I. S. Robinson is Lecky Professor of History and Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin
35 Ebooks by Rosemary Horrox
Rosemary (University of Cambridge) Horrox & Sarah (University of York) Rees Jones: Pragmatic Utopias
This collection of essays was presented to Barrie Dobson in celebration of his 70th birthday. It will be welcomed by all scholars of pre-modern religion and society. Spanning the artificial divide …
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Rosemary Horrox: Richard III (Penguin Monarchs)
No English king has so divided opinion, both during his reign and in the centuries since, more than Richard III. He was loathed in his own time for the never-confirmed murder of his young nephews, …
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The annals of Lampert of Hersfeld
This is a translation of the eleventh-century Latin Annals of Lampert, monk of Hersfeld, with detailed commentary and introduction. No translation has hitherto been published in English, despite the …
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The reign of Richard II
The long-awaited prequel to Chronicles of the revolution covers the first twenty years (1377–97) of Richard II’s reign. This richly-documented period offers exceptional opportunities and challenges …
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The Black Death
This series provides texts central to medieval studies courses and focuses upon the diverse cultural, social and political conditions that affected the functioning of all levels of medieval society. …
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Saints and cities in medieval Italy
The saints’ Lives in this book were written in Italy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Here translated into English and in full for the first time, they shed light on the ways in which both …
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Roger II and the creation of the Kingdom of Sicily
This student-friendly volume brings together English translations of the main narrative sources, and a small number of other relevant documents, for the reign of Roger II, the founder of the kingdom …
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Joan of Arc
This sourcebook collects together for the first time in English the major documents relating to the life and contemporary reputation of Joan of Arc. Also known as La Pucelle, she led a French Army …
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Friars’ Tales
Exempla are illustrative stories used by preachers to seize the attention of their congregations and to drive home a moral lesson. This book presents annotated translations from two collections of …
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Eleventh-century Germany
Three of the most important chronicles of eleventh-century Germany were composed in the south-western duchy of Swabia. The chronicles reveal how between 1049 and 1100 the centripetal attraction of …
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Chronicles of the Investiture Contest
This book is the first English translation of one of the most significant chronicles of the Middle Ages. Written in Bamberg at the end of the eleventh century, Frutolf of Michelsberg’s Chronicle …
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Noble society
This book provides scholars and students alike with a set of texts that can deepen their understanding of the culture and society of the twelfth-century German kingdom. The sources translated here …
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Towns in medieval England
This is the first collection of translated sources on towns in medieval England. It draws on the great variety of written evidence for this significant and dynamic period of urban development, and …
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Jacopo da Varagine’s Chronicle of the city of Genoa
This book offers the first English translation of the Chronicle of the city of Genoa by the thirteenth-century Dominican Jacopo da Varagine, an author best known for his monumental book of saints’ …
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The divorce of King Lothar and Queen Theutberga
In the mid-ninth century, Francia was rocked by the first royal divorce scandal of the Middle Ages: the attempt by King Lothar II of Lotharingia to rid himself of his queen, Theutberga and remarry. …
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Monasticism in late medieval England, c.1300–1535
Monasticism in late medieval England, c.1300-1535 provides the first collection of translated sources on this subject. The volume covers both male and female houses of all orders and sizes, and …
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The political writings of Archbishop Wulfstan of York
Archbishop Wulfstan of York (d. 1023) is among the most important legal and political thinkers of the early Middle Ages. A leading ecclesiastic, innovative legislator, and influential royal …
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Hermits and anchorites in England, 1200–1550
This source book offers a comprehensive treatment of solitary religious lives in England in the late Middle Ages. It covers both enclosed recluses (anchorites) and free-wandering hermits, and …
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History and politics in late Carolingian and Ottonian Europe
Abbot Regino of Prüm (d.915) was the last great historian of the Carolingian Empire, which spanned around a million square kilometres of continental western Europe during the eighth and ninth …
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Crime, Law and Society in the Later Middle Ages
This book provides an accessible collection of translated legal sources through which the exploits of criminals and developments in the English criminal justice system (c.1215–1485) can be studied. …
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Tyrants of Sicily by Hugo Falcandus
This book is our principal source for the history of the Kingdom of Sicily in the troubled years between the death of its founder, King Roger, in February 1154 and the spring of 1169. It covers the …
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Simon Barton & Richard Fletcher: The world of El Cid
Makes available, for the first time in English translation, four of the principal narrative sources for the history of the Spanish kingdom of León-Castile during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. …
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Trevor Dean: The towns of Italy in the later Middle Ages
The towns of Italy in the later middle ages presents over one hundred fascinating documents, carefully selected and coordinated from the richest, most innovative and most documented society of the …
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The Papal Reform of the Eleventh Century
The eleventh-century papal reform transformed western European Church and society and permanently altered the relations of Church and State in the west. The reform was inaugurated by Pope Leo IX …
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Elisabeth Van Houts: The Normans in Europe
This book provides a selection from the abundant source material generated by the Normans and the peoples they conquered. As this study demonstrates, few other medieval peoples generated historical …
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Michael Staunton: The lives of Thomas Becket
This collection tells the story of Thomas Becket’s turbulent life, violent death and extraordinary posthumous acclaim in the words of his contemporaries. The only modern collection from the …
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The English manor c.1200–c.1500
Provides a comprehensive introduction and essential guide to one of the most important institutions in medieval England and to its substantial archive. This is the first book to offer a detailed …
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Samuel Kline Cohn Jr: Popular protest in late-medieval Europe
The documents in this stimulating volume span from 1245 to 1424 but focus on the ‘contagion of rebellion’ from 1355 to 1382 that followed in the wake of the plague. They comprise a diversity of …
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David Warner: Ottonian Germany
The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg has long been recognised as one of the most important sources for the history of the tenth and early eleventh centuries, especially for the history of the …
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Andrew Brown & Graeme Small: Court and civic society in the Burgundian Low Countries c.1420–1530
This volume is the first ever attempt to unite and translate some of the key texts which informed Johan Huizinga’s famous study of the Burgundian court, The Waning of the Middle Ages, a work which …
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Christian Dualist Heresies in the Byzantine World, c. 650-c. 1450
Christian dualism originated in the reign of Constans II (641-68). It was a popular religion, which shared with orthodoxy an acceptance of scriptual authority and apostolic tradition and held a …
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Heresy and inquisition in France, 1200–1300
Heresy and inquisition in France, 1200–1300 is an invaluable collection of primary sources in translation, aimed at students and academics alike. It provides a wide array of materials on both heresy …
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Hermits and anchorites in England, 1200–1550
This source book offers a comprehensive treatment of solitary religious lives in England in the late Middle Ages. It covers both enclosed recluses (anchorites) and free-wandering hermits, and …
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Linda Clark & Peter W Fleming: The Fifteenth Century XVIII
Essays on crucial aspects of late medieval history.
The essays collected here, offered by three generations of his friends and pupils, celebrate the outstanding career of Professor A.J. Pollard a …
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