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

Historia de las formas urbanas medievales

The textura of society

medieval women in the Southern Low countries

This book proposes to examine the historical experience, both secular and religious, of women in Flanders, one of the most economically dynamic regions of medieval Europe. The articles in this collection are written within the framework of the thesis that medieval Flemish women were more ...

Monstruos, demonios y maravillas a fines de la Edad Media

El monstruo medieval aparece a través de la obra de los pintores y los grabadores del fin de la Edad Media como una creación misteriosa: nuestra época, intentando encontrarle sentido, le imputa intenciones subversivas, orígenes patológicos, una inspiración deudora de los alucinógenos, etcétera (por ejemplo ...

A history of the life of Richard Coeur-de-Lion, King of England

The rise and fall of the feudal system comprises one of the most important periods of human history. During this time, magnificent upheavals occurred: an organised system of oppression gave way to rational liberty, bloody wars resulted in the refinement of society, and wanton aggression ...

A companion to Arthurian and celtic myth and legend

Authoritative illustrated guide to the people, events and places (including Scotland, Ireland and Brittany) linked to King Arthur.