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The first biography of John Vitez, an influential figure of the Early Renaissance, presenting a complex picture of cultural, political, and religious developments in Central Europe.

This book argues that the causes that led to the Islamization of most of the Holy Land's population from the seventh century onwards, as well as the survival of some religious communities, are essentially social and geographic in nature, rather than theological.

The first ever volume fully dedicated to Iberoamerican neomedievalisms that examines the meanings and uses of "the Middle Ages" in Iberian America.

A practical guide to teaching medieval topics at university through project-based learning, demonstrating how incorporating formal educational research and pedagogy into the undergraduate medieval history classroom can benefit the educational experiences of both instructors and students.

This interdisciplinary compendium to the animal inhabitants of medieval Britain, documents each creature mentioned in the Old English literary textual canon and provides ecological, historical, and archaeological context.

Explores how one early medieval poet survived and thrived amidst the political turbulence of sixth-century Merovingian Gaul, and how the language of friendship shaped beliefs and behaviours, leading to social cohesion even within kingdoms repeatedly wracked by civil wars.

This volume explores a millennium of multilingual literary exchanges among the peoples of Sicily, the Iberian Peninsula, and North Africa: the Maghrib, or westernmost strongholds of medieval Islam.

This book provides a concise overview of the history of Polynesia, focusing on New Zealand and its outlying islands, during the period 900-1600. It provides a thematic examination of Polynesia to avoid placing the region's history into an inaccurate, linear Western chronology. The themes of movement and migration, adaptation and change, and development and expansion offer the optimal means of understanding Polynesia during this time. Through this innovative and unique perspective on Polynesian history, which has not been previously undertaken, the reader is encouraged to think about regions outside Europe in relation to the premodern period.

This collection of essays explores the ways that medieval and pre-modern literature, theology, and art utilised representations of the human body and its fluids both to signify and to explain change.

The successful transmediation of books and documents through digitization requires the synergetic partnership of many professional figures, that have what may sometimes appear as contrasting goals at heart. On one side, there are those who look after the physical objects and strive to preserve them for future generations, and on the other those involved in the digitization of the objects, the information that they contain, and the management of the digital data. These complementary activities are generally considered as separate and when the current literature addresses both fields, it does so strictly within technical reports and guidelines, concentrating on procedures and optimal workflow, standards, and technical metadata. In particular, more often than not, conservation is presented as ancillary to digitization, with the role of the conservator restricted to the preparation of items for scanning, with no input into the digital product, leading to misunderstanding and clashes of interests. Surveying a variety of projects and approaches to the challenging conservation-digitization balance and fostering a dialogue amongst practitioners, this book aims at demonstrating that a dialogue between apparently contrasting fields not only is possible, but it is in fact desirable and fruitful. Only through the synergetic collaboration of all people involved in the digitization process, conservators included, can cultural digital objects that represent more fully the original objects and their materiality be generated, encouraging and enabling new research and widening the horizons of scholarship.

Architecture is shown to be a reliable "textual" source for understanding dynastic state development in Central Europe in the tenth and eleventh centuries.

This companion analyzes the different ways in which societies from Oceania to Europe and beyond were connected in the period 600-900 CE.

Based on analysis of archaeological, narrative and numismatic sources, this book provides an in-depth historical overview of the Carpathian-Danubian region during the eighth and the ninth centuries.

This study explores the development and function of the Byzantine aristocratic family group, or genos, as a distinct social concept, considering particularly its political and cultural role, in the tenth through twelfth centuries.

This lively and personal book explains some key aspects of how people of the Byzantine Empire perceived gender, enabling readers to understand Byzantine society and its fascinating otherness more fully.

Why should anyone read Beowulf? This book presents a passionate literary argument for Beowulf as a searching, subtle exploration of the human presence.

This interdisciplinary volume uses evidence from material culture as well as the Old Norse-Icelandic literary corpus, to consider in depth how social values such as reputation, honour, and friendship, were integral to the development of rituals, customs, religion, literature, and language in Viking Age and medieval Scandinavia.

Uniquely, this study examines money and power at premodern royal courts through the lens of gender; it explores how women used their economic knowledge and resources for their own and their kingdom's gain.

This short book takes readers from the creation of medieval hagiography, through the ways in which it circulated, to a wide-ranging assessment of the modern use of hagiographies and the ways in which studying hagiography has made a difference to our understanding of the period 500-900.

Looks at the early medieval origins and development of canon law using a social history framework, with a view to making sense of a rich and complex legal system and culture which influenced and controlled the medieval Church and society.