El arte de disentir

Intelectuales y herejes en la Edad Media

¿Estuvieron los llamados herejes medievales en el origen de los disidentes de hoy? Durante siglos, una serie de figuras fascinantes, situadas en los márgenes de la religión oficial, se atrevieron a cuestionar el orden establecido y a exigir reformas profundas frente a lo que consideraban ...

Histoire de l'Empire mongol

L'histoire de l'Empire mongol est bien l'épopée la plus prodigieuse et sans doute la plus inexplicable que le monde ait connue. Après voir fait l'unité de ce qui allait devenir la Mongolie à la suite de Gengis Khan (1155-1227), ces peuples ...

Imágenes, espacios y públicos en el Occidente medieval

El libro se compone de una serie de estudios que abarcan todas las etapas de la Edad Media, desde el período carolingio hasta los siglos del Gótico. El núcleo principal son las imágenes, en contextos cristianos, judíos y musulmanes, atendiendo a la interacción con emisores ...

The price of collapse

the little ice age and the fall of Ming China

How climate change ushered in the collapse of one of history's mighty empires In 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians attribute its demise to the Manchu invasion of China, but the truth is ...

The first King of England

Aethelstan and the the birth of a kingdom

From one of today's leading historians of the early medieval period, an enthralling chronicle of Aethelstan, England's founder king whose achievements of 927 rival the Norman Conquest of 1066 in shaping Britain as we know it The First King of England is a ...

The emperor and the elephant

Christians and Muslims in the age of Charlemagne

A new history of Christian-Muslim relations in the Carolingian period that provides a fresh account of events by drawing on Arabic as well as western sources In the year 802, an elephant arrived at the court of the Emperor Charlemagne in Aachen, sent as a ...

Becoming Arab

the formation of Arab identity in the medieval Middle East

How late medieval Middle Eastern peasants adopted Arab cultural identities and formed village clans During the later Middle Ages, peasants in Egypt and Greater Syria came to view themselves as members of Arab clans that had originated in the Arabian Peninsula. They expressed their Arab ...

The Black Cross

a history of the Baltic crusades

A wide-ranging new history of the Baltic Crusades and their legacy Between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, crusading armies unleashed a relentless holy war against the last pagan societies in northern Europe, particularly in the Baltic Sea region. Led by Catholic rulers, churchmen, and, most ...

The medieval scriptorium

making books in the Middle Ages

This book takes the reader on an immersive journey through medieval manuscript production in the Latin Christian world. Each chapter opens with a lively vignette by a medieval narrator - including a parchment-maker, scribe and illuminator - introducing various aspects of manuscript production. Sara J. Charles poses ...

Law, society and political culture in late medieval and Reformation Germany

This book offers a selection of edited and translated sources that shed light on law, society and political culture in Germany between the mid-fourteenth and mid-sixteenth centuries, enabling readers to discover the tumultuous late medieval and Reformation era in the Holy Roman Empire in unprecedented ...

The Old English Chronicle. Volume I: the A-Text to 1001

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library)

A thousand years of English history, encapsulating invasions, the rise and fall of kings, and religious events Among the vernacular historical writings of early medieval England, the Old English Chronicle holds a prominent place, providing not only a backbone of English history from the fifth ...

The Works of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library)

Hrotsvit, a canoness at the convent of Gandersheim in Saxony during the tenth century, is the first Latin dramatist since late antiquity whose work survives. While her plays are still frequently performed, her other works are not readily available in English. A desire to provide ...

The Menologion of Basil II

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library)

The Menologion of Basil II, one of the most famous manuscripts surviving from Byzantium, contains short narratives to be read during the morning office to commemorate the saint or feast of the day. Dedicated to the emperor Basil II (r. 976-1025), it is best known ...

El último duelo

Una historia real de crimen, escándalo y juicio por combate en la Francia medieval

La apasionante historia del último juicio por combate celebrado en París. En 1386, pocos días después de Navidad, una multitud, que incluía al mismo rey de Francia, se congregó en un monasterio de París para presenciar un juicio por combate entre el caballero Jean de ...

China. Los Reinos Combatientes

(Revista Desperta Ferro. Antigua y Medieval, Nº 93, año 2025)

Un Estado tan colosal no podía tener un parto fácil. Los dos siglos y medio que separan los años 475 y 221 a. C. corresponden, en la historia de China, a lo que se convencionalmente se conoce como el periodo de los Reinos Combatientes. Dos ...

Galeno: salud frente a enfermedad, según dos obras suyas sobre el método terapéutico

Sobre el método terapéutico (dedicado) a Glaucón (2 libros) y Sobre el método terapéutico (14 libros)

Galeno transcribe aquí de una manera muy especial la esencia de su pensamiento sanitario, como no lo ha hecho en ninguna de sus otras obras, sobre cómo el médico debe actuar metodológicamente en cada una de las afecciones y enfermedades que dañan el equilibrio humoral ...

Sacralizing violence in Byzantium

hymns, empire, and the narrowing of Christian identity

Christians had always been concerned, since the faith's inception, about the relationship between violence and belief. In Byzantium, this tension was explored not only in abstract theological texts but in the songs people sang: hymns, a multivalent, fluid form of devotion that served as ...

Politics, philosophy, and humor at the Byzantine court

eight works by Theodore II Laskaris

The thirteenth-century emperor Theodore II Laskaris, ruler of the Empire of Nicaea, is among those versatile authors of the Byzantine era who produced numerous little-known gems of literature and thought. He composed the sole theoretical work on friendship surviving from Byzantium, wrote philosophy with verve ...

Richard the Lionheart

in life and in legend

How did Richard the Lionheart, who once said he would sell London if he found a buyer, become celebrated as the ideal of English chivalry? This book examines the life of Richard I (1157-1199) through the captivating stories told about him, from accounts of his ...

Eleanor of Aquitaine

woman, queen and legend

Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124-1204), the legendary queen of France and later England, has captivated historians for centuries. Heiress to the duchy of Aquitaine, wife to King Henry II and mother to Richard the Lionheart and King John, her life was marked by power, influence and ...