Tensions of Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tensions of Europe write by . This book was released on 2005. Tensions of Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Making of Europe
The Making of Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Making of Europe write by Robert Bartlett. This book was released on 1993. The Making of Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This provocative book shows that Europe in the Middle Ages was as much a product of a process of conquest and colonization as it was later a colonizer. "Will be of great interest to. . . . (those) interested in cultural transformation, colonialism, racism, the Crusades, or holy wars in general. . . ".--William C. Jordan, Princeton University. 12 halftones, 12 maps, 6 diagrams.
"The Making of Europe"
"The Making of Europe" - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "The Making of Europe" write by . This book was released on 2016-05-09. "The Making of Europe" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In “The Making of Europe”: Essays in Honour of Robert Bartlett, a group of distinguished contributors analyse processes of conquest, colonization and cultural change in Europe in the tenth to fourteenth centuries. They assess and develop theses presented by Robert Bartlett in his famous book of that name. The geographical scope extends from Iceland to the Islamic Mediterranean, from Spain to Poland. Themes covered range from law to salt production, from aristocratic culture in the Christian West to Islamic views of Christendom. Like the volume that it honours, the present book extends our understanding of both medieval and present day Europe. Contributors are Sverre Bagge, Piotr Górecki, John Hudson, Hugh Kennedy, Simon MacLean, William Ian Miller, Esther Pascua Echegaray, Ana Rodriguez, Matthew Strickland, John Tolan, Bjorn Weiler, and Stephen D. White. This is an excellent collection of essays that do justice to Rob Bartlett’s inexhaustible book, The Making of Europe. Rather than merely repeating and venerating Bartlett’s ideas, the essays engage creatively and critically with them and spark new ideas and insights that cast a flood of light on the culture of medieval Europe. The result is a worthy tribute that will send readers scurrying back to Bartlett to quarry yet more nuggets from The Making of Europe, still fizzing with intellectual brio some twenty years after its publication. Stuart Airlie, University of Glasgow October 2015
Science and Technology in Medieval European Life
Science and Technology in Medieval European Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Science and Technology in Medieval European Life write by Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth. This book was released on 2006-09-30. Science and Technology in Medieval European Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite the popular view of medieval Europe as a Dark Age of intellectual stagnation, scientific and technological achievement thrived during this time. As any vacationer to Europe knows, churches and castles remain lasting testaments to the ingenuity of that period in history. Through carefully chosen examples which are presented in easily accessible thematic chapters, Science and Technology in Medieval European Life demonstrates how these two aspects of human achievement, far from being ivory-tower enterprises, impacted the daily life of people in medieval Europe. These topics will also resonate with modern readers in their own daily lives. This reference work begins with an historical introduction that situates medieval science and technology into its social, intellectual and religious context. Among the varied topics found in the chapters are: armor making, waterwheels and waterpower, chimneys, stained glass, communication technology, ship building, medicine both academic and village, mechanical clocks, calendar creation, and astrology. For those interested in pursuing further research into this area of history, the book concludes with a chronology of events, a suggested list of further reading and a glossary.
Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume I
Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume I - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume I write by Donald F. Lach. This book was released on 2010-01-15. Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume I available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Praised for its scope and depth, Asia in the Making of Europe is the first comprehensive study of Asian influences on Western culture. For volumes I and II, the author has sifted through virtually every European reference to Asia published in the sixteenth-century; he surveys a vast array of writings describing Asian life and society, the images of Asia that emerge from those writings, and, in turn, the reflections of those images in European literature and art. This monumental achievement reveals profound and pervasive influences of Asian societies on developing Western culture; in doing so, it provides a perspective necessary for a balanced view of world history. Volume I: The Century of Discovery brings together "everything that a European could know of India, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan, from printed books, missionary reports, traders' accounts and maps" (The New York Review of Books). Volume II: A Century of Wonder examines the influence of that vast new body of information about Asia on the arts, institutions, literatures, and ideas of sixteenth-century Europe.
