Expansion of Latin Europe, 1000-1500 – serie
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Expansion of Orthodox Europe
Byzantium, the Balkans and Russia
Inbunden, 2007
1562 kr
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This volume aims to clarify the context for the expansion of Western Europe by focusing on what had been the greatest power in early medieval Europe, the Byzantine empire, and on the continuing strengths and expansion of the Orthodox world. Byzantine 'orthodoxy' offered a format for faith, hope and …
Medieval Ethnographies
European Perceptions of the World Beyond
Inbunden, 2009
4217 kr
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From the twelfth century, a growing sense of cultural confidence in the Latin West (at the same time that the central lands of Islam suffered from numerous waves of conquest and devastation) was accompanied by the increasing importance of the genre of empirical ethnographies. From a a global …
Spiritual Expansion of Medieval Latin Christendom: The Asian Missions
Inbunden, 2013
3728 kr
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During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries religious zeal nourished by the mendicants’ sense of purpose motivated Dominican and Franciscan friars to venture far beyond Europe’s cultural frontiers to spread their Christian faith into the farthest reaches of Asia. Their incredible journeys were …
North Atlantic Frontier of Medieval Europe
Vikings and Celts
Inbunden, 2009
3894 kr
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Discussion of medieval European expansion tends to focus on expansion eastward and the crusades. The selection of studies reprinted here, however, focuses on the other end of Eurasia, where dwelled the warlike Celts, and beyond whom lay the north seas and the awesome Atlantic Ocean, formidable …
Internal Colonization in Medieval Europe
Av Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, James Muldoon
Inbunden, 2008
3894 kr
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Around the year 1000 Rodulfus Glaber described France as being in the throes of a building boom. He may have been the first writer to perceive the early medieval period as a Dark Age that was ending to be replaced by a better world. In the articles gathered here distinguished medieval historians …
Medieval Frontiers of Latin Christendom
Expansion, Contraction, Continuity
Av Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, James Muldoon
Inbunden, 2008
3894 kr
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The aim of this first volume in the series "The Expansion of Latin Europe" is to sketch the outlines of medieval expansion, illustrating some of the major topics that historians have examined in the course of demonstrating the links between medieval and modern experiences. The articles reprinted …
Travellers, Intellectuals, and the World Beyond Medieval Europe
Inbunden, 2010
3894 kr
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As the articles reprinted in this volume demonstrate, medieval men and women were curious about the world around them. They wanted to hear about distant lands and the various peoples who inhabited them. Travellers' tales, factual such as that of Marco Polo, and fictional, such as Chaucer's famous …
North Atlantic Frontier of Medieval Europe
Vikings and Celts
Häftad, 2019
889 kr
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Discussion of medieval European expansion tends to focus on expansion eastward and the crusades. The selection of studies reprinted here, however, focuses on the other end of Eurasia, where dwelled the warlike Celts, and beyond whom lay the north seas and the awesome Atlantic Ocean, formidable …
Expansion of Central Europe in the Middle Ages
Av Nora Berend
Inbunden, 2013
7671 kr
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This volume brings together a set of key studies on the history of medieval Central Europe (Bohemia, Hungary, Poland), along with others specially commissioned for the book or translated, and a new introduction. This region was both an area of immigration, and one of polities in expansion. Such …
Spain, Portugal and the Atlantic Frontier of Medieval Europe
Inbunden, 2013
3839 kr
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As seen from the perspective of 1492, the medieval expansion of Latin Europe was nowhere as dramatic or enduring as in the Iberian Peninsula and the Atlantic. Its Christian kingdoms continued their advance against Al-Andalus up to 1492, whereas territorial expansion elsewhere against the Muslim …
Latin Expansion in the Medieval Western Mediterranean
Inbunden, 2013
3839 kr
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While Latin expansion stalled in the Eastern Mediterranean in the late Middle Ages, Islam lost ground to Christendom in the west - in the Spanish Levant, the islands of the Western Mediterranean, and even on the Maghribi coast, where conquerors and colonists from the northern shore of the sea …
Eastern Mediterranean Frontier of Latin Christendom
Av Jace Stuckey
Inbunden, 2014
3102 kr
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By the turn of the millennium, the East Mediterranean region had become a place of foreigners to Latin Christians living in Western Europe. Nevertheless, in the eleventh century numerous Latin Christian pilgrims streamed toward the East and Jerusalem in anticipation of the end times. The Apocalypse …
North-Eastern Frontiers of Medieval Europe
The Expansion of Latin Christendom in the Baltic Lands
Inbunden, 2014
1842 kr
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By the mid-twelfth century the lands on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, from Finland to the frontiers of Poland, were Catholic Europe’s final frontier: a vast, undeveloped expanse of lowlands, forest and waters, inhabited by peoples belonging to the Finnic and Baltic language groups. In the …
