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  • Micro Middle Ages

    par Paul Edward Dutton ...
    Collections series History (R0)
    Micro Middle Ages brings together five microhistorical case studies focusing on small or seemingly inconsequential evidence that leads to broader conclusions about medieval history and the way we do and understand history in general. Paul Dutton provides an overview of microhistorical approaches and theorizes about its use in pre-modern history. As opposed to studying history “from above” or ... En savoir plus

    $153.99 CAD

  • Charlemagne's Courtier

    The Complete Einhard

    Modifié par Paul Edward Dutton ...
    Collections Livre 3 - Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures
    Among the readings included are several existing letters by Emma (Einhard's wife), The Life of Charlemagne, and The History of His Relics. The latter work transports us into an almost unknown world as Einhard, the cool rationalist, arranges for a relic salesman, a veritable bone seller, to acquire saints’ relics from Italy for installation into his new church. The reader is taken on an intrigue ... En savoir plus

    $25.99 CAD

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    A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer

    par Sarah Bakewell ...
    How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live?This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience, unlike anything written before. Into these essays he put whatever was in his head: his tastes in wine and food, his childhood memories, ... En savoir plus

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  • A Most Holy War

    The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom

    par Mark Gregory Pegg ...
    Collections series Pivotal Moments in World History
    In January of 1208, a papal legate was murdered on the banks of the Rhone in southern France. A furious Pope Innocent III accused heretics of the crime and called upon all Christians to exterminate heresy between the Garonne and Rhone rivers--a vast region now known as Languedoc--in a great crusade. This most holy war, the first in which Christians were promised salvation for killing other ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Voltaire

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Nicholas Cronk ...
    Collections 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, ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • Image on the Edge

    The Margins of Medieval Art

    par Michael Camille ...
    Collections series Essays in Art and Culture
    What do they all mean – the lascivious ape, autophagic dragons, pot-bellied heads, harp-playing asses, arse-kissing priests and somersaulting jongleurs to be found protuding from the edges of medieval buildings and in the margins of illuminated manuscripts? Michael Camille explores that riotous realm of marginal art, so often explained away as mere decoration or zany doodles, where resistance to ... En savoir plus

    $26.99 CAD

  • Proving Woman

    Female Spirituality and Inquisitional Culture in the Later Middle Ages

    par Dyan Elliott ...
    Around the year 1215, female mystics and their sacramental devotion were among orthodoxy's most sophisticated weapons in the fight against heresy. Holy women's claims to be in direct communication with God placed them in positions of unprecedented influence. Yet by the end of the Middle Ages female mystics were frequently mistrusted, derided, and in danger of their lives. The witch hunts were just ... En savoir plus

    $67.09 CAD

  • Medieval Robots

    Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art

    par E. R. Truitt ...
    Collections series The Middle Ages Series
    A thousand years before Isaac Asimov set down his Three Laws of Robotics, real and imagined automata appeared in European courts, liturgies, and literary texts. Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, and silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct while others performed disciplinary or surveillance functions. Variously ascribed to artisanal genius, ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Misconceptions About the Middle Ages

    Modifié par Stephen Harris, Bryon L. Grigsby ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture
    Interest in the middle ages is at an all time high at the moment, thanks in part to "The Da Vinci Code." Never has there been a moment more propitious for a study of our misconceptions of the Middle Ages than now.Ranging across religion, art, and science, Misconceptions about the Middle Ages unravels some of the many misinterpretations that have evolved concerning the medieval period, including ... En savoir plus

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  • The Shape of Sex

    Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance

    par Leah DeVun ...
    Winner, 2024 Haskins Medal, Medieval Academy of AmericaWinner, 2023 Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize, History of Science SocietyWinner, 2022 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies, American Academy of ReligionHonorable Mention, 2023 John Boswell Prize, The Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender History (CLGBTH)Longlisted, 20... ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD

  • Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World

    par Valerie Garver ...
    Despite the wealth of scholarship in recent decades on medieval women, we still know much less about the experiences of women in the early Middle Ages than we do about those in later centuries. In Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World, Valerie L. Garver offers a fresh appraisal of the cultural and social history of eighth- and ninth-century women. Examining changes in women's ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Medieval Robots

    Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art

    par E. R. Truitt ...
    Collections series The Middle Ages Series
    A thousand years before Isaac Asimov set down his Three Laws of Robotics, real and imagined automata appeared in European courts, liturgies, and literary texts. Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, and silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct while others performed disciplinary or surveillance functions. Variously ascribed to artisanal genius, ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD