English University Life in the Middle Ages
English University Life in the Middle Ages

Author: Alan B Cobban

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-02-22

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1134224370

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First Published in 1999. This work presents a composite view of medieval English university life. The author offers detailed insights into the social and economic conditions of the lives of students, their teaching masters and fellows. The experiences of college benefactors, women and university servants are also examined, demonstrating the vibrancy they brought to university life. The second half of the book is concerned with the complex methods of teaching and learning, the regime of studies taught, the relationship between the universities in Oxford and Cambridge, as well as the relationship between "town" and "gown".

Making Archives in Early Modern Europe
Making Archives in Early Modern Europe

Author: Randolph C. Head

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-06-27

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1108473784

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Compares the archives of European states after 1500 to reveal changes in how records supported memory, authority and power.

Medieval Disability Sourcebook
Medieval Disability Sourcebook

Author: Cameron Hunt McNabb

Publisher: punctum books

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 501

ISBN-13: 1950192733

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The field of disability studies significantly contributes to contemporary discussions of the marginalization of and social justice for individuals with disabilities. However, what of disability in the past? The Medieval Disability Sourcebook: Western Europe explores what medieval texts have to say about disability, both in their own time and for the present. This interdisciplinary volume on medieval Europe combines historical records, medical texts, and religious accounts of saints' lives and miracles, as well as poetry, prose, drama, and manuscript images to demonstrate the varied and complicated attitudes medieval societies had about disability. Far from recording any monolithic understanding of disability in the Middle Ages, these contributions present a striking range of voices-to, from, and about those with disabilities-and such diversity only confirms how disability permeated (and permeates) every aspect of life. The Medieval Disability Sourcebook is designed for use inside the undergraduate or graduate classroom or by scholars interested in learning more about medieval Europe as it intersects with the field of disability studies. Most texts are presented in modern English, though some are preserved in Middle English and many are given in side-by-side translations for greater study. Each entry is prefaced with an academic introduction to disability within the text as well as a bibliography for further study. This sourcebook is the first in a proposed series focusing on disability in a wide range of premodern cultures, histories, and geographies.

Intellectual Life in the Middle Ages
Intellectual Life in the Middle Ages

Author: Lesley Smith

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 1992-07-01

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0826419704

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The variety of experience available to medieval scholars and the vitality of medieval thought are both reflected in this collection of original essays by distinguished historians. Intellectual Life in the Middle Ages is presented to Margaret Gibson, whose own work has ranged from Boethius to Lanfranc and to the study of the Bible in the middle ages.

State and Society in the Early Middle Ages
State and Society in the Early Middle Ages

Author: Matthew Innes

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-04-24

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1139425587

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This book, first published in 2000, is a pioneering study of politics and society in the early Middle Ages. Whereas it is widely believed that the source materials for early medieval Europe are too sparse to allow sustained study of the workings of social and political relationships on the ground, this book focuses on a uniquely well-documented area to investigate the basis of power. Topics covered include the foundation of monasteries, their relationship with the laity, and their role as social centres; the significance of urbanism; the control of land, the development of property rights and the organization of states; community, kinship and lordship; justice and dispute settlement; the uses of the written word; violence and the feud; and the development of political structures from the Roman empire to the high Middle Ages.

Making a Living in the Middle Ages
Making a Living in the Middle Ages

Author: Christopher Dyer

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2003-08-11

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 0300167075

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Dramatic social and economic change during the middle ages altered the lives of the people of Britain in far-reaching ways, from the structure of their families to the ways they made their livings. In this masterly book, preeminent medieval historian Christopher Dyer presents a fresh view of the British economy from the ninth to the sixteenth century and a vivid new account of medieval life. He begins his volume with the formation of towns and villages in the ninth and tenth centuries and ends with the inflation, population rise, and colonial expansion of the sixteenth century. This is a book about ideas and attitudes as well as the material world, and Dyer shows how people regarded the economy and responded to economic change. He examines the growth of towns, the clearing of lands, the Great Famine, the Black Death, and the upheavals of the fifteenth century through the eyes of those who experienced them. He also explores the dilemmas and decisions of those who were making a living in a changing world—from peasants, artisans, and wage earners to barons and monks. Drawing on archaeological and landscape evidence along with more conventional archives and records, the author offers here an engaging survey of British medieval economic history unrivaled in breadth and clarity.

Great Lives from History
Great Lives from History

Author: Shelley Wolbrink

Publisher:

Published: 2004-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781587651649

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A two-volume set of biographical sketches of 356 notable people from the Middle Ages.