Pace e guerra nel Basso Medioevo

atti del XL Convegno Storico Internazionale, Todi, 12-14 ottobre 2003

Holiness and masculinity in the Middle Ages

Studies of gender in medieval culture have tended to focus on femininity; however, the study of medieval masculinities has developed into an important area of enquiry in the last few years. This collection is the first to concentrate on the ways in which varieties of ...

Historia de las formas urbanas medievales

Una síntesis para quien quiera estudiar el urbanismo en la etapa medieval. Pretende ser un manual donde, desde un amplio abanico se incluyen, no sólo las formas artísticas, sino la sociedad, política, economía, y todo lo concerniente al espacio urbano.

El legado secreto de los cátaros

El libro de los dos principios. Tratado cátaro. Ritual occitano. Comentario al Padre Nuestro

Desde mediados del siglo XII hasta finales del XIII, el movimiento cátaro se alzó por Occitania, el norte de Italia, Flandes, Champaña y Cataluña como una auténtica iglesia alternativa a la de Roma, con su propia organización secreta, su doctrina y sus ritos iniciáticos. Como ...

Europa y sus raíces cristianas

El autor ha profundizado particularmente en el papel jugado por el Cristianismo en la configuración social, cultural y política del Viejo Continente. Es una actualización, con las convenientes enmiendas y adiciones, de La conversión de Europa al Cristianismo, publicado en 1988. Ante la polémica suscitada ...

L'economia dei conventi dei frati minori e predicatori fino alla metà del trecento

atti del XXXI Convegno Internazionale, Assisi, 9-11 ottobre 2003

The reform of the frankish Church

chrodegang of metz and the regula canonicorum in the eighth century

Chrodegang of Metz (c. 712-766) was a leading figure of the late Merovingian and early Carolingian Church. Born to one of the principal aristocratic families in Austrasia, he served as referendary of Charles Martel, and was appointed bishop of Metz in the 740s. As bishop ...

From reich to revolution

German history, 1558-1806

This major new study weaves insights from new research into a comprehensive account of German social, political and cultural development across two and a half centuries. Wilson addresses fundamental questions, such as how the apparently fragile structure of the Holy Roman Empire survived the trauma ...

The absent-minded imperialists

empire, society and culture in Britain

Kipling, Elgar, Mafeking Night . . . all these conjure up an image of a British society besotted with imperial pride in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In fact the true picture was more complex than this and people reacted to their empire in different ways. Many ...

La memoria del pasado

SUMARIO: Presentación LA MEMORIA DEL PASADO - Memoria, memoria histórica e historiografía. Precisión conceptual y uso por el historiador. Julio ARÓSTEGUI SÁNCHEZ - De fracasos y modernizaciones en la historia: agitaciones de la memoria y zozobras identitarias. Juan Sisinio PÉREZ GARZÓN - Las imágenes de la memoria. La ...

Church, religion and society in early modern Italy

Christopher F. Black assesses the nature and extent of church reform demands within Sixteenth Century Italy, then concentrates on religious society after the supposed watershed of the Council of Trent (1546 63), through the Seventeenth Century. Black considers structural reform through dioceses and parishes, changes ...

Taxation under the early Tudors 1485-1547

Based on original research, this book marks an important advance in our understanding not only of the fiscal resources available to the English crown but also of the broader political culture of early Tudor England. An original study of taxation under the early Tudors. Explains ...

Política y cultura, en la época moderna

(cambios dinásticos. Milenarismos, mesianismos y utopías)

La hora de Tomás Moro sólo frente al poder

Escritor, erudito, mecenas, abogado, relator del Consejo de Estado, juez, Canciller del Reino, Consejero de Enrique VIII, embajador... y condenado a muerte por el mismo rey al que sirvió con lealtad. Tomás Moro es "el hombre del siglo XVI" cuya obra, y su vida entera ...

The safeguard of the sea

a naval history of Britain.Vol.1: 660-1649

Throughout Britain's history, one factor above all others has determined the fate of the nation: its navy. N. A. M. Rodger's definitive account reveals how the political and social progress of Britain has been inextricably intertwined with the strength - and weakness - of its ...

Exceptionalism and industrialisation

britain and its european rivals, 1688-1815

This book explores the question of British exceptionalism in the period from the Glorious Revolution to the Congress of Vienna. Leading historians examine why Great Britain emerged from years of sustained competition with its European rivals in a discernible position of hegemony in the domains ...

La Empresa de Inglaterra

(la "Armada Invencible": fabulación y realidad)

La Jornada o Empresa de Inglaterra, o Gran Armada de 1588, más conocida por la historiografía internacional y en la recepción vulgar bajo el inexacto, propagandístico e irónico apelativo, difundido por los enemigos de España, de Armada Invencible, constituye uno de esos grandes temas del ...

La guerra civile americana vista dall'Europa

con antologia di testi

La fine della guerra civile americana coincise con la presa di coscienza in Europa del tendenziale emergere degli Stati Uniti come grande potenza sul piano della politica mondiale. Il volume presenta il dibattito sorto in Europa in seguito allo scoppio della guerra civile americana. Introdotta ...

The life and death of Anne Boleyn

"the most happy"

Anne Boleyn is the most notorious of England's queens, but more famous for her death as an adulterer than for her life. Henry's second wife and mother of Elizabeth I, Anne was the first English queen to be publicly executed. Yet what do ...

La traición escrita

una conjura en la China Imperial

Tras la buena acogida de El palacio de la memoria de Matteo Ricci (Tiempo de Memoria 21), es un orgullo publicar la obra más reciente de Jonathan Spence, unánimemente considerado el mejor sinólogo de la actualidad. La traición escrita arranca en octubre de 1728, cuando ...