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A collection of 11 articles - 9 in English and 2 in French - on the medieval councils, decretals and collections of canon law. There are additional notes and fully revised and detailed indexes for this second edition.
Aby Warburg's research and writings centred on images, their origins and metamorphoses, and their explanations and interpretations.
The 12 studies in this volume show that the Muslim Tujjar played a major economic role in various regions of the Middle East during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Published in French in this Variorum volume, these chapters represent over twenty years of scholarship and publication.
Presents essays on different aspects of medieval music in France. This title offers an odd E-flat in two 16th-century antiphoners that leads to the identification of a Gregorian responsory as a Gallican version of a seventh-century Hispanic melody.
Addresses questions of legitimization and representation of kings and queens through texts and 'Herrschaftszeichen' as well as the development of 'coronation studies'. This title contains articles on social and political history, focusing on the kingdom of Hungary in the fifteenth century.
This book is divided into four sections, with the common theme of humour. It focuses on a study of Francois Rabelais, however there are studies on a number of lesser known authors or genres.
Brings together eleven studies published between 1991 and 2005 that illuminate the impact of travel writing on the transformation of early modern European culture.
Based principally on the documentary evidence, this second selection of studies by Frank D'Accone follows the development through the mid 16th century of musical chapels at the Cathedral and the Baptistery of Florence and of musical establishments at the Santissima Annunziata and San Lorenzo.
Offers a collection of articles on early Armenian history and civilization. This title features articles that investigate Iranian and Byzantine political, doctrinal and social influences on Medieval Armenia, precariously wedged between the two super-powers of the period, Byzantium and Sasanian Persia.
Reflects Jonathan Riley-Smith's work as a historian, which began with research on the history of the military orders. This book covers the political and constitutional history of the kingdom of Jerusalem and the relations of the western settlers with the indigenous population of Palestine and Syria.
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