Las Cruzadas

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The military leadership of Matilda of Canossa, 1046-1115

His is the first account in English of the entire, forty year military career of one of the most powerful women of the Middle Ages. Challenging the boundaries between military and gender history, it explains how one famous noblewoman rose to the defense of the ...

Medieval herbal remedies

the old english herbarium and anglo-saxon medicine

This book presents for the first time an up-to-date and easy-to-read translation of a medical reference work that was used in Western Europe from the fifth century well into the Renaissance. Listing 185 medicinal plants, the uses for each, and remedies that were compounded using ...

The Children's Crusade

Medieval History modern mythistory

Aroused by crusade processions, French and German peasant youths set out on a quest to find the True Cross and reclaim Jerusalem. Heading south over the Alps and into Italy, their trek was long and arduous. Onlookers watched their march to the sea in amazement ...

Lo que vino de Oriente

las especies y la imaginación medieval

La demanda de especias en la Europa medieval fue exagerada y quedó reflejada en la persecución de la moda, la formación del gusto y el crecimiento del comercio de lujo. Este apasionante libro explora la demanda de especias en la Edad Media y cómo pusieron ...

Law and the illicit in medieval Europe

Eds. Ruth Mazo Karras, Joel Kaye, E. Ann Matter. In the popular imagination, the Middle Ages are often associated with lawlessness. As historians have long recognized, however, medieval culture was characterized by an enormous respect for law, legal procedure, and the ideals of justice and ...

The fortress of Rhodes 1309-1522

First besieged in 305 BC, the island of Rhodes became part of the Roman Empire and was later fortified in the Byzantine style. Due to its strategic position in the Mediterranean, Rhodes was also attacked and besieged for over a century by Islamic forces. This ...

The Varangian Guard 988-1453

The Varangian Guards were Viking mercenaries who operated far beyond their native shores as an elite force within the Byzantine Armies. Descendants from a legendary line of warriors, the Varangian Guard was formed after a group of Viking mercenaries made a major contribution to the ...

Falling from Grace

reversal of fortune and the english nobility, 1075-1455

Painted on cathedral walls and used as leitmotif by fifteenth century writers, the 'Wheel of Fortune' and the 'Fall of Princes' were fundamental themes through which medieval people understood the mutability of existence. This original new study examines the increasing brutality of politics in later ...

The Crusade of Frederick Barbarossa

the history of the expedition of the Emperor Frederick and related texts

Trad. Graham A. Loud. This is the first English translation of the main contemporary accounts of the Crusade and death of the German Frederick I Barbarossa (ruled 1152-90). The most important of these, the "History of the Expedition of the Emperor Frederick" was written soon ...

La ciudad cristiana del occidente medieval

(c. 400-c. 1500)

El presente libro se centra en uno de esos estímulos: el de los aportes u anclajes crsitianos que, en último término, pueden cristalizar en na auténtica religiosidad cívica. Sin esos factores, la ciudad del occidente europeo resultaría difícil de entender.

The Virgin Warrior

the life and death of Joan of Arc

France's great heroine and England's great scourge: whether a lunatic, a witch, a religious icon, or a skilled soldier and leader, Joan of Arc's contemporaries found her as extraordinary and fascinating as the legends that abound about her today. But her life ...

The body broken

Medieval Europe 1300-1520

This exciting new textbook offers a sweeping survey of Europe in the later Middle Ages, examining a period of huge crisis, conflict and religious change. "The Body Broken" takes a thematic approach to the period 1300- 1520, covering everything from the Black Death and the ...

The roots of balkanization

Eastern Euope C.E. 500-1500

Balkanization_ is a modern term describing the fragmentation and re- division of countries and nations in the Balkan Peninsula, as well as a dynamic meaning _the Balkan way of doing things._ The Roots of Balkanization describes the historical changes that took place in the ...

Enchanted Europe

superstition, reason, and religion, 1250-1750

Since the dawn of history people have used charms and spells to try to control their environment, and forms of divination to try to foresee the otherwise unpredictable chances of life. Many of these techniques were called 'superstitious' by educated elites. For centuries religious believers ...

Readings in Medieval History

Ed. Patrick J. Geary. For this new edition, Patrick J. Geary has incorporated more bibliographical information into the introductions to the readings. Five texts have been added to better reflect legal, religious, Polish, and women's history. A glossary is provided to help with unfamiliar ...

Paris, 1200

Paris in 1200 was a city in transition. The great cathedral of Notre Dame was halfway through its construction and walls were being built to enclose the new, larger limits of the city. Pope Innocent III ordered all French churches closed to punish King Philip ...

Historia de la Europa urbana. T.II

La ciudad medieval

Dir. Jean-Luc Pinol. La ciudad antigua fue desapareciendo lentamente entre los siglos V y VII, dando paso a nuevas realidades urbanas que originarán la ciudad «medieval». La comprensión del hecho urbano en la Edad Media pasa necesariamente por el análisis minucioso de las percepciones que ...

Peacemaking in the Middle Ages

principles and practice

Drawing upon a range of different contemporary sources, *Peacemaking in the Middle Ages* explores the making of peace in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries based on the experiences of the kings of England and the kings of Denmark. From dealing with owing allegiance ...

Être à table au Moyen Âge

études réunies et présentées par Nelly Labère. Si les historiens se sont intéressés depuis une trentaine d'années aux pratiques alimentaires du Moyen Âge, rares sont les travaux consacrés à la représentation de la nourriture dans la littérature médiévale de la Péninsule ibérique et de ...