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Author : Ionuţ Epurescu-Pascovici
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783275762
Argues the case for the individual as autonomous moral agent in the later Middle Ages.
Author : Ionuț Epurescu-Pascovici
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1837652074
Argues the case for the individual as autonomous moral agent in the later Middle Ages. "Of fundamental importance for any discipline dealing with past societies and cultures. One of the most wide-ranging, sophisticated and imaginative books on medieval history that I have read in a very long time. The way in which the author defines, traces and analyses agency is stunningly original. It will make an immensely important contribution to our understanding of high and late medieval Europe." Professor Björn Weiler, University of Aberystwyth What did it mean to be an autonomous agent in European medieval society? This book aims to answer that fundamental question, via an examination of a mosaic of case studies drawn from the literate urban middle strata and the lower and middle-rank aristocracy. The social imaginary that informs individual conduct, the patterns of strategic action, and the individuals' sense of effectiveness in the world are reconstructed from "ego-documents", a broad category that includes first-person charters, autobiographical insertions in chronicles, private registers, and memoirs. These range from the better-known, such as the Ménagier de Paris and the histories of Galbert of Bruges and Salimbene of Parma, to the equally fascinating but more seldom explored French livres de raison and Italian ricordanze. The book's larger aim is to historicise the autonomous moral agent. Neither belief in divine intervention nor feudal relations inhibited individuals' social agency. The emphasis on hierarchy and order in medieval normative texts is shown in a different light, as part of the effort to restrain social subalterns, whose potential for agency caused anxiety. Whereas power is often structural, an effect of institutions which, however, were only just developing, the book argues that agency is a more apposite construct for capturing the salient medieval concerns with the possibilities and effects of individual and collective action.
Author : Atta Muhammad
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755647606
This book examines the political and social activities of Sufis in Baghdad in the period 1000-1258. It argues that Sufis played an important role in creating a public sphere that existed between ordinary subjects and the government. Drawing on Arabic sources and secondary literature, it explores the role of Sufis and their institutions including their ribats or lodge houses, from the use of Sufis as political ambassadors to their role in redistributing charity to the poor. The book reveals the role of Sufism in structuring a wide range of social and political arrangements in this period. It also reveals the role of ordinary, non-elite actors who, by taking part in Sufi-affiliated religious or professional associations, were able take part in public life in late-Abbasid Baghdad.
Author : Ada Maria Kuskowski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781009217903
Custom was fundamental to medieval legal practice. Whether in a property dispute or a trial for murder, the aggrieved and accused would go to lay court where cases were resolved according to custom. What custom meant, however, went through a radical shift in the medieval period. Between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, custom went from being a largely oral and performed practice to one that was also conceptualized in writing. Based on French lawbooks known as coutumiers, Ada Maria Kuskowski traces the repercussions this transformation – in the form of custom from unwritten to written and in the language of law from elite Latin to common vernacular – had on the cultural world of law. Vernacular Law offers a new understanding of the formation of a new field of knowledge: authors combined ideas, experience and critical thought to write lawbooks that made disparate customs into the field known as customary law.
Author : Eileen Power
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1843832224
A first-hand view of life in medieval France, as seen through the eyes of an elderly man instructing his young wife. The Goodman of Paris (Le Ménagier de Paris) wrote this book for the instruction of his young wife around 1393. He was a wealthy and learned man, a member of that enlightened haute bourgeoisie upon which the French monarchy was coming to lean with increasing confidence. When he wrote his Treatise he was at least sixty but had recently married a young wife some forty years his junior. It fell to her to make his declining years comfortable, but it was his task to make it easy for her to do so. The first part deals with her religious and moral duties: as well as giving a unique picture of the medieval view of wifely behaviour it is illustrated by a series of storiesdrawn from the Goodman's extensive reading and personal experience. In the second part he turns from theory to practice and from soul to body, compiling the most exhaustive treatise on household management which has come downto us from the middle ages. Gardening, hiring of servants, the purchase and preparation of food are all covered, culminating in a detailed and elaborate cookery book. Sadly the author died before he could complete the third section on hawking, games and riddles. This unique glimpse of medieval domestic life presents a worldly, dignified and compelling picture in the words of a man of sensibility and substance. The distinguished historian EILEEN POWER was Professor of Economic History at the University of Cambridge.
Author : Miri Rubin
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0851156223
Essays on medieval history inspired by, and engaging with, the work of Jacques Le Goff. The essays in this volume arise from the proceedings of a conference held in 1994 to celebrate the life and work of the eminent French medievalist Jacques Le Goff. Set within thematic sections -popular religion and heresy, the body, royalty andits mystique, intellectuals in medieval society, and others -many of the challenges raised by Le Goff are reassessed and reapproached. There is an explicit historiographical focus in a section on the reception and influence of Le Goff, with particular reference to the Annales school of history with which he is strongly identified; the volume also indicates the problems which animate current research in medieval studies, especially in certain areas of social and cultural history. MIRI RUBIN is Professor of History, Queen Mary, University of London. Contributors: ALEXANDER MURRAY, PETER BILLER, ANDRÉ VAUCHEZ, R.I. MOORE, OTTO GERHARD OEXLE, LESTER K. LITTLE, WALTER SIMONS, ADELINE RUCQUOI, ALAIN BOUREAU, JEAN DUBABIN, WILLIAM CHESTER JORDAN, PETER LINEHAN, MIRI RUBIN, GABOR KLANICZAY, AARON GUREVICH, ROBIN BRIGGS, STUART CLARK
Author : P. J. P. Goldberg,Felicity Riddy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781903153130
Evidence for childhood and youth from the sixth century to the sixteenth, but with particular emphasis on later medieval England. Moving on from the legacy of Ariès, these essays address evidence for childhood and youth from the sixth century to the sixteenth, but with particular emphasis on later medieval England. The contents include the idea of childhoodin the writing of Gregory of Tours, skaldic verse narratives and their implications for the understanding of kingship, Jewish communities of Northern Europe for whom children represented the continuity of a persecuted faith, children in the records of the northern Italian Humiliati, the meaning of romance narratives centred around the departure of the hero or heroine from the natal hearth, the age at which later medieval English youngsters left home, how far they travelled and where they went, literary sources revealing the politicisation of the idea of the child, and the response of young, affluent females to homiletic literature and the iconography of the virgin martyrs in the later middle ages. Contributors: FRANCES E. ANDREWS, HELEN COOPER, P.J.P.GOLDBERG, SIMCHA GOLDIN, EDWARD F. JAMES, JUDITH JESCH, KIM M. PHILLIPS, MIKE TYLER, ROSALYNN VOADEN.
Author : Kathryn Hurlock,Paul Oldfield
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783270255
An examination into two of the most important activities undertaken by the Normans.
Author : Anthony Musson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780851158426
The first systematic examination of the expectations people had of the law in the middle ages.
Author : Norbert Ohler
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 184383507X
This translation originally published: Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 1989.
Author : Rodney M. Thomson
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1843830302
Best known for his historical writings ('Deeds of the Bishops' and 'Deeds of the Kings of England'), William of Malmesbury was also a biblical commentator, hagiographer and classicist. He was probably the best read of all 12th century men of learning; this work studies his intellectual achievement.
Author : Martin Heale
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781903153581
An investigation into the role of the high-ranking churchman in this period - who they were, what they did, and how they perceived themselves.
Author : Steven J. Gunn,A. Janse
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1843831910
European and English courtly culture and history reappraised through the prism of the court as theatre. In the past half-century, court history has lost the air of frivolity that once relegated it to the margins of serious historical study and has rightfully taken a central part in the study of European states and societies in the age of personal monarchy. Yet it has been approached from so many different angles and appropriated to so many different models that it can be hard to put all our new understandings together to achieve a proper perspective on the functions of the court as a whole. This collection of essays uses the idea of the court as a stage for social and political interaction to re-integrate different styles of court history, focusing on courts in England and the Low Countries from the age of Richard II and Albert of Bavaria to that of Elizabeth I and Philip II. Themes studied include the relationship between court politics and cultural change, the social and political functions of court office-holding, the military, judicial and propagandist roles of the court, the economic relationships between courts and cities and the wider social and political significance of court rituals and traditions.
Author : Stephen Bennett
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783275786
The motivations behind those who went on the Third Crusade examined through close investigation of their social networks.
Author : Mark Bailey
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843835295
In this book, Mark Bailey provides a comprehensive survey of the economy and society of late medieval Suffolk.