L'histoire des moines, chanoines et religieux au Moyen Àge

guide de recherche et documents

Tannenberg 1410

disaster for the Teutonic Knights

Illustrated by Richard Hook By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order#s meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King ...

Brígida de Suecia

maestra de santidad de Europa

Vida de Mahoma

Boniface VIII

un pape hérétique?

The Wars of the Roses

1455-1485

The Wars of the Roses raged from 1455 to 1485 - the longest period of civil war in English history. They barely affected the daily routine of the civilian population, yet for the leaders of the opposing houses of York and Lancaster, the wars were devastating ...

En busca de la Edad Media

Joven lector de Walter Scott, Jacques Le Goff partió muy pronto en busca de la Edad Media. Fue el inicio de una larga aventura humana y espiritual, que le hizo intuir de inmediato un mundo muy cercano y, a la vez, muy lejano. En este ...

The black death transformed

disease and culture in early renaissance Europe

The Black Death in Europe, from its arrival in 1347-52 through successive waves into the early modern period, has been seriously misunderstood. It is clear from the compelling evidence presented in this revolutionary account that the Black Death was almost any disease other than the ...

The tournament in England, 1100-1400

Scholarly study - does much to illuminate an important element of chivalric culture. HISTORY [This] sterling book is clearly written and logically organized. Its scholarship is à outrance, its appeal to the student of the chivalric period à plaisance. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW Juliet Barker surveys the ...

La mujer en la Edad Media

Con la excepción de personajes tan brillantes y al mismo tiempo tan poco representativos como Leonor de Aquitania, Eloísa y Juana de Arco, las mujeres medievales han llegado hasta nosotros bajo el prisma de sus contemporáneos masculinos. Los hombres de la Edad Media solían considerarlas ...

Haro! Noël! Oyé!

pratique du cri au Moyen Âge

La victime détroussée par un voleur ou les témoins qui assistaient au délit se mettaient à hurler " haro ". Le crieur public, installé aux carrefours ou en tout autre lieu " accoustumé à faire cry ", introduisait à haute voix son information par " Oyé, bonnes gens, on vous ...

From boys to men

formations of masculinity in late medieval Europe

"The book . . . will find a broad audience. It would work well in the classroom. . . . Effectively combating the nonspecialist's view of the Middle Ages as a monolithic and static society, it will encourage more subtle thinking about gender identities in the past and in the ...

El pensamiento económico medieval

Este libro nos ofrece una sugestiva síntesis de las ideas económicas que estuvieron vigentes en el transcurso de la Edad Media, desde el significado del dinero hasta el papel de los pesos, las medidas y las monedas.

Crisis y orden en el mundo feudoburgués

Este libro de José Luis Romero es la culminación de una larga investigación sobre historia medieval y, en particular, acerca de los orígenes de la mentalidad burguesa. Obra capital en la evolución de la producción del gran historiador argentino -que es asimismo una bisagra que ...

The First Crusade 1096-99

conquest of the Holy Land

Illustrated by Christa Hook In 1095 the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I appealed to the Christian states of western Europe for help against the Turks who had swept across the Empire after the disastrous Byzantine defeat at Manzikert in 1071. This book is about the First ...

Muslims and Christians in Norman Sicily

Arabic speakers and the end of Islam

The social and linguistic history of medieval Sicily is both intriguing and complex. Before the Muslim invasion of 827, the islanders spoke dialects of either Greek or Latin or both. On the arrival of the Normans around 1060 Arabic was the dominant language, but by ...

La Guerra Santa

la formación de la idea de cruzada en el Occidente Cristiano

El llamamiento del Papa Urbano II en Clermont (1095) abrió una nueva era, la de las cruzadas. En adelante, a lo largo de toda la Edad media, la idea de cruzada iba a permanecer presente en los espíritus y marcar profundamente las mentalidades de los ...

The knights hospitaller

An important source for the history of the military orders. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW We've got here the most sophisticated rule book, which knocks the road traffic act into the shade. TIME TEAM [Channel 4, at Templecombe] The Order of the Knights Templar, whose original ...

Temas de estudios templarios

Editados bajo la dirección del Prof. Fernando de Toro- Garland. Contiene ilustraciones. Índice general: - Continuidad de la orden - Historia - Arquitectura - Alquimia y hermetismo

"Every valley shall be exalted"

the discourse of opposites in Twelfth-Century thought

In high medieval France, men and women saw the world around them as the product of tensions between opposites. Imbued with a Christian culture in which a penniless preacher was also the King of Kings and the last were expected to be first, twelfth-century thinkers ...