Geschichte italiens

von der Spätantike bis zur gegenwart

Arcana imperii

(IVe-XIe siècle)

A rhetoric of the Decameron

Dictionnaire de la langue du Moyen Âgen

Medieval transformations

Texts, power, and gifts in context

This volume deals with shifts and changes that took place during the Middle Ages when things, or ideas, or writings, were transferred from time to time, place to place, or one ideological realm to another. The same objects, ideas, or texts changed their meaning, impact ...

Desde Roma hasta el Renacimiento

la Edad Media año a año (476-1500)

Artes de bien morir

ars moriendi de la Edad Media y del Siglo de Oro

The Canso d'Antioca

an occitan epic chronicle of the First Crusade

Historia de los reyes de Britania

Escrita por el clérigo galés GEOFFREY DE MONMOUTH en el siglo xii, la HISTORIA DE LOS REYES DE BRITANIA conoció desde el primer momento una gran difusión, como atestiguan los numerosos manuscritos que de ella se han conservado. Si bien el propósito del libro es ...

L'expansion occidentale (XIe-XVe siècles)

formes et conséquences: XXXIIIe Congrès de la S.H.M.E.S. (Madrid, Casa de Velázquez, 23-26 mai 2002)

Perceval o Le Conte du Graal

La symbolique royale française

Ve-XVIIIe siècles

A medieval herbal

a facsimile of british library Egerton MS 747

The "Tractatus de herbis", reproduced here, is one of the many rare and precious manuscripts in the collections of the British Library. It is an illustrated herbal which comes from a collection of pharmacological texts written in southern Italy around AD 1300AD, which is now ...

L'Europe est-elle née au Moyen Age?

Essai

La Russie Médiévale

The First Crusade and the idea of crusading

Riley Smith focuses on the title of his book, that is what he wants to present and does. It is not a light read, but anyway it is very clear and dinamic; the author presents facts in an interesting and condensed way, and he does ...

The Flower of Chivalry

Bertrand du Guesclin and the Hundred Years War

The rise of Bertrand du Guesclin ranks as one of the most spectacular adventures in a fourteenth century rich in heroic tales. A poor Breton squire, ungainly and unlettered, he came of age at the onset of the Hundred Years War. He spent two decades ...

Genghis Khan & the mongol conquests 1190-1400

Contents illustrated The history of the Mongol conquests is a catalogue of superlatives. No army in the world has ever conquered so much territory, and few armies have provoked such terror as the Mongol hordes. So vast was the extent of the Mongol Empire that ...

Tannenberg 1410

disaster for the Teutonic Knights

Illustrated by Richard Hook By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order#s meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King ...

The Wars of the Roses

1455-1485

The Wars of the Roses raged from 1455 to 1485 - the longest period of civil war in English history. They barely affected the daily routine of the civilian population, yet for the leaders of the opposing houses of York and Lancaster, the wars were devastating ...