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Books on: medieval age

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The Medieval Scene, an Informal Introduction to the Middle Ages

Book by G. G. Coulton; Cambridge University Press, 1930

Subjects:

Civilization, Medieval, Middle Ages--History, Social History--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...academic or official side of medieval thought. But we must not...perspective to judge an age by its greatest men only...exaggerated the efficacy of medieval discipline; and, in consequence, the homogeneity of medieval doctrine. We may see this...
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Old Age in Late Medieval England

Book by Joel T. Rosenthal; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996

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Aged--England--History, Great Britain--History--Medieval Period, 1066-1485, Intergenerational Relations--England--History, Old Age--England--History

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...cultural construct. Seemingly, medieval views about age and the segments of the life cycle...rationalized, perhaps on grounds of age itself, as with the men excused...the aged? If we are looking to medieval society for a philanthropic outreach...
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The Role of Woman in the Middle Ages: Papers of the Sixth Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, 6-7 May 1972

Book by Rosmarie Thee Morewedge; State University of New York Press, 1975

Subjects:

Social History--Medieval, 500-1500--Congresses, Women In Literature--Congresses, Women--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500--Congresses, Women--Social Conditions--Congresses

Collections: History, Entire Library

...who die at abnormally young ages, when their husbands are still...The inscriptions recording the age of death for wives are thus...to pass away at an untimely age. Hopkins adds the telling comment...the average difference in age between wives and husbands was...is clearly the situation in medieval Italian towns, where a comparable...
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The Late Medieval Age of Crisis and Renewal, 1300-1500: A Biographical Dictionary

Book by Clayton J. Drees; Greenwood Press, 2001

Subjects:

Civilization, Medieval--Dictionaries, Europe--History--1492-1517--Biography--Dictionaries, Europe--History--476-1492--Biography--Dictionaries, Europe--Social Conditions--To 1492--Dictionaries

Collections: History, Entire Library

...in the daily lives of late medieval believers was all-pervasive...intellectual enterprises of the age. Great universities had appeared...Crown and the church. Late medieval Europe was, therefore, a...difficult ordeals of the late medieval age began innocently enough...
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Castles in Medieval Society: Fortresses in England, France, and Ireland in the Central Middle Ages

Book by Charles L. H. Coulson; Oxford University Press, 2003

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Castles--England--History--To 1500, Castles--France--History--To 1500, Castles--Ireland--History--To 1500, England--Social Conditions--1066-1485, Fortification--England--History--To 1500, Fortification--France--History--To 1500, Fortification--Ireland--History--To 1500, France--Social Conditions--987-1515, Ireland--History--1172-1603, Social History--Medieval, 500-1500

Collections: History, Entire Library

later Middle Ages when the feudal castle had...delusive to readers in later ages, as though Round and Armitage...castle sites (cf. approx. 680 medieval), 40 are Iron Age (a few only reused); 15...Tudor and Stuart rebuilds of medieval. These figures could be multiplied...

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Journal Articles on: medieval age

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A Vanished World: Medieval Spain's Golden Age of Enlightenment

Journal article by Paulette L. Pepin; The Historian, Vol. 68, 2006

Subjects:

A Vanished World: Medieval Spain's Golden Age of Enlightenment (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

A Vanished World: Medieval Spains Golden Age of Enlightenment. by Paulette L. Pepin A Vanished World: Medieval Spains Golden Age of Enlightenment...rather curious title. Was not the medieval era, especially in the milieu...
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Pratiques De Traduction Au Moyen Age/Medieval Translation Practices: Actes Du Colloque De l'Universite De Copenhague

Journal article by Laurence Mathey-Maille; Medium Aevum, Vol. 74, 2005

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Books--Book reviews, Pratiques de traduction au Moyen Age/Medieval Translation Practices: Actes du Colloque de l'Universite de Copenhague (Book)--Book reviews

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Pratiques De Traduction Au Moyen Age/Medieval Translation Practices: Actes Du Colloque De lUniversite...Laurence Mathey-Maille Pratiques de traduction au Moyen Age/Medieval Translation Practices: Actes du Colloque de lUniversite...
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Helen M. Jewell. Women in Dark Age and Early Medieval Europe, C. 500-1200

Journal article by Andrea Janelle Dickens; Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, Vol. 33, 2008

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Books--Book reviews, Women in Dark Age and Early Medieval Europe, c. 500-1200 (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: Education, History, Entire Library

...scholarship in Women in Dark Age and Early Medieval Europe...previous works include a volume on medieval women in England, a volume on education in medieval England, and other assorted pieces on insular medieval history, has traversed the...antiquity until the high middle ages, so it assumes a knowledge...
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Old Age in Late Medieval England

Journal article by Felicity Heal; Medium Aevum, Vol. 67, 1998

Subjects:

Books--Reviews, Old Age in Late Medieval England. (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Old Age in Late Medieval England by FELICITY HEAL Joel T. Rosenthal, Old Age in Late Medieval England (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...topoi and representations. None of the medieval sources, to be sure, can sustain an...
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Malcolm Jones. the Secret Middle Ages: Discovering the Real Medieval World

Journal article by Roman Tokarczyk; Utopian Studies, Vol. 16, 2005

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Books--Book reviews, The Secret Middle Ages: Discovering the Real Medieval World (Book)--Book reviews

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...the Secret Middle Ages: Discovering the Real Medieval World. by Roman Tokarczyk...Discovering the Real Medieval World. Westport...culture in the Middle Ages, she concludes: these...mentalite of the ordinary medieval man and woman...

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Magazine Articles on: medieval age

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Violence and the Law in Medieval England: How Dangerous Was Life in the Middle Ages? Sean McGlynn Gets to Grips with the Level of Violent Crime, and the Sometimes Cruel Justice Meted out to Offenders

Magazine article by Sean Mcglynn; History Today, Vol. 58, April 2008

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Administration of criminal justice--History, British history, to 1066, Criminal justice, Administration of--History, Medieval history, Violence

Collections: History, Entire Library

Violence and the Law in Medieval England: How Dangerous Was Life in the Middle Ages? Sean McGlynn Gets to Grips...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED The medieval world has an understandable...Butcher of the Balkans of medieval savagery. A common perception...
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Art and Patronage in Late Medieval England: To Accompany the Major Exhibition Opening at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Janet Backhouse Explores the Varied Roles of Patronage in the Art of the Later Middle Ages

Magazine article by Janet Backhouse; History Today, Vol. 53, October 2003

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Art, Medieval--Exhibitions, Victoria and Albert Museum--Exhibitions

Collections: History, Entire Library

...commodity and the late medieval book trade was an international...throughout most of the medieval English church. Service...patronage in the late Middle Ages is the Book of Hours...at a relatively early age and was too young to...the kings and queens of medieval England occurs only sporadically...in the earlier Middle Ages. Not until the latter...
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Abbots Ascendant: William Chester Jordan's Study of One of Medieval Europe's Great Monastic Rivalries Suggests That Social Mobility May Have Been More Common in the Middle Ages Than Historians Previously Thought

Magazine article by William Chester Jordan; History Today, Vol. 59, August 2009

Subjects:

Abbots--History, Aliens, Church history, 600-1500 (Middle Ages), Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500, Church--Social aspects, Social mobility--History, de Vendome, Mathieu--History, de Ware, Richard--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Chester Jordans Study of One of Medieval Europes Great Monastic Rivalries...Been More Common in the Middle Ages Than Historians Previously Thought...OMITTED Englishmen of the Middle Ages born into privilege frequently...appear, in the context of the medieval church. ILLUSTRATION OMITTED...
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In the Medieval Moment: The Past Is More Than a Set of Events with an Inevitable Outcome. Historians Must Strive to Capture It in All Its Fascinating Strangeness, Argues Chris Wickham, as He Ponders the Problems of Writing about the Middle Ages

Magazine article by Chris Wickham; History Today, Vol. 59, June 2009

Subjects:

History--Portrayals, Middle Ages--Portrayals

Collections: History, Entire Library

In the Medieval Moment: The Past Is More Than...of Writing about the Middle Ages. by Chris Wickham ILLUSTRATION...moment in which the Middle Ages achieved its canonical form...disgraced as most parvenus did in medieval politics, but as Pope Silvester...
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Christian-Muslim Understanding in the Later Middle Ages: Richard Fletcher Asks to What Extent Medieval Christians and Muslims Sought to Move beyond Mutual Hostility

Magazine article by Richard Fletcher; History Today, Vol. 53, April 2003

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Christianity and other religions--Islam

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Fletcher Asks to What Extent Medieval Christians and Muslims...expedition of the later Middle Ages had ended in humiliating...were available to late medieval Europeans? What is striking...death at an advanced old age while attempting to preach...Islam in the later Middle Ages one can discern a range...conflict. These later medieval experiments shaped...

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Newspaper Articles on: medieval age

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True Story of Medieval England - in Microcosm; the Appeal of Court Rolls to a Medieval Historian Is That They Are the Closest One Can Get to the Real Life of the Middle Ages. and Halesowen Has One of the Best Records in the West Midlands, Discovers CHRIS UPTON LOCAL HISTORY

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), March 29, 2008

Subjects:

Historians, Middle Ages

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

True Story of Medieval England - in Microcosm; the Appeal of Court Rolls to a Medieval Historian Is That They Are...the Real Life of the Middle Ages. and Halesowen Has One of...dipping into any history of medieval England might bring some...
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Knights in Broad Daylight Medieval Society, MCC Explore Middle Ages for Education

Newspaper article by Emily Krone; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), June 3, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Knights in Broad Daylight Medieval Society, MCC Explore Middle Ages for Education. by Emily Krone...tights - nearly everything medieval but the plague - filled McHenry...that re-enacts and recreates medieval times, was presenting its...
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The Blind Date and Eurotrash of the Middle Ages; Pleasures and Pastimes of Medieval England. by Compton Reeves (Sutton: Pounds 10.99). Reviewed by Richard Edmonds

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), December 19, 1998

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...and Eurotrash of the Middle Ages; Pleasures and Pastimes of Medieval England. by Compton Reeves...her perceptions of life in medieval England on Shakespeares Plantagenet...time (a modern concept the medieval world would not have understood...
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Demands of Today Place New Burden on Warwick; It Is One of England's Best-Known Medieval Towns and Has Managed to Preserve Its Identity through the Ages. Eager to Protect That Character, the Inhabitants of Warwick Are Not Too Keen on the Latest Plans Drawn Up by Civic Officials, Which Would See New Housing and More Traffic, as One Local Resident Lucy Phillips Reports

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), September 27, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Warwick; It Is One of Englands Best-Known Medieval Towns and Has Managed to Preserve Its Identity through the Ages. Eager to Protect That Character, the...character of such a well-preserved, medieval, walled town. Perhaps the doubts stem...
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Middle Ages in Modern Times the Bristol Renaissance Faire Opens Today, but for Some Enthusiasts, the Medieval Times Go Year- Round

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 7, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Middle Ages in Modern Times the Bristol...for Some Enthusiasts, the Medieval Times Go Year- Round. Byline...group discussed the idea of a medieval re- enactment group. Members...have been involved in the medieval lifestyle for more than 10...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: medieval age

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Middle Ages

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...vitality, and religious fervor of medieval culture are evident in the...World The transition from the medieval to the modern world was foreshadowed...inquiring spirit stimulated the age of exploration. Banking...Renaissance . Finally, the great medieval unity of Christianity was shattered...
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Arabic Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...significant Arabic literature was produced during the medieval golden age of lyric poetry, from the 4th to the 7th cent. The...of great originality. The greatest mystic poet of the age was Omar Ibn al-Faridh (1181 1235). The influence...
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Scholasticism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...philosophies in the Middle Ages, but basic to all scholastic...virtually every great medieval thinker wrote a commentary...Sentences. The Golden Age The 13th cent. is generally...regarded as the golden age of medieval philosophy. It was...figures of the Middle Ages. He produced a vast...the last of the great medieval philosophers. By firmly...
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Norway

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...into 19 counties (Nor. fylker ). History Medieval Norway The history of Norway before the age of the Vikings is indistinct from that of...him and under Magnus VI (reigned 1263 80) medieval Norway reached its greatest flowering and...
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Burckhardt, Jacob Christoph

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...a pattern of culture peculiar to each age, Burckhardt found the shift from corporate medieval society to the modern spirit occurring...largely on Burckhardts synthesis. In The Age of Constantine the Great (1852, tr...transition from classical times to the Middle Ages. Among his other works on history and...

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