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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “paul edward dutton”
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  • Micro Middle Ages

    by Paul Edward Dutton ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Micro Middle Ages brings together five microhistorical case studies focusing on small or seemingly inconsequential evidence that leads to broader conclusions about medieval history and the way we do and understand history in general. Paul Dutton provides an overview of microhistorical approaches and theorizes about its use in pre-modern history. As opposed to studying history “from above” or ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Charlemagne's Courtier

    The Complete Einhard

    Edited by Paul Edward Dutton ...
    Series Book 3 - Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures
    Among the readings included are several existing letters by Emma (Einhard's wife), The Life of Charlemagne, and The History of His Relics. The latter work transports us into an almost unknown world as Einhard, the cool rationalist, arranges for a relic salesman, a veritable bone seller, to acquire saints’ relics from Italy for installation into his new church. The reader is taken on an intrigue ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • How to Live

    Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

    by Sarah Bakewell ...
    Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyHow to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: how do you live? How do you do the good or honorable thing, while flourishing and feeling happy?This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none ... Read more

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  • A Most Holy War

    The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom

    by Mark Gregory Pegg ...
    Series series Pivotal Moments in World History
    In January of 1208, a papal legate was murdered on the banks of the Rhone in southern France. A furious Pope Innocent III accused heretics of the crime and called upon all Christians to exterminate heresy between the Garonne and Rhone rivers--a vast region now known as Languedoc--in a great crusade. This most holy war, the first in which Christians were promised salvation for killing other ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Voltaire

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Nicholas Cronk ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Voltaire (1694-1778), best remembered as the author of Candide, is one of the central actors -- arguably the defining personality -- of the European Enlightenment. In this Very Short Introduction, Nicholas Cronk explores Voltaire's remarkable career and demonstrates how his thinking is pivotal to our notion and understanding of the Enlightenment. In a fresh and modern examination of his writings, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Image on the Edge

    The Margins of Medieval Art

    by Michael Camille ...
    Series series Essays in Art and Culture
    What do they all mean – the lascivious ape, autophagic dragons, pot-bellied heads, harp-playing asses, arse-kissing priests and somersaulting jongleurs to be found protuding from the edges of medieval buildings and in the margins of illuminated manuscripts? Michael Camille explores that riotous realm of marginal art, so often explained away as mere decoration or zany doodles, where resistance to ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Proving Woman

    Female Spirituality and Inquisitional Culture in the Later Middle Ages

    by Dyan Elliott ...
    Around the year 1215, female mystics and their sacramental devotion were among orthodoxy's most sophisticated weapons in the fight against heresy. Holy women's claims to be in direct communication with God placed them in positions of unprecedented influence. Yet by the end of the Middle Ages female mystics were frequently mistrusted, derided, and in danger of their lives. The witch hunts were just ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Medieval Robots

    Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art

    by E. R. Truitt ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    A thousand years before Isaac Asimov set down his Three Laws of Robotics, real and imagined automata appeared in European courts, liturgies, and literary texts. Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, and silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct while others performed disciplinary or surveillance functions. Variously ascribed to artisanal genius, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Misconceptions About the Middle Ages

    Edited by Stephen Harris, Bryon L. Grigsby ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture
    Interest in the middle ages is at an all time high at the moment, thanks in part to "The Da Vinci Code." Never has there been a moment more propitious for a study of our misconceptions of the Middle Ages than now.Ranging across religion, art, and science, Misconceptions about the Middle Ages unravels some of the many misinterpretations that have evolved concerning the medieval period, including ... Read more

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  • The Shape of Sex

    Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance

    by Leah DeVun ...
    Winner, 2024 Haskins Medal, Medieval Academy of AmericaWinner, 2023 Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize, History of Science SocietyWinner, 2022 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies, American Academy of ReligionHonorable Mention, 2023 John Boswell Prize, The Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender History (CLGBTH)Longlisted, 20... ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World

    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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  • Eleanor of Aquitaine

    Patron and Politician

    by William W. Kibler ...
    Series Book 3 - Symposia in the Arts and the Humanities
    Eleanor of Aquitaine was the wife of two kings, Louis VII of France and Henry II Plantagenet of England, and the mother of two others, Richard the Lionhearted and John Lackland. In her eventful, often stormy life, she not only influenced the course of events in the twelfth century but also encouraged remarkable advances in the literary and fine arts. In this book, experts in five disciplines ... Read more

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