El fantástico reino del Preste Juan

el secreto de las tres cartas

A partir del año 1165 tres importantes líderes de Occidente reciben sendas cartas procedentes de un reino lejano firmadas por un tal Preste Juan de las Indias. Manuel Comneno, emperador de Bizancio; Federico I Barbarroja, monarca del Sacro Imperio Germánico, y el papa Alejandro III ...

Letteratura europea e Medioevo volgare

Nella storia culturale e letteraria d'Europa si osserva una lunga continuità tra antichità classica greco-romana, Medioevo latino e volgare, Rinascimento, Classicismo, Illuminismo, Romanticismo e Modernismo: una linea ininterrotta che dura duemilasettecento anni e salda insieme, in un patrimonio comune tradizioni diverse radicate originariamente in ...

Letters, literacy and literature in Byzantium

These studies look at general problems of reading Byzantine literature, at literacy practices and the literary process, but also at individual texts. The past thirty years have seen a revolution in the way Byzantine literature has been viewed: no longer is it considered a decadent ...

Érec et Énide

Erec, hijo de Lac, es un joven caballero miembro de la Mesa Redonda, el más gallardo y valeroso de toda la corte del rey Arturo. Buscando reparar una ofensa cometida por un enano contra una dama de compañía de la reina Ginebra, viaja hasta la ...

Le voyage de Charlemagne = La peregrinación de Carlomagno

A partir de la publicación que del texto original - desaparecido en 1879- hiciera Francisque Michel, en 1836, esta novedosa edición del Voyage de Charlemagne recupera el trabajo del insigne filólogo y se vale de lecturas posteriores, ediciones diplomáticas, y copias manuscritas del propio Michel. Las ...

El nepotismo en la Edad Media

papas, cardenales y familias nobles

En el siglo XIII, desde Inocencio III a Bonifacio VIII, el parentesco con papas y cardenales se convirtió en un importante factor de ascenso político y social para las familias nobles italianas. El libro, primera síntesis sobre el nepotismo medieval, ilustra el papel que tuvo ...

Episcopal elections 250-600

hierarchy and popular will in late antiquity

Peter Norton covers a topic of great relevance to students of early Church history and late antiquity alike. He challenges the conventional view that after the adoption of Christianity by the Roman empire the local community lost its voice in the appointment of bishops, and ...

Il papato nel Medioevo

Il libro offre una sintesi della vicenda del papato in epoca tardoantica e medievale, dalla cristianizzazione dell'impero romano al XV secolo, seguendone lo sviluppo sia all'interno della chiesa cattolica sia in rapporto alla società laica nel suo complesso. Soffermandosi sulle figure dei papi ...

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 ...

The Bishop reformed

studies of episcopal power and culture in the Central Middle Ages

In the period following the collapse of the Carolingian Empire up to the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), the episcopate everywhere in Europe experienced substantial and important change, imposed by the pressures of ecclesiastical reform; the devolution and recovery of royal authority; the growth of papal ...

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 ...