How do you go about communicating the intent to reform a church organisation reaching from Iceland to Sicily in the 11th century? And with it the wider society? This fundamental question has been explored by Arian Lorke in a new book
Category: Medieval Books
Trade and Civilisation from Prehistory to the Early Modern Era
Trade and commerce bind the world together and creates wealth. Trade networks, however, were never durable. New book examines the diverging systems in a global historical context.
Trustworthy Men: How Inequality and Faith Made the Medieval Church
How did the medieval parish function? What role did the priest play? And what role the "trustworthy men". New book tells the story
Life Inside the Cloister or Understanding Monastic Architecture
A cloister is a covered walk surrounding the inner courtyard of a monastery or convent. But it is also a synonym of the wider institutions, in which they were found - the abbeys, the friaries, the priories, the monasteries, and the convents. New book tells the story of how the cloister became more than an element of architecture
Dark Age Nunneries and Female Monasticism
Nunneries in the Carolingian and Ottonian World 800–1050 were vibrant and creative lifeworlds
The Medieval Calendar in Books of Hours
For people in the Middle Ages keeping track of time was all important. Early on, the Church set up itself as the timekeeper par excellence. But how did clerics keep the time? New book introduces the student to the intricacies of medieval timekeeping.
Peace and Penance in Late Medieval Italy
New book by Katherine Ludwig Jansen explores how late medieval search for personal peace through regimens of penance, inspired the creation of a particular legal instrument to also obtain civic peace.
Dress and Personal Appearance in Late Antiquity
Even though clothes in Late Antiquity might be mended and remade until they were threadbare, they might still be embellished with cut out appliques of recycled tapestries.
Cræft – True Meaning of Traditional Crafts
An archaeologist takes us into the ancient world of traditional crafts to uncover their deep, original histories. Filled with a slow living it speaks to out innermost and deep yearning af a simple life
Cod, Herring and Medieval Sea Fishing
Around the year 1000, Marine Fishing came to play a significant role supplying nutritious protein. New book gathers the results of decades of research.
Cnut the Great – A New Biography
Cnut the Great is one of the overlooked English kings. Maligned as aprimitive Viking conqueror, the story has most often been told as a civilising project carried out by Emma. Not so in this new biography.
Dead Viking Warriors in Living Memory.
The archaeologist, Anne Pedersen, has painstakingly sifted through the reports of excavations of Viking warrior tombs in Denmark. New book tells the story
Cultural Environmental History Research
We may feel that nature is given. But it is also a significant cultural and historical construct. New book offers introduction to environmental history
Environment in the Classical and Medieval Worlds
Environmentalism covers the ancient idea that environments and climate influences our mentalities. New book offers an introduction
Environmental Humanities in Pre-Modern Cultures
New series in environmental humanities aim to offer interdisciplinary approaches to medieval, early modern, and global pre-industrial cultures
Mother of Mercy – Bane of the Jews
In Anglo-Norman England, the Benedictines found innovative ways to venerate Mary as the Mother of Mercy exhibiting her as the favourite enemy of the Jews.