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Un retrato fiel y evocador de una civilización que, más de mil años después, sigue despertando fascinación.La cultura vikinga suele presentarse envuelta en tópicos: guerreros feroces y sanguinarios, saqueadores que vivian al margen de la ley y enterraban a sus muertos en barcos, incansables exploradores capaces de atravesar mares y territorios desconocidos desafiando cualquier peligro... Sin embargo, la realidad fue mucho mas rica y compleja. Su sociedad, sus creencias y su modo de vida conformaron una de las culturas mas fascinantes que ha alumbrado la historia.Kirsten Wolf, una de las mayores especialistas en el mundo vikingo, se embarca en un viaje en el tiempo para mostrarnos como transcurria un dia cualquiera para los miembros de esta atractiva comunidad. A traves de veinticuatro inolvidables personajes una esclava, un rey, un tallador de runas, un poeta, un guerrero, un comerciante o un campesino, el lector se adentra en la vida cotidiana de este sorprendente y cautivador universo.Una mirada vivida y cercana a una civilizacion apasionante.

Because he had the courage to make his passionate protest against a worldwide terror, Castellios feud with Calvin must remain everlastingly memorable Stefan Zweig saw sixteenth-century Geneva as a place gripped by heresy-hunting fanaticism and raging ideologies of violence. A world in which free-thinking humanists too often foresaw, and failed to protest, the disasters that draconian leaders would bring upon Europe. Theologian and writer Sebastian Castellio, however, did condemn the burning of heretics as murder and advocated for religious tolerance, at great personal cost. Written in 1936 when Zweig himself had just fled the rise of Nazism, The Right to Heresy is the story of Castellios feud with Calvinist doctrine, and an urgent polemic on individual sacrifices made, throughout history, in resistance to authoritarianism.

Women in the Middle Ages led fascinating and often wildly differing everyday lives, depending on their social class and family situation. However, to date this rich variety of experience has not been fully brought to light, because books on the general subject of life in the Middle Ages tend to have multiple chapters devoted to men of different classes (kings, lords, knights, merchants, tradesmen, monks, and so on) and then one chapter at the end entitled women, as though the female half of the population was some kind of homogenous mass! But womens experiences varied just as much as mens did, and in this book we will turn the spotlight on them, in lively and interesting detail, as we meet women of all social classes and learn about their lives.A number of medieval women have been the subject of previous studies and biographies. However, they tend to be the exceptional figures who broke the mould, which leads us to ask: What about the women who were not exceptional, who did not blaze a new trail? What was life like for the vast majority who were obliged to live within the constraints imposed on the female half of the population? This book will provide answers to these questions, shedding light on the full breadth of their experiences for the first time.