Medieval category: 3965 books
The Passing of Arthur
New Essays in Arthurian Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Originally published in 1988, this volume contains papers from, and commissioned after, "The Passing of Arthur", a conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies in November 1986. No Arthurian story is experienced without some foreknowledge of its end, which the text acknowledges through...
Physiologus
A Medieval Book of Nature Lore
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
One of the most popular and widely read books of the Middle Ages, Physiologus contains allegories of beasts, stones, and trees both real and imaginary, infused by their anonymous author with the spirit of Christian moral and mystical teaching. Accompanied by an introduction that explains the origins,...
The Art of Sword Combat
A 1568 German Treatise on Swordmanship
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Following the success of Jeffrey L. Forgeng’s translation of Joachim Meyer’s The Art of Sword Combat the author was alerted to an earlier recension of the work which was discovered in Lund University Library in Sweden.
The manuscript, produced in Strassburg around 1568, is illustrated with thirty...
Joining the Conversation
Dialogues by Renaissance Women
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
Avoiding the male-authored model of competing orations, French and Italian women of the Renaissance framed their dialogues as informal conversations, as letters with friends that in turn became epistles to a wider audience, and even sometimes as dramas. No other study to date has provided thorough,...
Henry V's Navy
The Sea-Road to Agincourt and Conquest 1413-1422
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
An examination of the men, ships, and technology that helped Henry V win one of his greatest victories, the Battle of Agincourt In 1415, Henry V's English invasion force was carried across the Channel by 1500 ships and boats, eventually to fight at Agincourt. Henry V built the Jesus, the first...
The Accommodated Jew
English Antisemitism from Bede to Milton
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
England during the Middle Ages was at the forefront of European antisemitism. It was in medieval Norwich that the notorious "blood libel" was first introduced when a resident accused the city's Jewish leaders of abducting and ritually murdering a local boy. England also enforced legislation demanding...
Iron, Fire and Ice
The Real History that Inspired Game of Thrones
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
A young pretender raises an army to take the throne. Learning of his father’s death, the adolescent, dashing and charismatic and descended from the old kings of the North, vows to avenge him. He is supported in this war by his mother, who has spirited away her two younger sons to safety. Against...
by Philip Warner
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2004
In the Middle Ages the castle was an important military and administrative centre, essentially utilitarian in its design and in the purposes it served. Because it played so central a role in medieval history, and because the wealth of material is so great, the author has concentrated on English seiges...
by Paul du Chaillu
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Paul Belloni du Chaillu (July 31, 1835 April 29, 1903) is best known for being an anthropologist who found the existence of gorillas and the Pygmys in central Africa, but he also researches the prehistory of Scandinavia, developing expertise on the Nordic people. Along the way, he eventually wrote about...
Sanctifying the Name of God
Jewish Martyrs and Jewish Memories of the First Crusade
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
How are martyrs made, and how do the memories of martyrs express, nourish, and mold the ideals of the community? Sanctifying the Name of God wrestles with these questions against the background of the massacres of Jews in the Rhineland during the outbreak of the First Crusade. Marking the first extensive...
by Vito Marino
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: November 28, 2018
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: November 28, 2018
O tema Graal é o centro de inúmeras obras literárias e alimenta uma gama de discussões e enigmas. Junto com ele unem-se as estórias arturianas medievais desde sua origem. Poemas, poetas, estórias, cavalaria e templários. Um universo abrangente será explorado nesta obra de Vito Marino. As Cruzadas,...
Humanism and Secularization
From Petrarch to Valla
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2003
The Renaissance movement known as humanism eventually spread from Italy through all of western Europe, transforming early modern culture in ways that are still being felt and debated. Central to these debates—and to this book—is the question of whether (and how) the humanist movement contributed...
Albert of Aachen's History of the Journey to Jerusalem
Volume 2: Books 7-12. The Early History of the Latin States, 1099-1119
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Albert of Aachen’s History of the Journey to Jerusalem presents the story of the First Crusade (1095-1099) and the first generation of Latin settlers in the Levant (1099-1119). Volume 2, The Early History of the Latin States, provides a surprising level of detail about the reign of King Baldwin...
Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage
From Plautus to Chaucer
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
Advice on sex and marriage in the literature of antiquity and the middle ages typically stressed the negative: from stereotypes of nagging wives and cheating husbands to nightmarish visions of women empowered through marriage. Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage brings together the leading scholars...