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Hace 5 días · Combining studies on historical and literary texts with investigations into Rouen’s material culture, the present volume claims to offer new and innovative insights into the multifaceted life which existed within this specific medieval city – a claim which is in many ways achieved.
Hace 6 días · The Renaissance was a cultural movement that profoundly affected European intellectual life in the early modern period. Beginning in Italy, and spreading to the rest of Europe by the 16th century, its influence was felt in art , architecture , philosophy , literature , music , science , technology , politics, religion, and other aspects of ...
Hace 4 días · Scholars have relied on overarching themes, though, to explain how human history changed trajectory over time. This is embodied by the three ages of prehistory that are so often mentioned in essays and textbooks alike — the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age. The three-age model does the unthinkable, taking millions of years of ...
Hace 5 días · After the Umayyad conquest of Hispania in the early 8th century, Jews lived under the Dhimmi system and progressively Arabised. Jews of Al-Andalus stood out particularly during the 10th and the 11th centuries, in the caliphal and first taifa periods.
Hace 2 días · In the 11th century, Christian conflict with Muslims on the southern peripheries of Christendom was sponsored by the Church, including the siege of Barbastro and the Norman conquest of Sicily. In 1074, Gregory VII planned a display of military power to reinforce the principle of papal sovereignty.
Hace 5 días · Williams explains that she wants here to present Old English aristocrats ‘in their prime’, that is in the period between 871 and 1066 – although there is more on the 11th century than the 10th, due to the nature of the surviving evidence. The book falls into two unequal halves.
Hace 5 días · Originally built as a church in the sixth century during the reign of Justinian, the current structure dates from the late 11th century and has undergone various transformations and restorations ...
