Gesta Romanorum

exempla europeos del siglo XIV

Gesta Romanorum (1342) es una colección de exempla moralizados, esencialmente para uso de predicadores en discursos sacros. Proceden de géneros y tipos textuales diversos: fábulas, lais, cuentos, mitos, leyendas, relatos hagiográficos, etc., cuyos ragos de difusión en la Europa bajomedieval, con más de trescientos manuscritos ...

Letters, orders and musters of Bertrand du Guesclin, 1357-1380

Bertrand du Guesclin (d. 1380) was the most famous French soldier of his generation. He made his name as a guerrilla leader in the Breton War of Succession (1341-64) and, as Constable from 1370-80, played a major role in the recovery of France under Charles ...

Historical atlas of the crusades

In November 1095, Pope Urban II called on the Christian rulers and knights of Europe to drive the Muslims from the Holy Land and claim Jerusalem back for Christendom. Any Crusader who died in the attempt would be rewarded in Heaven. The response was overwhelming ...

Calixtus II, 1119-1124

a pope born to rule

Calixtus II (1119-1124) transformed the orientation of the papacy by signing the Concordat of Worms with the emperor, Henry V, in 1122, resolving the conflict over imperial investiture of bishops. As the tough-minded archbishop of Vienne, he had opposed the emperor and anyone else who ...

Hundred Years War

a wider focus

This volume, the first of a two-volume set, is the work of fourteen European and American scholars and focuses on the wider aspects of the Hundred Years. These essays range far afield from the traditional heartlands of Hundred Years War studies to investigate the influence ...

Omaggio al medioevo

I primi cinquanta anni del Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo di Spoleto

Celebrandosi quest'anno il cinquantennale della fondazione del Centro italiano di studi sull'alto medioevo, il Consiglio direttivo ha deciso di promuovere la pubblicazione di una riflessione storiografica sulle 'Settimane di studio' spoletine giudicate da molti una delle più felici imprese del dopoguerra, avendo spaziato ...

Gender in the Early Medieval World

East and West, 300-900

Gender analysis is one of the most probing ways to understand both power and cultural strategies in pre-industrial societies. In this book, sixteen scholars on the cutting edges of their disciplines explore the ideas and expressions of gender that characterised the centuries from c. 300 ...

Histoire et archéologie de l'Ordre militaire des Hospitaliers de Saint- Jean de Jérusalem

recueil de mémoires et documents sur le Forez

L'Armorial Bellenville

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 ...