Medeltidens historia

De legendomsusade riddarna känner vi numera bäst genom populärkulturen. Men hur var de i verkligheten? Och vad har de lämnat efter sig? Det märkliga med riddarna var att de förväntades vara krigare och gentlem&au...

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SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER The most important book of the year Daily Mail The brilliant and provocative new book from one of the worlds foremost political writers The anti-Western revisionists have been out in force in recent years. It is ...

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Under tusen år – mellan romarrikets fall och upptäckten av den nya världen – lades grunden för den västvärld som sedan dess dominerat jordklotet. Framgångsfaktorerna stavades handel, erövringar och kristendom. Makthavarna lyckades håll...

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The New Roman Empire is the first full, single-author history of Byzantium (the eastern Roman empire) to appear in a generation. It begins with the foundation of Constantinople in 324 AD and ends with the fall of the empire to the Ottoman Turks in...

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Medeltidshistorikern Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist bjuder på en lättläst exposé över den politiska, ekonomiska, sociala och kulturella utvecklingen i Norden under tusen år med utgångspunkt i de senaste rönen från arkeologisk och historisk forskni...

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Varför kunde judar, araber och kristna leva tillsammans i Spanien på medeltiden? Hur kunde kristna utan betänkligheter gå ut i strid för att rädda arabiska furstar? Och hur kom det sig att muslimska soldater slogs till förmån för kristna kungar? D...

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» Ondskans tid är en bred och lärd genomgång av ett fruktansvärt men fascinerande fenomen. Harrison är en god berättare och här har han tillgång till ett färgstarkt material. Resultatet är en underhållande och bildande bok ... Sammantaget är det i...

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A highly illustrated history of the Wars of the Roses based on the medieval art of Graham Turner. The period of civil strife in the second half of the 15th century now known as the Wars of the Roses was one of the most dramatic and tumultuous in E...

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Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys theres a new history book in town. From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past from Alexander the Great to Tolkien, the Wars of the Roses to Waterga...

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The Malleus Maleficarum, usually translated as the Hammer of Witches, is the best known treatise on witchcraft. It was written by the German Catholic clergyman Heinrich Kramer and first published in the German city of Speyer in 1486.

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'FASCINATING' Guardian | 'WE LOVE THIS BOOK' Blackwells | 'THE BEST GIFT BOOK THERE IS' Independent A GUIDE TO LIVING IN DARK TIMES, FROM PEOPLE WHO REALLY DID Bursting with wisdom and artwork from the Middle Ages, th...

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Agincourt is one of the most famous battles in English history, a defining part of the national myth. This groundbreaking study by Mike Livingston, author of Never Greater Slaughter, presents a new interpretation of Henry V's great victory. &...

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The definitive history of the Vikings -- from arts and culture to politics and cosmology -- by a distinguished archaeologist with decades of expertise The Viking Age -- from 750 to 1050 -- saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples...

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'Philippa Langley has done it again.' THE TIMES A HISTORY HIT BOOK OF THE MONTH History re-written: has the 540-year-old mystery been solved? The totality of evidence revealed is astonishing. Following the discovery of King Richard IIIs ...

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Barbarians, Marauders, and Infidels examines the motives and terrors of war during the Middle Ages, the rise and fall of ethnic and religious groups, and the actions of good and evil military leaders during this violent and colourful period. In th...

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Magic, sorcery and witchcraft are among the most common themes of the great medieval Icelandic sagas and poems, the problematic yet vital sources that provide our primary textual evidence for the Viking Age that they claim to describe. Yet despite...

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Erasmus of Rotterdam came from an obscure background and through remarkable perseverance, skill, and vision became a powerful intellectual figure in Europe in the early sixteenth century. He was known for his vigorous opposition to war, intoleranc...

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'An absorbing and eye-opening account of what the Plantagenets did for us.' - HELEN CASTOR 'Burt and Partington show precisely and engagingly why the Middle Ages matter.' - DAN JONES Between 1199 and 1399, English politics was ...

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På medeltiden låg den reella makten i riket utspridd bland släkter, biskopar, herresäten och andra aktörer. Den som ville utöva makt var därför hänvisad till att knyta band med andra. I Nätverksstaten. Statsbildningsprocesser och rumsliga praktike...

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Ta del av den medeltida stadsdelen Sanden, vars innevånare avhystes då Vadstena slott skulle byggas. Byggnadsresterna blev kvar under slottsvallen och ger oss information om hur bebyggelsen såg ut. En ursprunglig gatstump finns kvar i originalläge...

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Anthony Grafton explores the art and influence of an opaque historical figure: the magus, or learned magician. A distinctive intellectual type in Renaissance Europe, magi contributed to the humanistic currents of the time and had a transformative ...

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»Denna mycket gedigna och fascinerade redogörelse för framväxten av den medeltida staden Lund med uppförandet av katedralen i fokus, presenterar ny, intressant forskning om Lunds historia som ger belägg för att staden grundades redan under Harald ...

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'The princes are nothing but tyrants who flay the people; they fritter away our blood and sweat on their pomp and whoring and knavery.' These were the words of Thomas Mntzer at the head of the massed ranks of a peasant army in the year 1...

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Det medeltida Gotland dominerades av bondeklassen. Något frälse fanns inte men istället en talrik grupp storbönder. Denna struktur verkar ha varit rådande också under vikingatiden och tidigare. Kung och biskop hade man inte på ön, de fanns på fast...

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From Abracadabra to the now famous spells of the Harry Potter series, magic words are no longer confined to the practices of pagans, alchemists, witches, and occultists. They have become part of the popular imagination of the Western world. Passed...

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The Viking Age, from c.750 to 1050 CE, was an era of major social change in Scandinavia. By the end of this period of sweeping transformation, Scandinavia, once a pagan periphery, had been firmly integrated into occidental Europe. Archaeological r...

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Beginning in the heady days just after the First Crusade, this volumethe third in the series that began with The History of the Ancient World and The History of the Medieval Worldchronicles the contradictions of a world in transition. Popes contin...

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The Emperor and the Saint is a vivid place-by-place telling of the life and times of the most enlightened, creative, and dynamic ruler of Medieval Europe, Frederick II of Hohenstaufen. St. Francis, who shared with Frederick a love of the natural w...

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From satyrs and sea creatures to griffins and dragons, monsters lay at the heart of the medieval world. Believed to dwell in exotic, remote areas, these inexplicable parts of God's creation aroused fear, curiosity and wonder in equal measure....

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This book explores the profound impact the Battle of Lyndanise in 1219 (on the site of Tallinn today) had on both Denmark and Estonia from the thirteenth century to the present day.

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