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Based on close readings of both public and private documents – court records, churchwarden accounts, depositions, diaries, letters and pamphlets – this collection of essays presents the largely untold story of non-elite women and their dealings with the law.
Britain and its Neighbours explores instances and periods of cultural contact and exchanges between communities in Britain with those in other parts of Europe between c.500-1700.
Five Parishes in Late Medieval and Tudor London presents linked microhistorical studies of five London parishes, using their own parish records to reconstruct their individual operations, religious practices, and societies.
This book provides an English translation of Libellus de expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum accompanied by a new critical edition of the Latin text and a detailed study in the introduction.
This is the first book on the early woollens’ industry. Based on original research, it explains how the eventual combination of rural clothiers making superior... Læs mere
Since early Christianity, wood, earth, water and stone were taken from loca sancta to signify them elsewhere. Unlike... Læs mere
The issue of clerical celibacy has played a long and profound role in the history of the Christian church. From the first Christian centuries to the present day,... Læs mere
This volume brings together revised and up-dated versions of Giles Constable's classic essays on crusading in the 12th century, along with two major new... Læs mere
A magisterial survey of the military giants of the medieval world.
A history of the Abbasid Caliphate from its foundation in 750 and golden age under Harun al-Rashid to the conquest of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, this study examines the Caliphate... Læs mere
The definitive study of humanist script in England before 1509, this book also provides an important re-interpretation of the success of Renaissance humanism. It introduces a range of Dutch, German, English and Scottish scribes in demonstrating humanism's cosmopolitanism.
This book reviews business in medieval western Europe, probing its Roman and Christian heritage to discover the economic and political forces that... Læs mere