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The Shaping of German Identity
German identity, a key force in history, took shape during the late Middle Ages. This book explains how and why.
Algorithmic Composition
Algorithmic Composition offers new ways of thinking about the organization of sound that we call music
Germans and Poles in the Middle Ages
This volume examines mutual ethnic and national perceptions and stereotypes in the Middle Ages by analysing a range of historical sources, with a particular focus on the mutual history of Germany and Poland.
VIRTUOSOS OF FAITH
For over a thousand years, monks, nuns, canons, friars, and others under religious vows stood at the pinnacle of Western European society. For their ascetic sacrifices, their learning, piety, and expertise, they were accorded positions of power and influence, and a wide range of legal, financial and social privileges. As such they present an important opportunity to consider the nature and dynamics of an "elite" in medieval culture. Using medieval religious life as their interpretive lens, the essays of this volume seek to uncover the essential markers of elite status. They explore how those under vows claimed and manifested elite status in complex spiritual, temporal, and social combination...
Historiography in the Middle Ages
This one-volume survey of history-writing in the Middle Ages contains twelve articles, written by an interdisciplinary group of authors, that discuss the different types of texts that were written, and how modern scholars have approached them.
The Battle of Crécy
This casebook is the most extensive collection of documents ever assembled for the study of one of the famous battles in history — the Battle of Crécy (1346).
Die Kirche von Eichstätt unter Fürstbischof Wilhelm von Reichenau 1464–1496
Unter Fürstbischof Wilhelm von Reichenau (reg. 1464–1496) bestellte das Hochstift Eichstätt Kunstwerke von europäischem Rang. Durch einen Vielklang künstlerischer Medien kommunizierten der Bischof und sein Hofstaat die Sakralität der Eichstätter Kirche und legitimierten so zugleich ihren Herrschaftsanspruch. Die künstlerisch ungemein produktive Phase in Eichstätt manifestiert sich in den unterschiedlichsten Bildgattungen: Bildschnitzerei, Steinbildhauerei, Buchmalerei, Goldschmiede- und Textilkunst. Das bedeutendste Werk sind die Skulpturen des spätgotischen Hochaltarretabels des Eichstätter Doms, die als verkannte Hauptwerke der Nürnberger Bildschnitzerkunst um 1465–70 identi...
