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Authoring the Past: History, Autobiography, and Politics in Medieval Catalonia

, 2012
"Authoring the Past" surveys medieval Catalan historiography, shedding light on the emergence and evolution of historical writing and autobiography in the Middle Ages, on questions of authority and authorship, and on the links between history and ...
J. Aurell
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Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade

, 2006
Part I. Preliminaries: 1. Introduction 2. Institutions and transactions Part II. Institutions as Systems in Equilibria: 3. Private-order contract enforcement institutions: the Maghribi traders coalition 4.
A. Greif
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1 Exceptions and Assumptions: Women in Medieval Art History

, 2012
This volume is a direct response to the dearth of women in the history of medieval art. Jenifer Ni Ghradaigh draws on law tracts to argue that early medieval Irish embroidery had equivalent high status for women as manuscript-making did for men.
Therese Martin
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The Habsburg Empire: A New History

Austrian Studies, 2016
Pieter Judson gives us something we have desperately needed: a new history of the Habsburg Empire. At least in the English-speaking world, general knowledge of the Habsburg Empire has been reliant on older studies, studies which have adhered to a few ...
J. Deak
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Holy Bones, Holy Dust: How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe

, 2011
Relics affected everyone in medieval society. Saintly morsels such as bones, hair, teeth, and clothes, and items like the Crown of Thorns, coveted by Louis IX of France, were thought to bring the believer closer to the saint who might intercede with God ...
C. Freeman
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Cultural reformations : medieval and renaissance in literary history

, 2010
The original essays in Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than codify. Instead of summarizing existing knowledge scholars working in the field aim at opening fresh discussion ...
B. Cummings, James Simpson
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Medieval Nubia: A Social and Economic History

, 2012
Acknowledgments Introduction: Qasr Ibrim and Christian Nubia Chapter One: Qasr Ibrim's Land Sales Chapter Two: Mashshouda and Archive 3 Chapter Three: The Historiography of Nubian Land Tenure Chapter Four: Nubian Land Sales as a Legal Genre Chapter Five:
G. Ruffini
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A History of Medieval Heresy and Inquisition

, 2011
Introduction: The Contours of Authority in Medieval Christendom Chapter 1: Good Christians, Heresy, and the Apostolic Model Chapter 2: Poverty, Preaching, and the Poor of Lyon Chapter 3: Lawyer Popes, Mendicant Preachers, and New Inquisitorial Procedures
J. Deane
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Is Medieval History Relevant?

2005
What is medieval history actually for? What does it do? Why should we be bothered with it? At one level, the answers to these questions are rooted in the ways that cultures use the past. For individuals and for groups of all sizes the past is a fund of images and stories mobilized to instil a sense of direction and to create and sustain identities.
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Guide to Medieval History

Reference Services Review, 1985
In the past 50 years, numerous reference books have been written on the subjects of medieval history, art, literature, and philosophy. Steven F. Vincent provides a guide to selecting modern, as well as standard, sources of information on the Middle Ages.
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