This second volume in the History of Mediaeval Canon Law series discusses the earliest papal decretals, covering the period from the end of the 4th century to the end of the 9th century. In contrast to earlier scholarly works, which usually skim over the beginnings of the papal decretal tradition and the earliest collections containing them, the ......
The Politics of Commemoration in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848 to the Present
This volume contains three sections of essays which examine the role of commemoration and public celebrations in the creation of a national identity in Habsburg lands. It also seeks to engage historians of culture and of nationalism in other geographic fields as well as colleagues who work on Habsburg Central Europe, but write about nationalism ......
This text tells the story of how the enslavement of Africans by Berbers, Arabs and other Africans became institutionalized and legitimized throughout Muslim Africa. It provides a portrait of domestic slavery from the 10th to 19th-centuries in a wider religious, social and economic context.
The Mongol conquests, culminating with the invasion of Europe in the middle of the thirteenth century, were of a scope and range never equaled. These nomadic peoples from central Asia briefly held sway over an empire that stretched across Asia to the frontiers of Germany and the shores of the Adriatic. Surprisingly little has been written on this ......
A series of twelve papers which were first delivered at a conference held in 1992 to mark the 150th anniversary of the founding of the University of Notre Dame. Universities were a creation of 12th-century Europe and market the beginning of institutionalised education. The essays examine the nature of learning itself and how learning benefited ......
This work examines the life and career of a prominent castle lord of 11th-century Anjou. Robert the Burgundian was an Angevin knight whom the counts of Anjou allowed to amass considerable power on the northwestern march of Anjou.
Municipal Law on the Twelfth-Century Castilian Frontier
Sometime around 1190, King Alfonso VIII of Castile granted a royal charter to the community of Cuenca, a Castilian frontier town recently recaptured from the Muslims and resettled by Christians. The royal charter was in the form of a law code, or fuero. Fueros, which evolved from short lists of exceptions to standing royal directives into much ......
What can we know of the children of the Middle Ages? It is commonly thought that children were of little interest to mediaeval adults for documentation on childhood is supposedly rare and fragmented. Daniele Alexandre-Bidon and Didier Lett challenge this assumption in this book. Drawing from a wide range of sources - from archaeological finds to ......
This compilation of essays and accompanying CD-ROM focuses on the era and influence of Joan of Arc. The CD-ROM features colour graphics, 3D illustrations, and a song and dance honouring Joan of Arc.
