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Varangian

Author : Stuart G. Yates
Publisher : Next Chapter
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book Varangian written by Stuart G. Yates and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2022-01-28 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the new Rome, duplicity and death reign supreme. It's the mid-11th century, and the Byzantine Empire dominates the world. Within the walls of its great capital, Constantinople, treachery, debauchery and power politics are part of the lives of the ruling elite. Thrust into this mix is the Viking adventurer, Harald Hardrada. In the court of the deranged emperor, Michael the Fifth, danger lurks at every turn, and Harald soon becomes a pawn in the various factions' thirst for power. Can he survive this dangerous place, and turn his mind towards regaining what is rightfully his?

The Varangians

Author : Sverrir Jakobsson
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030537978
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Varangians written by Sverrir Jakobsson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the history of the Eastern Vikings, the Rus and the Varangians, from their earliest mentions in the narrative sources to the late medieval period, when the Eastern Vikings had become stock figures in Old Norse Romances. A comparison is made between sources emanating from different cultures, such as the Roman Empire, the Abbasid Caliphate and its successor states, the early kingdoms of the Rus and the high medieval Scandinavian kingdoms. A key element in the history of the Rus and the Varangians is the fashioning of identities and how different cultures define themselves in comparison and contrast with the other. This book offers a fresh and engaging view of these medieval sources, and a thorough reassessment of established historiographical grand narratives on Scandinavian peoples in the East.

The Varangians of Byzantium

Author : Sigfús Blöndal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521035521
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book The Varangians of Byzantium written by Sigfús Blöndal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the Norsemen came to be drawn into the Imperial service.

Varangian Guard

Author : Jay W. Inman
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781535554855
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book Varangian Guard written by Jay W. Inman and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trans-Human Augmentation through DARPA's Super-Soldier program begins the process of taking humanity to a scientifically driven caste system. Liberty fades but Men of the Varangian Guard Legion step into the fight. Yet, this is war beyond Land, Air, Sea, and Space. It extends into Cyber and Quantum - The Unknowable Spaces.

Knut - Varangian

Author : Skye Smith
Publisher : Skye Smith
ISBN 13 : 1927699223
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book Knut - Varangian written by Skye Smith and published by Skye Smith. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover Flap English children learn that Knut the Great was a pre-Norman king born of Royal Danish blood and was so conceited as to think that he could command the ocean tides. The rest of Europe learn that he was the Emperor of the North Sea, the Baltic Sea, the Irish Sea and the Channel. Directly or indirectly he ruled most of the peoples living around those seas and thus the trade between them flourished. Knut inherited the empire that his father, King Sweyn Forkbeard of the Danes had glued together. Glued with the technology and wealth gained from the Byzantine trade via the river routes to the Black Sea, and with Varangian warriors trained in the Byzantine. About the Author Skye Smith is my pen name. My interest in Knut stems from the endless research I did while writing “The Hoodsman” series of historical novels about the Norman invasion of England. That invasion by William the Conqueror was not a quick subjugation of a Brit-Saxon England, but a long and bitter genocide of Brit-Danish England and the destruction of Knut’s great legacy. The first novel “Knut - Jomsviking” sets the characters and scene for the entire series, so if you haven’t yet read it, now would be a good time. This is the second novel in the series where Knut’s story continues with the adventures of his father, King Sweyn Forkbeard of Denmark as he entwines the politics of Baltic and Black Seas with the politics of England. The chapter headings identify the dates and places. The Appendix gives historical insight and a list of characters. Enjoy. Other Novels By The Same Author: The Hoodsman – 12 historical adventures set in the Norman conquest. Maya’s Aura – 8 new age adventures while tripping around the world. The Pistoleer – 9 historical adventures set in the English Civil War. Knut – many historical adventures set in the Viking Era. Knut #1 – Jomsviking (980 – 984) Knut #2 – Varangian (986 – 992) Knut #3 – Strandhogg (993 – 994) Knut #4 – Forkbeard’s Peace (995 – 999) Knut #5 – Brice’s Massacre (1000 – 1002 coming soon)

Blood Feud

Author : Rosemary Sutcliff
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448173019
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Blood Feud written by Rosemary Sutcliff and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jestyn the Englishman had once been Thormod the Viking's slave, but after saving Thormod's life he became his shoulder to shoulder man and sworn brother in the deadly blood feud to avenge Thormod's murdered father, a feud that would take them all the way to Constantinople.

The Last Viking

Author : Don Hollway
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472846508
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book The Last Viking written by Don Hollway and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback, this is a rich and compelling account of the life of King Harald Hardrada of Norway, one of the greatest Viking warriors to have ever lived.

Varangian

Author : Griff Hosker
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781717018236
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book Varangian written by Griff Hosker and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the last two Housecarls from Harold Godwinson's army who, forced from England by the Normans, journey down the Russian rivers to join the Varangian Guard where they fight, once more the Normans from Italy. The two men have to fight not only barbarians and the Empire's enemies but treachery from within the complex world of Byzantine politics. Culminating in the battle which finally drove the Normans back to Italy, the historically accurate book paints a picture of the dying world of the Saxon warriors.

“A” New English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book “A” New English Dictionary on Historical Principles written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

“A” New English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Author : James Augustus Henry Murray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book “A” New English Dictionary on Historical Principles written by James Augustus Henry Murray and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Varangian Question

Author : Alexander Valentinovich Riasanovsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Varangian Question written by Alexander Valentinovich Riasanovsky and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Istanbul

Author : Bettany Hughes
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306825856
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Istanbul written by Bettany Hughes and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Istanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact. From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names--Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul -- resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between East and West, North and South, it has been the capital city of the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman Empires. For much of its history it was the very center of the world, known simply as "The City," but, as Bettany Hughes reveals, Istanbul is not just a city, but a global story. In this epic new biography, Hughes takes us on a dazzling historical journey from the Neolithic to the present, through the many incarnations of one of the world's greatest cities--exploring the ways that Istanbul's influence has spun out to shape the wider world. Hughes investigates what it takes to make a city and tells the story not just of emperors, viziers, caliphs, and sultans, but of the poor and the voiceless, of the women and men whose aspirations and dreams have continuously reinvented Istanbul. Written with energy and animation, award-winning historian Bettany Hughes deftly guides readers through Istanbul's rich layers of history. Based on meticulous research and new archaeological evidence, this captivating portrait of the momentous life of Istanbul is visceral, immediate, and authoritative -- narrative history at its finest.

God's Viking: Harald Hardrada

Author : Nic Fields
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473889901
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book God's Viking: Harald Hardrada written by Nic Fields and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic historical biography of the Norwegian king who laid claim to the thrones of Denmark and England. Harald Hardrada is perhaps best known as the inheritor of “seven feet of English soil” in that year of fateful change, 1066. But Stamford Bridge was the terminal point of a warring career that spanned decades and continents. Thus, prior to forcibly occupying the Norwegian throne, Harald had an interesting (and lucrative) career in the Varangian Guard, and he remains unquestionably the most notable of all the Varangians who served the Byzantine emperors. In the latter employment he saw active service in the Aegean, Sicily, Italy, Anatolia, Syria, Palestine, and Bulgaria, while in Constantinople he was the hired muscle behind a palace revolution. A man of war, his reign in Norway was to be taken up with a wasteful, vicious, and ultimately futile conflict against Denmark, a kingdom (like England) he believed was his to rule. We follow Harald’s life from Stiklestad, where aged fifteen he fought alongside his half-brother, King Olaf, through his years as a mercenary in Russia and Byzantium, then back to Norway, ending with his death in battle in England. Praise for God’s Viking “A gripping story of the last great Viking who is remembered most for his boast to the Saxons that he had come to conquer their land and ended up with just enough to contain his body . . . . Most highly recommended.” —Firetrench

Mercenaries in Medieval and Renaissance Europe

Author : Hunt Janin
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078647274X
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Mercenaries in Medieval and Renaissance Europe written by Hunt Janin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In medieval and Renaissance Europe, mercenaries--professional soldiers who fought for money or other rewards--played violent, colorful, international roles in warfare, but they have received relatively little scholarly attention. In this book a large number of vignettes portray their activities in Western Europe over a period of nearly 900 years, from the Merovingian mercenaries of 752 through the Thirty Years' War, which ended in 1648. Intended as an introduction to the subject and drawing heavily on contemporary first-person accounts, the book creates a vivid but balanced mosaic of the many thousands of mercenaries who were hired to fight for various employers.

Byzantine Armies 886–1118

Author : Ian Heath
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Byzantine Armies 886–1118 written by Ian Heath and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 1979-07-05 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Byzantines had a remarkably sophisticated approach to politics and military strategy. Unlike most of their contemporaries, they learnt very early in their history that winning a battle did not necessarily win a war, and they frequently bought off their enemies with treaties and bribes rather than squander men and matériel in potentially fruitless campaigns. The Byzantine army of the 10th and early 11th centuries, at the height of its power and efficiency, was the best-organised, best-trained, best-equipped and highest-paid in the known world. This splendid book by Ian Heath examines the Byzantine Armies from 886-1118, including the lusty, hard-fighting, hard-drinking 'barbarian' Varangian guard.

The Causes of War and Peace

Author : Guy Theodore Wrench
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Causes of War and Peace written by Guy Theodore Wrench and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Test of Alien Alliance

Author : Norma Druid
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1456863304
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (568 download)

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Download or read book A Test of Alien Alliance written by Norma Druid and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans have been forced by sheer numbers to migrate to a new galaxy with multiple habitable planets. Here, they find themselves surrounded by humanoid aliens, the Varangians, who thrive on extremely cold planets. Not direct competitors, the two races watch one another warily and after five hundred years agree on a mutually beneficial trade treaty. At first, all is well, but then three Varangians disappear in human territory. The Varangians turn to half-Varangian Commodore Nimrod Ekeroth, who heads the human environmental fleet. Now he must find out who is disappearing both Varangians and humans and troubling the alliance.