Títulos en Medieval

Kurz vor einem Turnier kommt der Falkner der gastgebenden Markgrafschaft Baden tragisch ums Leben. Alles sieht nach einem Unfall aus, doch der Vogelhändler Theobald und Walther von der Vogelweide, als Bote König Philipps unterwegs, vermuten ein Komplott und begeben sich auf die gefährliche Suche nach dem Mörder. Als die Gastgeber nur knapp einem Anschlag entkommen, sich auf der Hochburg die Unfälle häufen und eine geheimnisvolle Fremde Wunden der Vergangenheit aufreißt, beginnt ein Wettlauf mit der Zeit.

The fifteenth century was a turbulent age: the Hundred Years War between England and France, and the Wars of the Roses dominated the lives of people both inside and out of the royal courts. Joan of Navarre, Katherine of Valois, Margaret of Anjou, Elizabeth Wydeville and Anne Neville were the queens who stood by England's sovereigns, caught up in wars that changed the course of their lives, and the course of history. They were also formidable women who defied the limitations of their times, often living out the brutal consequences of their determination.

A heroic queen who shaped the course of history. Isabel of Spain led with courage during the Reconquista, reformed her nation through justice, and launched a new era by supporting Columbus’s voyages. Her bold, faith-filled reign eclipses even that of England’s Elizabeth. This is the first major English biography of Isabel in decades — scholarly, detailed, and deeply inspiring.

Rares sont ceux qui n'ont pas entendu parler des redoutables Vikings et de leurs audacieux exploits. Ces navigateurs du Nord, le fléau du Moyen Âge, ont marqué l'histoire du monde d'une manière grandiose. Courageux, rebelles et animés par le désir d'exploration, les hommes du Nord furent les conquérants médiévaux les plus redoutés. Beaucoup les croyaient invincibles, et ils maintinrent sous leur emprise de nombreuses nations chrétiennes en difficulté.

European Bloodlines unveils centuries of suppressed evidence gathered from monastery archives, court records, and family chronicles across medieval Europe. Stone combines rigorous historical research with genealogical detective work, tracing family trees through centuries of carefully hidden evidence. Each chapter presents authenticated testimonies, court documents, and family records that challenge our understanding of medieval European society.

In the 50 years following the First Crusade, the Latin states in the East were consolidated, but there were also growing tensions and new challenges. Against this backdrop, the fall of the County of Edessa in December 1144 at the hands of Zengi, the atabeg of Aleppo and Mosul, was a catastrophic event. Founded in 1098 by the future King Baldwin of Boulogne, Edessa was the first Crusader state, as well as the northernmost, weakest, and least populated.

Of the many campaigns during the Middle Ages, few are as remarkable or seemingly impossible to win at the start as the First Crusade (1095-99), and the true crowning achievement of that crusade, which resulted in two centuries of Western European Christian states in the Middle East and the permanent firing of the European imagination, was the conquest of Jerusalem on July 15, 1099 after three weeks of siege.

This book restores the Middle Ages to its true form—not as caricatured by the Enlightenment or romanticized by later centuries, but as it truly was: contradictory, luminous, and trembling between faith and reason. Here, the history of philosophy is not a dry sequence of doctrines, but a living journey of human thought—from dogma to freedom, from darkness to light, from monastery to university.

A thorough introduction to Saint Francis’s extraordinary character and spiritual journey, Chesterton’s biography is both a fascinating historical account of the man’s life, as well as a profound meditation on holiness and humility. Chesterton portrays Saint Francis not only as a holy man, but also as a gentle lover of animals, and a radical spiritual revolutionary. He unveils how Saint Francis renounced a life of comfort and wealth to dedicate himself wholly to God, evoking the man’s loving and joyful spirit.

For more than 850 years, Notre Dame Cathedral has stood at the heart of Paris—a Gothic masterpiece, a stage for history, and a symbol of resilience that has inspired awe across centuries. From its foundation stone in 1163 to its triumphant reopening after the devastating 2019 fire, this cathedral has witnessed kings and revolutions, processions and protests, literature and legend. It is not only a place of worship but a monument that embodies the very soul of France.

In these sparkling A to Zs, time-travelling historian Ian Mortimer visits four classic periods of English history: the fourteenth century, the Elizabethan age, the Restoration and the Regency. As he ranges from the Great Plague to the Great Freeze, from Armada to Austen, and from tobacco to toenails, he shines a light into corners of history we never knew were so fascinating -- or so revealing of the whole.

The First King of England is a foundational biography of Æthelstan (d. 939), the early medieval king whose territorial conquests and shrewd statesmanship united the peoples, languages, and cultures that would come to be known as the “kingdom of the English.”

Bloomsbury presents The Two Hundred Years War by Michael Livingston, read by Rupert Farley. A new and radically original account of the longest military conflict in European history, which challenges the conventional periodisation of the ‘Hundred Years War’ to consider a much longer period...

Founded on Christmas Day 1119 in Jerusalem, the Knights Templar was a religious order dedicated to defending the Holy Land and its Christian pilgrims in the decades after the First Crusade. Legendary for their bravery and dedication, the Templars became one of the wealthiest and most powerful bodies of the medieval world—and the chief defenders of Christian society against growing Muslim forces.

Scopri la forza del passato per illuminare il tuo presente: un’epica lezione di saggezza e nobiltà. Scopri i segreti perduti della Cavalleria medievale e lasciati ispirare dalla sua saggezza millenaria, che ancora permea le nostre vite quotidiane. In un mondo in cui la Cavalleria sembra estranea ai nostri valori, questo libro svela l’inconscia presenza di un’etica dimenticata, eppure ancora profondamente, intrinsecamente radicata nell'essenza umana del Terzo Millennio.

Le Crociate: e cioè l'avventura di quei cristiani che hanno accettato l'appello del papa, sentendone il fascino, e si sono messi in gioco, facendo cose che oggi ci sembrano assai discutibili e che invece a loro sembravano sacrosante. Il fatto è che i musulmani non sono rimasti inerti quando un'orda di barbari sanguinari venuti da chissà dove, per di più miscredenti, è entrata in terra islamica seminando distruzione."

Fra' Salimbene da Parma, il francescano che ha conosciuto papi e imperatori, vescovi e predicatori, e su ognuno ha da raccontare aneddoti, maldicenze e pettegolezzi; Dino Compagni, il mercante di Firenze che ha vissuto in prima persona i sussulti politici d'un comune lacerato dai conflitti al tempo di Dante; Jean de Joinville, il nobile cavaliere che ha accompagnato Luigi il Santo alla crociata, testimone imperturbabile di sacrifici, eroismi e vigliaccherie; Caterina da Siena, che parlava con Dio e le cui lettere infuocate facevano tremare papi e cardinali.

Due amici crescono all'ombra del potere dell'imperatore germanico Federico I di Hohenstaufen, detto il Barbarossa, sulla Lombardia. Portano lo stesso nome, ma hanno caratteri e ambizioni del tutto diversi, e affrontano in modo differente l'epico, drammatico assedio cui il sovrano sottopone Milano nel 1162, quando la città viene rasa al suolo.

"هذا أسود شيء كتبته يد إنسان. راحت ضحيته أكثر من ربع مليون امرأة. سُفكت دمائهن باسم هذا الكتاب، وحُرقن باسم هذا الكتاب، أو هو شيطان الذي كتبه. لبس عباءة القساوسة...

Arrivano completamente inaspettate. Durano pochissimo, talvolta solo qualche settimana, poi vengono represse. Ma in quel poco tempo succedono cose tali da rimanere per sempre incise nella memoria collettiva. Sono le rivolte popolari. La storia, almeno nell’ultimo millennio, è tutta punteggiata da momenti critici in cui una massa di persone decide che il futuro così come lo vede non gli piace, e prova a cambiarlo. Il Medioevo non fa eccezione: anche allora non sono mancati movimenti insurrezionali che nel loro sviluppo iniziale non sembrano affatto distinguibili dalle più travolgenti rivoluzioni moderne.