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Presenting portraits of the Winchester bishops down to the Norman Conquest, The Winchester Power-House is the first volume of a study covering the lives of some one hundred holders of the high ecclesiastical office.
Belisarius & Antonina is a biography of an immensely powerful marriage in the time of Roman resurgence and expansion. It sheds new light on the reign of Justinian while exploring the successes, failures, and challenges of this unique partnership.
Radegund is a biography of a remarkable woman--princess, war captive, queen, deaconess, nun, and saint--who lived in early medieval France. Author E. T. Dailey narrates Radegund's life in an accessible way and offers important new insights for experts in the field.
This 2001 book offers a new interpretation of the Ten Books of History of Gregory of Tours (538–594), the principal work of Merovingian history, which have been understood hitherto as an objective though naive 'history of the Franks'.
The period of Byzantine Iconoclasm remains in many ways a 'Dark Age'. With this volume Marie-France Auzépy continues her fundamental re-examination of one of the key sources for the time, the Life of Stephen the Younger.
In a world historically dominated by male rulers, the women who have sat on thrones of their own shine out brightly. Some queens and empresses were born to greatness, while others fought their... Læs mere
Critical edition of the earliest known astrological autobiography
The Life of Stephen the Younger is one of the rare sources for Byzantium in the ’Dark Ages’ and one of the key witnesses to the history of Iconoclasm.
This book sets the life of Hild of Whitby in the context of early monasticism, with a special focus on Anglo-Saxon England. It uncovers... Læs mere
Eleanor's patrilineal descent, from a lineage already prestigious enough to have produced an empress in the eleventh century, gave her the lordship of Aquitaine. In... Læs mere
Saladin is perhaps the only Muslim ruler who emerges with any clarity in standard tales and histories of the Crusades. This is a translation of a 12th-century account of his life and career written by Baha al-Din Ibn Shaddad who was an admirer and close associate of Saladin.
Introduces readers interested in insular spirituality and hagiography to the major texts associated with the cult of the great... Læs mere