Brill, 2010. — 267 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, Vol. 13). — ISBN 9789004180093. The emergence of the Bohemian state is a long-discussed topic with many obscure points. Though significant progress has been reached in recent decades, the interpretations proposed are far from satisfactory. Important new information is still awaiting inclusion...
ABC-CLIO, 2006. — 1550 pages. — ISBN: 1576078639
The Crusades: An Encyclopedia surveys all aspects of the crusading movement from its origins in the 11th century to its decline in the 16th century. Unlike other works, which focus on the eastern Mediterranean region, this expansive four-volume encyclopedia also includes the struggle of Christendom against its enemies in Iberia,...
Continuum, 2010. — 257 p. — ISBN: 9781441157126.
The story of the Plantagenet dynasty is the story of one of the pivotal ages in English history. Attitudes and outlooks were formed with regard to a vast array of profoundly important issues. Such fundamental issues as the relationship between church and state, the nature of government/governance, the interaction of social and...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 498 pages. — ISBN: 9780521311090
The central theme of this book is the changing spatial pattern of human activities during the last 2,500 years of Europe's history. Professor Pounds argues that three factors have determined the locations of human activities: the environment, the attitudes and forms of social organization of the many different...
Routledge, 2010. — xii; 209 p. — (Routledge studies in the history of Iran and Turkey). — ISBN: 978-0-203-84923-1. This book provides a broad history of the Seljuq Turks from their origins and early conquests in the 10th century, through the rise of empire, until its dissolution at the end of the 12th. Where the history of the Seljuqs is usually studied in the context of...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 307 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series 97). — ISBN: 9780521837545. The reign of Richard II and the circumstances of his deposition have long been subject to intense debate. This new interpretation of the politics of the late-fourteenth century offers an in-depth survey of Richard's reign from the perspective...
Routledge, 2005. — 348 p. — (Roman Imperial Biographies). — ISBN: 0415165245. The emperor Trajan was indubitably well liked in his own lifetime, when he was termed Optimus Princeps, the ‘perfect prince’. After his death it was said that no other emperor had excelled or even equalled him in popularity with the people, and his memory remained green for centuries. In the...
Открытый Университет, 1998. — 200 страниц. Десятая часть получила название "Иерусалим в период мандата". В ней рассказывается о тридцати годах британского мандатного правления, со дня захвата города английскими войсками в конце Первой мировой войны и до решения ООН о разделе Палестины в ноябре 1947 года. В этот период, впервые за сотни лет, Иерусалим вновь превратился в...
Открытый Университет, 1998. — 197 страниц. Девятая часть курса получила название "Иерусалим обновляется". Она рассказывает об истории города в XIX веке, в особенности о его еврейской общине, так называемом "старом ишуве". В то время городом по-прежнему правила Турция, и в этом смысле данная часть является прямым продолжением предыдущей. Одновременно с этим усиливается...
Открытый Университет, 1998. — 198 страниц.
Восьмая часть, "Иерусалим в османскую эпоху", посвящена событиям, происшедшим с начала османского правления (в 1516 году) и до окончания похода Наполеона в Палестину (1799 год). Османский режим во многом был продолжением предшествовавшего ему мамлюкского: Иерусалим являлся частью мусульманской империи, центр которой располагался за...
Открытый Университет, 1998. — 180 страниц.
Материал седьмой части, "Иерусалим под властью Айюбидов и Мамлюков", рассказывает о конце периода крестоносцев (их изгнание из города в 1187 году знаменует собой начало эпохи правления Айюбидов) и об истории города вплоть до его завоевания Османской империей в XVI веке. Особое внимание уделяется значению Иерусалима как средства...
Открытый Университет, 1997. — 192 страницы.
Материал шестой части курса "Иерусалим — столица государства крестоносцев" охватывает небольшой период времени. Правление крестоносцев в Палестине продолжалось около двухсот лет (1099-1291 гг.), но Иерусалим находился под их властью в течение значительно меньшего времени. Эта часть повествует о религиозном подъёме, охватившем христиан...
Открытый Университет, 1997. — 176 страниц. Пятая часть курса "Иерусалим в первый мусульманский период" (638-1099) рассказывает об удивительном явлении: одновременно с упадком политического престижа города растет его слава как религиозного центра, на этот раз также и в глазах мусульман. Благодаря присутствию в городе многочисленных исламских заведений, Иерусалим становится...
Открытый Университет, 1997. — 218 страниц.
"Иерусалим в византийский период" таково название четвертой части курса. Её темой является окончание еврейского управления городом, этапы его превращения в важный центр христианства и его роль в распространении этой религии. Рост престижа Иерусалимского епископа в церковной иерархии привёл к тому, что Иерусалим стал занимать более...
Открытый Университет, 1997. — 208 страниц. Третья часть "Иерусалим под властью Рима" посвящена истории города на протяжении двухсот лет правления римлян, со времен захвата Иудеи Помпеем (63 год до н. э .) в дни раздоров в правящей семье Хасмонеев, и до подавления восстания Бар-Кохбы (135 год н. э.) . На фоне упадка династии Хасмонеев наблюдается возвышение семьи Антипатра,...
Открытый Университет, 1997. — 224 страницы. Вторая часть курса получила название "От города-Храма к столице Хасмонейского государства". Она рассказывает об истории города со времён возвращения евреев из вавилонского плена и до создания Хасмонейского государства. Студенты проследят за переменами власти в городе, которые происходили как в результате иностранного завоевания, так и...
Открытый Университет, 1997. — 188 страниц. Перед Вами книга по истории города, удивительного в своей сложности и неповторимого по своей красоте. Иерусалим знал множество политических потрясений, его образ вдохновлял представителей различных религий и народов. Этот город характеризуется уникальной религиозной, этнической и социальной мозаикой жителей. На протяжении всей своей...
Routledge, 1996. — 245 p. — ISBN: 0415148839. Chris Given-Wilson looks at the social structure of the time, discussing what contemporaries meant when they talked of the nobility, always emphasizing the close relationship between social status and political influence. He describes the noble household and council, and examines the territorial and familial policies of local and...
Routledge, 2002. — 292 p. — (Roman Imperial Biographies). — ISBN 0415165911. In this well-illustrated and stimulating biography, Anthony R. Birley looks at the multi-faceted and sometimes conflicting character of this strange and enigmatic emperor. He asks whether Septimius was a ‘typical cosmopolitan bureaucrat’, a ‘new Hannibal on the throne of the Caesars’ or the ‘principal...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. — 327 pages. — ISBN: 9781118273968
Roger Collins, a leading historian, investigates a time in Spanish history known for its multi-religious society — when Christians, Jews and Muslims lived in apparent harmony — revealing a fuller, more complex picture of this fascinating period. Presents new ideas and interpretations of a fascinating yet much...
Brill, 2012. — 266 p. — (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 159). — ISBN: 9789004226197 A revolution shook the Christian world in the second half of the eleventh century. Many eminent historians, most prominently Louis Duchesne and Augustin Fliche, point to Gregory VII (1073–1085) as the prime mover of this revolution that aspired to free the church from secular...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 408 pages. — ISBN: 0521768195
In the early ninth century, a critical time in Rome's transformation from ancient capital to powerful bishopric to new state capital, Pope Paschal I undertook a building campaign to communicate his authority and Rome's importance as an ancient and contemporary seat of power. Combining analysis of contemporary...
I. B. Tauris, 2006. — 257 pages. — ISBN: 9781429462556
In this lively and compelling history, D. S. Chambers examines popes and cardinals over several centuries who not only preached war but also put it into practice as military leaders. Engaging and stimulating, and using references to scripture and canon law as well as a large range of historical sources, Chambers throws...
Arnold, 2000. — 160 pages. — ISBN: 9781417532094
At its greatest extent, the Angevin Empire stretched from the Scottish border to the Pyrenees. For fifty years it was the dominant political entity and "English" and "French" history were inextricably woven together. This study looks at how these disparate territories came together, how they were ruled, and whether they truly...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 260 p. — ISBN: 9780521892780
From the beginning of the French Wars of Religion a small minority of toleration-minded Protestants and Catholics sought out a via media to end the civil wars which were destroying France. Later called politiques by their more zealous Catholic opponents, this group turned to Francois de Valois, duke of Alencon and...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 258 p. — ISBN: 9780511132797. This book is a new edition of Mack P. Holt's classic study of the French religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Drawing on the scholarship of social and cultural historians of the Reformation, it shows how religion infused both politics and the socio-economic tensions of the period to produce...
Harvard University Press, 2006. — 384 pages. — ISBN: 9780674029675
In the 1960s, works by Barrington Moore, Jr., Eric Hobsbawm, George Rude, E. P. Thompson, and others, coupled with the student movements of that decade, stimulated a new vogue for the study of comparative revolts in early modern, modern, and contemporary Europe and elsewhere. Curiously, the trend did not extend...
Academic Press, 1980. — 301 pages. — ISBN: 0121791807
The title of this book, "The Laboring Classes in Renaissance Florence", may seem anomalous. The idea of the Renaissance in Florence evokes high culture — art history, then literature, then humanism — matters, to be sure, which were far removed from the laboring classes. This work investigates the other side of Renaissance...
Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 322 p. — ISBN: 9780511003608
This book takes a new approach to the political history of the Italian Renaissance. It examines the Florentine state from its mountainous periphery, where Florence met its most strenuous opposition to territorial incorporation. From a tributary state, which treated its surrounding countryside as little more than a...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 332 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Third Series 9). — ISBN: 9780521023061. This book is a study of the economic development of different areas of twelfth-century Italy whose commercial interests were closely inter related: the Norman Kingdom of Sicily, famed for the wealth of its rulers, and the maritime ports of Genoa,...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 544 pages. — ISBN: 9780521248426
This book describes the role and organization of the land forces of a renaissance state over a long period. It thus provides a model against which the military development of other countries can be measured in terms of the composition, control and cost of armies. Above all, it redresses the imbalance whereby...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 512 pages. — ISBN: 9780199214648
The essays in Conceiving the Empire explore the mental images, ideas, and symbolical representations of 'empire' which developed in the two most powerful political entities of antiquity: China and Rome. While the central focus is on historiography, other related fields are also explored: geography and...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 332 pages. — ISBN: 9780521198783
Charles of Anjou's conquest of the Sicilian Regno in 1266 transformed relations between France and the kingdom of Sicily. This original study of contact and exchange in the middle ages explores the significance of the many cultural, religious and political exchanges between the two countries, arguing that the...
Cambridge University Press, 1992. — 256 pages. — ISBN: 9780521030304
This book offers new thinking about the processes of political and cultural change in the early Middle Ages. The main focus is on relations between the centre and periphery of the Carolingian empire, in particular on the development of Brittany as a territorial principality in the ninth and tenth centuries.
A...
Continuum, 2005. — 386 pages. — ISBN: 0-7185-0231-0
The kingdom best remembered for Offa and his famous dyke was not only a dominant power on the island of Britain in the eighth century, but also a significant player in early medieval European politics and culture. Although the volume focuses on the eighth and ninth centuries when Mercian power was at its height, it also looks...
Harvard University Press, 2005. — 725 p. — ISBN: 067401684X. From the seventeenth to the mid-eighteenth century, three great empires — Manchu Qing (1644–1911), the Muscovite – Russian (1613–1917), and the Mongolian Zunghars (1671–1760) — contended for power in the heart of Eurasia. The distances were vast, communications slow, military campaigns extended and costly, and...
Institute for Ismaili Studies, 2006. — 279 pages. — ISBN: 9781850438854
This is an annotated English translation of Qadi al-Nu'man's Iftitah al-de' wa. This book is the most important primary source for the emergence of the Fatimid state in the early years of the tenth century. Its author, Qadi al-Nu'man, was an official historian of the Fatimids and an eminent exponent of...
Brill, 2004. — 485 p. — (The Medieval Mediterranean 51). — ISBN 9789004132863. This work consists of 19 studies by historians of the Mamluks. Drawing on primary Arabic sources, the studies discuss central political, military, urban, social, administrative, economic, financial and religious aspects of the Mamluk Empire that was established in 1250 by Mamluks.
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 410 pages. — ISBN: 9780521037020
Jeremy Johns' unique study is the first comprehensive account of the Arabic administration of Norman Sicily. While it is generally assumed that the Normans inherited their administration from the Muslim governors of the island, Johns demonstrates that the Norman kings actually restructured their administration...
Brill, 2010. — 272 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, 12). — ISBN: 9789004186460. Late antique identities from the Western Balkans were transformed into new, Slavic identities after c. 600 AD. It was a process that is still having continuous impact on the discursive constructions of ethnic and regional identities in the area. Building on the new...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 453 p. — ISBN: 9780198208242. In this challenging new book Charles Coulson overturns many of the traditional assumptions about the nature and purpose of castle-building in the middle ages. Going back to the original sources, he proposes a new and more subtle understanding of the function and symbolism of castles as well as vivid insights into...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 816 pages. — ISBN: 9780199579259
This superb volume tells the story of Britain and its people over two thousand years, from the coming of the Roman legions to the present day. Edited by esteemed historian Kenneth O. Morgan, this informative volume illuminates the political, social, economic, and cultural developments of the British Isles. Ten...
Greenwood, 2005. — 202 pages. — ISBN: 9780313325885
Designed as an introduction to the founding and consolidation of the Han Empire, this work offers information on the founding of the Han Empire; conflict between town and countryside and the empire and barbarians; technological innovations like steel and papermaking; social changes and the lives of women and children; and a...
Selected and Translated from the Arabic Sources by Francesco Gabrieli; Translated from the Italian by E.J.Costello. — Oxford; New York: Routledge (Taylor & Francis e-Library), 2009. — xxviii, 226 p. — (The Islamic World Series) — ISBN13: 978-0-415-56332-1; 978-0-203-09250-7; ISBN10: 0-415-56332-1; 0-203-09250-3. Translated from the Italian Storici Arabi delle Crociate — Turin:...
М.: Наука, 1966. — 200 с.
Книга посвящена археологическим культурам скифов - народа, оставившего весьма заметный след в истории народов Европы, Востока, Сибири. Много фактического материала, отчеты о раскопках, планы раскопов, поселений, захоронений. Фотографии находок.
Brill, 2005. — 290 p. — (History of Warfare 33). — ISBN 9781429453462. This study of relations between Sung China (960-1279) and Kitan Liao (916-1125), a state on Sung's northern border, is both a military and diplomatic history and a history of diplomacy. Its first chapters historically contextualise the equality of Sung-Liao diplomacy and narrate how, during the late tenth...
London: UCL Press Limited, 1999. — 344 p. — ISBN: 9781857284676 This book examines the history of war in what are usually called the “High Middle Ages”. At the beginning of the second millennium, Europe was no longer threatened by external attack and it was clearly set on a course of remarkable economic, social and political development. In 1095 the First Crusade was launched,...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 627 pages. — ISBN: 9780511018183
It is assumed widely that ''war made the state'' in seventeenth-century France. Yet this study challenges the traditional interpretations of the role of the army as an instrument of the emerging absolutist state, and shows how the expansion of the French war effort contributed to weakening Richelieu's hold on...
Brill, 2014. — 284 p. — (History of Warfare 102). — ISBN: 9789004282759. Historians writing about the society of medieval and Renaissance Italy have usually focused on towns and cities. Even those writing about rural society often concentrate on the district governed by a particular town. Bankers, merchants, lawyers, are generally seen as constituting the most characteristic...
Brill, 2006. — 315 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 39). — ISBN: 9789004152151. This work reexamines the political and military aspects of the Revolution of 1399 that removed Richard II and placed Henry of Lancaster on the English throne. It argues that Henry of Lancaster was not the "all conquering" hero of 1399 but was rather the leader of a coalition of disaffected noblemen...