The fourth estate : a history of women in the Middle Ages / / Shulamith Shahar ; translated by Chaya Galai

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451227303321
• Autore: Shahar Shulamith
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003
• ISBN: 1-138-13546-1; 0-203-42639-8; 1-134-39421-7; 1-280-02492-5
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (390 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): GalaiChaya
• Disciplina: 305.40902; 305.420940902
• Soggetti: Women - Europe - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500; Electronic books.; Europe History 476-1492
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published 1983 by Methuen and Company.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The Fourth EstateA history of women in the Middle Ages; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Foreword; 1 Introduction; 2 Public and Legal Rights; 3 Nuns; 4 Married Women; 5 Women in the Nobility; 6 Townswomen; 7 Women in the Peasantry; 8 Witches and the Heretical Movements; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Did women really constitute a `fourth estate' in medieval society and, if so, in what sense? In this wide-ranging study Shulamith Shahar considers this and the whole question of the varying attitudes to women and their status in western Europe between the twelfth and the fifteenth centuries.

Art of war [[electronic resource] /] / Sun Tzu and Victoria Charles

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910787701303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Parkstone Press International, c2013
• ISBN: 1-78042-876-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Disciplina: 355/.02
• Soggetti: War in art; War
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 250) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction; Millennia of War; Portraying War in Art; The Artists of War; The Art of Modern Warfare; Mythological Battles; The Trojan War; Battle of the Amazons; The Rape of the Sabine Women; Antiquity to Christianisation of theRoman Empire; The Victory Stele of Naram-Sin of Akkad; Battle of Kadesh; Battle of Marathon; Battle of Thermopylae; Battle of Mantinea; The Campaigns of Alexander the Great; Battle of the Granicus River; Battle of Issues; Battle of Arbela (Battle of Gaugamela); Battle of Heraclea; Battle of Cannae; Battle of Zama; Siege and Fall of Carthage; Battle of Alesia; Battle of Teutoburg Forest Battle of Milvian Bridge; Dark and Middle Ages; Battle of Tolbiac; Battle of Tours; Battle of Roncevaux Pass; Siege of Paris; Battle of Hastings; The Crusades; Siege of Jerusalem; Battle of Hattin; Sieges of Zara and Constantinople; Heiji Rebellion; Battle of Ichi-no-Tani; Battle of Bouvines; Battle of Taillebourg; Battle of Lake Peipus (Battle of the Ice); Battle of Ain Jalut; Battle of Bannockburn; Battle of Cassel; Battle of Crécy; Battle of Agincourt; Siege of Orléans; Battle of San Romano; Battle of Anghiari; Siege and Fall of Constantinople; Battle of Castillon; Early Modern Age to Wars for European Dominance Battle of Nancy; Battle of Fornovo; Battle of Garigliano; Siege of Kufstein; Battle of Marignano; Siege and Fall of Tenochtitlan; Battle of Pavia; Battle of Kawanakajima; St Bartholomew's Day Massacre; Battle of Arques; Siege of Breda; Battle of Nördlingen; Battle of Lens; Battle of the Dunes (Battle of Dunkirk); Battle of Tournai; Storming of Valenciennes; Battle of ; Vienna; Battle of Leuze; Battle of Poltava; Battle of Denain; Battle of Fontenoy; Battle of Lauffeld; Battle of Bunker Hill; C.Battles of Saratoga; Siege of Yorktown; Battle of Valmy; Battle of Fleurus The Napoleonic Wars; Battle of Arcole; Battle of Rivoli; Alexander Suvorov's Italian and Swiss Campaign; Battle of the Pyramids; Battle of Aboukir; Battle of Hohenlinden; Battle of Friedland; The Third of May 1808; Battle of Wagram; Battle of Borodino; Battle of Leipzig; Battle of Waterloo; Conflicts of the 19th Century; Third Siege of Missolonghi; Battle of the Alamo; Battle of the Smala; Battle of Montebello; Battle of Balaclava; Battle of Solferino; Battle of Gettysburg; Siege of Vicksburg; Battle of Atlanta; Battle of Sadowa (Battle of Königgrätz); Battle of Gravelotte; Battle of Little Big Horn Battle of Omdurman; Boxer Rebellion; Russo-Japanese War; The World Wars; First World War; The Second World War; War and Abstraction; Knight, Death, and the Devil; Battle of Cascina; The Charge of the Lancers; The Bombing of Guernica; Bibliography; Index