Studies in Medieval History and Culture
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The Cursed Carolers in Context
1st Edition
Edited
By Lynneth Miller Renberg, Bradley Phillis
January 09, 2023
The Cursed Carolers in Context explores the interplay between the forms and contexts in which the tale of the cursed carolers circulated and the meanings it had for medieval and early modern authors and audiences. The story of the cursed carolers has circulated in Europe since the eleventh century....
Women in the Medieval Common Law c.1200–1500
1st Edition
By Gwen Seabourne
January 09, 2023
This book examines the view of women held by medieval common lawyers and legislators, and considers medieval women’s treatment by and participation in the processes of the common law. Surveying a wide range of points of contact between women and the common law, from their appearance (or not) in ...
Franks and Lombards in Italian Carolingian Texts: Memories of the Vanquished
1st Edition
Edited
By Luigi Andrea Berto
August 29, 2022
Franks and Lombards in Italian Carolingian Texts examines how historians of Carolingian Italy portrayed the history of the Lombards, Charlemagne’s conquest of the Lombard kingdom, and the presence of the Franks in the Italian Ppeninsula. The different contexts and periods in which these writers ...
The Triumph of an Accursed Lineage: Kingship in Castile from Alfonso X to Alfonso XI (1252-1350)
1st Edition
By Fernando Arias Guillén
August 01, 2022
The Triumph of an Accursed Lineage analyses kingship in Castile between 1252 and 1350, with a particular focus on the pivotal reign of Alfonso XI (r. 1312–1350). This century witnessed significant changes in the ways in which the Castilian monarchy constructed and represented its power in this ...
Early Medieval Venice: Cultural Memory and History
1st Edition
By Luigi Andrea Berto
April 29, 2022
Early Medieval Venice examines the significant changes that Venice underwent between the late-sixth and the early-eleventh centuries. From the periphery of the Byzantine Empire, Venice acquired complete independence and emerged as the major power in the Adriatic area. It also avoided absorption by ...
From Justinian to Branimir: The Making of the Middle Ages in Dalmatia
1st Edition
By Danijel Džino
April 29, 2022
From Justinian to Branimir explores the social and political transformation of Dalmatia between c.500 and c.900 AD. The collapse of Dalmatia in the early seventh century is traditionally ascribed to the Slav migrations. However, more recent scholarship has started to challenge this theory, looking...
Heresy and Citizenship: Persecution of Heresy in Late Medieval German Cities
1st Edition
By Eugene Smelyansky
April 29, 2022
Heresy and Citizenship examines the anti-heretical campaigns in late-medieval Augsburg, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Strasbourg, and other cities. By focusing on the unprecedented period of persecution between 1390 and 1404, this study demonstrates how heretical presence in cities was exploited in ...
English Readers of Catholic Saints: The Printing History of William Caxton’s Golden Legend
1st Edition
By Judy Ann Ford
December 13, 2021
In 1484, William Caxton, the first publisher of English-language books, issued The Golden Legend, a translation of the most well-known collection of saints’ lives in Europe. This study analyzes the molding of the Legenda aurea into a book that powerfully attracted the English market. Modifications ...
Ancestor Worship and the Elite in Late Iron Age Scandinavia: A Grave Matter
1st Edition
By Triin Laidoner
September 30, 2021
Ancestor worship is often assumed by contemporary European audiences to be an outdated and primitive tradition with little relevance to our societies, past and present. This book questions that assumption and seeks to determine whether ancestor ideology was an integral part of religion in Viking ...
Rethinking Medieval Margins and Marginality
1st Edition
Edited
By Ann Zimo, Tiffany Vann Sprecher, Kathryn Reyerson, Debra Blumenthal
September 30, 2021
Marginality assumes a variety of forms in current discussions of the Middle Ages. Modern scholars have considered a seemingly innumerable list of people to have been marginalized in the European Middle Ages: the poor, criminals, unorthodox religious, the disabled, the mentally ill, women, so-called...
Warfare and the Making of Early Medieval Italy (568–652)
1st Edition
By Eduardo Fabbro
September 30, 2021
Devastated by two decades of war and ravaged by the spread of the plague, large parts of Italy fell quickly into the hands of a group known to history as the Lombards. By the early 570s the Lombards were firmly established in Italy, which they ruled without ever fully unifying it. The events of the...
Margaret's Monsters: Women, Identity, and the Life of St. Margaret in Medieval England
1st Edition
By Michael E. Heyes
August 02, 2021
St. Margaret of Antioch was one of the most popular saints in medieval England and, throughout the Middle Ages, the various Lives of St. Margaret functioned as a blueprint for a virginal life and supernatural assistance to pregnant women during the dangerous process of labor. In her narrative, ...