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Even 700 years after the suppression of the Order of the Temple and the execution of the last grandmaster, Jacques de Molay, there is no shortage of publications on this influential military order. ……続きを見る

Bringing together distinguished scholars in honor of Professor Teofilo F. Ruiz, this volumepresents original and innovative research on the critical and uneasy relationship between authority and spe……続きを見る

Excerpt from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions. The essay begins: "The belief that disembodied spirits may be permitted to revisit this world, has its foundation upon that sublime hope of i……続きを見る

Collection of five classic books on witches and witchcraft: The Witch Mania by Charles Mackay, The History of the Devil by Daniel Defoe, The Witch in the Middle Ages by Michelet, Wonders of the Invi……続きを見る

Excerpts about the Crusades from Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and from Charles MacKay's Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions, plus the entire text of The History of the Knight……続きを見る

History of witchcraft in the Middle Ages. According to Wikipedia: "Jules Michelet (21 August 1798 9 February 1874) was a French historian. He was born in Paris to a family with Huguenot traditions."……続きを見る

Richard Merrick was born the bastard son of a king, his mother was a member of the red clover clan. Some considered to clover men to be the best archers in England, others said they were the best ar……続きを見る

Knowledge, Love, and Ecstasy in the Theology of Thomas Gallus provides the first full study of Thomas Gallus (d. 1246) in English and represents a significant advance in his distinctive theology. Bo……続きを見る

La olvidada princesa francesa cuyo valor catapultó a la dinastía Tudor La guerra hizo de ella la reina de Inglaterra. Su amor por un galés la hizo inmortal. Mejor conocida como la novia de Agincourt……続きを見る

The Politics of Law in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy features original contributions by international scholars on the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Lauro Martines' Lawyers and Sta……続きを見る

We tend to think of early medieval people as unsophisticated about geography because their understandings of space and place often differed from ours, yet theirs were no less complex. Anglo-Saxons c……続きを見る

Illuminated manuscripts are among the most beautiful, precious and mysterious works of Western art. Before the printing press was invented, books were produced by hand and their illustration using b……続きを見る

In the rapidly changing world of the early Middle Ages, depictions of the cosmos represented a consistent point of reference across the three dominant statesーthe Frankish, Byzantine, and Islamic Em……続きを見る

A seminal biography of the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon monarch who united the English and Danish crowns to forge a North Sea empire Historian Timothy Bo……続きを見る

This illuminating new study considers the Bible as a political document in seventeenth-century England, revealing how the religious text provided a key language of political debate and played a crit……続きを見る

Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life and travels of Leif Eriksson in next to no time with this concise guide. 50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of Leif Erik……続きを見る

The most devastating attacks against the Jews of medieval Christian Europe took place during the riots that erupted, in 1391 and 1392, in the lands of Castile and Aragon. For ten horrific months, hu……続きを見る

Jonathan Harris' new edition of the CHOICEOutstanding Academic Title, Constantinople, provides an updated and extended introduction to the history of Byzantium and its capital city. Accessible and e……続きを見る

The Templars and the Shroud of Christ is the second book in this series by Vatican historian, Barbara Frale. The Knights Templar – the most powerful religious-military order of the Middle Ages – alm……続きを見る

Challenging current perspectives of urbanisation, The Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience explores how our towns and cities have shaped and been shaped by cultural, spatial……続きを見る

This book breaks with three common scholarly barriers of periodization, discipline and geography in its exploration of the related themes of heresy, magic and witchcraft. It sets aside constructed c……続きを見る

L'histoire d'une légende vivante Richard Cœur de Lion, né en 1153, fut le moins anglais des rois d'Angleterre, où il ne résida que six mois, régnant sur d'immenses territoires allant de l'Ecosse aux……続きを見る

A monumental work in the history of religion, the history of the book, the study of politics, and bibliographical research, this volume follows the making of the Chinese Buddhist canon from the four……続きを見る

Dopo la caduta dell’Impero Romano d’Occidente fu Costantinopoli a mantenere vive le vestigia e tradizioni romane. Dalla nuova capitale sul Bosforo, opulenta città e ricca di fascino, ripartirono i t……続きを見る

Adrián vuelve a ver a Mónica tras años de estar desaparecido y vuelve a nacer, en esta, sentimientos aletargados. El reencuentro depara felicidad pero un desastre urbanístico, al derrumbarse las obr……続きを見る

Heresy and Dissent in the Carolingian Empire recounts the history of an exceptional ninth-century religious outlaw, Gottschalk of Orbais. Frankish Christianity required obedience to ecclesiastical s……続きを見る

Una breve sintesi della feudalità italiana nel 200. Libro illustrato e interattivo. In formato testo e immagine. Pagine 107. 続きを見る

Trusty's Hill is an early medieval fort at Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries and Galloway. The hillfort comprises a fortified citadel defined by a vitrified rampart around its summit, with a number of en……続きを見る

From Larry Siedentop, acclaimed author of Democracy in Europe, Inventing the Individual is a highly original rethinking of how our moral beliefs were formed and their impact on western society today……続きを見る

In A Saving Science, Eric Ramírez-Weaver explores the significance of early medieval astronomy in the Frankish empire, using as his lens an astronomical masterpiece, the deluxe manuscript of the Han……続きを見る