It is well known that political, economic, and social power in the British Isles in the Middle Ages lay in the hands of a small group of domini-lords. In his final book, t...
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In recent years, work on the medieval English peasant has tended to stress the degree of interaction between the village and the world beyond its bounds. This book not onl...
Starting AD 400 (around the time of their invasion of England) and running through to the 1100s (the 'Aftermath'), historian Geoffrey Hindley shows the Anglo-Saxons as for...
What survives from the Roman Empire is largely the words and lives of the rich and powerful: emperors, philosophers, senators. Yet the privilege and decadence often associ...
Lieven (Russian politics and history and political science, London School of Economics) uses English, Russian, German, and French sources to examine the lifestyles and pol...
The dark side of childhood in late antiquity and the Middle Ages : unwanted, disabled and lost
Mustakallio, Katariina, Laes, Christian
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(0)This volume examines conceptions, ideas and habits connected with children in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, focusing on the "dark sides of childhood" in the pre-modern wo...
A Country Merchant, 1495-1520: Trading and Farming at the End of the Middle Ages
Christopher Dyer
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(0)Around 1500 England's society and economy had reached a turning point. After a long period of slow change and even stagnation, an age of innovation and initiative was in m...
Ruth Goodman and Peter Ginn have become familiar faces on BBC2 after their hugely popular and immersive time-travelling experiments, Victorian, Edwardian and Wartime Farm....
On the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period from t...
The Atlantic represented a world of opportunity in the eighteenth century, but it represented division also, separating families across its coasts. Whether due to economic...
Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain explores the invention, making, and buying of new, semi-luxury, and fashionable consumer goods during the eighteenth cent...
The North African slave markets traded in European slaves that were acquired by Barbary pirates in slave raids on ships and by raids on coastal towns from Italy, Spain, Po...
Arguments about the practice of the duel in early modern England were widespread. Markku Peltonen, the distinguished intellectual historian, examines the debate, and revea...
Почему святого Христофора изображают с песьей головой? Зачем Богородице три руки и рыбий хвост? Как на иконе оказались Пушкин, Сталин и футболисты?
"Иконографический бе...
Medieval culture was intensely visual. Although this has long been recognised by art historians and by enthusiasts for particular media, there has been little attempt to s...
In The Axe and the Oath, one of the world's leading medieval historians presents a compelling picture of daily life in the Middle Ages as it was experienced by ordinary pe...
Искусный рассказчик Уильям Петерсен приглашает вас в мир семьи тех людей, жизнь и деятельность которых оказала огромное влияние на современное христианство. Эта увлекатель...
Лето 1854 года. Лондон становится одним из первых современных городов в мире. Но, не имея инфраструктуры — вывоз мусора, чистая вода, канализация, необходимые для поддержк...
Однажды профессор истории Университета Вандербильда Джоэл Харрингтон на пыльных полках букинистического магазина в Германии обнаружил дневники Мейстера Франца Шмидта, напи...
История Англии — это непрерывное движение и череда постоянных изменений. Но всю историю Англии начиная с первобытности пронизывает преемственность, так что главное в ней —...