European history: medieval period, middle ages

Flemish townspeople defeat the cream of French nobility, and explode the myth of knightly invincibility for ever.

La Edad Media es un esfuerzo coordinado por Umberto Eco que nos muestra todas las esferas de un periodo que duro poco mas de un milenio.

At the beginning of the eleventh century, Catalonia was a patchwork of counties, viscounties, and lordships that bordered Islamic al-Andalus to the south.

Pop culture portrayals of medieval and early modern monarchs are rife with tension between authenticity and modern mores, producing anachronisms such as a feminist Queen Isabel (in RTVE's Isabel) and a lesbian Queen Christina (in The Girl King).

Over the course of several centuries, Venice fashioned and refined a portrait of itself that responded to and exploited historical circumstance.

Der Siegelschatz eines bedeutenden Klosters – fachkundig dokumentiert und aufbereitet.

Monasticism in late medieval England, c.

The aim of this book is to explore the characteristics of the medieval dragon and discuss the sometimes differing views found in the relevant medieval text types.

Although the legends of Arthur have been popular throughout Europe from the middle ages onwards, the earliest references to Arthur are to be found in Welsh literature, starting with the Welsh-Latin Historia Brittonum which dates from the ninth century.

This book is a collaborative contribution that expands our understanding of how interfaith relations, both real and imagined, developed across medieval Iberia and the Mediterranean.

Esta obra es un resumen que mantiene, sin embargo, el rigor y la riqueza de la información que le son característicos, y la utilización de las fuentes de primera mano, ganando en concisión y sencillez de exposición.

This book reflects on time, space and culture in the Game of Thrones universe.

This bold challenge to conventional notions about medieval music disputes the assumption of pure literacy and replaces it with a more complex picture of a world in which literacy and orality interacted.

This innovative book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Shakespearean theatre, presented in a series of imaginative readings of plays from every period of the playwright's career, from Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Taming of the Shrew to King Lear and The Tempest , mapping a new approach to ideas of the theatre as an institution.

Bits of late Roman coinage, the mutilated torso of a marble Venus, blue debris from an early medieval glassworks, and the powder rasped from the reputed tomb of Mary Magdalene-these tantalizing mementos of human history found scattered throughout the landscape of southeastern France are the points of departure for Gustaf Sobin's lyrical narrative.

This book provides the first comprehensive treatment of Albert the Great's (c.

"e;Urban Culture in Medieval Wales"e; is a collection of articles that examine towns and urban life as part of the cultural fabric of late-medieval Wales.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die Bistümer der Kirchenprovinz Mainz.

The notion of Christianity as a religion of peace was severely tested during the Middle Ages, when killing in the name of God became a sanctified act.

Im Vergleich zu anderen frühen Staaten des früh- und hochmittelalterlichen Europas entstand das Herzogtum Pommern relativ spät, im 11.

The time of the Grand Master Conrad von Jungingen (1393–1407) is often considered to be the heyday ("Blütezeit") of the Monastic State of the Teutonic Order in Prussia.

Introducing the Medieval Ass presents a lucid, accessible, and comprehensive picture of the ass s enormous socio-economic and cultural significance in the Middle Ages and beyond.

Roadworks: Medieval Britain, medieval roads is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study of roads and wayfinding in medieval England, Wales and Scotland.

The relationship between kings and bishops in Medieval England could be tricky.

Bislang wurde in der Forschung die These vertreten, wonach sich galizische Juden nicht mit der ukrainischen Kultur identifiziert hätten; stattdessen wird die Geschichte von Juden und Ukrainern häufig mit Gewalt und Abgrenzung assoziiert.

This book examines discourses around infertility and views of childlessness in medieval and early modern Europe.

There are over 3,000 runic inscriptions on stone made in Scandinavia in the late Viking Age.

This book surveys the economy of Wales from the first Norman intrusions of 1067 to the Act of Union of England and Wales in 1536.

Drawing on historical documents, legends, archeology and literature, this history describes the disintegration of Roman Britain that reached a climax in the decades after the Britons overthrew Constantine's government and were refused Roman rule.

This book examines ideas of spiritual nourishment as maintained chiefly by Patristic theologians -those who lived in Byzantium.

A new analysis of the difficulties in normalising opposition in the Irish Free State, this book analyses the collision between nineteenth-century monolithic nationalist movements with the norms and expectations of multiparty parliamentary democracy.

Medieval Welsh Pilgrimage, c.

This book is concerned with our ideological, technical and emotional investments in reclaiming medieval for contemporary popular culture.

Die Pandemiesituation der vergangenen Jahre hat einen Diskurs um die Digitalität als Ersatz der Präsenz angeregt, bei der die Probleme der physischen Absenz für die Gesellschaft überdeutlich werden.

This book breaks with three common scholarly barriers of periodization, discipline and geography in its exploration of the related themes of heresy, magic and witchcraft.

Kaiser Maximilian I.

Roadworks: Medieval Britain, medieval roads is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study of roads and wayfinding in medieval England, Wales and Scotland.

Using a wide range of rich original sources, this unique reference guide provides a remarkable picture of England's medieval Jewry.