Tópicos y realidades de la edad media, II

La versión legendaria —positiva o negativa— de personalidades y sucesos extraordinarios suele prevalecer en la memoria de las gentes con preferencia a la de su realidad. Nuestro tiempo viene empeñado desde hace décadas en la tarea de desmitificación de imágenes, hechos e individualidades que, en ...

El hombre de las cruzadas

Le Moyen Âge

le roi, l'Église, les grands, le peuple : 481-1514

Philippe Auguste, la naissance de l'état monarchique

Le savoir du prince

du Moyen Âge aux Lumières

The Ottoman empire, 1300-1650

the structure of power

Migrations et diasporas méditerranéennes

(Xe-XVIe siècles) : actes du colloque de Conques (octobre 1999)

La Méditerranée a été de tout temps zone de brassage. La période médiévale a vu s'y déployer bien des migrations, proches par leurs caractères des grands déplacements humains de l'époque contemporaine : flux et reflux des marchands italiens allant s'installer dans les comptoirs ...

Registros de la Casa de Francia

.Vol. VIII: Luis I el Hutín, 1309

Así era el mundo medieval

Le monde médiéval

Le Monde médiéval restitue une époque clé de la civilisation européenne à travers une série d'illustrations d'une grande richesse, doublées d'un commentaire érudit et vivant. Organisé par thèmes, assortis de renvois, ce livre propose au lecteur d'explorer et de comprendre les ...

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Lord and Lady

Eleanor's patrilineal descent, from a lineage already prestigious enough to have produced an empress in the eleventh century, gave her the lordship of Aquitaine. But marriage re-emphasized her sex which, in the medieval scheme of gender- power relations relegated her to the position of ...

The rare anf excellent history of Saladin

or al Nawadir al-Sutaniyya wa'l-Mahasin al-Yusufiyya by Baha'al-Din Ibn- Shaddad

Les salles des croisades

château de Versailles

In terrasanta

pellegrini italiani tra medievo e prima età moderna

The Crusade against heretics in Bohemia, 1418-1437

sources and documents for the Hussite Crusades

This selection of over 200 texts, nearly all appearing for the first time in English translation, provides a close-up look at the crusades against the Hussite heretics of 15th-century Bohemia, from the perspective of the official Church - or at their struggles for religious freedom, from ...

The Normans

the history of a dynasty

"The Normans" is the history of a dynasty. It is also the history of ruthless ambition, lust, rivalry and was between brothers and cousins. The Norman Conquest of England in 1066 was a critical moment in history. Following the death of Harold at the Battle ...

A Traveller's History of the Hundred Years War in France

A journey to France can be a journey through our shared history. Tragic and stirring names from the past scatter the French countryside, places such as Agincourt, Crecy, Aquitaine, Rouen - where Joan of Arc was burnt buy the English at the stake - and a stretch ...

The Hundred Years´ War

1337-1453

Contents illustrated There can be no doubt that military conflict between France and England dominated European history in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This war is of considerable interest both because of its duration and the number of theatres in which it was fought. In ...

Encountering medieval textiles and dress

objects, texts, images

Eds., Désirée G. Koslin and Janet E. Snyder Scholars of history, archaeology, literature, and textiles range widely in time, place, medium, and social class as they consider not just how people dressed in the Middle Ages, but also the representation of how they dressed, both ...

Un viaje a...el mundo vikingo

Gran formato con ilustraciones. Los vikingos eran de espíritu aventurero. El clima adverso de los territorios que ocupaban, los alentó a viajar al sur de Europa, Asia y Arabia. ¿Quiénes eran, cómo vivían? Aquí, los niños lo descubrirán y podrán construir objetos que les ayudarán ...