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  • The Italian City-Republics

    by Trevor Dean, Daniel Waley ...
    Now in its fifth edition, The Italian City Republics illustrates how, from the eleventh century onwards, many Italian towns achieved independence as political entities, unhindered by any centralising power. Until the fourteenth century, when the regimes of individual ‘tyrants’ took over in most towns, these communes were the scene of a precocious, and very well-documented, experiment in republican ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Medieval Murder: A History, 1300–1500

    by Trevor Dean ...
    This book explores the many types of medieval murder and many types of medieval murderers, from men killing other men in anger, envy or revenge, to women killing their husbands or their infants, from plotters assassinating their rulers to Christian mobs massacring Jews.Over six chapters, this book discusses the interpretation and debates surrounding murder. It analyses murder in the frame of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Clean Hands and Rough Justice

    An Investigating Magistrate in Renaissance Italy

    by David S. Chambers, Trevor Dean ...
    Series series Studies In Medieval And Early Modern Civilization
    It is rarely possible to write biographies of lay people who lived in the Middles Ages. While accounts of clerical, royal, and military life are many, the wider populace has remained in relative obscurity. In Clean Hands and Rough Justice: An Investigating Magistrate in Renaissance Italy, David S. Chambers and Trevor Dean present an extraordinary and previously unknown character from Renaissance ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Murder in Renaissance Italy

    Edited by Trevor Dean, K. J. P. Lowe ...
    This invaluable collection explores the many faces of murder, and its cultural presences, across the Italian peninsula between 1350 and 1650. These shape the content in different ways: the faces of homicide range from the ordinary to the sensational, from the professional to the accidental, from the domestic to the public; while the cultural presence of homicide is revealed through new studies of ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Crime in Medieval Europe

    1200-1550

    by Trevor Dean ...
    Series series The Medieval World
    What is the difference between a stabbing in a tavern in London and one in a hostelry in the South of France? What happens when a spinster living in Paris finds knight in her bedroom wanting to marry her? Why was there a crime wave following the Black Death? From Aberdeen to Cracow and from Stockholm to Sardinia, Trevor Dean ranges widely throughout medieval Europe in this exiting and innovative ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Violence and Justice in Bologna

    1250–1700

    by Sarah Rubin Blanshei, Margaux Buyck, Christopher Carlsmith, Sara Cucini, Trevor Dean, Carol Lansing, Gregory Roberts, Colin S. Rose, Massimo Vallerani, Melissa Vise0 ...
    This collection of essays offers a unique contribution to the study of violence and justice in a late medieval and early modern Italy by combining a multivocal perspective with a case-study focus on the city-state of Bologna. Drawing on the city’s singularly rich archival resources, the authors explore various facets of violence—ranging from the interpersonal to the less frequently studied ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Audiobook

    Super Memory Tricks, Memorize Cards

    by Trevor Dean McClung ...
    Narrated by Trevor Dean McClung ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 52 min

    Anyone that learns the art of memorizing cards can memorize virtually anything from test answers to numbers to foreign language..Episode one of Super Memory Tricks teaches how to memorize an entire deck of cards step by step.Now the truly super human feat of memorizing a deck of cards can be achieved by simply listening and playing along with enthusiasm. Enjoy.CONTENTS:Introduction: (How and why ... Read more

    $37.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by David Herlihy ...
    In this small book David Herlihy makes subtle and subversive inquiries that challenge historical thinking about the Black Death. Looking beyond the view of the plague as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy finds evidence for its role in the advent of new population controls, the establishment of universities, the spread of Christianity, the dissemination of vernacular cultures, and even the rise of ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • The Art of Conversation

    by Peter Burke ...
    The Art of Conversation is a major contribution to the social history of language - a relatively new field which has become the focus of lively interdisciplinary debate in recent years.Drawing on the work of sociolinguists and others, Burke uses their concept while reserving the right to qualify their theories where the historical record makes this seem appropriate. Like the sociolinguists, Burke ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • The Birth of Territory

    by Stuart Elden ...
    Political theory professor Stuart Elden explores the history of land ownership and control from the ancient to the modern world in The Birth of Territory.Territory is one of the central political concepts of the modern world and, indeed, functions as the primary way the world is divided and controlled politically. Yet territory has not received the critical attention afforded to other crucial ... Read more

    $24.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Growing Old in the Middle Ages

    'Winter Clothes Us in Shadow and Pain'

    by Shulamith Shahar ...
    The social realities of old age have undergone profound changes since the middle ages. This study shows, however, that the images, attitudes and expectations of old people have changed for less.Shulamith Shahar shows how the status and social participation of the elderly varied according to gender, social stratum, economic resources, position, level of functioning, and personality, as well as ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Means Of Naming

    A Social History

    by Stephen Wilson ...
    Names are never given accidentally; they are chosen and bestowed according to rules that reflect fundamental features of the society and culture concerned. This is a study of the nature and history of naming practices in Western Europe. ... Read more

    $61.99 USD