Studies in Medieval History and Culture
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Cardinal Bessarion (1403–1472): Most Latin of Greeks, Most Greek of Latins
1st Edition
By Michael Malone-Lee
November 28, 2025
Cardinal Bessarion was a towering figure in the fifteenth-century Renaissance. His life spanned the century. In his sixty-nine years of life, he was a stellar student, a Basilian monk, a Greek Orthodox archbishop, a Roman cardinal, a papal diplomat, and an eminent humanist and scholar. Cardinal ...
The Emergence of the Nobility in East Central Europe between the Eighth and Thirteenth Centuries
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Antonín, Jiří Macháček
November 24, 2025
The Emergence of the Nobility in East Central Europe between the Eighth and Thirteenth Centuries explores the formation and evolution of medieval elites in the frontier and peripheral regions of the Frankish/East Frankish Empire and East Central Europe between the eighth and thirteenth centuries. ...
Sexuality in Medieval Poland in a European Context
1st Edition
By Karolina Morawska
October 31, 2025
This book explores the development of sexual ethics in medieval Poland, focusing on how the process of Christianization integrated Poland into the Western European cultural sphere, and how the adoption of Christian norms and practices significantly shaped its moral and legal views on sexuality. ...
Peacemaking and the Restraint of Violence in High Medieval Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Simon Lebouteiller, Louisa Taylor
June 27, 2025
The High Middle Ages have been seen as an important point within the development of governmental and administrative bureaucracy, as well as a time in which there was frequent conflict. This volume addresses the methods by which violence was regulated and mitigated, and peaceful relations were ...
The Cultural Power of Medieval Monarchy: Politics, Learning and Patronage in the Royal Courts of Europe, 1000–1300
1st Edition
By Manuel Alejandro Rodríguez de la Peña
May 06, 2025
This book focuses on why the diffusion of the political theology of royal wisdom created “Solomonic” princes with intellectual interests all around the medieval West and how these learned rulers changed the face of Western Europe through their policies and the cultural power of medieval monarchy. ...
Early Medieval Hum and Bosnia, ca. 450-1200: Beyond Myths
1st Edition
By Danijel Džino
December 18, 2024
This book explores social transformations which led to the establishment of medieval Hum (future Herzegovina) and Bosnia in the period from ca. 450 to 1200 AD using the available written and material sources. It follows social and political developments in these historical regions from the last ...
The Door of the Caliph: Concepts of the Court in the Umayyad Caliphate of al-Andalus
1st Edition
By Elsa Cardoso
December 18, 2024
This book focuses on the conceptualization of the court, palace and ruler of the Umayyad Caliphate of al-Andalus. Western terminology still plays a normative role in the representation of foreign courts, determining concepts that fit poorly into chronologies with their own dynamics and ...
Communicating Papal Authority in the Middle Ages
1st Edition
Edited
By Minoru Ozawa, Thomas W. Smith, Georg Strack
August 26, 2024
This book bridges Japanese and European scholarly approaches to ecclesiastical history to provide new insights into how the papacy conceptualised its authority and attempted to realise and communicate that authority in ecclesiastical and secular spheres across Christendom. Adopting a broad, yet ...
Networking in Late Medieval Central Europe: Friends, Families, Foes
1st Edition
Edited
By Beata Możejko, Anna Orłowska, Leslie Carr-Riegel
August 26, 2024
Exploring the formation of networks across late medieval Central Europe, this book examines the complex interaction of merchants, students, artists, and diplomats in a web of connections that linked the region. These individuals were friends in business ventures, occasionally families, and not ...
Making Miracles in Medieval England
1st Edition
By Tom Lynch
May 27, 2024
The cult of the saints was central to medieval Christianity largely due to the miraculous. Saints were members of the elect of heaven and could intercede with God on the behalf of supplicants. Whilst people visited shrines and prayed to the saints for many reasons it was the hope of intercession ...
The Friar and the Philosopher: William of Moerbeke and the Rise of Aristotle’s Science in Medieval Europe
1st Edition
By Pieter Beullens
May 27, 2024
William of Moerbeke was a prolific medieval translator of Aristotle and other ancient philosophical and scientific authors from Greek into Latin, and he played a decisive role in the acceptance of Aristotelian philosophy in the Latin world. He is often criticized for an allegedly deficient ...
The ‘Other’, Identity, and Memory in Early Medieval Italy
1st Edition
By Luigi Andrea Berto
May 27, 2024
The political fragmentation of Italy—created by Charlemagne’s conquest of a part of the Lombard Kingdom in 774 and the weakening of the Byzantine Empire in the eighth and ninth centuries—, the conquest of Sicily by the Muslims in the ninth century, and the Norman ‘conquest’ of southern Italy in the...