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European history – 450 – 1000 / European history – 1000 – 1450 History, Frankish Identity and the Framing of Western Ethnicity, 550–850 Helmut Reimitz
European history – 1000 – 1450
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series, 101
2015 228 x 152 mm 527pp 13 b/w illus. 9 maps 3 tables 978-1-107-03233-0 Hardback £89.99 / US$135.00 For all formats available, see
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Law and Authority in the Early Middle Ages The Frankish leges in the Carolingian Period Thomas Faulkner
An examination of the role of the barbarian law codes in the Carolingian period. Thomas Faulkner contributes to debates on written law, dispute settlement, ethnic identities and kingship in the age of Charlemagne and his successors, providing new interpretations of key texts and a new assessment of their manuscripts. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series, 104
2016 228 x 152 mm 326pp 8 b/w illus. 10 tables 978-1-107-08491-9 Hardback £64.99 / US$99.99 Publication February 2016 For all formats available, see
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2016 253 x 177 mm 305pp 143 b/w illus. 8 colour illus. 978-1-107-04047-2 Hardback £64.99 / US$99.99 Publication January 2016
Princeton University, New Jersey
This pioneering study explores early medieval Frankish identity as a window into the formation of a distinct Western conception of ethnicity. It offers a new basis for comparing the history of collective and ethnic identity in the Christian West with other contexts, especially the Islamic and Byzantine worlds.
explore this tradition of late medieval performance.
Excommunication for Debt in Late Medieval France The Business of Salvation Tyler Lange University of California, Berkeley
Using quantitative and qualitative methods to re-evaluate the role of late medieval church courts, Tyler Lange examines the relatively common occurrence of excommunicated debtors. This reveals how day-to-day credit functioned in the late Middle Ages, what debt meant to contemporaries, and how believers understood the Church. 2016 228 x 152 mm 280pp 15 b/w illus. 1 map 17 tables 978-1-107-14579-5 Hardback £64.99 / US$99.99 Publication March 2016 For all formats available, see
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Generations of Feeling A History of Emotions, 600–1700 Barbara H. Rosenwein Loyola University, Chicago
This new narrative of emotional life in the West considers the varieties, transformations and constants of human emotions over eleven centuries. Covering both emotions as expressed ‘on the ground’ and as theorised in treatises, it offers the first complete picture of the history of emotions in pre-modern Western Europe. 2015 228 x 152 mm 386pp 16 b/w illus. 8 maps 30 tables 978-1-107-09704-9 Hardback £54.99 / US$94.99 978-1-107-48084-1 Paperback £19.99 / US$29.99 For all formats available, see
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The Creation of Eve and Renaissance Naturalism Visual Theology and Artistic Invention Jack M. Greenstein University of California, San Diego
This book traces how four early Renaissance masters represented the Creation of Eve, which showed woman rising weightlessly from Adam’s side at God’s command. 2016 253 x 177 mm 267pp 56 b/w illus. 12 colour illus. 978-1-107-10324-5 Hardback £64.99 / US$99.99
Performing Orthodox Ritual in Byzantium Andrew Walker White Stratford University, Virginia
A groundbreaking study exploring the origins of Byzantine ritual, the rites of Greek Orthodoxy, and its unique relationship with traditional theatre. The work argues that the Church’s rites were composed by public intellectuals, and performs an in-depth study of a late Byzantine rite, the Service of the Furnace.
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2015 228 x 152 mm 288pp 12 b/w illus. 4 music examples 978-1-107-07385-2 Hardback £64.99 / US$99.99
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French Visual Culture and the Making of Medieval Theater Laura Weigert Rutgers University, New Jersey
French Visual Culture and the Making of Medieval Theater revives what was unique, strange, and exciting about the variety of performances that took place in the realms of the French kings and Burgundian dukes. Weigert brings together a wealth of visual artifacts to
The Eucharist in Medieval Canon Law Thomas Izbicki Rutgers University, New Jersey
Thomas Izbicki presents a new analysis of the medieval Church’s teaching about and the regulation of the practice of the Eucharist. Examining the relationship between the adoration of the sacrament and canon law, Izbicki draws on canon law collections and commentaries,