Christian materiality

an essay on religion in Late Medieval Europe

In the period between 1150 and 1550, an increasing number of Christians in western Europe made pilgrimage to places where material objects--among them paintings, statues, relics, pieces of wood, earth, stones, and Eucharistic wafers--allegedly erupted into life by such activities as bleeding, weeping, and walking ...

A social history of England 900-1200

The years between 900 and 1200 saw transformative social change in Europe, including the creation of extensive town-dwelling populations and the proliferation of feudalised elites and bureaucratic monarchies. In England these developments were complicated and accelerated by repeated episodes of invasion, migration and changes of ...

Institutions and European Trade

merchant guilds, 1000-1800

What was the role of merchant guilds in the medieval and early modern economy? Does their wide prevalence and long survival mean they were efficient institutions that benefited the whole economy? Or did merchant guilds simply offer an effective way for the rich and powerful ...

La steppe et l'empire

la formation de la dynastie Khitan (Liao), IVe-Xe siécle

Pendant que commence en Europe le Xe siècle, le « siècle de fer », en Extrême-Orient l'empire des Tang s'effondre. C'est à ce moment que le peuple des Khitan établit, aux marches septentrionales de la Chine, un empire immense qui constituera pendant ...

Medievo utópico

sueños, ideales y utopías en el imaginario medieval

“Evocar el ámbito de la utopía es sinónimo de sueño, ilusión o quimera.Así como pensamos en otros mundos y en tierras de inmortalidad sirviéndonosde nuestra imaginación, en igual medida necesitamos de esta paraconcebir modelos de sociedad e ideales humanos. Todos los autores reconocenen la ...

Inventing byzantine iconoclasm

Byzantine 'iconoclasm' is famous and has influenced iconoclast movements from the English Reformation and French Revolution to Taliban, but it has also been woefully misunderstood: this book shows how and why the debate about images was more complicated, and more interesting, than it has been ...

A brief history of Britain

Vol.1: The birth of the Nation, 1066-1485

From the Battle of Hastings to the Battle of Bosworth Field, Nicholas Vincent tells the story of how Britain was born. When William, Duke of Normandy, killed King Harold and seized the throne of England, England's language, culture, politics and law were transformed. Over ...

The Teutonic Knights

a military history

The Teutonic Knights were powerful and ferocious advocates of holy war. Their history is suffused with crusading, campaigning and struggle. Feared by their enemies but respected by medieval Christendom, the knights and their Order maintained a firm hold over the Baltic and northern Germany and ...

The bendictines in the Middle East

The men and women that followed the sixth-century customs of Benedict of Nursia (c.480-c.547) formed the most enduring, influential, numerous and widespread religious order of the Latin middle ages. Their liturgical practice, and their acquired taste for learning, served as a model for ...

The gothic enterprise

a guide to understanding the medieval cathedral

The great Gothic cathedrals of Europe are among the most astonishing achievements of Western culture. Evoking feelings of awe and humility, they make us want to understand what inspired the people who had the audacity to build them. This engrossing book surveys an era that ...

Dante y la Filosofía

Esta obra muestra de una manera clara y fundada los movimientos espirituales que se reflejan en Dante y que están en la alborada del Renacimiento; movimientos que pertenecen no sólo a la filosofía antigua -como el platonismo y el aristotelismo-, sino también a las últimas ...

Talasocracias

(Revista Desperta Ferro. Antigua y Medieval, Nº 6, año 2013)

Índice de artículos: La guerra en el mar, por Yeyo Balbás. La batalla del Delta: los Pueblos del Mar atacan Egipto, por Francisco Gracia Alonso. De la pentecontera a los gigantes helenísticos: la evolución de la marina de guerra griega, por Adolfo J. Domínguez Monedero ...

Suleiman

the Magnificent

Suleiman the Magnificent, most glorious of the Ottoman sultans, kept Europe atremble for nearly half a century. In a few years he led his army as far as the gates of Vienna, made himself master of the Mediterranean and established his court in Baghdad. Faced ...

Instituciones medievales

El objetivo de este libro es realizar una presentación general de la vida institucional europea de Occidente durante la Edad Media. Se trata de poner de relieve las raíces significativamente responsables de los distintos rasgos que caracterizan las instituciones.

Paisajes históricos y arqueología medieval

Que el paisaje está de moda en las publicaciones arqueológicas es un hecho difícilmente discutible, como también es cierto que acerca de su definición no existe un consenso entre los investigadores en ninguna de las escalas a las que nos refiramos, ni entre colegas de ...

A history of muslim Sicily

A History of Muslim Sicily is a study of the period of Muslim Arab rule on the island from A.D. 827 to the Norman conquest in A.D. 1070. It is the first detailed study in English covering the various aspects of this 243-year ...

Warfare in the medieval world

Warfare in the Medieval World explores how civilizations and cultures made war on the battlefields of the Near East and Europe in the period between the fall of Rome and the introduction of reliable gunpowder weapons during the Thirty Years' War. Through an exploration of ...

El Occidente medieval frente al Islam

la imagen del otro

Desde el siglo VII una nueva civilización surgió a las puertas de un Occidente todavía bárbaro: la del Islam y lo musulmán. ¿Cómo percibieron los hombres de la Edad Media a ese <>?. Para saberlo, Philippe Sénac ha escrutado de manera lúcida las imagenes que de ...

La herencia vikinga

(Revista Desperta Ferro. Antigua y Medieval, Nº 3, año 2011)

Índice de artículos: La herencia vikinga, por Manuel Velasco. Vikingos en el Este. La penetración escandinava el la Europa del este durante la era vikinga, por John H. Lind. La guardia varega, por Raffaele D’Amato. Inglaterra 1066 AD, por Paul MacDonnell-Staff. Poder y sociedad ...

Atlas de Europa medieval

Eds. David Ditchburn, Simon MacLean, Angus MacKay. El «Atlas de Europa medieval» cubre el período que se extiende desde la caída del Imperio romano hasta los inicios del Renacimiento, abarcando desde la costa atlántica hasta las estepas rusas. Cada mapa muestra por separado un acontecimiento ...