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  • Gift-Giving and Materiality in Europe, 1300-1600

    Gifts as Objects

    Edited by Dr Lars Kjaer, Dr Gustavs Strenga ...
    Gift-giving played an important role in political, social and religious life in medieval and early modern Europe. This volume explores an under-examined and often-overlooked aspect of this phenomenon: the material nature of the gift.Drawing on examples from both medieval and early modern Europe, the authors from the UK and across Europe explore the craftsmanship involved in the production of gifts ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Thirteenth Century England XVII

    Proceedings of the Cambridge Conference, 2017

    by Andrew Spencer, Philippa Mesiano, Thomas W. Smith, Rebecca Springer, Ian Stone, Carl S. Watkins, Lars Kjaer, Antonia Shacklock, Amicie Pélissié du Rausas0, Rodolphe Billaud1, Anaïs Waag2 ...
    The theme running through this volume is that of "England in Europe", with contributions tackling aspects of political, religious, cultural and urban history, placing England in a European context, exploring connections between the insular world and continental Europe, and using England as a case study of broader patterns of change in the long thirteenth century. A number of authors consider the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Denmark and Europe in the Middle Ages, c.1000–1525

    Essays in Honour of Professor Michael H. Gelting

    Edited by Kerstin Hundahl, Lars Kjær, Niels Lund ...
    Where medieval Denmark and Scandinavia as a whole has often been seen as a cultural backwater that passively and belatedly received cultural and political impulses from Western Europe, Professor Michael H. Gelting and scholars inspired by him have shown that the intellectual, religious and political elite of Denmark actively participated in the renaissance and reformation of the central and later ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Medieval Gift and the Classical Tradition

    Ideals and the Performance of Generosity in Medieval England, 1100–1300

    by Lars Kjær ...
    Series Book 114 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
    This interdisciplinary study explores how classical ideals of generosity influenced the writing and practice of gift giving in medieval Europe. In assuming that medieval gift giving was shaped by oral 'folk models', historians have traditionally followed in the footsteps of social anthropologists and sociologists such as Marcel Mauss and Pierre Bourdieu. This first in-depth investigation into the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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    by Valerie Garver ...
    Despite the wealth of scholarship in recent decades on medieval women, we still know much less about the experiences of women in the early Middle Ages than we do about those in later centuries. In Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World, Valerie L. Garver offers a fresh appraisal of the cultural and social history of eighth- and ninth-century women. Examining changes in women's ... Read more

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  • The Byzantine World

    Edited by Paul Stephenson ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    The Byzantine World presents the latest insights of the leading scholars in the fields of Byzantine studies, history, art and architectural history, literature, and theology. Those who know little of Byzantine history, culture and civilization between AD 700 and 1453 will find overviews and distillations, while those who know much already will be afforded countless new vistas.Each chapter offers ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Long Morning of Medieval Europe

    New Directions in Early Medieval Studies

    by Jennifer R. Davis ...
    Recent advances in research show that the distinctive features of high medieval civilization began developing centuries earlier than previously thought. The era once dismissed as a "Dark Age" now turns out to have been the long morning of the medieval millennium: the centuries from AD 500 to 1000 witnessed the dawn of developments that were to shape Europe for centuries to come. In 2004, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Memory in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800

    by Judith Pollmann ...
    For early modern Europeans, the past was a measure of most things, good and bad. For that reason it was also hotly contested, manipulated, and far too important to be left to historians alone. Memory in Early Modern Europe offers a lively and accessible introduction to the many ways in which Europeans engaged with the past and 'practised' memory in the three centuries between 1500 and 1800. From ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Byzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline

    by Cecily J. Hilsdale ...
    The Late Byzantine period (1261–1453) is marked by a paradoxical discrepancy between economic weakness and cultural strength. The apparent enigma can be resolved by recognizing that later Byzantine diplomatic strategies, despite or because of diminishing political advantage, relied on an increasingly desirable cultural and artistic heritage. This book reassesses the role of the visual arts in this ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Authority in Byzantium

    Edited by Pamela Armstrong ...
    Series series Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London
    Authority is an important concept in Byzantine culture whose myriad modes of implementation helped maintain the existence of the Byzantine state across so many centuries, binding together people from different ethnic groups, in different spheres of life and activities. Even though its significance to understanding the Byzantine world is so central, it is nonetheless imperfectly understood. The ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Social History of Knowledge

    From Gutenberg to Diderot

    by Peter Burke ...
    In this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach to examine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe from the invention of printing to the publication of the French Encyclopédie.The book opens with an assessment of different sociologies of knowledge from Mannheim to Foucault and beyond, and goes on to discuss intellectuals as a social group and the social institutions ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Iconoclasm from Antiquity to Modernity

    by Kristine Kolrud, Marina Prusac ...
    The phenomenon of iconoclasm, expressed through hostile actions towards images, has occurred in many different cultures throughout history. The destruction and mutilation of images is often motivated by a blend of political and religious ideas and beliefs, and the distinction between various kinds of ’iconoclasms’ is not absolute. In order to explore further the long and varied history of ... Read more

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