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This collection includes articles focusing on women’s depiction in contemporary writing on the crusades and... Læs mere
This volume includes seventeen essays on Byzantine monasticism, focusing on the 9th to 15th centuries.
The book moves away from the idea of a singular Weberian work ethic as fundamental to modern notions of work and instead emphasises how different languages of work were harnessed for a variety of social, intellectual, religious, economic, political, and ideological objectives.
?Authors, Factions, and Courts in Angevin England: A Literature of Personal Ambition (12th-13th Century) advances a model for historical study of courtly literature by foregrounding the personal aims, networks, and careers as the impetus for much of the period’s literature.
Fictions of Witness in the Confessio Amantis details the first years of the Confessio’s material history and offers a major revision to a century’s old narrative of political revision and conversion around the trauma of 1400.
W. B. Bartlett, author of Vikings and King Cnut, turns his eye to the legendary Harold Hardrada in this revealing and entertaining new biography of the most famous Viking of them all.
Density of housing in late medieval and early modern London could make access to light and privacy incompatible, provoking... Læs mere
This book introduces Uisang (625-702), a seminal figure in East Asian religion who founded the Korean Hwaom school of... Læs mere
Examines the life and work of the medieval friar and magician Albert the Great, using his disputed reputation as a case study for the complex history of magic and its connection with science and religion.