Presents evidence to support the author's woman-centered interpretation of prehistoric civilizations, considering the prehistoric goddesses, gods and religion, and discussing the living goddesses--deities which have continued to be ...
This book sets the notorious European witch trials in the widest and deepest possible perspective and traces the major historiographical developments of witchcraft
In this, the first revisionist biography of Frederick II, David Abulafia dispels Frederick's long-lived, distorted reputation as a monarch tolerant to the Jews and Muslims, defiant of papal rule, and eager to create a new, secular world ...
This text recounts Charlemagne's personal life and his achievements in warfare, learning, art, building, and in the skillful administration of the state.
In this groundbreaking work of intellectual history, Christopher Celenza argues that serious interest in the intellectual life of Renaissance Italy can be reinvigorated-and the nature of the Renaissance itself reconceived-by recovering a ...