BARKER, JOHN W

Manuel II Palaeologus (1391-1425) A Study in Late Byzantine Statesmanship

New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press. 1969, 1st US Edition. (ISBN: 0813505828) Hardcover. Book, liii,614p. illus. bibliography. index. maps on end papers. Clean tight text block, name of previous owner on ffep.NOTE: A heavy volume [1.1 kg] , Spine slightly bruised . Very Good+/No Jacket.

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Book number: 041891

Catalogue: Medieval Europe

Keywords: 0813505828 Byzantium Palaiologos Manuel Ii Palaeologus Sold

BUTTERFIELD, ARDIS [ED]

Chaucer and the City (Chaucer Studies)

Woodbridge, Suffolk, D.S.Brewer. 2006, 1st UK Edition. (ISBN: 1843840731) Hardcover. Book, [Chaucer Studies Vol XXXVII] Literature of the city and the city in literature are topics of major contemporary interest. This volume enhances our understanding of Chaucer's iconic role as a London poet, defining the modern sense of London as a city in history, steeped in its medieval past. Building on recent work by historians on medieval London, as well as modern urban theory, the essays address the centrality of the city in Chaucer's work, and of Chaucer to a literature and a language of the city. Contributors explore the spatial extent of the city, imaginatively and geographically; the diverse and sometimes violent relationships between communities, and the use of language to identify and speak for communities; the worlds of commerce, the aristocracy, law, and public order. A final section considers the longer history and memory of the medieval city beyond the devastations of the Great Fire and into the Victorian period. 231p. ibliography index. Fine.

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Book number: 31209

Catalogue: Medieval Europe

Keywords: 1843840731 London Medieval England Chaucer Geoffrey London Chaucer

MCCORMICK, MICHAEL

Eternal Victory: Triumphal Rulership in Late Antiquity, Byzantium and the Early Medieval West

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 1990. (ISBN: 0521386594) Soft cover. Book, "As the Roman empire declined and 'fell', contemporary glorification of the emperor's triumphal rulership reached new heights, strewing traces of the empire's perennial victory across the physical and mental landscape of late antiquity. In this, the first comprehensive study of how a great imperial ceremony actually developed and how it influenced both the eastern and western heirs to the Roman legacy, the Roman triumph's resurgence and afterlife is documented from the Tetrarchy to the end of the Macedonian dynasty in Byzantium and to Charlemagne's successors in the early medieval West. This perspective shows that celebrations of the ruler's victory experienced unceasing change in ritual form and content and that these changes mirrored broader trends in the development of society and the monarchy. At the same time, it casts new light on the late Roman origins of the trappings of early medieval kingship. Far from the imperial capital, the cult of triumphal rulership permeated local elites, as commanders in the provinces imitated the supreme victor by staging triumphs of their own, and the new Germanic kings followed suit. Classicists, medievalists, Byzantinists, specialists of art and ritual will find here new data and approaches to a central problem in the transformation of the Roman Empire which culminated in the new civilization by Byzantium and the Germanic Kingdoms." 454p. bibliography.index Neat crisp copy. Fine.

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Book number: 041955

Catalogue: Medieval Europe

Keywords: 0521386594 Late Roman Empire Antiquity Byzantium Medieval Europe Sold Zzkarakas?

SAGHY, MARIANNE

Fifteen years of medieval studies in central Europe

Budapest, Corvina. 2009, First Thus. Soft cover. Book, Offprint of the "Annual of medieval studies at CEU" Volume 15, 2009. [Pages 171-365] Reports on research relating to Medieval Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Serbia . Slovenia, Slovakia, Ukraine.194p.[6 copies found in WorldCat - None in N America]. As New.

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Book number: 37851

Catalogue: Medieval Europe

Keywords: Medieval Europe Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Serbia . Slovenia, Slovakia, Ukraine X04

SIMETI, MARY TAYLOR

Travels with a Medieval Queen - The Journey of a Sicilian Princess

London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 2002, 1st UK Ed. (ISBN: 0297607952) Hardcover. Book, " In 1185, the 32-year- old Constance of Sicily, a princess with the most magnificent dowry Europe has ever seen, was betrothed to the 21-year-old Henry, cold-hearted son of the great German Emperor, Frederick Barbarossa. Eight years later, the Sicilian throne lies empty and Henry and Constance (pregnant for the first time at 40) travel south to stake their claim against the usurper Tancredi's family. It is this journey that Taylor Simeti retraces, along the way contrasting medieval society with modern, capturing what the life of the medieval queen must have been like, exploring the idea of travel and pilgrimage, and expressing, above all, a deep empathy for her subject. " 319p. illus (some col.) bibliography. As New/As New.

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Book number: 038403

Catalogue: Medieval Europe

Keywords: 0297607952 Constance Hauteville Frederick Barbarosssa Federick Ii Sicily Holy Roman Empire Sicily