A history of the continent uniquely told from a very European viewpoint

The first one-volume, complete history of Europe, as told by Europeans themselves, from Homo Erectus to the Celts…

Jean Richard’s study explores the relationships between the crusaders and their heathen foes during the crusading period. The author shows how inseparable the crusades and the pilgrimages were.

A pioneering exploration of how differences in production and circulation of texts conveyed ideas around the world in a period of exceptional social, political and intellectual change.

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…

A concise, general history of the crusades from the first calls to arms in the later eleventh century to the fall of the last crusader strongholds in Syria and Palestine…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public…

Richard I, the Lionheart, remains (and perhaps wrongly) the mythical king of England who preferred to wage war than to rule his empire. This book examines Richard’s role as both…

Dans un petit bourg de la France profonde, quelques personnes se rassemblent regulierement et evoquent souvent les grands problemes du moment. Progressivement, les choses s'organisent en forme de petite societe…