The Plantagenets

History of a Dynasty

The story of the Plantagenet dynasty is the story of one of the pivotal ages in English history. Attitudes and outlooks were formed with regard to a vast array of profoundly important issues. Such fundamental issues as the relationship between church and state, the nature ...

Ottoman fortifications 1300-1710

Illustrated by Adam Hook. The Ottoman Empire was heir to the architectural traditions not only of the Byzantine Empire but also to those of the medieval Islamic Middle East. Having learned from these, the Ottomans created a fusion of military architectural styles to which they ...

Para acabar con la Edad Media

INDICE: Edad Media. Torpes e inhábiles. Toscos e ignorantes. Marasmo y barbarie. Ranas y hombres. La mujer sin alma. El índice acusador. Historia, ideas y fantasía. Algunos comentarios sobre la enseñanza de la Historia.

A brief history of Khubilai Kahn

His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess. Groomed from childhood for a position of authority, Khubilai snatched the position of Great Khan, becoming the overlord of a Mongol federation that stretched from the Balkans to the Korean coastline ...

Cities, texts and social networks 400-1500

experiences and perceptions of medieval urban space

Eds. Caroline Goodson, Anne E. Lester, Carol Symes. "Cities, Texts and Social Networks" examines the experiences of urban life from late antiquity through the close of the fifteenth century, in regions ranging from late Imperial Rome to Muslim Syria, Iraq and al-Andalus, England, the territories ...

Breve historia de las leyendas medievales

En esta obra se recopila la mejor selección de las leyendas medievales de las crónicas, los poemas y la tradición oral de toda Europa para relatarnos el verdadero trasfondo histórico de cada una de ellas. Así, permite conocer la historia real de aquellos hombres y ...

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology

Ed. Clifford J. Rogers. From the Viking invasions to the Crusades to the Hundred Years War, wars were crucial agents of change in medieval Europe. They fostered many economic and political changes. They also affected the science, technology, religion, and culture of the parties involved ...

Construir la ciudad en la Edad Media

Eds. Beatriz Arízaga Bolumnuru, Jesús A. Solórzano Telechea.24 autores procedentes de universidades europeas, españolas y americanas analizan las construcciones y las obras urbanas medievales En esta monografía de título #Construir la ciudad en la Edad Media# se aborda el tema de la construcción de ...

Why Europe?

the medieval origins of its special path

Why did capitalism and colonialism arise in Europe and not elsewhere? Why were parliamentarian and democratic forms of government founded there? What factors led to Europe's unique position in shaping the world? Thoroughly researched and persuasively argued, "Why Europe?" tackles these classic questions with ...

Bloodied banners

martial display on the medieval battlefield

'A penetrating investigation of medieval martial display...The reader is struck by its originality, and by its sophisticated and critical interpretative engagement with historical and literary sources. Particularly notable is the author's subtle exploration of the function of armour: not only its practical role ...

Medieval medicine

a reader

Ed. Faith Wallis. Medical knowledge and practice changed profoundly during the medieval period. In this collection of over 100 primary sources, many translated for the first time, Faith Wallis reveals the dynamic world of medicine in the Middle Ages that has been largely unavailable to ...

The viking age

a reader

Eds. Angus A. Somerville, R. Andrew McDonald. The diversity of the Viking world is illuminated in more than 100 readings contained in this primary source reader. The Norse translations, many of them new, are straightforward and easily accessible for students. The introductions contextualize the readings ...

Henry V

leadership, strategy, conflict

Il. Graham Turner. Immortalised in the plays of Shakespeare, Henry V is the most famous and celebrated of all England's medieval monarchs. Although his most famous battles and conquests took place in France, Henry, as was common amongst medieval aristocracy, was introduced to battle ...

Breve historia de la guerra antigua y medieval

Breve historia de la guerra antigua y medieval : Este libro presenta todo desarrollo de la guerra, el uso de armas, la tecnología militar y su evolución táctica y estratégica desde la Prehistoria hasta el siglo XV. Tomando como punto de partida el enfrentamiento entre grupos ...

Medieval Italy

texts in translation

Medieval Italy gathers together an unparalleled selection of newly translated primary sources from the central and later Middle Ages, a period during which Italy was famous for its diverse cultural landscape of urban towers and fortified castles, the spirituality of Saints Francis and Clare, and ...

Héroes, maravillas y leyendas de la Edad Media

En esta obra, Jacques Le Goff explora el imaginario medieval a través de sus más importantes componentes: por una parte, los héroes, como Carlomagno, el Cid, el rey Arturo, Roldán o Robín de los Bosques, sin olvidar al hada Melusina, al mago Merlín, ni tampoco ...

The medieval traveller

How did people travel in the middle ages? Evidence shows that despite all the likely deterrents - danger from man and beast, uncertainty of lodging and food, even the basic matter of finding the way - our medieval ancestors moved about far more than we might expect ...

Cross and crescent in the Balkans

the Ottoman conquest of southeastern Europe

This is NOT just another retelling of the Fall of Constantinople, though it does include a very fine account of that momentous event. It is the history of a quite extraordinary century, one which began when a tiny of force of Ottoman Turkish warriors was ...

Breve historia de Atila y los Hunos

Un fabuloso viaje junto al pueblo de origen oscuro e incierto, nómada y cazador, que llegó a Occidente empujando a otros pueblos apacibles y que originó las oleadas bárbaras que terminaron con el Imperio romano de Occidente. Un palpitante recorrido por la historia, la cultura ...

The Druids and King Arthur

a new view of Early Britain

An exploration into the beliefs and origins of the Druids, this book examines the role the Druids may have played in the story of King Arthur and the founding of Britain. It explains how the Druids originated in eastern Europe around 850 BC, bringing to ...