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Medieval Studies
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Cambridge has developed an unrivalled list in medieval studies, which extends from monographic work of the highest originality and quality - in long-established series such as 'Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought' and 'Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature' - to more introductory volumes, many published as paperbacks, which touch upon virtually every aspect of the medieval world, in history, philosophy, religion, literature, art, architecture, and music. The Cambridge list also includes many major works of reference, best exemplified in recent years by the gradual publication since 1995 of 'The New Cambridge Medieval History'. |
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- Edited by Paul Fouracre, Rosamond McKitterick, Timothy Reuter, David Luscombe, Jonathan Riley-Smith, David Abulafia, Michael Jones, Christopher Allmand
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The publication of the complete 7 volume set of The New Cambridge Medieval History is a major landmark in the field of historical publishing. Written by leading scholars in the field of medieval history, the History is the essential reference tool for all those interested in the medieval world. Providing a detailed study of the world from late antiquity to c. 1500, it is the authoritative guide to medieval life and thought.
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Winner of the David Bevington Award of the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society
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- Philip Butterworth
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Magic on the Early English Stage is an original study of conjuring tricks and stage magic in theatre from medieval times to the seventeenth century. Performers who created such magic were known as jugglers rather than conjurors, as we know them today. This book investigates, for the first time, the nature of their work, their skills and the relationship between individual jugglers and magic performed 'on stage'. As Butterworth describes, much of this work was performed by small family-based companies whose repertoire included tumbling, vaulting and 'dancing on the rope'.
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- Angeliki E. Laiou and Cécile Morrisson
- This book is a concise survey of the economy of the Byzantine Empire from the fourth century AD to the fall of Constantinople in 1453.
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- Takashi Shogimen
- This book offers a fresh reappraisal of Ockham's political thought by approaching his anti-papal writings as a series of polemical responses. His aggressive and persistent attack on the papacy emerges in this study as an attempt to rescue the ethical foundations of the Christian society from the political influences of heretical popes.
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- Trevor Dean
- This important new study examines the history of crime and criminal justice in Italy from the mid-thirteenth to the end of the fifteenth century. It contains studies of the most frequent types of prosecuted crime such as violence, theft and insult, along with the rarely prosecuted sorcery and sex crimes.
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- David Pratt
- This book is a comprehensive study that explains the extraordinary burst of royal learned activity focused on inventive translations from Latin into Old English attributed to Alfred's own authorship.
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- Denys Pringle
- This is the third in a series of four volumes that are intended to present a complete Corpus of all the church buildings that were built, rebuilt or simply in use in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem between the capture of Jerusalem by the First Crusade in 1099 and the loss of Acre in 1291.
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- Dimiter Angelov
- This is the first systematic study of Byzantine imperial ideology, court rhetoric and political thought after the Latin conquest of Constantinople in 1204 - in the Nicaean state (1204–1261) and during the early period of the restored empire of the Palaiologoi.
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- Katherine Crawford
- A major new survey of the social and cultural history of sexuality in early modern Europe, this book weaves together statistical findings, discussions of changing sexual ideology, and evidence of belief structures regarding family, religion, science, crime, and deviance.
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- Edited by Philip L. Reynolds, John Witte, Jr.
- This volume analyzes how, why, and when pre-modern Europeans documented their marriages - through property settlements, prenuptial contracts, court testimony, church weddings, and more.
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Philip Grierson
Mark Blackburn
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This first volume of Medieval European Coinage surveys the coinage of Western Europe from the fall of the Roman Empire in the West in the fifth century to the emergence of recognizable ‘national’ political units in the tenth.
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- Robert Chazan
- In this important new historical synthesis, Robert Chazan discusses the Jewish experience over a 500 year period across the entire continent of Europe.
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- Florin Curta
- This innovative and expansive survey draws on historical and archaeological sources in the narration of 750 years of Southeastern Europe's history.
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