Author: The Medieval Life
Kingdom of Heaven
From Ridley Scott, the visionary director of Black Hawk Down and Gladiator, comes this spectacular epic of courage, honor and adventure. Orlando Bloom stars as Balian, a young Frenchman in Medieval Jerusalem during the Crusades, who, having lost everything, finds redemption in a heroic fight against overwhelming forces to save his people and fulfill his destiny as a knight.
A Middle English Reader & Vocabulary
Scholarly and highly informative, this anthology represents a distinctive contribution to the understanding and enjoyment of Middle English literature.
Food in Medieval Times
Food was a status symbol then, and sumptuary laws defined what a person of a certain class could eat―the ingredients and preparation of a dish and how it was eaten depended on a person's status, and most information is available on the upper crust rather than the masses. Equalizing factors might have been religious strictures and such diseases as the bubonic plague, all of which are detailed here.
Aristotle’s Children: How Christians, Muslims, & Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom & Illuminated the Middle Ages
Europe was in the long slumber of the Middle Ages, the Roman Empire was in tatters, and the Greek language was all but forgotten, until a group of twelfth-century scholars rediscovered and translated the works of Aristotle. His ideas spread like wildfire across Europe, offering the scientific view that the natural world, including the soul of man, was a proper subject of study. The rediscovery of ...
The Medieval Fortress: Castles, Forts, & Walled Cities Of The Middle Ages
The Medieval Fortress covers the origin and evolution of the castles and other walled defenses, their major components, and the reasons for their eventual decline, which was not solely due to the introduction of gunpowder. Also receiving extensive coverage are the weapons and equipment of garrisons and besieging troops.
Terry Jones’ Medieval Lives
Terry Jones brings his inimitable style, a mix of goofy humor and scholarly inquisitiveness, to the subject of the Middle Ages in Terry Jones' Medieval Lives. While best known as an alum of Monty Python's Flying Circus, Jones is also somewhat of a historian, and it's obvious that he loves delving into the past, bringing to life the characters of antiquity with as much enthusiasm and skill as he br...
The Medieval Garden
Combining her historical knowledge with practical experience of recreating medieval gardens in various sites in England, Landsberg explains how she designed Queen Eleanor's garden at Winchester and Brother Cadfael's physic garden at Shrewsbury. She gives detailed descriptions of layouts, the measurements of beds, and the types of tools required. Landsberg also presents the marvelous medieval garde...
Timeline
A member of an archeological team uses a time "fax" machine to hurl himself back to 14th-century France to save his professor father, who was zapped there earlier. Their incredible journey that plunks them in the middle of the Hundred Years War.
Travel In The Middle Ages
Travel in the Middle Ages is filled with the stories and adventures of those who hazarded hostile landscapes, elements, and people―out of want or necessity―to get from place to place. While most journeys involved very short distances (home to market or village to village), longer trips were not uncommon in the Middle Ages. Clergy were frequently called upon to act as ambassadors, messengers, and o...
The Age of Van Eyck: The Mediterranean World & Early Netherlandish Painting 1430-1530
This book explores the complex artistic, cultural, socioeconomic, and political relationships between Burgundian Netherlands and the Mediterranean.
The History of the Albigensian Crusade: Peter of les Vaux-de-Cernay’s `Historia Albigensis’
The Historia Albigensis is one of the most important sources for the history of the Cathar heresy and the Albigensian crusade. This new translation makes the work available in English for the first time.
Image & Idol: Medieval Sculpture
Medieval Sculpture evokes the cataclysmic events of the religious Reformation of the sixteen century that transformed British culture forever. Sculptures from the twelfth to the sixteenth century are discussed in terms of their power across the ages to evoke both inspired passionate devotion and vehement, even violent, disapproval
