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Old High German was spoken between the eighth and eleventh centuries, and a small but significant body of its literature has survived. This anthology brings together editions and translations of about a dozen poetic works, spanning subjects from religious devotion to historical narrative.
Report Having been ambassador in the legation of France on behalf of Your Serenity for some forty months, I know my duty, according to the most laudable custom of this Most Serene Dominion, is not to give an account of all my actions during that legation, because day by day I have striven to keep Your Lordships advised of those matters that have seemed to me worthy of your notice: and therefore I shall not say a word about them, which will also be the cause of that brevity I desire. Report Having been ambassador in the legation of France on behalf of Your Serenity for some forty months, I know my duty, according to the most laudable custom of this Most Serene Dominion, is not to give an account of all my actions during that legation, because day by day I have striven to keep Your Lordships advised of those matters that have seemed t…
Scotland’s in turmoil in the 1330s—and Edward III spots an opening. In this episode of Bow & Blade, Michael and Kelly break down the Battle of Dupplin Moor, where tactics, terrain, and timing turn chaos into catastrophe.
I'm finishing my new book, The Castle. Ask me anything you like about it... Sir Edward Coke, that great legal brain and Magna Carta fetishist of the seventeenth century, is the man usually given credit for the coining the idiom ‘An Englishman’s home is his castle.’
Medieval historians have debated for generations about when the Middle Ages began and ended. Was there a single year that launched the medieval period—and another that closed it?
Across sixteen essays, the author examines the Ming dynasty’s diplomatic and commercial networks, tracing how the “Silk Road” linked China with regions far beyond its borders.
Revenues; Court; Territories; Religious and Political Turmoil; War Against the Turks; Personal Matters This is Part II of a 1532 report on the Habsburg dominions. Part I here.
In antiquity, Southern Italy was a prominent destination for Greek colonists. However, numerous people already lived in the region. The Greeks sometimes peacefully coexisted with these tribes — and sometimes came into conflict with them. Theme: Magna Graecia Richard Evans, 'Syracusan democracy - A fragile start and a feeble end'. Edwar Herring, 'From imports to indigenous ware - Magna Graecia's red-figure pottery'. Sosseh Assaturian, 'Eleatic philosophy - The birth of ancient Greek metaphysics'. Mark Thatcher, 'Conflict and compromise - Greeks and non-Greeks in Italy'. Richard Evans, 'Caught between fact and fiction - The Achaean colony of Sybaris'. Emmanouil Peponas, 'The theatre in Magna Graecia - A creative frontier'. Kathryn Lomas, 'The conquest of Magna Graecia - The coming of Rome'. Features: Michael Carter, 'Morituri te salutant! Aut non - Death (and life) in the gladiatorial arena'. Sem van Atteveld, 'Local industry - The impact of Tyrian purple production'. Adriano Orsingher, 'Worn, hung, offered - Phoenician and Punic masks'. Alexander Thein, 'Sulla's dictatorship - Lawgiving, patronage, social mobility'.
Explore 10 medieval maps of Britain—from early mappae mundi and Ptolemaic charts to portolans, the Gough Map, and the Catalan Atlas—revealing how England, Scotland and Wales were drawn in the Middle Ages.
A single medieval manuscript in the British Library contains the only surviving copies of several of the most important Middle English texts. This book explores how those works and the manuscript that preserves them are inseparable.
This open-access book brings together more than thirty essays on languages and the ways they develop, interact, and influence one another. Its main focus is the Middle East, where Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic long existed side by side and often overlapped in everyday use, scholarship, and culture.
