History and Chronicles in Late Medieval Iberia
Representations of Wamba in Late Medieval Narrative Histories
Biographical note
Aengus Ward, Ph.D. (1995, Birmingham) is a senior lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of multiple works on medieval Iberian historiography including critical editions of 3 late medieval chronicles and is the Iberian chronicles editor of the Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle (Brill, 2010).
Readership
All those interested in the theory and practice of writing of medieval chronicles and in the history and histioriography of late medieval Iberia in particular.
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Center and Periphery honors Willliam Chester Jordan on the occasion of his 65th birthday. The essays by his former doctoral students examine the complexity of negotiating power at the center and margins of society in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean.
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In Municipal Officials, Their Public, and the Negotiation of Justice in Medieval Languedoc, Turning explores the role of the urban public in shaping local jurisdiction as the region of Languedoc became a part of the Capetian kingdom in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
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A key case-study and argument for the wider relevance of Ireland in understanding the political ambitions and frustrations of the English crown, this book interrogates afresh evidence for Ireland's liminality and barbarity, c.1000-1500, with in-depth contributions by historians, archaeologists, ...
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From an examination of medieval London's Husting wills, Daughters of London offers a new framework for considering urban women’s experiences as daughters. The wills reveal daughters equipped with economic opportunities through bequests of real estate and movable property.
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This essay collection examines aspects of mental impairment from a variety of angles to unearth medieval perspectives on mental affliction. This volume on madness in the Middle Ages elucidates how medieval society conceptualized mental afflictions, especially in law and culture.
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The seventeen authors of this volume present an all-round picture of the person, the work, and the influence of the Russian medievalist Aron Gurevich who introduced innovative approaches to scholarship against all odds.
Professor Janos Bak, Central European University
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Drawing on spiritual and legal sources, this book provides a novel perspective on how late medieval Christianity problematized parishioners' use of violence and how parishioners tried to reconcile the demands of their faith with cultural norms that honored violent conduct.
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Drawing on a wide range of legal and literary sources, this book offers a comprehensive investigation into the acceptability of violence in marriage at a time when social expectations of gender and marriage were in transition.
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