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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Edad Media

siglos XI-XV

La Historia ejerce una gran atracción entre los estudiantes. Ello implica para los profesores de las Universidades la responsabilidad de conducir hasta su meta académica a los que han escogido esta disciplina. Este objetivo se basa en dos elementos: los conocimientos, que se aprenden, y ...

Les racines chrétiennes de l'Europe

conversion et liberté dans les royaumes barbares Ve-VIIIe siècle

Pourquoi l'Europe est-elle devenue chrétienne ? Une évangélisation pacifique des populations a bien évidemment existé ; mais très tôt la force, et notamment la force publique vint s'ajouter ou se substituer au pouvoir de conviction des prédicateurs. Malgré la qualité de leur appareil législatif et ...

The new Cambridge medieval History

Vol.I: c. 500-c. 700

The first volume of The New Cambridge Medieval History covers the transitional period between the later Roman world and the early middle ages, c. 500 to c. 700. This was an era of developing consciousness and profound change in Europe, Byzantium and the Arab world ...

Historia de la guerra en la Edad Media

La guerra ha ejercido una importante influencia sobre la civilización y las estructuras sociales de la Europa medieval. Tiene, por tanto, una significación alta, tanto para aquellos interesados en la Edad Media por sí misma como para aquellos interesados en la guerra en sí y ...

Tournament

The tournament was a mock battle, at its height between 1100 and 1300, conducted by two arbitrary battalions over many square miles of open country. It was a one-day event, but when joined to ancillary festivals it could extend it to several days. The centre ...

Europa medieval

INDICE: Lista de mapas. Tabla cronológica. Prefacio. La desintegración del mundo antiguo. La roturación de nuevas tierras. Artículos especiales. Los frutos de la civilización. La consolidación de las tierras.

Italian militiaman

1260-1392

Illustrated by Christa Hook. Medieval Italy was characterized by regular warfare among its numerous city-states, as well as internal strife within comunes as aristocratic factions fought each other for domination of the cities' governments. In this context, Italian warfare developed quickly, with the crossbow playing ...

The occult in medieval Europe 500-1500

a documentary history

The medieval period is often seen as an age of superstition. This study challenges this assumption, offering students a varied collection of documents - many of which appear in English for the first time - surveying what people throughout Europe actually thought and believed about the occult ...

The world of Eleanor of Aquitaine

literature and society in southern France between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries

Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124-1204) is one of the most important and well-known figures of the Middle Ages; she exercised a huge influence on both the course of history, and on the cultural life, of the time. The essays in this collection use her as a ...

The deeds of count Roger of Calabria Sicily and of his brother Duke Robert Guiscard