Nicolle is primarily concerned with the extent to which changes in military technology within a culture during the Middle Ages reflected influence from other cultures, and to what extent resulted from
This collection includes eleven essays written between 1986 to 1997. They describe the structure and functioning of the patronage system, as well as its political implications (especially as concerns
The fourth volume of collected studies by Jacoby (Hebrew U., Jerusalem) focuses again on the medieval Mediterranean and issues of trade, politics, culture, and society. There are two articles on silk
A dozen essays extend and elaborate arguments that Jones, who is not further identified, advanced in the 16 essays of his 1988 The Creation of Brittany as to why the late medieval duchy of Brittany
The social history of Poland during the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly between the world wars, has been Zarnowski's primary interest over the past three decades, and so he has written mostly in
Reprints six essays (one in its original French language version) exploring transition in Chinese literature during the Han dynasty and the first four centuries of the Christian era. Together the essa
Nine essays cover the entire period of Jewish residence in the Italian city, from the first charter granted to moneylenders to settle in the city, until the special status of the Jews was ended when t
This collection consists of 15 essays previously published in various scholarly books and journals between 1958 and 1992, and four essays published here for the first time; one of the essays is in Fre
Examines the literature of the early middle ages to illuminate the conceptual framework underpinning anti-Jewish legislation and activities over the next centuries. Often the works are set out as dial
In 15 papers reproduced from original publication between 1979 and 2000, Kraye looks at how Italian Renaissance thinkers from the humanists Francesco Filelfo and Angelo Poliziano to the Christian Plat
Becket's life was lived on a European stage, his cause was conducted in a European setting, and the cult of the new martyr spread with extraordinary rapidity to the furthest reaches of Latin Christend
DeVries (military Medieval history, Loyola College, Maryland) reproduces 18 articles published in journals and anthologies between 1987 and 1999. They discuss such topics as a 1212 example of a Mediev
Most of the 21 studies, reprinted from publication between 1979 and 1990, attempt to explore the implications of the position that the Qur'an is literally the word of God, miraculous, inimitable, an
Despite the jarringly anachronistic use of Healthcare in the title, this is a fine group of articles by Green, all but one previously printed (since 1987). The studies are devoted to texts and cont
Reprints 17 papers and conference presentations from the period 1986-98. In the first six, Nelson (King's College, London) focuses on the English king Alfred, and compares his situation in Wessex with
In introducing the 1966-1985 writings of Stannard (formerly, medieval history, U. of Kansas), Riddle (North Carolina State U.) notes that as a philologist and grower of Mediterranean plants in US Midw
