MMSO New Titles for 2018

Posted by Jessica Foster - Wednesday, 3 Jan 2018

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Manchester Medieval Sources Online is an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike, offering easy and extensive access to digital history sources. This collection seeks to bring to life every aspect of the medieval world, through a variety of first-hand accounts – many translated into English for the first time.

This year we are excited to be adding two new titles to the collection. Click on the links below to find out more:

 

Towns in Medieval England, Gervase Rosser:

This is the first collection of translated sources on towns in Medieval England. It draws on the great variety of written evidence for this significant and dynamic period of urban development, and invites students to consider for themselves the challenges and opportunities presented by a wide range of primary written sources.

The introduction and editorial commentary situate the extracts within the larger context of European urban history, against a longer chronological backdrop and in relation to the most up-to-date research. Suggestions for further reading enable the student to engage critically with the materials and encourage new work in the field. Collectively, the texts and commentary provide an overview of English medieval urban history, while the emphasis throughout is on the particular character and potential of each type of written evidence, from legal and administrative records to inventories of shops, and from letters and poetry to legendary civic histories.

 

Noble Society, Jonathan R. Lyon:

This book provides scholars and students alike with a set of texts that can deepen their understanding of the culture and society of the twelfth-century German kingdom. The sources translated here bring to life the activities of five noblemen and noblewomen from Rome to the Baltic coast and from the Rhine River to the Alpine valleys of Austria. To read these five sources together is to appreciate how interconnected political, military, economic, religious and spiritual interests could be for some of the leading members of medieval German society-and for the authors who wrote about them. Whether fighting for the emperor in Italy, bringing Christianity to pagans in what is today northern Poland, or founding, reforming and governing monastic communities in the heartland of the German kingdom, the subjects of these texts call attention to some of the many ways that noble life shaped the world of central medieval Europe.

 

For more information about the collection, and how you can subscribe, please check out the collection homepage:
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/manchester-medieval-sources-online/

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