Where the Middle Ages Begin
History in an Hour has released its first title related to medieval history. 1066 In An Hour, by Kaye Jones, is available as an ebook and as an app on the iPhone and iPad. The work examines the events in England and Normandy in the year 1066, when the Anglo-Saxon king Edward the Confessor died, […]
Dr. Maren Clegg-Hyer’s passion for and knowledge of medieval literature is enough to inspire even the most indifferent, clock-watching students. The assistant professor of English has been teaching for about 17 years, the past three of which have been guiding Valdosta State University undergraduates through epic prose. “I fell in love with medieval English literature […]
Holinshed’s Nation: Ideals, Memory, and Practical Policy in the Chronicles By Igor Djordjevic Ashgate, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-4094-0035-6 Raphael Holinshed’s account of English history from 1377-1485 in the Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland is most well-known as the source of Shakespeare’s English history plays. Although the Chronicles are widely read and studied, published scholarly opinion, […]
The Almohads: The Rise of an Islamic Empire By Allen J. Fromherz IB Tauris, 2010 ISBN: 9781845116514 How did an obscure Islamic visionary found an empire? The Almohad Empire at its zenith in the 12th century was the major power in the Mediterranean and North Africa, ruling a huge region from the Atlas Mountains to […]
The Dublin region in the Middle Ages: Settlement, land-use and economy By Margaret Murphy and Michael Potterton Four Courts Press, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-84682-266-7 This is the first major publication of the Discovery Programme’s Medieval Rural Settlement Project. The book is a study of the medieval region that contained and was defined by the presence of […]
Here are four recent publications about the Vikings and/or Norse society. Vikings in the Irish Sea By David Griffifths The History Press, 2010 ISBN: 9780752436463 Vikings began raiding islands and monasteries on the Atlantic fringes of Europe in the 790s. The Irish Sea rapidly became one of their most productive hunting-grounds. Attacks, battles and destruction […]
Dr. Scott Hendrix, assistant professor of history at Carroll University, has published a new book that has been awarded the D. Simon Evans Prize for “Outstanding Contributions to Medieval Studies.” How Albert the Great’s Speculum Astronomiae Was Interpreted and Used by Four Centuries of Readers: A Study in Late Medieval Medicine, Astronomy and Astrology was […]
Sandwich – The ‘Completest Medieval Town in England’: A Study of the Town and Port from its Origins to 1600 By Helen Clarke, Sarah Pearson, Mavis Mate and Keith Parfitt Oxbow Books, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-84217-400-5 Book Description: To the casual visitor of today, Sandwich appears as simply a small inland market town on the bank of […]
Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400 to 1070 By Robin Fleming Penguin/Allen Lane, 2010 ISBN: 9780713990645 The extraordinary discovery last year of some 1,500 pieces of Anglo-Saxon gold in a Staffordshire field has galvanised interest in a mysterious, remote time in this country’s history. In Britain After Rome Robin Fleming writes about the […]
Building the Medieval World By Christine Sciacca J.Paul Getty Museum / British Library, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-60606-006-3 Some of the great and lasting achievements of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance are the architectural wonders of soaring cathedrals and grand castles and palaces. While many of these edifices survive, many more are lost, and it is […]
A project to create a new reference work about the Middle Ages has just been completing with the publishing of the Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. The four volume encyclopedia contains over 5000 entries, which covers for all key aspects of medieval history, society, religion, and culture, c. 500 to c. 1500. The work […]
A Companion to Clare of Assisi: Life, Writings, and Spirituality By Joan Mueller Brill, 2010 ISBN: 978 90 04 18216 5 Clare of Assisi: Life, Writings and Spirituality examines Clare not merely as an obedient footnote to the friars, but as a Franciscan founder in her own right who kept primitive Franciscan ideals alive into […]
The Rise and Fall of the Second Largest Empire in History: How Genghis Khan’s Mongols Almost Conquered the World by Thomas Craughwell Fair Winds Press. 2010 ISBN: 978-1-59233-398-1 The Mongols have long been an enigma. Of lowly origin they developed into a warrior culture complete with rituals and strategies that nearly led them to world domination, their […]
Renaissance Florence on Five Florins a Day By Charles FitzRoy Thames & Hudson, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-500-25162-1 This fact-packed guide provides all the practical advice you need for a journey back in time to the golden age of Florence. Witty and informative, Renaissance Florence on Five Florins a Day will appeal to travellers, museum-goers and anyone […]
The Nature of Natural Philosophy in the Late Middle Ages By Edward Grant Catholic University of America Press, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-8132-1738-3 The period from 1200 to 1500 laid the intellectual and institutional foundations for the Scientific Revolution that would occur in the seventeenth century. During this time, the spirit of inquiry motivated natural philosophers more […]
The Claims of Poverty: Literature, Culture, and Ideology in Late Medieval England By Kate Crassons University of Notre Dame Press, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-268-02302-7 In The Claims of Poverty, Kate Crassons explores a widespread ideological crisis concerning poverty that emerged in the aftermath of the plague in late medieval England. She identifies poverty as a central […]
Sport and Culture in Early Modern Europe Edited by John McClelland and Brian Merrilees Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-7727-2049-8 Despite their importance to Baldassare Castiglione and Sir Thomas Elyot, the athletic games of early modern Europe have traditionally received little attention from academics. At the beginning of the twentieth century, a […]
Blood Cries Afar: The Forgotten Invasion on England 1216 By Sean McGlynn The History Press, 2010 ISBN: 9780752454627 To be published in July 2010: 150 years after the Norman Conquest, history came within a hair’s breadth of repeating itself. In 1216, taking advantage of the turmoil created in England by King John’s inept rule and […]
The Viking Age: Ireland and the West – Proceedings of the Fifteenth Viking Congress, Cork, 2005 Edited by John Sheehan and Donnchadh Ó Corráin Four Courts Press, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-84682-101-1 The relationship of Ireland with the Viking World is one of the enduring themes of the study of the Viking Age. The Fifteenth Viking Congress […]
Domestic Settings: Sources on Domestic Architecture and Day-to-Day Activities in the Crusader States By Adrian J. Boas Brill, 2010 ISBN: 978 90 04 18272 1 Whereas a great deal of research has been carried out on Crusader castles, churches and major buildings in the Latin East, almost no attention has been paid to domestic architecture […]
Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology Edited by Clifford J. Rogers Oxford University Press, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-19-533403-6 From the Viking invasions to the Crusades to the Hundred Years War, wars were crucial agents of change in medieval Europe. They fostered many economic and political changes. They also affected the science, technology, religion, and […]
One of the most fascinating aspects of Norse society was their ability to explore and branch out from their base in Scandinavia. Norse sailors and colonists spread out across parts of Europe between the eight and eleventh centuries, going as far as Iceland, Greenland and North America. In his recent book, Vikings in America, Dr. […]
Anchoritic Traditions of Medieval Europe Edited by Liz Herbert McAvoy Boydell Press, 2010 ISBN: 9781843835202 The practice of anchoritism – religious enclosure which was frequently solitary and voluntarily embraced, very often in a permanent capacity – was widespread in many areas of Europe throughout the middle ages. Originating in the desert withdrawal of the earliest […]
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