Scholars have long accepted China's own view of its traditional foreign relations: that China devised its own world order and maintained it from the second century B.
La Inquisición española es sinónimo, a ojos del gran público y de la historiografía habitual, de denuncias infundadas, encarnizamiento en convencer del crimen, ausencia de abogados defensores, sentencias emitidas por adelantado, oprobio del condenado y de los suyos, abominable ejecución en las llamas purificadoras sin réplica posible: mencionando la Inquisición se condensa el oscurantismo y la crueldad mayores que puedan concebirse.
This is the first single-author study in over fifty years to offer an integrated appraisal of the early Middle Ages as a dynamic and formative period in European history.
The history of the Western church in the Middle Ages is the history of the most elaborate and thoroughly integrated system of religious thought and practice the world has ever known.
A groundbreaking history of the ethics of war in the ancient Near EastOrigins of the Just War reveals the incredible richness and complexity of ethical thought about war in the three millennia preceding the Greco-Roman period, establishing the extent to which ancient just war thought prefigured much of what we now consider to be the building blocks of the Western just war tradition.
A groundbreaking history of the ethics of war in the ancient Near EastOrigins of the Just War reveals the incredible richness and complexity of ethical thought about war in the three millennia preceding the Greco-Roman period, establishing the extent to which ancient just war thought prefigured much of what we now consider to be the building blocks of the Western just war tradition.
Die mittelalterliche Welt kennt eine bemerkenswerte Vielzahl von Rechtsfiguren, durch die Frauen standesunabhängig, formalisiert oder qua Gewohnheit, Ehemänner oder Söhne vertreten konnten.
Von den bösartigen Geistern der frühesten Zivilisationen bis hin zu den infernalischen Kreaturen der modernen Popkultur, Nervals Buch ist ein fesselnder Tauchgang in die dunklen Abgründe unserer Kulturgeschichte.
Meist werden die Einwohner des mittelalterlichen Köln pauschal als "Bürger" bezeichnet, trotz großer sozialer und rechtlicher Abstufungen innerhalb der Einwohnerschaft der Stadt.
Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Witchcraft is a clear, simple and entertaining introduction to the magical myths that have coloured the popular imagination for centuries.
Nick Mayhew has made key contributions to fields as diverse as medieval European monetary history, numismatics, financial history, price and wage history, and macroeconomic history.
Murders, mayhem and bloody struggles, warring families and deeds of chivalry and love are disclosed in tales from more than three hundred years of English history.
