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"Through well-informed and nuanced readings of key documents from the fourth through fourteenth centuries, this book challenges historians' long-held beliefs about how concepts of Greco-Roman theate……続きを見る

Richard III (2 October 1452 - 22 August 1485) was King of England from 1483 until his death in 1485 in the Battle of Bosworth Field. He was the last king of the House of York and the last of the Pla……続きを見る

St. Birgitta of Sweden (1303-1373, canonized 1391) was one of the most charismatic and influential female visionaries of the later Middle Ages. Altogether, she received some 700 revelations, dealing……続きを見る

In this important new work Ian Mortimer examines some of the most controversial questions in medieval history, including whether Edward II was murdered, his possible later life in Italy, the weaknes……続きを見る

Around the turn of the first millennium AD, there emerged in the former Carolingian Empire a generation of abbots that came to be remembered as one of the most influential in the history of Western……続きを見る

To our modern minds, the Middle Ages seem to mix the well-known and familiar with wildly alien concepts and circumstances. The Middle Ages Unlocked provides an invaluable introduction to this comple……続きを見る

War has been pervasive throughout the history of mankind.  But who were these men that fought and why did they fight?  This collection of essays by Philip Guedalla examines those questio……続きを見る

In Rewriting Magic, Claire Fanger explores a fourteenth-century text called The Flowers of Heavenly Teaching. Written by a Benedictine monk named John of Morigny, the work all but disappeared from t……続きを見る

In Sacred Plunder, David Perry argues that plundered relics, and narratives about them, played a central role in shaping the memorial legacy of the Fourth Crusade and the development of Venice’s civ……続きを見る

In this original, provocative, well-reasoned, and thoroughly documented book, Frank Klaassen proposes that two principal genres of illicit learned magic occur in late medieval manuscripts: image mag……続きを見る

Preserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich is a manuscript that few scholars have noticed and that no one in modern times has treated with the seriousness it deserves. Forbidden Rites consist……続きを見る

During the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries a group of monks with occult interests donated what became a remarkable collection of more than thirty magic texts to the library of the Ben……続きを見る

Kommentierte und erweiterte Ausgabe des Buches von 1918. Ergänzt durch eine umfangreiche Biografie und Bibliografie des Autors Georg Streng. Georg Streng schreibt in seiner Einleitung zu „Das Roset……続きを見る

Beschreibung der Ordenskette des Schwanenordens und ihre Entstehungsgeschichte Als Friedrich II. zu Brandenburg 1440 die Ordenskette entwarf, griff er auf Symbole des Christentums und der Antike zu……続きを見る

On se figure trop le Moyen Âge comme une immense collégiale où règnent des mœurs ecclésiastiques et où l’artiste affecte des façons de tertiaire.Puvis de Chavannes, allégorisant l’inspiration chréti……続きを見る

L’histoire du Moyen-Âge s’ouvre en réalité par la victoire du christianisme et par la translation du siége  impérial à Byzance ; elle finit, avec le xve……続きを見る

Contrairement à ce qui est généralement admis, le capitalisme naît bien au Moyen Âge et se diffuse largement entre le XIIIe et le XVe siècle. En atteste les formes variées qu'il prend alors : prêts ……続きを見る

A l'égal d'Alexandre, de César, de Napoléon, Charlemagne fait partie de ces géants de l'histoire qui ont laissé dans la mémoire collective une empreinte indélébile. George Minois raconte la vérité d……続きを見る

15mn d'Histoire : une collection numérique de textes courts pour apprendre et comprendre l'Histoire en 15 minutes ! 15mn d'Histoire : une collection numérique de textes courts pour apprendre et comp……続きを見る

Une synthèse magistrale. Le dernier livre d'un grand historien. Le mot " croisade " est un anachronisme puisqu'il apparaît discrètement au XIIIe siècle et ne prend son sens actuel qu'au XIXe siècle.……続きを見る

Un roi méconnu dont l'œuvre considérable, souvent décriée, souvent caricaturée, a masqué l'homme. Philippe le Bel a été une énigme pour ses contemporains et l'est longtemps resté pour les historiens……続きを見る

The first part in an epic historical trilogy - The Estonian answer to Wolf Hall - by the nation's greatest modern writer Jaan Kross's trilogy dramatises the life of the renowned Livonian Chronicler ……続きを見る

Regarded by many as the classic work and primary source on Magna Carta this 1914 book from Professor William Sharp Mckechnie is a timely and essential introduction to the understanding of the histor……続きを見る

Seine letzten Lebensjahre führten Antonio Vivaldi nach Böhmen, nach Venedig, schließlich nach Wien. Trotz hohem Ansehen und europaweitem Ruhm war eine Künstlerexistenz schon damals ein steter Kampf ……続きを見る

In Contested Treasure, Thomas Barton examines how the Jews in the Crown of Aragon in the twelfth through fourteenth centuries negotiated the overlapping jurisdictions and power relations of local lo……続きを見る

An impressively learned and beautifully illustrated review of medieval ideas about Paradise Did Adam and Eve need to eat in Eden in order to live? If so, did human beings urinate and defecate in par……続きを見る

Mille ans d'Histoire ! Cet ouvrage vous invite à découvrir l'une des plus fascinantes périodes de l'histoire : le Moyen Âge. Mille ans durant lesquels la Gaule devient tour à tour la Neustrie et l'A……続きを見る

Mit „Die ritterlichen Fischer vom Woltiner See um 1300. Herkunft der Familien de Borneke, de Velthane und de Locstede in Westpommern“ liegt erstmals der kulturhistorische Aufsatz von Friedrich Stren……続きを見る

A classic book detailing various cliff castles and cave dwellings. It is an extensive account of how they came about and the varied people that are a part of these cultures. 続きを見る

This pioneering study explores early medieval Frankish identity as a window into the formation of a distinct Western conception of ethnicity. Focusing on the turbulent and varied history of Frankish……続きを見る