Medeltidens historia

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'As brilliant a history of the Vikings as one could possibly hope to read' Tom Holland The 'Viking Age' is traditionally held to begin in June 793 when Scandinavian raiders attacked the monastery of Lin...

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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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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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Many beautiful illuminated manuscripts survive from the Middle Ages and can be seen in libraries and museums throughout Europe. But who were the skilled craftsmen who made these exquisite books? What precisely is parchment? How were medieval manus...

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In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River. In his subsequent report on his mission he gave a meticulous and astonishingly objective description of Viking cu...

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*NOW WITH A FUN PUB QUIZ* 'An idiosyncratic ride through history' Independent 'Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much reinvented popular history for the modern age' The Times The nations favourite historians, Tom Holland and Do...

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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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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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» 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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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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One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thoug...

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Classic guide to acquiring and maintaining political power is refreshing in its directness, yet often disturbing in its cold practicality. Starkly relevant to the political upheavals of the 20th century, this calculating prescription for power rem...

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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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A “thrilling” ( Wall Street Journal ) history of the Vikings by a pre-eminent scholar The Viking Age saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they range...

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'A fascinating story about a religion in a surprisingly precarious position' Dan Jones, Sunday Times 'Superb storytelling ... captivating and profound' Literary Review 'A page-turner' The Spectator In the fourth centu...

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'This is probably the best book ever written on the Habsburgs in any language, certainly the best I have ever read ... Students, scholars and the general reader will never find a better guide to Habsburg history' Alan Sked, Times Literar...

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In his short life, master cutler and Freifechter Joachim Meyer appears to have had quite a successful career as a fencing master, teaching craftsmen and noblemen alike while also authoring at least four different fencing treatises (and possibly mo...

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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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Weatherford resurrects the true history of Genghis Khan, from the story of his relentless rise through Mongol tribal culture to the waging of his devastatingly successful wars and the explosion of civilization that the Mongol Empire unleashed.

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Under devisen Deus vult , ”Gud vill det”, drog hundratusentals européer ut i korståg på medeltiden för att befria Heliga landet från muslimskt välde. Resultaten varierade, från det första korstågets spektakulära erövring av Jerusalem t...

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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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Filling a gap in the literature for an academically oriented volume on the Viking period, this unique book is a one-stop authoritative introduction to all the latest research in the field. Bringing together todays leading scholars, both establishe...

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'The most accessible, up-to-date introduction to its subject ... does full justice to the multifarious forces at work in high gothic Europe' Daily Telegraph The years from AD 1000 to the beginning of the fourteenth century were the most ...

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In this robust new account of the Vikings, Tom Shippey explores their mindset, and in particular their fascination with scenes of heroic death. The book recounts many of the great bravura scenes of Old Norse literature, including the Fall of the H...

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Korstågen är den största militära aktionen i Västeuropas historia. De inleddes för nära tusen år sedan och varade i över fem hundra år. Korstågen samlade européerna kring idén om det nödvändiga och rättfärdiga kriget, en föreställning som lever kv...

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A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'As brilliant a history of the Vikings as one could possibly hope to read' Tom HollandThe 'Viking Age' is traditionally held to begin in June 793 when Scandinavian raiders attacked the monastery of Lindisfarne in Northumbri...

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A riveting account of the lives and epic battles of eight Western defenders against violent Islamic jihad that sheds much-needed light on the enduring conflict with radical Islam. In Defenders of the West, the author of Sword and Scimitar follows ...

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How was magic practiced in medieval times? How did it relate to the diverse beliefs and practices that characterized this fascinating period? This much revised and expanded new edition of Magic in the Middle Ages surveys the growth and development...

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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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The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England We tend to think of the Middle Ages as a dark, backward and unchanging time characterised by violence, ignorance and sup...

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