Originally published in 1957 and as a fourth edition in 1970 this is an accessible history of Byzantium from Constantine the Great to its final conquest by the Ottoman Turks in 1453.
Daniel Tubau nos acerca en Maldita Helena a este fascinante personaje admirado y odiado por poetas, dramaturgos, filosofos y eruditos, que la han considerado el simbolo de la belleza y la pasion, pero que tambien la han acusado de adultera, traidora a su patria y causante de una guerra espantosa.
Sources for the History of Western Civilization is a primary source reader designed specifically to allow undergraduate students to interact with historical documents.
By close engagement with both traditional and contemporary approaches to ancient Christian literature, Latin Christian Writers in Late Antiquity and their Texts seeks to delineate a historiographical problem, at the same time rendering patristics as part of the subject-matter of a new literary history.
Galenism, a rational, coherent medical system embracing all health and disease related matters, was the dominant medical doctrine in the Latin West during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
In recent decades the study of the ancient economy and ancient warfare have both been transformed by ground-breaking new studies and methodological approaches.
Explore the intriguing realm of European creation myths and delve deeper into the diverse traditions that explain the beginnings of our planet and humans.
Involving a vast number of texts, saintly heroes and authors, Byzantine hagiography stands out as a field of scholarly research highly rewarding for both the philologist and the historian.