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Laughter in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Despite popular opinions of the ‘dark Middle Ages’ and a ‘gloomy early modern age,’ many people laughed, smiled, giggled, chuckled, entertained and ridiculed each other. This …
Muslim and Christian Contact in the Middle Ages
To study the interactions between Muslims and Christians in the medieval period is to observe a history of conflict and co-existence encompassing warfare, piracy, and raiding as …
Writing Plague
It argues that while the human “hardware” has changed enormously between the medieval past and the present (urbanization, technology, mass warfare, and advances in medical …
Coming Top: Preparing for Times Tables - Ages 4 - 5
This book offers 60 gold star stickers - and 30 illustrated stickers for added fun and value. Get a head start on classroom skills. It includes over 30 activities that make …
Explorations in the English Language: Middle Ages and Beyond
The volume, inspired by Professor Welna's life-long studies in historical linguistics, brings together scholars researching topics in various fields of the history of the English …
Envisaging Heaven in the Middle Ages
Envisaging Heaven in the Middle Ages deals with medieval notions of heaven in theological and mystical writings, in visions of the Otherworld, and in medieval art, poetry and …
Intellectual Life of Western Europe in the Middle Ages
This work presents a connected account of western European thought from the Patristic age to the mid-fourteenth century. Dales aims to keep his reader close to the sense of the …
The Ages of Man
Medieval Europe inherited from antiquity a rich and varied tradition of thought about the aetates hominum. Scholars divided human life into three, four, six, or seven ages, and so …
Iberia and the Mediterranean World of the Middle Ages, Volume II
Brill's seriesThe Medieval Mediterranean has established itself as the main forum for studies exploring all aspects of the Mediterranean world during a period of 1000 years. In the …
Maurice's Strategikon
This military handbook, attributed to the Byzantine emperor Maurice (582–602), is an invaluable source not only for early Byzantine history, but also for the history of the art of …
Tasting the Past: Recipes from the Middle Ages to the Civil War
The many influences of the past on our diet make the concept of 'British food' very hard to define. The Celts, Romans, Saxons, Vikings and Normans each brought ingredients to the …
Gender and the 'Natural' Environment in the Middle Ages
The later Middle Ages in Europe c.1150-c.1500 can be viewed as an extensive scientific laboratory, with scholars and other writers producing texts that sought to define and …