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 Fashion in Medieval France
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.

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 Latin for Local History: An Introduction
Latin for Local History: An Introduction
Author: Eilen A. Gooder
Latin for Local History: An Introduction
Longman Group United Kingdom
1978
Format: PDF (rar+3%)
Size: 10,2 mb
Language: English
Pages: 147

Latin for Local History provides a self-teaching guide for those historians who wish to tackle the language in which the majority of pre-eighteenth century historical records have been written. It is unique in dealing only with Latin found in historical records of the medieval period. Practice material and exercises are provided in the form of documents most commonly encountered by the historian in their research - deeds, charters, court rolls, accounts, bishops' registers and so on.

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 Viking Age England
Viking Age England
Author: Julian D. Richards
Viking Age England
The History Press
2013
ISBN: 0752428888
Format: PDF
Size: 5,1 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 249
This book is about the development of Anglo-Saxon England from AD 800 until the Norman Conquest. It is an introduction to the subject of the Vikings in England.
From shortly before AD 800 until the Norman Conquest, England was subject to raids from seafaring peoples from Scandinavia—the Vikings. However, they were not only raiders but also traders and settlers. Using the latest archaeological evidence, the author reassesses the Viking contribution to Late Anglo-Saxon England and examines the creation of the new mixed Anglo-Scandinavian identity.

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 Women in Purple Rulers of Medieval Byzantium
Women in Purple Rulers of Medieval Byzantium
Author: Judith Herrin
Women in Purple Rulers of Medieval Byzantium
Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691117802
2004
Format: EPUB
Size: 6,2 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 288
In the eighth and ninth centuries, three Byzantine empresses--Irene, Euphrosyne, and Theodora--changed history. Their combined efforts restored the veneration of icons, saving Byzantium from a purely symbolic and decorative art and ensuring its influence for centuries to come.
In this exhilarating and highly entertaining account, one of the foremost historians of the medieval period tells the story of how these fascinating women exercised imperial sovereignty with consummate skill and sometimes ruthless tactics. Though they gained access to the all-pervasive authority of the Byzantine ruling dynasty through marriage, all three continued to wear the imperial purple and wield tremendous power as widows. From Constantinople, their own Queen City, the empresses undermined competitors and governed like men. They conducted diplomacy across the known world, negotiating with the likes of Charlemagne, Roman popes, and the great Arab caliph Harun al Rashid.

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 French medieval armies 1000-1300
French medieval armies 1000-1300
French medieval armies 1000-1300 (Men-at-Arms series 231)
Osprey Publishing Ltd
1991
Format: Pdf
Size: 7 Mb
Language: English

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 On the Skirts of Canaan in the Iron Age
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.

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 The Castles of Suffolk
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.

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 Theodore Spandounes On the Origins of the Ottoman Emperors Hardcover
Theodore Spandounes On the Origins of the Ottoman Emperors Hardcover
Author: Donald M. Nicol
Theodore Spandounes On the Origins of the Ottoman Emperors Hardcover
Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521585104
1997
Format: PDF
Size: 28,5 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 192
The Turkish conquest of Constantinople in 1453 and the phenomenal expansion of the Ottoman Empire thereafter produced a ready market in the West for works about the origins, history and institutions of the Turks. Theodore Spandounes, himself of a Greek refugee family from Constantinople who had settled in Venice, was one of the first to publish such a work. Its final version, published in 1538, was written in Italian. This book offers the first English translation of the complete text, with a historical commentary and explanatory notes.

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 Byzantium and Venice A Study in Diplomatic and Cultural Relations
Byzantium and Venice A Study in Diplomatic and Cultural Relations
Author: Donald M. Nicol
Byzantium and Venice A Study in Diplomatic and Cultural Relations
Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521428947
1992
Format: PDF
Size: 14,3 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 480
This book traces the diplomatic, cultural, and commercial links between Constantinople and Venice from the foundation of the Venetian Republic to the Fall of the Byzantine Empire. It aims to show how, with the encouragement of the Fourth Crusade in 1204, the Venetians came to dominate first the Genoese and thereafter the whole Byzantine economy. At the same time, the author points to those important cultural and, above all, political reasons why the relationship between the two states was always inherently unstable.

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 The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies
The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies
The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies (Oxford Handbooks)
Author: composite authors
Oxford University Press
2009
Pages: 1050
Language: English
Format: pdf
Size: 53.6 Mb

The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies presents discussions by leading experts on all significant aspects of this diverse and fast-growing field. The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies deals with the history and culture of the Byzantine Empire, the eastern half of the Late Roman Empire, from the fourth to the fourteenth century. Its centre was the city formerly known as Byzantium, refounded as Constantinople in 324 CE, the present-day Istanbul. Under its emperors, patriarchs, and all-pervasive bureaucracy Byzantium developed a distinctive society: Greek in language, Roman in legal system, and Christian in religion. Byzantium's impact in the European Middle Ages is hard to over-estimate, as a bulwark against invaders, as a meeting-point for trade from Asia and the Mediterranean, as a guardian of the classical literary and artistic heritage, and as a creator of its own magnificent artistic style.

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 Warfare, State And Society In The Byzantine World 565-1204
Warfare, State And Society In The Byzantine World 565-1204
Warfare, State And Society In The Byzantine World 565-1204
Author: John Haldon
Routledge
1999
Pages: 400
Language: English
Format: pdf
Size: 2.3 Mb

Warfare, State and Society in the Byzantine World is the first comprehensive study of warfare and the Byzantine world from the sixth to the twelfth century.
The book examines Byzantine attitudes to warfare, the effects of war on society and culture, and the relations between the soldiers, their leaders and society. The communications, logistics, resources and manpower capabilities of the Byzantine Empire are explored to set warfare in its geographical as well as historical context. In addition to the strategic and tactical evolution of the army, this book analyses the army in campaign and in battle, and its attitudes to violence in the context of the Byzantine Orthodox Church.
The Byzantine Empire has an enduring fascination for all those who study it, and Warfare, State and Society is a colourful study of the central importance of warfare within it.

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 Medieval Warfare: A History
Medieval Warfare: A History
Author: Maurice Keen
Medieval Warfare: A History
Oxford University Press
1999
Format: EPUB
Pages: 352
Size: 14 Mb
Language: English

The medieval period was a singular epoch in military history--an age profoundly influenced by martial ideals, whose very structure of society was organized for war, and whose leaders were by necessity warriors. Now, the richly illustrated Medieval Warfare illuminates this era, examining over seven hundred years of European conflict, from the time of Charlemagne to the end of the middle ages.

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 A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820
A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820
Author: John K. Thornton
A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820
Cambridge University Press
2012
Format: PDF
Size: 10 Mb
Language: English

A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820 explores the idea that strong linkages exist in the histories of Africa, Europe, and North and South America. John K. Thornton provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the Atlantic Basin before 1830 by describing political, social, and cultural interactions between the continents' inhabitants. He traces the backgrounds of the populations on these three continental landmasses brought into contact by European navigation. Thornton then examines the political and social implications of the encounters, tracing the origins of a variety of Atlantic societies and showing how new ways of eating, drinking, speaking, and worshipping developed in the newly created Atlantic World. This book uses close readings of original sources to produce new interpretations of its subject.

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 Middle Ages Reference Library vol. 1- 5
Middle Ages Reference Library vol. 1- 5
Middle Ages Reference Library vol. 1- 5
Author: J.Knight
Gale Group
2001
Pages: 918
Format: PDF
Quality: Good
Language: English
Size: 24 mb

Volume 1 – Almanac
Volume 2-3 – biographies
Volume 4 - Primary Sources
Volume 5 - Cumulative Index

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 Warrior Cults. A history of Magical Mystical and Murderous Organizations
Warrior Cults. A history of Magical Mystical and Murderous Organizations
Author: Paul Elliott
Warrior Cults. A history of Magical Mystical and Murderous Organizations
Blandford Press
1995
Format: PDF
Pages: 216
Language: English
Size: 36.1 MB

Today's terrorists are not new. Terror, murder, and stealth have always flourished in close-knit, blindly obedient cults. In fact, the very word "assassin" has its origins in a medieval warrior cult of the Middle East, while the original Thugs were a secret band who terrorized India in the 19th century. Here is the whole gruesome history of groups that have used loyalty to commit murder and spread terror. Start with the mystery cults of ancient Greece and the secret Roman religion of Mithras with its bloody initiations. Follow the sinister Knights Templar, the Japanese Ninja and Triad clans, and the Chinese Boxer cult that led the famous uprising against the British. Each of these warrior cults had its own strict codes and rituals, yet its motivations may seem strange to modern minds. Today it's more urgent than ever to try to understand, as we attempt to protect ourselves against today's versions, made far more dangerous with the possession of biological, and even nuclear, weapons.

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 Jewish self-government in the middle ages
Jewish self-government in the middle ages
Author:Louis Finkelstein
Jewish self-government in the middle ages
The Jewish Theological Seminary of America
1924
Format: PDF
Size: 95,9 MB
Language:English

A comprehensive history of the constitutional activities of the European Jewish communities during the Middle Ages. Various texts, in Hebrew with English translations, describe the enactments of the different synods.

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 A History of the Church in the Middle Ages
A History of the Church in the Middle Ages
Author: F Donald Logan
A History of the Church in the Middle Ages, 2nd edition
Routledge
2012
Format: PDF/ePub
Size: 16.5 Mb
Language: English

For its humane and learned approach to its enormous canvas, as well as for the cogency with which it penetrates at speed to the essentials of a vanished historical epoch, this History of the Church in the Middle Ages deserves a very wide audience indeed.

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 A Social History of England, 1200-1500
A Social History of England, 1200-1500
Author : Rosemary Horrox
: A Social History of England, 1200-1500
Cambridge
: 2006
ISBN: 0521783453
Pages: 528
Format : PDF
Size : 3 MB
Language : English

What was life really like in England in the later Middle Ages? This comprehensive introduction explores the full breadth of English life and society in the period 1200-1500. Opening with a survey of historiographical and demographic debates, the book then explores the central themes of later medieval society, including the social hierarchy, life in towns and the countryside, religious belief, and forms of individual and collective identity.
Clustered around these themes a series of authoritative essays develop our understanding of other important social and cultural features of the period, including the experience of war, work, law and order, youth and old age, ritual, travel and transport, and the development of writing and reading. Written in an accessible and engaging manner by an international team of leading scholars, this book is indispensable both as an introduction for students and as a resource for specialists.

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 The Cambridge medieval history. Vol.5
The Cambridge medieval history. Vol.5
The Cambridge medieval history
New York Macmillan
Author: J.B. Bury
1911
Pages: 1096
Format: PDF
Size: 71 mb
Language: English

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