Medieval History 400-1500

Using the coroner's inquest as a lens, this book offers a fresh perspective on the process of death investigation in medieval England. By studying cause of death in the coroners' reports, this study sheds new light on abortion by assault, bubonic plague, cruentation, epilepsy, insanity, senescence, ..

This book contributes to the study of the history of emotions and cultural histories of the Middle Ages, while also adding another crucial piece to the broader historiographical debate currently challenging the most traditional view of the Iberian Peninsula’s ’exceptionalism’. This interdisciplinary..

From Ignatius Loyola to John of the Cross..

Through a close study of local demographies and topographies and primary source material in the form of tax returns and notarial records, this study considers the development of urban fabrics and patterns of piety, charity and patronage in Siena's southern contado during the thirteenth and fourteent..

This volume presents a penetrating analysis of the attitudes of Latin Christendom towards Jerusalem in the period from the First Crusade to the Muslim capture of the city in 1187. Based on a detailed examination of the source materials, from poetry and song to chronicles and charters, this book pain..

States of emotion were vital as a foundation to society in the premodern period, employed as a force of order to structure diplomatic transactions, shape dynastic and familial relationships, and align religious beliefs, practices and communities. At the same time, societies understood that affective..

This collection brings together two flourishing areas of medieval scholarship: gender and religion. It examines gender-specific religious practices and contends that the pursuit of holiness can destabilise binary gender itself...

This book offers a new appraisal of the ancestry and career of Godfrey of Bouillon (c.1060-1100), a leading participant in the First Crusade (1096-99), and the first ruler of Latin Jerusalem (1099-1100), the polity established by the crusaders after they captured the Holy City. While previous studie..

This collection provides a systematic survey of the wide readership the works of Godfrey of Viterbo enjoyed in the late Middle Ages. In the last years of the twelfth century this chronicler and imperial notary wrote a series of historical collections that gained considerable and lasting popularity: ..

Accessible and useful to students and scholars of medieval and Spanish studies, this is the first English translation of a twelfth-century Latin collection of miracles that Gonzalo de Berceo likely used as the source for his thirteenth-century Spanish collection Milagros de Nuestra Señora. This bo..

Accessible and useful to students and scholars of medieval and Spanish studies, this is the first English translation of a twelfth-century Latin collection of miracles that Gonzalo de Berceo likely used as the source for his thirteenth-century Spanish collection Milagros de Nuestra Señora. This bo..

This book gives a context for a reading of the Life of Saint Neilos, a Southern Italian tenth-century monastic from Calabria, founder of the monastery of Grottaferrata near Rome. His background is delineated against a multi-ethnic and idiosyncratic region where Greek and Latin cultures meet, with a ..