The Secret Middle Ages
Title | The Secret Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Malcolm Jones |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 374 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Art, Medieval |
ISBN | 9780750938747 |
Love, hatred, crime and punishment, proverbs, heaven on earth, husband-beating -- all feature in the jewellery, tableware, illustrations, carvings and textiles of the period. This book offers a major reassessment of the high medieval period. It will be essential reading for medievalists and those interested in the history of language and customs. ......
The Secret Middle Ages
Title | The Secret Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Malcolm Jones |
Publisher | Greenwood |
Total Pages | 424 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
"This book offers a major reassessment of the high medieval period and as such is not only important to specialists, but has much to appeal to the general reader. It is essential reading for medievalists and those interested in the history of language and customs."--BOOK JACKET.
Secret Societies of the Middle Ages
Title | Secret Societies of the Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Keightley |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 428 |
Release | 1837 |
Genre | Assassins (Ismailites) |
ISBN |
Books, Banks, Buttons
Title | Books, Banks, Buttons PDF eBook |
Author | Chiara Frugoni |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 178 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780231128131 |
Identifies the technological innovations of the middle ages, noting how such ubiquitous items as eyeglasses, books, arabic numbers, underwear, banks, the game of chess, clocks, and domesticated cats came into being during the period.
The Secret of Secrets
Title | The Secret of Secrets PDF eBook |
Author | Steven J. Williams |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | 496 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780472113088 |
A compelling study of a "best-seller" from the Middle Ages
In Search of the Dark Ages
Title | In Search of the Dark Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Wood |
Publisher | Random House |
Total Pages | 286 |
Release | 2015-05-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1448141516 |
Updated with the latest archaeological research new chapters on the most influential yet widely unrecognised people of the British isles, In Search of the Dark Ages illuminates the fascinating and mysterious centuries between the Romans and the Norman Conquest of 1066. In this new edition, Michael Wood vividly conjures some of the most important people in British history such as Hadrian, a Libyan refugee from the Arab conquests and arguably the most important person of African origin in British history, to Queen Boadicea, the leader of a terrible war of resistance against the Romans. Here too, warts and all, are the Saxon, Viking and Norman kings who laid the political foundations of England: Offa of Mercia, Alfred the Great, Athelstan, and William the Conqueror, whose victory at Hastings in 1066 marked the end of Anglo-Saxon England. Reflecting the latest historical, textual and archaeological research, this revised and updated edition of Michael Wood's classic book overturns preconceptions of the Dark Ages as a shadowy and brutal era, showing them to be a richly exciting and formative period in the history of Britain.
Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages
Title | Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Brett Edward Whalen |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | 401 |
Release | 2019-02-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1442603844 |
Pilgrimage inspired and shaped the distinct experiences of commoners and nobles, men and women, clergy and laity for over a thousand years. Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages: A Reader is a rich collection of primary sources for the history of Christian pilgrimage in Europe and the Mediterranean world from the fourth through the sixteenth centuries. The collection illustrates the far-reaching significance and consequences of pilgrimage for the culture, society, economics, politics, and spirituality of the Middle Ages. Brett Edward Whalen focuses on sites within Europe and beyond its borders, including the holy places of Jerusalem, and provides documents that shed light upon Eastern Christian, Jewish, and Islamic pilgrimages. The result is an innovative sourcebook that offers a window into broader trends, shifts, and transformations in the Middle Ages.