For medieval people, demons constituted a real and everyday phenomenon. This book traces the beli...

This book examines gendered punishments in medieval Nordic laws, ca. 1100-1300. By exploring legi...

The seventh century was a period of radical transformation in the Balkans in terms of political, ...

Issues relating to disability and war remain largely overlooked by military and disability histor...

This study of the twelfth-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen examines her understanding of...

This book offers the first analysis of female monasticism across the last three centuries of the ...

This manual uses the medieval past to teach modern scholars how to succeed in public engagement. ...

This text is an eyewitness account of the crucial first five years of the War of Candia (1645-166...

In summer of 1361, the Danish king conquered the island of Gotland, the centre of Baltic communic...

This invaluable reference work addresses sex, gender, and sexuality in medieval Europe and North ...

Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserve...

This book explores the mobility of merchants' manuscripts--understood as written records in vario...

Slavery and family were deeply linked in Byzantine society. When Byzantine writers and theologian...

This volume uncovers the ways in which trust and mistrust affected people's lives in premodern Eu...

This book centres on the phenomenon of the Joans of Arc--a global medievalist trend of women bein...

This study is a heavily annotated translation and discussion of Xiao Yi's (508-555) 'Xuanlan fu' ...

From their medieval beginnings, universities have remained surprisingly resilient. What can be le...

Pictish studies is undergoing significant revision and invigoration, with recent archaeological d...

An exploration of how ideas regarding the source and character of supreme political authority--so...

By surveying a variety of projects and approaches to the difficult conservation-digitization bala...

Ground-breaking work showing that endemic and venereal treponematosis (bejel and syphilis) were p...

Using histories, letters, and material culture from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, this bo...

A comparative approach to the role of women in religious and monastic life in Europe and the Amer...

An insightful account of the medieval Persian Gulf, demonstrating the deep roots of cultural and ...

Canada has a deep layer of medievalism embedded in its architecture, governance structures, and s...

This book seeks to offer a critical survey of the development of the child murder libel in mediev...

Best known for his works on the mystical practice of meditative recollection, Franciscan friar Fr...

Saints were powerful role models in the early Middle Ages, capable of defining communities. But w...

This book explores how new cultural identities in transformation are challenging the notion and s...

The Kingdom of Rus' challenges the perception of Rus' as an eastern 'other' - advancing the idea ...

The lack of source material makes it challenging, but this short book uses the available evidence...

Beowulf by All is a community translation of the earliest English epic poem, produced for the fir...

Daniel Anlezark engages with current scholarly discussions to provide a reassessment of Alfred th...

Richard Utz's manifesto calls on the academy to reconnect with the general public in order to bui...

This book presents a reconstruction of the socio-economic, ethnic, cultural, and political histor...

This highly interdisciplinary volume, with a focus on southern European case studies, sets out to...

This book argues that the impressive range of belongings that can be connected to Duchess Matilda...

This is a somewhat polemical, and very passionate, consideration of the house that scholasticism ...

Not another history of the media, but a cogent look at how mediality was conceived before the exi...

This volume explores a millennium of multilingual literary exchanges among the peoples of Sicily,...

The twelfth century witnessed the birth of modern Western European literary tradition: major narr...

This book takes a critical approach to the dominant explanation for the transformation from post-...

A concise and pithy history of the Mongols for a general readership as well as for an informed ac...

Canon law intersects with every aspect of medieval life and society, and at one point or another,...

Denmark of the twelfth to thirteenth centuries was a place of transitions, and this volume analyz...

This study examines the gift book practices of Elizabeth and Mary Tudor, both queens of England; ...

By the end of the twelfth century, the Byzantine genoswas a politically effective social group ba...

The prevailing image of a Viking is frequently that of a fierce male, associated with military ex...