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Ale, Beer and Brewsters in England : Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600
Judith M. Bennett
Hardcover - $229.95
Women brewed and sold most of the ale drunk in medieval England, but after 1350, men slowly took over the trade. By 1600, most brewers in London - as well as in many towns and villages - were male, not female. Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England inve ...
Medieval Europe : A Short History
Judith M. Bennett
Paperback - $142.95
Marked by C. Warren Hollister's clear historical vision and engaging teaching style, this classic text has been judiciously revised by Judith Bennett; the tenth edition includes greater coverage of Byzantium and Islam, a revised map program, a new es ...
Women in the Medieval English Countryside : Gender and Household in Brigstock Before the Plague
Judith M. Bennett
Paperback - $73.95
Unlike most histories of European women, which have typically focused on the 19th and 20th century elite, this study reconstructs the public lives of peasant women and men during the six decades before the Black Death of 1348-49. Drawing on the exten ...
At the Gate of Christendom : Jews, Muslims and 'Pagans' in Medieval Hungary, C. 1000 - C. 1300
Nora Berend
Paperback - $128.95
This is a study of the economic, social, legal and religious position of three minorities within the medieval Christian kingdom of Hungary. The book demonstrates that the status of such minorities depended not simply on Christian religious tenets, bu ...
At the Gate of Christendom : Jews, Muslims and 'Pagans' in Medieval Hungary, C. 1000 - C. 1300
Nora Berend
Hardcover - $254.95
This is a study of the economic, social, legal and religious position of three minorities within the medieval Christian kingdom of Hungary. The book demonstrates that the status of such minorities depended not simply on Christian religious tenets, bu ...
Religion and Medicine in the Middle Ages
Peter Biller
Hardcover - $222.95
The sheer extent of crossover - medics as religious men, religious men as medics, medical language at the service of preaching and moral-theological language deployed in medical writings - is the driving force behind these studies. The book reflects ...
The Measure of Multitude : Population in Medieval Thought
Peter Biller
Paperback - $138.95
This innovative study challenges the view that medieval thought was fundamentally abstract. He describes what medieval people 'thought' about population, studying the texts which contained their thought, and examining the medieval realities which sha ...
The Empire of the Qara Khitai in Eurasian History
Michal Biran
Paperback - $80.95
The book considers the political, institutional and cultural histories of the Qara Khitai.
The Empire of the Qara Khitai in Eurasian History : Between China and the Islamic World
Michal Biran
Hardcover - $180.95
The empire of the Qara Khitai, which was one of the least known and most fascinating dynasties in the history of Central Asia, existed for nearly a century before it was conquered by the Mongols in 1218. Arriving in Central Asia from China, the Qara ...