Nazi cinema as enchantment

the politics of entertainment in the Third Reich

Hitler's regime not only terrorized its citizens; it also seduced them, offering stability, a traditional value system, a sense of belonging, and hope of a better standard of living. Nazi cinema was part of this seduction, expressing positive social fantasies and promoting the enchantment ...

Medieval clothing and textiles. Volume 2

Historical dress and textiles, always a topic of popular interest, has in recent years become an academic subject in its own right, transcending traditional genre boundaries. This annual journal includes in-depth studies from a variety of disciplines as well as cross-genre scholarship, representing such fields ...

Les letters of Samuel Pepys

The correspondence included here represents the first selection of Pepys's letters, drawn from all possible sources to be published since 1933. Since the Diary does not cover this period, the letters enable the reader to follow Pepys' early career on the staff of the ...

The Lore of Ireland

an encyclopaedia of myth, legend and romance

Ireland has one of the finest cultural heritages and a standard reference book combining the related subjects of folklore, myth, legend and romance is long overdue. There are 350 substantial entries, in alphabetical order from Aban, a 6th-century saint, to Weather, all with full references ...

A dictionary of Northern mythology

For two-and-a-half thousand years, from 1500BC to 1000AD, a culture as significant as the classical civilization of the Mediterranean world settled an immense area in northern Europe that stretched from Iceland to the Black Sea. But whereas the stuff of classical mythology has been fully ...

The legend of the Grail

The Grail legends have been appropriated by novelists as diverse as Umberto Eco and Dan Brown, yet very few have read for themselves the original stories from which they came. All the mystery and drama of the Arthurian world are embodied in the extraordinary tales ...

The catalan expedition to the Eest

from the chronicle of Ramon Muntaner

Before its definitive fall into Turkish hands, the Byzantine Empire was the target of adventurers of many nations. Outstanding among these groups was the Almogaver army led by Roger of Flor, composed of mercenaries hardened in the war between the Catalan and Angevin dynasties for ...

Seafarers, merchants and pirates in the Middle Ages

The first sailors braved the North Sea and the Baltic in open wooden boats: their aims were varied - to fish, to trade, to conquer and plunder. Without maps or compasses, they steered by the sun or by sightings of the shore. Nevertheless, they discovered Iceland ...

The other friars

the Carmelite, Augustinian, sack and pied friars in the Middle Ages

In 1274, the Council of Lyons decreed the end of various 'new orders' of Mendicants which had emerged during the great push for evangelism and poverty in the thirteenth-century Latin Church. The Franciscans and Dominicans were explicitly excluded, while the Carmelites and Austin friars were ...

A medieval book of beasts

the Second-family Bestiary. Commentary, art, text and translation

"The bestiary" - a book of animals, both real and mythical - is one of the most interesting and appealing medieval artefacts. "The Second- family Bestiary" is the most important and frequently produced version (some 49 known manuscripts exist). Of English origin and predominantly English production, it ...

The world of Eleanor of Aquitaine

literature and society in southern France between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries

Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124-1204) is one of the most important and well-known figures of the Middle Ages; she exercised a huge influence on both the course of history, and on the cultural life, of the time. The essays in this collection use her as a ...

The southern french nobility and the albigensian crusade

The Albigensian Crusade was called by Pope Innocent III in 1208 against the Count of Toulouse in response to the murder of the papal legate Pierre des Castelnau. The Pope's aim was to force the Count and other nobles in Languedoc to take action ...

The Hospitallers and the holy land

financing the latin east 1187-1274

Heresy in medieval France

dualism in Aquitaine and the Agenais, 1000-1249

Heresy was a recurrent problem for the established church throughout the middle ages, and it is here examined in the context of the medieval duchy of Aquitaine. The author traces forms of dissent there back to the influence of Balkan dualism, indicating the vast spread ...

"By my absolute royal authority"

justice and the Castilian Commonwealth at the beginning of the first global age

"By My Absolute Royal Authority": Justice and the Castilian Commonwealth at the Beginning of the First Global Age is a study of judicial administration. From the fifteenth century to the seventeenth, the kingdom of Castile experienced a remarkable proliferation of judicial institutions, which historians have ...

The Reign of Chivalry

Profusely illustrated and redesigned for a new generation of readers, Richard Barber's classic The Reign of Chivalry presents a broad picture of the chivalric world, and shows how chivalry affected or was affected by great social movements, great writers and great events, and analyses ...

The siege of Malta, 1565

This is the history of one of the great battles of the world, written by a private soldier who was an eye-witness. The siege of Malta was a crucial moment in the long struggle between Islam and Christendom for domination of the Mediterranean, fought out ...

Medieval clothing and textiles

The study of medieval clothing and textiles has aroused great attention in recent years, as part of the growing concern in material culture as a whole; apart from its own intrinsic interest, it has much to reveal about life at the time. This exciting new ...

Leper Knights

the Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem in England, c.1150-1544

The medieval horse and its equipment

c. 1150-c.1450

Whether knight's charger or beast of burden, horses played a vital role in medieval life. The wealth of medieval finds excavated in London in recent years has, not surprisingly, included many objects associated with horses. This catalogue illustrates and discusses over four hundred such ...