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The Remaking of the Medieval World, 1204 allows students to
understand and experience one of the greatest medieval atrocities,
the sack of the Constantinople by a crusader army, and the
subsequent reshaping of the Byzantine Empire. The game includes
debates on issues such as "just war" and the nature of crusading,
feudalism, trade rights, and the relationship between secular and
religious authority. It likewise explores the theological issues at
the heart of the East-West Schism and the development of
constitutional states in the era of Magna Carta. The game also
includes a model siege and sack of Constantinople where individual
students' actions shape the fate of the crusade for everyone.
King Alfonso VIII of Castile: Government, Family and War brings
together a diverse group of scholars whose work concerns the reign
of Alfonso VIII (1158–1215). This was a critical period in the
history of the Iberian peninsula, when the conflict between the
Christian north and the Moroccan empire of the Almohads was at its
most intense, while the political divisions between the five
Christian kingdoms reached their high-water mark. From his troubled
ascension as a child to his victory at Las Navas de Tolosa near the
end of his fifty-seven-year reign, Alfonso VIII and his kingdom
were at the epicenter of many of the most dramatic events of the
era. Contributors: Martin Alvira Cabrer, Janna Bianchini, Sam Zeno
Conedera, S.J., Miguel Dolan GĂłmez, Carlos de Ayala MartĂnez,
Kyle C. Lincoln, Joseph O’Callaghan, Teofi lo F. Ruiz, Miriam
Shadis, Damian J. Smith, James J. Todesca
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