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This book examines the power held by the French medieval queens during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and their larger roles within the kingdom at a time when women were excluded from succes……続きを見る

Beginning with Saint Barbatianus, a fifth-century wonderworking monk and confessor to the Empress Galla Placidia, this book focuses on the changes in the religious landscape of Ravenna, a former cap……続きを見る

This book illuminates the connections and interaction among women and between women and men during the medieval period. To do this, Kathryn L. Reyerson focuses specifically on the experiences of Agn……続きを見る

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

Der Krieg machte sie zur Königin von England. Ihre Liebe zu einem Waliser machte sie unsterblich. Catherine de Valois, am besten bekannt, als die Braut Henry des V. aus Shakespeares "Henry V.", war ……続きを見る

An imaginative reassessment of Æthelred "the Unready," one of medieval England’s most maligned kings and a major Anglo-Saxon figure The Anglo-Saxon king Æthelred "the Unready" (978–1016) has続きを見る

This first modern study of Henry the Young King, eldest son of Henry II but the least known Plantagenet monarch, explores the brief but eventful life of the only English ruler after the Norman Conqu……続きを見る

Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre las cruzadas en Tierra Santa, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo. En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podr……続きを見る

The question of how Islam arrived in India remains markedly contentious in South Asian politics. Standard accounts center on the Umayyad Caliphate’s incursions into Sind and littoral western India i……続きを見る

In the history of Western civilization, few have had a more profound and lasting influence on human events than Charlemagne, who as king of the Franks, united a huge swath of Europe under his rule. ……続きを見る

Anglo-Saxon Mercia was a great power in its day, although many aspects of it have been shrouded in myth and mystery. However, recent discoveries, such as the Staffordshire Hoard and the Lichfield An……続きを見る

Emanations du sultanat de Constantinople, les conquêtes des " barbaresques ", leurs razzias, leurs captures de chrétiens et leurs trafics sont au cœur, durant deux siècles, de l'histoire de la Médit……続きを見る

For historians of the Wars of the Roses William Shakespeare is both a curse and a blessing: a curse because he immortalized Tudor spin on fifteenth-century civil wars that helped justify Elizabeth I……続きを見る

This pioneering work traces migration of Indian traders to Russia, Iran, West Asia and South-East Asia in medieval times. Four essays throw light on the activities of the Indian business community i……続きを見る

Depicting the Creation of Woman presented a special problem for Renaissance artists. The medieval iconography of Eve rising half-formed from Adam's side was hardly compatible with their commitment t……続きを見る

In this book, Frances Courtney Kneupper examines the apocalyptic prophecies of the late medieval Empire, which even within the sensational genre of eschatological prophecy stand out for their bitter……続きを見る

This book considers how scientists, theologians, priests, and poets approached the relationship of the human body and ethics in the later Middle Ages. Is medicine merely a metaphor for sin? Or can c……続きを見る

There is a vigorous debate on the exact beginnings of the Crusades, as well as a growing conviction that some practices of crusading may have been in existence, at least in part, long before they we……続きを見る

In the last two decades there has been an explosion of scholarly interest in the Military Orders. With a history stretching from the early twelfth century to the present day, they were among the ric……続きを見る

The history of the predominantly Muslim world is examined within the context of world history. It examines political, economic, and broad cultural developments, as well as specifically religious one……続きを見る

The Memoirs of Sylvester Syropoulos is a text written by a Î’yzantine ecclesiastical official in the 15th century. Syropoulos participated in the Council for the union of the Greek and Latin Churche……続きを見る

This new history is the first to tell the story of Magna Carta ‘through the ages’. No other general work traces its continuing importance in England’s political consciousness. Many books have examin……続きを見る

The work known as Pseudo-Kodinos, the fourteenth-century text which is one of two surviving ceremonial books from the Byzantine empire, is presented here for the first time in English translation. W……続きを見る

The book will be welcome for tackling the Crusades from a fresh but important angle; the relations of the Crusader states with their neighbours, both Christian (the Byzantines) and, especially, Isla……続きを見る

Guillaume Caoursin, the Vice-chancellor of the Order of the Hospital, wrote the Obsidionis Rhodiae urbis descriptio (Description of the Siege of Rhodes) as the official record of the Ottoman siege o……続きを見る

This volume of studies explores a particularly complex period in Byzantine history, the thirteenth century, from the Fourth Crusade to the recapture of Constantinople by exiled leaders from Nicaea. ……続きを見る

Joachim of Fiore and the Influence of Inspiration. Essays in Memory of Marjorie E. Reeves (1905-2003) is a title that is deliberately reminiscent of the title of Marjorie Reeves’ opus magnum: her bo……続きを見る

In questo numero: Guerre e Soldati della Dinastia Han (parte III), Quattro Secoli di Armature Italiane: una ricerca inedita: 1330-1370, Bandiere Francesi del Tardo Rinasciment (parte prima), L’……続きを見る

Scrive Michael Mallet, il maggiore storico europeo della situazione militare italiana del Rinascimento, nel suo fondamentale studio sulla guerra nel Rinascimento italiano: Uno dei principali interlo……続きを見る

Comment et pourquoi, au Moyen Age, les rois de France ont expulsé puis rappelé, à six reprises, les juifs de France. De Philippe Auguste (en 1182) à Louis XII (en 1501), les rois de France ont chass……続きを見る