The Asanids - 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 Asanids write by Alexandru Madgearu. This book was released on 2016-12-20. The Asanids available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Asanids. The Political and Military History of the Second Bulgarian Empire (1185-1280), Alexandru Madgearu offers the first comprehensive history in English of a state which played a major role in the evolution of the Balkan region during Middle Ages. This state emerged from the rebellion of two peoples, Romanians and Bulgarians, against Byzantine domination, within a few decades growing to a regional power that entered into conflict with Byzantium and with the Latin Empire of Constantinople. The founders were members of a Romanian (Vlach) family, whose intention was to revive the former Bulgarian state, the only legitimate political framework that could replace the Byzantine rule.
Poetics of Islamic Historiography
Poetics of Islamic Historiography - 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 Poetics of Islamic Historiography write by Boaz Shoshan. This book was released on 2004-10-01. Poetics of Islamic Historiography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book exposes the mimetic assumption involved in early Islamic historiography, its literary practice and whatever subverts it as reflected in Ṭabarī's History. Four major events in the history of early Islam are then subject to analysis based on literary criticism and are shown to produce a new meaning.
Geoffroy of Villehardouin, Marshal of Champagne
Geoffroy of Villehardouin, Marshal of Champagne - 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 Geoffroy of Villehardouin, Marshal of Champagne write by Theodore Evergates. This book was released on 2024-01-15. Geoffroy of Villehardouin, Marshal of Champagne available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Geoffroy of Villehardouin, Marshal of Champagne by Theodore Evergates traces the remarkable life of Geoffroy of Villehardouin (c. 1148–c. 1217) from his earliest years in Champagne through his last years in Greece after the crusade. The fourth son of a knight, Geoffroy became marshal of Champagne, principal negotiator in organizing the Fourth Crusade, chief of staff of the expedition to and conquest of Constantinople, garrison commander of Constantinople and, in his late fifties, field commander defending the Latin settlement in the Byzantine empire against invading Bulgarian armies and revolting Greek cities. Known for his diplomatic skills and rectitude, he served as the chief military advisor to Count Thibaut III of Champagne and later to Emperor Henry of Constantinople. Geoffroy is remarkable as well for dictating the earliest war memoir in medieval Europe, which is also the earliest prose narrative in Old French. Addressed to a home audience in Champagne, he described what he did, what he saw, and what he heard during his eight years on crusade and especially during the fraught period after the conquest of Constantinople. His memoir, The Book of the Conquest of Constantinople, furnishes a commander's retrospective account of the main events and inner workings of the crusade—the innumerable meetings and speeches, the conduct (not always commendable) of the barons, and the persistent discontent within the army—as well as a celebration of his own deeds as a diplomat and a military commander.
The Mongol Storm
The Mongol Storm - 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 Mongol Storm write by Nicholas Morton. This book was released on 2022-11-15. The Mongol Storm available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How the Mongol invasions of the Near East reshaped the balance of world power in the Middle Ages For centuries, the Crusades have been central to the story of the medieval Near East, but these religious wars are only part of the region’s complex history. As The Mongol Storm reveals, during the same era the Near East was utterly remade by another series of wars: the Mongol invasions. In a single generation, the Mongols conquered vast swaths of the Near East and upended the region’s geopolitics. Amid the chaos of the Mongol onslaught, long-standing powers such as the Byzantines, the Seljuk Turks, and the crusaders struggled to survive, while new players such as the Ottomans arose to fight back. The Mongol conquests forever transformed the region, while forging closer ties among societies spread across Eurasia. This is the definitive history of the Mongol assault on the Near East and its enduring global consequences.
Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages (500-1300) (2 vols)
Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages (500-1300) (2 vols) - 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 Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages (500-1300) (2 vols) write by Florin Curta. This book was released on 2019-07-08. Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages (500-1300) (2 vols) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the 2020 Verbruggen prize This book provides a comprehensive synthesis of scholarship on Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages. The goal is to offer an overview of the current state of research and a basic route map for navigating an abundant historiography available in more than 10 different languages. The literature published in English on the medieval history of Eastern Europe—books, chapters, and articles—represents a little more than 11 percent of the historiography. The companion is therefore meant to provide an orientation into the existing literature that may not be available because of linguistic barriers and, in addition, an introductory bibliography in English. Winner of the 2020 Verbruggen prize, awarded annually by the De Re Militari society for the best book on medieval military history. The awarding committee commented that the book ‘has an enormous range, and yet is exceptionally scholarly with a fine grasp of detail. Its title points to a general history of eastern Europe, but it is dominated by military episodes which make it of the highest value to anybody writing about war and warmaking in this very neglected area of Europe.’ See inside the book.
