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  • The Origins of the German Principalities, 1100-1350

    Essays by German Historians

    Edited by Graham A. Loud, Jochen Schenk ...
    The history of medieval Germany is still rarely studied in the English-speaking world. This collection of essays by distinguished German historians examines one of most important themes of German medieval history, the development of the local principalities. These became the dominant governmental institutions of the late medieval Reich, whose nominal monarchs needed to work with the princes if ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Military Orders Volume VI (Part 1)

    Culture and Conflict in The Mediterranean World

    Edited by Jochen Schenk, Mike Carr ...
    Series Book 1 - The Military Orders
    Forty papers link the study of the military orders’ cultural life and output with their involvement in political and social conflicts during the medieval and early modern period. Divided into two volumes, focusing on the Eastern Mediterranean and Europe respectively, the collection brings together the most up-to-date research by experts from fifteen countries on a kaleidoscope of relevant themes ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Military Orders Volume VI (Part 2)

    Culture and Conflict in Western and Northern Europe

    Edited by Jochen Schenk, Mike Carr ...
    Series Book 2 - The Military Orders
    Forty papers link the study of the military orders’ cultural life and output with their involvement in political and social conflicts during the medieval and early modern period. Divided into two volumes, focusing on the Eastern Mediterranean and Europe respectively, the collection brings together the most up-to-date research by experts from fifteen countries on a kaleidoscope of relevant themes ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Templar Families

    Landowning Families and the Order of the Temple in France, c.1120–1307

    by Jochen Schenk ...
    Series Book 79 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
    Founded in c.1120, in the aftermath of the First Crusade in Jerusalem, the Order of the Temple was a Christian brotherhood dedicated to the military protection of pilgrims and the Holy Land, attracting followers and supporters throughout Christian Europe. This detailed study explores the close relationship between the Order of the Temple and the landowning families it relied upon for support. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire

    by Walter Goffart ...
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    The Migration Age is still envisioned as an onrush of expansionary "Germans" pouring unwanted into the Roman Empire and subjecting it to pressures so great that its western parts collapsed under the weight. Further developing the themes set forth in his classic Barbarians and Romans, Walter Goffart dismantles this grand narrative, shaking the barbarians of late antiquity out of this "Germanic" ... Read more

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  • Martin Luther

    Renegade and Prophet

    by Lyndal Roper ...
    From “one of the best of the new [Martin Luther] biographers” (The New Yorker), a portrait of the complicated founding father of the Protestant Reformation, whose intellectual assault on Catholicism transformed Christianity and changed the course of world history.“Magnificent.”—The Wall Street Journal“Penetrating.”—The New York Times Book Review“Smart, accessible, authoritative.”—Hil... ... Read more

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  • Charlemagne

    by Johannes Fried ...
    Translated by Peter Lewis ...
    When Charlemagne died in 814 CE, he left behind a dominion and a legacy unlike anything seen in Western Europe since the fall of Rome. Distinguished historian and author of The Middle Ages Johannes Fried presents a new biographical study of the legendary Frankish king and emperor, illuminating the life and reign of a ruler who shaped Europe’s destiny in ways few figures, before or since, have ... Read more

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  • FEUDAL SOCIETY Vol. II

    Social Classes and Political Organisation

    by Marc Bloch ...
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  • Heart of Europe

    A History of the Holy Roman Empire

    by Peter H. Wilson ...
    An Economist and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year“Ambitious…seeks to rehabilitate the Holy Roman Empire’s reputation by re-examining its place within the larger sweep of European history…Succeeds splendidly in rescuing the empire from its critics.”—Wall Street Journal“Engrossing…Wilson is to be congratulated on writing the only English-language work that deals with the empire from start to ... Read more

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  • Central Europe in the High Middle Ages

    by Nora Berend, Przemysław Urbańczyk, Przemysław Wiszewski ...
    Series series Cambridge Medieval Textbooks
    This groundbreaking comparative history of the early centuries of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland sets the development of each polity in the context of the central European region as a whole. Focusing on the origins of the realms and their development in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the book concludes with the thirteenth century when significant changes in social and economic structures ... Read more

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  • The Habsburgs

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    by Paula Sutter Fichtner ...
    On 28 June 1914, in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Habsburg-Lorraine-Este was shot dead. Known as the moment that sparked off the First World War, this incident also initiated another, lesser-known story: the beginning of the end of Habsburg rule, which came four years later. In this comprehensive account of the longest-lived European empire, Paula Sutter Fichtner ... Read more

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  • The Thirty Years' War

    by Geoffrey Parker ...
    The first edition of The Thirty Years' War offered an unrivalled survey of a central period in European history. Drawing on a huge body of source material from different languages and countries throughout Europe, it provided a clear and comprehensive narrative and analytical account of the subject. It has established itself as the classic text with reviewers, students and the general reader.This ... Read more

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