Your Money or Your Life: Economy and Religion in the Middle Ages
10 best books like Your Money or Your Life: Economy and Religion in the Middle Ages (Jacques Le Goff): Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade, The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, The Water of the Wondrous Isles, The Judge, Frederick II: A Medieval Emperor, Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages, The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple, I re taumaturghi, The Knight, the Lady & the Priest: The Making of Modern Marriage in Medieval France, Medieval People
Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade
| Author | Henri Pirenne |
| ISBN | 0691007608 |
Henri Pirenne is best known for his provocative argument--known as the "Pirenne thesis" and familiar to all students of medieval Europe--that it was not the invasion of the Germanic tribes that destroyed the civilization of antiquity, but rather the closing of Mediterranean trade by Arab conquest...
| Author | Roland H. Bainton |
| ISBN | 0807056952 |
Roland H. Bainton presents the strands of the Reformation in a single coherent account. He discusses the background for Luther's breach & its ramifications for 16th Century Europe, giving accounts of the Diet of Worms, the Holy Commonwealth of Geneva, Henry VIII's break with Rome & William...
| Author | William Morris |
| ISBN | 1419187414 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving,...
“Every mother is a judge who sentences the children for the sins of the father.”
This line is to be found at the start and at the end of the book. It is its central theme and is reflected in the book’s title. The quote lies at the book’s core but is then expanded. Starting with the mother, child...
Frederick II: A Medieval Emperor
| Author | David Abulafia |
| ISBN | 0195080408 |
Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Sicily, King of Jerusalem, has, since his death in 1250, enjoyed a reputation as one of the most remarkable monarchs in the history of Europe. His wide cultural tastes, his apparent tolerance of Jews and Muslims, his defiance of the papacy, and...
| Author | Jeffrey Burton Russell |
Evil is an intrinsically fascinating topic. In Lucifer, Jeffrey Burton Russell continues his compelling study of the personification of evil in the figure of the Devil. The previous two volumes in this remarkable tertalogy--The Devil and Satan--trace the history of the concept of the devil comparatively...
The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple
| Author | Malcolm Barber |
| ISBN | 0521558727 |
The Order of the Temple was founded in 1119 with the limited aim of protecting pilgrims around Jerusalem. It developed into one of the most powerful corporations in the medieval world which lasted for nearly two centuries until its suppression in 1312. Despite the loss of its central archive in the sixteenth...
| Author | Marc Bloch |
| ISBN | 8806177613 |
Pubblicato nel 1924, I re taumaturghi è un'opera che per la vastità della ricerca ha segnato una tappa importante nel cammino della storiografia francese ed europea, conservando intatta ancora oggi la sua carica di vivacità e attualità. Tema del libro è una «gigantesca notizia falsa»: il...
The Knight, the Lady & the Priest: The Making of Modern Marriage in Medieval France
| Author | Georges Duby |
| ISBN | 0226167682 |
This ambitious study sets out to discover what marriage meant in the daily lives of the nobles of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth centuries. Through entertaining anecdotes, family dramas, and striking quotations, Duby succeeds in bringing his subjects to life, making us feel as if we understand...
| Author | Eileen Power |
| ISBN | 0486414353 |
In this classic of social history, noted medieval scholar Eileen Power recreates the lives of six ordinary people who lived during the Middle Ages. Drawing upon account books, diaries, letters, records, wills, and other authentic historical documents, she brings to vivid life Bodo, a Frankish peasant...
The Yellow Cross: The Story of the Last Cathars' Rebellion Against the Inquisition, 1290-1329
| Author | René Weis |
| ISBN | 0375704418 |
The Yellow Cross is a harrowing tale of a desperate people in a small corner of France who defied the kings of Europe and the Pope. The Cathars, whose religion was based on the Gospels but contradicted the tenets set forth by Rome, found themselves the focus of ruthless repression. In systematic waves...
| Author | Paweł Jasienica |
| ISBN | 8374694793 |
Pierwsza część znanego cyklu esejow historycznych Pawła Jasienicy to - według słów samego autora - "swobodne literackie opowiadanie" o dziejach Polski w okresie formowania się jej państwowości. Oglądamy tu losy kraju i narodu, który - rządzony przez przedstawicieli jednego rodu...
Inchiesta sul Cristianesimo. Come si costruisce una religione
| Author | Corrado Augias |
| ISBN | 8804583037 |
Gesù non ha mai detto di voler fondare una Chiesa, non ha mai detto di essere nato da una vergine, né di essere unica e indistinta sostanza con suo padre, Dio, e con la vaga entità immateriale denominata Spirito. Non ha istituito alcuna gerarchia ecclesiastica, né mai ha confuso la spiritualità...
| Author | Anna Bikont |
| ISBN | 8380495675 |
W 2001 roku przyjechała do Polski grupa amerykańskich uczennic, które napisały sztukę o Polce ratującej w czasie wojny żydowskie dzieci. Z dnia na dzień po latach zapomnienia Irena Sendlerowa stała się bohaterką mediów i symbolem wszystkich tych, którzy mieli odwagę sprzeciwić...
| Author | Andrzej Leder |
| ISBN | 8363855618 |
W Polsce w latach 1939–1956 dokonała się rewolucja społeczna. Okrutna, brutalna, narzucona z zewnątrz, ale jednak rewolucja. Ta rewolucja niesłychanie głęboko przeorała tkankę polskiego społeczeństwa, tworząc warunki do dzisiejszej ekspansji klasy średniej, czyli mieszczaństwa,...
It seems at first commonplace: a group photograph of peasants at harvest time, after hard work well done, resting contentedly with their tools behind the fruits of their labor. But when one finally notices the "crops" scattered in front of the group, what seemed innocent on first view become horrific...
Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath
| Author | Carlo Ginzburg |
| ISBN | 0226296938 |
What we have tried to analyze here is not one narrative among many, but the matrix of all possible narratives.
So concludes this Triumph of the Weird. What a Borgesian proclamation! My head spins with the density and erudition displayed in this ethnohistory of an idea, the Sabbath. This was...
Satanism and Witchcraft: The Classic Study of Medieval Superstition
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Una excelente biografía de la llamada "Bruja" de la edad media. Aquella que sana, que alivia el dolor, aunque también hace el mal. Ella va cambiando su papel hasta los procesos de hechicería en la oscura edad media hasta los siglos precedentes donde la mujer cambia de bruja...
A History Of The Crusades 3 Volume Set
Sir Steven Runciman's three volume A History of the Crusades, one of the great classics of English historical writing, is now being reissued. Volume I deals completely with the First Crusade and the foundation of the kingdom of Jerusalem. Volume II describes the Frankish states of Outremer from the...
