Commemorating Power in Early Medieval Saxony: Writing and Rewriting the Past at Gandersheim and Quedlinburg (Studies in German History) 9780192590411, 2021937206, 9780198850137, 0192590413

Writing the Barbarian Past: Studies in Early Medieval Historical Narrative 900430522X, 9789004305229

"Writing the Barbarian Past" examines the presentation of the non-Roman, pre-Christian past in Latin and verna

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Past sense: studies in medieval and early modern European history 9789004268920, 9789004269576, 9004268928, 9004269576

The twenty studies collected in this volume focus on the transition from the Middle Ages to the modern world. The method

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History and Identity in Early Medieval Wales (Studies in Celtic History Book 44) 9781800105201, 9781843846277, 1800105207

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Anchoress and Abbess in Ninth-Century Saxony: The Lives of Liutbirga of Wendhausen and Hathumoda of Gandersheim 978-0813215693

Around the year 840, Liutbirga, the adopted daughter of a noble Saxon widow, asked to be walled into a cell in a church

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Prostitution and Subjectivity in Late Medieval Germany (Studies in German History) 9780192607560, 9780198862789, 0192607561

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Rule and conflict in an early medieval society: Ottonian Saxony 9780713162189

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Four Fools in the Age of Reason: Laughter, Cruelty, and Power in Early Modern Germany (Studies in Early Modern German History) 0813942012, 9780813942018

Unveiling the nearly lost world of the court fools of eighteenth-century Germany, Dorinda Outram shows that laughter was

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History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate: Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature 9781788319232, 9781838600556, 9781838600570

Abu Bakr al-Suli was a noted polymath and table companion in the courts of three Abbasid caliphs. In addition to his wor

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The Impact of Latin Culture on Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture) [New ed.] 9781580442817, 9781580442824, 1580442811

In the late medieval and early modern periods, Scottish latinity had its distinctive stamp, most intriguingly so in its

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Gendering Modern German History: Rewriting Historiography 9780857457042

Writing on the history of German women has - like women's history elsewhere - undergone remarkable expansion and ch

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