Viking Pirates and Christian Princes - 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 Viking Pirates and Christian Princes write by Benjamin T. Hudson. This book was released on 2005. Viking Pirates and Christian Princes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book studies two Viking families who appear in the records of the Atlantic littoral as pagan raiders and reinvent themselves as established Christian rulers.
Rulers and Rulership in the Arc of Medieval Europe, 1000-1200
Rulers and Rulership in the Arc of Medieval Europe, 1000-1200 - 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 Rulers and Rulership in the Arc of Medieval Europe, 1000-1200 write by Christian Raffensperger. This book was released on 2023-08-24. Rulers and Rulership in the Arc of Medieval Europe, 1000-1200 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rulers and Rulership in the Arc of Medieval Europe challenges the dominant paradigm of what rulership is and who rulers are by decentering the narrative and providing a broad swath of examples from throughout medieval Europe. Within that territory, the prevalent idea of monarchy and kingship is overturned in favor of a broad definition of rulership. This book will demonstrate to the reader that the way in which medieval Europe has been constructed in both the popular and scholarly imaginations is incorrect. Instead of a king we have multiple rulers, male and female, ruling concurrently. Instead of an independent church or a church striving for supremacy under the Gregorian Reform, we have a pope and ecclesiastical leaders making deals with secular rulers and an in-depth interconnection between the two. Finally, instead of a strong centralizing polity growing into statehood we see weak rulers working hand in glove with weak subordinates to make the polity as a whole function. Medievalists, Byzantinists, and Slavists typically operate in isolation from one another. They do not read each other’s books, or engage with each other’s work. This book requires engagement from all of them to point out that the medieval Europe that they work in is one and the same and demands collaboration to best understand it.
Persistent Piracy
Persistent Piracy - 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 Persistent Piracy write by S. Amirel. This book was released on 2014-06-03. Persistent Piracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Spanning from the Caribbean to East Asia and covering almost 3,000 years of history, from Classical Antiquity to the eve of the twenty-first century, Persistent Piracy is an important contribution to the history of the state formation as well as the history of violence at sea.
Pirates: A History
Pirates: A History - 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 Pirates: A History write by Tim Travers. This book was released on 2012-05-30. Pirates: A History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Most histories of piracy start with the Caribbean in the 1500s and move on to the 'golden age' from the 1660s to the 1720s, with chapters on the Barbary corsairs, Chinese piracy and a brief look at modern piracy. These areas cannot be overlooked, but Pirates: A History is a comprehensive history of piracy, starting with the ancient and classical periods, then shifting to the Middle Ages and the Mediterranean, before treating the more traditional areas of the Caribbean, the 'golden age' of piracy in the west, the Barbary corsairs, Chinese and Eastern piracy, and finally modern piracy.
Children of Ash and Elm
Children of Ash and Elm - 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 Children of Ash and Elm write by Neil Price. This book was released on 2020-08-25. Children of Ash and Elm available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The definitive history of the Vikings -- from arts and culture to politics and cosmology -- by a distinguished archaeologist with decades of expertise The Viking Age -- from 750 to 1050 -- saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged from eastern North America to the Asian steppe. But for centuries, the Vikings have been seen through the eyes of others, distorted to suit the tastes of medieval clerics and Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian imperialists, Nazis, and more. None of these appropriations capture the real Vikings, or the richness and sophistication of their culture. Based on the latest archaeological and textual evidence, Children of Ash and Elm tells the story of the Vikings on their own terms: their politics, their cosmology and religion, their material world. Known today for a stereotype of maritime violence, the Vikings exported new ideas, technologies, beliefs, and practices to the lands they discovered and the peoples they encountered, and in the process were themselves changed. From Eirík Bloodaxe, who fought his way to a kingdom, to Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, the most traveled woman in the world, Children of Ash and Elm is the definitive history of the Vikings and their time.
