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.
Medieval Hostageship c.700-c.1500: Hostage, Captive, Prisoner of War, Guarantee, Peacemaker
1st Edition
Edited
By Matthew Bennett, Katherine Weikert
December 10, 2019
This volume explores the issues of taking, using and being hostages in the Middle Ages. It brings together recent research in the areas of hostages and hostageships, looking at the act of hostage-taking and the hostages themselves through the lenses of political and social history. ...
The Colonies of Genoa in the Black Sea Region: Evolution and Transformation
1st Edition
By Evgeny Khvalkov
December 10, 2019
This book focuses on the network of the Genoese colonies in the Black Sea area and their diverse multi-ethnic societies. It raises the problems of continuity of the colonial patterns, reveals the importance of the formation of the late medieval / early modern colonialism, the urban demography, and ...
Forensic Medicine and Death Investigation in Medieval England
1st Edition
By Sara M. Butler
June 21, 2016
England has traditionally been understood as a latecomer to the use of forensic medicine in death investigation, lagging nearly two-hundred years behind other European authorities. Using the coroner's inquest as a lens, this book hopes to offer a fresh perspective on the process of death ...
Theorizing Medieval Geopolitics: War and World Order in the Age of the Crusades
1st Edition
By Andrew Latham
May 31, 2016
Over the past two decades or so, medieval geopolitics have come to occupy an increasingly prominent place in the collective imagination—and writings—of International Relations scholars. Although these accounts differ significantly in terms of their respective analytical assumptions, theoretical ...
Medieval Islamic Historiography: Remembering Rebellion
1st Edition
By Heather N. Keaney
September 08, 2015
This book is a comparative analysis of the medieval Sunni historiography of the caliphate of Uthman b. Affan and the revolt against him. By comparing treatments of Uthman in pietistic literature and universal chronicles, the work traces the gradual silencing of more critical accounts in favor of ...
The Generation of Identity in Late Medieval Hagiography: Speaking the Saint
1st Edition
By Gail Ashton
July 16, 2015
In this interdisciplinary and boundary-breaking study, Gail Ashton examines the portrayals of women saints in a wide range of medieval texts. She deploys the French feminist critical theory of Cixous and Iriguray to illuminate these depictions of women by men and to further our understanding of ...
Divorce in Medieval England: From One to Two Persons in Law
1st Edition
By Sara M. Butler
February 27, 2015
Divorce in Medieval England is intended to reorient scholarly perceptions concerning divorce in the medieval period. Divorce, as we think of it today, is usually considered to be a modern invention. This book challenges that viewpoint, documenting the many and varied uses of divorce in the medieval...
Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages
1st Edition
By Kathleen Coyne Kelly
April 09, 2014
This book challenges the belief that female virginity can be reliably and unambiguously defined, tested and verified. Kelly analyses a variety of medieval Western European texts - including medical treatises and their Classical antecedents - and historical and legal documents. The main focus is the...
Women Pilgrims in Late Medieval England
1st Edition
By Susan S. Morrison
April 09, 2014
This thought-provoking book explores medieval perceptions of pilgrimage, gender and space. It examines real life evidence for the widespread presence of women pilgrims, as well as secular and literary texts concerning pilgrimage and women pilgrims represented in the visual arts. Women pilgrims were...