Category Archives: Publications

Global Trade in the Premodern World offers an authoritative and expansive history of exchange and interaction across Eurasia from the prehistoric origins of trade to the integration of large parts of this world-system by the fifteenth century CE. The book … Lire la suite →

Traz esta Medievalista outro dossier temático, coordenado por três editores convidados — Amandine Le Roux, Esther Tello Hernámdez e Mário Farelo — e dedicado à fiscalidade eclesiástica, uma área de estudos de afirmação mais recente. Com uma geografia sobretudo meridional, … Lire la suite →

Making Domesday presents a fresh interpretation of William the Conqueror’s survey of England, made possible by a major collaborative study and a new online edition of Exon Domesday, the earliest of the three original manuscripts to survive from the Domesday … Lire la suite →

Thomas Aquinas and Medieval Canon Law bridges, for the first time, two worlds of scholarship that have never been explored in book-length form and investigates an under-researched area in Thomistic studies, namely the question of how Thomas Aquinas engaged the … Lire la suite →

The lives of many early medieval saints show them working with their hands. Radegund cooks in the kitchen, carries firewood, and cleans privies; Fiacre cultivates a garden; Brigid milks cows and makes cheese; Dunstan shapes metal and constructs buildings. Other … Lire la suite →

Nel corso degli ultimi decenni, gli studi storici e archeologici sulla Roma del pieno e tardomedioevo, nel periodo compreso fra l’anno Mille e il Rinascimento, si sono moltiplicati senza sosta, portando a un aumento significativo dei dati disponibili e a … Lire la suite →

This book traces the categorical construction and discursive employment of the Church Fathers across a variety of textual genres and contexts during the Carolingian era. This study shows that Carolingian intellectual culture was imbued with a distinctive sense of ‘progress … Lire la suite →

La croisade. Un mot célèbre, qui brasse immédiatement un imaginaire à la fois flou et précis : on voit des chevaliers en armures, arborant de grandes croix rouges, on pense à Antioche, à Acre, à Jérusalem, on invoque Godefroy de … Lire la suite →

The fragmentary remains of the Benedictine monastery of Saint-Pierre d’Orbais in northwest Champagne preserves a particular iteration of Gothic style and technological achievement as well as the built environment of a community deeply embedded in the world around them. Through … Lire la suite →

The coexistence of Christianity and Islam in the medieval Mediterranean led to an interchange of knowledge in architecture and material culture that went well beyond religious and geographical boundaries. The use of Islamic objects in Christian contexts, the conversion of … Lire la suite →