Viking weapons and combat techniques

The Vikings are among the historical world's most feared and famous warriors. Their success as a fighting group was due in part to the unique ways in which they wielded their weapons - swords, axes, lances, and shields - combined with small-group tactics that were always ...

Las vísperas sicilianas

una historia del mundo mediterráneo a finales del siglo XIII

Nota previa de Francisco Rico; Traducción de Alicia Bleiberg. El 30 de marzo de 1282, cuando las campanas de Palermo llamaban a Vísperas, los ciudadanos sicilianos, al grito de ´Muerte a los franceses, masacraron a la guarnición y a la administración de su Rey angevino ...

Berenguela of castle (1180-1246) and political women in the Middle Ages

The women in the family that ruled thirteenth-century Castile used maternity, familial and political strategy, and religious and cultural patronage to secure their personal power as well as to promote their lineage. Leonor of England, and her daughters Blanche of Castile (Queen of France), Urraca ...

L´Italia dei guelfi e dei ghibellini

#Maledette parti# stigmatizzate come esempio di intolleranza, lacerazioni insanabili e guerra civile, guelfi e ghibellini sono prima di tutto realtà storiche entrate nell#immaginario collettivo come metafora di contrapposizioni ideali e di passione politica, capaci di conservare ancora oggi la loro carica universalmente simbolica. Attraverso ...

Agincourt

el arte de la estrategia

Traducción castellana de Lara Vilà. Contiene ilustraciones. Cuando Enrique V y su #banda de hermanos' venció al poder de la caballería francesa un día lluvioso de octubre en 1415, éste fue un momento decisivo en la historia de Inglaterra. La batalla de Agincourt se convirtió ...

Nobili e re

l´italia politica dell´ato medioevo

Dagli anni di Odoacre e di Teoderico fino alle soglie dell'età romanica, nascite, crisi e trasformazioni di aristocrazie protagoniste di strutture differenti di potere: da quelle di stampo classico, legittimate da un'antichità di stirpe e da un ruolo di pubblica ufficialità, a quelle ...

Breve historia de los Carolingios

auge y caída de la estirpe de Carlomagno

El imperio romano de Occidente cayó bajo los golpes de las tribus germánicas en el curso del siglo V. La dinastía meronvingia, encabezada por Clodoveo, acabó por extender su hegemonía en la antigua Galia. A finales del siglo VII, un mayordomo de palacio, Pipino de ...

Riti di corte e simboli della regalità

i regni d´Europa e del Mediterraneo dal Medioevo all´età Moderna

Un#indagine sulla complessa relazione tra sacralità e regalità nell#Europa cristiana e nel mondo islamico. Mettendo a frutto la ricca storiografia a disposizione, M.A. Visceglia indaga la stretta corrispondenza tra i mutamenti delle pratiche cerimoniali e l#evoluzione dell#idea stessa di sovranità ...

Medieval sieges and siege craft

Great sieges changed the course of medieval history, yet siege warfare, the dominant military activity of the period, is rarely given the attention it deserves. Geoffrey Hindley's highly readable new account of this vital but neglected aspect of medieval warfare looks at the subject ...

Warrior of God

Jan Zizka and the Hussite Revolution

Foreword by David Muhlena. Table of contents: List of Illustrations and Maps vii Foreword ix Preface xiii Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Hunter, Highwayman, Mercenary, Courtier 11 Chapter 2 Preachers and Popes 32 Chapter 3 The Emperor Strikes 60 Chapter 4 Praguers and Pikharts 86 Chapter ...

The herald in Late Medieval Europe

Edited by Katie Stevenson. The officers of arms [kings of arms, heralds and pursuivants] have often been overlooked by scholars of late medieval elite society. Yet as officers of the crown, ducal courts or noble families, they played important parts in a number of areas ...

From the brink of the Apocalypse

confronting famine, war, plague, and dealth in the Later Middle Ages

Praise for the first edition: "Aberth wears his very considerable and up-to-date scholarship lightly and his study of a series of complex and somber calamites is made remarkably vivid." -- Barrie Dobson, Honorary Professor of History, University of York The later Middle Ages was a period ...

"Tracce turche" in Europa medioevale

i popoli delle steppe in Europa dalla comparsa degli Unni alla nascita della Turchia

In questa monografia si illustrano in maniera divulgativa ma scientifica le vicende salienti dei popoli delle steppe in Europa, partendo dall'arrivo degli unni fino alla conquista dell'Anatolia da parte dei selgiuchidi, cercando di armonizzare le diverse tradizioni storiografiche sulla base delle fonti scritte ...

La ciudad medieval y su territorio. Vol.1

urbanismo, sociedad y economía

Eds., Manuel Espinar Moreno y María del Mar García Guzmán. Esta obra obedece a la necesidad de editar estudios sobre el urbanismo y su proyección en el territorio donde se ubica el núcleo de población. Ciudad y campo van interrelacionados y son caras de una ...

The merchant houses of Mocha

trade and architecture in an Indian Ocean port

Gaining prominence as a seaport under the Ottomans in the mid-1500s, the city of Mocha on the Red Sea coast of Yemen pulsed with maritime commerce. Its very name became synonymous with Yemen's most important revenue-producing crop - coffee. After the imams of the Qasimi ...

The red rose and the white

the wars of the Roses, 1453-1487

If Richard III had not charged to his death at Bosworth, how different might the history of Britain have been? Beginning in 1453 and ending in 1487, The Red Rose and the White provides a gripping overview of the bitter dynastic struggle for supremacy that ...

La China imperial en su contexto medieval (siglos III-XVII)

Esta obra pretende servir de exposición sintética de los principales aspectos de la civilización y la evolución histórica -en los ámbitos político, social, económico, religioso y cultural- de la China imperial entre los siglos III y XVII, desde la época de los llamados Tres Reinos ...

Relato del viaje por Europa del obispo armenio Mártir

(1489-1496)

Eds., Ignacio Iñarrea Las Heras y Denise Péricard-Méa. Contiene: Versión francesa de Antoine-Jean Saint-Martin (1827); Versión española de Emilia Gayangos de Riaño (1898). La Relación de un viaje por Europa es un breve texto escrito por un obispo armenio, que se identifica a sí mismo ...

Mortuary practices and social identities in the Middle Ages

essays in burial archaeology in honor of Heinrich Härke

Edited by Duncan Sayer and Howard Williams. Building upon Heinrich Härke#s influential research on burial archaeology and early medieval migrations, and in particular, his ground-breaking work on the relationship between the theory and practice of burial archaeology, this book sets a new agenda for ...

Naval power

a history of warfare and the sea from 1500

Man lives on land, but the seas of the world are crucial to his lot. Focusing on navies as instruments of power and analysing what they indicate about the nature of state systems and cultures all over the world, Black provides an overview of the ...