Corruption, protection and justice in medieval Europe

a thousand year history

What was an "advocate" (Latin: advocatus; German: Vogt) in the Middle Ages? What responsibilities came with the position and how did they change over time? With this groundbreaking study, Jonathan R. Lyon challenges the standard narrative of a "medieval" Europe of feudalism and lordship being ...

The life of Saint Peter of Atroa

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library)

An authoritative new Greek edition and English translation of the life of a notable Byzantine monastic leader. Saint Peter of Atroa (773-837 CE) was a Byzantine monastic leader, remembered primarily as cofounder and abbot of the influential monastery of Saint Zachariah at Atroa, below the ...

The Old English Catholic homilies : the first series

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library)

A contemporary edition and translation of one of the great monuments of Old English literary and religious culture. The homilies of the monk Ælfric, written in the last decade of the tenth century, offer some of the most important prose writing in Old English. They ...

The life and death of King Richard III

With a new introduction and concluding chapter from bestselling medieval author Dan Jones. Richard III is one of the most mysterious figures in English history, and as such is the source of perennial fascination. Comparatively little is known of his early life, his appearance, his ...

The Fatimids

portrait of a dynasty

The Fatimids (909-1171), one of the most significant and intriguing Islamic dynasties, built an empire that included North Africa, Egypt and parts of Sicily, Syria, Palestine and Arabia. Theirs is the only pre-modern Shi'i dynasty to have established an independent empire and the only ...

Guía de viajes por la Edad Media

El mundo visto por los viajeros medievales

De Santiago a Xanadú, pasando por Samarcanda: la historia de los viajes en el Medievo ¿Cómo era viajar en la Edad Media? ¿Qué veía un peregrino en Santiago, un mercader en Constantinopla o un emisario castellano en la corte del poderoso Tamerlán? A medio camino ...

El giro

De cómo un manuscrito olvidado contribuyó a crear el mundo moderno

Un libro que obtuvo el prestigioso National Book Award en 2011 y el Premio Pulitzer en 2012. Hace cerca de seiscientos años, en 1417, un humanista italiano emprendió un viaje para visitar conventos alemanes en busca de manuscritos antiguos. En uno de ellos descubrió el ...

Historia de los Godos

De enemigos de Roma a reyes de Hispania

Más allá del tópico de los 'bárbaros' que saquearon Roma, la historia de los godos es la de un pueblo que transformó Europa. Su periplo -desde sus orígenes en las tierras del Báltico hasta el trono de reinos poderosos como el visigodo en Hispania- no ...

Cruzados y criminales

Caballeros rebeldes en Tierra Santa

Olvida todo lo que creías saber sobre los caballeros cruzados. No todos llevaban relucientes armaduras ni luchaban movidos por la fe. Algunos fueron asesinos, traidores, bandidos y mercenarios sin escrúpulos que usaron la cruz como coartada para saciar su ambición y su sed de poder ...

Las rutas del conocimiento

Un recorrido intelectual por la Europa medieval

Franco Cardini nos descubre una Edad Media apasionante, una época viva y llena de intercambio y creatividad que sigue definiendo y dando forma a nuestro mundoLas rutas del conocimiento nos invita a un fascinante viaje a través de la Europa medieval, un mundo vibrante y ...

Razón y revelación en la Edad Media

Estas lecciones fueron impartidas en la Universidad de Virginia y publicadas en 1938, en vísperas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, después de El espíritu de la filosofía medieval (Aberdeen, 1932) y La unidad de la experiencia filosófica (Harvard, 1937), también en esta colección en su ...

The Merovingians in historiographical tradition

from the sixth to the sixteenth centuries

The merovingian centuries were a foundational period in the historical consciousness of Western Europe. The memory of the first dinasty of Frankish kings, their origin myths, accomplishments, and failures were used by generations of chroniclers, propagandists, and historians to justify a wide range of social ...

A new imperial history of Northern Eurasia, 600-1700

from Russian to global history

A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, 600-1700 proposes a new language for studying and conceptualizing the spaces, societies, and institutions that existed on the territory of today's Northern Eurasia. This is not the story of a certain present-day state or people evolving through ...

Armenians in the Byzantine Empire

identity, assimilation and alienation from 867 to 1098

Armenians in the Byzantine Empire is a new study exploring the relationship between the Armenians and Byzantines from the ninth through eleventh centuries. Utilising primary sources from multiple traditions, the evidence is clear that until the eleventh century Armenian migrants were able to fully assimilate ...

Theodore Metochites

patterns of self-representation in fourteenth-century Byzantium

The statesman and scholar Theodore Metochites was one of the most important personalities of the fourteenth-century Byzantine Empire. A close advisor to the emperor Andronikos II and restorer of the famous monastery of Chora in Constantinople, Metochites left various writings including orations, poems, essays and ...

Sufis in medieval Baghdad

agency and the public sphere in the late Abbasid caliphate

This book examines the political and social activities of Sufis in Baghdad in the period 1000-1258. It argues that Sufis played an important role in creating a public sphere that existed between ordinary subjects and the government. Drawing on Arabic sources and secondary literature, it ...

Wonders and rarities

the marvelous book that traveled the world and mapped the cosmos

During the thirteenth century, the persian naturalist and judge Zakariyya' Qazwini authored what became one of the most influential works of natural history in the world: Wonders and Rarities. Exploring the dazzling movements of the stars above, the strange minutiae of the minerals beneath the ...

Illumino

a history of medieval Britain in 12 illuminated manuscripts

Incandescent with illustrations, a history of Britain as told through a remarkable collection of illuminated manuscripts-at once chronicles of their time and works of art. Illumino explores the history of medieval Britain through the biographies of twelve remarkable illuminated manuscripts and their creators. Each manuscript ...

Debating medieval Europe

the central and later Middle Ages, c.1050-c.1450

Debating medieval Europe serves as an entry point for studying and teaching medieval history. Rather than simply presenting foundational knowledge or introducing sources, it provides the reader with frameworks for understanding the distinctive historiography of the period, digging beneath the historical accounts provided by other ...

Las miradas y las prácticas

perspectivas sobre los paisajes rurales del Occidente medieval

¿Puede el estudio de un pasado ya lejano servir para comprender mejor nuestro presente? Este libro es un acercamiento al conocimiento de los paisajes rurales en el Occidente medieval. Se trataba de construcciones sociales y culturales muy heterogéneas, que cambiaron a lo largo de un ...