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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.

An international line-up of pre-modern scholars working in the burgeoning field of the history of emotions, examines the human impact of war through selected cultural texts.

For medieval people, demons constituted a real and everyday phenomenon. This book traces the beliefs associated with demons throughout the European Middle Ages.

Alfred the Great is a rare historical figure from the early Middle Ages, in that he retains a popular image. This image increasingly suffers from the dead white male syndrome, exacerbated by Alfred's association with British imperialism and colonialism, so this book provides an accessible reassessment of the famous ruler of Wessex, informed by current scholarship, both on the king as a man in history, and the king as a subsequent legendary construct.Daniel Anlezark presents Alfred in his historical context, seen through Asser's Life, the Anglo Saxon Chronicle, and other texts associated with the king. The book engages with current discussions about the authenticity of attributions to Alfred of works such as the Old English Boethius and Soliloquies, and explores how this ninth-century king of Wessex came to be considered the Great king of legend.

This exploration of the multiplicity of personal identities, the ways these were expressed, and their evolution into collective identity sheds new light on the Middle Ages.

We now know that vast portions of the world were interconnected throughout the Middle Ages and, moreover, that the entire circumpolar North was a contact zone in its own right. In this volume, scholars from a range of disciplines explore the boreal globe from the late Iron Age to the seventeenth century.

This book explores how new cultural identities in transformation are challenging the notion and significance of cultural heritage today in Europe.

This volume and its companion gather a wide range of readings and sources to enable us to see and understand what monsters show us about what it means to be human. Classic Readings on Monster Theory introduces the most important and influential modern theorists of the monstrous.

This volume explores how the use of seals enabled long-distance communication, commerce, and interconnectivity in the medieval world.

This book briefly surveys the historical events, personalities, and ideas connected to the Hussite movement in fifteenth-century Bohemia.

The book presents a novel view of Viking movement to the East and demonstrates how the peoples on the eastern coasts of the Baltic were engaged in the process.

A concise overview of the role of queens, empresses, and other royal women from the ancient and classical period through to nearly the present day on every continent, engaging with current themes and theories of queenship and directions for future research.

Showcases current and original scholarship relating to women and Early Medieval English culture and Early Medieval English studies and promises to stimulate new work in those areas.

With a focus on examples from southern Europe, this interdisciplinary collection explores how commonly held memories influenced the thought, identity, and status of individuals, religions, rulers, cities, and nations in the European Middle Ages.

This short book provides an essential analysis of the factors that inspired Jewish poets of the 1300s to adopt a Christian clerical poetic style at a time of rising religious tensions in Castile.

Uniquely combining Old Norse sources and Russian evidence, this book demonstrates what a large part Eastern Europe played in the lives and imagination of medieval Scandinavians.