Author: Hunt Janin
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2009-10-15
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0786445025
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A primer on medieval justice, this book focuses on France, Germany and England and covers the thousand years between the transformation of the Roman world in Western Europe, which took place around the 4th and 5th centuries, and the European Renaissance of the 14th and 15th centuries. It highlights key elements in the intricate, overlapping legal systems of the Middle Ages and describes a wide range of contemporary laws and cases. A discussion of the modern legacies of medieval law is included, as are a brief overview of the Inquisition, the 27 articles of Joan of Arc and useful commentary on many other topics. Illustrations range from the earliest known depictions of English courts and illuminations of torture to pictures of important sites, events, and instruments of punishment in medieval law.
Author: Murielle Gaude-Ferragu
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-08-31
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1349930288
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines the power held by the French medieval queens during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and their larger roles within the kingdom at a time when women were excluded from succession to the throne. Well before Catherine and Marie de’ Medici, the last medieval French queens played an essential role in the monarchy, not only because they bore the weight of their dynasty’s destiny but also because they embodied royal majesty alongside their husbands. Since women were excluded from the French crown in 1316, they were only deemed as “queen consorts.” Far from being confined solely to the private sphere, however, these queens participated in the communication of power and contributed to the proper functioning of “court society.” From Isabeau of Bavaria and her political influence during her husband’s intermittent absences to Anne of Brittany’s reign, this book sheds light on the meaning and complexity of the office of queen and ultimately the female history of power.
Author: Constance Brittain Bouchard
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780801485480
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Medieval society was dominated by its knights and nobles. The literature created in medieval Europe was primarily a literature of knightly deeds, and the modern imagination has also been captured by these leaders and warriors. This book explores the nature of the nobility, focusing on France in the High Middle Ages (11th-13th centuries). Constance Brittain Bouchard examines their families; their relationships with peasants, townspeople, and clerics; and the images of them fashioned in medieval literary texts. She incorporates throughout a consideration of noble women and the nobility's attitude toward women. Research in the last two generations has modified and expanded modern understanding of who knights and nobles were; how they used authority, war, and law; and what position they held within the broader society. Even the concepts of feudalism, courtly love, and chivalry, once thought to be self-evident aspects of medieval society, have been seriously questioned. Bouchard presents bold new interpretations of medieval literature as both reflecting and criticizing the role of the nobility and their behavior. She offers the first synthesis of this scholarship in accessible form, inviting general readers as well as students and professional scholars to a new understanding of aristocratic role and function.
Author: Robert Chazan
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2019-12-01
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781421430669
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This story is significant for all who are fascinated by the capacity of human groups to respond and adapt creatively to a hostile and limiting environment.
Author: John Jr. Bell Henneman
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1995-07-24
Total Pages: 1088
ISBN-13: 9780203344873
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This information filled Encyclopedia of over 2400 entries covers the political, intellectual. Literary, and musical history of the country from the early fifth century to the late fifteenth. The shorter entries offer succinct summaries of the lives of individuals, events, works, cities, monuments, and other important subjects, followed by essential bibliographies. Longer essay-length articles provide interpretative comments about significant institutions and important periods or events.
Author: William W. Kibler
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-03-07
Total Pages: 2071
ISBN-13: 113557541X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first single-volume reference work on the history and culture of medieval France, this information-filled Encyclopedia of over 2,400 entries covers the political, intellectual, literary, and musical history of the country from the early fifth century to the late 15th. The shorter entries offer succinct summaries of the lives of individuals, events, works, cities, monuments, and other important subjects, followed by essential bibliographies. Longer essay-length articles provide interpretive comments about significant institutions and important periods or events. The Encyclopedia is thoroughly cross-referenced and includes a generous selection of illustrations, maps, charts, and genealogies
Author: Arthur Augustus Tilley
Publisher: New York : Hafner
Published: 1922
Total Pages: 582
ISBN-13:
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