Why did the last of the major European campaigns to reclaim Jerusalem end in an attack on Tunis, a peaceful North African port city thousands of miles from the Holy Land? In the first book-length study of the campaign in English, Michael Lower tells the ...
Why did the last of the major European campaigns to reclaim Jerusalem end in an attack on Tunis, a peaceful North African port city thousands of miles from the Holy Land? In the first book-length study of the campaign in English, Michael Lower tells the ...
Graphic Signs of Authority in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages presents a cultural history of graphic signs and examines how they were employed to communicate secular and divine authority in the late antique Mediterranean and early medieval Europe. Visual materials such as the ...
Graphic Signs of Authority in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages presents a cultural history of graphic signs and examines how they were employed to communicate secular and divine authority in the late antique Mediterranean and early medieval Europe. Visual materials such as the ...
What meaning did human kinship possess in a world regulated by Biblical time, committed to the primacy of spiritual relationships, and bound by the sinews of divine love? In the process of exploring this question, Hans Hummer offers a searching re-examination of kinship in Europe ...
What meaning did human kinship possess in a world regulated by Biblical time, committed to the primacy of spiritual relationships, and bound by the sinews of divine love? In the process of exploring this question, Hans Hummer offers a searching re-examination of kinship in Europe ...
Este es un interesante texto sobre las armaduras japonesas escrito por Bashford Dean, zoólogo americano y experto en armaduras medievales y modernas, quien recopiló cientos de especímenes japoneses.
En este libro se realiza una exhaustiva descripción de la colección que el autor cedió al Museo ...
Este es un interesante texto sobre las armaduras japonesas escrito por Bashford Dean, zoólogo americano y experto en armaduras medievales y modernas, quien recopiló cientos de especímenes japoneses.
En este libro se realiza una exhaustiva descripción de la colección que el autor cedió al Museo ...
Fifteen years in the making, a landmark reinterpretation of the life of a pivotal figure in British and European history
In this magisterial addition to the Yale English Monarchs series, David Bates combines biography and a multidisciplinary approach to examine the life of a major ...
Fifteen years in the making, a landmark reinterpretation of the life of a pivotal figure in British and European history
In this magisterial addition to the Yale English Monarchs series, David Bates combines biography and a multidisciplinary approach to examine the life of a major ...
Cuenta la Legenda Aurea de Jaime de Vorágine que, en una de las hambrunas que afligió la ciudad de Myra, el obispo Nicolás (San Nicolás de Bari, c. 270 – c. 343) persuadió a varios navegantes que llevaban trigo desde Alejandría a la corte del emperador ...
Cuenta la Legenda Aurea de Jaime de Vorágine que, en una de las hambrunas que afligió la ciudad de Myra, el obispo Nicolás (San Nicolás de Bari, c. 270 – c. 343) persuadió a varios navegantes que llevaban trigo desde Alejandría a la corte del emperador ...
The first comprehensive history of the most decisive military campaign of the Third Crusade and one of the longest wartime sieges of the Middle Ages
The two-year-long siege of Acre (1189-1191) was the most significant military engagement of the Third Crusade, attracting armies from across ...
The first comprehensive history of the most decisive military campaign of the Third Crusade and one of the longest wartime sieges of the Middle Ages
The two-year-long siege of Acre (1189-1191) was the most significant military engagement of the Third Crusade, attracting armies from across ...
Ricca e opulenta capitale crociata, Acri cade nel 1291 segnando la fine della presenza latina in Terrasanta. L'Occidente accolse attonito la notizia, vedendo spegnersi la speranza di riconquistare Gerusalemme. Il libro ricostruisce le conseguenze della tragedia acritana e le principali reazioni dei contemporanei sino ...
Ricca e opulenta capitale crociata, Acri cade nel 1291 segnando la fine della presenza latina in Terrasanta. L'Occidente accolse attonito la notizia, vedendo spegnersi la speranza di riconquistare Gerusalemme. Il libro ricostruisce le conseguenze della tragedia acritana e le principali reazioni dei contemporanei sino ...
In 1119, the people of the Near East came together in an epic clash of horses, swords, sand, and blood that would decide the fate of the city of the Aleppo-and the eastern Crusader states. Fought between tribal Turkish warriors on steppe ponies, Arab foot ...
In 1119, the people of the Near East came together in an epic clash of horses, swords, sand, and blood that would decide the fate of the city of the Aleppo-and the eastern Crusader states. Fought between tribal Turkish warriors on steppe ponies, Arab foot ...
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts is a captivating examination of twelve illuminated manuscripts from the medieval period. Noted authority Christopher de Hamel invites the reader into intimate conversations with these texts to explore what they tell us about nearly a thousand years of medieval history - and ...
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts is a captivating examination of twelve illuminated manuscripts from the medieval period. Noted authority Christopher de Hamel invites the reader into intimate conversations with these texts to explore what they tell us about nearly a thousand years of medieval history - and ...
Alexander the Great (356-333 BC) was transformed into a legend by all those he met, leaving an enduring tradition of romances across the world. Aside from its penetration into every language of medieval Europe, the Alexander romance arguably had its greatest impact in the Persian ...
Alexander the Great (356-333 BC) was transformed into a legend by all those he met, leaving an enduring tradition of romances across the world. Aside from its penetration into every language of medieval Europe, the Alexander romance arguably had its greatest impact in the Persian ...
The most important study of Charlemagne in a generation, this biography by distinguished medievalist Alessandro Barbero illuminates both the man and the world in which he lived. Charles the Great—Charlemagne—reigned from a.d. 768 to a.d. 814. At the time if his ...
The most important study of Charlemagne in a generation, this biography by distinguished medievalist Alessandro Barbero illuminates both the man and the world in which he lived. Charles the Great—Charlemagne—reigned from a.d. 768 to a.d. 814. At the time if his ...
Sin lugar a dudas, ninguna Orden Militar medieval ha despertado tanto interés como la del Temple. Ninguna otra orden adquirió tanto poder e influencia ni tuvo una caída tan rápida como impredecible. Su historia está ligada a la de los Santos Lugares, recuperados para la ...
Sin lugar a dudas, ninguna Orden Militar medieval ha despertado tanto interés como la del Temple. Ninguna otra orden adquirió tanto poder e influencia ni tuvo una caída tan rápida como impredecible. Su historia está ligada a la de los Santos Lugares, recuperados para la ...
Espejo del alma e instrumento de comunicación y de acción política, la carta es un objeto de análisis que viene suscitando un interés creciente. Situada en el cruce de la historia y de la literatura, ofrece en efecto un campo de experimentación privilegiado para la ...
Espejo del alma e instrumento de comunicación y de acción política, la carta es un objeto de análisis que viene suscitando un interés creciente. Situada en el cruce de la historia y de la literatura, ofrece en efecto un campo de experimentación privilegiado para la ...
The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the Muqaddima
Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world--a genius who ranks as one of the world's great ...
The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the Muqaddima
Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world--a genius who ranks as one of the world's great ...
La Soberana Orden Militar de Malta no representa hoy únicamente la supervivencia de una orden caballeresca de tiempos medievales que desarrolla unas funciones humanitarias al modo de una ONG. Ciertamente, la Orden de San Juan de Malta, que ha cumplido hace poco sus novecientos años ...
La Soberana Orden Militar de Malta no representa hoy únicamente la supervivencia de una orden caballeresca de tiempos medievales que desarrolla unas funciones humanitarias al modo de una ONG. Ciertamente, la Orden de San Juan de Malta, que ha cumplido hace poco sus novecientos años ...
¿Cómo se enfrenta el historiador de la Edad Media a las palabras de las fuentes que maneja, fuentes emanadas de una sociedad conformada por significados y conceptos tan distintos de los nuestros?.
¿Cómo se enfrenta el historiador de la Edad Media a las palabras de las fuentes que maneja, fuentes emanadas de una sociedad conformada por significados y conceptos tan distintos de los nuestros?.
En la Edad Media se viaja por motivos políticos, por trabajo, para rezar o para estudiar: por los caminos se encuentran reyes y mercaderes, peregrinos y delincuentes, clérigos y juglares, marginados y caballeros andantes. Se navega por ríos, por lagos, por canales, por mares o ...
En la Edad Media se viaja por motivos políticos, por trabajo, para rezar o para estudiar: por los caminos se encuentran reyes y mercaderes, peregrinos y delincuentes, clérigos y juglares, marginados y caballeros andantes. Se navega por ríos, por lagos, por canales, por mares o ...
Medieval Italian communes are known for their violence, feuds, and vendettas, yet beneath this tumult was a society preoccupied with peace. Peace and Penance in Late Medieval Italy is the first book to examine how civic peacemaking in the age of Dante was forged in ...
Medieval Italian communes are known for their violence, feuds, and vendettas, yet beneath this tumult was a society preoccupied with peace. Peace and Penance in Late Medieval Italy is the first book to examine how civic peacemaking in the age of Dante was forged in ...
Cuando marches de Puente la Reina y tus pies coloques sobre el puente románico deberás saber y sentir que estás dejando atrás al pasar el puente de una orilla a otra una villa templaria que de una manera u otra te ha impregnado si has ...
Cuando marches de Puente la Reina y tus pies coloques sobre el puente románico deberás saber y sentir que estás dejando atrás al pasar el puente de una orilla a otra una villa templaria que de una manera u otra te ha impregnado si has ...
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