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  • Resequencing the Middle Ages through Archaeogenetics

    Interpreting the Past through Science and History

    by Patrick J. Geary ...
    Series series Debates in Archaeology
    Offering a clear and accessible introduction to the fast-growing field of archaeogenetics, this book pays particular attention to the methods and approaches that are reshaping how archaeologists and historians think about the past.Written for readers with no prior background in genetics, it explains in straightforward terms how genomic research can shed light on mobility, population change, social ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Furta Sacra

    Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages - Revised Edition

    by Patrick J. Geary ...
    To obtain sacred relics, medieval monks plundered tombs, avaricious merchants raided churches, and relic-mongers scoured the Roman catacombs. In a revised edition of Furta Sacra, Patrick Geary considers the social and cultural context for these acts, asking how the relics were perceived and why the thefts met with the approval of medieval Christians. ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Phantoms of Remembrance

    Memory and Oblivion at the End of the First Millennium

    by Patrick J. Geary ...
    In Phantoms of Remembrance, Patrick Geary makes important new inroads into the widely discussed topic of historical memory, vividly evoking the everyday lives of eleventh-century people and both their written and nonwritten ways of preserving the past. Women praying for their dead, monks creating and re-creating their archives, scribes choosing which royal families of the past to applaud and which ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Authors of the Middle Ages, Volume IV, Nos 12–13

    Historical and Religious Writers of the Latin West

    Edited by Patrick J. Geary ...
    Series series Authors of the Middle Ages
    The anonymous author who has come to be known as Fredegar put together a collection of historical sources, together with items of his own composing in the second half of the 7th century. His work forms the most important source for the history of France in the period 594 to 642. It was added to in the mid 8th century, in two continuations that provide vital evidence for their own time. Gregory I ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Authors of the Middle Ages, Volume II, Nos 5–6

    Historical and Religious Writers of the Latin West

    by Constant J. Mews ...
    Series series Authors of the Middle Ages
    Volume II of the AUTHORS OF THE MIDDLE AGES series contains nos. 5-6 in the series: 'Peter Abelard' by Constant J. Mews and 'Honorius Augustodunensis' by V.I.J. Flint. PETER ABELARD (1079-1142) was one of the most creative and controversial thinkers of the 12th century. This study traces his life as a logician and theologian, paying particular attention to the many scholarly debates provoked by ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Language and Power in the Early Middle Ages

    by Patrick J. Geary ...
    Series series The Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures
    The eminent historian Patrick J. Geary has written a provocative book, based on lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel about the role of language and ideology in the study and history of the early Middle Ages. He includes a fascinating discussion of the rush by nationalist philologists to rediscover the medieval roots of their respective vernaculars, the rivalry between vernacular ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Women at the Beginning

    Origin Myths from the Amazons to the Virgin Mary

    by Patrick J. Geary ...
    In these four artfully crafted essays, Patrick Geary explores the way ancient and medieval authors wrote about women. Geary describes the often marginal role women played in origin legends from antiquity until the twelfth century.Not confining himself to one religious tradition or region, he probes the tensions between women in biblical, classical, and medieval myths (such as Eve, Mary, Amazons, ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

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  • 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

  • Women in Frankish Society

    Marriage and the Cloister, 5 to 9

    by Suzanne Fonay Wemple ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Women in Frankish Society is a careful and thorough study of women and their roles in the Merovingian and Carolingian periods of the Middle Ages. During the 5th through 9th centuries, Frankish society transformed from a relatively primitive tribal structure to a more complex hierarchical organization. Suzanne Fonay Wemple sets out to understand the forces at work in expanding and limiting women's ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • History, Frankish Identity and the Framing of Western Ethnicity, 550–850

    by Helmut Reimitz ...
    Series Book 101 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
    This pioneering study explores early medieval Frankish identity as a window into the formation of a distinct Western conception of ethnicity. Focusing on the turbulent and varied history of Frankish identity in Merovingian and Carolingian historiography, it offers a new basis for comparing the history of collective and ethnic identity in the Christian West with other contexts, especially the ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • The Cult of the Saints

    Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity, Enlarged Edition

    by Peter Brown ...
    A new edition of the "brilliantly original and highly sophisticated" study of saint worship after the fall of the Roman Empire ( Library Journal).In this groundbreaking work, Peter Brown explores how the worship of saints and their corporeal remains became central to religious life in Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. During this period, earthly remnants served as a heavenly ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sebastian Castellio, 1515-1563

    Humanist and Defender of Religious Toleration in a Confessional Age

    by Hans R. Guggisberg, Bruce Gordon ...
    Series series St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
    Sebastian Castellio, linguist, humanist and religious reformer, is one of the most remarkable figures of the Reformation. Attracted by Calvin's reforms, Castellio moved to Geneva in the 1540s, where he wrote his influential work on educational reform. Ironically, it was Castellio's work as a scholar in Geneva, which was to lead to his falling out with Calvin, and ultimately his forced departure ... Read more

    $61.99 USD