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  • The Making of Medieval History

    by Graham Loud, Joep Leerssen, Martial Staub, Michael Borgolte, Patrick Geary, Professor Peter Biller, Richard Hitchcock, Bastian Schlütter, Bernhard Jussen0, Christian Lübke1, Christine Ames2, Professor Ian Nicholas Wood3, Janet L Nelson4 ...
    A hugely interesting set of essays, reflecting on a variety of ways in which medieval history has developed to the present time. Scholarship of the highest standard, deeply thought-provoking and deeply engaged with the inheritances and future tasks of medieval academic history. The collection will be essential reading for all medievalists. John Arnold, Professor of Medieval History, University of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Inquisition and Knowledge, 1200-1700

    by Professor Peter Biller, Dr. Reima Välimäki, Dr. Adam Poznański, Richard Kieckhefer, Dr. Harald Bollbuck, Dr. Luc Racaut, Dr. Shelagh Sneddon, Professor Michaela Valente, Dr. L J Sackville0, Professor Jessalynn Bird1, Dr. Alessandro Sala2, Jörg Feuchter3, Professor Paweł Kras4, Irene Bueno5 ...
    The collection, curation, and manipulation of knowledge were fundamental to the operation of inquisition. Its coercive power rested on its ability to control information and to produce authoritative discourses from it - a fact not lost on contemporaries, or on later commentators. Understanding that relationship between inquisition and knowledge has been one of the principal drivers of its long ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Series series St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
    Although the connection between the invention of printing and the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century has long been a scholarly commonplace, there is still a great deal of evidence about the relationship to be presented and analysed. This collection of authoritative reviews by distinguished historians deals with the role of the book in the spread of the Reformation all over the ... Read more

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  • A Most Dangerous Book

    Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich

    by Christopher B. B. Krebs ...
    The riveting story of the Germania and its incarnations and exploitations through the ages.The pope wanted it, Montesquieu used it, and the Nazis pilfered an Italian noble's villa to get it: the Germania, by the Roman historian Tacitus, took on a life of its own as both an object and an ideology. When Tacitus wrote a not-very-flattering little book about the ancient Germans in 98 CE, at the height ... Read more

    $15.69 USD

  • The King's Two Bodies

    A Study in Medieval Political Theology

    by Ernst Kantorowicz, William Chester Jordan ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    Originally published in 1957, this classic work has guided generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. Throughout history, the notion of two bodies has permitted the postmortem continuity of monarch and monarchy, as epitomized by the statement, “The king is dead. Long live the king.” In The King’s Two Bodies, Ernst Kantorowicz traces the historical dilemma ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?

    Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation

    by Robert Bartlett ...
    "An indispensable point of departure for anyone interested in the cult of the saints in the Middle Ages." —Eamon Duffy, The New York Review of BooksFrom its earliest centuries, one of the most notable features of Christianity has been the veneration of the saints—the holy dead. This ambitious history tells the fascinating story of the cult of the saints from its origins in the second-century days ... Read more

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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

    $31.69 USD

  • The Book in the Renaissance

    by Andrew Pettegree ...

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  • The Corruption of Angels

    The Great Inquisition of 1245-1246

    by Mark Gregory Pegg ...
    On two hundred and one days between May 1, 1245, and August 1, 1246, more than five thousand people from the Lauragais were questioned in Toulouse about the heresy of the good men and the good women (more commonly known as Catharism). Nobles and diviners, butchers and monks, concubines and physicians, blacksmiths and pregnant girls--in short, all men over fourteen and women over twelve--were ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • German

    Biography of a Language

    by Ruth Sanders ...
    Thousands of years ago, seafront clans in Denmark began speaking the earliest form of Germanic language--the first of six "signal events" that Ruth Sanders highlights in this marvelous history of the German language. Blending linguistic, anthropological, and historical research, Sanders presents a brilliant biography of the language as it evolved across the millennia. She sheds light on the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Poor and the Perfect

    The Rise of Learning in the Franciscan Order, 1209–1310

    by Neslihan Şenocak ...
    One of the enduring ironies of medieval history is the fact that a group of Italian lay penitents, begging in sackcloths, led by a man who called himself simple and ignorant, turned in a short time into a very popular and respectable order, featuring cardinals and university professors among its ranks. Within a century of its foundation, the Order of Friars Minor could claim hundreds of permanent ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Historiography

    Ancient, Medieval, and Modern

    by Ernst Breisach ...
    A pioneering work that presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture.Neither a handbook nor an encyclopedia, this up-to-date third edition of Ernst Breisach's Historiography narrates and interprets the development of historiography from its origins in Greek poetry to the present, with compelling sections on postmodernism, ... Read more

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