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Western intellectual tradition has long been viewed as an exclusive male bastion, but Women in Western Intellectual Culture, 600-1500 proves that this thesis is no longer tenable.
Beginning with Saint Barbatianus, a fifth-century wonderworking monk and confessor to the Empress Galla Placidia, this book focuses on the changes in the religious landscape of Ravenna, a former capital of the Late Roman Empire, through the Middle Ages.
This book examines social and medical responses to the disfigured face in early medieval Europe, arguing that the study of head and facial injuries can... Læs mere
This study traces the genealogy of Saint Perpetua’s story with a straightforward yet previously overlooked question at its center: How was Perpetua remembered and to what uses was that memory put?
This book explores the professional and social lives of the soldiers who served in the army of the Byzantine Empire in the sixth century.
This book presents a picture focused on the T'ang period, one of China's acknowledged golden ages. Within a looser web of globalization, the T'ang... Læs mere
Organized around the three great civilizations of the region - Western European, Orthodox Christian and Muslim - this is a much-needed guide to the... Læs mere
Bede is the inaugural volume in the Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture series, which seeks to comprehensively map British literary culture from 500 to 1100 CE.
This newest volume in a long-running work of mapping the sources of Anglo-Saxon literary culture in England from 500 to 1100 CE takes up one of the most important authors of the period, the eighth-century monk-scholar known as the Venerable Bede.
A brilliant recreation of the golden age of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia – its landscapes, peoples, conflicts, power structures and political geography – by the author of The King in the North.
Using samples taken from translations of Thucydides' influential History of the Peloponnesian War, the book argues that in... Læs mere
RosamondFaith is a leading historian of English peasantry in the middle ages. Her workhas uncovered the basic structures... Læs mere