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Dialectics of virginity

Tomasz Wiślicz

Tomasz Wiślicz, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, and member of the Research Group for Old-Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw. Fields of interests: history of culture and social history of early modern times; theory of historical sciences. Author of the book Liking: Marriage and Informal Relationships in the Polish Countryside in the 17th and 18th Centuries – Social Imagery and Personal Experience (forthcoming). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Framing Premodern Desires : Sexual Ideas, Attitudes, and Practices in Europe

Amsterdam University Press, 2017

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...We are accustomed to consider sin or crime in binary categories: either you sin or you don’t, either you fornicate or you don’t, either you are a virgin or you are not. However, when we take a closer look at the sexual life of young people...

Papal collectors and state power in Central Europe during the fourteenth century

Stanisław Szczur

Stanisław Szczur

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Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages : A Cultural History

I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd, 2009

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...1 The forced relocation of the papal see to Avignon caused major changes in the central administration of the Church. The successors of Saint Peter, temporarily deprived of their influence in Italy, were forced to undertake a struggle...

A road well travelled

Piotr Górecki

Piotr Górecki is professor of history at the University of California, Riverside, and director of the California Medieval History Seminar (Huntington Library). He is the author of ‘Economy, Society, and Lordship in Medieval Poland, 1100-1250’, ‘Parishes, Tithes, and Society in Early Medieval Poland, c. 1100-c. 1250’, ‘A Local Society in Transition: The Henrykow Book and Related Documents’, and as co-editor with Warren C. Brown, ‘Conflict in Medieval Europe: Changing Perspectives on Society and Culture’. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages : A Cultural History

I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd, 2009

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...The setting Beginnings are, perhaps in the nature of things, difficult to anchor. This is especially true in the case of a book such as this one, which performs two closely interrelated roles: celebrating the work produced by a single...

Anna Jagiellon: A Female Political Figure in the Early Modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Katarzyna Kosior

Katarzyna Kosior is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Humanities at Northumbria University, researching early modern Polish-Lithuanian kingship, elective monarchy, and masculinity. Her forthcoming book, Becoming a Queen in Early Modern Europe: East and West, will be published by Palgrave in 2019. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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A Companion to Global Queenship

Arc Humanities Press, 2018

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...This research was carried out thanks to a generous grant from the Halina and Zdzislaw Broncel Trust. I would like to thank my PhD supervisors, Dr. Alice Hunt and Professor Maria Hayward, for their constant enthusiastic support...

‘International’ Christian Society and Its Political Theology in Thirteenth-Century Latin Christendom

Wojciech Kozłowski

Wojciech Kozłowski

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Premodern Rulership and Contemporary Political Power : The King’s Body Never Dies

Amsterdam University Press, 2017

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...This paper offers a cursory discussion of a particular historical manifestation of international society. It focuses primarily on identifying the most common members of this society, and on determining its predominant cultural-political...

Strekfusz

Richard C Hoffmann

Richard C Hoffmann

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Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages : A Cultural History

I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd, 2009

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...What follows was presented in a different form to the Thirteenth Meeting of the Fish Remains Working Group (ICAZ-FRWG), Basel, Switzerland, 4–9 October 2005. Collegial suggestions there, especially from Daniel Makowiecki and Dirk Heinrich...

Louis the Great (1342–1382)

Pál Engel

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The late Pál Engel (1938-2001) was head of the Medieval Department at the Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Tamás Pálosfalvi

Tamás Pálosfalvi

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Andrew Ayton

Andrew Ayton is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Hull. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Realm of St Stephen : A History of Medieval Hungary, 895-1526

I.B.Tauris, 2001

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...Charles’s successor was his eldest son, the sixteen-year-old Louis. If we set to one side the details, his reign can be seen as the direct continuation of his father’s. His rule was based upon the authority that had been created by Charles...

University masters at the royal court of Hedwig of Anjou and Władysław Jagiełło

Krzysztof Ożóg

Krzysztof Ożóg

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Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages : A Cultural History

I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd, 2009

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...During the rule of Hedwig of Anjou and Władysław Jagiełło in the years 1384–1434, the royal court in Kraków played an important role in the functioning of the emerging Jagiellon monarchy. After a long interregnum, with the arrival of Hedwig...

The archaeology of early medieval service settlements in Eastern Europe

Florin Curta

Florin Curta

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Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages : A Cultural History

I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd, 2009

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...‘Service settlement’ is a favourite phrase of several Polish and Czech medievalists, who use it commonly to refer to villages of specialised workers (peasants or craftsmen) serving the exclusive needs of neighbouring fortresses or manor...

A Model Disaster: From the Great Ottoman Panzootic to the Cattle Plagues of Early Modern Europe

Sam White

Sam White is associate professor of environmental history at the Ohio State University and author of The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2011), which examines environmental pressures in the empire’s crisis and transformation during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It received the Middle East Studies Association Albert Hourani award and the Turkish Studies Association M. Fuat Köprülü book prize. Prof. White has authored various articles and chapters on climate, disease, and animals in history, and a second monograph (forthcoming) on the influence of climate in early European exploration and colonization of North America. He is the lead editor of the Palgrave Handbook of Climate History and co­founder and co­director of the Climate History Network (climatehistory.net). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Plague and Contagion in the Islamic Mediterranean : New Histories of Disease in Ottoman Society

Arc Humanities Press, 2017

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...BY THE LATE sixteenth century, the Ottomans reigned over vast stretches of territory in three continents, covering all or part of thirty present­day countries. Their empire’s subjects numbered as many as thirty­five million, and its animals...