A revised edition of Anna Komnene's Alexiad, to replace our existing 1969 edition. This is the first European narrative history written by a woman - an account of the reign of a Byzantine emperor th……続きを見る
A gripping biography by the author of Brave New World
In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found g……続きを見る
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SILK ROADS
Discover 'the most significant contribution to rethinking the origins and course of the First Crusade for a generation' (Mark Whittow, TLS)……続きを見る
著者：Anna Maria Sigmund
出版社： Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH
発売日： 2013年06月10日
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Die Historikerin Anna Maria Sigmund zeichnet in ihrem Bestseller acht eindringliche Porträts von Frauen in herausragender gesellschaftlicher Position des NS……続きを見る
Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures provides the first comprehensive overview by world-renowned experts of what we know today of medieval Jews' engagement with the sciences. Many medieval Jews, whet……続きを見る
This collection of essays by seven highly respected scholars is a straightforward narrative of real world-intellectual, commercial, spiritual, philosophical, scientific, esthetic-creative engagement……続きを見る
Legitimizing the Queen deals with a genre particular to the Middle Ages: the specula principum (mirror of prince). Its importance as an object of study may be understood in light of the political in……続きを見る
著者：William Rosen
出版社： Penguin Publishing Group
発売日： 2014年05月15日
The incredible true story of how a cycle of rain, cold, disease, and warfare created the worst famine in European historyーyears before the Black Death, from the author of Justinian's Flea and the f……続きを見る
著者：John Moorhead
出版社： Taylor & Francis
発売日： 2014年11月27日
In the past few decades there has been an explosion of interest in the period of late antiquity. Rather than being viewed within a paradigm of the fall of the Roman Empire, these centuries have come……続きを見る
Translating a collection of the most important descriptions of the Turks found in medieval Arabic texts into English, this book aims at delineating the coming of the Turkic people in the eleventh ce……続きを見る
From today’s perspective it is hard to comprehend just how complex the relationship was between religion and magic in the Middle Ages. Many unofficial rituals and beliefs existed alongside ones sanc……続きを見る
This collection of essays argues that any valid theory of the modern shouldーindeed mustーreckon with the medieval. Offering a much-needed correction to theorists such as Hans Blumenberg, who in his……続きを見る
La ricostruzione tridimensionale del paesaggio, l’identificazione del percorso, la profondità della storia, la religiosità delle colline. L’affresco di un mondo scomparso che si ……続きを見る
Et si Christophe Colomb n’avait pas été le premier à découvrir l’Amérique ?
Il figure sans aucun doute au rang des oubliés de l’histoire. Leif Ericson, un Viking, découvre l’Amérique vers l’an mil, ……続きを見る
This is the first scholarly art-historical appraisal of Anglo-Saxon coinage, from its inception in the late sixth century to Offa's second reform of the penny c.792. Outside numismatic circles, this……続きを見る
Das Cisterzienserkloster Reinfeld (1186/90-1582) war eine der mächtigsten kirchlichen Institutionen Holsteins im Mittelalter und besaß seinerzeit dort die größte Grundherrschaft. Sein eigentliches H……続きを見る
Die Ursprünge und Taten der Goten des römischen Gelehrten Jordanes aus dem 6. Jh. n. Chr. ist die wichtigste erhaltene schriftliche Quelle zur Geschichte der Goten, eines antiken-frühmittelalterlich……続きを見る
The Origins of the English Parliament is a magisterial account of the evolution of parliament, from its earliest beginnings in the late Anglo-Saxon period. Starting with the national assemblies whic……続きを見る
In September, 1219, as the armies of the Fifth Crusade besieged the Egyptian city of Damietta, Francis of Assisi went to Egypt to preach to Sultan al-Malik al-Kâmil. Although we in fact know very li……続きを見る
Band 1: Die Hüterin der Zeit Die Dubliner Studentin Hanna bekommt den Auftrag, für eine alte Lady handschriftliche Manuskripte abzuschreiben. Was für sie zunächst wie ein langweiliger Job aussieht, ……続きを見る
出版社： University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日： 2013年03月26日
In 1213, Pope Innocent III issued his letter Vineam Domini, thundering against the enemies of Christendomーthe "beasts of many kinds that are attempting to destroy the vineyard of the Lord of Sabaot……続きを見る
Von König Heinrich I. bis zu Kaiser Maximilian I. werden hier alle deutschen Herrscher des Mittelalters in eindrucksvollen und lebendig geschriebenen Kurzbiographien vorgestellt. Ottonen, Salier, St……続きを見る
The Master of Game is the oldest and most important work on the chase in the English language. Based primarily on Gaston de Foix's Livre de chasse, originally composed in 1387, The Master of Game wa……続きを見る
著者：George W. Dameron
出版社： University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日： 2013年05月27日
By the early fourteenth century, the city of Florence had emerged as an economic power in Tuscany, surpassing even Siena, which had previously been the banking center of the region. In the space of ……続きを見る
著者：Catherine Sanok
出版社： University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日： 2013年04月23日
Her Life Historical offers a major reconsideration of one of the most popular narrative forms in late medieval Englandーthe lives of female saintsーand one of the period's primary modes of interpret……続きを見る
著者：Geoffroi de Charny
出版社： University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日： 2013年03月01日
On the great influence of a valiant lord: "The companions, who see that good warriors are honored by the great lords for their prowess, become more determined to attain this level of prowess."
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著者：Jeremy Cohen
出版社： University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日： 2013年03月26日
How are martyrs made, and how do the memories of martyrs express, nourish, and mold the ideals of the community? Sanctifying the Name of God wrestles with these questions against the background of t……続きを見る
The enslaved population of medieval Iberia composed only a small percentage of the general populace at any given point, and slave labor was not essential to the regional economy during the period. Y……続きを見る
Der Band bietet einen Überblick über die Kreuzzugsgeschichte vom Aufruf zum ersten Kreuzzug 1095 bis zum Fall von Konstantinopel im Jahre 1453. Er schildert den Aufstieg und den Wandel der Kreuzzugs……続きを見る
The Medici are famous as the rulers of Florence at the high point of the Renaissance. Their power derived from the family bank, and this book tells the fascinating, frequently bloody story of the fa……続きを見る
