Best Universities For Medieval History - April 2024

A Short History of the Middle Ages, Fifth Edition

In this newest edition of her bestselling book, Barbara H. Rosenwein integrates the history of European, Byzantine, and Islamic medieval cultures—as well as their Eurasian connections—in a dynamic narrative. The text has been significantly updated to reflect growing interest in the Islamic world and Mediterranean region. Stunning plates featuring art and architecture weave together events, mentalities, and aesthetics. Medievalist Riccardo Cristiani authors a new feature on material culture that examines the intricacies of manuscript production and the lustrous glazes of Islamic ceramics. A... [Read More]

• ASIN: 144263622X
• ASIN: 144263622X
• ISBN: 144263622X
• Manufacturer: University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division

A Short History of the Middle Ages, Fourth Edition

Barbara H. Rosenwein's bestselling survey text continues to stand out by integrating the history of three medieval civilizations (European, Byzantine, and Islamic) in a lively narrative that is complemented beautifully by 70 full-color plates, 46 maps, and 13 genealogies, many of them new to this edition. The fourth edition begins with an essay entitled "Why the Middle Ages Matter Today," and the book now covers East Central Europe in some depth. This edition includes three "Seeing the Middle Ages" features, each discussing a work of art in depth: An Ivory Diptych of Christ and the Virgin, Sai... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1442606118
• ASIN: 1442606118
• ISBN: 1442606118
• Brand: University of Toronto Press
• Manufacturer: University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division

The Library: A World History

A library is not just a collection of books, but also the buildings that house them. As varied and inventive as the volumes they hold, such buildings can be much more than the dusty, dark wooden shelves found in mystery stories or the catacombs of stacks in the basements of academia. From the great dome of the Library of Congress, to the white façade of the Seinäjoki Library in Finland, to the ancient ruins of the library of Pergamum in modern Turkey, the architecture of a library is a symbol of its time as well as of its builders’ wealth, culture, and learning. Architectural historian Ja... [Read More]

• ASIN: 022609281X
• ASIN: 022609281X
• ISBN: 022609281X
• Manufacturer: University of Chicago Press

A Vanished World: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Spain

In a world torn by religious antagonism, lessons can be learned from medieval Spanish villages where Muslims, Christians, and Jews rubbed shoulders on a daily basis--sharing irrigation canals, bathhouses, municipal ovens, and marketplaces. Medieval Spaniards introduced Europeans to paper manufacture, Hindu-Arabic numerals, philosophical classics, algebra, citrus fruits, cotton, and new medical techniques. Her mystics penned classics of Kabbalah and Sufism. More astonishing than Spain's wide-ranging accomplishments, however, was the simple fact that until the destruction of the last Muslim King... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0195311914
• ASIN: 0195311914
• ISBN: 0195311914
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 4, c.1024-c.1198, Part 1

The fourth volume of The New Cambridge Medieval History covers the eleventh and twelfth centuries, which comprised the most dynamic period in the European Middle Ages. The first of two parts, this volume deals with ecclesiastical and secular themes, in addition to major developments such as the expansion of population, agriculture, trade, and towns; the radical reform of the Western Church; the appearance of new kingdoms and states, the Crusades, knighthood and law; and the development of literature, art and architecture, heresies and the scholastic movement.

• ASIN: 0521414105
• ASIN: 0521414105
• ISBN: 0521414105
• Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

The Cambridge History of Japan, Vol. 1: Ancient Japan (Volume 1)

Japan's ancient age was a period of radical and political change during which a Chinese-style empire emerged. This volume of The Cambridge History of Japan spans the beginnings of human existence to the end of the eighth century, focusing on the thousand years between 300 B.C. and 784, the end of the fabulous Nara period. The volume explores this period in four stages: (1) The Yayoi period (to about 250 A.D.) when small kingdoms and kingdom federations accumulated enough power to dispatch diplomatic missions to Korea and China; (2) the Yamato period (to 587) when priestly rulers, having gained... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0521223520
• ASIN: 0521223520
• ISBN: 0521223520
• Brand: Brand: Cambridge University Press
• Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

History of the Lombards (The Middle Ages Series)

History of the Lombards, by Paul the Deacon (c. 720-c. 799), is among the most important and oldest accounts of the Germanic nation. The book preserves many ancient myths and popular traditions and draws from sources that are now lost. The history traces the changing fortunes of the Lombards, the last of the migratory Germanic peoples to enter the western part of the old Roman Empire, from their first appearance in the West in the sixth century to the middle of the eighth century. The popularity of Paul the Deacon's book has endured over the centuries and, although there have been numerous tra... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0812210794
• ASIN: 0812210794
• ISBN: 0812210794
• Brand: Brand: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Press

The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization

• ASIN: B006OYD2K6
• ASIN: B006OYD2K6
• Manufacturer: OUP Oxford

Christianity and Paganism, 350-750: The Conversion of Western Europe (The Middle Ages Series)

Using sermons, exorcisms, letters, biographies of the saints, inscriptions, autobiographical and legal documents—some of which are translated nowhere else—J. N. Hillgarth shows how the Christian church went about the formidable task of converting western Europe. The book covers such topics as the relationship between the Church and the Roman state, Christian attitudes toward the barbarians, and the missions to northern Europe. It documents as well the cult of relics in popular Christianity and the emergence of consciously Christian monarchies.

• ASIN: 0812212134
• ASIN: 0812212134
• ISBN: 0812212134
• Brand: Brand: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Press

The Great Courses

• ASIN: B00CYNPAEC
• ASIN: B00CYNPAEC
• Brand: The Teaching Company
• Manufacturer: The Teaching Company

The Cambridge History of Japan, Vol. 2: Heian Japan

This volume provides the most comprehensive treatment of the Heian period, the golden age of the Japanese imperial court, in any Western language. From 794 to 1185, the Japanese emperor ruled over an elaborate government modeled on China's. Native Japanese elements blended with Chinese influences in religion and the courtly arts. The world's first novel was completed about 1020. In 1185 the elegant and peaceful world of the court was shattered by the struggle of the Taira and Minamoto warrior clans, who usurped real political power.

• ASIN: 0521223539
• ASIN: 0521223539
• ISBN: 0521223539
• Brand: Brand: Cambridge University Press
• Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England

From the departure of the Roman legions, to the battle of Bosworth and the rise of the Tudors, the world of medieval England was one of profound diversity and change. Now, in The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England, readers have an authoritative and stimulating overview of this pivotal period in British history. Lavishly illustrated with over a hundred pictures--including twenty-four pages of color plates--this attractive volume brings together leading scholars who illuminate the history and culture of medieval England.The book brims with information on the social, cultural, and rel... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0192893246
• ASIN: 0192893246
• ISBN: 0192893246
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

Medieval Philosophy (A New History of Western Philosophy, Vol. 2)

Sir Anthony Kenny continues his magisterial new history of Western philosophy with a fascinating guide through more than a millennium of thought from 400 AD onwards, charting the story of philosophy from the founders of Christian and Islamic thought through to the Renaissance. The middle ages saw a great flourishing of philosophy, and the intellectual endeavour of the era reaches its climax in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, with the systems of the great schoolmen such as Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus. Specially written for a broad popular readership, but serious and deep enough... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0198752741
• ASIN: 0198752741
• ISBN: 0198752741
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA

The Making of the Middle Ages

A distinguished Oxford historian presents an absorbing study of the main personalities and the influences that molded the history of Western Europe from the late tenth to the early thirteenth century, describing the chief forms of social, political, and religious organization. “A book of rare value.”―Sidney Painter, American Historical Review

• ASIN: 0300002300
• ASIN: 0300002300
• ISBN: 9780300002300
• Manufacturer: Yale University Press

The Mongol Empire (The Edinburgh History of the Islamic Empires)

As the largest contiguous empire in history, the Mongol Empire looms large in history: it permanently changed the map of Eurasia as well as how the world was viewed. As the empire expanded, the Mongols were alternately seen as liberators, destroyers, and harbingers of apocalyptic doom. At the same time, they ushered in an era of religious tolerance and cross-cultural transmission. This book explores the rise and establishment of the Mongol Empire under Chinggis Khan, as well as its expansion and evolution under his successors. It also examines the successor states (Ilkhanate, Chaghatayid Khan... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0748642366
• ASIN: 0748642366
• ISBN: 0748642366
• Manufacturer: Edinburgh University Press

An Environmental History of Medieval Europe

A pioneering study of how medieval Europeans used and changed their environment, integrating social, economic and environmental history

• UPC: 31892304

The Oxford History of Medieval Europe

This is the most authoritative account of life in Medieval Europe between the fall of the Roman Empire and the coming of the Renaissance. Full coverage is given to all aspects of life in a

• UPC: 1685810
• Rating: 4.0

Medieval Christianity : A New History

"For many, the medieval world seems dark and foreign-a miraculous, brutal, and irrational time of superstition and strange relics. The pursuit of heretics, the Inquisition, the Crusades and the domination of the "Holy Land" come

• UPC: 46131127

The Hidden History of Women's Ordination : Female Clergy in the Medieval West

The Roman Catholic leadership still refuses to ordain women officially or even to recognize that women are capable of ordination. But is the widely held assumption that women have always been excluded from such roles

• UPC: 21006697

Holy Bones, Holy Dust : How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe

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• UPC: 20709196
• Rating: 4.0

Life in the Medieval University - eBook

A fascinating look at University life in the Medieval era, written by Scottish historian, Historiographer Royal and Principal of the University of Glasgow Sir Robert Sangster Rait Kt. CBE

• UPC: 418307393

Trial by Fire and Water : The Medieval Judicial Ordeal (Oxford University Press Academic Monograph Reprints)

Although seemingly bizarre and barbaric in modern times, trial by ordeal-the subjection of the accused to undergo harsh tests such as walking over hot irons or being bound and cast into water-played an integral, and

• UPC: 53282880

Life in the Medieval University - eBook

An account of life in the medieval University might well take the form of a commentary upon the classical description of a medieval English student. His dress, the character of his studies and the nature

• UPC: 297563999

Growing Up in Medieval London : The Experience of Childhood in History

When Barbara Hanawalt's acclaimed history The Ties That Bound first appeared, it was hailed for its unprecedented research and vivid re-creation of medieval life. David Levine, writing in The New York Times Book Review, called

• UPC: 1897010
• Rating: 5.0

Life in the Medieval University - eBook

An account of life in the medieval University might well take the form of a commentary upon the classical description of a medieval English student. His dress, the character of his studies and the nature

• UPC: 959309233