Brill Academic, 2020. — 562 p. — (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 92). The eighth-century English missionary and church reformer Boniface was a highly influential figure in early medieval Europe. His career in what is now Germany, France, and the Netherlands is attested in an exceptional number of textual sources: a correspondence of 150 letters, Latin poetry...
St James Press, 2002. — 350 p. History in Dispute series has a thematic, era or subject-specific focus that coincides with the way history is studied at the academic level. Each volume contains roughly 50 entries, chosen by an advisory board of historians and academics. Entries begin with a brief overview summarizing the controversy. This introduction is followed by two or more...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. — 254 p. Broadly defined, urban planning today is a process one might describe as half design and half social engineering. It considers not only the aesthetic and visual product, but also the economic, political, and social implications, as well as the environmental impact. This collection of essays explores the question of whether this sort...
Routledge, 2002. — 307 p. In recent years, the 'medieval frontier' has been the subject of extensive research. But the term has been understood in many different ways: political boundaries; fuzzy lines across which trade, religions and ideas cross; attitudes to other peoples and their customs. This book draws attention to the differences between the medieval and modern...
Yale University Press, 2008. — 407 p. The first landings in the Atlantic World generated striking and terrifying impressions of unknown peoples who were entirely foreign to anything in European explorers experience. From the first recorded encounters with the native inhabitants of the Canary Islands in 1341 to Columbus's explorations in 1492 and Cabral's discovery of Brazil in...
Routledge, 2016. — 321 p. A pioneering account of the dynastic struggle between the kings of Aragon and the Angevin kings of Naples, which shaped the commercial as well as the political map of the Mediterranean and had a profound effect on the futures of Spain, France, Italy and Sicily. David Abulafia does it full justice, reclaiming from undeserved neglect one of the formative...
Routledge, 2021. — 188 p. Monetisation and Commercialisation in the Baltic Sea, 1050–1450 explores the varied uses of silver and gold in the Baltic Sea zone during the medieval period. Ten original contributions examine coins and currencies, trade, economy, and power, taking care to avoid an out-of-date approach to economic history which assumes a progression from ‘primitive’...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. — 368 p. he fascinating history of Isabeau of Bavaria is a tale of two queens. During her lifetime, Isabeau, the long-suffering wife of mad King Charles VI of France, was respected and revered. After her death, she was reviled as an incompetent regent, depraved adulteress, and betrayer of the throne. Asserting that there is no historical...
Cretika Chronika. — Vol. 32. — 2012. — p. 41-78. Scholars have not paid sufficient attention to the importance of Byzantine involvement in support of the Cretan revolts against Venetian rule as part of the foreign policy of the Nicaean Emperors and Michael VIII after the dismemberment of the empire during the Fourth Crusade. Additionally, after the failure of Byzantine efforts...
Brepols, 1997. — 436 p. — (International Medieval Research 1). Using insights derived from the works of the great annalise historian Fernand Braudel and those of David Abulafia, this volume aims at presenting a fully-rounded picture of the Medieval Islamic Mediterranean between the years 650 and 1450. It ranges from discussions on Islamic Spain and Sicily through essays on...
Variorum Reprints, 1971. — 380 p. Reprint of different author's articles about Byzantine history and government, originally published in 1954-1967. Preface by Paul Lemerle. In this articles traditional and modern research views concerning civil and military Byzantine officials, who belonged to (e.g. protoasecretis) or are assumed by scholars to be associated with the imperial...
Publications de la Sorbonne, 1981. — 138 p. — (Byzantina Sorbonensia 3). Ce troisième volume de « Byzantina Sorbonensia» est le résultat des recherches sur la géographie historique de Byzance menées dans le cadre du Centre des Études Byzantines que je dirige, recherches entreprises par des spécialistes français et étrangers. La présentation des travaux suit l'ordre alphabétique...
Publications de la Sorbonne, 1988. — 302 p. — (Byzantina Sorbonensia 7). Voici rassemblés les premiers résultats encore partiels d'une vaste enquête lancée avec l'aide de la Fondation Européenne de la Science sur le territoire byzantin, notamment le monde littoral. Enquête multiple sur des régions variées (de la Sicile au Proche-Orient), des époques différentes (ive-xive...
Presses Universitaires de France, 1975. — 159 p. L'idéologie politique le l'empire byzantin », d'Hélène Ahrweiler est un essai court (159 pages) mais passionnant et lumineux. Avec précision, recul et clarté, l'auteur dissèque la nature de la pensée politique byzantine : « Une idéologie nourrie d'exaltation quasi mystique mais fondée sur les droits que l'héritage gréco-romain et la...
Clarendon Press, 1991. — 352 p. Froissart's Chroniques still find enthusiastic readers 600 years after they were written. This fresh reading demonstrates that their strength lies as much in their textual richness and complexity as in their appealing subject matter--the exploits of French and English noblemen during the Hundred Years War. Ainsworth explores the literary qualities...
Routledge, 2012. — 328 p. A key theme in this collection of thirteen essays is the creative tension between the Carolingian dynasty and its aristocratic followers across 250 years. The first section explores the rising dynasty's attempts to consolidate its power through war and rewards. The second section focuses on the exercise of authority through a complex system of...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 256 p. Food and attitudes toward it were transformed in Renaissance Europe. The period between 1300 and 1600 saw the discovery of the New World and the cultivation of new foodstuffs, as well as the efflorescence of culinary literature in European courts and eventually in the popular press, and most importantly the transformation of the economy on a...
Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports, 2013. — 304 p. What role did Greece play in the Middle Byzantine period, a time characterized by a general trend expressing a turn toward antiquity, known as the “Macedonian renaissance”? This question, complex and far from unambiguous, is explored through evidence from the written sources, and is discussed in terms of its...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2003. — 384 p. — (The Medieval Mediterranean 53). This volume presents a selection of papers exploring the ways by which medieval powers sought to legitimize themselves, the political discourses through which this was effected, and a wide range of related problems. The six chapters in Part I analyse particular cases in which processes of legitimation...
Brill, 2013. — 284 p. — (Vigiliae Christianae Supplements 121). Pauline Allen and Bronwen Neil investigate crisis management as conducted by the increasingly important episcopal class in the 5th and 6th centuries. Their basic source is the neglected corpus of bishops’ letters in Greek and Latin, the letter being the most significant mode of communication and...
Manchester University Press, 2004. — 295 p. Eastward bound looks at travel and travellers in the medieval period. An international range of distinguished contributors offer discussions on a wide range of themes, from the experiences of Crusaders on campaign, to the lives of pilgrims, missionaries and traders in the Middle East. It examines their modes of travel, equipment and...
University of Toronto Press, 2017. — 208 p. An Introduction to the Crusades, part of the Companions to Medieval Studies series, is an accessible guide to studying the complex history of the Crusades. The book begins by defining the Crusades, giving the political and social context of Byzantium, Western Europe, the Islamic States, and Jewish communities to set the scene for...
Cambridge University Press, 1988. — 224 p. This is a comparative study of how the societies of late-medieval England and France reacted to the long period of conflict between them commonly known as the Hundred Years War. Beginning with an analysis of contemporary views regarding the war. Two chapters follow which describe the military aim of the protagonists, military and naval...
Editorial Crítica, 1990. — 282 p. El libro es un ensayo histórico con un lenguaje narrativo, donde Allmand va explicando la historia, aportando distintos datos y notas al pie de página en determinadas ocasiones con motivo de indicar la fuente de información. Asimismo, en el inicio del libro una documentación gráfica complementaria que ayuda a comprender la evolución de la...
Trivent Publishing, 2023. — 367 p. 21st Century Medievalisms. Between the Global and Individual is an edited volume consisting of 14 chapters by scholars interested in contemporary medievalisms across the world. It is a timely contribution to the growing scholarship on medievalisms offering chapters that consider both the individual experiences of medievalisms, as well as those...
Routledge, 2020. — 140 p. This book investigates the Battle of Agincourt--which continues to be of immense national and international interest--as well as the wider conduct and organisation of war in the late Middle Ages. In England, Shakespeare's Henry V ensured that the battle holds a place in the English national consciousness, and through the centuries that followed the...
University of St. Andrews, 2009. — 210 p. Интересная современная диссертация исследует достаточно оригинальную тему - правовой статус, положение и пребывание в заключении военных пленников в ходе Столетней Войны (1337-1453). Автор рассматривает дифференцированные системы содержания в плену для различных категорий военных пленных: высшей аристократии, рыцарей и эсквайров, обычных...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 301 p. The status of prisoners of war was firmly rooted in the practice of ransoming in the Middle Ages. By the opening stages of the Hundred Years War, ransoming had become widespread among the knightly community, and the crown had already begun to exercise tighter control over the practice of war. This led to tensions between public and...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 368 p. Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Middle Ages were divided in many ways. But one thing they shared in common was the fear that God was offended by wrong belief. Medieval Heresies: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam is the first comparative survey of heresy and its response throughout the medieval world. Spanning England to Persia, it...
Routledge, 2017. — 364 p. Although often mentioned in textbooks about the Carolingian and Byzantine empires, the Treaty of Aachen has not received much close attention. This volume attempts not just to fill the gap, but to view the episode through both micro- and macro-lenses. Introductory chapters review the state of relations between Byzantium and the Frankish realm in the...
Routledge, 2017. — 364 p. Although often mentioned in textbooks about the Carolingian and Byzantine empires, the Treaty of Aachen has not received much close attention. This volume attempts not just to fill the gap, but to view the episode through both micro- and macro-lenses. Introductory chapters review the state of relations between Byzantium and the Frankish realm in the...
Penn State University Press, 2023. — 216 p. Is Byzantine Studies a colonialist discipline? Rather than provide a definitive answer to this question, this book defines the parameters of the debate and proposes ways of thinking about what it would mean to engage seriously with the field’s political and intellectual genealogies, hierarchies, and forms of exclusion. In this volume,...
Penn State University Press, 2023. — 216 p. Is Byzantine Studies a colonialist discipline? Rather than provide a definitive answer to this question, this book defines the parameters of the debate and proposes ways of thinking about what it would mean to engage seriously with the field’s political and intellectual genealogies, hierarchies, and forms of exclusion. In this volume,...
İletişim Yayınları, 2017. — 335 s. Yıllardır antik toplumsal formasyonların dönüşümü etrafındaki tartışmaların önemli kaynaklarından biri olmuş Antikiteden Feodalizme Geçişler, feodalizm öncesi siyasal, toplumsal, iktisadi ve sınıfsal yapıları tarihselleştirerek üretim biçimlerinin dönüşümü üzerine geniş bir coğrafi alanı ele alır. Yunan devletlerinden Roma İmparatorluğu’na,...
Routledge, 2003. — 368 p. Complete with introductions, full commentary, glossary, and a guide to further reading, Medieval Worlds is a comprehensive sourcebook for the study of Western Europe from the fifth to the fifteenth century. Drawing on a wide range of documents, from chronicles, legal, state, and church documents, to biographies, poems, and letters from all over Europe,...
Routledge, 2013. — 320 p. Complete with introductions, full commentary, glossary, and a guide to further reading, Medieval Worlds is a comprehensive sourcebook for the study of Western Europe from the fifth to the fifteenth century. Drawing on a wide range of documents, from chronicles, legal, state, and church documents, to biographies, poems, and letters from all over Europe,...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. — 194 p. The armies of the Fourth Crusade (1203-1204) that left Western Europe at the beginning of the thirteenth century never reached the Holy Land to fight the Infidel; they stopped instead at Byzantium and sacked that capital of eastern Christendom. Much of what we know today of those events comes from contemporary accounts by secular...
Hackett Publishing, 2015. — 201 p. "Seven Myths of the Crusades' rebuttal of the persistent and multifarious misconceptions associated with topics including the First Crusade, anti-Judaism and the Crusades, the crusader states, the Children's Crusade, the Templars and past and present Islamic-Christian relations proves, once and for all, that real history is far more...
Brill, 2016. — 272 p. — (The Medieval Mediterranean 108). In Mattʿēos Uṙhayecʿi and His Chronicle Tara L. Andrews presents the first ever in-depth study of the history written by this Armenian priest, who lived in Edessa (modern-day Urfa in Turkey) around the turn of the twelfth century and was an eyewitness to the First Crusade and the establishment of the Latin East. Although...
Mélanges Jean-Claude Cheynet. — Tome 21 (1). — 2017. — p. 1-12. This paper investigates the cultural and literary strategies leading to the construction of a shared memory of rebellions and failed usurpations in eleventh-century Byzantium. To do so, the author considers a significant case-study: the actions and personality of general George Maniakes (998-1043), as depicted in...
University of Birmingham, 2010. — 381 p. This dissertation studies the diplomatic communication between the Byzantine Empire and the West during the last century of the empire’s life from 1354 to 1453. The first chapter deals with ambassadorial travel to the West, studying land and sea routes, the season of travel, its speed and duration and the choice of vessel for the...
Uppsala University Press, 2016. — 487 p. — (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia 16). Byzantium needed the military service of foreigners as much as the Scandinavians needed the empire as a foil for constructing their own cultural identity. 'Byzantium and the Viking World' brings together scholars from the very different worlds of Byzantine and...
Uppsala University, 2013. — 288 p. The book about Vikings in the East deals with cultural contacts and exchange along the road to Byzantium. Can we trace the Scandinavian presence in Eastern Europe on the basis of written sources and archaeological finds? Who were the Rus? And Varangians? What was the difference between these two groups of Scandinavian origin active in the...
Papers from the Forty-third Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, March 2010. — Routledge, 2016. — 300 p. This volume addresses a theme of special significance for Byzantine studies. Byzantium has traditionally been deemed a civilisation which deferred to authority and set special store by orthodoxy, canon and proper order. Since 1982 when the...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 236 p. This modern study was the first to systematically investigate Byzantine imperial ideology, court rhetoric and political thought after the Latin conquest of Constantinople in 1204 - in the Nicaean state (1204-61) and during the early period of the restored empire of the Palaiologoi. The book explores Byzantine political imagination at a...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 463 p. This book tells the extraordinary story of Theodore II Laskaris, an emperor who ruled over the Byzantine state of Nicaea established in Asia Minor after the fall of Constantinople to the crusaders in 1204. Theodore Laskaris was a man of literary talent and keen intellect. His action-filled life, youthful mentality, anxiety about...
Hamlyn Publishing, 1970. — 136 p. This central medieval period witnessed therefore the full fusion of disparate historical and ideological strains and, precisely by virtue of this, gave birth to a number of features which not only coloured the complexion of the age itself, but also, and perhaps more important, laid the foundations of what was to become the modern period, at...
Oxford University Press, 1975. — 332 p. Известный исследователь по истории Византии в своей монографии подробно рассказывает об образовании, развитии и расширении византийской Никейской Империи (1204-1261) после захвата Константинополя крестоносцами. Автор исследует вопросы и функции имперского аппарата государственного управления и структуру общества в Никейской Империи.
St. Martin’s Press, 2001. — 236 p. Michael Angold's book is a clear, concise and authoritative history of the successor to Roman imperial power: the Byzantine Empire. Byzantium was a Greek 'polis' on the Bosphorus that gained importance in 324 AD when it was re-founded by Constantine the Great and named Constantinople. One of the pre-eminent cities of the Middle Ages,...
Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 621 p. In this major study the theme of "church and society" provides a means of examining the condition of the Byzantine Empire at an important period of its history, up to and well beyond the fall of Constantinople in 1204. Its a comprehensive study of a largely neglected period of the medieval Greek Empire. Angold has produced an elegant and...