Un croisé contre Saladin

Renaud de Châtillon

Dans la lutte entre les chrétiens de Terre sainte et les musulmans conduits par Nûr ad-Dîn, puis Saladin, Renaud de Châtillon, prince d'Antioche puis seigneur d'Outre-Jourdain, un nouveau venu, est un " héros " paradoxal. Sa méconnaissance d'un Orient complexe et sa brutalité lui ...

Byzantines and crusaders in non-greek sources, 1025-1204

These essays survey the range of historical sources from the peoples who collided with the Byzantine Empire during this period of dramatic upheaval. The Empire that had been expanded and consolidated by Basil II (d. 1025) was to disintegrate in the face of incursions from ...

The Seventh Crusade, 1244-1254

sources and documents

The Seventh Crusade, led by King Louis IX of France, was the last major expedition for the recovery of the Holy Land actually to reach the Near East. The failure of his invasion of Egypt (1249-50), followed by his four-year stay in Palestine in order ...

Making war in the name of God

Based on exhaustive research and written with an unflinching, unbiased eye toward revealing the often painful truth, this book unveils humanitys ancient habit of sanctifying bloodshed--and exposes a past that seems doomed to repeat itself.

Crusader warfare. Vol. II.

Muslims, monglos and the struggle against the Crusades, 1050- 1300 AD

This second volume of "Crusader Warfare" focuses on those non-Christian cultures which were most directly involved in the Crusades. Centering on the Islamic world, the Mongol "World Empire", its fragmented successor states and certain other non-Christian cultures David Nicolle presents many fascinating aspects of warfare ...

Teutonic Knight

1190-1561

Illustrated by Graham Turner The Military Order of Teutonic Knights was one of the three most famous Crusading Orders, on a par with the Templars and the Hospitallers. Originally focusing on the preservation of the Crusader States in the Middle East, after the loss of ...

The Scandinavian Baltic Crusades 1100-1500

Illustrated by A. McBride This book describes and illustrates the armour, weapons, fortifications and ships of one of the least-known phases of the Medieval Crusades - the expeditions by Scandinavian Catholics against the pagan peoples to the east of the Baltic Sea, and their subsequent clashes ...

The seventh crusade, 1244-1254

sources and documents

The Seventh Crusade, led by King Louis IX of France, was the last major expedition for the recovery of the Holy Land actually to reach the Near East. This volume comprises translations of the principal documents and of extracts from narrative sources - both Muslim and ...

Fighting for the faith

the many fronts of Medieval Crusade and Jihad 1000-1500 AD

Fighting between Christians and Muslims in the medieval period is often seen in the narrow context of the battle for the Holy Land. Other points of conflict tend to be ignored. But, as David Nicolle's thought- provoking survey shows, the religions clashed across the ...

Le saint chez le sultan.

La rencontre de François d'Assise et de l'islam: huit siècles d'interprétation

En 1219, dans le cadre de la cinquième croisade, François d'Assise rend visite au sultan Malik al-Kâmil. Cette rencontre du christianisme et de l'islam n'a cessé depuis huit siècles de nourrir interprétations et représentations. Des discours hagiographiques à Benoît XVI en passant ...

Sobre el poder de los emperadores y los Papas

Sobre el poder de los emperadores y los papas (1347), última obra compuesta por Guillermo de Ockham, puede considerarse como su testamento intelectual y político. Redactado en el ocaso de su vida, en un momento histórico en el que sus ideas parecían abocadas al fracaso ...

Sin

essays on the moral tradition in the western Middle Ages

Richard Newhauser examines here aspects of the moral tradition of medieval thought, specifically the construction of the seven deadly sins, their offspring, and related schematizations of immorality in the Latin West. The emphasis in these studies is on the malleability of moral categories, their relationship ...

Maimónides y el pensamiento medieval

VIII Centenario de la muerte de Maimónides. Actas del IV COngreso Nacinal de FIlosofía Medieval Córdoba 9, 10 y 11 de diciembre de 2004

En este volumen se recogen las diversas contribuciones presentadas en el IV Congreso nacional de Filosofía Medieval que, a iniciativa conjunta de la Sociedad de Filosofía Medieval (Sofime) y de la Universidad de Córdoba, se celebró en diciembre de 2004 en conmemoración del octavo centenario ...

Al-Kindi

This will be the first book in the Great Medieval Thinkers series to focus on an Islamic philosopher. It will offer a brief, accessible introduction to the thought of the philosopher al-Kindi (died about 870 AD). The classical tradition of Arabic philosophy may be said ...

La Monarquía

El De regno, conocido también con el título De regimine principum, es uno de los tratados menores del autor, cuyo texto genuino aún no ha sido editado críticamente. Tomás de Aquino, que lo dejó inconcluso, debió de escribirlo entre 1265 y 1267. Un hermano suyo ...

Los orígenes de la estética medieval

El alargamiento de los miembros, la frontalidad de los volúmenes, el desdibujamiento del modelado y lo descarnado de las figuras son, entre otros, rasgos del arte bizantino, cuya fuente descubre el gran historiador André Grabar en las corrientes neoplatónicas del siglo III d. C.

Tradition and innovation in Later Medieval english manuscripts

This volume, based on Kathleen Scott's 2004 Lyell lectures at Oxford, examines a number of English manuscripts of the r yth and early reth centuries never previously studied and all of which make a unique contribution to art history in this period. Dr Scott ...

Europe after Rome

a new cultural history, 500-1000

This is the first single-author study in over fifty years to offer an integrated appraisal of the early Middle Ages as a dynamic and formative period in European history. Written in an attractive and accessible style, it makes extensive use of original sources to introduce ...

L'Empire du livre

pour une histoire du savoir scolastique (1200-1380)

Un empire - la domination exercée par la Bible et les autorités - fit naître en retour le rêve d'exercer un pouvoir par l'activité intellectuelle, fondée sur une maîtrise du Livre et matérialisée par les productions de textes. Ainsi s'établit le savoir scolastique. Le ...

Imagining Robin Hood

the late-medieval stories in historical context

A. J Pollard takes us back to the earliest surviving stories of Robin Hood, the stories, tales and ballads of the fifteenth century and he re- examines the story of this fascinating figure. Setting out the economic, social and political context of the time, Pollard ...