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The Crisis of the Twelfth Century
Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 720 páginas
PVP: 36,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16976-7
EAN 9780691169767
Medieval civilization came of age in thunderous events like the Norman Conquest and the First Crusade. Power fell into the hands of men who imposed coercive new lordships in quest of nobility. Rethinking a familiar history, Thomas Bisson explores the circumstances that impelled knights, emperors, nobles, and churchmen to infuse lordship with social purpose.Bisson traces ...
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Byzantium Triumphant
The Military History of the Byzantines 959-1025
- Pen & Sword Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 33,65 €
ISBN 978-1-4738-4570-1
EAN 9781473845701
Byzantium Triumphant describes in detail the wars of the Byzantine emperors Nicephorus II Phocas, his nephew and assassin John I Tzimiskes, and Basil II. The operations, battles and drama of their various bitter struggles unfold, depicting the new energy and improved methods of warfare developed in the late tenth century. These emperors were at war ...
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- Robinson, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,60 €
ISBN 978-1-4721-3642-8
EAN 9781472136428
There can be few military victories so complete, or achieved against such heavy odds, as that won by Henry V on 25 October 1415 against Charles VI's army at Agincourt. In the words of one contemporary French chronicler, it was the 'most disgraceful event that had ever happened to the Kingdom of France'. Christopher Hibbert's ...
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- Pimlico, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 27,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-5664-1
EAN 9780712656641
The Middle Ages inherited from Antiquity a tradition of prophesy and gave it fresh and exuberant life. This tradition foretold a Millennium in which humanity would enjoy a new Paradise on earth, free of suffering and sin - a Kingdom of the Saints. Generation after generation was intermittently seized by a tense expectation of some ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-021962-8
EAN 9780190219628
In 1144, the mutilated body of William of Norwich, a young apprentice leatherworker, was found abandoned outside the city's walls. The boy bore disturbing signs of torture, and a story soon spread that it was a ritual murder, performed by Jews in imitation of the Crucifixion as a mockery of Christianity. The outline of William's ...
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- Vintage UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-09-955184-3
EAN 9780099551843
The Northmen's Fury tells the Viking story, from the first pinprick raids of the eighth century to the great armies that left their Scandinavian homelands to conquer larger parts of France, Britain and Ireland. It recounts the epic voyages that took them across the Atlantic to the icy fjords of Greenland and to North America ...
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The Mongol Empire
Genghis Khan, his heirs and the founding of modern China
- Transworld, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-552-16880-9
EAN 9780552168809
Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals: a leader of genius, driven by an inspiring vision for peaceful world rule. Believing he was divinely protected, Genghis united warring clans to create a nation and then an empire that ran across much of Asia. Under his grandson, Kublai Khan, the vision evolved into a more complex ...
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- Hutchinson, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
ISBN 978-0-09-195423-9
EAN 9780091954239
The definitive and brilliantly compelling new biography of the treacherous and tyrannical King John. Published to coincide with the 800-year anniversary of Magna Carta by the bestselling author of A Great and Terrible King and The Norman Conquest. Many will be familiar with King John as the tyrant whose misgovernment gave rise to Magna Carta, ...
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Sleepwalking into a New World
The Emergence of Italian City Communes in the Twelfth Century
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 29,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14828-1
EAN 9780691148281
Amid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a new form of collective government the commune arose in the cities of northern and central Italy. Sleepwalking into a New World takes a bold new look at how these autonomous city-states came about, and fundamentally alters our understanding of one ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 480 páginas
PVP: 24,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119877-4
EAN 9780141198774
A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo's seminal account of his journeys in the east, in a collectible clothbound edition. Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kublai Khan ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 319 páginas
PVP: 55,90 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28370-1
EAN 9780520283701
The Final Pagan Generation recounts the fascinating story of the lives and fortunes of the last Romans born before the Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity. Edward J. Watts traces their experiences of living through the fourth century's dramatic religious and political changes, when heated confrontations saw the Christian establishment legislate against pagan practices as mobs ...
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The Hundred Years War
A People's History
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 360 páginas
PVP: 35,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-13451-3
EAN 9780300134513
What life was like for ordinary French and English people, embroiled in a devastating century-long conflict that changed their worldThe Hundred Years War (1337-1453) dominated life in England and France for well over a century. It became the defining feature of existence for generations. This sweeping book is the first to tell the human story ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 24,70 €
ISBN 978-0-19-991636-8
EAN 9780199916368
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- IBTauris, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-057-0
EAN 9781784530570
Late in the tenth century, the Norse Vikings embarked on a voyage of no return. Leaving Iceland first for Greenland, from there they sailed onwards to North America, setting foot on its shores five hundred years before Columbus's first journeys of discovery. But by about AD 1500 their settlements were abandoned and the Norse Greenlanders ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20888-7
EAN 9780300208887
When the armies of the First Crusade wrested Jerusalem from control of the Fatimids of Egypt in 1099, they believed their victory was an evident sign of God's favor. It was, therefore, incumbent upon them to fulfill what they understood to be God's plan: to reestablish Christian control of Syria and Palestine. This book is ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-19-969729-8
EAN 9780199697298
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- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 29,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14985-1
EAN 9780691149851
The Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by medieval and modern myth. It is true that they pillaged, looted, and enslaved. But they also settled peacefully and developed a vast trading network.They traveled far from their homelands in swift and sturdy ships, not only to raid, but ...
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Edward III and the Triumph of England
The Battle of Crecy and the Company of the Garter
- Penguin UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 672 páginas
PVP: 16,49 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102067-9
EAN 9780141020679
The destruction of the French army at Crecy in 1346 and the subsequent siege and capture of Calais marked a new era in European history. The most powerful, glamorous and respected of all western monarchies had been completely humiliated by England, a country long viewed either as a chaotic backwater or a mere French satellite. ...
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The Conquest of Saxony AD 782 785
Charlemagne's defeat of Widukind of Westphalia
- Osprey, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 25,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78200-825-5
EAN 9781782008255
Charlemagne's conquest of the Saxons was the hardest fought and most protracted of his wars; it involved 18 campaigns spread across 33 years, a great deal of lower-level fighting and the harshest final peace settlement that Charlemagne ever imposed upon a defeated foe. Rapidly taking on the character of a religious conquest from its outset, ...
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For much of the twelfth century the ideals and activities of crusaders were often described in language more normally associated with a monastic rather than a military vocation; like those who took religious vows, crusaders were repeatedly depicted as being driven by a desire to imitate Christ and to live according to the values of ...
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