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Early English writers describe their landscapes in the same way they describe themselves. Illuminating the forms medieval people used... Læs mere
This is a review of Icelandic history from the settlement until the advent of the Reformation, with an emphasis on social and political change, but also on cultural developments such as the creation of a particular kind of literature, known throughout the world as the sagas.
This book investigates how Late Antique and Byzantine literary texts and other media reflect the entangled, non-binary relation between human and non-human realms, culture and nature, providing unexplored historical insights into ancient ecological perceptions.
This book surveys the traditional classifications of private law to establish the cognitive techniques used by medieval Italian and French jurists to transform Roman law into the ius commune of Western Europe.
A fun and magical journey back to the time of the Vikings with Billie and their very silly pet cat, Mia!
How did the state become Christian in late antiquity? This book considers, not emperors and bishops, but those who served the state as courtiers,... Læs mere
Develops a new interpretation of Abu Na?r al-Farabi’s political philosophy as contributing to the Western tradition of cosmopolitanism
First published in 1988, this book has been widely debated, inspiring the current interest on medieval friendship. In a new introduction, McGuire surveys the critical reaction to the original edition and new research on friendship.
In this pioneering book, Eve Levin explores sexual behavior among the peoples of Serbia, Bulgaria, and Russia from their conversion to Christianity in the ninth and tenth centuries until the end of the seventeenth century.
In medieval Europe, the word fama denoted both talk (what was commonly said about a person or event) and an individual's ensuing reputation (one's fama). Although talk by others was no doubt often feared, it was also valued and even cultivated as a...
Feudal military practices, which are as varied as those of modern times, are surveyed here for the first time.