Ming China and its allies

imperial rule en Eurasia

On the eve of the early modern age, Ming emperors ruled around one-quarter of the globe's population, the majority of the world's largest urban centers, the biggest standing army on the planet, and the day's most affluent economy. Far from being isolated ...

Israel's jewish identity crisis

State and politics in the Middles East

An important and topical contribution to the field of Middle East studies, this innovative, provocative, and timely study tackles head-on the main assumptions of the foundation of Israel as a Jewish state. Theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, Yaacov Yadgar provides a novel analysis of the ...

Arthur

God and hero in Avalon

For fifteen centuries, legends of King Arthur have enthralled us. Born in the misty past of a Britain under siege, half-remembered events became shrouded in ancient myth and folklore. The resulting tales were told and retold, until over time Arthur, Camelot, Avalon, the Round Table ...

La Civilización Otomana

(1300-1800)

Al margen del poderío militar y la sorprendente expansión que provocaría el asombro de tantas generaciones, el Imperio Otomano se caracterizó por crear una auténtica civilización. Una civilización que fue el resultado de acoger en su seno un crisol de pueblos y culturas diversas a ...

Marco Polo y la Ruta de la Seda

(Revista Desperta Ferro. Arqueología e Historia, Nº 29, año 2020)

La Ruta de la Seda ha vertebrado durante siglos el comercio entre Oriente y Occidente, pero a su vez ha servido para vehicular el contacto entre culturas y como vía de difusión para costumbres y religiones. Fue a través de la Ruta que el Islam ...

El problema de la eternidad del mundo

en el pensamiento medieval

Nuestro tiempo, gravitado en su modo de pensar por el vasto panorama que las ciencias han obtenido sobre la naturaleza del universo y de la vida, suele encarar bajo una mirada científica la resolución del problema en torno al origen y la eternidad del mundo ...

Imperial tragedy

from Constantine's Empire to the destruction of Roman Italy ad 363-568

For centuries, Rome was one of the world's largest imperial powers, its influence spread across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle-East, its military force successfully fighting off attacks by the Parthians, Germans, Persians and Goths. Then came the definitive split, the Vandal sack of ...

Los Normandos en Sicilia

la invasión del Sur de Italia, 1016-1130

La fascinante historia de los inicios del reino normando de Sicilia En 1016, un noble lombardo rebelde pidió su colaboración a un grupo de peregrinos que visitaban el santuario de Monte Sant’Angelo y, sin sospecharlo, puso en marcha la célebre conquista normanda del sur ...

Instrumentos de publicidad espiritual y material en los monasterios medievales

En todo tiempo y lugar, los poderosos han creado y utilizado instrumentos de publicidad para hacer sentir al conjunto de la sociedad su presencia y autoridad y transmitir a aquélla men­sajes de adoctrinamiento que acabaran suscitando adhesio­nes y seguimiento. Los monasterios de la ...

Law in Common

legal cultures in Late-medieval England

There were tens of thousands of different local law-courts in late-medieval England, providing the most common forums for the working out of disputes and the making of decisions about local governance. While historians have long studied these institutions, there have been very few attempts to ...

Old English Lives of Saints. Volume I

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 58)

Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric in his distinctive alliterative prose, portrays an array of saints-including virgin martyrs, married virgins, aristocrats, kings, soldiers, and bishops-for a late Anglo-Saxon audience. At a turbulent time when England ...

The history of the kings of Britain: the first variant version

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 57)

Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain-the earliest work to detail the legendary foundation of Britain by Brutus the Trojan and the life of King Arthur-was among the most widely read books throughout the Middle Ages. Its sweeping account of the Britons ...

Old English Lives of Saints. Volume III

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 60)

Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric in his distinctive alliterative prose, portrays an array of saints—including virgin martyrs, married virgins, aristocrats, kings, soldiers, and bishops—for a late Anglo-Saxon audience. At a turbulent time ...

Old English Lives of Saints. Volume II

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 59)

Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric in his distinctive alliterative prose, portrays an array of saints—including virgin martyrs, married virgins, aristocrats, kings, soldiers, and bishops—for a late Anglo-Saxon audience. At a turbulent time ...

Allegories of the Odyssey

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 56)

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were central to the educational system of Byzantium, yet the religion and culture of the Homeric epics-even the ancient Greek language itself-had become almost unrecognizable to Byzantine Greek readers coming to the texts nearly two millennia later. The scholar, poet ...

Empresses of Late Byzantium

foreign brides, mediators and pious women

With the exception of the wife of Andronikos III Palaiologos, Anna of Savoy, who acted as regent of Byzantium from 1341 to 1347, the lives of the late Byzantine empresses have so far received little scholarly attention. This study presents the biographies of all fifteen ...

The Middle Ages in popular imagination

memory, film and medievalism

It is often assumed that those outside of academia know very little about the Middle Ages. But the truth is not so simple. Non-specialists in fact learn a great deal from the myriad medievalisms - post-medieval imaginings of the medieval world - that pervade our everyday culture ...

La imagen de la enfermedad en la Europa de la Baja Edad Media

modelos sociales del enfermar

La presente obra analiza la imagen de la enfermedad en la Europa de la Baja Edad Media en los contextos religioso, social y médico. Cada uno, fue creando un discurso sobre la enfermedad que trascendió su condición patológica para convertirla en un soporte de narración ...

The last vikings

the epic story of the great norse voyagers

La Edad Media

IV. Exploraciones, comercio y utopías

Coordinado por Umberto Eco, Exploraciones, intercambio comerciales y utopías, el cuarto tomo de La Edad Media, ofrece un compendio de algunos de los asuntos más relevantes en Europa durante el siglo XV en campos como la historia, la filosofía, las letras, la música, las artes ...