Libros de Historia y Ciencias Humanas > Historia universal > Historia Medieval

2013 Gower Publishing Company Limited

The crusades influenced western European society in the middle ages far beyond the military campaigns themselves. Reactions and involvement did not always follow the assumptions of ideology or supporters, medieval or modern. In this wide ...

2013 Cornell University Press

"Medieval men were great storytellers. In the long dark of winter evenings, there was not much to do but tell stories and sing songs. At country markets, professional narrators and ballad-singers profitably drew clusters of ...

2013 Editorial Ariel, S.A.

Entre los siglos V y XII, cuando aún había vastos territorios deshabitados en Europa, se desarrolló una sociedad que tuvo que aprender los rudimentos de la admnistración de la vidá pública. En ese período se ...

2013 Liverpool University Press

Building upon Heinrich Harke's influential research on burial archaeology and early medieval migrations, and in particular, his ground-breaking work on the relationship between the theory and practice of burial archaeology, this book sets a ...

2013 Yale University Press

Edward III (1312 - 1377) was the most successful European ruler of his age. Reigning for over fifty years, he achieved spectacular military triumphs and overcame grave threats to his authority, from parliamentary revolt to the ...

2013 Yale University Press

The lifestory of Mary I - daughter of Henry VIII and his Spanish wife, Catherine of Aragon - is often distilled to a few dramatic episodes: her victory over the attempted coup by Lady Jane Grey, the ...

2013 PublicAffairs

The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne's empire was in ruins, most of Spain had been claimed by Moorish invaders, and even the papacy in Rome was embroiled in petty, provincial conflicts ...

2013 Harvard University Press

(The i Tatti Renaissance Library). Francesco Filelfo's philosophical dialogue On Exile (ca. 1440) depicts a prominent group of Florentine noblemen and humanists, driven from their city by Cosimo de' Medici, discussing the sufferings imposed ...

2013 Cornell University Press

Charlemagne never traveled farther east than Italy, but by the mid-tenth century a story had begun to circulate about the friendly alliances that the emperor had forged while visiting Jerusalem and Constantinople. This story gained ...

2013 Cornell University Press

In The Sleep of Behemoth, Jehangir Yezdi Malegam explores the emergence of conflicting concepts of peace in western Europe during the High Middle Ages. Ever since the early Church, Christian thinkers had conceived of their ...

2013 Editorial Paidós

Hay una Edad Media «fea», intolerante, violenta y pobre, de la que Jacques Le Goff habla sin rodeos. Pero existe también, y sobre todo, una Edad Media «bonita», a la que los niños y jóvenes ...

2010 Wiley-Blackwell

The Vandals is the first book available in the English Language dedicated to exploring the sudden rise and dramatic fall of this complex North African Kingdom. This complete history provides a full account of the ...

2013 Verso Books

The rise of the modern absolutist monarchies in Europe constitutes in many ways the birth of the modern historical epoch. Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, the companion volume to Perry Anderson's Lineages of the ...

2013 Boydell & Brewer Ltd.

"Stylish and racy...An excellent book and a delight to read, written with panache and entirely convincing." Professor PETER COSS, Cardiff University. This book takes us into the world of the medieval cook, from the ...

2013 Editorial Biblos

Gregorio Piaia es ampliamente reconocido en los círculos académicos no sólo por su profundidad y agudeza en la ardua investigación de textos y de doctrinas medievales sino también por la riqueza con que ha sabido ...

2013 Ashgate Publishing Limited

In medieval society and culture, memory occupied a unique position. It was central to intellectual life and the medieval understanding of the human mind. Commemoration of the dead was also a fundamental Christian activity. Above ...

2013 Universidad del País Vasco

En el estudio arqueológico de las jerarquías y las desigualdades en las sociedades preindustriales, el análisis del ciclo de producción agrario tiene un notable protagonismo debido a su importancia estructural en términos cuantitativos y cualitativos ...

2013 CSIC. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

SUMARIO: Teoría y Método: - Construcción de la base gráfica para un sistema de información y gestión del patrimonio arquitectónico: casa de Hylas (Roque Angulo Fornos). Estudios: - Lo sviluppo costruttivo della basilica di Ererouk (Armenia), secoli ...

2013 Routledge

Drawing from an equally wide range of sources-sermons, polemical texts, theological treatises, hagiographical and devotional works, and histories-the volume demonstrates the emergence of a profoundly negative image of the Jews that established many of the ...

2010 Desperta Ferro Ediciones SLNE

SUMARIO: · Gengis Kan y la formación del Imperio mongol, por Arturo Galindo García Los acontecimientos que voy a contar son tan horribles que durante años he evitado aludir a ellos. […] Si os dijeran un día ...