for example: Byzantine , Religion , Wars advanced search
Frank Meier introduces the topics of violence and captivity in medieval warfare. He confronts normative thinking about violence with the practices of violence.
This book analyses the early use of the printing press in papal political communication, decades before the protestant reformation. In doing so, it explores a huge archive of incunabula and challenges many conventional narratives of the media history of late medieval warfare.
This study deals with the many forms of slavery that resiliently continued in the Euro-Mediterranean world after the end of the Western Roman Empire, studying the major post-Roman polities with a comparative lens. The book’s main thesis concerns our understanding of early medieval unfreedom itself; according to the author, different categories of unfreedom could be adopted by landlords to manage and control their labour pool.
The Book by Mareike Pohl examines military actions under Frederick I Barbarossa through modern sociological methods, emphasizing rational behavior over the fulfilment of honor in warfare. It reevaluates medieval sources, explores motivations like loot and payment, and challenges traditional honor-driven interpretations with a nuanced, multi-factorial perspective.
Martin Clauss is a professor of Medieval History at the University of Chemnitz. His expertise in medieval warfare is attested by various books, “Militärgeschichte des Mittelalters” being one of his latest (2020), published as part of the C.H.Beck Wissen series.
At its core, the book espouses an understanding of the concept of slavery taken from Orlando Patterson and Jennifer Glancy, which not only sees the relationship between master and slave as one of total domination of the latter by the former, but also considers the status and experience of a person of unfree status as fundamentally influenced by their gender.
The edited volume at hand aims to provide an overview of contemporary international discourse on the subject for both students and researchers. It assembles 27 current perspectives of academics on the role of the Crusades in the historical culture of their respective countries.
Graphic Signs of Authority in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, 300–900 deals with the cultural history of what the author calls „graphic signs“.
The anthology Zeichen und Medien des Militärischen am Fürstenhof im frühneuzeitlichen Europa includes articles about art and culture at noble courts
In his monograph Krieg in der Oper, Dennis Roth discusses the occurrence of war-related topics and motives in opera.
In her postdoctoral thesis (Habilitation), Dorothea Schröder studies the operatic staging of contemporary history in late 17th to early 18th century Hamburg.
Early Medieval Hagiography attempts to outline the nature of hagiographical narratives, and to describe complexity and diversity of the Early Middle Ages