Medeltidshistorikern Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist bjuder på en lättläst exposé över den politiska, ekonomiska, sociala och kulturella utvecklingen i Norden under tusen år med utgångspunkt i de senaste rönen från arkeologisk och historisk forskning…
I vår svenska historia utgör korstågen ett bortträngt kapitel. Någonting vi helst inte vill kännas vid. Men korstågsandan var i hög grad levande under nordisk medeltid. Många svenska, danska och norska kungar och herremän tog korset och lovade att s…
Hur förklarade medeltidens människor fenomen som sol- och månförmörkelser eller landytans och vattnets fördelning på jorden? Vilka skapelser trodde de sig kunna stöta på: änglar, djävlar, häxor, hundhövdade varelser? I denna fascinerande bok granska…
Bilden av medeltiden har radikalt förändrats. I Den dynamiska medeltiden (1984) utgår Michael Nordberg från den moderna historiska forskning som kraftigt ifrågasatt bilden av medeltiden som en mörk och stillastående tidsperiod. Han skriver om matvan…
Tudor Kings and Queens is the ideal, handy guide to what is a perennially popular era in British hsitory. Beginning with the accession to the English throne of Henry VII, the author guides the reader through a succession of monarchs, who also includ…
Finns det något typiskt för medeltiden? Medeltiden tog slut någon gång mellan 1300 och det tidiga 1500-talet. Det var en tidsperiod då medeltiden mynnade ut i den moderna tiden. Avvecklingen av det gamla och utformandet av det nya samhället är ämnet…
The Life of St Germanus, by Constantius of Lyon, is a contemporary account of a fifth-century bishop of Auxerre, who on two occasions came to Britain. Professor E.A. Thompson tries to extract as much information as possible from the about the religi…
Viking Language 1: Learn Old Norse, Runes, and Icelandic Sagas, 2nd upgraded edition. New, smaller book size with same content. Everything necessary to learn and teach Old Norse. Graded lessons, saga readings, runic inscriptions, grammar exercises,…
Vid tiden kring år 1300 är de tre skandinaviska kungarikena Sverige, Norge och Danmark ömsom i allians, ömsom i krig med varandra, i skiftande konstellationer.Intriger och maktspel präglar hovens och adelns relationer. Ingångna avtal och erhållna l…
In August 1424 the armies of England, Scotland and France met in the open fields outside the walls of Verneuil in a battle that would decide the future of the English conquests in France. The hero king, Henry V, had been dead for two years and the F…
This fascinating account is the principal source for a number of momentous political developments leading up to the millennium. These include struggles among the Carolingians, the rise of the Saxon dynasty in Germany, and various Viking and Magyar r…
Genom hela 1900-talet sågs Åhus borg som ärkebiskoparnas palats. Ett praktfullt, om än litet, kyrkligt slott. År 2006 startades ett arkeologiskt projekt, som helt kom att förändra synen på borgen. En häpnadsväckande bild av en betydligt större och k…
This book provides a detailed analysis of the components of two exquisitely illuminated fourteenth-century English manuscripts, the Hours of the Virgin and the Lives of the Virgin Mary, St. Margaret, and Mary Magdalene. Based on pictorial as well as…
A comprehensive account of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453 examines the end of the Byzantine Empire and of the medieval era in light of the rise of two separate worlds--the West and the Middle East--as well as the implication…
Just how medieval is the modern university? From their medieval beginnings in Western Europe, universities have remained monolithic and static entities, renovating themselves just enough to avoid massive interventions by the state or the church. Lik…
Medieval Studies is the critical study of Europe's self-identity. No understanding of Western civilization is possible without it. Inevitably, Left-wing academics want to introduce gender studies and race theory to the field--and punish those who re…
I vår svenska historia utgör korstågen ett bortträngt kapitel. Någon-ting vi helst inte vill kännas vid. Men korstågsandan var i hög grad levande under nordisk medeltid. Många svenska, danska och norska kungar och herremän tog korset och lovade att…
Environmental History, Vikings, Iceland, Economic History, North Atlantic
In high medieval France, men and women saw the world around them as the product of tensions between opposites. Imbued with a Christian culture in which a penniless preacher was also the King of Kings and the last were expected to be first, twelfth-c…
After the Fall of Rome, when many of the great ideas of the ancient world were lost to the ravages of the Dark Ages, three crucial manuscripts passed hand to hand through seven Mediterranean cities and survived to fuel the revival of the Renaissance…
Heresy and inquisition in France, 1200-1300 is an invaluable collection of primary sources in translation, aimed at students and academics alike. It provides a wide array of materials on both heresy (Cathars and Waldensians) and the persecution of h…
Throughout her career as a medieval historian, Eileen Power was engaged on a book about women in the Middle Ages. She did not live to write the book but some of the material she collected found its way into her popular lectures on medieval women. Th…
You may not think you know much about Norse mythology but you've heard of Valhalla and the Valkyrie, and of trolls and elves, and you'd certainly miss Wednesday and Thursday - named after Norse gods - if they weren't there. Norse mythology is rich i…
"När man vandrar över de sanka ängarna ut till den mystiska borgen i Skeingesjön utanför Osby i norra Skånes ödsligaste skogsbygder kan man inte undgå att förundras. För nästan tusen år sedan valde någon att uppföra en toppmodern borg mitt ute i ing…
Intresset för Karl den store och hans tid väcktes hos Ulla Fredriksson i samband med folkomröstningen 1994 om Sveriges inträde i EU och den distanskurs, Tidernas Europa, som Sveriges universitet och utbildningsradion erbjöd svenska folket inför omrö…
The fifteenth century marked a decisive moment in world history as the clash between Islamic and Christian civilizations intensified. The expansion of the Ottoman Empire into southeastern Europe posed a grave threat to Christianity, highlighted by t…
This book is the first English translation of one of the most significant chronicles of the middle ages. Written in Bamberg at the end of the eleventh century, Frutolf of Michelsberg's Chronicle offers a lively and vivid account of the great struggl…
This book is the first English translation of one of the most significant chronicles of the Middle Ages. Written in Bamberg at the end of the eleventh century, Frutolf of Michelsberg's Chronicle offers a lively and vivid account of the great struggl…
Before the rise of universities, cathedral schools educated students in a course of studies aimed at perfecting their physical presence, their manners, and their eloquence. The formula of cathedral schools was "letters and manners" (litterae et more…
In Dark Age Nunneries, Steven Vanderputten dismantles the common view of women religious between 800 and 1050 as disempowered or even disinterested witnesses to their own lives. It is based on a study of primary sources from forty female monastic co…
Before the Arabs conquered northwest Africa in the seventh century, Ramzi Rouighi asserts, there were no Berbers. There were Moors (Mauri), Mauretanians, Africans, and many tribes and tribal federations such as the Leuathae or Musulami; and before t…
Countess Marie of Champagne is primarily known today as the daughter of Louis VII of France and Eleanor of Aquitaine and as a literary patron of Chretien de Troyes. In this engaging biography, Theodore Evergates offers a more rounded view of Marie a…
This work looks at the history of the Italian peninsula from the end of the classical period though to the age of the medieval city states. The author shows how the influx of foreign invaders were absorbed into a Italian society where the classical,…
For the first time, Sophie Harwood uses the Old French tradition as a lens through which to examine women and warfare from the 12th to the 14th centuries. The result is a skilled analysis of gender roles in the medieval era, and a heightened awarene…
The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was an era of dramatic political, religious and cultural change in the Italian peninsula, witnessing major innovations in the visual arts, literature, music and science. Princes of the Renaissance charts these d…
Upon its original publication in 1946, this work represented a new approach to medieval studies, offering indispensable analysis to the historian of legal, political and social ideas. Research into the original sources leads the author through unexp…
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europa - and. L nder - Mittelalter, Fr he Neuzeit, Note: 2,0, Helmut-Schmidt-Universit t - Universit t der Bundeswehr Hamburg, 14 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract:…
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