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Women in the Middle Ages

an encyclopedia

Providing a sweeping view of the life and achievements of women in the Middle Ages, this book features over 300 alphabetically arranged entries by roughly 130 expert contributors.

The Hussite Wars 1419-36

Illustrated by Angus McBride In 1415, the judicial murder of the religious reformer Jan Hus sparked a major uprising in Bohemia. His death led within a few years to the 'Hussite' revolution against the monarchy, the German aristocracy and the Church establishment. For two decades ...

El arte de cetrería de Federico II

Edición muy cuidada, en gran formato y con ilustraciones. Federico II Hohenstaufen (Jesi, 26 de diciembre de 1194; # Castel Fiorentino, 13 de diciembre de 1250), llamado «stupor mundi». Fue Rey de Sicilia, Chipre y Jerusalén, y emperador del Sacro Imperio Romano Germánico.

Sieges of the Middle Ages

In the Middle Ages the castle was an important military and administrative centre, essentially utilitarian in its design and in the purposes it served. Because it played so central a role in medieval history, and because the wealth of material is so great, the author ...

The sword and the scimitar

the saga of the crusades

For nearly two centuries, from 1096 until 1291, a tide of pilgrims, knights, men-at-arms, priests, traders and peasants swept from Western Europe to the Levant - Crusaders whose common aim was to recover the Holy Place of Christendom. The Sword and the Scimitar is a saga ...

La carta del Preste Juan

La carta del Preste Juan es un documento apócrifo –aparecido en la segunda mitad del siglo XII y supuestamente escrito por el rey fabuloso de las Tres Indias– que fue enviado al Papa de Roma y a los emperadores de Bizancio y del Sacro Imperio ...

Medieval families

perspectives on marriage, household, and children

During the past 30 years, the study of medieval families has emerged as a focus of discussion in European history. Largely unexplored in professional publications and teaching curricula until the 1970s, family history is now accepted as an aspect of medieval history essential to the ...

Proving woman

female spirituality and inquisitional culture in the Later Middle Ages

In this provocative and forceful book, Dyan Elliott considers the impact of an institutional procedure on the phenomena it was used to assess. "Proving Woman" examines sacramental confession, the inquisition of heretics, and the discernment of spirits as parallel cases of a growing medieval concern ...

La ciudad medieval

orígenes y triunfo de la Europa urbana

Brujas, Francfort, Génova, Roma o París son tan representativas de la Edad Media como el feudalismo, el vasallaje y las expediciones de los cruzados. En el momento de su configuración definitiva, el mapa de las ciudades de Europa coincide con el de los centros de ...

Mothers and children

jewish family life in medieval Europe

This book presents a synthetic history of the family - the most basic building block of medieval Jewish communities - in Germany and northern France during the High Middle Ages. Concentrating on the special roles of mothers and children, it also advances recent efforts to write a ...

Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

The mention of the history of beer always brings a alugh or ata the very least a snicher. The history of beer for most people is not a serious topic of study. It seems to them frivolous and hardly worth more than a few diveting ...

Gala Placida

una soberana del Imperio cristiano

Elia Gala Placidia (392-450), hija del emperador romano Teodosio el Grande y de su segunda esposa Gala, está considerada por la historiografía actual como la figura política femenina más notoria de Occidente en la primera mitad del siglo V. Destinada desde su nacimiento, como tantas ...

Pour une anthropologie du prélèvement seigneurial dans les campagnes médiévales (XIe-XIVe siècles)

réalités et représentations paysannes: Colloque tenu à Medina del Campo du 31 mai au 3 juin 2000

The medieval horse and its equipment

c. 1150-c.1450

Whether knight's charger or beast of burden, horses played a vital role in medieval life. The wealth of medieval finds excavated in London in recent years has, not surprisingly, included many objects associated with horses. This catalogue illustrates and discusses over four hundred such ...

Swords of the viking age

This new work fills a gap in the literature in English on the swords made and used in northern Europe during the Viking age, between the mid eighth and the mid eleventh centuries. Ewart Oakeshott outlines the significance and diversity of these ancient heirlooms; co-author ...

The textura of society

medieval women in the Southern Low countries

This book proposes to examine the historical experience, both secular and religious, of women in Flanders, one of the most economically dynamic regions of medieval Europe. The articles in this collection are written within the framework of the thesis that medieval Flemish women were more ...

A history of the life of Richard Coeur-de-Lion, King of England

The rise and fall of the feudal system comprises one of the most important periods of human history. During this time, magnificent upheavals occurred: an organised system of oppression gave way to rational liberty, bloody wars resulted in the refinement of society, and wanton aggression ...

Monstruos, demonios y maravillas a fines de la Edad Media

El monstruo medieval aparece a través de la obra de los pintores y los grabadores del fin de la Edad Media como una creación misteriosa: nuestra época, intentando encontrarle sentido, le imputa intenciones subversivas, orígenes patológicos, una inspiración deudora de los alucinógenos, etcétera (por ejemplo ...

A companion to Arthurian and celtic myth and legend

Authoritative illustrated guide to the people, events and places (including Scotland, Ireland and Brittany) linked to King Arthur.