Secular buildings and the archaeology of everyday life in the byzantine empire

The archaeology of everyday life is a relatively under- explored aspect of the Byzantine world, and often takes a back-seat to the more visible aspects of Byzantine history, such as works of art and ecclesiastical architecture. This book seeks to redress the imbalance by focusing ...

Women of Byzantium

Women played key roles in Byzantine society: some ruled or co-ruled the empire, and others commissioned art and buildings, went on pilgrimages, and wrote. This engrossing book draws on evidence ranging from pictorial mosaics and inscriptions on the walls of churches to women#s poetry ...

St John Damascene

tradition and originality in Byzantine Theology

John Damascene, one-time senior civil servant in the Umayyad Arab Empire, became a monk near Jerusalem in the early years of the eighth century. He never set foot in the Byzantine Empire, yet his influence on Byzantine theology was ultimately determinative, and beyond that his ...

Interaction and isolation in late byzantine culture

Papers Read at a Colloquium Held at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, 1-5 December, 1999

Les vies des saints à Byzance

genre littéraire ou biographie historique?

Byzantine Trade, 4th-12th centuries

the archaeology of local, regional and international exchange: papers of the thirty-eighth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, St John´s College, University of Oxford, March 2004

Edited by Marlia Mundell Mango. The 28 papers examine questions relating to the extent and nature of Byzantine trade from Late Antiquity into the Middle Ages. The Byzantine state was the only political entity of the Mediterranean to survive Antiquity and thus offers a theoretical ...

A monetary history of the Ottoman empire

The Ottoman empire stood at the crossroads of intercontinental trade at the dawn of the era of capitalism. This volume examines the monetary history of that empire from its beginnings in the fourteenth century to the end of the first world war. Through a detailed ...

Love, war, and the grail

templars, hospitallers, and teutonic knights in medieval epic and romance 1150-1500

Originally published by Brill in 2001 as part of the series History of Warfare . Scholars of the crusades, medieval history, and medieval literature will welcome the paperback reprinting of this interdisciplinary study. Nicholson (Cardiff U., Wales), who has published extensively on the history of the ...

L'Ordre du Temple et le reniement du Christ

Lors du procès intenté en 1307 par le roi de France Philippe le Bel, il apparut que les Templiers, au moment de leur réception dans l'ordre, reniaient le Christ et crachaient sur la croix. Pour cette raison essentiellement, on les accusa d'hérésie. Cette ...

The legend of the Grail

The quest for the Holy Grail is one of the most important elements in the story of King Arthur. Yet even among the many interested in the stories of the Round Table, very few have read at first hand the medieval masterpieces which over a ...

Las Cruzadas

Las cruzadas fueron y son en la actualidad un motivo de reflexión para historiadores y políticos del panorama mundial, y en este libro se analizan con detenimiento todas las cruzadas realizadas desde Europa incluidas las peninsulares y destacar que desde hace más de treinta años ...

Los Templarios y el origen de la banca

El 13 de Octubre de 1307 todos los templarios del reino de Francia,acusados entre otras cosas de abjurar de la cruz y adorar a un ídolo llamado Bafomet,fueron arrestados por orden de Felipe IV.La Orden del Temple sería suprimida por el Papa ...

Las Cruzadas

Las cruzadas son un episodio histórico en el que confluyen componentes religiosos, sociales y políticos inextricablemente asociados. Es por ello que el modo en que Zoé Oldenbourg aborda el tema en esta obra resulta especialmente efectivo y esclarecedor. Centrándose en la primera etapa de las ...

Le ver, le démon et la vierge

les théories médiévales de la génération extraordinaire: un étude sur les rapports entre théologie, philosophie naturelle et médecine

Une jeune fille peut-elle tomber enceinte en se baignant dans une eau polluée par du sperme ? La génération spontanée est-elle possible, et quels animaux peuvent ainsi naître : des vers, ou aussi un homme, si l#espèce humaine venait à s#éteindre ? Les démons peuvent-ils copuler ...

Théologie et cosmologie au XIIe siècle

Lors de la Renaissance du XIIe siècle, un intérêt neuf se manifeste à l#égard de la cosmologie : création du monde, autonomie des lois de la nature, statut de l#homme au sein de cette nature. Chartres est le centre de cette réflexion avec des ...

Pace e guerra nel Basso Medioevo

atti del XL Convegno Storico Internazionale, Todi, 12-14 ottobre 2003

Holiness and masculinity in the Middle Ages

Studies of gender in medieval culture have tended to focus on femininity; however, the study of medieval masculinities has developed into an important area of enquiry in the last few years. This collection is the first to concentrate on the ways in which varieties of ...

Europa y sus raíces cristianas

El autor ha profundizado particularmente en el papel jugado por el Cristianismo en la configuración social, cultural y política del Viejo Continente. Es una actualización, con las convenientes enmiendas y adiciones, de La conversión de Europa al Cristianismo, publicado en 1988. Ante la polémica suscitada ...

The Holy Grail

imagination and belief

The Holy Grail is an image familiar to us all as an almost unattainable, infinitely desirable goal. The idea has passed into everyday speech and the legends behind it are as current in today's culture as they have ever been. And yet the Grail ...

L'economia dei conventi dei frati minori e predicatori fino alla metà del trecento

atti del XXXI Convegno Internazionale, Assisi, 9-11 ottobre 2003