Synthèse sur l'histoire politique de l'Europe des origines à nos jours, ainsi que sur la civilisation européenne sous ses divers aspects permettant de comprendre les problématiques actuelles. ©Electre 2015.
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"Based upon a 'performative' interpretation of royal charters, The Politics of Memory and Identity offers a new and surprising narrative of West Frankish history from the death of Louis the Pious in 840 to the demise of the Carolingian dynasty in 987. The key is a carefully cont…
Presents a wealth of original research findings on how medieval ports actually worked, providing new insights on shipping, trade, port society and culture, and systems of regional and international integration.
"The Norman Conquest is one of the most momentous events in English history and its consequences changed England forever. Indeed, the Battle of Hastings and its aftermath nearly wiped out the leading families of Anglo-Saxon England - so what happened to the children this conflic…
"The recorded history of gypsy communities in Europe begins with the arrival of the Roma in the fourteenth century, although genetic and linguistic evidence demonstrates that this group left northwest India sometime before the seventh. Remarkably, this leaves a 700-year unexplor…
"The recorded history of gypsy communities in Europe begins with the arrival of the Roma in the fourteenth century, although genetic and linguistic evidence demonstrates that this group left northwest India sometime before the seventh. Remarkably, this leaves a 700-year unexplor…
List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Tables and Diagrams -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Counts of Norman Italy Before Roger II -- 2. The New Kingdom's Nobility and the Creation of the South Italian Counties -- 3. Leadership and Opposition of …
Whilst historians often regard the Norman Kingdom of Sicily as centralised and administratively advanced, County and Nobility in Norman Italy counters this traditional interpretation; far from centralised and streamlined, this book reveals how the genesis and social structures o…
Adam Usk, a fifteenth-century professor, royal advisor, schismatic, and spy, wrote a peculiar book in a reticent, nervous prose better suited to keeping secrets than setting them in writing. Steven Justice sets out to find what Usk wanted to hide and comes to surprising conclusi…
"Today, werewolves are primarily known through films: as humans who change into wolves under the influence of the full moon. Although this is a recent image, werewolves have a long, fragmented and discontinuous history. Werewolf Histories is the first academic book in English to…
How did a Late Roman emperor stay on the throne? His position was always precarious, and in contrast to a modern hereditary monarch he could always lose power or even his life to a usurper. The Eastern emperors resided in Constantinople from 395 to 624 without a break. This book…
" Noble society collects five Latin sources, translated into English for the first time, highlighting the diverse experiences of German aristocrats between 1075 and 1200. These biographical texts show noblemen and noblewomen - a margrave, a bishop, an abbess, a count and a magis…
This volume presents the latest historical, theological and site-specific developments in the study of the Image of Edessa, shedding new light onto various different aspects of the icon. Experts from Russia, Spain, Australia, Georgia, Italy and the United Kingdom bring their lat…
Each of these 13 articles by researchers from seven countries provides a case study on the subject of list.
The present conference proceedings consist of 18 articles based on papers presented on 6th and 7th December 2007 at the international conference "Emperor Sigismund (437). Rulership in Practice, Charters and Rituals" at Masaryk-University's, Brno, Historical Institute. The confer…
Das vorliegende Buch versammelt 18 Beiträge, die zum Grossteil auf Referate zurückgehen, die am 6. und 7. Dezember 2007 im Rahmen der internationalen Tagung "Kaiser Sigismund (437). Herrschaftspraxis, Urkunden und Rituale", am Historischen Institut der Masaryk-Universität in Brü…
Der Tiroler Adelige Oswald von Wolkenstein (um 1376-1445), ein einzigartiger Exponent spätmittelalterlicher deutscher Lyrik, hat neben seinem künsterischen Werk Briefe, Urkunden und Akten hinterlassen, die seine persönliche ritterliche Karriere und das standestypische Leben sein…