Integrates medieval Germany into western social history.
EUROPEAN HISTORY (IE OTHER THAN BRITAIN & IRELAND). The greatest of medieval monarchs, Charles the Great (742-814) towers over every notion we have of national heroes and semi-mythical champions. His military conquests exceeded those of Julius Caesar. He had the sagacity and ded…
Christianity spread across North Africa early, and it remained there as a powerful force much longer than anticipated. While this African form of Christianity largely shared the Latin language and Roman culture of the wider empire, it also represented a unique tradition that was…
"Who 'lost' Christian North Africa? Who won it and how? Walter Kaegi takes a fresh look at these perennial questions, with maps and on-site observations, in this exciting new book. Persisting clouds of suspicion and blame overshadowed many Byzantine attempts to defend North Afri…
Bernard Lewis uses the year 1492, a year laden with epic events and riven by political debate, to explore the clash between the Jews, Christendom, and Islam, as well as that between the New World and the Old.
Les évêques ont été des acteurs majeurs de la paix durant tout le Moyen Âge. La présente étude s'attache à démontrer le rôle structurel exercé par l'épiscopat dans le règlement des confl its au haut Moyen Âge, tout en dégageant les évolutions majeures qui s'observent dans ce dom…
"Les évêques ont été des acteurs majeurs de la paix durant tout le Moyen Âge. La présente étude s'attache à démontrer le rôle structurel exercé par l'épiscopat dans le règlement des conflits au haut Moyen Âge, tout en dégageant les évolutions majeures qui s'observent dans ce dom…
Jews lived in Egypt for centuries, since biblical times ; nevertheless, Jewish life in medieval Islamic Egypt was for many years an obscure and understudied theme. This book offers the reader a wide-ranging picture of Jewish life in medieval Egypt as depicted by most recent scho…
"Jews lived in Egypt over many centuries, from biblical times until the middle of the previous century. Nevertheless, Jewish life in medieval Islamic Egypt was for many years an obscure and understudied theme. The present book offers the reader a wide-ranging picture of Jewish l…
"Jews lived in Egypt over many centuries, from biblical times until the middle of the previous century. Nevertheless, Jewish life in medieval Islamic Egypt was for many years an obscure and understudied theme. The present book offers the reader a wide-ranging picture of Jewish l…
Between the Hellenistic World and the Cairo Genizah: The Jewish Community in Late Antique Egypt / Tal Ilan -- A Concise History of Islamic Egypt / Yehoshua Frenkel -- The Community's Borders; Converts and Renegades / Moshe Yagur -- Communal Self-Government: The Genizah Period / …