Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Marino Sanudo Torsello, The Book of the Secrets of the Faithful of the Cross This is the first full translation of Marino Sanudo Torsello's Secreta fidelium Crucis to be made into English. The work itself is a piece of crusading propaganda following the fall of Acre in 1291, written between 1300 and 1321, but it includes much of... RRP: $112.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Agrarian Change and Crisis in Europe, 1200-1500 Agrarian Change and Crisis in Europe, 1200-1500 addresses one of the classic subjects on economic history: the process of aggregate economic growth and the crisis that engulfed the European continent during the late Middle Ages. This was not an ordinary... RRP: $112.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Crusading and Chronicle Writing on the Medieval Baltic Frontier The Chronicle of Henry of Livonia, written by a missionary priest in the early thirteenth century to record the history of the crusades to Livonia and Estonia around 1186-1227, offers one of the most vivid examples of the early thirteenth century... RRP: $112.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Post-Conflict Studies This book examines how the violence of conflict is transformed in the post-conflict period.Post-conflict studies seek to illuminate, theorise, and narrate the processes by which societies transition from periods of overt and violent conflict to periods... RRP: $111.59 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Bede and the Future Bede (c. 673-735) was Anglo-Saxon England's most prominent scholar, and his body of work is among the most important intellectual achievements of the entire Middle Ages. Bede and the Future brings together an international group of Bede scholars to... RRP: $112.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Responsibility to Protect and the International Criminal Court This book provides an account of how the responsibility to protect (R2P) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) were applied in Kenya. In the aftermath of the disputed presidential election on 27 December 2007, Kenya descended into its worst crisis... RRP: $70.75 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Family, Work, and Household in Late Medieval Iberia Family, Work, and Household presents the social and occupational life of a late medieval Iberian town in rich, unprecedented detail. The book combines a diachronic study of two regionally prominent families-one knightly and one mercantile-with a detailed... RRP: $112.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Writing About Byzantium Niketas Choniates was in Constantinople when it was burnt and looted by the soldiers of the Fourth Crusade and he wrote a history which has always been the mainstay for anyone wishing to learn about the Comnene dynasty and the Byzantine Empire of the... RRP: $112.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Jewish Glass and Christian Stone In recent years scholars have re-evaluated the "parting of the ways" between Judaism and Christianity, reaching new understandings of the ways shared origins gave way to two distinct and sometimes inimical religious traditions. But this has been a... RRP: $112.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Privatised Law Reform In the history of British patent law, the role of Parliament is often side-lined. This is largely due to the raft of failed or timid attempts at patent law reform. Yet there was another way of seeking change. By the end of the nineteenth century, private... RRP: $110.48 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Light Touches Light Touches: Cultural Practices of Illumination, 1800-1900 explores how urban lives in the nineteenth century were increasingly touched by innovations in the technologies and aesthetics of illumination. Dramatic changes in qualities of light - and... RRP: $111.59 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry offers a study of the construction and use of gold dental appliances in ancient Etruscan culture, and their place within the framework of a general history of dentistry, with special emphasis on appliances, from... RRP: $112.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Juvenal's Global Awareness In Juvenal's Global Awareness Osman Umurhan applies theories of globalization to an investigation of Juvenal's articulation and understanding of empire, imperialism and identity. Umurhan explains how the increased interconnectivity between different... RRP: $112.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Peace Leadership This book examines the concept of peace leadership, bringing together scholars and practitioners from both peace and conflict studies and leadership studies.The volume assesses the activities of six peace leaders, the place and role of women and... RRP: $110.48 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Prophets and Profits This volume examines the ways in which divination, often through oracular utterances and other mechanisms, linked mortals with the gods, and places the practice within the ancient sociopolitical and religious environment. Whether humans sought knowledge... RRP: $112.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Warfare, Loyalty, and Rebellion This book examines the politics of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania during the crucial period between the Russian tsar Peter the Great's victory over Sweden at the battle of Poltava and the 1717 Silent Sejm, the Polish-Lithuanian parliament's session which... RRP: $112.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Birth of the Athenian Community The Birth of the Athenian Community elucidates the social and political development of Athens in the sixth century, when, as a result of reforms by Solon and Cleisthenes (at the beginning and end of the sixth century, respectively), Athens turned into... RRP: $112.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Divine Mania 'Our greatest blessings come to us by way of mania, provided it is given us by divine gift,' - says Socrates in Plato's Phaedrus. Certain forms of alteration of consciousness, considered to be inspired by supernatural forces, were actively sought in... RRP: $112.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Hymnographic Book of Tropologion The Tropologion is considered the earliest known extant chant book from the early Christian world which was in use until the twelfth century. The study of this book is still in its infancy. It has generally been believed that the book has survived in... RRP: $112.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Property, Tenancy and Urban Growth in Stockholm and Berlin, 1860�920 From the middle of the nineteenth century, most European cities experienced a period of unrivalled growth and development that forever changed not only their physical characteristics, but also their social foundations. As the great industrial cites were... RRP: $112.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Cyprus from Colonialism to the Present This volume is published in honour of the acclaimed work of Robert Holland, historian of the British Empire and the Mediterranean, and it brings together essays based on the original research of his colleagues, former students and friends. The focal... RRP: $127.87 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Losing One's Head in the Ancient Near East In the Ancient Near East, cutting off someone's head was a unique act, not comparable to other types of mutilation, and therefore charged with a special symbolic and communicative significance. This book examines representations of decapitation in both... RRP: $112.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added A Social-Political History of Monotheism In A Social-Political History of Monotheism, Cataldo shows how political concerns were fundamental to the development of Judeo-Christian monotheism. Beginning with the disruptive and devastating historical events that shook early Israelite culture and... RRP: $112.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The King and Commoner Tradition King and Commoner tales were hugely popular across the late medieval and early modern periods, their cultural influence extending from Robin Hood ballads to Shakespearean national histories. This study represents the first detailed exploration of this... RRP: $112.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Masculinities in the Court Tales of Daniel In this volume, Brian Charles DiPalma examines masculinities in the court tales of Daniel as a test case for issues facing the burgeoning area of gender studies in the Hebrew Bible. In doing so, it both analyses how the court tales of Daniel portray the... RRP: $127.87 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Preaching the Crusades to the Eastern Mediterranean Preaching was an integral part of the crusade movement. This book focuses on the efforts of the first four Avignon popes to organize crusade preaching campaigns to the Eastern Mediterranean and on the role of the secular and regular clergy in their... RRP: $112.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Cardinal Isidore (c.1390-1462) A member of the imperial Palaiologan family, albeit most probably illegitimate, Isidore became a scholar at a young age and began his rise in the Byzantine ecclesiastical ranks. He was an active advocate of the union of the Orthodox and Catholic Churches... RRP: $114.10 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Imperial Technology and 'Native' Agency This book explores the impact of railways on colonial Indian society from the commencement of railway operations in the mid-nineteenth to the early decades of the twentieth century.The book represents a historiographical departure. Using new archival... RRP: $112.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Transforming the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict This book is a collection of essential essays on resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by eminent social psychologist Herbert C. Kelman.Few experts or practitioners know the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as well as Kelman, and for over forty years he... RRP: $111.59 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Serving France, Ireland and England This book assesses the service of Henri de Ruvigny, later earl of Galway, in France until the revocation of the edict of Nantes in 1685, his central role in transforming Ireland in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution, and his service of the British... RRP: $127.87 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Rise and Fall of British Crusader Medievalism, c.1825-1945 This book investigates the uses of crusader medievalism - the memory of the crusades and crusading rhetoric and imagery - in Britain, from Walter Scott's The Talisman (1825) to the end of the Second World War. It seeks to understand why and when the... RRP: $112.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Gregorian Mission to Kent in Bede's Ecclesiastical History Historians have long relied on Bede's Ecclesiastical History for their narrative of early Christian Anglo-Saxon England, but what material lay behind Bede's own narrative? What were his sources and how reliable were they? How much was based on... RRP: $112.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Hellenomania Hellenomania, the second volume in the MANIA series, presents a wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary exploration of the modern reception of ancient Greek material culture in cultural practices ranging from literature to architecture, stage and costume... RRP: $127.87 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Migrant Letters The migrant letter, whether written by family members, lovers, friends, or others, is a document that continues to attract the attention of scholars and general readers alike. What is it about migrant letters that fascinates us? Is it nostalgia for a... RRP: $110.48 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added New Perspectives on the End of the Cold War This collection of essays makes a significant contribution to the historiography of the end of the Cold War. Research on the causes and consequences of the end of the Cold War is constantly growing. Initially, it was dominated by fairly simplistic, and... RRP: $110.48 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Shaping the International Relations of the Netherlands, 1815-2000 This book seeks to launch a new research agenda for the historiography of Dutch foreign relations during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It does so in two important ways. First, it broadens the analytical perspective to include a variety of... RRP: $112.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added International Organizations and the Media in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries International Organizations and the Media in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries is the first volume to explore the historical relationship between international organizations and the media. Beginning in the early nineteenth century and coming up to... RRP: $127.87 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Greek and Roman Trophy In The Greek and Roman Trophy: From Battlefield Marker to Icon of Power, Kinnee presents the first monographic treatment of ancient trophies in sixty years. The study spans Archaic Greece through the Augustan Principate. Kinnee aims to create a holistic... RRP: $112.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Cross-Cultural Interaction Between Byzantium and the West, 1204-1669 The early modern Mediterranean was an area where many different rich cultural traditions came in contact with each other, and were often forced to co-exist, frequently learning to reap the benefits of co-operation. Orthodox, Roman Catholics, Muslims,... RRP: $114.10 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Reign of Nebuchadnezzar I in History and Historical Memory Nebuchadnezzar I (r. 1125-1104) was one of the more significant and successful kings to rule Babylonia in the intervening period between the demise of the Kassite Dynasty in the 12th century at the end of the Late Bronze Age, and the emergence of a new,... RRP: $112.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Christian Epigraphy of Egypt and Nubia Collected Studies CS1070The present book collects 31 articles that Jacques van der Vliet, a leading scholar in the field of Coptic Studies (Leiden University / Radboud University, Nijmegen), has published since 1999 on Christian inscriptions from Egypt... RRP: $112.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added War Experience and Memory in Global Cultures Since 1914 This edited collection explores and develops representations of war experience from 1914 to the ongoing conflicts of the 21st century, through the specific lens of memory. It builds on recent explorations of the importance of war experience in shaping... RRP: $112.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Between Jews and Heretics Justin Martyr's Dialogue with Trypho is the oldest preserved literary dialogue between a Jew and a Christian and a key text for understanding the development of early Judaism and Christianity. In Between Jews and Heretics, Matthijs den Dulk argues that... RRP: $112.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Europeanisation and the Transformation of EU Security Policy The aim of this study is to examine the extent to which the end of the Cold War led to Europeanisation in the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP).The analysis takes into consideration previous studies on Europeanisation and its impact on the... RRP: $111.59 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Rethinking 'Authority' in Late Antiquity The historian's task involves unmasking the systems of power that underlie our sources. A historian must not only analyze the content and context of ancient sources, but also the structures of power, authority, and political contingency that account for... RRP: $112.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Clerical Continence in Twelfth-Century England and Byzantium Why did the medieval West condemn clerical marriage as an abomination while the Byzantine Church affirmed its sanctifying nature? This book brings together ecclesiastical, legal, social, and cultural history in order to examine how Byzantine and Western... RRP: $112.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Agincourt in Context This book investigates the Battle of Agincourt-which continues to be of immense national and international interest-as well as the wider conduct and organisation of war in the late Middle Ages. In England, Shakespeare's Henry V ensured that the battle... RRP: $115.86 Add to Cart The item has been added
