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The Catalan Expedition to the East

Author : Ramón Muntaner
Publisher : Tamesis Books
ISBN 13 : 9781855661318
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book The Catalan Expedition to the East written by Ramón Muntaner and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ramon Muntaner's account of the bloody adventures of the Almogaver army under Roger of Flor in the eastern Mediterranean in the early fourteenth century, one of the most spellbinding narratives of medieval European literature. Before its definitive fall into Turkish hands, the Byzantine Empire was the target of adventurers of many nations. Outstanding among these groups was the Almogaver army led by Roger of Flor, composed of mercenaries hardened in thewar between the Catalan and Angevin dynasties for domination of Sicily. The Catalan presence in Constantinople aroused suspicion among the Greek nobility who assassinated Roger of Flor and tried to exterminate his men. The devastating reaction of those who escaped the slaughter led to Catalan control of broad swathes of the Empire, including Athens. Ramon Muntaner, one of the ringleaders of the expedition, recounted the adventures of the Almogaver army inthe eastern Mediterranean in the fascinating section of his Chronicle translated here. The preface is by N. D. Hillgarth. Dr. Robert D. Hughes is a translator and researcher with particular expertise in the fields of fine art, the history of ideas and Catalan culture. Published in association with Editorial Barcino

The Catalan Chronicles

Author : Almudena Blasco Vallés
Publisher : ohDigital
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Catalan Chronicles written by Almudena Blasco Vallés and published by ohDigital. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the occasion of the celebration of Ramon Muntaner’s Year in 2015, the Biblioteca de Catalunya and the Ministry of Culture of the Catalan Government have published Les cròniques catalanes. Through the voices of the researchers Josep Maria Solé Sabaté, José Enrique Ruiz-Domènec, Raül Sanchis Francés and Núria Silleras Fernández, who tell us about the four great chronicles from a current point of view, the reader is introduced to the medieval world, the arts, the festivals and the role of women. The work gives an account of the most relevant facts found in the chronicles and provides a selection of the most significant manuscripts kept at the Biblioteca de Catalunya, a preservation carried out by historian Almudena Blasco. In addition, the book contains a selection of thirty-nine passages from the various chronicles, accompanied by images of the original documents and their transcriptions. Finally, the book includes a bibliographic work that collects the codices and printed documents that transmit these chronicles, a task curated by Tània Alaix, librarian at the Biblioteca de Catalunya. All content and materials are now gathered in this open access e-book in a new and innovative format, published under a Creative Commons license.

The Briennes

Author : Guy Perry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108186955
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Briennes written by Guy Perry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Briennes were a highly important aristocratic family who hailed from the Champagne region of north-eastern France, but whose reach and impact extended across Europe and into the Crusader States in the Middle East. It is a highly dramatic and wide-ranging story of medieval mobility, not only up and down the social ladder, but in geographical terms as well. Although the Briennes were one of the great dynasties of the central Middle Ages, this book represents the first comprehensive history of the family. Taking the form of parallel biographies and arranged broadly chronologically, it explores not only their rise, glory and fall, but also how they helped to shape the very nature of the emerging European state system. This book will appeal to students and scholars of medieval France, the Mediterranean world, the Crusades and the central Middle Ages.

Byzantines, Latins, and Turks in the Eastern Mediterranean World After 1150

Author : Jonathan Harris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199641889
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Byzantines, Latins, and Turks in the Eastern Mediterranean World After 1150 written by Jonathan Harris and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed introduction provides a broad geopolitical context to the contributions and discusses at length the broad themes which unite the articles and which transcend traditional interpretations of the eastern Mediterranean in the later medieval period.

Killing and Being Killed: Bodies in Battle

Author : Jörg Rogge
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839437830
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Killing and Being Killed: Bodies in Battle written by Jörg Rogge and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What bodily experiences did fighters make through their lifetime and especially in violent conflicts? How were the bodies of fighters trained, nourished, and prepared for combat? How did they respond to wounds, torture and the ubiquitous risk of death? The articles present examples of body techniques of fighters and their perception throughout the Middle Ages. The geographical scope ranges from the Anglo-Scottish borderlands over Central Europe up to the Mediterranean World. This larger framework enables the reader to trace the similarities and differences of the cultural practice of "Killing and Being Killed" in various contexts. Contributions by Iain MacInnes, Alastair J. Macdonald, Bogdan-Petru Maleon, and others.

History of the Byzantine Empire, 324–1453, Volume II

Author : Alexander A. Vasiliev
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299809269
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book History of the Byzantine Empire, 324–1453, Volume II written by Alexander A. Vasiliev and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is the revised English translation from the original work in Russian of the history of the Great Byzantine Empire. It is the most complete and thorough work on this subject. From it we get a wonderful panorama of the events and developments of the struggles of early Christianity, both western and eastern, with all of its remains of the wonderful productions of art, architecture, and learning.”—Southwestern Journal of Theology

Merchant Crusaders in the Aegean, 1291-1352

Author : Mike Carr
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843839903
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Merchant Crusaders in the Aegean, 1291-1352 written by Mike Carr and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the changing nature of crusade and its participants in the late medieval Mediterranean.

Historical Dictionary of the Catalans

Author : Helena Buffery
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810875144
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Catalans written by Helena Buffery and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-12-18 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this reference, Buffery and Marcer cover all of the areas historically inhabited by the Catalan people. These are, in order of size and population: Catalonia, which accounts for over half of the population of the Catalan-speaking areas; Valencia, with over a third; the Balearic Islands with just under 8 percent; and the Catalunya Nord, the Principality of Andorra, and the Catalan-speaking areas within Aragon, Murcia, and Alghero. The Historical Dictionary of the Catalans deals not only with the people who live in Catalonia, but with the language and culture of the Catalan countries as well. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, places, events, institutions, and aspects of culture, society, economy, and politics.

Spain's Centuries of Crisis

Author : Teofilo F. Ruiz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444342703
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Spain's Centuries of Crisis written by Teofilo F. Ruiz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history that focuses on the crises of Spain in the late middle ages and the early transformations that underpinned the later successes of the Catholic Monarchs. Illuminates Spain's history from the early fourteenth century to the union of the Crowns of Castile and Aragon in 1474 Examines the challenges and reforms of the social, economic, political, and cultural structures of the country Looks at the early transformations that readied Spain for the future opportunities and challenges of the early modern Age of Discovery Includes a helpful bibliography to direct the reader toward further study

Crusading Against Christians in the Middle Ages

Author : Mike Carr
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031473396
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Crusading Against Christians in the Middle Ages written by Mike Carr and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Journal of Medieval Military History

Author : John France
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783271302
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Journal of Medieval Military History written by John France and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Journal of Medieval Military History continues to consolidate its now assured position as the leading academic vehicle for scholarly publication in the field of medieval warfare. Medieval Warfare

Journal of Medieval Military History

Author : Clifford J. Rogers
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843838605
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Journal of Medieval Military History written by Clifford J. Rogers and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection which highlights "the range and richness of scholarship on medieval warfare, military institutions, and cultures of conflict that characterize the field". History 95 [2010] The comprehensive breadth and scope of the Journal are to the fore in this issue, which ranges widely both geographically and chronologically. The subjects of analysis are equally diverse, with three contributions dealing with theCrusades, four with matters related to the Hundred Years War, two with high-medieval Italy, one with the Alans in the Byzantine-Catalan conflict of the early fourteenth century, and one with the wars of the Duke of Cephalonia inWestern Greece and Albania at the turn of the fifteenth century. Topics include military careers, tactics and strategy, the organization of urban defenses, close analysis of chronicle sources, and cultural approaches to the acceptance of gunpowder artillery and the prevalence of military "games" in Italian cities. Contributors: T.S. Asbridge, A. Compton Reeves, Kelly DeVries, Michael Ehrlich, Scott Jessee, Donald Kagay, Savvas Kyriakidis, Randall Moffett, Aldo A. Settia, Charles D. Stanton, Georgios Theotokis, L.J. Andrew Villalon, Anatoly Isaenko.

The Metamorphoses of Power

Author : Adrian Gheorghe
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004526676
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book The Metamorphoses of Power written by Adrian Gheorghe and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-12-12 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using interdisciplinary methodologies and making a case study around the military aḳıncı institution, a relic of early times, this study discusses the emergence of the Ottoman polity in dealing with various warlords and across different identities and political affiliations.

Journal of Medieval Military History

Author : Clifford J. Rogers
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843839369
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Journal of Medieval Military History written by Clifford J. Rogers and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights "the range and richness of scholarship on medieval warfare, military institutions, and cultures of conflict that characterize the field". History 95 (2010) The latest collection of the most up-to-date research on matters of medieval military history contains a remarkable geographical range, extending from Spain and Britain to the southern steppe lands, by way of Scandinavia, Byzantium, and the Crusader States. At one end of the timescale is a study of population in the later Roman Empire and at the other the Hundred Years War, touching on every century in between. Topics include the hardware of war, the social origins of soldiers, considerations of individual battles, and words for weapons in Old Norse literature. Contributors: Bernard S. Bachrach, Gary Baker, Michael Ehrlich, Nicholas A. Gribit, Nicolaos S. Kanellopoulos, Mollie M. Madden, Kenneth J. McMullen, Craig M. Nakashian, Mamuka Tsurtsumia, Andrew L.J. Villalon

Enemies and Familiars

Author : Debra Blumenthal
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801463688
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Enemies and Familiars written by Debra Blumenthal and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prominent Mediterranean port located near Islamic territories, the city of Valencia in the late fifteenth century boasted a slave population of pronounced religious and ethnic diversity: captive Moors and penally enslaved Mudejars, Greeks, Tartars, Russians, Circassians, and a growing population of black Africans. By the end of the fifteenth century, black Africans comprised as much as 40 percent of the slave population of Valencia. Whereas previous historians of medieval slavery have focused their efforts on defining the legal status of slaves, documenting the vagaries of the Mediterranean slave trade, or examining slavery within the context of Muslim-Christian relations, Debra Blumenthal explores the social and human dimensions of slavery in this religiously and ethnically pluralistic society. Enemies and Familiars traces the varied experiences of Muslim, Eastern, and black African slaves from capture to freedom. After describing how men, women, and children were enslaved and brought to the Valencian marketplace, this book examines the substance of slaves' daily lives: how they were sold and who bought them; the positions ascribed to them within the household hierarchy; the sorts of labor they performed; and the ways in which some reclaimed their freedom. Scrutinizing a wide array of archival sources (including wills, contracts, as well as hundreds of civil and criminal court cases), Blumenthal investigates what it meant to be a slave and what it meant to be a master at a critical moment of transition. Arguing that the dynamics of the master-slave relationship both reflected and determined contemporary opinions regarding religious, ethnic, and gender differences, Blumenthal's close study of the day-to-day interactions between masters and their slaves not only reveals that slavery played a central role in identity formation in late medieval Iberia but also offers clues to the development of "racialized" slavery in the early modern Atlantic world.

Editing the Nation’s Memory

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401206473
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Editing the Nation’s Memory written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe’s nation-states emerged from a complex of nineteenth-century developments in which cultural consciousness-raising played a formative role. The nineteenth-century reflection on Europe’s national identities involved a re-inventory and revalorisation of the vernacular cultural past and, above all, the nation’s literary heritage. Everywhere in Europe, foundational texts (including medieval epics and romances, ancient laws and chronicles) were retrieved from their obscure repositories. In new, printed editions, prepared according to the emerging academic standards of textual scholarship, they were appropriated, contested and canonised as public symbols of the nation’s permanence in history. This often neglected, but crucially important Europe-wide process of ‘editing the nation’s memory’ involved old states and emerging nations, large and small countries, metropolitan and peripheral regions; it straddled politics, the academic professionalization of textual scholarship and of the human sciences, and literary taste. This collection of studies by outstanding specialists offers a comparative synopsis on exemplary cases from all corners of the European continent.

Before the Military Revolution

Author : Alexander Querengässer
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789256704
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Before the Military Revolution written by Alexander Querengässer and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the Military Revolution examines European Warfare in the Late Middle Ages from 1300 to 1490. It is not restricted only to well-covered conflicts, like the Anglo-Scottish Wars or the Hundred Years War, but gives due weight to all regions of Europe, including the Empire, the Baltic, the Balkans and the Mediterranean, and considers developments in naval warfare. The Hussite Wars and the wars of the Teutonic Order and the Hanseatic League are covered, as is the expansion of Moscow, the Ottomans and Venice, and battles like Aussig (1426), Copenhagen (1428), Chojnice (1454) are discussed alongside Bannockburn and Agincourt. This age witnesses fundamental change. The feudal system of the High Middle Ages crumbled everywhere in Europe due to climatic change, economic crisis and population decline. This triggered a fiscalization of the military organization, the establishment of taxes and representation of the estates. This book argues that these changes are the most fundamental ones in the military and political organization in Europe until the rise of the constitutional state around 1800 and so comes closer to the original concept of a Military Revolution. It also takes a critical look at other often discussed developments of this age, like the Infantry and Artillery Revolution or the decline of cavalry. Combining a chronological and regional narrative with deeper analysis of themes like chivalry, strategy, economic warfare or military publications makes this book an indispensable read for everyone interested in late medieval history.