Romántica aventura cristiana o última invasión de los bárbaros, movimiento animado por razones religiosas o saqueo guiado por la ambición y la codicia, la historia de las cruzadas constituye un acontecimiento decisivo en la Edad Media.
En el proceso de urbanización europeo, la ciudad medieval se sitúa entre dos momentos: el de la ciudad antigua grecorromana, en decadencia bajo las migraciones germánicas; y el de la ciudad moderna a la que relacionamos con la revolución industrial.
Im Sudtiroler Kartauserkloster Allerengelberg in Schnals ubersetzt Heinrich Haller, Sohn des Innsbrucker Stadtrichters, Burgermeisters und Ratsburgers Andre Haller, von 1464 bis 1471 geistliche lateinische Texte in fruhneuhochdeutsche Prosa.
Der englische König Johann sieht seinen Thron in Gefahr: Philip, König von Frankreich, verlangt dass er abdankt und Johanns Neffe Arthur dessen Nachfolger wird.
Le volume « Encore ces chers voisins », successeur du « Ces chers voisins », parle de la coopération entre les voisins européens, le Benelux, l'Allemagne et la France, pendant les deux derniers siècles.
The Knights Templar, a mysterious fraternity of warrior monks, pledged their swords to defend pilgrims to the Holy Land from the bandits and marauders of the roads.
One of the most charismatic and enigmatic personalities of the High Middle Ages, Edward the 'Black Prince' commanded an English division at the battle of Crecy when just sixteen years old.
The incredible story of Marco Polo's journey to the ends of the earth has for the last seven hundred years been beset by doubts as to its authenticity.
In this original and provocative book Russell Fraser has set himself no less a task than the description and interpretation of one of the signal "e;facts"e; of Western history-the breaking away of the present from the medieval past.
This book is the history of a very remarkable family, that of Count Thomas of Savoy, whose seven sons and two daughters rose from relative obscurity to fame, fortune, and involvement in almost every major international conflict in western Europe during the fifty years following their father's death in 1233.
The fourteenth century is usually portrayed as a period of retrogression and disaster in European history, but for the transalpine state of Savoy it was a period of glory.
At the end of the sixteenth century, when painters, writers, and scientists from all over Europe flocked to Rome for creative inspiration, the city was also becoming the center of a vibrant and assertive Roman Catholic culture.
Through a comprehensive case study of the twelfth-century Crusaders' Kingdom of Jerusalem, the author shows how a changing international system encourages or retards the development of social structures, thereby relating the Crusaders' experience to contemporary affairs.
Este libro, titulado Sociedad, cultura y religión en la Edad Media, es una obra colectiva que reúne diversas investigaciones presentadas originalmente en el XIII Coloquio de Estudios Medievales de 2023.
The dynastic struggles of the Wars of the Roses (1455-85) have traditionally been portrayed as belonging to one of the most dramatic periods in the history of England, an age of murder and melodrama.
Focusing on the work of Lorenzo Valla, the Spanish Complutensian scholars, and Erasmus of Rotterdam, this book examines the New Testament studies of the Renaissance humanists rather than their more frequently studied religious, moral, and political thought.
They are voices that have been silent for centuries: those of captives and refugees, widows and orphans, the blind and infirm, and the underclass of the "e;working poor.
The reign of Philip the Fair marks both the culmination of the medieval French monarchy and the beginning of the transition from the medieval to the modern period.
Durante doce siglos y en tres continentes, Bizancio conectó el mundo antiguo con el moderno, dando forma y transmitiendo tradiciones griegas, romanas y cristianas que perduran hasta nuestros días.
'Leanda de Lisle brings the story of nine days' queen, Lady Jane Grey and her forgotten sisters, the rivals of Elizabeth I, to vivid life in her fascinating biography' Philippa GregoryThe dramatic untold story of the three tragic Grey sisters, all heirs to the Tudor throne, all victims to their royal blood.
Die Kölner Synodalstatuten des Spätmittelalters (1261–1513) sind eine wertvolle Quelle für die Rechts- und Frömmigkeitsgeschichte einer der bedeutendsten Diözesen Europas.
In 1461 Edward earl of March, an able, handsome, and charming eighteen-year old, usurped the English throne from his feeble Lancastrian predecessor Henry VI.
Foremost medieval historian Anne Curry offers a new reinterpretation of Henry V and the battle that defined his kingship: AgincourtHenry V's invasion of France, in August 1415, represented a huge gamble.
