Medieval military technology

First published in 1992, Medieval Military Technology has become the definitive book in its field, garnering much praise and a large readership. This thorough update of a classic book, regarded as both an excellent overview and an important piece of scholarship, includes fully revised content ...

The city-state in Europe, 1000-1600

No detailed comparison of the city-state in medieval Europe has been undertaken over the last century. Research has concentrated on the role of city-states and their republican polities as harbingers of the modern state, or else on their artistic and cultural achievements, above all in ...

Historia de Bizancio

El término Bizancio corresponde al siglo XVI y designaba la parte oriental del antiguo Imperio Romano. La historia del Imperio se puede dividir en cinco etapas: la época protobizantina (s.IV-VII), el repliegue de bizancio (610-842), el apogeo (842-1056,) el declive (1056-1261) y la lenta ...

Nosotros, los Cátaros

prácticas y creencias de una religión exterminada

La historia de los cátaros es bien conocida: las brutalidades de la cruzada, las persecuciones de la Inquisición, la masacre de Montsegur, la muerte en la hoguera del último “perfecto” en 1321 Lo que sabíamos de su religión, en cambio, procede sobre todo de lo ...

De lo humano y lo divino en la literatura medieval

santos, ángeles y demonios

Los ángeles revolotean por los textos literarios medievales sin cesar. Son numerosas las escenas de seres angélicos, portadores de mensajes divinos, que ayudan a los mortales en trances de dificultad o acompañan a las almas en su viaje al cielo, función que se configura también ...

The expansion of Europe, 1250-1500

Later medieval Europe saw a great deal of change and expansion of different kinds. This geographically broad textbook explores these events in a series of core chapters on the different countries, covering the Holy Roman Empire, East-Central Europe, Scandinavia and Russia. It looks not only ...

Breve historia de los vikingos

versión extendida

La Breve historia de los vikingos relata la evolución del pueblo vikingo a lo largo de los pocos siglos que duró su existencia,desde el asalto al monasterio de Lindisfarne hasta la batalla de Stamfor Bridge, ambos curiosamente en suelo inglés. Adéntrese en la increíble ...

Europa carnívora

comprar y comer carne en el mundo urbano bajomedieval

Cuando pensamos en la alimentación medieval, una de las imágenes que nos viene a la mente es un gran festín donde un animal casi entero gira sobre el fuego ensartado en un enorme espetón. La carne tiene un puesto privilegiado en nuestra representación del mundo ...

Radical Islam and the revival of medieval theology

With a scope that bridges the gap between the study of classical Islam and the modern Middle East, this book uncovers a profound theological dimension in contemporary Islamic radicalism and explores the continued relevance of medieval theology to modern debates. Based on an examination of ...

Radical Islam and the revival of medieval theology

With a scope that bridges the gap between the study of classical Islam and the modern Middle East, this book uncovers a profound theological dimension in contemporary Islamic radicalism and explores the continued relevance of medieval theology to modern debates. Based on an examination of ...

Idols in the East

european representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100-1450

Representations of Muslims have never been more common in the Western imagination than they are today. Building on Orientalist stereotypes constructed over centuries, the figure of the wily Arab has given rise, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, to the "Islamist" terrorist. In Idols ...

Byzantium and Islam

Age of Transition

This magnificent volume explores the epochal transformations and unexpected continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the 7th to the 9th century. At the beginning of the 7th century, the Empire's southern provinces, the vibrant, diverse areas of North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean, were ...

Byzantium and Islam

Age of Transition

This magnificent volume explores the epochal transformations and unexpected continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the 7th to the 9th century. At the beginning of the 7th century, the Empire's southern provinces, the vibrant, diverse areas of North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean, were ...

Reimagining Europe

Kievan Rus' in the medieval world

An overriding assumption has long directed scholarship in both European and Slavic history: that Kievan Rus' in the tenth through twelfth centuries was part of a Byzantine commonwealth separate from Europe. Christian Raffensperger refutes this conception and offers a new frame for two hundred years ...

Intellectual culture in medieval Paris

theologians and the University, c. 1100-1330

In the thirteenth century, the University of Paris emerged as a complex community with a distinctive role in society. This book explores the relationship between contexts of learning and the ways of knowing developed within them, focusing on twelfth-century schools and monasteries, as well as ...

Chronique du XIIIe siècle

l'Empire Grec de Nicée

En l'an 1204 de notre ère, les croisés de la quatrième croisade s'emparent de Constantinople, la capitale de ce qui était alors l'empire byzantin. On est en plein Moyen Age et Constantinople est la ville la plus importante et la plus célèbre ...

Early european castles

aristocracy and authority ad 800-1200

Medieval castles were, alongside the great cathedrals, the most recognisable buildings of the medieval world. Closely associated with concepts of justice, lordship and authority as well as military might, castles came to encapsulate the period's very essence. Looking at above and below-ground evidence and ...

Road to Manzikert

byzantine and islamic warfare, 527-1071

In August 1071, the Byzantine Emperor Romanus IV Diogenese led out a powerful army in an attempt to roll back Seljuk Turkish incursions into the Anatolian heartland of the Empire. Outmaneuvered by the Turkish sultan, Alp Arslan, Romanus was forced to give battle with only ...

Haeretícus

bulario de la Orden del Templo de Salomón: traducido y comentado

En el año 1960, hace ahora 45 años, y debido a la gran inclinación que tengo y he tenido siempre por la historia, sobre todo por la historia de la Edad Media, y dentro de ella, de todas las órdenes militares y religiosas que existieron ...

Roger II and the creation of the Kingdom of Sicily

This student-friendly volume brings together English translations of the main narrative sources, and a small number of other relevant documents, for the reign of Roger II, the founder of the kingdom of Sicily. The kingdom created by King Roger was the most centralised and administratively ...