Routledge Research in Medieval Studies
About the Book Series
This series presents the latest research on key medieval themes. It is not confined to any particular period, geographic area or school of thought and seeks to cover a broad range of topics and events.
Pluralism in the Middle Ages: Hybrid Identities, Conversion, and Mixed Marriages in Medieval Iberia
1st Edition
By Ragnhild Johnsrud Zorgati
October 14, 2024
The challenges of cultural and religious diversity that face European and American societies today are not a new phenomenon. People in the Middle Ages lived in pluralistic societies, and they found highly interesting ways of dealing with religious and cultural diversity. While religious and ...
Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050–1250, Volume III: Legitimacy and Glory
1st Edition
Edited
By Wojtek Jezierski, Kim Esmark, Hans Jacob Orning, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson
August 01, 2022
This book explores the practical and symbolic resources of legitimacy which the elites of medieval Scandinavia employed to establish, justify, and reproduce their social and political standing between the end of the Viking Age and the rise of kingdoms in the thirteenth century. Geographically the ...
Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050–1250, Volume II: Social Networks
1st Edition
Edited
By Kim Esmark, Lars Hermanson, Hans Jacob Orning
December 13, 2021
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. Section one of this volume categorizes basic types of personal bonds, both ...
Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050-1250, Volume I: Material Resources
1st Edition
Edited
By Bjørn Poulsen, Helle Vogt, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson
June 30, 2021
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. The elite controlled enormous economic resources and exercised power over people. Power over agrarian production ...
The Social Fabric of Fifteenth-Century Florence: Identities and Change in the World of Second-Hand Dealers
1st Edition
By Alessia Meneghin
June 30, 2021
The Arte dei rigattieri (merchants of second-hand goods in Florence) has never been the subject of a systematic study, even in scholarship devoted to the history of trades. Underpinned by a large collection of archival material, this book analyzes the social life and economic activity of ...
Family, Work, and Household in Late Medieval Iberia: A Social History of Manresa at the Time of the Black Death
1st Edition
By Jeff Fynn-Paul
August 14, 2020
Family, Work, and Household presents the social and occupational life of a late medieval Iberian town in rich, unprecedented detail. The book combines a diachronic study of two regionally prominent families—one knightly and one mercantile—with a detailed cross-sectional urban study of household and...
Agrarian Change and Crisis in Europe, 1200-1500
1st Edition
Edited
By Harilaos Kitsikopoulos
June 30, 2020
Agrarian Change and Crisis in Europe, 1200-1500 addresses one of the classic subjects on economic history: the process of aggregate economic growth and the crisis that engulfed the European continent during the late Middle Ages. This was not an ordinary crisis. During the period 1200-1500, Europe ...
The Jewish-Christian Encounter in Medieval Preaching
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan Adams, Jussi Hanska
June 30, 2020
This book explores the complexity of preaching as a phenomenon in the medieval 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" ...
The Plow, the Pen and the Sword: Images and Self-Images of Medieval People in the Low Countries
1st Edition
By Rudi Künzel
June 30, 2020
This book compares the cultures of the different social groups living in the Low Countries in the early Middle Ages. Clergy, nobility, peasants and townsmen greatly varied in their attitudes to labor, property, violence, and the handling and showing of emotions. Künzel explores how these social ...
How Thor Lost His Thunder: The Changing Faces of an Old Norse God
1st Edition
By Declan Taggart
December 12, 2019
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, such as images of him wreathed in lightning, and battling against monsters and giants. The origins ...
New Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Gdansk, Poland and Prussia
1st Edition
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By Beata Możejko
December 12, 2019
New Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Poland and Prussia: The Impact of Gdańsk draws together the latest reseach conducted by local historians and archaeologists on the city of Gdańsk and its impact on the surrounding region of Pomerania and Poland as a whole. Beginning with Gdańsk’s early ...
Wonder and Skepticism in the Middle Ages
1st Edition
By Keagan Brewer
December 12, 2019
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 skeptical disbelieved. Despite living in a world whose structures more ...