Historia religiosa del Occidente medieval

(años 313-1464)

La historia religiosa del Occidente medieval es, ante todo, la historia de la difusión y aceptación del cristianismo en la versión promovida por la Iglesia romana. Esa historia comprende, de un lado, el proceso de expansión territorial de la doctrina –y de la institución que ...

Gentes de mar en la ciudad atlántica medieval

En esta obra monográfica un equipo internacional de medievalistas, expertos en historia marítima y portuaria, analizan la influencia del mar y las actividades marítimas y portuarias en el desarrollo de las sociedades urbanas de la Europa Atlántica en la Edad Media, y es parte del ...

Las Cruzadas vistas por los árabes

Basándose en los testimonios de los historiadores y cronistas árabes de la época, Amin Maalouf relata la historia de las cruzadas tal y como las vieron y vivieron en “el otro campo”, es decir, en el lado musulmán, punto de vista olvidado hasta la publicación ...

Holy motherhood

gender, dynasty and visual culture in the later Middle ages

This study brings images of holy motherhood and childbearing into the centre of an art-historical enquiry, showing how images worked not only to script and maintain gender and social roles within patriarchal society but also to offer viewers ways of managing those roles. Some of ...

The First English Revolution

Simon de Montfort, Henry III and The Barons' War

Simon de Montfort, the leader of the English barons, was the first leader of a political movement to seize power from a reigning monarch. The charismatic de Montfort and his forces had captured most of south-eastern England by 1263 and at the battle of Lewes ...

The medieval kitchen

a social history with recipes

Contrary to what is often believed, good food was valued highly in the Middle Ages - the fragrance of exotic spices filled the air, meat turned on the spit and fish was consumed in abundance for religious reasons. The wealthy made a show of their prosperity ...

European medieval tactics (2)

new infantry, new weapons 1260-1500

With the development in the 13th century of co-operative tactics using crossbowmen and heavy spearmen, circumstance began to arise in which the charge by Muslim horse-archers, and then by European armoured knights, could be defied. Infantry were far cheaper and easier to train than knights ...

Women in the military orders of the Crusades

This book is a detailed study of the female members of the Order or Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem in the High Middle Ages. It analyses their presence in the context of female monasticism and compares their position to the position of women in ...

Los caminos de la exclusión en la sociedad medieval: pecado, delito y represión

XXII Semana de Estudios Medievales (Nájera, del 1 al 5 de agosto de 2011)

Estos congresos comenzaron de la mano de la Asociación Amigos de la Historia Najerillense en 1990 y, desde ese momento, el IER ha contado con su colaboración para publicar las aportaciones que en Nájera se presentaban y que han logrado proporcionar un mejor conocimiento de ...

La Edad Media y el dinero

ensayo de antropología histórica

En este sintético y aclarador ensayo, el eminente medievalista Jacques Le Goff explica cuál fue la suerte de la moneda o, más bien, de las monedas en la vida, la economía y la mentalidad medieval. En la Edad Media es la Iglesia quien establece la ...

Los dos cuerpos del rey

un estudio de teología política medieval

El cuerpo natural del rey goza de atributos físicos; también sufre y muere, como todos los seres humanos. Pero el otro cuerpo del rey, el cuerpo espiritual, trasciende lo meramente terreno para simbolizar la majestad y el derecho divino a gobernar. La idea de los ...

The Mediterranean World of Alfonso II and Peter II of Aragon

(1162-1213)

Vitality and change marked twelfth- and thirteenth-century medieval Mediterranean society. Many sought to capitalize upon resurgences in economic success, political intrigue, and social cohesion. Alfonso II (1162-1196) and his son Peter II (1196-1213) of the Crown of Aragon worked diligently to augment their regional success ...

How to defeat the Saracens

Guillelmus Ade, Tractatus quomodo Sarraceni sunt expugnandi

The fall of Acre in 1291 inspired many schemes for crusades to recover Jerusalem. One of these proposals is How to Defeat the Saracens, written around 1317 by William of Adam, a Dominican who traveled in the eastern Mediterranean, Persia, and parts of India. Extensive ...

Trade and institutions in the medieval mediterranean

the Geniza merchants and their business world

The Geniza merchants of the eleventh-century Mediterranean - sometimes called the 'Maghribi traders' - are central to controversies about the origins of long-term economic growth and the institutional bases of trade. In this book, Jessica Goldberg reconstructs the business world of the Geniza merchants, maps the shifting ...

Astrology and magic from the medieval latin and islamic world to Renaissance Europe

theories and approaches

"Astrology and Magic from the Medieval Islamic World to Renaissance Europe" brings together ten of Paola Zambelli's papers on the subject, four of which are published in English for the first time. The papers in Part I of this volume deal with theories: the ...

The Emperor and the world

exotic elements and the imaging of Middle Byzantine Imperial power, Ninth to Thirteenth Centuries C.E.

Byzantine imperial imagery is commonly perceived as a static system. In contrast to this common portrayal, this book draws attention to its openness and responsiveness to other artistic traditions. Through a close examination of significant objects and monuments created over a 350-year period, from the ...

La batalla de Muret 1213

A comienzos del siglo XIII prendió con fuerza en el sur de Francia la herejía de los cátaros albigenses, encabezada por el Conde de Tolosa, que, aunque no consta que se hubiese convertido a la herejía, sí que simpatizaba abiertamente con ellos. La expansión de ...

The Acts of the Council of Constantinople of 553

The Council of Constantinople of 553 (often called Constantinople II or the Fifth Ecumenical Council) has been described as 'by far the most problematic of all the councils', because it condemned two of the greatest biblical scholars and commentators of the patristic era - Origen and ...

La comunicación política en la Edad Media

(Edad Media. Revista de Historia, Nº13, año 2012)

SUMARIO: DOSSIER MONOGRÁFICO: La comunicación política en la Edad media Jan DUMOLYN, Political communication and political power in the Middle Ages: a conceptual journey Sophia MENACHE, The Gelasian Theory from a communication perspective: development and decline José Manuel NIETO SORIA, El pregón real en la ...

Women and aristocratic culture in the Carolingian World

Despite the wealth of scholarship in recent decades on medieval women, we still know much less about the experiences of women in the early Middle Ages than we do about those in later centuries. In Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World, Valerie L ...