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Descubra el primer gran estilo artístico europeo, desde los ostrogodos y Carlomagno hasta su propagación por Europa a través del Camino de Santiago. Adéntrese en el recóndito mundo del arco de medio punto.... Conozca el arte románico, el primer estilo artístico preeminentemente cristiano en el que se agruparon el arte romano, germánico, bizantino, visigodo, y mozárabe. Con Breve historia del Románico el oyente conocerá el desarrollo de la sociedad, el arte y la cultura a lo largo de la Alta Edad Media.

La evolución territorial de la Corona de Castilla. Claves de los procesos políticos, sociales, repobladores, económicos y culturales del período medieval. El germen de la administración territorial e institucional de la España contemporánea. Breve historia de la Corona de Castilla supone una atalaya panorámica del recorrido histórico del reino castellano durante el período medieval, atendiendo no sólo a los aspectos político-institucionales, militares y territoriales, sino abordando las características de todos los grupos sociales....

Una dinastía que supo expandirse por el Mediterráneo y crear, a golpe de hierro, uno de los reinos más importantes de toda la Edad Media. Es un lugar común en el estudio de la historia de España, centrarse en la historia de Castilla a la hora de estudiar la Edad Media y dedicarle menos tiempo al estudio de la Corona de Aragón. David González Ruiz, en un estilo cercano a la narración -como corresponde a este periodo de batallas y traiciones pretende señalar la importancia del reino de Aragón, que fue más decisivo en el devenir de la historia....

The Sagrat militiamen suspend their hunt for Alejandro and return to Valencia to discover that they have become the prey. When Rafael Perato is abducted at the Inquisitor’s funeral, he finds himself facing a new and dangerous enemy. What his captor wants with him is unclear, but as the days turn to weeks, Rafael is plunged deeper and deeper into a web of deceit and betrayal.

Descubra el primer gran estilo artístico europeo, desde los ostrogodos y Carlomagno hasta su propagación por Europa a través del Camino de Santiago. Adéntrese en el recóndito mundo del arco de medio punto y la bóveda de cañón, y en el simbolismo de las imágenes, protagonistas de un estilo cristiano que unificó durante varios siglos todo el arte de Occidente.

Adrianne Percy was hidden in the Western Isles, safe from her family's enemies - until her sisters sent a notorious pirate to return her to the Highlands. But when she hatches a plan to free her kidnapped mother, it requires her to marry the handsome rogue. But what begins as a simple matter of business quickly flares into an uncontrollable desire. As Adrianne's heart smolders, their calculated arrangement threatens to ignite into a burning passion....

Saint Patrick was, by his own admission, a controversial figure. Convicted in a trial by his elders in Britain and hounded by rumors that he settled in Ireland for financial gain, the man who was to become Ireland’s patron saint battled against great odds before succeeding as a missionary. Saint Patrick Retold draws on recent research to offer a fresh assessment of Patrick’s travails and achievements. This is the first biography in nearly 50 years to explore Patrick’s career against the background of historical events in late antique Britain and Ireland.

Between the 12th and 15th centuries in Europe, not all women fit the stereotype of passive housewife and mother. Many led bold and dynamic lives. In this collection of historical portraits, Maria Teresa Brolis tells the fascinating tales of fashion icons, art clients, businesswomen, saints, healers, lovers, and pilgrims - both famous and little known - who challenge conventional understandings of the medieval female experience. Drawing on evidence from literary works and archival documents, Brolis pieces together an intricate overview of 16 women's lives. 

Dripping with blood and gold, fetishised and tortured, gateway to earthly delights and point of contact with the divine, forcibly divided and powerful even beyond death, there was no territory more contested than the body in the medieval world. In Medieval Bodies, art historian Jack Hartnell uncovers the complex and fascinating ways in which the people of the Middle Ages thought about, explored and experienced their physical selves.

Di tutte le civiltà che esistevano nell'anno Mille, quella dell'Europa occidentale sembrava la peggior candidata per un futuro radioso. Paragonati agli imperi scintillanti di Bisanzio o dell'Islam, i regni frammentati affacciati sull'Atlantico sembravano poveri, impauriti e poco sviluppati. Ma l'anarchia di quegli anni non era il presagio per la fine del mondo, ma la fucina di un ordine radicalmente diverso.

Sie regierten über Jahrhunderte: Herrschergeschlechter wie die Karolinger und Ottonen, Merowinger, Staufer und Salier...

War das Mittelalter wirklich finster? Waren Burgen uneinnehmbar und die Menschen damals einfältig-dumm? Um kaum eine historische Epoche ranken sich derart viele und widersprüchliche Mythen wie um das Mittelalter. Es gilt als Inbegriff einer finsteren Zeit voll abergläubischer Intoleranz und grausamer Gewalt: Verschwenderische Fürsten unterdrückten rücksichtslos das darbende Volk, an jeder Ecke standen Galgen, brannten Scheiterhaufen, und schon ein fauler Zahn konnte den Tod bedeuten.

Eine bewegte Zeit in Europa: Die Hunnen erweiterten ihren Machtbereich und zwangen ganze Völker, ihre Heimat zu verlassen...

In The Rule of Empires, Timothy Parsons gives a sweeping account of the evolution of empire from its origins in ancient Rome to its most recent twentieth-century embodiment. He explains what constitutes an empire and offers suggestions about what empires of the past can tell us about our own historical moment. Parsons uses imperial examples that stretch from ancient Rome, to Britain's "new" imperialism in Kenya, to the Third Reich to parse the features common to all empires, their evolutions and self-justifying myths, and the reasons for their inevitable decline.

Il nome collettivo Indiani, o Indios, venne applicato alle popolazioni native americane dagli esploratori spagnoli, e in generale europei, nell’età moderna. Ma cinquecento anni prima, intorno all'anno 1000, da quanto ci viene raccontato nelle saghe vichinghe giunte fino a noi, i nativi americani avevano già avuto qualche incontro più o meno benevolo con gli europei.

Who was Robin Hood? Throughout history the figures of the hooded man of Sherwood Forest and his band of outlaws have transfixed readers, listeners, and viewers; but where does the myth come from? The story appeared out of the legend of the Green man, but found its location during the reign of Richard I, the Lionheart, who was away from England fighting in the crusades. In his absence, his brother John laid waste to the country. But does this tell the full story?

Nichts hat das Mittelalter so geprägt wie das Christentum - alle Bereiche des Lebens wurden von einem übermächtigen Glauben bestimmt...

Das mittelalterliche Leben in der Stadt unterschied sich grundlegend von dem auf dem Land...

The deepest currents of passion seldom break the surface of literature. Romantic classics abound; but however skilled a writer may be in verbalising an emotional experience, he cannot publicly evoke the heat of blood, the yearning of soul, bared in perfect intimacy between two beings. But letters can do this, and songs never meant to be sung by any but the lover, or the beloved.

Sie faszinieren uns noch heute: trutzige Ritterburgen und prächtige Königsresidenzen. Doch wie gestaltete sich das Leben am Hofe wirklich...