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The Abacus and the Cross
The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages
- Basic Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-465-03144-3
EAN 9780465031443
The medieval Catholic Church, widely considered a source of intolerance and inquisitorial fervor, was not anti-science during the Dark Ages,in fact, the pope in the year 1000 was the leading mathematician and astronomer of his day. Called The Scientist Pope," Gerbert of Aurillac rose from peasant beginnings to lead the church. By turns a teacher, ...
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City of Fortune
How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire
- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-24595-6
EAN 9780571245956
A magisterial work of gripping history, "City of Fortune" tells the story of the Venetian ascent from lagoon dwellers to the greatest power in the Mediterranean - an epic five hundred year voyage that encompassed crusade and trade, plague, sea battles and colonial adventure. In Venice, the path to empire unfolded in a series of ...
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The Plantagenets
The Kings who Made England
Eight generations of the greatest and worst kings and queens that this country has ever seen - from the White Ship to the Lionheart, bad King John to the Black Prince and John of Gaunt - this is the dynasty that invented England as we still know it today - great history to appeal to ...
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Foundation
The History of England
Having written enthralling biographies of London and of its great river, the Thames, Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself. This first volume of six takes us from the time that England was first settled, more than 15,000 years ago, to the death in 1509 of the first Tudor monarch, Henry VII. In it, Ackroyd ...
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Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness
Arab Travellers in the Far North
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-045507-6
EAN 9780140455076
In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River. In his subsequent report on his mission he gave a meticulous and astonishingly objective description of Viking customs, dress, table manners, religion and sexual practices, as well as the only ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95522-2
EAN 9780241955222
'O day so ardently desired! O time of times the most memorable! O deed before all other deeds!'The fall of Jerusalem in the summer of 1099 to an exhausted and starving army of Western European soldiers was one of the most extraordinary events of the Middle Ages.It was both the climax of a great wave ...
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The Great Caliphs
The Golden Age of the Abbasid Empire
- Tauris Parke, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 24,30 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-976-0
EAN 9781848859760
The flowering of the 'Abbasid caliphate between 750 and 1258 CE is often considered the classical age of Islamic civilization. In the preceding 120 years the Arabs had conquered much of the known world of antiquity and established a vast empire stretching from Spain to China. But was this empire really so very different, as ...
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She Wolves
The Women who Ruled England before Elizabeth
- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23706-7
EAN 9780571237067
The boy in the bed was just fifteen years old. He had been handsome, perhaps even recently; but now his face was swollen and disfigured by disease, and by the treatments his doctors had prescribed in the attempt to ward off its ravages. Their failure could no longer be mistaken.When Edward VI - Henry VIII's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 472 páginas
PVP: 45,50 €
ISBN 978-0-87580-439-2
EAN 9780875804392
The Emperor and the Saint is a vivid place-by-place telling of the life and times of the most enlightened, creative, and dynamic ruler of Medieval Europe, Frederick II of Hohenstaufen. St. Francis, who shared with Frederick a love of the natural world and was baptized in the same cathedral in Assisi, is a parallel and ...
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Emperor of the West
Charlemagne and the Carolingian Empire
- Quercus Publishing, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 16,30 €
ISBN 978-0-85738-162-0
EAN 9780857381620
Through his foreign conquests and internal reforms, Charlemagne is a defining figure of both Western Europe and the Middle Ages. Crowned king of the Franks in 768, he expanded their kingdoms into an empire that incorporated much of western and central Europe, recreating a single Christian imperium in the heartlands of the old Western Roman ...
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- Routledge, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 168 páginas
PVP: 24,70 €
ISBN 978-0-415-60223-5
EAN 9780415602235
Christopher Daniell's Atlas of Medieval Britain presents a sweeping visual survey of Britain from the Roman occupation to 1485. Annotated throughout with clear commentary, this volume tells the story of the British Isles, and makes visually accessible the varied and often complex world of the Middle Ages. The Atlas depicts the spatial distribution of key ...
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Medieval Intrigue
Decoding Royal Conspiracies
- Bloomsbury Academic, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
ISBN 978-1-84706-589-6
EAN 9781847065896
In this important new work Ian Mortimer examines some of the most controversial questions in medieval history, including whether Edward II was murdered, his possible later life in Italy, the weakness of the Lancastrian claim to the throne in 1399 and the origins of the idea of the royal pretender. Central to this book is ...
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- Pimlico, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 656 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84595-097-2
EAN 9781845950972
Henry V is regarded as the great English hero. Lionised in his own day for his victory at Agincourt, his piety and his rigorous application of justice, he was elevated by Shakespeare into a champion of English nationalism for all future generations. But what was he really like? Does he deserve to be thought of ...
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- Random House UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84595-078-1
EAN 9781845950781
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Así comienza Chrétien de Troyes las aventuras del caballero Lancelot, y muchas de estas cosas dignas de mención encontrará el lector en este libro del gran medievalista británico Maurice Keen. Pero, ¿cómo puede diferenciar el historiador un modelo extraído de un mundo de ficción y fantasía con su propia realidad histórica? En La caballería, Keen ...
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God's Philosophers
How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science
- Icon Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84831-150-3
EAN 9781848311503
This is a powerful and a thrilling narrative history revealing the roots of modern science in the medieval world. The adjective 'medieval' has become a synonym for brutality and uncivilized behavior. Yet without the work of medieval scholars there could have been no Galileo, no Newton and no Scientific Revolution.In "God's Philosophers", James Hannam debunks ...
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Summer of Blood
The Peasants Revolt of 1381
- Harper Collins, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-00-721393-1
EAN 9780007213931
The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 is one of the most dramatic and bloody events in English history. Starting with village riots in the Essex countryside, chaos rapidly spread across much of the south-east of England, as tens of thousands of ordinary men and women marched in fury to London, torching houses, slaughtering their social superiors ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 688 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-14-029014-1
EAN 9780140290141
The world known as the 'Dark Ages', often seen as a time of barbarism, was in fact the crucible in which modern Europe would be created.Chris Wickham's acclaimed history shows how this period, encompassing peoples such as Goths, Franks, Vandals, Byzantines, Arabs, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, was central to the development of our history and culture. ...
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- Pimlico, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84595-099-6
EAN 9781845950996
The past is a foreign country: this is your guidebook. Imagine you could get into a time machine and travel back to the fourteenth century. What would you see? What would you smell? More to the point, where are you going to stay? Should you go to a castle or a monastic guesthouse? And what ...
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- Abacus UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11972-4
EAN 9780349119724
Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or Islam, the splintered kingdoms on the edge of the Atlantic appeared impoverished, fearful and backward. But the anarchy of these years proved to be, not the portents ...
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