for an age when weapons of mass destruction are loose among us.” — Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic BombThe Great Plague is one of the most compelling events in human history—even more so now, when the notion of plague has never loomed larger as a contemporary public concern.The ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The King's Two Bodies

    A Study in Medieval Political Theology

    par Ernst Kantorowicz, William Chester Jordan ...
    Collections series Princeton Classics
    Originally published in 1957, this classic work has guided generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. Throughout history, the notion of two bodies has permitted the postmortem continuity of monarch and monarchy, as epitomized by the statement, “The king is dead. Long live the king.” In The King’s Two Bodies, Ernst Kantorowicz traces the historical dilemma ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Black Death

    par Robert S. Gottfried ...
    A fascinating work of detective history, The Black Death traces the causes and far-reaching consequences of this infamous outbreak of plague that spread across the continent of Europe from 1347 to 1351. Drawing on sources as diverse as monastic manuscripts and dendrochronological studies (which measure growth rings in trees), historian Robert S. Gottfried demonstrates how a bacillus transmitted by ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession

    Canonists, Civilians, and Courts

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • What Was History?

    The Art of History in Early Modern Europe

    par Anthony Grafton ...
    Collections series Canto Classics
    From the late fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories. These pioneering works grew from complex early modern debates about law, religion and classical scholarship. Anthony Grafton's book is based on his Trevelyan Lectures of 2005, and it proves to be a powerful and imaginative exploration of some central themes in the history ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • Murder Was Not a Crime

    Homicide and Power in the Roman Republic

    par Judy E. Gaughan ...
    Collections series Ashley and Peter Larkin Series in Greek and Roman Culture
    "Explore[s] with impressive scholarship cases of unlawful killing in the regnal period, the early and mid-republic and the post-Sullan era." —UNRV.comEmbarking on a unique study of Roman criminal law, Judy Gaughan has developed a novel understanding of the nature of social and political power dynamics in republican government. Revealing the significant relationship between political power and ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus