The southern french nobility and the albigensian crusade

The Albigensian Crusade was called by Pope Innocent III in 1208 against the Count of Toulouse in response to the murder of the papal legate Pierre des Castelnau. The Pope's aim was to force the Count and other nobles in Languedoc to take action ...

The knights templars

God's warriors, the devil's bankers

This book presents a vivid description of the formation of the Templars as a strict religious-military order, their political and financial power and the legends surrounding them.

Cruzadas

la verdadera historia

En el despertar del siglo XXI, el 11 de septiembre de 2001 marcó al mundo. La caída de las Torres Gemelas de Nueva York abrió una nueva época de la historia, y detrás del terrible atentado comenzó a vislumbrarse un propósito y una dialéctica particulares ...

L'Ordre du temple

dans la basse vallée du Rhôme (1124-1312): ordres militaires, croisades et sociétés méridionales

La basse vallée du Rhône a constitué, depuis le début du XIIe siècle, une aire privilégiée pour les ordres du Temple et de l'Hôpital. Ces deux ordres militaires y établirent un dense réseau de maisons rassemblant autour d'elles un important patrimoine foncier. Présentes ...

El Dios de la Edad Media

«El objeto de estas conversaciones es la concepción de Dios en el Occidente medieval [#] A diferencia de Yahvé y de Allah, a los que el judaísmo y el islam han sustraído a toda figuración, el Dios de los cristianos puede ser representado. El Occidente medieval ...

Ecstatic transformation

on the uses of alterity in the Middle Ages

Ecstatic Transformation studies the manner in which medieval ways of knowing the Oriental 'other' were constructed around the idea of a utopic East as located in the legend and Letter of Prester John (c. 1160). The birth of utopic thinking, it argues, is tied to ...

Tratado sobre la caída del Demonio

La caída del demonio y el problema de la concepción y del origen del mal son temas que, en el cristianismo, están íntimamente interrelacionados. Esta situación no escapó a la reflexión filosófica medieval. En efecto, Anselmo de Canterbury escribe hacia finales del siglo XI su ...

The world of Eleanor of Aquitaine

literature and society in southern France between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries

Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124-1204) is one of the most important and well-known figures of the Middle Ages; she exercised a huge influence on both the course of history, and on the cultural life, of the time. The essays in this collection use her as a ...

The Oxford guide to arthurian literature and legend

The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend is both a critical history of the Arthurian tradition and a reference guide to Arthurian works, names, and symbols. It offers a comprehensive survey of the legends in all of their manifestations, from their origins in medieval ...

The sepulcre of Christ and the medieval west

from the beginning to 1600

What was the impact of the tomb of Christ in Jerusalem on the history of western Europe? Colin Morris shows that the Holy Sepulchre had a vital influence on pilgrimage, the Crusades, the cult of the Cross, and art and architecture. The recovery of the ...

Monteségur

les centres de la liberté

Du haut d'un rocher des Pyrénées ariégeoises, une poignée d'hommes et de femmes a défié, quarante ans durant, les deux plus grandes puissances de son temps, l'Église romaine et le roi de France. Cette folle épopée s'acheva le 16 mars 1244 ...

Reform and the papacy in the Eleventh Century

spirituality and social change

Unique in terms of coverage, investigating the development of reform as an idea propagated by the papacy during the eleventh century, and why papal reform developed in the way it did; Fulfils a valuable function both in summarizing current work and presenting a cogent and ...

Heresy in medieval France

dualism in Aquitaine and the Agenais, 1000-1249

Heresy was a recurrent problem for the established church throughout the middle ages, and it is here examined in the context of the medieval duchy of Aquitaine. The author traces forms of dissent there back to the influence of Balkan dualism, indicating the vast spread ...

Medieval monasteries

This book provides an account of the archaeology of medieval monastic houses throughout Great Britain and Ireland. The application of a wide range of archaeological techniques, allied to historical investigation, has awakened interest in monasteries. Important new sources of information have transformed knowledge of monastic ...

Seeing and being seen in the Later Medieval world

optics, theology and religious life

During the later Middle Ages people became increasingly obsessed with vision, visual analogies and the possibility of visual error. In this book Dallas Denery addresses the question of what medieval men and women thought it meant to see themselves and others in relation to the ...

Anchorites wombs and tombs

intersections of gender and enclosure in the Middle Ages

Anchorites, Wombs and Tombs is the first edited collection dealing specifically with the phenomenon of anchoritic enclosure in the Middle Ages, both as a material practice and as a malleable discourse, not only within the context of individual withdrawal into the anchorhold but also the ...

Moses Maimonides

the man and his works

Moses Maimonides (1135-1204), scholar, physician, and philosopher, was the most influential Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. In this magisterial new biography, the work of many years, Herbert Davidson provides an exhaustive guide to Maimonides' life and works. After considering Maimonides' upbringing and education, Davidson ...

Confucio

Nacido en el siglo IV a.n.e. en una pequeña aldea, Confucio ha marcado con su sello no sólo el destino de China sino la vida intelectual y moral de Extremo Oriente a lo largo de más de veinte siglos de historia. Con todo ...

Gilles de Rais

Figure satanique, compagnon de tuerie de la Pucelle d'Orléans, serial killer, " premier Vendéen ", Gilles de Rais (1405-1440) a fait le délice de nombreux conteurs et biographes. Un personnage à la mesure de cette époque brutale et chaotique ou l'angélisme côtoie la barbarie. Cette ...

Los procesos de Juana de Arco

De la condena de 1431 a la rehabilitación de 1456, los dos procesos de Jauna de Arco ceuntan la historia sobre la leyenda. Nos hablan de las exigencias y de la prudencia de los reyes, la pesada maquinaria jurídica de un clero parapetado tras las ...