Perceval o Le Conte du Graal

La symbolique royale française

Ve-XVIIIe siècles

A medieval herbal

a facsimile of british library Egerton MS 747

The "Tractatus de herbis", reproduced here, is one of the many rare and precious manuscripts in the collections of the British Library. It is an illustrated herbal which comes from a collection of pharmacological texts written in southern Italy around AD 1300AD, which is now ...

L'Europe est-elle née au Moyen Age?

Essai

La Russie Médiévale

The First Crusade and the idea of crusading

Riley Smith focuses on the title of his book, that is what he wants to present and does. It is not a light read, but anyway it is very clear and dinamic; the author presents facts in an interesting and condensed way, and he does ...

The Flower of Chivalry

Bertrand du Guesclin and the Hundred Years War

The rise of Bertrand du Guesclin ranks as one of the most spectacular adventures in a fourteenth century rich in heroic tales. A poor Breton squire, ungainly and unlettered, he came of age at the onset of the Hundred Years War. He spent two decades ...

Genghis Khan & the mongol conquests 1190-1400

Contents illustrated The history of the Mongol conquests is a catalogue of superlatives. No army in the world has ever conquered so much territory, and few armies have provoked such terror as the Mongol hordes. So vast was the extent of the Mongol Empire that ...

Tannenberg 1410

disaster for the Teutonic Knights

Illustrated by Richard Hook By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order#s meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King ...

The Wars of the Roses

1455-1485

The Wars of the Roses raged from 1455 to 1485 - the longest period of civil war in English history. They barely affected the daily routine of the civilian population, yet for the leaders of the opposing houses of York and Lancaster, the wars were devastating ...

En busca de la Edad Media

Joven lector de Walter Scott, Jacques Le Goff partió muy pronto en busca de la Edad Media. Fue el inicio de una larga aventura humana y espiritual, que le hizo intuir de inmediato un mundo muy cercano y, a la vez, muy lejano. En este ...

La Alta Edad Media

Entre el fin del mundo romano y la formación de los nuevos estados europeos, el período comprendido entre los años 400 y 1000 es uno de los más dinámicos y complejos de la historia de Europa. Esos seiscientos años ya no pueden estudiarse desde la ...

Roger II of Sicily

a ruler between East and West

Medieval europeans

studies in ethnic identity and national perspectives in Medieval Europe

Viaggio intorno al concetto di medioevo

profilo di storia della storiografia medievale

The medieval kingdoms of Nubia

Pagans, christians and muslims along the middle Nile

Magia, alchimia, scienza dal '400 al '700

l'influso di Ermete Trimegisto = Magic, alchemy and science 15th-18th centuries : the influence of Hermes Trismegistus.Vol.I

Jerusalem pilgrims

before the Crusades

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