Studies in Medieval History and Culture
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The Door of the Caliph: Concepts of the Court in the Umayyad Caliphate of al-Andalus
1st Edition
By Elsa Cardoso
December 18, 2024
This book focuses on the conceptualization of the court, palace and ruler of the Umayyad Caliphate of al-Andalus. Western terminology still plays a normative role in the representation of foreign courts, determining concepts that fit poorly into chronologies with their own dynamics and ...
Light, Privacy, and Neighbors: Windows in Late Medieval and Early Modern London
1st Edition
By Janet S. Loengard
September 20, 2024
Density of housing in late medieval and early modern London could make access to light and privacy incompatible, provoking neighbor disputes. This book examines the Custom of London on light, which reflected centuries-old ideas about the right to have, or prevent neighbors from having, windows. The...
Medieval Iceland: Politics, Patronage and Power
1st Edition
By Sverrir Jakobsson
September 20, 2024
In the ninth century, at the beginning of this account, Iceland was uninhabited save for fowl and smaller Arctic animals. In the middle of the sixteenth century, by the end of this history, it had embarked on a course that led to the creation of a small country on the periphery of Europe. The ...
Communicating Papal Authority in the Middle Ages
1st Edition
Edited
By Minoru Ozawa, Thomas W. Smith, Georg Strack
August 26, 2024
This book bridges Japanese and European scholarly approaches to ecclesiastical history to provide new insights into how the papacy conceptualised its authority and attempted to realise and communicate that authority in ecclesiastical and secular spheres across Christendom. Adopting a broad, yet ...
Networking in Late Medieval Central Europe: Friends, Families, Foes
1st Edition
Edited
By Beata Możejko, Anna Orłowska, Leslie Carr-Riegel
August 26, 2024
Exploring the formation of networks across late medieval Central Europe, this book examines the complex interaction of merchants, students, artists, and diplomats in a web of connections that linked the region. These individuals were friends in business ventures, occasionally families, and not ...
The Travels of Cristoforo Buondelmonti and Ciriaco d’Ancona in the Aegean Sea: Humanism, Early Colonial Politics and Agency
1st Edition
By Eleni Tounta
July 19, 2024
This book explores the travels of Cristoforo Buondelmonti and Ciriaco d’Ancona to the Greek lands in the early fifteenth-century eastern Mediterranean. Drawing on post-colonial studies' frameworks, such as travel writing and imaginative geographies, this volume offers an innovative examination of ...
Making Miracles in Medieval England
1st Edition
By Tom Lynch
May 27, 2024
The cult of the saints was central to medieval Christianity largely due to the miraculous. Saints were members of the elect of heaven and could intercede with God on the behalf of supplicants. Whilst people visited shrines and prayed to the saints for many reasons it was the hope of intercession ...
The Friar and the Philosopher: William of Moerbeke and the Rise of Aristotle’s Science in Medieval Europe
1st Edition
By Pieter Beullens
May 27, 2024
William of Moerbeke was a prolific medieval translator of Aristotle and other ancient philosophical and scientific authors from Greek into Latin, and he played a decisive role in the acceptance of Aristotelian philosophy in the Latin world. He is often criticized for an allegedly deficient ...
The ‘Other’, Identity, and Memory in Early Medieval Italy
1st Edition
By Luigi Andrea Berto
May 27, 2024
The political fragmentation of Italy—created by Charlemagne’s conquest of a part of the Lombard Kingdom in 774 and the weakening of the Byzantine Empire in the eighth and ninth centuries—, the conquest of Sicily by the Muslims in the ninth century, and the Norman ‘conquest’ of southern Italy in the...
Adam of Bremen’s Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum: Origins, Reception and Significance
1st Edition
Edited
By Grzegorz Bartusik, Radosław Biskup, Jakub Morawiec
January 29, 2024
Adam of Bremen’s Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum is one of the most important accounts documenting the history, geography and ethnology of Northern and Central-Eastern Europe in the period between the ninth and eleventh centuries. Its author, a canon of the archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen, ...
Food Consumption in Medieval Iberia: A Socio-economic Analysis, 13th-15th Centuries
1st Edition
By Juan Vicente García Marsilla
January 29, 2024
From the banquets of kings and nobles to the daily struggle for the subsistence of the poor, food was already much more than a biological necessity in the Middle Ages: it was a social phenomenon full of meaning. In this book all the implications and meanings that food had on the Iberian Peninsula ...
Fragmented Nature: Medieval Latinate Reasoning on the Natural World and Its Order
1st Edition
Edited
By Mattia Cipriani, Nicola Polloni
January 29, 2024
The Latin Middle Ages were characterised by a vast array of different representations of nature. These conceptualisations of the natural world were developed according to the specific requirements of many different disciplines, with the consequent result of producing a fragmentation of images of ...