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This study is a reconsideration of Jan Hus, a late medieval Bohemian priest who was burned at the stake six hundred years ago. His death sparked a social revolution. This book considers his role as ……続きを見る

A lively microbiography of Chaucer that tells the story of the tumultuous year that led to the creation of The Canterbury Tales In 1386, Geoffrey Chaucer endured his worst year, but began his best p……続きを見る

Wie lebten die Menschen im Mittelalter? Durch Burgfeste und Mittelaltermärkte, Romane, Filme und Rollenspiele meinen wir die Welt des Mittelalters gut zu kennen. Doch ist dieses Bild realistisch? Wi……続きを見る

From the Crusades to the plague, this account brings to life the key moments of the High Middle Ages. It was an age of hope and possibility, of accomplishment and expansion. Europe's High Middle Age……続きを見る

From the acclaimed author of Miracle Cure and The Third Horseman, the epic story of the collision between one of nature's smallest organisms and history's mightiest empire During the golden age of t……続きを見る

**"Dan Jones has an enviable gift for telling a dramatic story while at the same time inviting us to consider serious topics like liberty and the seeds of representative government." ーAntonia Frase……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

Two lavish, illustrated histories confronted and contested the Byzantine model of empire. The Madrid Skylitzes was created at the court of Roger II of Sicily in the mid-twelfth century. The Vatican ……続きを見る

A history and Marxist analysis of the institutions of the Persian/Syrian Ismaeli sect founded by Hassan-ibn-Sabah ('The Old Man of the Mountain') known as 'The Assassins'. In Ridley's view the Assas……続きを見る

Medieval Toledo is famous as a center of Arabic learning and as a home to sizable Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities. Yet its cathedralーone of the largest, richest, and best preserved in all……続きを見る

Enide’s tattered dress and Erec’s fabulous coronation robe; Yvain’s nudity in the forest, which prevents maidens who know him well clothed from identifying him; Lanval’s fairy-lady parading about in……続きを見る

The feast of Corpus Christi, one of the most solemn feasts of the Latin Church, can be traced to the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 and its resolution of disputes over the nature of the Eucharist. T……続きを見る

What is love? Popular culture bombards us with notions of the intoxicating capacities of love or of beguiling women who can bewitch or healーto the point that it is easy to believe that such images ……続きを見る

Carolingian historical texts have long stood at the base of our modern knowledge about the eighth and ninth centuries. The ninth century gave birth to a new revival of secular biography, which has c……続きを見る

The Song dynasty (960–1279) has been characterized by its pre-eminent civil culture and military weakness. This groundbreaking work demonstrates that the civil dominance of the eleventh century was ……続きを見る

The Fourth Crusade (1202-4) was one of the key events in medieval history The fall of Constantinople to the Venetians and the soldiers of the fourth crusade in April 1204 was its climax. It ensured ……続きを見る

This volume is a concise introduction to the history and culture of the Huns. This ancient people had a famous reputation in Eurasian Late Antiquity. However, their history has often been evaluated ……続きを見る

Written by a team of leading scholars, this fascinating book presents an authoritative and comprehensive history of the Crusades from the preaching of the First Crusade in 1095 to the legacy of crus……続きを見る

Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since……続きを見る

This collection of essays, by leading historian Jairus Banaji, provides a stimulating rebuttal to the prevailing minimalism in late antique studies. Together, they strike a balance between the wide ……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Jeanne d’Arc en moins d’une heure ! Dans une France déchirée par la guerre de Cent Ans, une jeune femme âgée de 17 ans est convaincue de pouvoir sauver ……続きを見る

This is the first major study in English of the reign of Philip Augustus who ruled France from 1180 - 1223. Outshone for posterity, by his flamboyant contemporaries, the Angevin family of Henry II a……続きを見る

An original and highly accessible collection of essays which is based on a huge range of historical sources to reveal the realities of mens' lives in the Middle Ages. It covers an impressive geograp……続きを見る

The medieval period is often thought of as the Dark Ages, a period of cultural stagnation and little economic and political advancement. However, Britain in this period survived invasion upon invasi……続きを見る

The Wars of the Roses call to mind bloody battles, treachery and deceit, and a cast of characters known to us through fact and fiction: Edward IV, Elizabeth Woodville, Richard III, Warwick the Kingm……続きを見る

The birthplace of Boccaccio, Machiavelli, and the powerful Medici family, Florence was also the first great banking and commercial centre of continental Europe. The city’s middle-class merchants, th……続きを見る

Ein Jahrhundert deutscher und mitteleuropäischer Geschichte prägte das fränkische Königsgeschlecht, das später den Namen "Salier" erhielt. Zwischen 1024, dem Jahr der nicht unbedingt erwarteten Wahl……続きを見る

Az idők végezetéig A katedrális folytatása: ugyanabban az angliai városban, Kingsbridge-ben játszódik a történet kétszáz évvel később, a 14. században. A szereplők a katedrális építőinek leszármazot……続きを見る

The first and one of the finest Latin poets of Anglo-Saxon England, the seventh-century bishop Saint Aldhelm can justly be called “Britain’s first man of letters.” Among his many influential poetic ……続きを見る

Here, from New York Times bestselling historian Richard Russell, is the dramatic story of Germany - from the rise of Charlemagne to the age of Martin Luther, from the Thirty Years' War to the iron r……続きを見る