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This beautifully illustrated book provides an accessible introduction to the medieval manuscript and explores how its materiality can act as a vibrant and versatile tool to understand the deep historical roots of human interaction with written information.
By surveying a variety of projects and approaches to the difficult conservation-digitization balance, and in fostering a dialogue amongst practitioners, this book demonstrates that a dialogue between the fields of book conservation and digital humanities is not only possible, but in fact desirable and fruitful.
This project-based publication aims to bridge the gap between digital and conventional scholarly activity and to communicate the advancements made in computer-based medieval studies initiatives.
A historical overview and thematic examination of Polynesia (especially New Zealand and its outlying islands), 900-1600.
This companion analyzes the different ways in which societies from Oceania to Europe and beyond were connected in the period 600-900 CE.
This book critically evaluates the prevailing idea that north-west European migration was central to the transformation from post-Roman to 'Anglo-Saxon' society in Britain, and explores the increasing evidence for more evolutionary change.
Seven manuscript fragments of the Old French Suite Vulgate du Merlin discovered in a set of early-printed books in the Bristol Central Library hit global headlines in 2019: this is a comprehensive study with accompanying transliteration of these fascinating Arthurian fragments.
An exploration of how ideas regarding the source and character of supreme political authority--sovereignty--experienced a crucial period of formative development during the thirteenth century.
This book takes a provocative long view of Byzantium, one that begins in the early Roman empire and extends all the way to the modern period, to argue that Byzantium was the most stable and enduring form of Greco-Roman society.
Using the ecosystem concept as his starting point, the author examines the complex relationship between premodern armed forces and their environment at three levels: landscapes, living beings, and diseases. The study focuses on Europe's Meuse Region, well-known among historians of war as a battleground between France and Germany. By analyzing soldiers' long-term interactions with nature, this book engages with current debates about the ecological impact of the military, and provides new impetus for contemporary armed forces to make greater effort to reduce their environmental footprint.