This absorbing book explores the tensions within the Roman Catholic church and between the church...

The Middle Ages were for many years generally viewed as a period when faith and order supported a...

The horrors of the Great Famine (1315-1322), one of the severest catastrophes ever to strike nort...

Louis IX has long been known both as a saintly crusader and as the founder of effective royal adm...

At the height of the Middle Ages, a peculiar system of perpetual exile-or abjuration-flourished i...

The thirteenth century brought new urgency to Catholic efforts to convert non-Christians, and no ...

The way in which humans articulate identities, social hierarchies, and their inversions through r...

The Middle Ages were for many years generally viewed as a period when faith and order supported a...

Louis IX has long been known both as a saintly crusader and as the founder of effective royal adm...

Ideology and Royal Power is a collection of essays describing and assessing the ways in which roy...