Le monde byzantin

.Vol. I: L'Empire romain d'Orient (330-641)

L'histoire et la civilisation étudiées ici correspondent à la période fondatrice de " Byzance ", nom donné par les humanistes à l'Empire devenu progressivement grec et chrétien. Plus stable et plus prospère que l'Occident, l'Empire n'a jamais cessé de revendiquer son héritage ...

Middle ages reference library

This 4-vol. reference explores the complex period of the Middle Ages. The set includes "almanac", covering the different civilizations and peoples of medieval times; "biographies", a compilation of biographical essays on significant individuals from the period; and "primary sources, an insightful collection of full or ...

Les croisades

origines et conséquences

Les croisades se sont déroulées durant environ deux cents ans sur les territoires actuels de la Syrie, du Liban, d'Israël, de Palestine et de Jordanie. Elles sons restées très présentes dans le mémoire collective des peuples. Leur interprétations a fait pendant très longtemps une ...

Gesta Romanorum

exempla europeos del siglo XIV

Gesta Romanorum (1342) es una colección de exempla moralizados, esencialmente para uso de predicadores en discursos sacros. Proceden de géneros y tipos textuales diversos: fábulas, lais, cuentos, mitos, leyendas, relatos hagiográficos, etc., cuyos ragos de difusión en la Europa bajomedieval, con más de trescientos manuscritos ...

Letters, orders and musters of Bertrand du Guesclin, 1357-1380

Bertrand du Guesclin (d. 1380) was the most famous French soldier of his generation. He made his name as a guerrilla leader in the Breton War of Succession (1341-64) and, as Constable from 1370-80, played a major role in the recovery of France under Charles ...

Historical atlas of the crusades

In November 1095, Pope Urban II called on the Christian rulers and knights of Europe to drive the Muslims from the Holy Land and claim Jerusalem back for Christendom. Any Crusader who died in the attempt would be rewarded in Heaven. The response was overwhelming ...

Antología de textos Época Medieval

Calixtus II, 1119-1124

a pope born to rule

Calixtus II (1119-1124) transformed the orientation of the papacy by signing the Concordat of Worms with the emperor, Henry V, in 1122, resolving the conflict over imperial investiture of bishops. As the tough-minded archbishop of Vienne, he had opposed the emperor and anyone else who ...

Hundred Years War

a wider focus

This volume, the first of a two-volume set, is the work of fourteen European and American scholars and focuses on the wider aspects of the Hundred Years. These essays range far afield from the traditional heartlands of Hundred Years War studies to investigate the influence ...

Omaggio al medioevo

I primi cinquanta anni del Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo di Spoleto

Celebrandosi quest'anno il cinquantennale della fondazione del Centro italiano di studi sull'alto medioevo, il Consiglio direttivo ha deciso di promuovere la pubblicazione di una riflessione storiografica sulle 'Settimane di studio' spoletine giudicate da molti una delle più felici imprese del dopoguerra, avendo spaziato ...

Aliénor d'Aquitaine

la reine insoumise

Gender in the Early Medieval World

East and West, 300-900

Gender analysis is one of the most probing ways to understand both power and cultural strategies in pre-industrial societies. In this book, sixteen scholars on the cutting edges of their disciplines explore the ideas and expressions of gender that characterised the centuries from c. 300 ...

Histoire et archéologie de l'Ordre militaire des Hospitaliers de Saint- Jean de Jérusalem

recueil de mémoires et documents sur le Forez

L'Armorial Bellenville

Byzance et ses périphéries

hommage à Alain Ducellier

Women in the Middle Ages

an encyclopedia

Providing a sweeping view of the life and achievements of women in the Middle Ages, this book features over 300 alphabetically arranged entries by roughly 130 expert contributors.

Love, sex and marrieage in the Middle Ages

a sourcebook

The hanged man

a story of miracle, memory, and colinialism in the Middle Ages

Fantasmas de la sociedad medieval

enfermedad, peste, muerte

La donazione di Costantino