Egypt is revered as the home of the famous Desert Ascetics, who first embraced a monastic life and established homosocia......more

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The volume deals with the issue of translation automatisms in early vernacular texts (before 1650), focusing on the nove......more

The Persian Gulf today is home to multiple cosmopolitan urban hubs of globalization. This did not start with the discove......more

Beginning with the emergence of a Danish kingdom during the Viking Age, this book provides an introduction to the histor......more

A new cultural history of the natural world in the early medieval Latin West, focusing on the manuscripts of the Physiol......more

The first ever collection of essays in English on Iacopone da Todi by a diverse group of international scholars, this bo......more

This volume on Norman Italy (southern Italy and Sicily, c. 1000-1200) honours and reflects the pioneering scholarship of......more

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Contains a wealth of new scholarly research on Dublin’s medieval past, including paired papers by Joseph Harbison & René......more

This book examines discourses around infertility and views of childlessness in medieval and early modern Europe. ​Wherea......more

From premodern societies onward, humans have constructed and produced images of ideal masculinity to define the roles av......more

How can dispute records shed light on the study of dispute settlement processes and their social and political underpinn......more

The first in-depth study of Arthurian places in late medieval and early modern England and Wales. Places have the power ......more

New perspectives on early globalisms from objects and images Tales Things Tell offers new perspectives on histories of c......more

How do people justify what others see as transgression? Taking that question to the Persian-Muslim and Latin-Christian w......more

Sonic Superstars Coloring Book: fantastic creative for Sonic Superstars enthusiasts of all ages kids/young. Dive into th......more

Throughout the long history of Irish monasticism, the experience of women monastics has, until recently, been relatively......more

This open-access academic venture has established itself as a distinctive venue fostering new research and public unders......more

The Splendor and Opulence of the Past traces the career of Jaume Caresmar (1717-1791), a church historian and a key figu......more

This edited book examines the multilingual culture of medieval England, exploring its impact on the development of Engli......more

This beautiful and groundbreaking book examines the use of sacred geometry and cosmology in Gothic cathedral design. Ren......more

This is Volume Two of a two-volume collection that brings together contributions from cultural and military history to o......more

This volume describes the history of the eastern part of Carhampton Hundred. Bounded by the Bristol Channel and Exmoor, ......more

A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusad......more

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* A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice * The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces......more

This is Volume One of a two-volume collection that brings together contributions from cultural and military history to o......more

Everything you want to know about Vikings. Told with presence, humor and attitude. All the answers Viking stories Mythol......more

In 2015, the Danish-German Northwest Quarter Project working in Jerash uncovered a Middle Islamic farmstead. Subsequent ......more

Between 1233 and 1263 Franciscan friars engaged in a fierce confrontation with one of the most powerful abbeys in wester......more

A clear and accessibly written guide to the medieval cloth-making trade in England. Cloth-making became England’s leadin......more

A leading authority on the Bayeux Tapestry examines the work "frame by frame" in this profusely illustrated and annotate......more

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The ’Percy Folio’ (BL MS Add. 27879), a seventeenth-century miscellany of ballads, romances and songs is a highly signif......more

How did sexual relationships work before, in and outside of marriage in the pre-modern era? What problems did contracept......more

This book argues that literary and historiographical works written by Iberian Christians between the twelfth and sixteen......more

In the 14th century, hypotheses about a lying God, deceived Christ, and the changeability of the past circulated. At the......more

Medieval Settlement Research is the journal of the Medieval Settlement Research Group (MSRG), a long-established, widely......more

Space matters. It situates our history, structures our daily lives, and often determines what we can and cannot do. Bord......more

This innovative book explores Burgundian history and historiography while offering a complete synthesis covering the nat......more

This volume includes 20 articles published between 1994 and 2020 on the subject of Muḥammad and the history of early Isl......more

Micro Middle Ages brings together five microhistorical case studies focusing on small or seemingly inconsequential evide......more

A detailed account of the reconquest of Normandy and Gascony, including the battle which marked the first decisive use o......more

Based on the evidence of epigraphic material in combination with monumental painting, this book explores important dedic......more

John Ridewall’s Fulgencius metaforalis is a moralising commentary on Fulgentius’s sixth-century Mitologiae, an introduct......more

Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History (ASSAH) is a series concerned with the archaeology and history of England......more

A Plural Peninsula embodies and upholds Professor Simon Barton’s influential scholarly legacy, eschewing rigid disciplin......more

An influential medieval allegorical interpretation of the Metamorphoses that uncovers the hidden moral truths of Ovid’s ......more

Medieval people are often portrayed as having poor hygiene and table manners--licking their knives or throwing chicken b......more

The early 16th-century baptismal font canopy of the church of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, is one of only three such str......more

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In 1341 in Aragon, a Jewish convert to Christianity was sentenced to death, only to be pulled from the burning stake and......more

This book explores the technique and significance of humour in Old English literature, including riddles, rhymes, the he......more

Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia is a study of the functions and conceptions of writing and reading, documen......more

Armenians in the Byzantine Empire is a new study exploring the relationship between the Armenians and Byzantines from th......more

A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes c......more

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’Medieval Gardens and Culinary Adventures Stemming from Same’ is an informal and personal guide to planning, planting, c......more

Founded as an ecclesiastical center, trading hub, and intended capital of a feudal state, Riga was Old Livonia’s greates......more

The conjunction of medieval religious studies and gender studies in the past several decades has produced not only nuanc......more

This work provides a new narrative for Orsanmichele in the era before the Renaissance. It examines Orsanmichele from the......more

These volumes offer the first critical edition of the Chronique d’Ernoul and the so-called Colbert-Fontainebleau (or Acr......more

Agincourt is one of the most famous battles in English history, a defining part of the national myth. This groundbreakin......more

This volume interrogates the assumption that Visigothic practices and institutions were mere imitations of the Byzantine......more

This book provides a scholarly and accessible resource for students and researchers interested in transhistorical method......more

Nineteen short essays introduce the reader to the multifaceted martial culture of the pre-modern European town. The stor......more

The emergence of nuns as members or associates or followers of the Cistercian Order is shrouded in uncertainty. They are......more

This book draws on architectural and archaeological analysis to consider the form, function, use and meaning of late med......more

Two of the most notable figures from the Middle Ages-the volatile, brilliant Abelard and the equally brilliant Heloise-b......more

From around 1880, for almost a hundred years, shipowners commissioned a wealth of paintings that depicted their magnific......more

An accessible overview that will interest anyone who wants to know more about South Yorkshire during the Viking era. The......more

This book is not about witches. First of all, because it focuses on the Middle Ages. And, despite common misconceptions ......more

Medieval Monasticism traces the Western Monastic tradition from its fourth-century origins in the deserts of Egypt and S......more

Medieval Monasticism traces the Western Monastic tradition from its fourth-century origins in the deserts of Egypt and S......more