Historia medieval del sexo y del erotismo

Contiene ilustraciones. Cuando se dispone a tomar Gibraltar, las fuerzas de Alfonso XI ceden. La Peste Negra hace estragos y parece ensañarse con el monarca. Parece. Acostado en su lecho, siente cómo todos a su alrededor le miran con recelo, espían todos sus movimientos. De ...

La historia rural de las sociedades medievales europeas

tendencias y perspectivas

Este libro reúne las reflexiones de un conjunto de medievalistas europeos sobre algunos casos significativos de las distintas trayectorias seguidas por la historiografía del mundo rural medieval en sus países respectivos. Esta aproximación internacional proporciona una visión más profunda de cuáles han sido las relaciones ...

La infancia a la sombra de las catedrales

Cientos de miniaturas medievales representan a mujeres y a niños pequeños. Esta es la base del presente libro. Por medio de las miniaturas, y con la ayuda de los textos de la época y de trabajos de historiadores actuales, se esboza la historia de las ...

La società medievale

realtà e immaginario

Indice: 7. Presentazione 9. Introduzione 11. L´aldilà 25. Salute e malattia 41. L´infanzia 55. Le donne 69. Gli uomini 83. I cavalieri 99. Gli abiti 113. I giochi

Marco Polo and the encounter of East and West

Eds. Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Amilcare A. Iannucci. Few figures from history evoke such vivid Orientalist associations as Marco Polo, the Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer whose accounts of the "Far East" sparked literary and cultural imaginations. The essays in Marco Polo and the Encounter of ...

Jerusalem in the time of the Crusades

Adrian Boas' combined use of historical and archaeological evidence together with first-hand accounts written by visiting pilgrims results in a multi-faceted perspective on Crusader Jerusalem. Generously illustrated, this book will serve both as a scholarly account of this city's archaeology and history, and a ...

The legend of Charlemagne in the Middle Ages

power, faith, and crusade

Edited by Matthew Gabriele and Jace Stuckey. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This interdisciplinary collection uses the legend of Charlemagne to explore larger themes in the European Middle Ages, such as crusading, conceptions of kingship, and apocalyptic expectation.

Images of children in Byzantium

This book covers a subject that has never previously been addressed, and yet it is both a fascinating and a provocative one: the representation of children in Byzantium. The visual material is extensive, intriguing and striking, and the historical context is crucially important to our ...

Piety and plage from Byzantium to the Baroque

Plague was one of the enduring facts of everyday life on the European continent, from earliest antiquity through the first decades of the eighteenth century. It represents one of the most important influences on the development of Europe's society and culture. In order to ...

Memoria e invención de Bizancio

Bizancio y la sublime puerta no fueron un mundo cerrado. No dejaron de ser visitados por hombres y mujeres que atravesaron sus fronteras camino de Constantinopla/Estabul; y desde allí se desplazaron a Edirne, al Danubio y a otras tierras aún más lejanas. Al amparo ...

Dreambooks in Byzantium

six oneirocritica in translation with commentary and introduction

"Dreambooks in Byzantium" offers for the first time in English translation and with commentary six of the seven extant Byzantine oneirocritica, or manuals on the interpretation of dreams. (The seventh, "The Oneirocriticon of Achmet ibn Sereim" was published previously by the author.)Dreams permeated all ...

From Byzantium to modern Greece

medieval texts and their modern reception

The twelfth century was a time of cultural renewal and innovation in Byzantium, just as it was in the west. In literature, the long disused genres of epic, satire and the novel (or 'romance') took new forms during that century; at the same time, in ...

Enamels, crowns, relics and icons

studies on luxury arts in Byzantium

This volume gathers together 17 articles published over the last 30 years, together with one appearing here for the first time. Their focus is primarily on enamel, the brilliant and colourful art form for which the Byzantines were famous throughout the medieval world, but sculpture ...

The Cambridge history of the Byzantine Empire

c.500-1492

Ed., Jonathan Shepard. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Byzantium lasted a thousand years, ruled to the end by self-styled #emperors of the Romans#. It underwent kaleidoscopic territorial and structural changes, yet recovered repeatedly from disaster: even after the near-impregnable Constantinople fell in 1204, variant forms of the empire reconstituted themselves ...

The Oxford handbook of byzantine studies

Eds., Elizabeth Jeffreys, John Haldon and Robin Cormack. The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies presents discussions by leading experts on all significant aspects of this diverse and fast-growing field. The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies deals with the history and culture of the Byzantine Empire ...

Teología política bizantina

PARTE PRIMA: LA BASILEIA 1. Ai åniov Auºgoustov. L Eternità dell impero nella nuova Roma 2 L impero universale dal punto di vista costantinopolitano 3 Roma fondamento di legittimità politica e religiosa da Roma alla Terza Roma 4 La guerra santa nella Romània (impero romano ...

¿Existe una identidad mozárabe?

historia, lengua y cultura de los cristianos de al-Andalus (siglos IX- XII)

La presente obra reúne una serie de estudios que examinan la historia, la lengua y la cultura de los cristianos andalusíes desde el siglo IX hasta su desaparición en el siglo XII, y que contribuyen a la reflexión sobre la identidad de los <> y su ...

La Corte de los Califas

Ésta es la historia de los dos siglos de oro del Islam: la época en que los Abasidas rigieron un vasto imperio desde su corte de Bagdad. Hugh Kennedy, autor de Las grandes conquistas árabes, nos ofrece un libro que se aparta de los fríos ...

God's crucible

Islam and the making of Europe, 570-1215

In the autumn of 732, two great armies, one Christian and one Muslim, faced off on the central plains of France in an epic battle that would define European history. According to what we've always been told, Charles Martel, the leader of the Franks ...

From Arabian Tribes to Islamic Empire

army, state and society in the Near East c. 600-850

This second collection of articles by Patricia Crone brings together studies on the development of early Muslim society, above all the army with which it was originally synonymous, from shortly after the Prophet's death until the mid-Abbasid period. The focus is on the changes ...