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Pluralism In The Middle Ages - Hybrid Identities, Conversion, And Mixed Marriages In Medieval Iberia

by Ragnhild Johnsrud Zorgati

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 In exploring Islamic and Christian legislations about mixed marriages and conversion, Pluralism in the Middle Ages examines the construction of boundaries between religious groups, in contrast to instances of hybridity. It argues that Muslims and Christians in medieval Iberia did not constitute clearly separated groups, since various ca
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Nordic Elites In Transformation, C. 1050â€“1250, Volume Iii - Legitimacy And Glory

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 This book explores symbolic means of legitimation of medieval Scandinavian elites. It maps out a wide set of cultural practices (literary, spatial, legal, ritualistic, sacral etc.), offering new perspectives to students and researchers on medieval Nordic political order and social distinction.
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The Social Fabric Of Fifteenth-Century Florence - Identities And Change In The World Of Second-Hand Dealers

by Alessia Meneghin

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 Through the study of the professional trade association of the rigattieri (second-hand dealers), this book explores the identity, social mobility, and the gradual acquisition of power of those belonging to the low and lower-middle strata of early Renaissance Florentine society.
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Nordic Elites In Transformation, C. 1050-1250, Volume I - Material Resources

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 This book, first in a series of three, examines the social elites in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Iceland, and which social, political and cultural resources went into their creation, through questions such as: Which types of resources were at play? How did the elites acquire and exchange resources?
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New Studies In Medieval And Renaissance Gdansk, Poland And Prussia

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 New Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Gdansk, Poland and Prussia draws together the latest reseach on the important port town of Gdansk and its impact on the surrounding region of Pomerania and Poland as a whole. The twelve chapters explore various political, social, and socio-cultural historical questions and explain s
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How Thor Lost His Thunder - The Changing Faces Of An Old Norse God

by Declan (Stockholm University, Sweden) Taggart

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 How Thor Lost his Thunder is the first major English-language study of early medieval evidence for the Old Norse god, Thor. In this book, the most common modern representations of Thor are examined and the cultural history of Thorâ€™s cult and mythology is explored. It is ideal for scholars and students of mythology, history and medieval
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The Colonies Of Genoa In The Black Sea Region - Evolution And Transformation

by Evgeny Khvalkov

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 This book focuses on the network of the Genoese colonies in the Black Sea area and their diverse multi-ethnic societies. It raises the problems of continuity of the colonial patterns, reveals the importance of the formation of the late medieval / early modern colonialism, the urban demography, and the functioning of the polyethnic entangled society
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Medieval Hostageship C.700-C.1500 - Hostage, Captive, Prisoner Of War, Guarantee, Peacemaker

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 This volume explores the issues of taking, using and being hostages in the Middle Ages. It brings together recent research in the areas of hostages and hostageships,Â looking atÂ the act of hostage-taking and the hostages themselves through the lenses of political and social history. Building upon previous work, this volume in particular
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Wonder And Skepticism In The Middle Ages

by Keagan (University Of Sydney, Australia) Brewer

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 Wonder and Skepticism in the Middle Ages explores the response by medieval society to tales of marvels and the supernatural, which ranged from firm belief to outright rejection, and asks why the believers believed, and why the skeptics disbelieved. This work argues that the epistemological nature of medieval knowledge encouraged belief, a
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Nordic Elites In Transformation, C. 1050â€“1250, Volume Ii - Social Networks

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 Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050-1250, Volume II explores the structures and workings of social networks within the elites of medieval Scandinavia to reveal the intricate relationship between power and status.
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Agrarian Change And Crisis In Europe, 1200-1500

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 This collection of essays examines the diversity of economic growth patterns across Europe during the late Middle Ages and debates the causes of the fourteenth century crisis which initiated profound institutional transformations.
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The Jewish-Christian Encounter In Medieval Preaching

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 This book explores the complexity of preaching as a phenomenon in the medievalÂ Jewish-Christian encounter. This was not only an "encounter" as physical meeting or confrontation (such as the forced attendance of Jews at Christian sermons that took place across Europe), but also an "imaginary" or theological encounter in which Jews remained a
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The Plow, The Pen And The Sword - Images And Self-Images Of Medieval People In The Low Countries

by Rudi Kunzel

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 In the Early Middle Ages, clergy, nobility, peasants and townspeople in the Low Countries showed greatly varying attitudes to labor, property, violence, social inequality, religion and emotions. This book analyzes and compares these different group attitudes, which resulted in strikingly contrasting self-images and images of other groups.
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Family, Work, And Household In Late Medieval Iberia - A Social History Of Manresa At The Time Of The Black Death

by Jeff Fynn-Paul

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 This book presents the social and occupational structure of a late medieval Iberian town in rich, unprecedented detail. It combines a diachronic study of two regionally prominent familiesâ€"one knightly and one mercantileâ€"with a detailed cross-sectional urban study of household and occupation.
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Nordic Elites In Transformation, C. 1050-1250, Volume Iii - Legitimacy And Glory

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 This book explores symbolic means of legitimation of medieval Scandinavian elites. It maps out a wide set of cultural practices (literary, spatial, legal, ritualistic, sacral etc.), offering new perspectives to students and researchers on medieval Nordic political order and social distinction.
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Nordic Elites In Transformation, C. 1050-1250, Volume Iii - Legitimacy And Glory

60,94€ + 10% CARD

 This book explores symbolic means of legitimation of medieval Scandinavian elites. It maps out a wide set of cultural practices (literary, spatial, legal, ritualistic, sacral etc.), offering new perspectives to students and researchers on medieval Nordic political order and social distinction.
ENGLISH

Nordic Elites In Transformation, C. 1050â€“1250, Volume Iii - Legitimacy And Glory

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 This book explores symbolic means of legitimation of medieval Scandinavian elites. It maps out a wide set of cultural practices (literary, spatial, legal, ritualistic, sacral etc.), offering new perspectives to students and researchers on medieval Nordic political order and social distinction.
ENGLISH

Nordic Elites In Transformation, C. 1050-1250, Volume Ii - Social Networks

60,94€ + 10% CARD

 Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050-1250, Volume II explores the structures and workings of social networks within the elites of medieval Scandinavia to reveal the intricate relationship between power and status.
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Nordic Elites In Transformation, C. 1050-1250, Volume Ii - Social Networks

60,94€ + 10% CARD

 Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050-1250, Volume II explores the structures and workings of social networks within the elites of medieval Scandinavia to reveal the intricate relationship between power and status.
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Nordic Elites In Transformation, C. 1050â€“1250, Volume Ii - Social Networks

209,54€ + 10% CARD

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 Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050-1250, Volume II explores the structures and workings of social networks within the elites of medieval Scandinavia to reveal the intricate relationship between power and status.
ENGLISH

Social Fabric Of Fifteenth-Century Florence - Identities And Change In The World Of Second-Hand Dealers

by Alessia Meneghin

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 Through the study of the professional trade association of the rigattieri (second-hand dealers), this book explores the identity, social mobility, and the gradual acquisition of power of those belonging to the low and lower-middle strata of early Renaissance Florentine society.
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Social Fabric Of Fifteenth-Century Florence - Identities And Change In The World Of Second-Hand Dealers

by Alessia Meneghin

60,94€ + 10% CARD

 Through the study of the professional trade association of the rigattieri (second-hand dealers), this book explores the identity, social mobility, and the gradual acquisition of power of those belonging to the low and lower-middle strata of early Renaissance Florentine society.
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The Social Fabric Of Fifteenth-Century Florence - Identities And Change In The World Of Second-Hand Dealers

by Alessia Meneghin

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 Through the study of the professional trade association of the rigattieri (second-hand dealers), this book explores the identity, social mobility, and the gradual acquisition of power of those belonging to the low and lower-middle strata of early Renaissance Florentine society.
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Nordic Elites In Transformation, C. 1050-1250, Volume I - Material Resources

60,94€ + 10% CARD

 This book, first in a series of three, examines the social elites in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Iceland, and which social, political and cultural resources went into their creation, through questions such as: Which types of resources were at play? How did the elites acquire and exchange resources?
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