Studies in Medieval History and Culture
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Status and Social Roles of Women in Central Europe in the Middle Ages
1st Edition
Edited
By Beata Możejko, Aneta Pieniądz, Magdalena Biniaś-Szkopek
June 15, 2026
This book presents a comprehensive overview of women's activities in various spheres of life in medieval Poland and its neighbouring countries, seeking to move beyond the commonly accepted perspective of queens and higher nobility from the social elite to rural women, townswomen and poor noblewomen...
Societies in Late Medieval Prussia: Ethnicities
1st Edition
Edited
By Krzysztof Kwiatkowski, Radosław Biskup
December 30, 2025
From the moment that Prussia entered the world of the crusade movement and the zone of Western European external expansion in the thirteenth century, and was quickly dominated by the Teutonic Order, the new Prussian land created by the Order became a transitional area and a frontier country. A ...
New Approaches to the Archive in the Middle Ages: Collecting, Curating, Assembling
1st Edition
Edited
By Emily N. Savage
December 26, 2025
This volume brings together scholars of history, manuscript studies, and art and architectural history to examine in conversation the varieties of medieval archival acts, the heterogeneity of collections, and the motivations of collectors. It is united by the historically flexible concept of the ...
Cardinal Bessarion (1403–1472): Most Latin of Greeks, Most Greek of Latins
1st Edition
By Michael Malone-Lee
November 28, 2025
Cardinal Bessarion was a towering figure in the fifteenth-century Renaissance. His life spanned the century. In his sixty-nine years of life, he was a stellar student, a Basilian monk, a Greek Orthodox archbishop, a Roman cardinal, a papal diplomat, and an eminent humanist and scholar. Cardinal ...
The Emergence of the Nobility in East Central Europe between the Eighth and Thirteenth Centuries
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Antonín, Jiří Macháček
November 24, 2025
The Emergence of the Nobility in East Central Europe between the Eighth and Thirteenth Centuries explores the formation and evolution of medieval elites in the frontier and peripheral regions of the Frankish/East Frankish Empire and East Central Europe between the eighth and thirteenth centuries. ...
Sexuality in Medieval Poland in a European Context
1st Edition
By Karolina Morawska
October 31, 2025
This book explores the development of sexual ethics in medieval Poland, focusing on how the process of Christianization integrated Poland into the Western European cultural sphere, and how the adoption of Christian norms and practices significantly shaped its moral and legal views on sexuality. ...
Peacemaking and the Restraint of Violence in High Medieval Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Simon Lebouteiller, Louisa Taylor
June 27, 2025
The High Middle Ages have been seen as an important point within the development of governmental and administrative bureaucracy, as well as a time in which there was frequent conflict. This volume addresses the methods by which violence was regulated and mitigated, and peaceful relations were ...
The Cultural Power of Medieval Monarchy: Politics, Learning and Patronage in the Royal Courts of Europe, 1000–1300
1st Edition
By Manuel Alejandro Rodríguez de la Peña
May 06, 2025
This book focuses on why the diffusion of the political theology of royal wisdom created “Solomonic” princes with intellectual interests all around the medieval West and how these learned rulers changed the face of Western Europe through their policies and the cultural power of medieval monarchy. ...
Remembering England: Cultural Memory in the Sagas of Icelanders
1st Edition
By Matthew Firth
March 18, 2025
This book provides an in-depth study of depictions of England in the Saga of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur), examining their utility as sources for the history of Viking Age Anglo-Scandinavian cultural contact. The Íslendingasögur present themselves as histories, but they are difficult historical ...
Medieval Work, Worship, and Power: Persuasive and Silenced Voices
1st Edition
Edited
By Abigail P. Dowling, Nancy Ann McLoughlin, Tanya Stabler Miller
December 20, 2024
Medieval Work, Worship, and Power: Persuasive and Silenced Voices celebrates Sharon Farmer's significant contributions to the fields of medieval European social, religious, gender, environmental, labor, and interfaith history. This volume explores and builds on Farmer’s influence through 20 ...
Continuity and Change in Medieval East Central Europe: Social, Ruling and Religious Transformations
1st Edition
Edited
By Dušan Zupka
December 19, 2024
Continuity and Change in Medieval East Central Europe explores the crucial societal, political, and cultural dynamics that defined medieval East Central Europe during the early and high Middle Ages. Focusing on the historical regions of Bohemia, Hungary, Poland, and Lithuania, the book provides a ...
Early Medieval Hum and Bosnia, ca. 450-1200: Beyond Myths
1st Edition
By Danijel Džino
December 18, 2024
This book explores social transformations which led to the establishment of medieval Hum (future Herzegovina) and Bosnia in the period from ca. 450 to 1200 AD using the available written and material sources. It follows social and political developments in these historical regions from the last ...