Kategoria BISAC: History >> Europe - Medieval

In her work, the historian Anna Komnene (1083 to approx. 1153), daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I, deals with the period of her father's reign from his first successes as a youthful army commander and his successful rebellion up to his death. She includes an account of the First Crusade from a Byzantine perspective and draws impressive portraits of the protagonists. Together with the works of Michael Psellos and Niketas Choniates, her account belongs to the most brilliant achievements of Byzantine historiography.

This new critical edition contains numerous textual...

The only manuscript preserving this collection of letters, in the British Library, is damaged at the beginning, thus depriving us of the author's name. However, the letters of the Anonymous Professor, a scholar and headmaster of a private school in Constantinople in the mid tenth century, comprise an important source for our knowledge of education and intellectual life in Byzantium in this period. The present edition, which aims to fulfil the need expressed by many scholars for a new, fully annotated critical edition of the letters, attempts to reconstruct the main events in the life of...

This volume of the Repertorium Poentitentiariea Germanicum is a collection of Latin regesta from the register of petitions of the supreme ecclesiastic office of penitence and absolution of the Roman Curia under Pope Alexander VI (1492-1503). The petitions, published here for the first time, contain previously unknown material on ecclesiastic, social, state and family history in German speaking Europe.

Repertorium Poenitentiariae Germanicum is an edition of Latin Regesta from the supplication registers of the Penitentiary, the supreme Papal tribunal on penance and dispensations, during the late Middle Ages. Together with Repertorium Germanicum, it represents a further major source for scholarly research on the medieval German Empireof the 15th century.