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  • Lords' Rights and Peasant Stories

    Writing and the Formation of Tradition in the Later Middle Ages

    par Simon Teuscher ...
    Traduit par Philip Grace ...
    Collections series The Middle Ages Series
    In the mid-nineteenth century, Jacob Grimm published a collection of late medieval records of local law—called Weistümer—that was scarcely less comprehensive than his famous collection of fairy tales. As with the fairy tales, Grimm assumed that before their transcription, people had handed these down orally from time immemorial. His interest in these customary laws arose from their seemingly ... En savoir plus

    $93.99 CAD

  • Lords' Rights and Peasant Stories

    Writing and the Formation of Tradition in the Later Middle Ages

    par Simon Teuscher ...
    Traduit par Philip Grace ...
    Collections series The Middle Ages Series
    In the mid-nineteenth century, Jacob Grimm published a collection of late medieval records of local law—called Weistümer—that was scarcely less comprehensive than his famous collection of fairy tales. As with the fairy tales, Grimm assumed that before their transcription, people had handed these down orally from time immemorial. His interest in these customary laws arose from their seemingly ... En savoir plus

    $93.99 CAD

  • Affectionate Authorities

    Fathers and Fatherly Roles in Late Medieval Basel

    par Philip Grace ...
    In one of his sermons, the medieval preacher Bernardino of Siena listed seven ’fathers’ to whom one owed obedience: God, one’s natural father, godfather, confessor, benefactor, a government official, and any elderly man. This book seeks to answer the question of why medieval Europeans saw the need for so many ’fathers.’ Why was fatherhood so appealing as a metaphor? Situated at the intersection of ... En savoir plus

    $89.31 CAD

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  • Barbarian Tides

    The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire

    par Walter Goffart ...
    Collections series The Middle Ages Series
    The Migration Age is still envisioned as an onrush of expansionary "Germans" pouring unwanted into the Roman Empire and subjecting it to pressures so great that its western parts collapsed under the weight. Further developing the themes set forth in his classic Barbarians and Romans, Walter Goffart dismantles this grand narrative, shaking the barbarians of late antiquity out of this "Germanic" ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD

  • FEUDAL SOCIETY Vol. II

    Social Classes and Political Organisation

    par Marc Bloch ...
    Feudalism — which was essentially a political and military system — was above all a personal set of mutual obligations between lord and vassal. At its heart was the oath of loyalty. Before witnesses, a vassal placed his clasped hands between those of the lord and pledged to become "his man," a relationship usually sealed by a kiss between the two men. The vassal then took an oath of faithfulness. ... En savoir plus

    $9.22 CAD

  • Latin

    par Jürgen Leonhardt ...
    The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua franca of the West for centuries afterward, Latin survives today primarily in classrooms and texts. Yet this "dead language" is unique in the influence it has exerted across centuries and continents. Juergen Leonhardt offers the story of the first "world language," from antiquity to the present. ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Maria Theresa

    The Habsburg Empress in Her Time

    par Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger ...
    Traduit par Robert Savage ...
    A major new biography of the iconic Austrian empress that challenges the many myths about her life and ruleMaria Theresa (1717–1780) was once the most powerful woman in Europe. At the age of twenty-three, she ascended to the throne of the Habsburg Empire, a far-flung realm composed of diverse ethnicities and languages, beset on all sides by enemies and rivals. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger provides ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Politics in the Roman Republic

    par Henrik Mouritsen ...
    Collections series Key Themes in Ancient History
    The politics of the Roman Republic has in recent decades been the subject of intense debate, covering issues such as the degree of democracy and popular influence, 'parties' and ideology, politics as public ritual, and the character of Rome's political culture. This engaging book examines all these issues afresh, and presents an original synthesis of Rome's political institutions and practices. It ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Pantheon

    A New History of Roman Religion

    Traduit par David M. B. Richardson ...
    par Jörg Rüpke ...
    From one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, an innovative and comprehensive account of religion in the ancient Roman and Mediterranean worldIn this ambitious and authoritative book, Jörg Rüpke provides a comprehensive and strikingly original narrative history of ancient Roman and Mediterranean religion over more than a millennium—from the late Bronze Age through the Roman imperial ... En savoir plus

    $60.49 CAD

  • Memory in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800

    par Judith Pollmann ...
    For early modern Europeans, the past was a measure of most things, good and bad. For that reason it was also hotly contested, manipulated, and far too important to be left to historians alone. Memory in Early Modern Europe offers a lively and accessible introduction to the many ways in which Europeans engaged with the past and 'practised' memory in the three centuries between 1500 and 1800. From ... En savoir plus

    $39.19 CAD

  • On Roman Religion

    Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome

    par Jörg Rüpke ...
    Collections Livre 67 - Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
    Provocative reading for anyone interested in Roman culture in the late Republic and early Empire.â• Religious Studies ReviewWas religious practice in ancient Rome cultic and hostile to individual expression? Or was there, rather, considerable latitude for individual initiative and creativity? Jörg Rüpke, one of the world’s leading authorities on Roman religion, demonstrates in his new book that it ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Birth of the Archive

    A History of Knowledge

    par Markus Friedrich ...
    Traduit par John Dillon ...
    Collections series Cultures Of Knowledge In The Early Modern World
    The Birth of the Archive traces the history of archives from their emergence in the Late Middle Ages through the Early Modern Period, and vividly shows how archives permeated and fundamentally changed European culture. Archives were compiled and maintained by peasants and kings, merchants and churchmen, and conceptions of archives were as diverse as those who used them. The complex, demanding job ... En savoir plus

    $71.99 CAD