Greek and roman actors

Aspects of an ancient profession

This series of twenty complementary essays by experts in the field explores the art, social status, reputation and image of the ancient actor in the Greek and Roman worlds, from the sixth century BC to Byzantium. Numerous illustrations are included and all Greek and Latin ...

Flavian Rome

culture, image & text

The politics, literature and culture of ancient Rome during the Flavian principate (69-96 ce) have recently been the subject of intense investigation. In this volume of new, specially commissioned studies, twenty-five scholars from five countries have combined to produce a critical survey of the period ...

Prostitution, sexuality, and the law in ancient Rome

This is a study of the legal rules affecting the practice of female prostitution at Rome approximately from 200 B.C. to A.D. 250. It examines the formation and precise content of the legal norms developed for prostitution and those engaged in this profession ...

The roman Alexander

reading a cultural myth

This book seizes on one of the eternal objects of widespread attention in Ancient History and turns the tables on the scholarship that has shaped and dominated the field. Instead of scrutinising the documents in order to reconstruct the biography and assess the historical significance ...

Un viaje a...el imperio romano

Gran formato con ilustraciones. Fotografías e ilustraciones a todo color, nos guían al tiempo en que Roma se convirtió en un poderoso imperio cuyos límites se extendieron desde la Gran Bretaña hasta África y Asia. Con proyectos prácticos, los niños podrán involucrarse en el conocimiento ...

La reine mystérieuse

Hatshepsout

Des recherches archéologiques, historiographiques et théologiques très complètes permettent de décrypter l'Egypte ancienne à travers la vie de la reine Hatshepsout, instigatrice du sanctuaire de la Vallée des Rois. Sont principalement mis en avant son couronnement, son règne controversé, sa gestion du pays et ...

La biología en la antigüedad y la edad media

Realizado por un biólogo más que por un historiador, este libro pretende ser un esbozo de resumen histórico centrándose en las tres etapas fundamentales de esta ciencia: los antecedentes que llegarían hasta la Edad Media; la formulación de los principios teóricos que propicia el Renacimiento ...

Magia, alchimia, scienza dal '400 al '700

l'influso di Ermete Trimegisto = Magic, alchemy and science 15th-18th centuries : the influence of Hermes Trismegistus.Vol.I

Tópicos y realidades de la edad media, II

La versión legendaria —positiva o negativa— de personalidades y sucesos extraordinarios suele prevalecer en la memoria de las gentes con preferencia a la de su realidad. Nuestro tiempo viene empeñado desde hace décadas en la tarea de desmitificación de imágenes, hechos e individualidades que, en ...

Migrations et diasporas méditerranéennes

(Xe-XVIe siècles) : actes du colloque de Conques (octobre 1999)

La Méditerranée a été de tout temps zone de brassage. La période médiévale a vu s'y déployer bien des migrations, proches par leurs caractères des grands déplacements humains de l'époque contemporaine : flux et reflux des marchands italiens allant s'installer dans les comptoirs ...

Le monde médiéval

Le Monde médiéval restitue une époque clé de la civilisation européenne à travers une série d'illustrations d'une grande richesse, doublées d'un commentaire érudit et vivant. Organisé par thèmes, assortis de renvois, ce livre propose au lecteur d'explorer et de comprendre les ...

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Lord and Lady

Eleanor's patrilineal descent, from a lineage already prestigious enough to have produced an empress in the eleventh century, gave her the lordship of Aquitaine. But marriage re-emphasized her sex which, in the medieval scheme of gender- power relations relegated her to the position of ...

The Crusade against heretics in Bohemia, 1418-1437

sources and documents for the Hussite Crusades

This selection of over 200 texts, nearly all appearing for the first time in English translation, provides a close-up look at the crusades against the Hussite heretics of 15th-century Bohemia, from the perspective of the official Church - or at their struggles for religious freedom, from ...

The Normans

the history of a dynasty

"The Normans" is the history of a dynasty. It is also the history of ruthless ambition, lust, rivalry and was between brothers and cousins. The Norman Conquest of England in 1066 was a critical moment in history. Following the death of Harold at the Battle ...

A Traveller's History of the Hundred Years War in France

A journey to France can be a journey through our shared history. Tragic and stirring names from the past scatter the French countryside, places such as Agincourt, Crecy, Aquitaine, Rouen - where Joan of Arc was burnt buy the English at the stake - and a stretch ...

The Hundred Years´ War

1337-1453

Contents illustrated There can be no doubt that military conflict between France and England dominated European history in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This war is of considerable interest both because of its duration and the number of theatres in which it was fought. In ...

Encountering medieval textiles and dress

objects, texts, images

Eds., Désirée G. Koslin and Janet E. Snyder Scholars of history, archaeology, literature, and textiles range widely in time, place, medium, and social class as they consider not just how people dressed in the Middle Ages, but also the representation of how they dressed, both ...

Un viaje a...el mundo vikingo

Gran formato con ilustraciones. Los vikingos eran de espíritu aventurero. El clima adverso de los territorios que ocupaban, los alentó a viajar al sur de Europa, Asia y Arabia. ¿Quiénes eran, cómo vivían? Aquí, los niños lo descubrirán y podrán construir objetos que les ayudarán ...

La Première Croisade

libérer Jérusalem 1095-1107

Déclenchée par la prédication d'Urbain II à Clermont en novembre 1095, cette croisade allait lancer peuple et barons vers la Terre sainte. Jacques Heers raconte la mobilisation des quatre armées, l'enthousiasme des foules entraînées par la prédication des ermites, foules hétéroclites de pèlerins ...

Les tendances actuelles de l'histoire du Moyen Age en France et en Allemagne

Actes des Colloques de Sèvres (1997) et Gottingen (1998)

Automne 1997 : une vingtaine d'historiens médiévistes allemands viennent en France dresser devant leurs collègues français un bilan de leurs recherches depuis trente ans. Un an plus tard, jour pour jour, les médiévistes français leur rendent leur visite pour se livrer en Allemagne au même ...