Crisis of the Twelfth Century

power, lordship, and the origins of european government

Medieval civilization came of age in thunderous events like the Norman Conquest and the First Crusade. Power fell into the hands of men around castles who imposed coercive new lordships in quest of nobility, heedless of the old public order. In "The Crisis of the ...

Greece, the hidden centuries

turkish rule from the fall of Constantinople to Greek independence

For almost four hundred years, between the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the Greek War of Independence, the history of Greece is shrouded in mystery: distorted by Greek writers and largely neglected by others. What was life really like for the Greeks under Ottoman ...

Byzantine monuments of Istanbul

'This book is about the Byzantine monuments of Istanbul, most notably, Haghia Sophia. The remains of the land and sea walls, the Hippodrome, imperial palaces, commemorative columns, reservoirs and cisterns, an aqueduct, a triumphal archway, a fortified port, and twenty churches are also described in ...

The Early Byzantine Historians

The Early Byzantine Historians is the first original study of every significant Byzantine historian from Eusebius of Caesarea (c.255-339) to Theophylact Simocatta (c.585-after 641?). Written for general readers as well as professional scholars, and filled with new discoveries and interpretations, the book presents ...

Breve historia del Imperio Bizantino

La apasionante historia de la invulnerable Constantinopla y del Imperio Bizantino, toda la esencia de un convulso periodo histórico de invasiones, conquistas y grandes batallas. La apasionante historia de la invulnerable Constantinopla, capital del imperio que mantuvo la cultura clásica y el Estado romano a ...

A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul

Using a wealth of contemporary Ottoman sources, this book recreates the social history of Istanbul, a huge, cosmopolitan metropolis and imperial capital of the Ottoman Empire. Seat of the sultan and an opulent international emporium, Istanbul was also a city of violence, shaken regularly by ...

The Palgrave atlas of Byzantine history

The dominant Mediterranean power in the fifth and sixth centuries, by the time of its demise at the hands of the Ottomans in 1453 the Byzantine empire was a shadow of its former self restricted essentially to the city of Constantinople, modern Istanbul. Surrounded by ...

Tastes of Byzantium

the cuisine of a legendary empire

For centuries, the food and culinary delights of the Byzantine empire - centred on Constantinople - have captivated the west, although it appeared that very little information had been passed down to us. Andrew Dalby's "Tastes of Byzantium" now reveals in astonishing detail, for the first ...

Bizancio

el triunfo de las imágenes sagradas

Bizancio, el Imperio heredero del romano y defensor tenaz de la religión cristiana, desarrolló una civilización tan espléndida que acabó por ser irresistible para sus contemporáneos. Los trabajos de sus orfebres, las sedas finas, los vasos de piedras duras, manuscritos y marfiles fueron buscados con ...

The end of Byzantium

By 1400, the once-mighty Byzantine Empire stood on the verge of destruction. Most of its territories had been lost to the Ottoman Turks, and Constantinople was under close blockade. Against all odds, Byzantium lingered on for another fifty years until 1453, when the Ottomans dramatically ...

Byzantium

from Antiquity to the Renaissance

With images culled from eleven hundred years of history, this comprehensive survey explores the Byzantine empire's vast range of artistic splendours that indelibly informed the art of modern Europe. Renowned scholar Thomas Mathews emphasizes that the Byzantines' interest in humanism and painting the human ...

John Skylitzes

a synopsis of Byzantine history, 811-1057

Introduction, text and notes traslated by John Wortley. John Skylitzes' extraordinary Middle Byzantine chronicle covers the reigns of the Byzantine emperors from the death of Nicephorus I in 811 to the deposition of Michael VI in 1057, and provides the only surviving continuous narrative of ...

The chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for the Crusading period from al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh

Trad. D.S. Richards. "The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir (1160-1233 AD)", entitled "al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh", is one of the outstanding sources for the history of the medieval world. It covers the whole sweep of Islamic history almost up to the death of its author ...

La Casa de la Sabiduría

cuando la Ilustración llegaba de Oriente

Un análisis de la "contaminación cultural" entre el Islam y el Cristianismo. o Ensayo sobre las aportaciones árabes a las ciencias y las artes a través de la biografía de Adelardo de Bath, un monje del siglo XII que viajó a Bagdad y tradujo los ...

Arab historians of the Crusades

The recapture of Jerusalem, the siege of acre, the fall of Tripoli, the effect in Baghdad of events in Syria; these and other happenings were faithfully recorded by Arab historians during the two centuries of the Crusades. First published in English in 1969, this book ...

Sacred sords

Jihad in the holy land 1097-1291

Foreword by Terry Jones. In 1071 Muslim Turks crushed the Byzantine Emperor's Anatolian army at Manzikert. The Crusades, the West's response to this catastrophe, are well known as are the names of the European nobles who fought in them. The names and deeds ...

El Islam y el fin de los tiempos

la interpretación profética de las invasiones musulmanas en la cristiandad medieval

Contrariamente a lo que con frecuencia se ha escrito, en la Edad Media la espera del fin del mundo no sólo estaba muy presente en las mentes de los cristianos, sino también en las de los judíos y musulmanes. Entre los cristianos, esta expectativa suscitaba ...

Los templarios

monjes y guerreros

Alabados por su ascetismo, castidad y defensa a ultranza del cristianismo, denostados por herejes, sodomitas y traidores capaces de vender Tierra Santa a los infieles musulmanes, fuente de inspiración del genio creativo de Wagner en 'Parsifal' y de Walter Scott en 'Ivanhoe', los caballeros templarios ...

Las cruzadas

peregrinaje armado y guerra santa

¿Se trataba de una motivación meramente religiosa o respondía también al deseo de obtener recompensas materiales? ¿En qué medida tales incursiones convulsionaron la historia europea y enturbiaron la relación entre musulmanes y cristianos, despertando el resquemor de los primeros y espoleando la mala conciencia de ...

Las guerras de Dios

una nueva historia

Christopher Tyerman, profesor de historia medieval en la Universidad de Oxford, nos ofrece una amplia visión de los movimientos de Cruzada, que estudia no sólo los del Próximo Oriente, sino también los de España, los Balcanes y el Báltico, además de la dirigida contra los ...