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Armies and Ecosystems in Premodern Europe
A multi-faceted and original study of the complex interactions between armies and their ecosystems, taking a long view of current debates about the environmental impact of the military.
Journal of Medieval Military History: Volume XXII
"The leading academic vehicle for scholarly publication in the field of medieval warfare." Medieval Warfare The articles in volume 22 of the Journal of Medieval Military History range widely, not only in chronology but also in geography and approach. Sven Ekdahl looks at the big picture of the role of Swedish castles in the north; L. J. Andrew Villalon focuses on the very particular and culturally significant rewards given by the Catholic Kings to two noble families to celebrate minor victories on the borders of Granada in the far south. Subjects include fighting at the tactical level (the unexpectedly substantial tradition of mounted archery in England, the Low Countries and France, reveale...
The Holy Land in Observant Franciscan Texts (c. 1480–1650)
In The Holy Land in Observant Franciscan Texts (c. 1480–1650) Marianne Ritsema van Eck analyses the development of the complex Observant Franciscan engagement with the Holy Land during the early modern period. During these eventful centuries friars of the Franciscan establishment in Jerusalem increasingly sought to cultivate strong ideological ties between themselves and the Holy Land, participating actively in contemporary literatures of geographia sacra and Levantine pilgrimage and travel. It becomes clear how the friars constructed a collective memory using the ideological canon of their order – featuring Bonaventurian theology, marvels of the east, cartography, apocalyptic visions of history, calls for Crusade, and finally a pilgrimage-possessio of the Holy Land by Francis.
Medieval Cologne
In Anglophone literature, historical questions about urban, socio-economic, political, religious, and cultural development have often been answered using Anglo-French, Anglo-Low Countries, and Anglo-Italian paradigms and sources. Medieval Germany has been largely overlooked, seen as a peripheral and irrelevant anomaly. Conversely, scholars from the German Rhineland have mostly remained within the traditions of civic public history and Landesgeschichte. As a result, they rarely engage with the historical questions raised in wider European discourses. This volume challenges these historiographical propensities by offering a fresh perspective on medieval urban Germany. It aims to integrate Cologne and the Rhineland more accurately and equitably into the wider histories of medieval Europe. The book engages with historical questions of wider relevance across both German and European medieval histories. It invites all scholars and students of medieval Europe to utilize Cologne as a key source for their research and writing.
Tongeren during the Late Roman Period and Early Middle Ages, c. 300–750 CE
The traditional picture is that there is little information about Tongeren, the capital of the civitas Tungrorum in Roman times, from Late Antiquity onwards. In the last twenty years or so, very cautiously, voices have been raised to nuance the story of the general decline of Tongeren from the beginning of the fifth century. A recurring question is whether Tongeren remained inhabited and what its function might have been. A key site is the Roman basilica, the predecessor of an early medieval church. A key figure is the bishop, whose seat was moved to neighbouring Maastricht in the sixth century. Based on an extensive database, a picture of late Roman Tongeren is drawn, with its public and pr...
Pre-modern Towns at the Times of Catastrophes
Covering areas in today’s Ukraine, Poland, Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, and Slovakia, this book studies the impact of both natural and human-inflicted disasters on pre-modern towns. Various kinds of catastrophes, starting with major natural disasters such as fires, floods, earthquakes, and epidemics caused high population mortality. Others, such as protracted war conflicts, were caused by human activity and could be just as, if not more, destructive for cities, their populations and the urban economy. Crises affected not only the population as a whole, but also townsmen and women in their individual lives. Case studies of renewal and resilience in the volume illustrate that, in many cases, s...
Desertion in the Early Modern World
Sheds new light on early modern globalization, through a comparison of desertion in Europe, Asia and the Atlantic
Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland
Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland is een originele en uitdagende geschiedenis over de internationale wortels van onze nationale identiteit. In 'Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland' vertellen meer dan honderd aanstormende en gevestigde Nederlandse onderzoekers op het gebied van geschiedenis en cultuur het wereldwijde verhaal van onze geschiedenis, onder wie Martine Gosselink, Beatrice de Graaf, Lotte Jensen, Gert Oostindie, Lodewijk Petram en Suze Zijlstra. In dit verhelderende en prikkelende boek laten zij zien hoe Nederland de wereld door de eeuwen heen mede heeft vormgegeven, en andersom: hoe Nederland zich onder invloed van verre en nabije buren heeft ontwikkeld. Van de vondst van oermens Krijn in de Noordzee tot orkaan Irma op Sint Maarten en van Bonifatius tot Pim Fortuyn - aan de hand van talloze grote en kleine historische ontwikkelingen en gebeurtenissen laat 'Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland' zien hoezeer Nederland verbonden is met de wereld, en de wereld met Nederland. 'Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland' is een uitgave van het Huygens Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis, een knaw-onderzoeksinstituut op het gebied van geschiedenis en literatuur.
Gevleugelde geschiedenis van Nederland
De gevleugelde geschiedenis van Nederland is voer voor iedere vogel- en geschiedenisliefhebber. Nederlandse historici schrijven over het eeuwenoude verbond tussen de Nederlanders en hun vogels. Gevleugelde geschiedenis van Nederland, fraai gebonden en met een keur aan bijzonder beeldmateriaal, is een monumentaal werk dat iedere vogel- en geschiedenisliefhebber in de kast moet hebben. Vogels spelen soms een onverwachte rol in de menselijke geschiedenis en mensen spelen vaak een bijzondere rol in de geschiedenis van vogels. In Gevleugelde geschiedenis van Nederland kijken meer dan dertig auteurs, onder wie toonaangevende historici, met andere ogen, vol verwondering, naar vogels en geschiedenis...
