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.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2026 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Mittelalter, Fruhe Neuzeit, Note: 1,3, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Um die Templer ranken sich zahlreiche Mythen und Legenden.
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.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2025 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Mittelalter, Fruhe Neuzeit, Note: 1,0, Otto-Friedrich-Universitat Bamberg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im 11.
Five hundred years ago, working from hints in classical Greek and Latin poets, the young author Jacopo Sannazaro crafted the book called Arcadia, a narrative in richly descriptive Italian prose interwoven with elegant and passionate poems.
Positioned at the crossroads of the maritime routes linking the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, the Yemeni port of Aden grew to be one of the medieval worlds greatest commercial hubs.
In the years of expanding state authority following the Black Death, English common law permitted the leasing of parishes by their rectors and vicars, who then pursued interests elsewhere and left the parish in the control of lay lessees.
Julia Haig Gaisser provides us with a highly readable translation of and context for the interesting and little known sixteenth-century dialogue, De Litteratorum Infelicitate (On the Ill-Fortune of Learned Men) by Pierio Valeriano.
A spellbinding narrative history that defies modern assumptions about women's lives in the Middle Ages and informs contemporary debates about sexual violence and the limits of justiceIn the winter of 1472, the city of Dijon, France, became the stage for a remarkable legal drama.
A spellbinding narrative history that defies modern assumptions about women's lives in the Middle Ages and informs contemporary debates about sexual violence and the limits of justiceIn the winter of 1472, the city of Dijon, France, became the stage for a remarkable legal drama.
Lutheran preacher and theologian Andreas Osiander (1498-1552) played a critical role in spreading the Lutheran Reformation in sixteenth-century Nuremberg.
Lutheran preacher and theologian Andreas Osiander (1498-1552) played a critical role in spreading the Lutheran Reformation in sixteenth-century Nuremberg.
Is there a resemblance between the contemporary anorexic teenager counting every calorie in her single-minded pursuit of thinness, and an ascetic medieval saint examining her every desire?
Robert Palmers pathbreaking study shows how the Black Death triggered massive changes in both governance and law in fourteenth-century England, establishing the mechanisms by which the law adapted to social needs for centuries thereafter.
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.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2025 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Mittelalter, Frühe Neuzeit, Note: 1,0, Universität Leipzig (Historisches Seminar), Veranstaltung: Mittelalter und Landesgeschichte, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Dienst des Reiches oder des Hauses?
Julia Haig Gaisser provides us with a highly readable translation of and context for the interesting and little known sixteenth-century dialogue, De Litteratorum Infelicitate (On the Ill-Fortune of Learned Men) by Pierio Valeriano.
Positioned at the crossroads of the maritime routes linking the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, the Yemeni port of Aden grew to be one of the medieval worlds greatest commercial hubs.
Positioned at the crossroads of the maritime routes linking the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, the Yemeni port of Aden grew to be one of the medieval worlds greatest commercial hubs.
