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Gender And Authority In The Late Medieval Church - A New History

by Ian Forrest

~~218,63€~~ 174,90€ 20% OFF

 How did the governance of the medieval institutional church remain exclusively male, despite plentiful evidence of women being as capable and devout as men? Forrest tells an integrated history that explains how both the exclusion of women and the inclusion of men underpins a rigidly gendered system of religious governance.
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A Crusader'S Death And Life In Acre - The 1266 Account-Inventory Of Eudes Of Nevers

by Anne E. Lester e Laura K. Morreale

~~32,43€~~ 25,94€ 20% OFF

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 The first complete modern French edition and English translation of the rouleaux that inventoried the possessions of Eudes of Nevers, at his death in Acre in 1266. The book contains a wealth of scholarly commentary that addresses the composition of the rouleaux, the life and relationships of Eudes, and the culture of crusading.
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Servants Of God, Slaves Of The Church - Service As Religious Metaphor And Social Reality In Early Medieval Europe

by Lisa Kaaren Bailey

~~33,60€~~ 26,88€ 20% OFF

 In Servants of God, Slaves of the Church, Lisa Kaaren Bailey uncovers the surprising intimacy between sacred devotion and coerced labor in early medieval Europe. From queens who scrubbed monastery floors to enslaved women forced into lifelong service, acts of humility and acts of subjugation often looked the same and were interpreted through the same religious lens. Drawing from sermons, letters, miracle stories, and hagiographies, Bailey shows how metaphors of service shaped not only elite piety but also the lived experience of those at the very bottom of the social order.This is a story of lives that were often absent from the historical record: those who lit church lamps, laundered liturgical linens, and sustained Christian worship through their unseen labor. Bailey weaves together theology, cultural history, and feminist historiography to trace how Christian ideas about virtue, sin, and the will both justified unfreedom and offered tools to contest it. Her use of "critical fabulation" animates the archive without fictionalizing it, allowing glimpses of agency in places where it was rarely recorded.By placing the metaphor of service alongside its social reality, Servants of God, Slaves of the Church reshapes how we think about labor, power, and religious meaning in the centuries after Rome. A deeply informed work of both historical scholarship and moral insight, this book gives voice to the voiceless and demands a reconsideration of what it meant to serve God.
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Crusader'S Death And Life In Acre - The 1266 Account-Inventory Of Eudes Of Nevers

by Anne E. Lester e Laura K. Morreale

~~218,63€~~ 174,90€ 20% OFF

 The first complete modern French edition and English translation of the rouleaux that inventoried the possessions of Eudes of Nevers, at his death in Acre in 1266. The book contains a wealth of scholarly commentary that addresses the composition of the rouleaux, the life and relationships of Eudes, and the culture of crusading.
Cultures Of The Medieval Kingdom Of Jerusalem - Frontier Inventiveness In The Age Of The Crusades

by Benjamin Z. Kedar

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 Through stories of the lives of the kingdom's inhabitants, Kedar presents the remarkable creativity of the Franks in various fields as they faced challenges in new surroundings thousands of miles from their countries of origin. The culmination of Kedar's half-century of scholarship on the Crusades and the medieval Levant, it is an innovative history of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
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Mongol Archive In Late Medieval France - Texts, Objects, Encounters, 1221-1422

by Mark Cruse

~~62,26€~~ 49,81€ 20% OFF

 The Mongol Archive in Late Medieval France is the first comprehensive study of contact between France and the Mongols in the late Middle Ages. As these realms expanded across Eurasiaâ€"the French through crusade and settlement, the Mongols through conquestâ€"their encounters altered each other's understanding of the world and their place in it.
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Hungry City - A Year In The Life Of Medieval Barcelona

by Marie A. Kelleher

~~218,63€~~ 174,90€ 20% OFF

 The Hungry City is the story of medieval Barcelona, retold through the lens of food and famine. Between the summer of 1333 and the spring of 1334, severe weather-related grain shortages spread throughout the Mediterranean, and Barcelona's leaders struggled to bring food to the city as its residents grew increasingly desperate.
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Bounded Wilderness - Land And Reform At The Hermitage Of Fonte Avellana, Ca. 1035-1072

by Kathryn Jasper

~~218,63€~~ 174,90€ 20% OFF

 In Bounded Wilderness, Kathryn Jasper focuses on the innovations undertaken at the hermitage of Fonte Avellana in central Italy during the eleventh century by its prior, Peter Damian (d. 1072). The congregation of Fonte Avellana experimented with reforming practices that led to new ways of managing property and relations among clergy, nobles, and the laity.
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The Hungry City - A Year In The Life Of Medieval Barcelona

by Marie A. Kelleher

~~52,72€~~ 42,18€ 20% OFF

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 The Hungry City is the story of medieval Barcelona, retold through the lens of food and famine. Between the summer of 1333 and the spring of 1334, severe weather-related grain shortages spread throughout the Mediterranean, and Barcelona's leaders struggled to bring food to the city as its residents grew increasingly desperate.
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A Crusader'S Death And Life In Acre - The 1266 Account-Inventory Of Eudes Of Nevers

by Anne E. Lester e Laura K. Morreale

~~21,12€~~ 16,90€ 20% OFF

 The first complete modern French edition and English translation of the rouleaux that inventoried the possessions of Eudes of Nevers, at his death in Acre in 1266. The book contains a wealth of scholarly commentary that addresses the composition of the rouleaux, the life and relationships of Eudes, and the culture of crusading.
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Queen Of Sorrows - Plague, Piety, And Power In Late Medieval Italy

by Bianca M. Lopez

~~218,63€~~ 174,90€ 20% OFF

 Queen of Sorrows takes an original approach to both late-medieval Italian history and the history of Christianity, using quantitative and qualitative analyses of a remarkable archive of 1,904 testaments to determine patterns in giving to the Virgin of Loreto shrine in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.
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Bounded Wilderness - Land And Reform At The Hermitage Of Fonte Avellana, Ca. 1035-1072

by Kathryn Jasper

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 In Bounded Wilderness, Kathryn Jasper focuses on the innovations undertaken at the hermitage of Fonte Avellana in central Italy during the eleventh century by its prior, Peter Damian (d. 1072). The congregation of Fonte Avellana experimented with reforming practices that led to new ways of managing property and relations among clergy, nobles, and the laity.
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Byzantine Media Subjects

by Glenn A. Peers

~~218,63€~~ 174,90€ 20% OFF

 Byzantine Media Subjects invites readers into a world replete with images—icons, frescoes, and mosaics filling places of worship, politics, and community. Glenn Peers asks readers to think themselves into a world where representation reigned and humans followed, and indeed were formed. Interrogating the fundamental role of representation in the making of the Byzantine human, Peers argues that Byzantine culture was (already) posthuman. The Byzantine experience reveals the extent to which media like icons, manuscripts, music, animals, and mirrors fundamentally determine humans. In the Byzantine world, representation as such was deeply persuasive, even coercive; it had the power to affect human relationships, produce conflict, and form self-perception. Media studies has made its subject the modern world, but this book argues for media having made historical subjects. Here, it is shown that media long ago also made Byzantine humans, defining them, molding them, mediating their relationship to time, to nature, to God, and to themselves.
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Queen Of Sorrows - Plague, Piety, And Power In Late Medieval Italy

by Bianca M. Lopez

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 Queen of Sorrows takes an original approach to both late-medieval Italian history and the history of Christianity, using quantitative and qualitative analyses of a remarkable archive of 1,904 testaments to determine patterns in giving to the Virgin of Loreto shrine in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.
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Last Ta'Ifa - The Banu Hud And The Struggle For Political Legitimacy In Al-Andalus

by Anthony H. Minnema

~~218,63€~~ 174,90€ 20% OFF

 In The Last Ta''ifa, Anthony H. Minnema shows how the Banu Hud, an Arab dynasty from Zaragoza, created and recreated their vision of an autonomous city-state (ta''ifa) in ways that reveal changes to legitimating strategies in al-Andalus and across the Mediterranean. In 1110, the Banu Hud lost control of their emirate in the north of Iberia and entered exile, ending their century-long rule. But far from accepting their fate, the dynasty adapted by serving Christian kings, nurturing rebellions, and carving out a new state in Murcia to recover, maintain, and grow their power. By tracing the Banu Hud across chronicles, charters, and coinage, Minnema shows how dynastic leaders borrowed their rivals'' claims and symbols and engaged in similar types of military campaigns and complex alliances in an effort to cultivate authority. Drawing on Arabic, Latin, and vernacular sources, The Last Ta''ifa uses the history of the Banu Hud to connect the pursuit of legitimacy in al-Andalus to the politics of other emerging kingdoms and emirates. The actions of Hudid leaders, Minnema shows, echoed across the region as other kings, rebels, and adventurers employed parallel methods to gain power and resist the forces of centralization, highlighting the constructed nature of legitimacy in al-Andalus and the Mediterranean.
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Geoffroy Of Villehardouin, Marshal Of Champagne - His Life And Memoirs Of The Fourth Crusade

by Theodore Evergates

~~218,63€~~ 174,90€ 20% OFF

 Traces the remarkable life of Geoffroy of Villehardouin (c. 1148â€"c.1217) from his earliest years in Champagne through his last years in Greece after the crusade. Geoffroy is remarkable as well for dictating the earliest war memoir in medieval Europe, which is also the earliest prose narrative in Old French.
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Splendor And Opulence Of The Past - Studying The Middle Ages In Enlightenment Catalonia

by Paul Freedman

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 Traces the career of Jaume Caresmar (1717â€"1791), a church historian and a key figure of the Catalan Enlightenment who transcribed tens of thousands of parchments. Caresmar's books, essays, and transcriptions provide fresh insights into the Middle Ages and illustrate how a nation's past glories and humiliations can inform contemporary politics and culture.
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The Ethics Of Narrative - Essays On History, Literature, And Theory, 2007â€“2017

by Hayden White

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 The second volume completes the project of bringing together nearly all of Hayden White's uncollected essays from the last two decades of his life. The book features White's trenchant articulations of his influential theories, as well as his explorations of a wide range of ideas at the frontiers of critical theory, literature, and historical studies.
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Geoffroy Of Villehardouin, Marshal Of Champagne - His Life And Memoirs Of The Fourth Crusade

by Theodore Evergates

~~54,08€~~ 43,26€ 20% OFF

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 Traces the remarkable life of Geoffroy of Villehardouin (c. 1148â€"c.1217) from his earliest years in Champagne through his last years in Greece after the crusade. Geoffroy is remarkable as well for dictating the earliest war memoir in medieval Europe, which is also the earliest prose narrative in Old French.
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The Splendor And Opulence Of The Past - Studying The Middle Ages In Enlightenment Catalonia

by Paul Freedman

~~64,89€~~ 51,91€ 20% OFF

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 Traces the career of Jaume Caresmar (1717â€"1791), a church historian and a key figure of the Catalan Enlightenment who transcribed tens of thousands of parchments. Caresmar's books, essays, and transcriptions provide fresh insights into the Middle Ages and illustrate how a nation's past glories and humiliations can inform contemporary politics and culture.
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Diabolical Voice - Heresy And The Reception Of The Latin "Mirror Of Simple Souls" In Late Medieval Europe

by Justine L. Trombley

~~218,63€~~ 174,90€ 20% OFF

 In A Diabolical Voice, Justine L. Trombley traces the afterlife of the Mirror of Simple Souls, which circulated anonymously for two centuries in four languages, though not without controversy or condemnation. Widely recognized as one of the most unusual and important mystical treatises of the late Middle Ages, the Mirror was condemned in Paris in 1310 as a heretical work, and its author, Marguerite Porete, was burned at the stake. Trombley identifies alongside the work''s increasing positive reception a parallel trend of opposition and condemnation centered specifically around its Latin translation. She''s discovered fourteenth- and fifteenth-century theologians, canon lawyers, inquisitors, and other churchmen who were entirely ignorant of the Mirror''s author and its condemnation and saw in the work dangerous heresies that demanded refutation and condemnation of their own. Using new evidence from the Mirror''s largely overlooked Latin manuscript tradition, A Diabolical Voice charts the range of negative reactions to the Mirror, from confiscations and physical destruction to academic refutations and vicious denunciations of its supposedly fiendish doctrines. This parallel story of opposition shows how heresy remained an integral part of the Mirror''s history well beyond the events of 1310, revealing how seriously churchmen took Marguerite Porete''s ideas on their own terms, in contexts entirely removed from Marguerite''s identity and her fate. Emphasizing the complexity of the Mirror of Simple Souls and its reception, Trombley makes clear that this influential book continues to yield new perspectives and understandings.
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Servants Of God, Slaves Of The Church - Service As Religious Metaphor And Social Reality In Early Medieval Europe

by Lisa Kaaren Bailey

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Beyond The Elite - Everyday Jewish Lives In Medieval Northern Europe

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Beyond The Elite - Everyday Jewish Lives In Medieval Northern Europe

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