The late fourteenth-century English poem Winner and Waster narrates a debate between the forces of avarice (Winner) and generosity (Waster); it ranges...
Martin Luthers Thesen gegen den Ablass gaben 1517 den Anstoß zur Reformation. Weniger bekannt ist die lange Vorgeschichte der Ablassverkü...
A Chronology of the Crusades provides a day-by-day development of the Crusading movement, the Crusades and the states created by them through the...
Simultaneously real and unreal, the dead are people, yet they are not. The society of medieval Europe developed a rich set of imaginative traditions...
The Akhb?r majm?‘a, or 'Collected Accounts', deal with the Muslim conquest of the Iberian peninsula in 711 and subsequent events in al-Andalus, down...
First published in 1932, this book looks at a period that has often been thought of as a time of general decline in the most characteristic features...
This biography of Alfred the Great, king of the West Saxons (871-899), combines a sensitive reading of the primary sources with a careful evaluation...
This translation, first published in 1993, presents a little-known medieval romance to readers who do not know Old French, or who are generally...
The practice of anchoritism - religious enclosure which was frequently solitary and voluntarily embraced, very often in a permanent capacity - was...