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Author |
: Steven Epstein |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2009-04-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521880367 |
ISBN-13 |
: 052188036X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis An Economic and Social History of Later Medieval Europe, 1000-1500 by : Steven Epstein
This book examines the most important themes in European social and economic history from the beginning of growth around the year 1000 to the first wave of global exchange in the 1490s. These five hundred years witnessed the rise of economic systems, such as capitalism, and the social theories that would have a profound influence on the rest of the world over the next five centuries. The basic story, the human search for food, clothing, and shelter in a world of violence and scarcity, is a familiar one, and the work and daily routines of ordinary women and men are the focus of this volume. Surveying the full extent of Europe, from east to west and north to south, Steven Epstein illuminates family life, economic and social thought, war, technologies, and other major themes while giving equal attention to developments in trade, crafts, and agriculture. The great waves of famine and then plague in the fourteenth century provide the centerpiece of a book that seeks to explain the causes of Europe's uneven prosperity and its response to catastrophic levels of death. Epstein also sets social and economic developments within the context of the Christian culture and values that were common across Europe and that were in constant tension with Muslims, Jews, and dissidents within its boundaries and the great Islamic and Tartar states on its frontier.
Author |
: Pavlina Cermanova |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 325 |
Release |
: 2021-06-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 2503594638 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9782503594637 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Books of Knowledge in Late Medieval Europe by : Pavlina Cermanova
This book provides a series of studies concerning unique medieval texts that can be defined as 'books of knowledge', such as medieval chronicles, bestiaries, or catechetic handbooks. Thus far, scholarship of intellectual history has focused on concepts of knowledge to describe a specific community, or to delimit intellectuals in society. However, the specific textual tool for the transmission of knowledge has been missing. Besides oral tradition, books and other written texts were the only sources of knowledge, and they were thus invaluable in efforts to receive or transfer knowledge. That is one reason why texts that proclaim to introduce a specific field of expertise or promise to present a summary of wisdom were so popular. These texts discussed cosmology, theology, philosophy, the natural sciences, history, and other fields. They often did so in an accessible way to maintain the potential to also attract a non-specialised public. The basic form was usually a narrative, chronologically or thematically structured, and clearly ordered to appeal to readers. Books of this kind could be disseminated in dozens or even hundreds of copies, and were often available (by translation or adaptation) in various languages, including the vernacular. In exploring these widely-disseminated and highly popular texts that offered a precise segment of knowledge that could be accessed by readers outside the intellectual and social elite, this volume intends to introduce books of knowledge as a new category within the study of medieval literacy.
Author |
: Christopher Dyer |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 360 |
Release |
: 1989-03-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521272157 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521272155 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages by : Christopher Dyer
Between 1200 and 1520 medieval English society went through a series of upheavals: this was an age of war, pestilence and rebellion. This book explores the realities of life of the people who lived through those stirring times. It looks in turn at aristocrats, peasants, townsmen, wage-earners and paupers, and examines how they obtained their incomes and how they spent them. This revised edition (1998) includes a substantial new concluding chapter and an updated bibliography.
Author |
: Bernard Guenée |
Publisher |
: Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages |
: 322 |
Release |
: 1985-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0631136746 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780631136743 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis States and Rulers in Later Medieval Europe by : Bernard Guenée
Author |
: Isabella Lazzarini |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 319 |
Release |
: 2021 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198731641 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198731647 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Later Middle Ages by : Isabella Lazzarini
This edited volume brings together experts on the later middle ages to chart the principle developments of medieval Europe.
Author |
: Jeffrey Howard Denton |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages |
: 234 |
Release |
: 1999-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0802082645 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780802082640 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Orders and Hierarchies in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe by : Jeffrey Howard Denton
Essays from a range of disciplines examine different, but linked aspects of the social organization of Europe from the 13th to 16th centuries.
Author |
: Daniel Philip Waley |
Publisher |
: London : Longmans [c1964] |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 1964 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:B4369020 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Later Medieval Europe by : Daniel Philip Waley
Treats fifteen forces or events during the period, 1250-1520 A. D., especially the growth of governments into 'modern' nation states. Extensive use of contemporary sources.
Author |
: Sari Katajala-Peltomaa |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 222 |
Release |
: 2020-03-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198850465 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198850468 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Demonic Possession and Lived Religion in Later Medieval Europe by : Sari Katajala-Peltomaa
Demonic possession was a spiritual state that often had physical symptoms; however, in Demonic Possession and Lived Religion in Later Medieval Europe, Sari Katajala-Peltomaa argues that demonic possession was a social phenomenon which should be understood with regard to the community and culture. She focuses on significant case studies from canonization processes (c. 1240-1450) which show how each set of sources formed its own specific context, in which demonic presence derived from different motivations, reasonings, and methods of categorization. The chosen perspective is that of lived religion, which is both a thematic approach and a methodology: a focus on rituals, symbols, and gestures, as well as sensitivity to nuances and careful contextualizing of the cases are constitutive elements of the argumentation. The analysis contests the hierarchy between the 'learned' and the 'popular' within religion, as well as the existence of a strict polarity between individual and collective religious participation. Demonic presence disclosed negotiations over authority and agency; it shows how the personal affected the communal, and vice versa, and how they were eventually transformed into discourses and institutions of the Church; that is, definitions of the miraculous and the diabolical. Geographically, the volume covers Western Europe, comparing Northern and Southern material and customs. The structure follows the logic of the phenomenon, beginning with the background reasons offered as a cause of demonic possession, continuing with communities' responses and emotions, including construction of sacred caregiving methods. Finally, the ways in which demonic presence contributed to wider societal debates in the fields of politics and spirituality are discussed. Alterity and inversion of identity, gender, and various forms of corporeality and the interplay between the sacred and diabolical are themes that run all through the volume.
Author |
: Robin W. Winks |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 328 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015064871208 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Medieval Europe and the World by : Robin W. Winks
Medieval Europe and the World: From Late Antiquity to Modernity, 400-1500 examines the development of western European social, political, economic, and cultural institutions during one of the most complex and creative periods the world has ever known. The book looks at the history of Medieval Europe in relation to its links with the rest of the world, exploring the interaction of western Europe with Islam, the Far East, Africa, and such outlying areas as Scandinavia, Iberia, and Eastern Europe. It considers the genesis and shaping of distinct western ideals, social affairs, economic patterns, and new cultural forms in relation to Islam and Byzantium--two other great civilizations that deeply influenced the growth of western Europe's unique history. Placing emphasis on medieval Europe's social and economic transformations and the diversity of social orders, the book analyzes the ways in which these elements interconnected during the formation of medieval society. It also gives special consideration to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, an era that serves as a bridge between the cultural developments of the early and central Middle Ages and the emergence of new patterns of thought and social organization in the late medieval period. Featuring nine maps, numerous illustrations, a chronological table, and a detailed list of suggested further readings, this brief but comprehensive narrative is an ideal text for undergraduate courses in medieval history.
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 295 |
Release |
: 2014-03-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004269743 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004269746 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mental (Dis)Order in Later Medieval Europe by :
The boundaries between mental, social and physical order and various states of disorder – unexpected mood swings, fury, melancholy, stress, insomnia, and demonic influence – form the core of this compilation. For medieval men and women, religious rituals, magic, herbs, dietary requirements as well as to scholastic medicine were a way to cope with the vagaries of mental wellbeing; the focus of the articles is on the interaction and osmosis between lay and elite cultures as well as medical, theological and political theories and practical experiences of daily life. Time span of the volume is the later Middle Ages, c. 1300-1500. Geographically it covers Western Europe and the comparison between Mediterranean world and Northern Europe is an important constituent. Contributors are Jussi Hanska, Gerhard Jaritz, Timo Joutsivuo, Kirsi Kanerva, Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, Marko Lamberg, Iona McCleery, Susanna Niiranen, Sophie Oosterwijk, and Catherine Rider.