In this book, Megan Cassidy-Welch challenges the notion that using memories of war to articulate and communicate collective identity is exclusively a modern phenomenon. War and Memory at the Time of t
This innovative book blends together the different legal traditions including black letter law and socio-legal approaches, to provide a thorough and comprehensive guide to construcit
This innovative book blends together the different legal traditions including black letter law and socio-legal approaches, to provide a thorough and comprehensive guide to construcit
This book explores the world of religious thinking on imprisonment, and how images of imprisonment were used in monastic thought, the cult of saints, the early inquisitions, preaching and hagiographic
An overview essay by Merry Wiesner-Hanks (history, U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) introduces this volume of essays, describing the historiography of gender theory with regard to early-modern Europe, setti
Crusading was a religious movement involving papal authorization, the incentive of remission of sins, pious motivation on behalf of the individual, and the justification of holy war. Much recent histo
