James Davis
Books by James Davis
“By picking the topic of market morality James Davis gives us something which engages with all those really huge shifts, but gives us a very different perspective on them and one which shows the ways in which contemporaries weren’t only subject to these shifts, but engaged their own subjectivity.” Read more...
The best books on The Middle Ages
Hannah Skoda, Historian
Interviews where books by James Davis were recommended
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Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean 400-800
by Chris Wickham -
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African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa
by Michael Gomez -
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The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo & Rustichello da Pisa -
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Montaillou: Cathars and Catholics in a French Village 1294-1324
by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie -
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Medieval Market Morality: Life, Law and Ethics in the English Marketplace, 1200-1500
by James Davis
The best books on The Middle Ages, recommended by Hannah Skoda
The best books on The Middle Ages, recommended by Hannah Skoda
Oxford medieval historian Hannah Skoda chooses her top five books on the Middle Ages, explaining why she finds the whole idea of their ‘middleness’ problematic and how a more global approach tends to shatter many long-held assumptions about the period.
