Gente medieval

Eileen Power, reconocida experta en la Edad Media, recrea las vidas de seis personajes comunes en este clásico de la historia social. Basándose en libros de cuentas, diarios, cartas, registros, testamentos y otros documentos históricos, da vida a Bodo, un campesino franco de la época ...

Le Monde viking

Portraits de femmes et d’hommes de l’ancienne Scandinavie

Qui étaient les femmes et les hommes des temps vikings ? Pour un Rollon, "fondateur " de la Normandie, ou un Eric le Rouge, grand explorateur de l'Atlantique Nord, restés célèbres, combien de personnages méconnus ? Textes médiévaux, découvertes archéologiques et pierres runiques permettent de retracer certains ...

Del desierto al califato

Bizancio y el Imperio Sasánida frente a la conquista islámica

El siglo VII fue el siglo que vio uno de los mayores momentos de prosperidad en Bizancio y en Persia, pero fue también el inicio de su declive y el nacimiento de un nuevo imperio: los árabes. En el 602 el imperio bizantino y el ...

Structures of governance in Song Dynasty China, 960-1279 CE

Charles Hartman presents an ambitious analysis of the workings of governance in Imperial China centered on the Song Dynasty (960-1279). Here he develops a new model for thinking about the deeper structures of governance in Song and pre-imperial China - the 'technocratic-Confucian continuum' - which challenges the ...

Three Tracts on City Government and Related Writings

The medieval jurist Bartolus of Sassoferrato (d. 1357) has long been accorded seminal importance by historians of political thought. This volume provides the first complete English translation of his three most celebrated tracts: On Guelfs and Ghibellines, On the Government of a City, and On ...

Merovingian worlds

The Merovingian Kingdoms (c. 450-751) dominated much of what is now France, Belgium, and Germany, and were the most powerful and long-lived of the states that transformed the inheritance of Rome after the Crisis of the Fifth Century. Yet they often remain representative of an ...

The King's Road

diplomacy and the remaking of the Silk Road

An exciting and richly detailed new history of the Silk Road that tells how it became more important as a route for diplomacy than for trade The King's Road offers a new interpretation of the history of the Silk Road, emphasizing its importance as ...

Le scripteur urbain

Clercs et notaires au service de la ville médiévale (XIe-XIVe siècle)

Le scripteur urbain : clercs et notaires au service de la ville médiévale (Xle-XIVe siècle) L'histoire du scripteur urbain, ancêtre du secrétaire de mairie et du directeur général des services des collectivités territoriales, débute au Moyen Age. Le scriptorat urbain, qui naît au XIe siècle ...

El viaje a través del Islam

Descubrimiento, aprendizaje y aventura

El simbolismo del viaje es un elemento consustancial a la existencia del ser humano y, en particular, para el islam; de hecho, el vocabulario de la religión islámica recuerda de manera constante el carácter de viator del creyente. Esta obra colectiva compila un conjunto de ...

Le détroit de Gibraltar (Antiquité - Moyen Âge). III

Circulations, mobilités et réseaux d'échanges

Ce livre examine la singularité et l'importance du détroit de Gibraltar de la domination punique à la chute de Grenade. Cette région géohistorique, située entre deux continents et entre Méditerranée et Atlantique, a été bien plus qu'une simple zone de transit. Elle a ...

La huella vikinga

Una era que trascendió la historia y ha conquistado nuestra cultura

VIKINGO SE HACE, NO SE NACE Adéntrate en la fascinante historia de cómo la cultura de una era que acabó hace mil años sigue presente a tu alrededor en todo lo que adoras. La herencia que los vikingos han dejado en nosotros es tan vasta ...

La ruta del conocimiento

La historia de cómo se eprdieron y redescubrieron las ideas del mundo clásico

El relato evocador y vibrante de cómo se rescataron las ideas del mundo clásico, el origen de nuestra herencia intelectual común. Tras la caída de Roma, muchas de las grandes ideas del mundo clásico, base del conocimiento moderno, se perdieron para siempre. Innumerables libros fueron ...

Templars

The Knights Who Made Britain

A gripping account of the Knights Templar, challenging received wisdom to show how these devout medieval knights played a profound role in making modern Britain The Knights Templar have an enduring reputation-but not one they would recognize. Originally established in the twelfth century to protect ...

Henry III

reform, rebellion, civil war, settlement, 1259-1272

The second volume in the definitive history of Henry III's rule, covering the revolutionary events between 1258 and the king's death in 1272 After coming to the throne aged just nine, Henry III spent much of his reign peaceably. Conciliatory and deeply religious ...

Marco Polo and his world

A lavishly illustrated tour of the famed adventurer's globetrotting travels, written by a celebrated translator of Polo's writings. At the age of seventeen, Marco Polo left his Venetian home on a continent-spanning adventure that lasted for nearly a quarter century. Imprisoned in Genoa ...

The Art of Medieval Falconry

A beautifully illustrated tour of the visual culture of medieval falconry in Europe and beyond. Medieval falconry was not just about hunting; the practice also signified sovereignty, power, and diplomacy. In The Art of Medieval Falconry, Yannis Hadjinicolaou describes the visual culture that sprang up ...

The Troubadours

An engaging and accessible introduction to the music, poetry, and lives of the medieval singer-songwriters. Composing songs of love and war in medieval Western and Southern Europe, troubadours spanned the social spectrum from powerful nobles to penniless minstrels. This book delves into the everyday worlds ...

The Medieval Scriptorium

Making Books in the Middle Ages

Illuminated with illustrations, an exploration of medieval manuscript production that offers insight into both the early history of the book and life in the Middle Ages. This book takes the reader on an immersive journey through medieval manuscript production in the Latin Christian world. Each ...

Black knights

Arabic epic and the making of medieval race

A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature. In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the Arabic-speaking world developed a different form of racial knowledge than their European neighbors during the Middle Ages. Unlike in European vernaculars, Arabic-language ideas about ethnic difference emerged ...

Los Vikingos

incursiones, invasiones, fundaciones

A mediados del siglo VIII, los escandinavos entraron ruidosamente en la historia de Europa hasta aproximadamente mediados del siglo XI, ya fuera como piratas, comerciantes, conquistadores y colonizadores. El origen geográfico de los vikingos determinó su expansión territorial: los varegos suecos se dirigieron hacia el ...