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Marco Aurelio

guerrero, filósofo, emperador

Marco Aurelio, emperador de Roma desde el año 161 al 180, es una de las pocas figuras de la Antigüedad que sigue hablándonos casi dos mil años después de su muerte. Las hazañas de Alejandro Magno, Aníbal o Julio César pueden parecer impresionantes, pero la ...

Pagan and Christian

religious change in Early Medieval Europe

The conversion to Christianity was a key cultural process that saw the transformation of Europe from classical to medieval world. The growth of the Church has been closely linked with the development of other key institutions, such as the state. It has also been highlighted ...

Los límites de Ares

vencedores y cencidos en la Grecia antigua

¿Existió algín "código ético" aplicado a la guerra, común a todo el ámbito griego, que tuviese una validez o un prestigio superior al de las leyes de cada Estado?y si era así ¿qué conductas concretas regulaba? ¿Cuál era su efectividad real?. Estas son las ...

The Crusades, Christianity and Islam

The Crusades were penitential war-pilgrimages fought in the Levant and the eastern Mediterranean, as well as in North Africa, Spain, Portugal, Poland, the Baltic region, Hungary, the Balkans, and Western Europe. Beginning in the eleventh century and ending as late as the eighteenth, these holy ...

Anglo-Saxon England

Early Anglo-Saxon England saw some of the most important elements in the creation of modern England: the Germanic migrations after the departure of the Romans and the introduction of Christianity in the 7th century. While traditionally the early centuries of Anglo-Saxon England have been disregarded ...

The dinamics of ancient empires

state power from Assyria to Byzantium

Transcending ethnic, linguistic, and religious boundaries, early empires shaped thousands of years of world history. Yet despite the global prominence of empire, individual cases are often studied in isolation. This series seeks to change the terms of the debate by promoting cross-cultural, comparative, and transdisciplinary ...

The debate on The Crusades

David Hume, the eighteenth century philosopher, famously declared that 'the crusades engrossed the attention of Europe and have ever since engaged the curiosity of man kind'. This is the first book length study of how succeeding generations from the First Crusade in 1099 to the ...

Early Carolingian wafare

prelude to empire

Without the complex military machine that his forebears had built up over the course of the eighth century, it would have been impossible for Charlemagne to revive the Roman empire in the West. Early Carolingian Warfare is the first book-length study of how the Frankish ...

The religious history of the Roman Empire

pagans, jews, and christians

This collection of papers, many of them either published here in English for the first time or previously available only in specialist libraries, deals with the religious history of the Roman Empire. Written by leading scholars, the essays have contributed to a revolutionary change in ...

A hermit's cookbook

monks, food and fasting in the Middle Ages

How did medieval hermits survive on their self-denying diet? What did they eat, and how did unethical monks get around the rules? The Egyptian hermit Onuphrios was said to have lived entirely on dates, and perhaps the most famous of all hermits, John the Baptist ...

Civilizations of Ancient Iraq

In "Civilizations of Ancient Iraq", Benjamin and Karen Foster tell the fascinating story of ancient Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements ten thousand years ago to the Arab conquest in the seventh century. Accessible and concise, this is the most up-to-date and authoritative book on the ...

Reading Huizinga

Johan Huizinga, one of the founders of cultural history, ranks among the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Published in the 1930s, his The Waning of the Middle Ages, Homo Ludens and Erasmus were immediately recognised as masterworks and widely translated. Perhaps the most ...

428 AD

an ordinary year at the end of the Roman Empire

This is a sweeping tour of the Mediterranean world from the Atlantic to Persia during the last half-century of the Roman Empire. By focusing on a single year not overshadowed by an epochal event, "428 AD" provides a truly fresh look at a civilization in ...

Pompeii

art, industry and infraestructure

More than 250 years after its discovery, Pompeii continues to resonate powerfully in both academic discourse and the popular imagination. This volume brings together a collection of ten papers that advance, challenge and revise the present conceptions of the city's art, industry and infrastructure ...

El trienio que hizo Europa

XXXVII Semana de Estudios Medievales. Estella, 19 a 23 de julio de 2010

-          Pensar el pasado, construir el futuro.: Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada. ELOÍSA RAMÍREZ VAQUERO- Las Navas de Tolosa, ¿un punto de inflexión en las dinámicas históricas peninsulares?. FRANCISCO GARCÍA FITZ- Después de Las Navas de Tolosa y antes de Bouvines. La batalla de Muret (1213 ...

El régimen retributivo del personal docente e investigados laboral de las universidades públicas

La proclamación del principio de laboralidad del personal docente e investigador (PDI) de las universidades públicas previsto en la LOU primero y, posteriormente, en la LOMLOU, ha comportado indudables alteraciones respecto a su tratamiento anterior como personal sujeto a derecho administrativo. Bajo esta premisa se ...

A la sombra del Vesubio

Historia cultural de Nápoles

In the shadow of vesuvius es, sin duda, la historia definitiva de la ciudad de Nápoles. Nápoles encuentra sus orígenes en el cuento de Homero de Ulysses y las sirenas. La ciudad ha atraído a visitantes y extranjeros durante mucho tiempo, ha atraído no sólo ...

Las guerras que han marcado la Historia

Maratón, Termópilas, Salamina, Siracusa, Roncesvalles, Lepanto, Almansa, Trafalgar, Berlín, Guadalcanal..  Un completo recorrido por las grandes batallas de la historia de la mano de uno de los más prestigiosos historiadores militares británicos. Desde el antiguo Egipto a la segunda Guerra del Golfo, pasando por Grecia ...

Crónica del país de los negros

(Tarij as-Sudan)

"Crónica del País de los Negros" (también conocido como "Tarij as-Sudan") es un texto de resonancias míticas escrito en árabe en torno a 1655 por Abd al-Sadi, y la principal fuente histórica del África Occidental, imprescindible para cualquier curioso o estudioso que quiera conocer no ...

Historicidades

La noción de “régimen de historicidad” se ha convertido en una consigna para encarar la relación que una sociedad mantiene con su pasado, su presente y su futuro. Esta obra se esfuerza por describir su genealogía, que atraviesa a la vez las fronteras nacionales y ...