Tag: Ages

Free Download Marina Benedetti, Euan Cameron, "A Companion to the Waldenses in the Middle Ages"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9004410880 | PDF | pages: 575 | 7.3 mb
The medieval dissenters known as ‘Waldenses’, named after their first founder, Valdes of Lyons, have long attracted careful scholarly study, especially from specialists writing in Italian, French and German. Waldenses were found across continental Europe, from Aragon to the Baltic and East-Central Europe. They were long-lived, resilient, and diverse. They lived in a special relationship with the prevailing Catholic culture, making use of the Church’s services but challenging its claims.

Free Download Rory Naismith, "Money and Coinage in the Middle Ages"
English | 2018 | pages: 374 | ISBN: 9004372466 | PDF | 212,9 mb
Reading Medieval Sources is an exciting new series which leads scholars and students into some of the most challenging and rewarding sources from the European Middle Ages, and introduces the most important approaches to understanding them. Written by an international team of twelve leading scholars, this volume Money and Coinage in the Middle Ages presents a set of fresh and insightful perspectives that demonstrate the rich potential of this source material to all scholars of medieval history and culture. It includes coverage of major developments in monetary history, set into their economic and political context, as well as innovative and interdisciplinary perspectives that address money and coinage in relation to archaeology, anthropology and medieval literature.

Free Download Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Luise von Flotow, Daniel Russell, "The Politics of Translation in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0776605275 | PDF | pages: 222 | 10.3 mb
The articles in this collection focus on politics in the widest sense and its influence and visibility in translations from the early Middle Ages to the late Renaissance – from Eusbius’ translations of Virgil to Shakespeare’s adaptation of the story of Titus Andronicus. No translation, this collection argues, is an innocent, transparent rendering of the original; translation is always carried out in a certain cultural and political ambience.

Free Download Nadia R. Altschul, "Iberoamerican Neomedievalisms: "The Middle Ages" and Its Uses in Latin America "
English | ISBN: 1641894814 | 2023 | 227 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This is the first volume fully dedicated to Iberoamerican neomedievalisms. It examines "the Middle Ages" and its uses in Iberoamerica: the Spanish and Portuguese American postcolonies. It is an especially timely topic as scholars in neomedievalism studies become increasingly conscious that the field has different trajectories outside Europe and beyond the English-speaking world.

Free Download Carbon Dioxide through the Ages: From wild spirit to climate culprit by Han Dolman
English | June 27, 2023 | ISBN: 019886941X | 306 pages | PDF | 4.18 Mb
Carbon dioxide has become one of the "defining molecules" of our century, due to its role in Earth’s climate. This text traces the development of the perception of carbon dioxide through the ages.

Free Download George H. Pember, "Earth’s Earliest Ages"
English | 2013 | pages: 451 | ISBN: 0985604522 | PDF | 2,3 mb
As far back as the beginning of time and within every major culture of the ancient world, the astonishingly consistent story is told of gods who descended from heaven and materialized in bodies of flesh. From Rome to Greece and before that, to Egypt, Persia, Assyria, Babylonia, and Sumer the earliest records of civilization tell of the era when powerful beings known to the Hebrews as Watchers and in the book of Genesis as the b’nai ha Elohim (‘sons of God’) mingled themselves with humans, giving birth to part-celestial, part-terrestrial hybrids known as ‘Nephilim.’ When English theologian George Hawkins Pember, in his 1876 masterpiece, Earth’s Earliest Ages, analyzed the prophecy of Jesus Christ in Matthew 24 that says the end times would be a repeat of ‘the days of Noah,’ he concluded the final and most fearful sign heralding the Lord’s Second Coming would be the return of the ‘Nephilim, the appearance upon earth of beings from the Principality of the Air, and their unlawful intercourse with the human race.’ Jesus Himself, in answering His disciples concerning the signs of His coming and of the end of the world, verified it would be ‘as the days of [Noah] were’ (Matthew 24:37). The implication is, just as it was before the Flood when the spirits of Nephilim were powerful upon earth (Genesis 6:4), mankind would experience an end-times renaissance of the influence of these entities.

Free Download Yannis Stouraitis, "War and Collective Identities in the Middle Ages: East, West, and Beyond "
English | ISBN: 1641893621 | 2023 | 246 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book uses sociological perspectives to bring together work on war and identity in the Middle Ages relating to a range of peoples and geographical settings from Europe, the eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East, and Asia. Focusing on the interrelation between ideological practices and group formation, it examines the role of warfare in the emergence and decline of particular social structures, and changing patterns of collective identification. It contributes to the debate on the

Free Download Making Money in the Early Middle Ages by Rory Naismith
English | July 11th, 2023 | ISBN: 0691177406 | 540 pages | True EPUB/pdf | 38.51 MB
An examination of coined money and its significance to rulers, aristocrats and peasants in early medieval Europe

Free Download The Dark Ages (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C5199V18 | 2023 | 1 hour and 49 minutes | M4B@320 kbps | 251 MB
Author: Joseph McCabe
Narrator: Oberon Michaels
This pamphlet offers a condensed history of Europe between the fall of the Roman empire and the twelfth century. The author’s profound anti-clerical bias becomes apparent as he explores the influence of Christianity on a world in which order was maintained by the imposition of violence, and in which the general populace was kept in a state of ignorance and serfdom. He supports his conclusions with quotes from his own translations of documents of the period. In the final sentence, McCabe sums up his view of the Dark Ages: "What claims to be the highest ethical religion in the world was followed after its general adoption by a general degradation of character to which you will find no parallel in the history of pagan civilization."

Free Download Lawrence Fine, "Judaism in Practice: From the Middle Ages through the Early Modern Period."
English | ISBN: 0691057869 | 2001 | 456 pages | PDF | 47 MB
This collection of original materials provides a sweeping view of medieval and early modern Jewish ritual and religious practice. Including such diverse texts as ritual manuals, legal codes, mystical books, autobiographical writings, folk literature, and liturgical poetry, it testifies to the enormous variety of practices that characterized Judaism in the twelve hundred years between 600 and 1800 C.E. Its focus on religious practice and experience-how Judaism was actually lived by people from day to day-makes this anthology unique among the few sourcebooks available.