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La Edad Media tiene rincones oscuros, como sucede con cualquier época, pero hay en ella más luces que penumbras. En el amplio marco de la historia, el Medioevo posee sobradas cualidades para salir bien parado. Una simple mirada a sus grandes creaciones -la Universidad, el arte romanico y el gotico, la escolastica- deberia convencer al mas esceptico. Nuestro mundo, tal como lo conocemos, perderia gran parte de su riqueza si prescindieramos de los frescos de Giotto, de la Divina Comedia de Dante, del Cantico Espiritual de San Francisco o de los escritos de San Bernardo.Con esta conviccion el profesor Vidal Guzman nos ofrece una vision panoramica de la Historia de la civilizacion occidental, como ya hiciera en sus anteriores titulos, Retratos de la Antiguedad Griega y Retratos de la Antiguedad Romana y la Primera Cristiandad. Una vez mas, se asoma a la historia desde los Retratos de sus protagonistas mas destacados.

"Hombre casi analfabeto, Carlomagno supo valorar la cultura clásica por lo que llamó a sabios de Constantinopla y reconoció la cultura del latín y la Iglesia Católica como vertebradores de las culturas romana y germanica. Historia apasionante de un hombre lleno de brio y sagacidad para unir, no solo territorios sino voluntades y objetivos. Sus dotes para la guerra y la administracion de los territorios facilitaron el desarrollo de los hechos." (Web Artes hoy) "En un texto ameno y de facil lectura se nos presenta la figura de este gran hombre en medio de datos historicos, curiosidades, anecdotas y la certeza de que el autor de la obra sabe de lo que esta hablando. En definitiva, es un libro muy recomendable para quienes quieran conocer las raices de la cultura occidental a traves de la figura de su creador historico." (Web Anika entre libros) Un gran estratega militar, un administrador sin igual: Carlomagno unifico Europa y le dio sus señas de identidad. Poco es lo que se ha escrito sobre uno de los hombres mas relevantes de la historia, quiza por los prejuicios que arrastra, incluso para los estudiosos, la Edad Media. Considerada unanimemente como un periodo salvaje y oscuro, pocos olvidan el espiritu de Carlomagno, el rey de los francos, un sobresaliente militar que formo un imperio compuesto por Galia, Germania, Italia y la parte norte de España. Breve Historia de Carlomagno nos enfrenta a este personaje fundamental que entre los siglos VIII y IX dio un impulso fundamental a la cultura medieval arraigada en la cultura grecorromana, aunque tamizada por el cristianismo y que uso los monasterios y las multiples escuelas que el emperador creo para difundirse por toda Europa y constituir su esencia. Entre la biografia y el estudio historico, el libro de Juan Carlos Rivera Quintana nos pone en antecedentes explicandonos como era la Europa anterior al emperador y las dinastias que gobernaban los diversos reinos que unificaria.

Esta edición digital en formato ePub se ha realizado a partir de una edición impresa digitalizada que forma parte de los fondos de la Biblioteca Nacional de España.El proyecto de creación de ePubs a partir de obras digitalizadas de la BNE pretende enriquecer la oferta de servicios de la Biblioteca Digital Hispanica y se enmarca en el proyecto BNElab, que nace con el objetivo de impulsar el uso de los recursos digitales de la Biblioteca Nacional de España.En el proceso de digitalizacion de documentos, los impresos son en primer lugar digitalizados en forma de imagen. Posteriormente, el texto es extraido de manera automatizada gracias a la tecnologia de reconocimiento optico de caracteres (OCR).El texto asi obtenido ha sido aqui revisado, corregido y convertido a ePub (libro electronico o publicacion electronica), formato abierto y estandar de libros digitales. Se intenta respetar en la mayor medida posible el texto original (por ejemplo en cuanto a ortografia), pero pueden realizarse modificaciones con vistas a una mejor legibilidad y adaptacion al nuevo formato.Si encuentra errores o anomalias, estaremos muy agradecidos si nos lo hacen saber a traves del correo bnelab@bne.es.Las obras aqui convertidas a ePub se encuentran en dominio publico, y la utilizacion de estos textos es libre y gratuita.

[…] Como tiempo, el Renacimiento va desde (las bisagras) Dante Alighieri y Giotto di Bondone hasta el siglo xviii, aunque esto, todavía, es motivo de discusión. El va y el hasta, además, se aplica al

Ensayo historiográfico que sigue los pasos de Felipe II desde su nacimiento hasta su muerte. Poniendo la vida del monarca en el contexto histórico de Europa, Balaguer hace un análisis exhaustivo de la situacion geopolitica de España y sus paises vecinos durante el siglo XVI. Pretende, con este libro de dos tomos, estudiar los antecedentes, el caracter, la vida y el gobierno de Felipe II.El segundo tomo empieza con la guerra entre España e Inglaterra. Balaguer ahonda en la historia de Europa, y como esta afecta a la española. Resigue la vida de Felipe II hasta su muerte, causada por una enfermedad, en 1598. El tomo contiene tambien apendices completos sobre politica, religion, ciencia y literatura española durante el reinado del monarca.

Ensayo historiográfico que sigue los pasos de Felipe II desde su nacimiento hasta su muerte. Poniendo la vida del monarca en el contexto histórico de Europa, Balaguer hace un análisis exhaustivo de la situacion geopolitica de España y sus paises vecinos durante el siglo XVI. Pretende, con este libro de dos tomos, estudiar los antecedentes, el caracter, la vida y el gobierno de Felipe II.En el primer tomo, Balaguer se explaya con los antecedentes historicos, europeos y españoles que precedieron al nacimiento del monarca. Balaguer desgrana la vida de Felipe II, desde 1527, su nacimiento, hasta 1587.

Egeria es una dama cristiana del siglo IV, viajera y escritora romana, parece que originaria de la provincia de Hispania y probablemente emparentada con el emperador Teodosio el Grande. De ascendencia noble, gozaba de una posicion economica acomodada y de una cultura notable. Sus escritos revelan una profunda religiosidad y gozan tambien de un valor inestimable por su antiguedad, su frescura y su contribucion a la arqueologia.En el año 378 inicia una peregrinacion a los Santos Lugares, y anota en sus escritos tanto las peripecias del viaje como la descripcion de las ceremonias liturgicas a las que asiste durante su expedicion. Este volumen incluye solo la cronica viajera. Egeria sigue las huellas de Moises, a dieciseis siglos de distancia de lo narrado en el libro del Exodo. Recorre Egipto, Palestina y Mesopotamia, y tambien Asia Menor y Constantinopla. Sin pretension literaria, ayuda al lector a conocer mejor la cuna de la cultura judeocristiana.

Numerosas perspectivas han hecho a los medievalistas interesarse por las prácticas sociales, los modelos de convivencia, las representaciones literarias de la ciudad o la sociotopografía. Imágenes de la ciudad y la vida cotidiana son asuntos frecuentes en los acercamientos que se llevan a cabo. Buscando mayor concrecion dentro de estos enfoques sobre cultura y mentalidades urbanas, los autores, investigan la posibilidad de abordar en distintos escenarios historicos los efectos que las acciones de los grupos sociales y poderes establecidos concejos, Iglesia, monarquia o noblezas, que tuvieron en el gobierno de las villas o ciudades, en la gestion de los espacios publicos o en las relaciones con las elites locales, el comun de vecinos o los oficios. La percepcion que sobre la ciudad y sus habitantes se tenia en la epoca, palpable a traves de textos y documentos, seria igualmente objeto de la exploracion. En la busqueda de la conexion entre las sociedades urbanas y las culturas politicas el ambito estaba fijado en la Corona de Castilla durante los siglos XIII al XV.

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.

From rumours of lost Amazonian cities of gold to the silver running through the mountains of Bolivia, hopes for dazzling wealth fuelled the imperial fantasies of the Tudors and Stuarts. But while stories of treasure ships and privateers like Walter Raleigh have become entrenched in national myths - what did Elizabethans actually know about Mexico, the Amazon rainforest, or the Chesapeake? How did Indigenous people and knowledge enter the art, fashion, and literature of Shakespeares time - and at what cost?A Golden World illuminates how the Americas became a visible and material presence in English culture, through a range of unexpected objects: from tobacco leaves strewn in playhouses to a boy wearing a pearl earring. Award-winning historian Lauren Working presents an altogether new history of the golden age of 16th century England, that considers the desire for power, land and resources in the first era of colonization, alongside the craft and labour of those in the Americas who contributed to the English Renaissance as we know it.

Women in the Middle Ages led fascinating and often wildly differing everyday lives, depending on their social class and family situation. Yet their wealth of experience has long been obscured and overshadowed by the experiences of men, with history books often relegating women to a single, catchall chapter, as if their lives formed a unified story.While a number of medieval women have claimed biographers attention, they tend to be the exceptional figures who broke the mould. What, then, of the countless others who were not exceptional and who did not blaze a new trail? How did their family lives and the constraints imposed upon them influence the ways in which they lived, worked, rejoiced, grieved and shaped their world?The Family Lives of Medieval Women turns the spotlight on these women and examines how the concept of family impacted every aspect of their existence, whatever their social class. It draws us into bustling towns and rural villages, into courts and castles, to meet secular women of every standing and learn about their lived experiences. For the first time, the full spectrum of the female familial experience is considered, illuminating the lives of medieval women with the depth, nuance and humanity they have always deserved.

Il crollo di un impero millenario si consuma in un turbine di sangue, ambizione e scontri tra civilta agli antipodi. Le legioni romane arretrano mentre nuovi popoli guerrieri varcano i confini, trasformando radicalmente il volto e il destino della penisola. Attraverso una narrazione epica e rigorosa, vengono portati alla luce i complessi intrecci politici e le tragedie umane che hanno segnato questepoca di caos e rinascita. Un affresco storico maestoso che fa rivivere il tumulto di un mondo in frantumi.

Marco Polos Travels has shaped Western imagination of the East for over seven centuriesa world of golden cities, wise emperors, and impossible customs. Yet historians have long debated how much of his account was eyewitness truth and how much came from hearsay or creative adaptation. This book disentangles fact from legend, tracing what Marco Polo truly saw on his journey from Venice to the court of Kublai Khan.Combining textual analysis with archaeological and linguistic evidence, it follows the Polos route through Persia, Central Asia, and China, comparing Polos descriptions with caravan records, Mongol administrative documents, and material culture uncovered across the Silk Road. What emerges is a vivid record of real observation layered with narrative crafta map of the medieval imagination as much as of Asia itself.From the bureaucracy of the Yuan Empire to the markets of Kashgar, Polos story reveals how medieval travelers became both witnesses and translators of worlds in motion. This is not an expose of fraud, but a reconstruction of truth: how memory, mediation, and wonder shaped Europes first great window into the East.

For a brief but extraordinary century, a single empire stretched from the Pacific coast to the gates of Europeand trade flowed as never before. The Pax Mongolica was one of historys great paradoxes: a peace built on unprecedented destruction, a commercial golden age made possible by the most formidable military machine the world had ever seen.This book traces the arc of that contradictory era, following merchants, diplomats, missionaries, and emissaries who walked the Silk Road under Mongol protection. It examines how the empires ruthless administrative efficiencyits postal relay system, standardized weights, and guaranteed safe passagecreated the conditions for a globalized medieval economy. Chinese silk reached Venetian looms. Persian astronomy traveled to Chinese courts. Plague, too, found its corridors.Drawing on chronicles, traveler accounts, and archaeological evidence, this narrative history explores how terror and tolerance coexistedand what that legacy means for understanding empire, trade, and cultural exchange today.

The Norse myths are among the most vivid survival narratives in human history a cosmos perpetually threatened by chaos, sustained by gods who were themselves mortal, and destined to end in Ragnarok, a final catastrophic battle from which a new world would emerge. But how much of what modern audiences know about Viking belief actually reflects the world the Norse inhabited, and how much is medieval Christian transcription, romantic nationalism, or twentieth-century popular culture?This book examines the distance and overlap between Norse mythology as recorded in the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda and the archaeological, runological, and historical evidence of actual Viking religious practice. Drawing on burial site analysis, runic inscriptions, skaldic poetry, and comparative religious scholarship, it reconstructs what Norse communities appear to have genuinely believed the role of ritual sacrifice, the plurality of local cults, the fluid boundary between gods and ancestors, and the ways belief adapted across the Norse diaspora from Scandinavia to Iceland, Greenland, and the British Isles.The narrative traces how Snorri Sturlusons thirteenth-century systematization of Norse myth shaped and distorted the record, and how nineteenth-century nationalism further transformed Viking religion into something its original practitioners would not have recognized. It also examines the modern revival of Norse paganism, asking what happens when mythology is reconstructed from incomplete and ideologically filtered sources.A rigorous, accessible account of one of historys most compelling mythological traditions and the archaeological reality it both reflects and obscures.

The Crusades have been claimed by nearly every ideological tradition that followed them as holy war, as colonial prototype, as clash of civilizations, as righteous defense. Each claim contains a fragment of truth and a larger distortion. What the primary sources reveal, when read without the weight of subsequent mythology, is something more complex: a series of military campaigns driven simultaneously by genuine religious conviction, papal political ambition, feudal land hunger, and the commercial interests of Italian merchant republics that financed the logistics of salvation.This book retells the Crusades as a multi-perspectival history examining the motivations of popes, kings, knights, merchants, Byzantine emperors, and the Muslim rulers who opposed, negotiated with, and occasionally allied with crusading forces. It traces how Pope Urban IIs 1095 call at Clermont was heard differently by every group that responded to it, how the First Crusades improbable success created expectations that subsequent campaigns could never meet, and how the Crusader states functioned as fragile political entities dependent on continuous external support that eventually failed to arrive.Drawing on Latin chronicles, Arabic historical accounts, Byzantine sources, and archaeological evidence from the Levant, this is a balanced and rigorous account of two centuries of conflict that shaped the medieval world and whose misremembering continues to shape the present.

The Knights Templar are historys most mythologized military order simultaneously celebrated as crusading warriors, condemned as heretics, and claimed as ancestors by everyone from Freemasons to modern conspiracy theorists. Beneath the mythology lies something more historically remarkable: a organization that invented sophisticated financial instruments, operated the medieval worlds first international banking network, and accumulated enough institutional power to make the King of France feel threatened enough to destroy them.This book examines the Templars as a historical institution rather than a romantic legend. It traces their origins in the aftermath of the First Crusade, their evolution from a small protective brotherhood into a transnational financial and military corporation, and the specific banking innovations letters of credit, deposit accounts, interest-bearing loans that made them indispensable to monarchs, merchants, and pilgrims across three continents. It reconstructs the political machinery behind Philip IVs suppression campaign of 1307, examining how debt, ambition, and papal weakness combined to dismantle Europes most powerful private institution.Drawing on papal archives, Templar trial records, and medieval financial history, this is a rigorous account of an organization whose actual legacy the architecture of modern banking is far more consequential than any hidden treasure.

Five centuries before Columbus crossed the Atlantic, Norse sailors had already walked the shores of North America. The sagas called it Vinland a land of timber, wild grapes, and fierce indigenous resistance and for decades historians treated these accounts as legend. The 1960 excavation of LAnse aux Meadows in Newfoundland changed that permanently, producing the first confirmed archaeological evidence of European presence in the Americas predating 1492.This book reconstructs the Norse Atlantic expansion through the Vinland Sagas, Icelandic chronicles, and four decades of archaeological fieldwork tracing the voyages of Leif Eriksson, Thorvald, and Gudrid Thorbjarnardottir across Greenland and into the North American coastline. It examines what the Norse found, how they interacted with indigenous Beothuk and Dorset peoples, and why their settlements ultimately did not survive.The narrative situates Vinland within the broader pattern of Viking expansion: the same restless navigational culture that reached Iceland, Greenland, Constantinople, and Baghdad also touched the Americas driven by the same combination of overpopulation, trade ambition, and extraordinary seafaring capability. It also examines what the Norse failure to establish permanent settlements reveals about the limits of expansion without the demographic and institutional support that later European colonization would bring.A rigorously sourced account of a genuine historical discovery, and of the long process by which archaeology finally confirmed what the sagas had preserved.

No seu livro de estreia, Katherine Pangonis apresenta a história da dinastia de mulheres que governou o Médio Oriente.Em 1187, os exércitos de Saladino sitiaram a cidade sagrada de Jerusalém. Atrás das altas muralhas da cidade uma defesa desesperada era liderada por um trio improvavel - incluindo Sibila, rainha de Jerusalem.Embora muitos livros tenham sido escritos sobre as Cruzadas, um aspeto esta visivelmente ausente: as historias das mulheres. Rainhas e princesas tendem a ser apresentadas como transmissoras passivas de terras e sangue real. Na realidade, as mulheres governavam, conduziam negociaçes diplomaticas, tomavam decises militares, forjavam alianças, rebelavam-se e empreendiam projetos arquitetonicos.Este e o relato das mulheres negligenciadas pela Historia, mulheres fortes, poderosas e que deixaram uma marca profunda na politica do Medio Oriente medieval."Uma leitura extremamente interessante que finalmente aborda o papel crucial das mulheres da realeza na historia das cruzadas."All About History"Fascinante, intrigante e emocionante. Eis as governantes dos Estados cruzados apresentadas como politicas astutas, rainhas guerreiras e mes, resistindo bravamente contra senhores da guerra islamicos na arena implacavel do Medio Oriente. Negligenciadas por muito tempo, esta obra vem prestar-lhes o devido reconhecimento."Simon Sebag Montefiore, autor bestseller"Primorosamente construido, inteligente, perspicaz, humano e empatico, este livro transforma as governantes esquecidas de Jerusalem, de meras reprodutoras impotentes, em personagens complexas com poder de aço, engenho e vidas fascinantes."William Dalrymple, autor de A Rota do Ouro"As personagens deste livro importante e inspirador tem sido frequentemente relegadas para notas de rodape da historia. Mas as rainhas de Jerusalem so figuras historicas, transformadoras. Deleite-se com a companhia delas nesta estreia inspiradora e fascinante."Bettany Hughes, historiadora e autora"Estudos recentes transformaram a compreenso do papel das mulheres na Idade Media europeia. Agora, o livro maravilhoso de Katherine Pangonis lança luz sobre o lugar publico, domestico e social das mulheres nobres e da realeza nas circunstancias politicas e dinasticas unicas dos Estados cruzados multiculturais do Levante. Numa mudança revigorante de enfase historica, essas mulheres, sejam protagonistas ou meras figuras decorativas, ganham vida nos seus proprios termos, e as suas experiencias e carreiras, mesmo que moldadas por homens, so vistas a partir de uma perspetiva feminina singular."Christopher Tyerman, Professor de Historia das Cruzadas na Universidade de Oxford

From Florences baptistery doors to the Vaticans frescoed ceilings, Renaissance Italy transformed art through rediscovered classical ideals and technical innovation. This book traces the artistic revolution sparked by masters like Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael, examining how perspective, anatomy, and humanism redefined visual expression. Drawing on contemporary accounts, workshop records, and recent conservation studies, Renaissance Reborn: Art Revolution in Italy reveals the cultural networkspatronage, rivalry, migrationthat fueled this creative explosion across Tuscany, Rome, and Venice. It shows how painters and sculptors turned canvas and marble into mirrors of divine and human potential.