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 The Stormin' Normans 
 Author: Terry Deary The Stormin' Normans Scholastic Quality: Pages: 128 Genre: novell Horrible Histories Language: English 2001 Format: PDF Size: 14,9 МБ Horrible Histories is a series of illustrated history books published in the United Kingdom by Scholastic. They are designed to get children interested in history by concentrating on the unusual, gory, or unpleasant. This title contains fascinating facts about Bill the Conqueror and his bully boys who battled at Hastings, stormed around Europe and joined the Crusades. There are tales of limb-chopping, terribly tortured saints and you can find out what "really" happened in 1066. Want to know: Why Norman knights slept with a dolly? Which pirate hung up his eye-patch and became a saint? Why Crusader ships were defended with barrels of pee? This book lets you discover the foul facts about the 'Stormin' Normans'.
Historical Dictionary of Medieval India
 Author:Iqtidar Alam Khan Historical Dictionary of Medieval India 2008 Series: Historical Dictionaries of Ancient Civilizations and Historical Eras (Book 20) Scarecrow Press Format:PDF Size:1.78 MB Language:English The medieval period of Indian history is difficult to define clearly. It may be perceived as the long phase of India's transition from the ancient to the immediately pre-colonial times. The latter period would naturally be imagined commencing from Vasco da Gama's voyage round the Cape of Good Hope in 1498, or, alternatively, the establishment of the Mughal empire (1526). More definitely though, the renewed Islamic advance into north India, roughly from 1000 A.D. onwards leading to the rise of the Delhi Sultanate (1206), can be held to mark, in political and cultural terms, the beginning of the medieval period. For the purpose of the Historical Dictionary of Medieval India, the period from 1000 A.D. to 1526 A.D. will be considered India's medieval times. The turbulent history of this period is told through the book's chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on key people, historical geography, arts, institutions, events, and other important terms.
Byzantine Studies and Other Essays
 Author: Hepburn Baynes Byzantine Studies and Other Essays Athlone Press ISBN: 0837176735 1974 Format: PDF Size: 37,9 МБ Language: English Pages: 392 Byzantine Studies and Other Essays
Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy: Philosophy between 500 and 1500
 Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy: Philosophy between 500 and 1500 Springer Author: Henrik Lagerlund 2010 Pages: 1423 Format: PDF Size: 11 mb Language: English Research on medieval philosophy has advanced greatly in the last thirty years, but there has not been a comprehensive encyclopedia summarizing the current research available. This two-volume reference work fills that void. The Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy covers all areas of philosophy in the Middle Ages and part of the Renaissance, ranging from 500 to 1500 CE. It contains general entries on medieval philosophers and medieval philosophies and on the key terms and concepts in the subject area, but it also provides more in-depth details and analyses of particular theories. Furthermore, in order to gain an insight into the social and cultural context of the material, entries are included on the teaching of philosophy, the career of philosophers, and the place of philosophy within the universities. Complete with cross-references between key words and related essays to enable efficient searches, this Encyclopedia is exhaustive, unprecedented, and user-friendly. It is indispensable for scholars of medieval philosophy and of the history of ideas, and it is also useful for anyone interested in medieval ideas and thought.
The Mediaeval Castles of Skye and Lochalsh
 Author: Roger Miket , David Roberts The Mediaeval Castles of Skye and Lochalsh Birlinn 2007 Format: PDF Pages: 116 Language: English Size: 54.3 MB In this book, the castles of Hebridean myth and story are brought to life in a scholarly yet easy-to-read text. Roger Miket explores the history and architecture of the settings associated with blood-curdling dramas such as the murderous goings-on at Dun Sgaith or the far-fetched yarns of Saucy Mary and Cu Chulainn. Many of the castles are shown in reconstruction and all the architectural descriptions are fully illustrated making them clear to both expert and amateur historians. Together with the earlier broachs and duns, the castles are the principal material survivals of the great pageant of Hebridean history.
The Jews of Byzantium 1204-1453
 Author: Steven B. Bowman The Jews of Byzantium 1204-1453 Bloch Pub Co ISBN: 0819707031 1985 Format: PDF Size: 5,7 МБ Language: English Pages: 379 Bowman presents the sources with a critical historical introduction for the rediscovery of Balkan and Aegean Jewry from the Fourth Crusade to the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople. The book traces the fortunes of Greek Jews, their contact with co-religionists from Spain, Italy, the Crimea and their interaction with the variegated local populations and endemic conquerors of the region. From the beginning of the 13th century to the 16th century with special chapters on intellectual life, rabbinic interests, mysticism, Greek culture and the social and economic dimension.
The High Middle Ages in Germany
 Author: Rolf Toman The High Middle Ages in Germany Benedikt Taschen 1990 г. Format: PDF Size: 5,31 mb
1066: The Hidden History in the Bayeux Tapestry
 Author: Andrew Bridgeford 1066: The Hidden History in the Bayeux Tapestry Walker & Company 2006 ISBN: 0802777422 Format: EPUB Size: 7,6 МБ Language: English Pages: 354 For more than 900 years the Bayeux Tapestry has preserved one of history's greatest dramas: the Norman Conquest of England, culminating in the death of King Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Historians have held for centuries that the majestic tapestry trumpets the glory of William the Conqueror and the victorious Normans. But is this true? In 1066, a brilliant piece of historical detective work, Andrew Bridgeford reveals a very different story that reinterprets and recasts the most decisive year in English history. Reading the tapestry as if it were a written text, Bridgeford discovers a wealth of new information subversively and ingeniously encoded in the threads, which appears to undermine the Norman point of view while presenting a secret tale undetected for centuries-an account of the final years of Anglo-Saxon England quite different from the Norman version. Bridgeford brings alive the turbulent 11th century in western Europe, a world of ambitious warrior bishops, court dwarfs, ruthless knights, and powerful women. 1066 offers readers a rare surprise-a book that reconsiders a long-accepted masterpiece, and sheds new light on a pivotal chapter of English history.
Textiles and Clothing: c.1150-c.1450.
 2006 Format: PDF Pages: 223 Size: 33.5 MB Language: English
Beyond the Legacy of Genghis Khan
 Author: Komaroff L. (ed.) Beyond the Legacy of Genghis Khan Brill 2006 Format: PDF Size: 20 mb Language: English Pages: 679 This publication offers a wide-ranging account of the Mongols in western and eastern Asia in the aftermath of Genghis Khan's disruptive invasions of the early thirteenth century, focusing on the significant cultural, social, religious and political changes that followed in their wake. The issues considered concern art, governance, diplomacy, commerce, court life, and urban culture in the Mongol world empire as originally presented at a 2003 symposium at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and now distilled in this volume. This collection of 23 papers by many of the main authorities in the field demonstrates both the scope and the depth of the current state of Mongol-related studies and will undoubtedly inspire and provoke further research. The text is profusely illustrated by 27 color and 110 black-and-white illustrations.
Emperor Michael Palaeologus And The West, 1258-1282
 Author: Deno John Geanakoplos Emperor Michael Palaeologus And The West, 1258-1282 Harvard University Press 1959 Format: PDF Size: 29,8 МБ Language: English Pages: 452
Crusading and the Crusader States
 Author: Andrew Jotischky Crusading and the Crusader States Routledge 2013 Format: epub/pdf Size: 10.3 Mb Language: English Crusading as a subject has expanded in recent years to include new fields of enquiry. This book examines how crusading historiography includes new areas and new definitions, focusing on two fundamental issues in current writing: why people went on crusades and what forms the western settlement in the Near East took. Crusading and the Crusader States explains how the idea of holy wars came into being and why they took the form that they did – a clash between western and Islamic societies that dominated the Middle Ages.
The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision, Fourth Edition
 Author: Henry Kamen The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision, Fourth Edition Yale University Press 2013 Format: epub Size: 19.3 Mb Language: English In this completely updated edition of Henry Kamen’s classic survey of the Spanish Inquisition, the author incorporates the latest research in multiple languages to offer a new—and thought-provoking—view of this fascinating period. Kamen sets the notorious Christian tribunal into the broader context of Islamic and Jewish culture in the Mediterranean, reassesses its consequences for Jewish culture, measures its impact on Spain’s intellectual life, and firmly rebuts a variety of myths and exaggerations that have distorted understandings of the Inquisition. He concludes with disturbing reflections on the impact of state security organizations in our own time.
The Castles of Suffolk
 The Castles of Suffolk Author: Peter Truon Poppyland Publishing 2004 ISBN: 0-946148-686 Pages: 98 Language: English Format: PDF Size: 33.7 MB Suffolk has a rich heritage which can be discovered in many of its historic attractions and heritage sites including:- Framlingham Castle, Leiston Abbey, Sutton Hoo, Kentwell Hall, Palace House (Newmarket) and Otley Hall to mention just a few.
Life in the Middle Ages
 Author: Robert Delort Life in the Middle Ages Phaidon Press Ltd 1974 348 Format: Pdf Size: 16 MB Language: English Historian Hans-Werner Goetz presents here a comprehensive depiction of life in the earlier Middle Ages that focuses on "everyday history". According to Goetz it is nearly impossible to write a history of everyday life during the Middle Ages since the written sources of that age had entirely different purposes, never describing everyday life for its own sake.
The Legend of the Grail
 Author:Nigel Bryant The Legend of the Grail (Arthurian Studies LVIII) BREWER 2004 Format: pdf Size: 2.2Mb Language: English The Grail legends have been appropriated by novelists as diverse as Umberto Eco and Dan Brown yet very few have read for themselves the original stories from which they came. All the mystery and drama of the Arthurian world are embodied in the extraordinary tales of Perceval, Gawain, Lancelot and Galahad in pursuit of the Holy Grail. The original romances, full of bewildering contradictions and composed by a number of different writers, dazzle with the sheer wealth of their conflicting imagination.
Fashion in Medieval France
 Author: S.G. Heller Fashion in Medieval France D.S.Brewer 2007 Format:pdf Size:15,5 mb Language:English How are we to distinguish between a culture organized around fashion, and one where the desire for novel adornment is latent, intermittent, or prohibited? How do fashion systems organize social hierarchies, individual psychology, creativity, and production? Medieval French culture offers a case study of "systematic fashion", demonstrating desire for novelty, rejection of the old in favor of the new, and criticism of outrageous display. Texts from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries describe how cleverly-cut garments or unique possessions make a character distinctive, and even offer advice on how to look attractive on a budget or gain enough spending money to shop for oneself.
On the Skirts of Canaan in the Iron Age
 On the Skirts of Canaan in the Iron Age (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta) Author: Edward Lipinski Peeters Publishers 2006 Pages: 479 Format: PDF Size: 32 mb Language: english The history of Canaan in the Iron Age is generally written from the perspective of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. The scope of this book is to inverse this relation and to focus on "the skirts of Canaan", while regarding the "United Monarchy" and the "Divided Monarchy" as external and sometimes marginal players of the regional history. After having examined the transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron Age in the mid-12th century B.C., the book deals thus with the Philistines and the role of Egypt in Canaan during Iron Age II, especially in the face of the Assyrian expansion. It treats further of the Phoenicians and the Aramaeans. There follow five chapters on Bashan, Gilead, Ammon, Moab, and Edom with the Negeb. Several indices facilitate the consultation of the work on particular topics.
The Crusades
 Author: Christopher Tyerman The Crusades (A Brief Insight) Sterling 2009 ISBN: 1402768915 Format: EPUB Size: 23,0 МБ Language: English Pages: 224 Crusading fervor gripped Europe for more than 200 years, creating one of the most extraordinary episodes in world history. But were the Crusades the first steps in European colonialism, an attempt at ethnic cleansing, a manifestation of religious zeal—or all three? Bringing together issues of colonialism, cultural exchange, and economic exploitation, scholar Christopher Tyerman challenges our assumptions about the Crusades and encourages us to re-evaluate the relationship between past and present.
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