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The reinvention of art-history during the 1980s has provided a serious challenge to the earlier formalist and connoisseurial approaches to the discipline, in ways which can only help economic and so……続きを見る

The French invasion of Italy under Charles VIII in 1494-95 has long been seen as inaugurating a new and wretched era in Italian history. The present volume, the work of an international team of cont……続きを見る

The VADE MECUM IN TRIBULACIONE was meant as an eschatological manual for the thirteen catastrophic years between its composition in December 1356 and the Thousand-Year Reign of Christ expected to be……続きを見る

Although medieval English music has been relatively neglected in comparison with repertoire from France and Italy, there are few classical musicians today who have not listened to the thirteenth-cen……続きを見る

Dr Jennifer Welsh received her M.A. in Medieval Studies from Cornell University in 2000, and her M.A. and PhD in History from Duke University in 2004 and 2009. Her dissertation dealt with the cult o……続きを見る

The Mediterranean and its hinterlands were the scene of intensive and transformative contact between cultures in the Middle Ages. From the seventh to the seventeenth century, the three civilizations……続きを見る

Guelfi, ghibellini, fazioni: termini molto usati e conosciuti, ma fino a che punto? Nell’ultimo decennio, diversi studi hanno messo in luce il ruolo non certo marginale delle aristocrazie locali nel……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Historische Romane aus der Zeit der Völkerwanderung (14 Titel in einem Band)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgel……続きを見る

Arthur S. Turberville details the Vatican's doctrine underlying the violent Roman Inquisition, which was used to suppress all opponents to the Roman Catholic Church's well-established religion. This……続きを見る

The first encounters between the Islamic world and Tibet took place in the course of the expansion of the Abbasid Empire in the eighth century. Military and political contacts went along with an inc……続きを見る

This book is about the objects people owned and how they used them. Twenty-three specially written essays investigate the type of things that might have been considered 'everyday objects' in the med……続きを見る

This richly illustrated book presents a selection of the rich and varied iconographic material from the Scandinavian Late Iron Age (AD 400-1050) depicting clothed human figures, from an archaeologic……続きを見る

La princesse française oubliée dont le courage lança la dynastie des Tudors. La guerre la fit reine d'Angleterre. Son amour pour un Gallois la rendit immortelle. Mieux connue comme la fiancée d'Azin……続きを見る

Exam board: OCR (Specification B, SHP) Level: GCSE (9-1) Subject: History First teaching: September 2016 First exams: Summer 2018 An OCR endorsed textbook Let SHP successfully steer you through the ……続きを見る

This ebook does not include illustrations. A fascinating depiction from award-winning author, Adam Nicolson, of a family and a country on the hinge of modernisation. Was our country once a better pl……続きを見る

A brilliant new reading of the Bayeux Tapestry that radically alters our understanding of the events of 1066 and reveals the astonishing story of the survival of early medieval Europe’s greatest tre……続きを見る

What can the great crises of the past teach us about contemporary revolutions? Jack Goldstone shows the important role of population changes, youth bulges, urbanization, elite divisions, and fiscal ……続きを見る

Street corners, guild halls, government offices, and confraternity centers contained paintings that made the city of Florence a visual jewel at precisely the time of its emergence as an internationa……続きを見る

Christine de Pizan, one of the earliest known women authors, wrote the Livre de paix (Book of Peace) between 1412 and 1414, a period of severe corruption and civil unrest in her native France. The b……続きを見る

In his own time Edward IV was seen as an able and successful king who rescued England from the miseries of civil war and provided the country with firm, judicious, and popular government. The prejud……続きを見る

This volume contains reports on excavations undertaken in the lower walled city at Lincoln, which lies on sloping ground on the northern scarp of the Witham gap, and its adjacent suburbs between 197……続きを見る

This book investigates the forms that the aggression and violence of peasant elites could take in early modern Fennoscandia, and their role within society. The contributors highlight the social stra……続きを見る

Today, the great cathedrals of Europe stand as beautiful, imposing monuments - the pride of parishioners and the wonder of tourists. It is difficult for us now, even with all our engineering and arc……続きを見る

La battaglia di Azincourt è considerata uno dei momenti più cupi della storia della Francia e al contrario uno dei più fulgidi della storia dell'Inghilterra e del suo re Enrico V. Inserita nel più a……続きを見る

La battaglia di Azincourt è considerata uno dei momenti più cupi della storia della Francia e al contrario uno dei più fulgidi della storia dell'Inghilterra e del suo re Enrico V. Inserita nel più a……続きを見る

Zwischen 1346 und 1350 erlag etwa ein Drittel der europäischen Bevölkerung der Pest, die sich von der Krim aus nach Westen ausbreitete. Erst das 20. Jahrhundert sah vergleichbare Katastrophen. Klaus……続きを見る

Cities and Solidarities charts the ways in which the study of individuals and places can revitalise our understanding of urban communities as dynamic interconnections of solidarities in medieval and……続きを見る

Providing a modern English translation of a key selection of Ibn Fadl Allah al-`Umarī’s Masālik al-absār, this book offers a rich description of Egypt and Syria under the Mamluks in the first half o……続きを見る

At a time when barbarous acts of terrorism are being committed globally and society ponders whether the perpetrators are legitimate religious adherents, Marcus Paul makes an unflinching and counter-……続きを見る

A fascinating glimpse into the world of Medieval Monasticism. Durham Cathedral is one of the most complete sets of monastic buildings in Europe, housing clues to the life of a prominent and thriving……続きを見る