Clerical households in Late Medieval Italy

Roisin Cossar brings a new perspective to the history of the Christian church in fourteenth century Italy by examining how clerics managed efforts to reform their domestic lives in the decades after the arrival of the Black Death.Priests at the end of the Middle ...

Selected letters. Volume II

(The i Tatti Renaissance Library; 77)

Selected letters. Volume I

(The i Tatti Renaissance Library; 76)

Mapping medieval geographies

geographical encounters in the Latin West and beyond, 300-1600

Mapping Medieval Geographies explores the ways in which geographical knowledge, ideas and traditions were formed in Europe during the Middle Ages. Leading scholars reveal the connections between Islamic, Christian, Biblical and Classical geographical traditions from Antiquity to the later Middle Ages and Renaissance. The book ...

Demonios del Norte

las expediciones vikingas

Si partimos de que el término Drakar lo inventó en el año 1843, en plena marea romántica, el francés Auguste Jal, o que los cascos vikingos jamás llevaron cuernos, puede sorprendernos lo poco que sabemos de las características culturales, religiosas y militares de una civilización ...

Authority and identity in medieval islamic historiography

persian histories from the peripheries

Intriguing dreams, improbable myths, fanciful genealogies, and suspect etymologies. These were all key elements of the historical texts composed by scholars and bureaucrats on the peripheries of Islamic empires between the tenth and fifteenth centuries. But how are historians to interpret such narratives? And what ...

John of Brienne

King of Jerusalem, Emperor of Constantinolple, c.1175-1237

John of Brienne's progress, from mid-ranking knightly status to king of Jerusalem and, later, Latin emperor of Constantinople, traces one of the most remarkable careers in the entire medieval period. But how and why did he achieve such heights? This biographical study of aristocratic ...

Ana Bolena

del trono al cadalso

Si la vida puede mostrar sus dos caras, la de la felicidad y la del sufrimiento, ambas se le presentaron en toda su magnitud a la protagonista de esta obra, Ana Bolena o Anne de Boleyn. Objeto del capricho de un monarca excéntrico y voluble ...

Byzantine legal culture and the roman legal tradition, 867-1056

This social history of Byzantine law offers an introduction to one of the world's richest yet hitherto understudied legal traditions. In the first study of its kind, Chitwood explores and reinterprets the seminal legal-historical events of the Byzantine Empire under the Macedonian dynasty, including ...

The islamic-byzantine frontier

interaction and exchange among muslim and christian communities

The retreat of the Byzantine army from Syria in around 650 CE, in advance of the approaching Arab armies, is one that has resounded emphatically in the works of both Islamic and Christian writers, and created an enduring motif: that of the Islamic-Byzantine frontier. For ...

The islamic-byzantine frontier

interaction and exchange among muslim and christian communities

The retreat of the Byzantine army from Syria in around 650 CE, in advance of the approaching Arab armies, is one that has resounded emphatically in the works of both Islamic and Christian writers, and created an enduring motif: that of the Islamic-Byzantine frontier. For ...

Jan Hus

religious reform and social revolution in Bohemia

A century before Martin Luther and the Reformation, Jan Hus confronted the official Church and helped to change the face of medieval Europe. A key figure in the history of Europe and Christianity and a catalyst for religious reform and social revolution, Jan Hus was ...

Breve historia de la caballería medieval

Conozca la caballería medieval con sus grandes aventuras, intrigas, batallas, sus armas y personajes más famosos, así como la heráldica, las cruzadas, torneos y combates míticos. La historia de unos guerreros con un código de honor propio desde su formación y su investidura hasta su ...

Los intelectuales en la Edad Media

Los clérigos medievales, que no han de confundirse con los sacerdotes o los monjes, son los descendientes de un linaje original en el mundo urbano medieval de Occidente. Encarnan la tradicición de los intelectuales. Aunque la palabra es moderna, designa acertadamente esa múltiple función del ...

Guerra santa, cruzada y yihad en Andalucia y el reino de Granada

(siglos XIII-XV)

"Guerra santa, cruzada y yihad en Andalucía y el reino de Granada (siglos XIII-XV)" reúne un conjunto de trabajos de investigación excepcionales. Escritos con notable maestría por un historiador que domina perfectamente la materia, mantiene en todo momento el hilo conductor de una idéntica estructura ...

Firenze medievale e dintorni

La storia della Firenze medievale e rinascimentale è da tempo al centro dell’interesse della storiografia internazionale, non solo per l’eccezionale fioritura della letteratura e delle arti, della cultura e del pensiero, in tutte le sue declinazioni, ma anche per lo straordinario sviluppo economico ...

Firenze medievale e dintorni

La storia della Firenze medievale e rinascimentale è da tempo al centro dell’interesse della storiografia internazionale, non solo per l’eccezionale fioritura della letteratura e delle arti, della cultura e del pensiero, in tutte le sue declinazioni, ma anche per lo straordinario sviluppo economico ...

Shingen

la última campaña

El presente volumen aborda temas como la organización de las flamantes fuerzas navales del clan Takeda, y un análisis detallado de la hipótesis sobre la controvertida muerte de Shingen. Las abundantes fotografías y láminas a todo color, las ilustraciones en blanco y negro, y la ...

Les merovingiens

Cet ouvrage de synthèse sur les Mérovingiens propose aux étudiants un panorama unique du monde franc du Ve au VIIIe siècle. L’auteur a eu à cœur de replacer chaque analyse d’ensemble dans son contexte chronologique, de manière aussi bien à ancrer les grandes ...

La France Medievale

institutions et societé

Désormais classique, "La France médiévale" répond à quelques questions essentielles: comment les hommes sont-ils organisés dans la société?. Quelles en sont les structures politiques et comment se prolongent-elles en des structures administratives, juridiques, financières?. Quelle place y tient l’Église, à travers ses structures et ...