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  • Beyond the Monastery Walls

    Lay Men and Women in Early Medieval Legal Formularies

    by Warren C. Brown ...
    Our understanding of life in the early Middle Ages is dominated by Christian churches and monasteries. It is their records and libraries which have survived the centuries, to tell us how the clerics, monks, and nuns who lived and worked within their walls experienced the world around them. We thus see the lay inhabitants of that wider world mostly when they are interacting with the clergy. However ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Violence in Medieval Europe

    by Warren C. Brown ...
    Series series The Medieval World
    The European Middle Ages have long attracted popular interest as an era characterised by violence, whether a reflection of societal brutality and lawlessness or part of a romantic vision of chivalry. Violence in Medieval Europe engages with current scholarly debate about the degree to which medieval European society was in fact shaped by such forces.Drawing on a wide variety of primary sources, ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Conflict in Medieval Europe

    Changing Perspectives on Society and Culture

    Edited by Warren C. Brown, Piotr Górecki ...
    Conflict is defined here broadly and inclusively as an element of social life and social relations. Its study encompasses the law, not just disputes concerning property, but wider issues of criminality, coercion and violence, status, sex, sexuality and gender, as well as the phases and manifestations of conflict and the behaviors brought to bear on it. It engages, too, with the nature of the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Barbarian Tides

    The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire

    by Walter Goffart ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    The Migration Age is still envisioned as an onrush of expansionary "Germans" pouring unwanted into the Roman Empire and subjecting it to pressures so great that its western parts collapsed under the weight. Further developing the themes set forth in his classic Barbarians and Romans, Walter Goffart dismantles this grand narrative, shaking the barbarians of late antiquity out of this "Germanic" ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Morality and Masculinity in the Carolingian Empire

    by Rachel Stone ...
    Series Book 81 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
    What did it mean to be a Frankish nobleman in an age of reform? How could Carolingian lay nobles maintain their masculinity and their social position, while adhering to new and stricter moral demands by reformers concerning behaviour in war, sexual conduct and the correct use of power? This book explores the complex interaction between Christian moral ideals and social realities, and between ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • "Strong of Body, Brave and Noble"

    Chivalry and Society in Medieval France

    by Constance Brittain Bouchard ...
    Medieval society was dominated by its knights and nobles. The literature created in medieval Europe was primarily a literature of knightly deeds, and the modern imagination has also been captured by these leaders and warriors. This book explores the nature of the nobility, focusing on France in the High Middle Ages (11th-13th centuries). Constance Brittain Bouchard examines their families; their ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Carolingian World

    by Marios Costambeys, Matthew Innes, Simon MacLean ...
    Series series Cambridge Medieval Textbooks
    At its height, the Carolingian empire spanned a million square kilometres of western Europe - from the English Channel to central Italy and northern Spain, and from the Atlantic to the fringes of modern Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic. As the largest political unit for centuries, the empire dominated the region and left an enduring legacy for European culture. This comprehensive survey ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Ethnicity in Medieval Europe, 950-1250

    Medicine, Power and Religion

    by Claire Weeda ...
    Students in twelfth-century Paris held slanging matches, branding the English drunkards, the Germans madmen and the French as arrogant. On crusade, army recruits from different ethnic backgrounds taunted each other's military skills. Men producing ethnography in monasteries and at court drafted derogatory descriptions of peoples dwelling in territories under colonisation, questioning their work ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • From Roman Provinces to Medieval Kingdoms

    Edited by Thomas F.X. Noble ...
    Series series Rewriting Histories
    This prestigious collection of essays by leading scholars provides a thorough reassessment of the medieval era which questions how, when and why the Middle Ages began, and how abruptly the shift from the Roman Empire to Barbarian Europe happened.Presenting the most current work including newly-available material such as translations of French and German essays, From Roman Provinces to Medieval ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Reframing the Feudal Revolution

    Political and Social Transformation between Marne and Moselle, c.800–c.1100

    by Charles West ...
    Series Book 90 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
    The profound changes that took place between 800 and 1100 in the transition from Carolingian to post-Carolingian Europe have long been the subject of vigorous historical controversy. Looking beyond the notion of a 'Feudal Revolution', this book reveals that a radical shift in the patterns of social organisation did occur in this period, but as a continuation of processes unleashed by Carolingian ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom

    by Jamie Kreiner ...
    Series Book 96 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
    This book charts the influence of Christian ideas about social responsibility on the legal, fiscal and operational policies of the Merovingian government, which consistently depended upon the collaboration of kings and elites to succeed, and it shows how a set of stories transformed the political playing field in early medieval Gaul. Contemporary thinkers encouraged this development by writing ... Read more

    $38.59 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

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