Esej amerického medievisty Roberta Bartletta je mistrnou sondou do antrologie 13. století. Autor v ní zkoumá vztah středověkých lidí k zázračnu jako součásti soudobých náboženských a společenských představ... Zobraziť viac
To what extent does our knowledge of the past rely upon written sources? And what happens when these sources are destroyed? Focusing on the manuscripts of the Middle Ages, History in Flames explores cases in which large volumes of written material were .. Zobraziť viac
From our twentieth-century perspective, we tend to think of the Europe of the past as a colonizer, a series of empires that conquered lands beyond their borders and forced European cultural values on other peoples. This provocative book shows that... Zobraziť viac
