Historians from the US, Israel, and Europe draw on court records to reveal how people of the lower classes represented themselves and their interests in Medieval Europe and her colonies. The topics in
American-born Goodich (1944-2006) spent most of his academic career in the history department at Haifa University, and died as this book was in the publication process. In it he examines a wide range
Seldom heard from in modern times, those on the margins of Medieval Europe have much to tell us about the society that defined them. More than just a fascinating cast of characters, the visionaries an
As war, pestilence, and famine spread through Europe in the Middle Ages, so did reports of miracles, of hopeless victims wondrously saved from disaster. These "rescue miracles," recorded by over one h
