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  • Europe in the Eleventh Century

    Beyond Revolution and Reform

    by Charles West ...
    Series series Oxford History of Medieval Europe
    Eleventh-century Europe was diverse and fast-changing. Historians have often debated this change through two sets of competing arguments, one about the shifting role of the Church and the Papacy, and the other about the rise of castellan lords and a proliferation in violence. Yet these arguments about 'Church Reform' and 'Feudal Revolution' only really apply to one part of Europe, the Latin West. ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases

    A Practical Guide to Understanding and Treating Childhood Illnesses

    by Charles West ...
    In "The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases," Charles West provides a comprehensive guide to the common ailments that afflict children, marked by a clear and accessible literary style suitable for a lay audience. The book reflects the prevailing medical understandings of the 19th century and combines sound clinical knowledge with practical advice. West meticulously outlines various diseases, ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Local Priests in the Latin West, 900–1050

    The local priest was the most ubiquitous embodiment of the Church for many people in medieval Christian Europe. By centring this key figure in post-Carolingian Europe, this book provides a fresh perspective on the transition between two focuses of historiographical attention, the Carolingian reform and the Gregorian reform. This pivot away from Church elites such as popes, bishops and abbots, and ... Read more

    $106.59 USD

  • Capetian France 987–1328

    Capetian France 987–1328 is an authoritative overview of the country’s development across four centuries, with a focus on changes to the political, religious, social and cultural climate during this period.When Hugh Capet took the throne of France in 987, his powers were weak and insignificant, but from an inauspicious beginning he founded a dynasty that was to last over 300 years and that came to ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The Fall of a Carolingian Kingdom

    Lotharingia 855–869

    by Charles West ...
    The Fall of a Carolingian Kingdom investigates how the first royal divorce scandal led to the collapse of a kingdom, changing the fate of medieval Europe. Through a set of annotated translations of key contemporary sources, the book presents the downfall of the Frankish kingdom of Lotharingia as a case study in early medieval politics, equipping readers to develop their own independent ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Writing the Early Medieval West

    Edited by Elina Screen, Charles West ...
    Far from the oral society it was once assumed to have been, early medieval Europe was fundamentally shaped by the written word. This book offers a pioneering collection of fresh and innovative studies on a wide range of topics, each one representing cutting-edge scholarship, and collectively setting the field on a new footing. Concentrating on the role of writing in mediating early medieval ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Hincmar of Rheims

    Life and work

    Edited by Rachel Stone, Charles West ...
    Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims (d. 882) is a crucial figure for all those interested in early medieval European history in general, and Carolingian history in particular. For forty years he was an advisor to kings and religious controversialist; his works are a key source for the political, religious and social history of the later ninth century, covering topics from papal politics to the abduction ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Social Determinants of Health

    An Interdisciplinary Approach to Social Inequality and Wellbeing

    This book provides an applied, interdisciplinary approach to an understanding of the key social determinants of health, essential at a time of increasing inequalities and reductions in existing NHS services and local authority budgets.A person's health and wellbeing is influenced by a spectrum of socioeconomic, cultural, living and working conditions, social and community networks and lifestyle ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Reframing the Feudal Revolution

    Political and Social Transformation between Marne and Moselle, c.800–c.1100

    by Charles West ...
    Series Book 90 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
    The profound changes that took place between 800 and 1100 in the transition from Carolingian to post-Carolingian Europe have long been the subject of vigorous historical controversy. Looking beyond the notion of a 'Feudal Revolution', this book reveals that a radical shift in the patterns of social organisation did occur in this period, but as a continuation of processes unleashed by Carolingian ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Family Therapy Review: Contrasting Contemporary Models

    This unique text uses one common case to demonstrate the applications of a wide range of family therapy models. Readers will find it useful when studying for the national family therapy licensing exam, which requires that exam takers be able to apply these models to case vignettes. The authors, all of whom are practicing family therapists, apply their chosen model of family therapy to a single, ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Neighbours and strangers

    Local societies in early medieval Europe

    Series Book 24 - Manchester Medieval Studies
    This book explores social cohesion in rural settlements in western Europe from 700–1050, asking to what extent settlements, or districts, constituted units of social organisation. It focuses on the interactions, interconnections and networks of people who lived side by side – neighbours. Drawing evidence from most of the current western European countries, the book plots and interrogates the very ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

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    by Jamie Kreiner ...
    Series Book 96 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
    This book charts the influence of Christian ideas about social responsibility on the legal, fiscal and operational policies of the Merovingian government, which consistently depended upon the collaboration of kings and elites to succeed, and it shows how a set of stories transformed the political playing field in early medieval Gaul. Contemporary thinkers encouraged this development by writing ... Read more

    $38.59 USD