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In January of 1208, a papal legate was murdered on the banks of the Rhone in southern France. A furious Pope Innocent III accused heretics of the crime and called upon all Christians to exterminate ……続きを見る

The pontificate of Innocent II (1130-1143) has long been recognized as a watershed in the history of the papacy, marking the transition from the age of reform to the so-called papal monarchy, when a……続きを見る

Saracens and Franks in 12th - 15th Century European and Near Eastern Literature examines the tension between two competing discourses in the medieval Muslim Mediterranean and medieval Christian Euro……続きを見る

Medical texts written in English during the late Middle Ages have in recent years attracted increasing attention among scholars. From approximately 1375 onwards, the use of English began to gain a f……続きを見る

Über Hexen und Hexenverfolgung wurde schon viel geschrieben. Selten jedoch war ein Autor so nah dran an der Realität wie Hansjörg Rabanser, kaum einer hat so detailreich erforscht, wie es wirklich w……続きを見る

The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical ……続きを見る

This volume contains numerous studies of a medieval religious compound from rescue excavations conducted on the island of Iona, off the coast of Scotland. 続きを見る

Increasingly, historians acknowledge the significance of crusading activity in the fifteenth century, and they have started to explore the different ways in which it shaped contemporary European soc……続きを見る

History of the Wars, Books III and IV by the prominent late antique scholar from Palaestina Prima, Procopius.Accompanying the Roman general Belisarius in the wars of the Emperor Justinian, he became……続きを見る

8 de enero de 1642, hora 14:12: a las afueras de Florencia, en la Villa Il Gioiello, el científico pisano Galileo Galilei le relata a sus hijos los extraños y dolorosos hechos que lo llevaran a ser ……続きを見る

Twenty-three contributions by leading archaeologists from across Europe explore the varied forms, functions and significances of fortified settlements in the 8th to 10th centuries AD. These could be……続きを見る

Über viele Jahrhunderte hinweg war das Osmanische Reich die stärkste Macht im östlichen Mittelmeerraum. Nach der erfolgreichen ersten Schlacht unter der Führung Osmans I. gegen das Byzantinische Rei……続きを見る

In questo numero: Guerre e Soldati della Dinastia Han(parte I), La Battaglia di San Romano nelle cronache coeve e nei dipinti di Paolo Uccello, L’Esercito e la Marina di Venezia nella guerra de……続きを見る

Distinguished scholar James D. Tracy shows how the Ottoman advance across Europe stalled in the western Balkans, where three great powers confronted one another in three adjoining provinces: Habsbur……続きを見る

This book offers an introduction to the thought of Robert Holcot, a great and influential but often underappreciated medieval thinker. Holcot was a Dominican friar who flourished in the 1330's and p……続きを見る

The thirteenth-century Jewish mystical classic Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Splendor), commonly known as the Zohar, took shape against a backdrop of rising anti-Judaism in Spain. Mystical Resistance ……続きを見る

India: The Ancient Past provides a clear and systematic introduction to the cultural, political, economic, social and geographical history of ancient India from the time of the pre-Harappan culture ……続きを見る

Im Jahre 1024 wurde Konrad II. als erster Salier zum König gekrönt. Mit ihm begann das erste deutsche Königshaus. Drei weitere Salier – Heinrich III., Heinrich IV. und Heinrich V. – sollten ihm auf ……続きを見る

Dieses Buch erzählt die Geschichte des sächsischen Herrscherhauses, das die Geschicke Mitteleuropas in einer prägenden Phase mehr als ein Jahrhundert lang bestimmte. Die "Ottonen" selbst – von den H……続きを見る

The First Crusade (1095–9) has often been characterised as a head-to-head confrontation between the forces of Christianity and Islam. For many, it is the campaign that created a lasting rupture betw……続きを見る

This study explores the organization, scale, complexity, and integration of Aztec commerce across Mesoamerica at Spanish contact. The aims of the book are threefold. The first is to construct an in-……続きを見る

This study of El Cid, first published in English in 1934, is by the leading authority on the medieval history and literature of Spain. The Cid occupies a unique position among national heroes. Other……続きを見る

‘The Zohar’ was compiled and composed in Spain in the thirteenth century, and exerted a powerful influence on Jewish life in medieval ghettoes. In this book, first published in 1932, Dr Bension was ……続きを見る

Medieval Irish texts reveal distinctive and unexpected constructions of gender. Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland illuminates these ideas through its fresh and provocative re-readings of a wid……続きを見る

Street Scenes offers a theory of late medieval acting and performance through a fresh and original reading of the Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge. The performance theory perspective employed here, alon……続きを見る

A collection of essays representing the growing variety of approaches used to write the history of medieval women. They reflect the European medieval world socially, geographically and across religi……続きを見る

This book examines female lordship and the power of the political voice in medieval Northern Europe, focusing on three prominent, foreign-born queens of medieval Scandinavia - Agnes of Denmark (d. 1……続きを見る

The Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1350-1600 explores the roles that Scotland and England play in one another's imaginations. This collection of essays brings together eminent sc……続きを見る

Considering a wide array of sources, this book reveals the tenacity with which Alfonso II (1162-1196) and his son Peter II (1196-1213) of the Crown of Aragon forged a tighter Mediterranean regional ……続きを見る

Retracing the contours of a bitter controversy over the meaning of sacred architecture that flared up among some of the leading lights of the Carolingian renaissance, Collins explores how ninth-cent……続きを見る