Bøger af Giles Constable

In this extraordinary monograph, Constable chronicles the month-to-month, quarter-to-quarter cash transactions and other business between the Rothschild ownership and their agents in Sacramento, Benjamin Davidson and Heinrich Schliemann. Presents a case study embracing both the macroeconomics of the California Gold Rush vis-a-vis international finance, and the microeconomics of the day-to-day issues of credit, cash exchange, wealth transference, insurance, and risk between 1851 and 1852. These kinds of records have disappeared in California, given the flooding and fire that destroyed Sacramento and San Francisco during this time. This rare treasure trove was found on the European side of the exchange. Illus.

Crusading in the twelfth century was less a series of discrete events than a manifestation of an endemic phenomenon that touched almost every aspect of life at that time. This book includes various versions of Giles Constable's classic essays on medieval crusading, along with two major studies on the cross of the crusaders and the Fourth Crusade.

This volume is an important contribution to understanding not only monasticism in Normandy, but also the conflict between church and state in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

The articles in this volume deal with the history of the abbey of Cluny, both its relations with the outside world and its internal organization and spirituality, from its foundation in 910, until the end of the 12th century.

A collection of articles concentrating on culture and spirituality in the 11th and 12th centuries. The cultural articles are concerned with perceptions of time and the past and entry to religious life. The articles on spirituality deal with themes of suffering and attitudes towards the self.