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Dissent and Reform in the Early Middle Ages (1965, 1982, 1992) Medieval Civilization (1968) History of Medieval Christianity: Prophecy & Order (1968, 1986, 2000) Religious Dissent in the Middle Ages (edited by Jeffrey B. Russell) (1971) Witchcraft in the Middle Ages (1972) The Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity ...
The Codex Gigas opened to the page with the distinctive portrait of the Devil from which the text received its byname, the Devil's Bible. [1]The Codex Gigas ("Giant Book"; Czech: Obří kniha) is the largest extant medieval illuminated manuscript in the world, at a length of 92 cm (36 in). [2]
The OED in 1894 defined an uncapitalised "dark ages" as "a term sometimes applied to the period of the Middle Ages to mark the intellectual darkness characteristic of the time". [37] Since the Late Middle Ages significantly overlap with the Renaissance, the term 'Dark Ages' became restricted to distinct times and places in medieval Europe.
This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout the Middle Ages, noted as being unusual by multiple sources. John II Komnenos on a boar hunt Frederick Barbarossa 's strange drowning gave rise to legends that he was still alive
Europe's Inner Demons: An Enquiry Inspired by the Great Witch-Hunt is a historical study of the beliefs regarding European witchcraft in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, with particular reference to the development of the witches' sabbat and its influence on the witch trials in the Early Modern period.
Miniature on l. 5 verso of the Codex Amiatinus, which opens the Old Testament.It shows Ezra as a monastic scribe. Florence, Laurentian Library. Historiography in the Middle Ages (in Russian: Средневековая историография, in German: Mittelalterliche Geschichtsschreibung, in French: Historiographie médiévale) is an intentional preservation of the memory of the past in ...
The Early Middle Ages (or early medieval period), sometimes controversially referred to as the Dark Ages, is typically regarded by historians as lasting from the late 5th to the 10th century. [ note 1 ] They marked the start of the Middle Ages of European history , following the decline of the Western Roman Empire , and preceding the High ...
Early Sources of Scottish History, A.D. 500 to 1286, 2 volumes (1922), [265] by Scottish historian Alan Orr Anderson (1879–1958). [266] Fifteenth century English books; a bibliography of books and documents printed in England and of books for the English market printed abroad (1917). [267] By British bibliographer Edward Gordon Duff (1861 ...