Medeltidens historia

Under tusen år – mellan romarrikets fall och upptäckten av den nya världen – lades grunden för den västvärld som sedan dess dominerat jordklotet. Framgångsfaktorerna stavades handel, erövringar och kristendom. Makthavarna lyckades håll...

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Under devisen Deus vult , ”Gud vill det”, drog hundratusentals européer ut i korståg på medeltiden för att befria Heliga landet från muslimskt välde. Resultaten varierade, från det första korstågets spektakulära erövring av Jerusalem t...

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Medeltidshistorikern Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist bjuder på en lättläst exposé över den politiska, ekonomiska, sociala och kulturella utvecklingen i Norden under tusen år med utgångspunkt i de senaste rönen från arkeologisk och historisk forskni...

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SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER The most important book of the year Daily Mail The brilliant and provocative new book from one of the worlds foremost political writers The anti-Western revisionists have been out in force in recent years. It is ...

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History re-written: has the 540-year-old mystery been solved? The totality of evidence revealed is astonishing. Following the discovery of King Richard IIIs grave in a car park in Leicester in 2012, The Missing Princes Project will again rewrite t...

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A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'As brilliant a history of the Vikings as one could possibly hope to read' Tom Holland The 'Viking Age' is traditionally held to begin in June 793 when Scandinavian raiders attacked the monastery of Lin...

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Magic, sorcery and witchcraft are among the most common themes of the great medieval Icelandic sagas and poems, the problematic yet vital sources that provide our primary textual evidence for the Viking Age that they claim to describe. Yet despite...

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A “thrilling” ( Wall Street Journal ) history of the Vikings by a pre-eminent scholar The Viking Age saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they range...

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» Ondskans tid är en bred och lärd genomgång av ett fruktansvärt men fascinerande fenomen. Harrison är en god berättare och här har han tillgång till ett färgstarkt material. Resultatet är en underhållande och bildande bok ... Sammantaget är det i...

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»Kombinationen av duktig historiker, van pennförare och ett ovanligt men fascinerande ämne på lagom många sidor gör att nyfikna läsare även utan korståg som specialintresse torde ha stor behållning här.« BTJ Spännande historia signerad Dick Harris...

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Richly illustrated, this title describes Anglo-Saxon monarchs, warlords and their warriors and households in Anglo-Saxon Britain, from the first post-Roman mercenaries to the Norman Conquest. In a country fragmented by Roman withdrawal during the ...

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A respected and controversial scholar argues that the Crusades were a justified war waged against Muslim terror and aggression.

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After a marriage linking them floundered, the feuding Lake and Cecil families hurled terrible accusations at each other: adultery, incest, poisoning, impotence, fraud. The resulting scandals impacted the court of King James I and beyond. Luthman's...

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SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER The most important book of the year Daily Mail The brilliant and provocative new book from one of the worlds foremost political writers The anti-Western revisionists have been out in force in recent years. It is ...

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The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands violently five times as the great families of England fought to the death for the right to rule. Some of the gr...

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Classic guide to acquiring and maintaining political power is refreshing in its directness, yet often disturbing in its cold practicality. Starkly relevant to the political upheavals of the 20th century, this calculating prescription for power rem...

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The instant Sunday Times bestseller A Times, New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year 'Simply the best popular history of the Middle Ages there is' Sunday Times 'A great achievement, pulling together many strands with aplomb&apo...

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This refreshing new look at Medieval art conveys a very real sense of the impact of art on everyday life in Europe from 1000 to 1500. It examines the importance of art in the expression and spread of knowledge and ideas, including notions of the h...

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'FASCINATING' Guardian | 'WE LOVE THIS BOOK' Blackwells A GUIDE TO LIVING IN DARK TIMES, FROM PEOPLE WHO REALLY DID Bursting with wisdom and artwork from the Middle Ages, this handy guide will give you time-tested solutions for...

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Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys theres a new history book in town. From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past from Alexander the Great to Tolkien, the Wars of the Roses to Waterga...

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A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo's seminal account of his journeys in the east. Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, aft...

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'This is probably the best book ever written on the Habsburgs in any language, certainly the best I have ever read ... Students, scholars and the general reader will never find a better guide to Habsburg history' Alan Sked, Times Literar...

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For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with ...

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The second volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades 'There was magic about. Saladin himself was troubled by terrible dreams...' Steven Runciman's unrivalled history of the C...

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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...

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»Lockar till sträckläsning. Kapitlen är välavgränsade och greppbara, översiktliga men samtidigt tryfferade med väldokumenterade specifika exempel som levandegör historien stimulerande läsning för historieintresserade.« Bibliotekstjänst Digerdöden,...

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Karin Preusler föddes 1934 i Ytterhogdal, mitt i den sydnorrländska skogsbygden. Efter en fil. mag. där kulturgeografi var huvudämne har hon varit verksam som gymnasielärare. Som pensionär började hon forska om skogsbygdens historia. Hon var den f...

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Beginning in prehistoric times and culminating with the Dacke rebellion of 1542, renowned novelist Vilhelm Moberg's two-volume popular history of the Swedish people approaches its subject from the viewpoint of the common people, documenting p...

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An upstart French duke who sets out to conquer the most powerful and unified kingdom in Christendom. An invasion force on a scale not seen since the days of the Romans. One of the bloodiest and most decisive battles ever fought. This riveting book...

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A trusted member of the Byzantine establishment, Procopius was the Empire's official chronicler, and his History of the Wars of Justinian proclaimed the strength and wisdom of the Emperor's reign. Yet all the while the dutiful scribe was...

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