Battle castles

500 years of knights and siege warfare

Join TV's Dan Snow as the fully illustrated 'Battle Castles' brings to thrilling life a cavalcade of medieval fortifications and the clashes that turned empires to dust and mortals into legends. Castles and their ruins still dominate the landscape and are a constant reminder ...

Breve historia de los Cátaros

Con Breve Historia de los cátaros conocerá la historia de una secta herética que supo aprovechar su momento histórico para crear una nueva religión basada en el cristianismo primigenio y que hizo que la Iglesia emprendiera una cruzada para reprimirla, por primera vez desde una ...

Bizancio y Venecia

historia de un Imperio

En este libro se reconstruye el período milenario que en el curso del medioevo ha unido a Venecia con el Imperio bizantino, hasta la caída de Constantinopla en el año 1453. La relación entre Bizancio y Venecia comienza en el siglo vi, dejando un legado ...

Les débuts du monde musulman

VIIe-Xe siècle

Cet ouvrage articule la présentation de la recherche des trente dernières années autour de l'interrogation actuelle sur les origines de la nouvelle religion et sur les rapports qu'entretient le monde musulman avec les mondes non musulmans. L'effervescence de l'Arabie, le dur ...

La légitimation du pouvoir au Maghreb Médieval

de l'orientalisation à l'émancipation politique

Cet ouvrage porte sur les modalités spécifiques de l’islamisation au Maghreb. Dans une première partie, l’accent est mis sur l’orientalisation que supposaient l’imitation et l’adaptation de modèles nés en Orient, qu’ils soient religieux, culturels ou politiques. Dans la seconde ...

Corpi gloriosi

eroi greci e santi cristiani

San Brandano d'Irlanda naviga verso terre ignote spinto come Ulisse dal desiderio di conoscere; Gregorio Magno come Edipo nasconde nel cuore la colpa dell'incesto; Maddalena come Elena appare irresistibilmente seducente; san Giorgio vince il drago come Perseo: nelle storie e nelle leggende medievali ...

Los ejércitos del cielo

la Primera Cruzada y la búsqueda del Apocalipsis

"En 1099 un andrajoso ejército cristiano arrebató Jerusalén a sus amos musulmanes. Aquel puñado de guerreros era todo lo que quedaba de los miles de europeos que, cuatro años antes, habían iniciado un extraordinario peregrinaje a Tierra Santa que conocemos con el nombre de Primera ...

Papacy and crusading in Europe

1198-1245

An 'internal' crusade is defined as a holy war authorized by the pope and fought within Christian Europe against those perceived to be foes of Christendom, either to recover property or in defense of the Church or Christians. This study is therefore not concerned with ...

Caballeros y caballería explicados a mis nietos

Torneos, cruzadas, la Mesa Redonda y el amor cortés, el mundo de los caballeros y las caballerías fascina e intriga, pero ¿qué parte es historia y qué parte imaginación? De Rolando a Lanzarote del Lago, pasando por el rey Arturo, Demurger nos explica qué significaba ...

The Knights Templar

from the days of Jerusalem to the commanderies of Champagne

Using previously unpublished archive documents, this detailed historical account explores the origins and daily lives of the Knights of Templar, the first military religious order of Christendom. This brotherhood of monks and soldiers not only took vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience; they also vowed ...

Hidden complexities of the Frankish Castle

social aspects of space in the configurational architecture of Frankish Castles in the Holy Land, 1099-1291

This volume of ASLU presents an approach to Frankish castles with the space syntax, a method and theory that aims to study the relationship people have with built space. Employing space syntax on crusader castles brought new insights into the functioning of the fortress both ...

Tudor queenship

the reigns of Mary and Elizabeth

The essays in this volume contribute to a new understanding of the second half of the sixteenth century when England experienced the unprecedented rule of two successive queens regnant. Focusing on a diverse range of issues, from politics and personnel to ceremony and costume, and ...

The Companion to medieval society

Presenting one thousand years of Medieval European society through its pivotal political events and representative art works, The Companion to Medieval Society is the most comprehensive and richly illustrated overview of the period to date. Offering an extraordinary historical synthesis, Franco Cardini, one of Italy ...

Plague

a very short introduction

Throughout history plague has been the cause of many major catastrophes. It was responsible for the Black Death of 1348 and the Great Plague of London in 1665, and for devastating epidemics much earlier and much later, in the Mediterranean in the sixth century, and ...

The archaeology of the Prussian Crusade

Holy War and colonisation

The Archaeology of the Prussian Crusade explores the archaeology and material culture of the crusade against the Prussian tribes in the 13th century, and the subsequent society created by the Teutonic Order which lasted into the 16th century. It provides the first synthesis of the ...

Roman barbarians

the Royal Court and culture in the Early Medieval West

This study investigates the place of the royal court and the operation of patronage through it in several European kingdoms in the early Middle Ages. It seeks to identify the roots of later medieval developments, and especially of the so-called Carolingian Renaissance, in the centuries ...

A companion to the Medieval World

Drawing on the expertise of 26 distinguished scholars, this important volume covers the major issues in the study of medieval Europe, highlighting the significant impact the time period had on cultural forms and institutions central to European identity. * Examines changing approaches to the study of ...

Religion y Guerra

(Revista Desperta Ferro. Antigua y Medieval, Nº 9, año 2011)

Índice de artículos: Herem: el exterminio sagrado en el antiguo Israel, por Jordi Vidal, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. Santuarios guerreros en la Protohistoria europea, por Francisco Gracia Alonso, Universidad de Barcelona. La guerra de Varo 4 a. C. Roma reprime la guerra civil en Judea ...

Les gestes des abbes de Saint-Germain d'auxerre

Les Gestes des abbés de Saint-Germain d'Auxerre sont une chronique monastique rédigée en 1290 sur le modèle des Gestes des évêques de la cité, modèle établi plus de quatre cents ans plus tôt autour du récit des faits mémorables accomplis par les prélats qui ...

Motherhood, religion, and society in Medival Europe, 400-1400

Who can concentrate on thoughts of Scripture or philosophy and be able to endure babies crying...? Will he put up with the constant muddle and squalor which small children bring into the home? The wealthy can do so...but philosophers lead a very different life ...