The first eight studies in this volume seek to address a series of questions concerning the emergence and the role of the military orders in the 12th and 13th centuries: the reasons for the appearance of the institution, the recruitment and instruction of novices, and, though the military orders were predominantly male organisations, the role of women within them.
This book investigates the radical transformation of the relationship between Germany and France, neighbors whose border constituted one of the deepest fault lines of European history.
The subject of this volume is the relationship between production and consumption, considered not only as the supply and demand sides of economic life, but within the broader context of the societies of the Low Countries between the 12th and the 16th centuries.
Elite Women in Early Modern Catholic Europe offers a new look at early modern Catholic Europe through the lens of the diverse experiences of elite women, using a historiographical approach to analyze women's roles through changing political, social, and cultural contexts.
Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Beiträge zur kulturellen und politischen Geheimtätigkeit der Griechen in Wien vor dem griechischen Aufstand" verfügbar.
The impact of the Norman conquest of Sicily and Southern Italy in the 11th-12th centuries upon the society of that region forms the central theme of this volume.
Selected as an 'Outstanding Academic Title' in the 2008 CHOICE awards, The Victorian Studies Reader gathers together, in one volume, some of the key pieces on Victorian history, society and culture.
«España mi natura, Italia mi ventura, Flandes mi sepultura», rezan unos versillos anónimos populares entre la soldadesca española de los tercios que combatía por su rey en las cuatro esquinas de Europa.
In zwölf Essays nähert sich Richard Schuberth dem Dichter Lord Byron an und setzt dessen innere Widersprüche in Beziehung zu den Widersprüchen seiner Zeit sowie zu Problemen und Diskursen der Gegenwart.
A través de una combinación de historia y novela, "Historia de la Casa Fox" sigue el viaje de Miguel de Fox, un descendiente de nobles aragoneses, mientras lucha por proteger su herencia y la memoria de sus ancestros.
Ireland and the Renaissance court is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring Irish and English courts, courtiers and politics in the early modern period, c.
This innovative collection examines how European queens participated in the conceptualisation, mobilisation, and transformation of 'natural resources' from the fifteenth to the end of the eighteenth century.
Ereignis, Bild, Kontext: über die komplexe Entschlüsselung von Fotografien aus der Zeit des NationalsozialismusFotografien gelten heute als eine zentrale Quelle zur Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Verfolgung.
¿Por qué y cómo surgió en la historia moderna la voluntad de perseguir a los responsables del inicio de un conflicto bélico y de las atrocidades subsiguientes?
The relationship of the United States and Great Britain has been the subject of numerous studies with a particular emphasis on the idea of a special relationship based on traditional common ties of language, history, and political affinity.
