Religión y poder

Marsilio de Padua: ¿la primera teoría laica del Estado?

Marsilio de Padua es el primer cristiano que se atrevió a pensar el origen laico del poder y, desafiando a la autoridad religiosa, propuso una explicación racional del Estado, comparable a las de Maquiavelo o Hobbes. Condenado por la Iglesia y proscrito durante siglos, en ...

The Church in the Early Middle Ages

The creation of a new history of the Church at the beginning of the third millennium is an ambitious but necessary project. Perhaps nowhere is it needed more than in re-describing the Church's development - its life and its thinking - in the period that followed ...

Contesting christendom

readings in medieval religion and culture

This reader fills a gap in classroom offerings by exploring historians' ongoing attempt to understand the social and cultural aspects of medieval Christianity. James Halverson organizes his selections around two central questions what do we mean when we say that medieval Europe was a Christian ...

La vida cotidiana de los monjes de la Edad Media

El fenómeno del monacato, heredero de las aspiraciones filosóficas de ascetas y estoicos, surge entre los siglos III y IV en el Mediterráneo oriental, con el fin del Imperio Romano.

Le dossier Attila

Attila, roi des Huns de 435 à 453, a contribué de son vivant à la naissance de son propre mythe, et ses biographes, de l'Antiquité tardive à nos jours, ont déployé beaucoup d'imagination. Pourtant, derrière les erreurs et les légendes, on peut, en ...

Atlas de las exploraciones y los imperios

Una elocuente visión de cómo era el mundo durante la gran era de los descubrimientos. Los magníficos mapas y la riqueza de datos sobre los países y los imperios de la época lo convierten en una guía ilustrada del mundo entre 1450 y 1800. Con ...

European warfare in a global context, 1660-1815

This original book presents a global approach to eighteenth century warfare. Emphasis is made on the importance of conflict in the period and the capacity for decisiveness in impact and development in method. Through this Jeremy Black extends the view beyond land to naval conflict ...

Reason of State, propaganda, and the Thirty Years' War

an unknown translation by Thomas Hobbes

Acclaimed writer and historian Noel Malcolm presents his sensational discovery of a new work by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): a propaganda pamphlet on behalf of the Habsburg side in the Thirty Years' War, translated by Hobbes from a Latin original. Malcolm's book explores a fascinating ...

What was history?

the art of history in Early Modern Europe

From the late-fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories. These pioneering works - which often take surprisingly modern-sounding positions - grew from complex early modern debates about law, religion, and classical scholarship. In this book, based on ...

European sexualities, 1400-1800

This is a major new survey of the social and cultural history of sexuality in early modern Europe. Within a frame that includes the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment, it weaves together statistical findings, discussions of changing sexual ideology, and evidence ...

Benjamin Disraeli

Definitive, concise, and very interesting...From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based ...

Elizabeth I

Definitive, concise, and very interesting...From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based ...

The noble revolt

the overthrow of Charles I

John Adamson's book traces the careers and fortunes of the small group of English noblemen who risked their lives and fortunes to challenge the king's attempt to create an authoritarian monarchy in the Stuart kingdoms during the 1630s. Beginning with a core of ...

Louis XIV

This up-to-date, lively and accessible biography focuses on Louis' personal life while keeping the needs of the history student at the forefront, featuring analysis of Louis' wider significance in history and the surrounding historiography. A narrative account of Louis' life, this study proposes that the ...

Warfare, State and society on the Black Sea steppe, 1500-1700

This crucial period in Russia's history has, up until now, been neglected by historians, but here Brian L. Davies's study provides an essential insight into the emergence of Russia as a great power. For nearly three centuries, Russia vied with the Crimean Khanate ...

Epistolario florentino

Fascinante odisea la del florentino Lucas Carduccio, quien entre 1640 y 1680 vivió la intimidad de Felipe IV de España, la del Califa de Tremecén en el Magreb y bajo tutela del todopoderoso visir turco, en el reinado de Memmed IV en Constantinopla.

Soldats

un laboratoire disciplinaire: l'armée piémontaise au XVIIIe siècle

Au XVIIIe siècle, la discipline militaire visait un objectif très précis : briser la lenteur des rythmes sur le champ de bataille. Alors que les militaires de l'Europe entière s'interrogeaient sur " l'art d'une bonne instruction ", les victoires de Frédéric II démontraient qu ...

Técnicas bélicas del mundo moderno, 1500-1763

equipamiento, técnicas y tácticas de combate

Esta obra es una guía ilustrada que detalla y explica todo tipo de tácticas de combate, armas y equipamiento utilizados a lo largo de la Edad Moderna.

Louis XIV

le roi de gloire

" Le métier de roi est grand, noble et délicieux "... affirme le jeune Louis XIV qui, pendant un demi-siècle, régnera en monarque " absolu " sur vingt millions de Français. Héritier d'un royaume pacifié, il mène une politique hégémonique en Europe, part en guerre contre les Provinces-Unies ...

Cultural exchange in early modern Europe

At a time when the enlarged European Community asserts the humanist values uniting its members, this series of four volumes, featuring leading scholars from twelve countries, seeks to uncover the deep but hidden unities shaping a common European past. These volumes examine the domains of ...