The Virgin Warrior

the life and death of Joan of Arc

France's great heroine and England's great scourge: whether a lunatic, a witch, a religious icon, or a skilled soldier and leader, Joan of Arc's contemporaries found her as extraordinary and fascinating as the legends that abound about her today. But her life ...

The body broken

Medieval Europe 1300-1520

This exciting new textbook offers a sweeping survey of Europe in the later Middle Ages, examining a period of huge crisis, conflict and religious change. "The Body Broken" takes a thematic approach to the period 1300- 1520, covering everything from the Black Death and the ...

The roots of balkanization

Eastern Euope C.E. 500-1500

Balkanization_ is a modern term describing the fragmentation and re- division of countries and nations in the Balkan Peninsula, as well as a dynamic meaning _the Balkan way of doing things._ The Roots of Balkanization describes the historical changes that took place in the ...

Enchanted Europe

superstition, reason, and religion, 1250-1750

Since the dawn of history people have used charms and spells to try to control their environment, and forms of divination to try to foresee the otherwise unpredictable chances of life. Many of these techniques were called 'superstitious' by educated elites. For centuries religious believers ...

Readings in Medieval History

Ed. Patrick J. Geary. For this new edition, Patrick J. Geary has incorporated more bibliographical information into the introductions to the readings. Five texts have been added to better reflect legal, religious, Polish, and women's history. A glossary is provided to help with unfamiliar ...

Paris, 1200

Paris in 1200 was a city in transition. The great cathedral of Notre Dame was halfway through its construction and walls were being built to enclose the new, larger limits of the city. Pope Innocent III ordered all French churches closed to punish King Philip ...

Historia de la Europa urbana. T.II

La ciudad medieval

Dir. Jean-Luc Pinol. La ciudad antigua fue desapareciendo lentamente entre los siglos V y VII, dando paso a nuevas realidades urbanas que originarán la ciudad «medieval». La comprensión del hecho urbano en la Edad Media pasa necesariamente por el análisis minucioso de las percepciones que ...

Peacemaking in the Middle Ages

principles and practice

Drawing upon a range of different contemporary sources, *Peacemaking in the Middle Ages* explores the making of peace in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries based on the experiences of the kings of England and the kings of Denmark. From dealing with owing allegiance ...

Être à table au Moyen Âge

études réunies et présentées par Nelly Labère. Si les historiens se sont intéressés depuis une trentaine d'années aux pratiques alimentaires du Moyen Âge, rares sont les travaux consacrés à la représentation de la nourriture dans la littérature médiévale de la Péninsule ibérique et de ...

Witchcraft and magic in the Nordic Middle Ages

Stephen A. Mitchell here offers the fullest examination available of witchcraft in late medieval Scandinavia. He focuses on those people believed to be able-and who in some instances thought themselves able-to manipulate the world around them through magical practices, and on the responses to these ...

Our way to fight

peace-work under siege in Israel-Palestine

Our Way to Fight follows the dangerous lives of peace activists in Israel and Palestine. It explores the crises that stirred them to act, the risks they face, and the small victories that sustain them. Michael Riordon takes us to thousand year-old olive groves, besieged ...

La educación política en la Edad Media

el 'Tractatus de morali principis institutione' de Vicente de Beauvais (1262/63): una apuesta prehumanista de la política

El oficio de reinar se presentó en la Edad Media como un cargo o ministerio que tuvo como fin último colaborar con la Iglesia en la correlación de todos y cada uno de los súbditos. Esta misión, al acontecer en el marco de una sociedad ...

Historia económica mundial

siglos X-XX

Eds., Francisco Comín, Mauro Hernández y Enrique Llopis. La investigación en historia económica ha cobrado en las últimas décadas tal auge que resulta difícil mantenerse al día de las nuevas investigaciones y enfoques. Si además se pretende no sólo examinar un arco de más de ...

Ricos y pobres

opulencia y desarraigo en el occidente medieval

VV.AA. Actas y ponencias de la XXXVI Semana dedicada en esta ocasión a la reflexión sobre los conceptos de riqueza y pobreza en la Edad Media Actas y ponencias de la XXXVI Semana dedicada en esta ocasión a la reflexión sobre los conceptos de ...

Crisis of the Twelfth Century

power, lordship, and the origins of european government

Medieval civilization came of age in thunderous events like the Norman Conquest and the First Crusade. Power fell into the hands of men around castles who imposed coercive new lordships in quest of nobility, heedless of the old public order. In "The Crisis of the ...

Greece, the hidden centuries

turkish rule from the fall of Constantinople to Greek independence

For almost four hundred years, between the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the Greek War of Independence, the history of Greece is shrouded in mystery: distorted by Greek writers and largely neglected by others. What was life really like for the Greeks under Ottoman ...

Byzantine monuments of Istanbul

'This book is about the Byzantine monuments of Istanbul, most notably, Haghia Sophia. The remains of the land and sea walls, the Hippodrome, imperial palaces, commemorative columns, reservoirs and cisterns, an aqueduct, a triumphal archway, a fortified port, and twenty churches are also described in ...

The Early Byzantine Historians

The Early Byzantine Historians is the first original study of every significant Byzantine historian from Eusebius of Caesarea (c.255-339) to Theophylact Simocatta (c.585-after 641?). Written for general readers as well as professional scholars, and filled with new discoveries and interpretations, the book presents ...

Breve historia del Imperio Bizantino

La apasionante historia de la invulnerable Constantinopla y del Imperio Bizantino, toda la esencia de un convulso periodo histórico de invasiones, conquistas y grandes batallas. La apasionante historia de la invulnerable Constantinopla, capital del imperio que mantuvo la cultura clásica y el Estado romano a ...

A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul

Using a wealth of contemporary Ottoman sources, this book recreates the social history of Istanbul, a huge, cosmopolitan metropolis and imperial capital of the Ottoman Empire. Seat of the sultan and an opulent international emporium, Istanbul was also a city of violence, shaken regularly by ...