The life-cycle in western Europe

c.1300-1500

The first book that synthesizes and assesses current ideas on the life- cycle in medieval Western Europe There is nothing currently available to compare with the book's scope and ambitions because most available work narrowly focuses on an age group, a social class, and ...

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les magnats de Florence 1340-1440

À la fin du 13e siècle, de nombreuses communes italiennes ont cherché à brider la violence de certaines familles de l'aristocratie citadine et rurale réputées pour leur indiscipline, et à les écarter des responsabilités politiques. À Florence, qui désignait ces lignages comme "magnats", l ...

Women, power, and religious patronage in the middle ages

As sisters and successive countesses of Flanders and Hainaut in the thirteenth century, Jeanne and Marguerite actively shaped the political landscape of northern Europe, and compiled an impressive record of monastic patronage. By examining a significant corpus of secular and monastic charters, this study provides ...

The Normans

This book examines the emergence of the Normans, their characteristics as a group, and their various achievements in war, culture, and civilization. The Normans were a product of history rather than a natural ethnic or regional group. This book explores what they believed made them ...

Vivir del agua en las ciudades medievales

INDICE: Los oficios del agua. El agua en el trabajo del barro: de la hidratación de la materia prima a su utilización como fuente de energía. L'eau comme propriété: contribution aux études sur le contrôle des eaux dans les villes polonaises aux XVème-XVIème iècles ...

Medieval towns

a reader

This exciting new collection of documents from across Europe gives a fresh perspective and sharp taste of everyday life in a medieval town. The sources range from the standard chronicles and charters to the less often viewed accounts of marriage disputes, urban women, families, the ...

The Norsemen in the viking age

This book is a lively introduction to Norsemen in the period 750-1050. Without dismissing stereotypes of aggressive, warmongering Vikings, Eric Christiansen shows how Nordic peoples responded to hostile environments at home and overseas. He concentrates on life within their homelands and colonies, families and communities ...

Planagenêts et capétiens

confrontations et héritages

Au printemps 1204, Aliénor d#Aquitaine s#éteint tandis que les armées de Philippe Auguste conquièrent l#Anjou et la Normandie. La disparition de la reine coïncide avec l#effondrement de l#Empire Plantagenêt, tout comme, une cinquantaine d#années auparavant, son remariage avec Henri ...

Medieval schools

from roman Britain to renaissance England

Children have gone to school in England since Roman times. By the end of the middle ages there were hundreds of schools, supporting a highly literate society. This book traces their history from the Romans to the Renaissance, showing how they developed, what they taught ...

Vol et brigandage a la fin du Moyen Âge

Larrons, brigands et voleurs de grand chemin : derrière les archétypes de la criminalité médiévale, se cachent les différents aspects d'une réalité que l'historien se doit de restituer dans toute la complexité de son évolution. Au XVe siècle en France, alors que le royaume ...

Cadre de vie et manières d'habiter

(XIIe-XVIe siècle). VIIIe Congrès International de la Société d'Archéologie Médievale (Paris, 11-13 octobre 2001)

TABLE DES MATIÈRES: Introduction. Habitat et organisation de l'espace. La cadre de vie. L'habitat dans son mileu. Conclusion.

People and space in the Middle Ages

300-1300

This book is about the relationship between populations, territory and community membership in the Middle Ages in western Europe. The contributors believe that a strong awareness of land and landscape in the present is essential to understanding the relationships between people and territory in the ...

A social history of England, 1200-1500

What was life really like in England in the later Middle Ages? This comprehensive introduction explores the full breadth of English life and society in the period 1200-1500. Opening with a survey of historiographical and demographic debates, the book then explores the central themes of ...

The celtic and roman traditions

conflict and consensus in the Early Medieval Church

This book is a survey of the relationship between the two Celtic and Roman traditions in Merovingian Gaul, Lombard Italy, and the British Isles during the period of the Easter controversy. Corning argues that the three main areas of conflict between the two traditions were ...

Women in Late Medieval and reformation Europe 1200-1550

Recent books in the field have tended to dazzle the reader with the latest research. Much is left unsaid, however, leaving dangerous holes for the newcomer. Without neglecting recent work, this clear textbook, which takes the story from 1200 to 1550, helps the reader to ...

La civilisation féodale

de l'an mil à la colonisation de l'Amérique

Sombre repoussoir des Lumières et de la modernité, le Moyen Age peine à se défaire de sa mauvaise réputation. Pourtant, au coeur de ce millénaire, se loge une exceptionnelle période d'essor et d'élan créateur, déterminante pour la destinée du monde européen. Réputé anarchique ...

Women in Dark Age and Early Medieval Europe C.500-1200

Recent books in the field have tended to dazzle the reader with the latest research. Much is left unsaid, however, leaving dangerous holes for the newcomer. Without neglecting recent work, this clear textbook, which takes the story from about 500 to 1200, helps the reader ...

Croisades et croisés au Moyen Age

Le 27 novembre 1095, à Clermont, le pape Urbain II lance un vibrant appel à la chrétienté : il faut aller libérer Jérusalem et les Lieux saints de la tutelle des musulmans. A compter de là et jusqu'au milieu du XIIIe siècle, les croisades se ...

El espacio urbano en la Europa medieval

La red europea de villas y ciudades, surgida en la Edad Media, constituye el embrión de nuestra cultura urbana, que mantiene su vigencia tras más de mil años de existencia. Después de las profundas crisis que se sucedieron con el desmembramiento del sistema de centros ...

La fleur de France

les seigneurs d'Ile-de-France au XIIe siècle

Au XIIe siècle, l#Ile-de-France n#existe pas. Les habitants des pays autour de Paris se nomment les Français et leur terre la France. Cet espace régional, qui prend le nom d#Ile-de-France au XIVe siècle, est le produit d#une construction politique. Les souverains ...