Author :
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 41,39 MB
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 3110914166
The index to the Biographical Archive of the Middle Ages makes accessible about 130,000 biographical articles from nearly 200 volumes. The entries contain short biographical information on approx. 95,000 persons from Europe and the Middle East who shaped the cultural development and the religious life during one thousand years.
Author : Shelley Wolbrink
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,11 MB
Release : 2004-11
Category : Biography
ISBN : 9781587651649
A two-volume set of biographical sketches of 356 notable people from the Middle Ages.
Author : Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,63 MB
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : Biography
ISBN : 9789004226777
This one-volume survey of history-writing in the Middle Ages contains twelve articles, written by an interdisciplinary group of authors, that discuss the different types of texts that were written, and how modern scholars have approached them.
Author : K. S. B. Keats-Rohan
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 45,38 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780851157221
Entries on persons living in post-Conquest England (1066-1166), documented in Domesday book, pipe rolls, and Cartae Baronum. Includes Continental origins, family relationships, and descent of fees.
Author : George Holmes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 39,22 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192801333
Covering a thousand years of history, this volume tells the story of the creation of Western civilization in Europe and the Mediterranean. Now available in a compact, more convenient format, it offers the same text and many of the illustrations which first appeared in the widely acclaimed Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe. Written by expert scholars and based on the latest research, the book explores a period of profound diversity and change, focusing on all aspects of medieval history from the empires and kingdoms of Charlemagne and the Byzantines to the new nations which fought the Hundred Years War. The Oxford History of the Medieval World also examines such intriguing cultural subjects as the chivalric code of knights, popular festivals, and the proliferation of new art forms, and the catastrophic social effect of the Black Death.
Author : Michael Shally-Jensen
Publisher : Salem Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,23 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN : 9781619257733
Provides in-depth analysis of primary documents surrounding the most important historical events and key figures from the Middle Ages.
Author : Thomas J. Heffernan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 32,90 MB
Release : 1992-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 019536001X
Though medieval "saints' lives" are among the oldest literary texts of Western vernacular culture, they are routinely patronized as "pious fiction" by modern historiography. This book demonstrates that to characterize the genre as fiction is to misunderstand the intentions of medieval authors, who were neither credulous fools nor men blinded by piety. Concentrating on English texts, Heffernan reconstructs the medieval perspective and considers sacred biography in relation to the community for which it was written; identifies the genre's rhetorical practices and purposes; and demonstrates the syncretistic way in which the life of the medieval saint was transformed from oral tales to sacred text. In the process, Heffernan not only achieves a more contextually accurate understanding of the medieval saints' lives, but details a new critical method that has important implications for the practice of textual criticism.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 22,1 MB
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9004448659
Law | Book | Culture in the Middle Ages takes a detailed view on the role of manuscripts and the written word in legal cultures, spanning the medieval period across western and central Europe.
Author : Barbara A. Hanawalt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 30,4 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0195103599
Beginning with the merger of Roman, Christian, and Germanic cultures, this history of the Middle Ages covers a vast array of subjects, including Byzantium and the Islamic world, feudalism, the Crusades, the Magna Carta, and much more. Author Barbara A. Hanawalt uses a lively and anecdotal writing style to breathe life into earlier times. 35 color and 120 b & w illustrations. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Richard K. Emmerson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 22,34 MB
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1136775188
From emperors and queens to artists and world travelers, from popes and scholars to saints and heretics, Key Figures in Medieval Europe brings together in one volume the most important people who lived in medieval Europe between 500 and 1500. Gathered from the biographical entries from the on-going series, the Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, these A-Z biographical entries discuss the lives of over 575 individuals who have had a historical impact in such areas as politics, religion, or the arts. Individuals from places such as medieval England, France, Germany, Iberia, Italy, and Scandinavia are included as well as those from the Jewish and Islamic worlds. A thematic outline is included that lists people not only by categories, but also by regions. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages website.
