検索キーワード： ヨーロッパ

Die Archäologie ist ein faszinierendes Abenteuer, das uns die Türen zur Vergangenheit öffnet und die Geschichten längst vergangener Zivilisationen ans Licht bringt. Dieses Buch nimmt dich mit auf eine Reise, die weit über staubige Ausgrabungsstätten hinausgeht. Es zeigt dir, wie die Werkzeuge der Vergangenheit unsere Gegenwart formen und warum die Geschichte kein statisches Gebilde, sondern ein lebendiges Puzzle ist.

Do you want to step into a world where gods command the skies, heroes defy the odds, and legends live forever? Ever wondered how the great Zeus claimed his throne or why Achilles was inexorable? It all begins here.

Descubra la apasionante historia del cristianismo medieval. Tres textos en un solo libro: El cristianismo medieval: Una guía fascinante de la historia cristiana, desde la caída del Imperio romano de Occidente hasta la Reforma, pasando por el gran cisma y las cruzadas. Caballeros medievales: Una guía fascinante sobre los caballeros del santo sepulcro, los caballeros hospitalarios, la orden de San Lázaro, los caballeros templarios y los caballeros teutónicos. La Inquisición: Una guía fascinante de la Inquisición medieval, española, portuguesa y romana.

Sumérjase en una fascinante exploración de uno de los capítulos más asombrosos de la historia: la audaz conquista de las Américas por un puñado de audaces conquistadores. Este libro despliega las capas de la historia para revelar una historia mucho más compleja y apasionante que la historia simplista de la potencia de fuego que supera a los números.

Crushed by the Romans in the first century A.D., the ancient Druids of Britain left almost no reliable evidence behind. Historian Ronald Hutton shows how this lack of definite information has allowed succeeding British generations to reimagine, reinterpret, and reinvent the Druids. Hutton's captivating book is the first to encompass two thousand years of Druid history and to explore the evolution of English, Scottish, and Welsh attitudes toward the forever ambiguous figures of the ancient Celtic world.

In 1647, the Parliamentarians were divided. They had won the first civil war and the king was in custody, but disagreements over the way forward had led to a stalemate. As the leader of one party, Oliver Cromwell found himself again at the center of events. In the second volume of his pioneering biography, Ronald Hutton traces Cromwell's career from 1647 through to his seizure of supreme power.

The German Peasants’ War was the greatest popular uprising in Western Europe before the French Revolution. In 1524 and 1525, it swept across Germany with astonishing speed as well over a hundred thousand people massed in armed bands to demand a new and more egalitarian order. The peasants took control of vast areas of southern and middle Germany, torching and plundering the monasteries, convents, and castles that stood in their way. But they proved no match for the forces of the lords.

Sitting beneath a stained glass window dedicated to his grandmother in the Atlanta church where his family had prayed for generations, preeminent American historian David Levering Lewis was struck by the great lacunae in what he could know about his own ancestors. He vowed to excavate their past and tell their story.

Eines Nachts im Dezember 1972 wird Jean McConville aus ihrem Haus in Belfast entführt. Sie wird nie wieder lebend gesehen. Ausgehend von diesem Moment entfaltet Patrick Radden Keefe eine gewaltige Erzählung über die blutige Vergangenheit des Nordirlandkonflikts.

Ninette Dreyfus was a cosseted scion of one of France's most prominent Jewish families - a cousin to Albert Einstein and family friend to Colette. But when the Second World War broke out and the Germans occupied Paris, the fall from grace was dramatic. Realising that her fate would be transformed, the teenager soon found herself fleeing the capital for the South, only to fall prey to the Vichy regime. In fear of her life at the hands of the Nazis and their French collaborators, she became somebody else.

Средневековье – значительнейший период мировой истории, длившийся около тысячи лет. Термин "средние века" впервые возник в XV веке, в текстах итальянских гуманистов, обозначивших этим понятием период с момента падения Римской империи до начала эпохи, в которую жили сами. Но еще столетием ранее знаменитый поэт Франческо Петрарка дал этому периоду другое определение — "темные века".

This Norse Mythology Collection features 5 titles that were all written a long time ago, offering timeless stories that have captivated readers and listeners for generations.

Step into the captivating life of Saartjie Baartman, an ordinary and curious 18-year-old whose dreams led her from the familiar shores of Cape Town to the distant lands of England and Paris. Little did she know that her voyage would take a tragic turn, transforming her life into a harrowing tale of exploitation and dehumanization. In this powerful biography, Saartjie’s true story is finally given a voice, allowing her to recount her experiences firsthand.

El arco largo inglés, fabricado normalmente con madera de tejo, era una de las armas más poderosas de la Edad Media, capaz de cambiar el curso de las batallas. Con una longitud de hasta dos metros, esta arma era muy apreciada por su potencia y precisión: los arqueros entrenados podían disparar con precisión a su blanco desde más de 180 metros.

Conozca a la familia Médici, que, en cierto modo, puede considerarse los padrinos del Renacimiento. Patrocinaron a Miguel Ángel, Leonardo da Vinci y Sandro Botticelli, entre otros muchos artistas famosos. Ayudaron a recuperar muchos escritos antiguos romanos y griegos famosos, y construyeron academias para fomentar la difusión del aprendizaje.

Etta Shiber and Kate Bonnefous are the unlikeliest of heroines: two seemingly ordinary women, an American widow and an English divorcée, living quietly together in Paris. Yet during the Nazi occupation, these two friends find themselves unexpectedly plunged into the whirlwind of history. With the help of a French country priest and others, they set out to rescue British and French soldiers trapped behind enemy lines—some of whom they daringly smuggle through Nazi checkpoints hidden inside the trunk of their car.

Until the end of the Cold War in 1990, the RAF had several major bases worldwide—largely in those areas where the service had been based during the inter-war years. In Cold War Boys Overseas, contributors recall their time at these foreign destinations. With almost half of RAF personnel serving abroad in the 1960s situated throughout Germany, the book starts its focus there with tales of monitoring the Soviet threat.

Deportationsfantasien, Untersuchungshaft wegen Terrorverdacht, Gelder aus Russland und China-Spionage – ganz Deutschland rätselt: Wie gefährlich ist die AfD? Muss die Partei verboten werden, bevor sie an die Macht kommt? Die Autoren Michael Kraske und Dirk Laabs, die seit Jahren im extremistischen Milieu recherchieren, liefern harte Fakten. Sie berichten aus ostdeutschen AfD-Brennpunkten, von AfD-Veranstaltungen, aus geheimen Chatprotokollen und Gesprächen mit Aussteigern.

بينيتو أندريا موسوليني حاكم إيطاليا ما بين 1922 و1943 شغل منصب رئيس الدولة الإيطالية ورئيس وزرائها وفي بعض المراحل وزير الخارجية والداخلية. وهو من مؤسسي الحركة الفاشية الإيطالية وزعمائها، سمي بالدوتشي أي القائد من عام 1930م إلى 1943. يعتبر موسيليني من الشخصيات الرئيسية المهمة في خلق الفاشية.

Frémeaux & Associés et la Grande Mosquée de Paris s’associent afin de faire connaître l’histoire, la philosophie, les cultures et les savoirs du monde musulman. Gabriel Martinez-Gros est professeur émérite d’histoire médiévale de l’Islam à l’université de Nanterre, spécialiste de l‘idéologie omeyyade et grand connaisseur de la pensée d’Ibn Khaldûn. L’historien nous présente une histoire d’Al-Andalus, c’est-à dire de l’Espagne conquise par les troupes musulmanes au VIIIe siècle, durant les conquêtes arabes, puis dirigée par les califes omeyyades de Cordoue jusqu’au XIe siècle.