In this wide-ranging and provocative study, the author assesses the overall significance of women’s work in medieval and early modern Europe, and in colonial and postcolonial societies.

The thirteenth century brought new urgency to Catholic efforts to convert non-Christians, and no Catholic ruler was more dedicated to this undertaking than King Louis IX of France. His military…

At the height of the Middle Ages, a peculiar system of perpetual exile–or abjuration–flourished in western Europe. It was a judicial form of exile, not political or religious, and it…

In his final book, the distinguished historian John Baldwin argues that the aristocrats who inhabited the region of Paris over the turn of the twelfth century were important not only…

The Middle Ages were for many years generally viewed as a period when faith and order supported a rigid society. By painstaking archival research, historians such as Joseph R. Strayer…