The Remaking of the Medieval World, 1204
Title | The Remaking of the Medieval World, 1204 PDF eBook |
Author | John J. Giebfried |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 114 |
Release | 2021-06-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1469664127 |
The Remaking of the Medieval World, 1204 allows students to understand and experience one of the greatest medieval atrocities, the sack of the Constantinople by a crusader army, and the subsequent reshaping of the Byzantine Empire. The game includes debates on issues such as "just war" and the nature of crusading, feudalism, trade rights, and the relationship between secular and religious authority. It likewise explores the theological issues at the heart of the East-West Schism and the development of constitutional states in the era of Magna Carta. The game also includes a model siege and sack of Constantinople where individual students' actions shape the fate of the crusade for everyone.
Strange Beauty
Title | Strange Beauty PDF eBook |
Author | Cynthia Jean Hahn |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0271050780 |
"A study of reliquaries as a form of representation in medieval art. Explores how reliquaries stage the importance and meaning of relics using a wide range of artistic means from material and ornament to metaphor and symbolism"--Provided by publisher.
Religious Rites of War beyond the Medieval West
Title | Religious Rites of War beyond the Medieval West PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 331 |
Release | 2023-11-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004686363 |
This is Volume One of a two-volume collection that brings together contributions from cultural and military history to offer an examination of religious rites employed in connection with warfare as well as their transformative and power- and identity-building potential across political communities of medieval Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe. Covering the period ca. 900 and 1500, the work takes theoretical, textual and practical approaches to the research on religious warfare, and investigates the connections between, and significance and function of crucial war rituals such as pre-, intra- and postbellum rites, as well as various activities surrounding the military life of individuals, polities, and corporates. Contributors are Robert Antonín, Robert Bubczyk, Dariusz Dąbrowski, Jesse Harrington, Carsten Selch Jensen, Sini Kangas, Radosław Kotecki, Gregory Leighton, Kyle C. Lincoln, Jacek Maciejewski, Yulia Mikhailova, Max Naderer, László Veszprémy, and Dušan Zupka.
Genoa and the Genoese, 958-1528
Title | Genoa and the Genoese, 958-1528 PDF eBook |
Author | Steven A. Epstein |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780807849927 |
A history of Genoa, tracing the city's transformation from an obscure port into the capital of a small but thriving republic with an extensive overseas empire. Covering six centuries, the text interweaves political events, economic trends, social conditions and cultural accomplishments.
Eurabia-cloth
Title | Eurabia-cloth PDF eBook |
Author | Bat Yeʼor |
Publisher | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Pages | 398 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780838640760 |
This book is about the transformation of Europe into "Eurabia," a cultural and political appendage of the Arab/Muslim world. Eurabia is fundamentally anti-Christian, anti-Western, anti-American, and antisemitic. The institution responsible for this transformation, and that continues to propagate its ideological message, is the Euro-Arab Dialogue, developed by European and Arab politicians and intellectuals over the past thirty years.--From publisher description.
A Companion to the Medieval Papacy
Title | A Companion to the Medieval Papacy PDF eBook |
Author | Atria Larson |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 2016-04-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004315284 |
A Companion to the Medieval Papacy brings together an international group of experts on various aspects of the medieval papacy. Each chapter provides an up-to-date introduction to and scholarly interpretation of topics of crucial importance to the development of the papacy’s thinking about its place in the medieval world and of its institutional structures. Topics covered include: the Papal States; the Gregorian Reform; papal artistic self-representation; hierocratic theory; canon law; decretals; councils; legates and judges delegate; the apostolic camera, chancery, penitentiary, and Rota; relations with Constantinople; crusades; missions. The volume includes an introductory chapter by Thomas F.X. Noble on the historiographical challenges of writing medieval papal history. Contributors are: Sandro Carocci, Atria A. Larson, Andrew Louth, Jehangir Malegam, Andreas Meyer, Harald Müller, Thomas F.X. Noble, Francesca Pomarici, Rebecca Rist, Kirsi Salonen, Felicitas Schmieder, Keith Sisson, Danica Summerlin, and Stefan Weiß.
Europe on the Brink, 1914
Title | Europe on the Brink, 1914 PDF eBook |
Author | John E. Moser |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 123 |
Release | 2020-05-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1469659875 |
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914 by a Serbian nationalist has set off a crisis in Europe. Since the Congress of Vienna in 1815, peace had largely prevailed among the Great Powers, preserved through international conferences and a delicate balance of power. Now, however, interlocking alliances are threatening to plunge Europe into war, as Austria-Hungry is threatening war against Serbia. Germany is allied with Austria-Hungary, while Russia views itself as the protector of Serbia. Britain is torn between fear of a German victory and a Russian one. France supports Russia but also needs Britain on its side. Can war be avoided one more time? Europe on the Brink plunges students into the July Crisis as representatives of the European powers. What choices will they make?