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| Andreas Sohn | | Paris in the High Middle Ages | | From the Royal Residence to Capital City |
This title is devoted to the High Middle Ages, a key era in the more than two-thousand-year history of the city of Paris. How Paris came to be the capital of France during this period is elucidated clearly and accurately, with a stringent, methodical approach and incorporating the latest research results. |
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| Thomas Freller | | The History of the Iberian Peninsula |
The history of the Iberian Peninsula stretches back to the cave paintings of the earliest human beings. Situated between Africa and Europe, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, the peninsula was and remains at the crossroads of myriad influences and cultures, and has itself been the focal point of global empires with farreaching impact. |
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| Annerose Sieck | | Female Mystics | | Biographies of Visionary Women |
Few chapters in women’s history are as thrilling as that of the female
mystics of the Middle Ages. At first attributed only to individual
women, mysticism as a lifestyle developed almost into a
mass phenomenon, especially in the late Middle Ages. |
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| Hans-Dieter Otto | | Astonishing Victories | | The Greatest Surprise Coups in Military History |
There have been military conflicts with astonishing results, battles won against all odds by the “underdogs”, from the centuries before the Christian era into the twentieth century. Just as in antiquity the Persians, led by their kings Xerxes and Darius, were not able to conquer the Greeks in spite of their enormous advantages in numbers, materials and military might, neither the French in 1954 nor the Americans in the 1960s were able to steer the course of the Vietnam War in their favor. |
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| Michael Losse | | The Crusaders from Rhodes | | Before the Knights of Saint John Became the Knights of Malta |
The Order of Hospitalers, founded in the eleventh century, developed in the course of the twelfth century into the Knights of Saint John, the oldest surviving religious order of knights. After Muslims reconquered the Holy Land and drove out the Crusaders in 1291, Rhodes became the order’s new seat in 1306. In spite of many attacks and sieges by Egyptians and Turks, the knights managed to maintain control of the island until 1522. |
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| Hans-Dieter Otto | | “After Us, the Deluge” | | Courtly Life in the Age of Absolutism |
The pomp, intrigue and outrageous luxury that characterized the courts in the time of absolutism are legendary, above all the fantastic court of Louis XIV at Versailles. Hans-Die ter Otto reports on the dazzling court life built around mistresses and ladies-in-waiting, fashion and masquerade balls, adventurers and charlatans, gamblers and masters of ceremony. |
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| Thomas Ertl | | All Roads Led to Rome | | Italy as the Center of the Medieval World |
What we are experiencing today as globalization existed in a more limited form back in the Middle Ages. Travel routes were shortened and new ones were established, and people and merchandise from faraway places reached Europe. One major intersection of this development was in Italy. |
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| Immo Eberl | | The Cistercians | | The History of a European Religious Order |
The Cistercian Order spread rapidly to all corners of Europe after 1108. Its achievements in the fields of cultivating the land and architecture, as well as the founding of the order of Cistercian nuns, left their mark on European history. This comprehensive portrayal encompasses the entire history of the order, with careful attention to its earliest days as well as its recent history. |
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