Representations of war in Ancient Rome

Edited by Sheila Dillon and Katherine E. Welch. War suffused Roman life to a degree unparalleled in other ancient societies. Through a combination of obsessive discipline and frenzied (though carefully orchestrated) brutality, Rome#s armies conquered most of the lands stretching from Scotland to Syria ...

Regards sur l´Afrique romaine

L'image que l'on retient souvent de l'Afrique du nord des Romains est celle des somptueux restes archéologiques qui émerveillent les touristes et ornent les couvertures des beaux ouvrages : Timgad, Dougga, Lepcis Magna, Volubilis, etc. Se dressent majestueusement et offrent au visiteur un ...

El enigma de Nefertiti

Nefertiti (la 'hermosa') es una de las figuras más misteriosas y atractivas de la historia. Esposa del gran faraón Ajenatón, vivió durante el período de Amarna, el más tumultuoso y desconocido del Antiguo Egipto. La doctora Fletcher nos cuenta en este libro cómo, durante unas ...

Nero

The fifth Roman emperor, Nero has gone down in history as the archetypal narcissistic tyrant. In this fascinating new biography, Jurgen Malitz invites readers to reconsider Nero's reputation. Malitz focuses on the growing tension between Nero's artistic tendencies and the political role for ...

Alejandro Magno

ALEJANDRO MAGNO es sin duda una de las figuras más fascinantes de la historia universal. ANTONIO GUZMÁN GUERRA y FRANCISCO JAVIER GÓMEZ ESPELOSÍN trazan una amplia panorámica sobre tan portentoso personaje, abordando los grandes temas que emanan del mismo: su personalidad y sus hazañas, sus ...

Plantagenet England 1225-1360

In this thorough and illuminating work, Michael Prestwich provides a comprehensive study of Plantagenet England, a dramatic and turbulent period which saw many changes. In politics it saw Simon de Montfort's challenge to the crown in Henry II's reign and it witnessed the ...

Medieval Europe and the world

from late Antiquity to Modernity, 400-1500

This brief but comprehensive textbook covers the history of the time period known as the Middle Ages. Beginning with the rise of Christianity in the West, and ending with the crises that shook Europe and Byzantium in the fifteenth century, the text serves as an ...

Chute et mort de Constantinople

(1204-1453)

Depuis sa refondation au IVe siècle par Constantin, le premier empereur romain chrétien, l'ancienne Byzance, devenue alors Constantinople et depuis lors Istanbul, a résisté durant un millénaire aux assauts des Barbares et des Arabes. Elle n'a subi la honte et les drames d ...

Thinking medieval

an introduction to the study of the Middle Ages

This book is aimed at students coming to the study of western European medieval history for the first time, and also graduate students on interdisciplinary medieval studies programmes. It examines the place of the Middle Ages in modern popular culture, exploring the roots of the ...

Una historia del cuerpo en la Edad Media

Sueño, trabajo, sexualidad... Entre la represión y la libertad, la Cuaresma y el Carnaval, el cuerpo de la Edad Media es el lugar donde se producen algunas de las más importantes tensiones de la época en Occidente. De la abstinencia de los frailes a las ...

The Moors

the islamic west 7th-15th centuries AD

The high point of medieval islamic expansion was the 700-year presence of the 'Moors' in Spain and Portugal. The Arab and Berber conquest was followed by the establishment of a richly distinct culture in Andalusia, where for a while Muslim and Christian co-operated as often ...

Medieval marriage

symbolism and society

This study shows how marriage symbolism emerged from the world of texts to become a social force affecting ordinary people. It covers the whole medieval period but identifies the decades around 1200 as decisive. New arguments for regarding preaching as a mass medium from the ...

Europe after Rome

a new cultural history 500-1000

This is the first single-author study in over fifty years to offer an integrated appraisal of the early Middle Ages as a dynamic and formative period in European history. Written in an attractive and accessible style, it makes extensive use of original sources to introduce ...

A chronology of the Byzantine Empire

This work provides a clear and comprehensive chronology of the Eastern Roman Empire from the foundation of Constantinople in 324 AD to the extinction of the last Byzantine principality in 1461 AD. Shedding light on a once- obscure period of Eastern Mediterranean and Balkan history ...

Gótica

secretos, leyendas y simbología oculta de las catedrales

El libro, coordinado por Lorenzo Fernández, nos desvela algunos de los más importantes enigmas y misterios que a lo largo de la historia han encerrado las catedrales, lugares de culto y de confluencia de energías. El libro analiza los lugares donde se construyen las catedrales ...

Las órdenes militares

en la Europa Medieval

INDICE: Presentaciones. I. Origen, significado y tipología de las órdenes militares en la Europa Medieval. II. Las órdenes militares de San Juan de Jerusalén y del Temple. III. Pequeñas órdenes de caballería de Palestina y la orden de Canónigos del Santo Sepulcro. IV. Las ódenes ...

Was the Bayeux tapestry made in France?

the case for St. Florent of Saumur

This book presents the hypothesis that the Bayeux tapestry, long believed to have been made in England, came from the Loire valley in France, from the abbey of St. Florent of Saumur. This is based on a number of different kinds of evidence, the most ...

Les grandes batailles méridionales

"mieux vaut mort que vif vaincu": (1209-1271)

Dans nos esprits, le chevalier symbolise une époque. Période d'insécurité et de violences quasi constantes, le Moyen Âge voit dans la pratique des armes ou l'art de la guerre une activité légitime. Les témoins nous ont laissé des récits de combats, batailles, sièges ...

The Reign of Chivalry

Profusely illustrated and redesigned for a new generation of readers, Richard Barber's classic The Reign of Chivalry presents a broad picture of the chivalric world, and shows how chivalry affected or was affected by great social movements, great writers and great events, and analyses ...

Sur les traces des Cathares

Votre périple sera long : de Beaucaire, où l'assassinat d'un légat du pape allait précipiter le Midi occitan dans le tourbillon sanglant de la répression, aux abords de Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val et Bruniquel, où Guillem de Tudèle, poète occitan, a rédigé sa célèbre Canso de la ...