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Offers a new perspective on the "feudal revolution" by comparing forms of social and political organization in the Kingdom of the Rus and Latin Europe.

This concise and effective synthesis investigates the role of the institution of the Church in the transformation of the Roman West from the fourth to seventh centuries.

The election of fringe political parties on the far and extreme right across Europe since spring 2014 has brought the political discourse of "e;old Europe"e; and "e;tradition"e; to the foreground. Writers and politicians on the right have called for the reclamation, rediscovery, and return of the spirit of national identities rooted in the medieval past. Though the "e;medieval"e; is often deployed as a stigmatic symbol of all that is retrograde, against modernity, and barbaric, the medieval is increasingly being sought as a bedrock of tradition, heritage, and identity. Both characterizations - the medieval as violent other and the medieval as vital foundation - are mined and studied in this book. It examines contemporary political uses of the Middle Ages to ask why the medieval continues to play such a prominent role in the political and historical imagination today.

Geoffrey Koziol argues for the validity of a range of contradictory interpretations of the Medieval Peace of God movement.

The first comprehensive volume of articles on plague and other diseases that afflicted humans and animals in the Ottoman Empire-from the Black Death to the fall of the empire.

This is a somewhat polemical, and very passionate, consideration of the house that scholasticism built, and those who were excluded from it.

Richard Utz's manifesto calls on the academy to reconnect with the general public in order to build a sustainable future for medievalism.

From their medieval beginnings, universities have remained surprisingly resilient. What can be learnt from the medieval as we face today's challenges?

Using the Gesta Danorum of Saxo Grammaticus as its main primary source, this works analyzes the transitions of the twelfth to thirteenth centuries in Denmark, particularly in the context of the Northern Crusades.

This ground-breaking book brings together scholars from the humanities and social and physical sciences to address the question of how recent work in the genetics, zoology, and epidemiology of plague's causative organism (Yersinia pestis) can allow a rethinking of the Black Death pandemic and its larger historical significance.

An innovative and comparative approach to the study of interconnected legal cultures in the global medieval world.