Legions Of Pigs In The Early Medieval West

Author : Jamie Kreiner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300255553

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Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West by Jamie Kreiner Pdf

An exploration of life in the early medieval West, using pigs as a lens to investigate agriculture, ecology, economy, and philosophy From North Africa to the British Isles, pigs were a crucial part of agriculture and culture in the early medieval period. Jamie Kreiner examines how this ubiquitous species was integrated into early medieval ecologies and transformed the way that people thought about the world around them. In this world, even the smallest things could have far‑reaching consequences. Kreiner tracks the interlocking relationships between pigs and humans by drawing on textual and visual evidence, bioarchaeology and settlement archaeology, and mammal biology. She shows how early medieval communities bent their own lives in order to accommodate these tricky animals—and how in the process they reconfigured their agrarian regimes, their fiscal policies, and their very identities. In the end, even the pig’s own identity was transformed: by the close of the early Middle Ages, it had become a riveting metaphor for Christianity itself.

Author : Bernard Stanley Bachrach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1081537929

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Armies and Politics in the Early Medieval West by Bernard Stanley Bachrach Pdf

Author : Katy Barnett,Jeremy Gans
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781743822159

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Guilty Pigs by Katy Barnett,Jeremy Gans Pdf

An illuminating and entertaining history of the law’s treatment of animals Trespassing bees, murderous zebras, reasonable cows ... Ever since Biblical times, animals have been clashing with human laws. What to do with animals that injure or kill people, in particular, has long troubled humans. In medieval Europe, ‘killer’ animals – horses, cattle and most often pigs, which were notorious for eating young children – were put on trial. Even in the early twentieth century, circus elephants who lashed out at their keepers in America were summarily executed for their crimes. In Guilty Pigs, animal law experts Katy Barnett and Jeremy Gans guide readers through the philosophy and practice of animal-related law, from the very earliest cases to the issues we are debating today, including the responsibilities of pet owners and the application of human rights to animals. They also cover hunting rights, using animals to solve crime, protecting animals from abuse and neglect, and the unique nature of owning a living being. Filled with lively and sometimes bizarre case studies, this is a fascinating and entertaining read – for all lovers of misbehaving creatures. Katy Barnett is a professor of law at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of the young adult novel The Earth Below and co-author of Remedies in Australian Private Law. Jeremy Gans is a professor of law at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of Modern Criminal Law of Australia and The Ouija Board Jurors: Mystery, Mischief and Misery in the Jury System, a true crime book. He is a co-author of Uniform Evidence.

Author : Bernard S. Bachrach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015064684569

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Armies and Politics in the Early Medieval West by Bernard S. Bachrach Pdf

In these articles Professor Bachrach starts by looking at aspects of the 'barbarian' occupation of the land of the Roman Empire, from Britain to the Alan settlements in southern Gaul. His particular interest, however, is in the political and, above all, in the military structures that grew out of the Early Middle Ages. He has sought to demonstrate that there was a fundamental continuity in military organisation and tactics from the Merovingian through the Carolingian period. As he shows, there is no reason to connect the origins of 'feudalism' with Charles Martel's wish to create a force of cavalry, and it is a fallacy that he grasped the potential of the stirrup for enabling mounted shock combat. On the contrary, its use in the West progressed only slowly, and it had nothing to do with the origins or growth of feudalism. Le professeur Bachrach débute par l'analyse de certains aspects de l'occupation barbare des terres de l'empire romain, de la Grande-Bretagne aux campements alans en Gaule méridionale. Il s'attache en suite aux structures politiques et, surtout, militaires qui furent issues du Haut Moyen Age. Selon lui, et il tente d'en faire ici la démonstration, l'organisation et les tactiques militaires ont fait preuve d'une continuité fondamentale de l'époque mérovingienne à celle des Carolingiens. Comme il le demontre, il n'y a pas lieu d'établir de liens entre l'origine du féodalisme et le désir qu'avait Charles Martel de créer une cavalerie; il est également tout à fait erroné de dire que ce dernier s'était rendu compte du potentiel de l'étrier en tant que facteur de mener des combats à cheval de choc. Bien contraire, l'utilisation de l'étrier à l'Ouest ne fit que progresser lentement et aucun rapport n'existe entre cet instrument et l'origine ou la croissance de la féodalité.

Author : Y. Hen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780230593640

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Roman Barbarians by Y. Hen Pdf

This study investigates the place of the royal court and the operation of patronage in several European kingdoms in the early Middle Ages. It seeks to identify the roots of later medieval developments, and especially of the Carolingian Renaissance, in the centuries immediately succeeding the period of Roman rule.

Author : Arie Krampf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351759595

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The Israeli Path to Neoliberalism by Arie Krampf Pdf

In recent years, Israel has deeply and quickly transformed itself from a self-perceived social-democratic regime into a privatized and liberalized "Start-Up Nation" and a highly divided society. This transition to neoliberalism has been coupled with the adoption of a hawkish and isolationist foreign policy. How can such a deep change be explained? How can a state presumably founded on the basis of socialist ideas, turn within a few decades into a country characterized by a level of inequality comparable to that of the United States? By presenting a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the evolution of the Israeli economy from the 1930s to the 1990s, The Israeli Path to Neoliberalism seeks to explain the Israeli path to neoliberalism. It debunks the ‘from-socialism-to-liberalization’ narrative, arguing that the evolution of Israeli capitalism cannot be described or explained as a simple transplantation of imported economic models from advanced liberal democracies. Rather, it asserts that the Israeli variant of capitalism is the product of the encounter between imported Western institutional models and policy ideas, on the one hand, and domestic economic, social and security policy problems on the other. This mechanism of change enables us to understand the factors that gave rise to Israel’s unique combination of liberalization and strong national sentiments. Providing an in-depth analysis of Israel’s transformation to neoliberalism, the book is a valuable resource for those studying the economic history of Israel, or the political economy of late-developing countries.

Author : Gillian Weiss
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804777841

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Captives and Corsairs by Gillian Weiss Pdf

Captives and Corsairs uncovers a forgotten story in the history of relations between the West and Islam: three centuries of Muslim corsair raids on French ships and shores and the resulting captivity of tens of thousands of French subjects and citizens in North Africa. Through an analysis of archival materials, writings, and images produced by contemporaries, the book fundamentally revises our picture of France's emergence as a nation and a colonial power, presenting the Mediterranean as an essential vantage point for studying the rise of France. It reveals how efforts to liberate slaves from North Africa shaped France's perceptions of the Muslim world and of their own "Frenchness". From around 1550 to 1830, freeing these captives evolved from an expression of Christian charity to a method of state building and, eventually, to a rationale for imperial expansion. Captives and Corsairs thus advances new arguments about the fluid nature of slavery and firmly links captive redemption to state formation—and in turn to the still vital ideology of liberatory conquest.

Author : Francis Oakley
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300183504

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The Mortgage of the Past by Francis Oakley Pdf

Francis Oakley continues his magisterial three-part history of the emergence of Western political thought during the Middle Ages with this second volume in the series. Here, Oakley explores kingship from the tenth century to the beginning of the fourteenth, showing how, under the stresses of religious and cultural development, kingship became an inceasingly secular institution. “A masterpiece and the central part of a trilogy that will be a true masterwork.”—Jeffrey Burton Russell, University of California, Santa Barbara

Author : Paolo Squatriti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107034488

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Landscape and Change in Early Medieval Italy by Paolo Squatriti Pdf

An innovative environmental history of the chestnut tree and what it can tell us about the medieval history of Italy.

Author : Geraldine Heng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108422789

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The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages by Geraldine Heng Pdf

This book challenges the common belief that race and racisms are phenomena that began only in the modern era.

Author : Jamie Kreiner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107050655

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The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom by Jamie Kreiner Pdf

This book shows how a set of great stories changed the political playing field in an early medieval society.

Author : Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004417076

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Aelia Capitolina – Jerusalem in the Roman Period by Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah Pdf

The book discusses the history and the archaeology of Jerusalem-Aelia Capitolina in the Roman period (70–400 CE) following a chronological order. The Tenth Legion’s campsite, the urban layout, the fortifications, the necropoleis and the rural hinterland are discussed.

Author : Paul David Buell,Eugene N. Anderson,Montserrat de Pablo Moya,Moldir Oskenbay
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004432109

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Crossroads of Cuisine by Paul David Buell,Eugene N. Anderson,Montserrat de Pablo Moya,Moldir Oskenbay Pdf

Crossroads of Cuisine offers history of food and cultural exchanges in and around Central Asia. It discusses geographical base, and offers historical and cultural overview. A photo essay binds it all together. The book offers new views of the past.

Author : Norman Pounds
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216116417

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The Medieval City by Norman Pounds Pdf

An introduction to the life of towns and cities in the medieval period, this book shows how medieval towns grew to become important centers of trade and liberty. Beginning with a look at the Roman Empire's urban legacy, the author delves into urban planning or lack thereof; the urban way of life; the church in the city; city government; urban crafts and urban trade, health, wealth, and welfare; and the city in history. Annotated primary documents like Domesday Book, sketches of street life, and descriptions of fairs and markets bring the period to life, and extended biographical sketches of towns, regions, and city-dwellers provide readers with valuable detail. In addition, 26 maps and illustrations, an annotated bibliography, glossary, and index round out the work. After a long decline in urban life following the fall of the Roman Empire, towns became centers of trade and of liberty during the medieval period. Here, the author describes how, as Europe stabilized after centuries of strife, commerce and the commercial class grew, and urban areas became an important source of revenue into royal coffers. Towns enjoyed various levels of autonomy, and always provided goods and services unavailable in rural areas. Hazards abounded in towns, though. Disease, fire, crime and other hazards raised mortality rates in urban environs. Designed as an introduction to life of towns and cities in the medieval period, eminent historian Norman Pounds brings to life the many pleasures, rewards, and dangers city-dwellers sought and avoided. Beginning with a look at the Roman Empire's urban legacy, Pounds delves into Urban Planning or lack thereof; The Urban Way of Life; The Church in the City; City Government; Urban Crafts and Urban Trade, Health, Wealth, and Welfare; and The City in History. Annotated primary documents like Domesday Book, sketches of street life, and descriptions of fairs and markets bring the period to life, and extended biographical sketches of towns, regions, and city-dwellers provide readers with valuable detail. In addition, 26 maps and illustrations, an annotated bibliography, glossary, and index round out the work.

Author : James C. Kennedy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521875882

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A Concise History of the Netherlands by James C. Kennedy Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive yet compact history of this surprisingly little-known but fascinating country, from pre-history to the present.