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Using histories, letters, and material culture from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, this book explores how violence was understood and justified during the time of the crusades.

This book examines imaging techniques for digitizing illuminated manuscripts, demonstrating the range of technologies necessary to show the materiality of medieval culture.

A comparative approach to the role of women in religious and monastic life in Europe and the Americas during the medieval and early modern periods.

"This volume brings together Jan ¡asiki's On the Gods of the Samogitians, Jan Malecki's Little Book on the Sacrifices and Idolatry of the Old Prussians, and other Latin texts on Baltic paganism, none of which have hitherto been translated into English"--Page 4 of cover.

An annual publication of historiographical essays on the pre-modern world; this issue celebrating the life and work of Paul E. Szarmach.

A comparative analysis tackling the impact of the growth of centralized government on elite women's power in later twelfth- and thirteenth-century Boulogne and northern France.

Grounds mythologized stories of Desert Ascetics with insights into lived monasticism and monastic archaeology in Egypt.

A study of medieval Marian laments, a performative genre that offered clerical and lay audiences a deeply inspiring devotional experience.

Evidence that the Second Plague Pandemic was already ravaging China by the early thirteenth century--over a century before it made its virulent appearance in the Mediterranean.

Analyzes how biblical analogy functioned as a religio-political tool for Elizabeth across her reign, and argues that their widespread use demonstrates their potency as a tool for legitimizing and sustaining her power.

This volume examines new ways to design, develop, explore, and visualize spatial datasets to investigate spatial dimensions and world perceptions in pre-modern sources and societies.

The concept of the Rus' Land became and remained an historical myth of modern Russian nationalism as the equivalent of "Russia." This book looks at the history of the use of the concept of the Rus' Land from the tenth to the seventeenth century.

This study shows the importance of carolling in the celebrations and festivities of medieval Britain and demonstrates its longevity from the eleventh century to the sixteenth.

This book examines how the military orders and the ideology of crusading gave rise to a new sacred landscape in the medieval Baltic region, an outpost of Latin Christianity.

This book argues that the causes that led to the Islamization of most of the Holy Land's population from the seventh century onwards, as well as the survival of some religious communities, are essentially social and geographic in nature, rather than theological.

Explores how one early medieval poet survived and thrived amidst the political turbulence of sixth-century Merovingian Gaul, and how the language of friendship shaped beliefs and behaviours, leading to social cohesion even within kingdoms repeatedly wracked by civil wars.

This book provides a concise overview of the history of Polynesia, focusing on New Zealand and its outlying islands, during the period 900-1600. It provides a thematic examination of Polynesia to avoid placing the region's history into an inaccurate, linear Western chronology. The themes of movement and migration, adaptation and change, and development and expansion offer the optimal means of understanding Polynesia during this time. Through this innovative and unique perspective on Polynesian history, which has not been previously undertaken, the reader is encouraged to think about regions outside Europe in relation to the premodern period.