Le civiltà del Medioevo

Los Illuminati

la trama y el complot

Burla, escarnio y otras diversiones

historia del humor en la Edad Media

Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

The mention of the history of beer always brings a alugh or ata the very least a snicher. The history of beer for most people is not a serious topic of study. It seems to them frivolous and hardly worth more than a few diveting ...

Pour une anthropologie du prélèvement seigneurial dans les campagnes médiévales (XIe-XIVe siècles)

réalités et représentations paysannes: Colloque tenu à Medina del Campo du 31 mai au 3 juin 2000

De l'or et des épices

naissance de l'homme d'affaires au Moyen Àge

The Middle Ages at work

practicing labor in Late Medieval England

Un long Moyen âge

La vie dans les campagnes au moyen âge

à travers les calendriers

Gala Placida

una soberana del Imperio cristiano

Elia Gala Placidia (392-450), hija del emperador romano Teodosio el Grande y de su segunda esposa Gala, está considerada por la historiografía actual como la figura política femenina más notoria de Occidente en la primera mitad del siglo V. Destinada desde su nacimiento, como tantas ...

Castles in medieval society

fortresses in England, France, and Ireland in the Cantral Middle Ages

The image of a medieval castle perched on a hill is a familiar one, but do we really know what castles were for? In this challenging new book Charles Coulson overturns many of the traditional assumptions about the nature and purpose of castle-building in the ...

Enfers et paradis

l'Italie de Dante et de Giotto

Les esclaves et l'esclavage

de la méditerranée antique à la méditerranée médiévale: VI-XIe siècles

Barbarians, marauders and infidels

the ways of medieval warfare

This vibrant and action-driven narrative examines the motivations for warfare in the Middle Ages, asserting that waging war was a condition defining the ruling groups of all societies. Barbarians, Marauders, and Infidels examines the motives and terrors of war during the Middle Ages, the rise ...

The kings and their hawks

falconry in Medieval England

In medieval Europe, falconry was perhaps the most popular form of hunting among the aristocracy. Owning a falcon, and the necessary falconer to go with it, was a status symbol throughout the middle ages. This book is the first broad history of English royal falconry ...

Medieval England

a social history 1250-1550

Popular protest in late medieval europe

Italy, France and Flanders

The medieval horse and its equipment

c. 1150-c.1450

Whether knight's charger or beast of burden, horses played a vital role in medieval life. The wealth of medieval finds excavated in London in recent years has, not surprisingly, included many objects associated with horses. This catalogue illustrates and discusses over four hundred such ...

Swords of the viking age

This new work fills a gap in the literature in English on the swords made and used in northern Europe during the Viking age, between the mid eighth and the mid eleventh centuries. Ewart Oakeshott outlines the significance and diversity of these ancient heirlooms; co-author ...

La ciudad mercantil medieval