Edited by Victoria Blud et. al
3 January 2019
This collection addresses the concept of gender in the middle ages through the study of place and space, exploring how gender and space may
be mutually constructive and how individuals and communities make and are
made by the places and spaces they inhabit. From
womb to tomb, how are we defined
and confined by gender and by space? Interrogating
the thresholds between sacred and secular, public and private, enclosure and
exposure, domestic and political, movement and stasis, the essays in this
interdisciplinary collection draw on current research and contemporary theory
to suggest new destinations for future study.
Cultural Transmission in the Medieval Norman Worlds
Edited by David Bates et. al
31 January 2018
This
volume is based on two international conferences held in 2013 and 2014 at
Ariano Irpino, and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. It contains essays by
leading scholars in the field. Like the conferences, the volume seeks to
enhance interdisciplinary and international dialogue between those who work on
the Normans and their conquests in northern and southern Europe in
an original way. It has as its central theme issues related to cultural
transfer, treated as being of a pan-European kind across the
societies that the Normans conquered and as occurring within the distinct societies
of the northern and southern conquests. These issues are also shown to be an aspect of the interaction between
the Normans and the peoples they subjugated,...
Its role in earlier medieval change and exchange
Volume editor Judith Herrin and Jinty Nelson
24 June 2016
In the long-debated transition from late antiquity to the early middle ages, the city of Ravenna presents a story rich and strange. From the fourth century onwards it suffered decline in economic terms. Yet its geographical position, its status as an imperial capital, and above all its role as a connecting point between East and West, ensured that it remained an intermittent attraction for early medieval kings and emperors throughout the period from the late fifth to the eleventh century. Ravenna’s story is all the more interesting because it was complicated and unpredictable: discontinuous and continuous, sometimes obscure, sometimes including bursts of energetic activity. Throughout the early medieval centuries its flame sometimes flared...
Essays in Honour of James L. Bolton
Edited by Matthew Davies
10 June 2016
This volume contains selected essays in celebration of the scholarship of the medieval historian Professor James L. Bolton. The essays address a number of different questions in medieval economic and social history, as the volume looks at the activities of merchants, their trade, legal interactions and identities, and on the importance of money and credit in the rural and urban economies. Other essays look more widely at patterns of immigration to London, trade and royal policy, and the role that merchants played in the Hundred Years War.
