Author : Rosamond McKitterick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1156 pages
File Size : 43,98 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : 9780521362924
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Author : Anders Winroth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 42,74 MB
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1009063952
Canon law touched nearly every aspect of medieval society, including many issues we now think of as purely secular. It regulated marriages, oaths, usury, sorcery, heresy, university life, penance, just war, court procedure, and Christian relations with religious minorities. Canon law also regulated the clergy and the Church, one of the most important institutions in the Middle Ages. This Cambridge History offers a comprehensive survey of canon law, both chronologically and thematically. Written by an international team of scholars, it explores, in non-technical language, how it operated in the daily life of people and in the great political events of the time. The volume demonstrates that medieval canon law holds a unique position in the legal history of Europe. Indeed, the influence of medieval canon law, which was at the forefront of introducing and defining concepts such as 'equity,' 'rationality,' 'office,' and 'positive law,' has been enormous, long-lasting, and remarkably diverse.
Author : Mark Everist
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 39,21 MB
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 1108577075
Spanning a millennium of musical history, this monumental volume brings together nearly forty leading authorities to survey the music of Western Europe in the Middle Ages. All of the major aspects of medieval music are considered, making use of the latest research and thinking to discuss everything from the earliest genres of chant, through the music of the liturgy, to the riches of the vernacular song of the trouvères and troubadours. Alongside this account of the core repertory of monophony, The Cambridge History of Medieval Music tells the story of the birth of polyphonic music, and studies the genres of organum, conductus, motet and polyphonic song. Key composers of the period are introduced, such as Leoninus, Perotinus, Adam de la Halle, Philippe de Vitry and Guillaume de Machaut, and other chapters examine topics ranging from musical theory and performance to institutions, culture and collections.
Author : Alison I. Beach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 22,35 MB
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1108770630
Monasticism, in all of its variations, was a feature of almost every landscape in the medieval West. So ubiquitous were religious women and men throughout the Middle Ages that all medievalists encounter monasticism in their intellectual worlds. While there is enormous interest in medieval monasticism among Anglophone scholars, language is often a barrier to accessing some of the most important and groundbreaking research emerging from Europe. The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West offers a comprehensive treatment of medieval monasticism, from Late Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages. The essays, specially commissioned for this volume and written by an international team of scholars, with contributors from Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States, cover a range of topics and themes and represent the most up-to-date discoveries on this topic.
Author : Rosamond McKitterick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1186 pages
File Size : 39,24 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521362900
The sixth volume of The New Cambridge Medieval History covers the fourteenth century, a period dominated by plague, other natural disasters and war which brought to an end three centuries of economic growth and cultural expansion in Christian Europe, but one which also saw important developments in government, religious and intellectual life, and new cultural and artistic patterns. Part I sets the scene by discussion of general themes in the theory and practice of government, religion, social and economic history, and culture. Part II deals with the individual histories of the states of western Europe; Part III with that of the Church at the time of the Avignon papacy and the Great Schism; and Part IV with eastern and northern Europe, Byzantium and the early Ottomans, giving particular attention to the social and economic relations with westerners and those of other civilisations in the Mediterranean.
Author : John S. Lee
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 44,78 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN : 1783273348
An examination of how academic colleges commemorated their patrons in a rich variety of ways.
Author : Andrew Galloway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 15,91 MB
Release : 2011-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0521856892
A compact collection of focused introductions to and inquiries into medieval England, representing both history and literature.
Author : David Luscombe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,35 MB
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107505841
The fourth volume of The New Cambridge Medieval History covers the eleventh and twelfth centuries, which comprised the most dynamic period in the European Middle Ages. The first of two parts, this volume deals with ecclesiastical and secular themes, in addition to major developments such as the expansion of population, agriculture, trade, and towns; the radical reform of the Western Church; the appearance of new kingdoms and states, the Crusades, knighthood and law; and the development of literature, art and architecture, heresies and the scholastic movement.
Author : Rosamond McKitterick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 22,75 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521362894
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Author : David Wallace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1060 pages
File Size : 17,78 MB
Release : 2002-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521890465
This was the first full-scale history of medieval English literature for nearly a century. Thirty-three distinguished contributors offer a collaborative account of literature composed or transmitted in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland between the Norman conquest and the death of Henry VIII in 1547. The volume has five sections: 'After the Norman Conquest'; 'Writing in the British Isles'; 'Institutional Productions'; 'After the Black Death' and 'Before the Reformation'. It provides information on a vast range of literary texts and the conditions of their production and reception, which will serve both specialists and general readers, and also contains a chronology, full bibliography and a detailed index. This book offers an extensive and vibrant account of the medieval literatures so drastically reconfigured in Tudor England. It will thus prove essential reading for scholars of the Renaissance as well as medievalists, and for historians as well as literary specialists.
