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Jews in the Notarial Culture
"Fascinating and illuminating, informed by outstanding scholarly analysis. . . . With his deft touch, Burns opens a most unusual window on the realities of medieval Iberian Jewish life."--Robert Chazan, author of European Jewry and the First Crusade
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Bishops under Threat
The late antique and the early medieval periods witnessed the flourishing of bishops in the West as the main articulators of social life. This influential position exposed them to several threats, both political and religious. Researchers have generally addressed violence, rebellions or conflicts to study the dynamics related to secular powers during these periods. They haven’t paid similar attention, however, to those analogous contexts that had bishops as protagonists. This book proposes an approach to bishops as threatened subjects in the late antique and early medieval West. In particular, the volume pursues three main goals. Firstly, it aims to identify the different types of threats ...
The Visigoths from the Migration Period to the Seventh Century
Between 376 and 476 the Roman Empire in western Europe was dismantled by aggressive outsiders, "barbarians" as the Romans labelled them. Chief among these were the Visigoths, a new force of previously separate Gothic and other groups from south-west France, initially settled by the Romans but subsequently, from the middle of the fifth century, achieving total independence from the failing Roman Empire, and extending their power from the Loire to the Straits of Gibraltar. These studies draw on literary and archaeological evidence to address important questions thrown up by the history of the Visigoths and of the kingdom they generated: the historical processes which led to their initial creat...
History of the Byzantine Empire, 324–1453, Volume II
“This is the revised English translation from the original work in Russian of the history of the Great Byzantine Empire. It is the most complete and thorough work on this subject. From it we get a wonderful panorama of the events and developments of the struggles of early Christianity, both western and eastern, with all of its remains of the wonderful productions of art, architecture, and learning.”—Southwestern Journal of Theology
Medieval Monasticism
Collected Studies CS1064 This collection of Giles Constable's key articles on medieval monastic and ecclesiastical history provides nothing less than a comprehensive overview of research in the field. The book provides an insight into monastic life in the Middle Ages - from Germany to Normandy and from England to Sicily.
Diccionario histórico de la arqueología en España
La historia de la Arqueología no incumbe sólo a los arqueólogos. Además de dar a conocer la propia tradición a los profesionales del sector, su estudio nos acerca a la manera en que cada época ha percibido e interpretado el pasado a través del testimonio de los restos materiales, teniendo presente tanto el marco histórico como los condicionantes políticos, económicos, culturales, morales y filosóficos. Durante las últimas décadas, en nuestro país se ha venido desarrollando un interés creciente por la historia de la Arqueología. El número de tesis doctorales, artículos, monografías, congresos, exposiciones y reuniones científicas varias empieza a ser considerable. Faltaba ...
