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Byzantium and Venice A Study in Diplomatic and Cultural Relations

Author: Donald M. Nicol
Byzantium and Venice A Study in Diplomatic and Cultural Relations
Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521428947
1992
Format: PDF
Size: 14,3 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 480
This book traces the diplomatic, cultural, and commercial links between Constantinople and Venice from the foundation of the Venetian Republic to the Fall of the Byzantine Empire. It aims to show how, with the encouragement of the Fourth Crusade in 1204, the Venetians came to dominate first the Genoese and thereafter the whole Byzantine economy. At the same time, the author points to those important cultural and, above all, political reasons why the relationship between the two states was always inherently unstable.

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The Cambridge medieval history. Vol.5

The Cambridge medieval history
New York Macmillan
Author: J.B. Bury
1911
Pages: 1096
Format: PDF
Size: 71 mb
Language: English

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Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in the Medieval West

Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in the Medieval West
I. B. Tauris
Author: Diana Webb
2001
Pages: 304
Format: PDF
Size: 2 mb
Language: English

Pilgrimage was an integral part of both medieval religion and medieval life, and from its origins in the fourth-century Mediterranean world it spread rapidly to Northern Europe as a pan-European devotional phenomenon. Concentrating on the medieval Latin West, this book covers the period spanning the growth in pilgrimage during the seventh century to the Protestant Reformation in the 16-century, when pilgrimage ceased to be a vital part of European Christian culture. It draws extensively upon original source materials accounts of pilgrimage, guidebooks, chronicles, wills, covert memos, and state documents, thereby seeking to uncover the motives of the pilgrims themselves as well as details of and attitudes towards their preparations, journeys, shrines, and eventual destinations (particularly Jerusalem, Compostela, and Rome).

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An Historical Geography 0f Europe 450bc-AD1330

Author: Normal J. G. Pounds
An Historical Geography 0f Europe 450bc-AD1330
Cambridge University Press
1973
ISBN: 0521085632
Format: PDF
Size: 25,7 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 490
Every age has its own geography, separate and distinct from the geographies of earlier and succeeding ages. This 1973 book seeks to examine the complex of natural and man-made features which have provided the background of history, influencing its course and themselves modified by human action. Professor Pounds examines five short periods, each of which is not only relatively well documented, but also important in the climax of a civilisation.

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Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance: Italy, France, and England

Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance: Italy, France, and England
ABC-CLIO
Author: Anne R. Larsen, Diana Robin, Carole Levin
2007
Pages: 480
Format: pdf
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1851097722
Size: 7 mb

Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance is the first first comprehensive reference devoted exclusively to the contributions of women to European culture in the period between 1350 and 1700. It offers over 135 biographies of the extraordinary women of those times.

Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance provides vivid portraits of well known women such as Catherine of Siena, Joan of Arc, Mary Queen of Scots, and Christine de Pizan. Also included are less familiar but equally important women like Elena Lucrezia Cornaro, the first woman in Europe to earn a doctorate; the renowned Renaissance painter Artemisia Gentileschi; and the acclaimed author of medical textbooks and midwife to a French queen, Louise Boursier.

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Castles and Chateaux of Old Burgundy

Castles and Chateaux of Old Burgundy
1909
Author: Miltoun Francis
L.C.Page and Company (Boston)
Language: English
Format: PDF
Pages: 410
Size: 18,3 mb

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Frommer’s Europe

Frommer’s Europe (12th edition)
Author:
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
2012
Language: English
Pages: 1088
Format: pdf
Size: 135,5 mb
ISBN: 1118369076

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The Cambridge medieval history. Vol.2

The Cambridge medieval history. Vol.2
New York Macmillan
Author: J.B. Bury
1911
Pages: 992
Format: PDF
Size: 69 mb
Language: English

I. THE CHRISTIAN ROMAN EMPIRE, AND THE
FOUNDATION OF THE TEUTONIC KINGDOMS
II. THE RISE OF THE SARACENS AND THE
FOUNDATION OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE
III. GERMANY AND THE WESTERN EMPIRE
IV. THE EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE
V. THE CRUSADES
VI. THE ROMAN THEOCRACY
VII. DECLINE OF THE EMPIRE AND PAPACY
VIII. GROVTH OF THE VESTERN KINGDOMS

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Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured

Author: Kathryn Harrison
Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured
Doubleday
2014
Format: epub/pdf
Size: 14.9 Mb
Language: English

Every era must retell and reimagine the Maid of Orleans's extraordinary story in its own way, and in Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured, the superb novelist and memoirist Kathryn Harrison gives us a Joan for our time—a shining exemplar of unshakable faith, extraordinary courage, and self-confidence during a brutally rigged ecclesiastical inquisition and in the face of her death by burning. Deftly weaving historical fact, myth, folklore, artistic representations, and centuries of scholarly and critical interpretation into a compelling narrative, she restores Joan of Arc to her rightful position as one of the greatest heroines in all of human history.

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The Cambridge medieval history. Vol.1

The Cambridge medieval history. Vol.1
New York Macmillan
Author: Bury, J. B.
1911
Pages: 836
Format: PDF
Size: 65 mb
Language: English

Table of Contents
I. The Christian Roman empire and the foundation of the Teutonic kingdoms.
II. The rise of the Saracens and the foundation of the Western empire.
III. Germany and the Western empire.
IV. The eastern Roman empire (717-1453)
V. Contest of empire and papacy.
VI. Victory of the papacy.
VII. Decline of empire and papacy.
VIII. The close of the middle ages.

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Coinage and money in the Byzantine Empire. 1081-1261

Author: Hendy M.F.
Coinage and money in the Byzantine Empire. 1081-1261
J.J. Augustin
1969
Format: PDF
Size: 25,1 mb
Language: English

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The Cambridge medieval history. Vol.4

The Cambridge medieval history
Cambridge University Press
Author: J.B. Bury
1911
Pages: 1040
Format: PDF
Size: 90 mb
Language: English

I. LEO III AND THE ISAURIAN DYNASTY (717—802)
II. FROM NICEPHORUS I TO THE FALL OF THE
PHRYGIAN DYNASTY
III. THE MACEDONIAN DYNASTY FROM 867 TO 976 a. d.
IV. THE MACEDONIAN DYNASTY FROM 976 TO 1057 a.d.
V. THE STRUGGLE WITH THE SARACENS (717—867)
VI. ARMENIA
VII. THE EMPIRE AND ITS NORTHERN NEIGHBOURS
VIII. THE RISE AND FALL OF THE FIRST BULGARIAN EMPIRE
(679—1018)
IX. THE GREEK CHURCH; ITS RELATIONS WITH THE WEST
UP TO 1064
X. (A) MUSLIM CIVILISATION DURING THE ABBASID PERIOD
XI. THE EARLIER COMNENI
XII. THE LATER COMNENI
XIII. THE EMPIRE OP NICAEA AND THE RECOVERY
OP CONSTANTINOPLE
XIV. THE BALKAN STATES - The Zenith of Bulgaria and SeHbia (1186 — 1355)
XV. THE BALKAN STATES - The Turkish Conquest (1355—1483)
XVI. ATTEMPTS AT REUNION OF THE GREEK AND LATIN
CHURCHES
XVII. THE MONGOLS
XVIII. THE OTTOMAN TURKS TO THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE
XIX. BYZANTINE LEGISLATION FROM THE DEATH
OF JUSTINIAN (565) TO 1463
XX. THE GOVERNMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE
BYZANTINE EMPIRE
XXI. BYZANTINE CIVILISATION

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