Historia breve de Bizancio

Esta Historia Breve de Bizancio tiene como objetivo principal acercar al lector a un mundo fascinante como lo fue la Edad Media en el Oriente romano de lengua griega, religión cristiana y vocación imperial, con sus ciudades fastuosas, su cultura con elementos orientales y occidentales ...

Byzantine cavalryman

c.900-1204

Illustrated by Giuseppe Rava. Regarded as the elite arm of the military during the Middle Byzantine period, the cavalry executed high speed reconnaissance, agile arrow barrages and crippling blows to enemy formations. Its ranks were filled primarily through direct recruitment or hereditary service by holders ...

Byzantium between the ottomans and the latins

politics and society in the Late Empire

This is the first detailed analysis of Byzantine political attitudes towards the Ottomans and western Europeans during the critical last century of Byzantium. The book covers three major regions of the Byzantine Empire # Thessalonike, Constantinople, and the Morea # where the political orientations of aristocrats, merchants ...

Studies on the cult of relics in Byzantium up to 1204

Constantinople was well known in its heyday for the enormous collection of relics housed in its churches: bones, even whole bodies and intimate possessions of holy men and women. Almost all these objects had been imported from various parts of the Roman Empire between the ...

The christian parthenon

classicism and pilgrimage in Byzantine Athens

Byzantine Athens was not a city without a history, as is commonly believed, but an important center about which much can now be said. Providing a wealth of new evidence, Professor Kaldellis argues that the Parthenon became a major site of Christian pilgrimage after its ...

Bizancio

la raíz común

Contiene: 2 DVD. Instrucciones de uso: este DVD se puede ver como una película en un DVD común, pero además cuenta con material en diferentes idiomas que puede consultarse explorando el DVD en su ordenador. Duración: 38 minutos.

Beauty and the male body in Byzantium

perceptions and representations in art and text

Beauty and the Male Body in Byzantium looks into a subject previously ignored in discussions of the Byzantine world: it explores physical beauty as an attribute of the human and, in particular, of the male body through the evidence of imagery and writing from the ...

Monemvasia

a byzantien city state

This lavishly illustrated book stands out in its field as the only book currently available on the best-preserved Byzantine city in the Peloponnese - Monemvasia. Haris A. Kalligas, a world authority on Monemvasia's history and architecture, here explores the city's foundation, its status as ...

Costantinopoli

metropoli dai mille volti

Traduzione di Benedetta Heinemann Campana; Presentazione di Silvia Ronchey. La città che fu il centro dell#Impero d#Oriente per oltre mille anni: un quadro preciso e stimolante delle sue principali trasformazioni urbane sullo sfondo della storia politica, religiosa, culturale ed economica. Scelta come centro ...

The Byzantines

This book introduces the reader to the complex history, ethnicity, and identity of the Byzantines. This volume brings Byzantium # often misconstrued as a vanished successor to the classical world # to the forefront of European history Deconstructs stereotypes surrounding Byzantium Beautifully illustrated with photographs and maps.

The great islamic conquests

AD 632-750

Few centuries in world history have had such a profound and long- lasting impact as the first hundred years of Islamic history. In this book, David Nicolle examines the extensive Islamic conquests between AD 632 and 750. These years saw the religion and culture of ...

Saracen strongholds 1100-1500

the central and eastern islamic lands

Illustrated by Adam Hook. The Islamic world drew upon a myriad of pre-existing styles of fortification, taking Romano-Byzantine, Indian and Chinese ideas to create a highly effective and sophisticated hybrid fortification that was both new and distinctive. This book examines early Saracen fortifications, covering their ...

The muslims of medieval Italy

This significant new work focuses on the formation and fragmentation of an Arab-Muslim state and its society in Sicily and south Italy between 800 and 1300, which led to the formation of an enduring Muslim-- Christian frontier during the age of the Crusades. It examines ...

Cruzadas

una historia de la guerra medieval

El 27 de noviembre de 1095, en Clermont, el papa Urbano II lanzó un vibrante llamamiento a la cristiandad: había que liberar Jerusalén y los Santos Lugares de la tutela de los musulmanes. A partir de entonces y hasta mediados del siglo XIII las cruzadas ...

Breve historia de la orden del temple

Este libro es un clarificador y documentado estudio sobre las interioridades de la Orden del Temple en el que se explican todo tipo de detalles curiosos: la jornada de un templario en tiempos de paz, las normas por las que se regía la orden, las ...

Historia y tragedia de los templarios

Ed. facs. Discurso preliminar: En todos tiempos deben ser alabados los hechos heroycos de los valientes Militares que se emplean justamente en la defensa de la Sagrada Religión de Jesucristo, de su Rey y de su Patria. Su memoria debe ser inmortal, porque tambien lo ...

What were the Crusades?

Riley-Smith's acclaimed book is now regarded as a classic short study. The updated fourth edition of this essential introduction features a new Preface which surveys and reviews developments in crusading scholarship, a new map, material on a child crusader, and a short discussion of ...

La ciencia oculta de los viejos Templarios

Durante su andadura por los archivos históricos de toda España, y más concretamente en los de la Corona de Aragón y del Vaticano, el autor de esta novela histórica encontró pistas documentales que hablaban de un caballero templario que huyó de la batalla de Fraga ...

The siege of Jerusalem

crusade and conquest in 1099

This book offers a fascinating insight to the final siege of the First Crusade. The most extraordinary siege in medieval history began with the arrival of a Christian army at Jerusalem on the dawn of 6 June, 1099. There were other sieges that lasted longer ...

Los Templarios

una nueva historia

Cada año se publican nuevos libros sobre los templarios, con más fantasías que fundamentos históricos. Helen Nicholson, profesora de la Universidad de Cardiff y especialista en el estudio de la Orden del Templo de Salomón, pone a nuestro alcance, en un libro que es a ...