Product Description: English description: Conservation work on the iconic Lupa Capitolina in Rome during 1997-2000 showed that this world-famous bronze statue is - contrary to centuries-old conviction - not from the first half of the 5th century BC, but was made during the Middle Ages...read more

Product Description: Medieval Concepts of the Past shows how the history of the Middle Ages is being reshaped by leading medieval historians in Germany and the United States in light of cultural and social-scientific investigations into ritual, language, and memory...read more

Product Description: The Donation of Constantine is the most outrageous and powerful forgery in world history. The question of its precise time of origin alone kept generations of researchers occupied. But, what exactly is the Donation of Constantine? To find the answer, it is necessary to approach the question on two different semantic levels: First, as the Constitutum Constantini, a fictitious privilege, in which, among other things, rights and presents were bestowed on the catholic church by a grateful Emperor Konstantin...read more