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  • Muslims on the Volga in the Viking Age

    In the Footsteps of Ibn Fadlan

    Edited by Jonathan Shepard, Luke Treadwell ...
    Series series Library of Medieval Studies
    The year 922 saw a series of remarkable face-to-face encounters in the steppes between Bukhara and the Middle Volga. Ibn Fadlan was an intrepid member of a diplomatic and religious mission from the distant caliphate in Baghdad to the ruler of the Volga Bulgars. His account gives a vivid eyewitness description of the peoples he came upon (whose appearance, rituals and filthy habits both fascinate ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Revisiting the Byzantine Commonwealth

    Nodes, Networks, and Spheres

    by Jonathan Shepard, Peter Frankopan ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Byzantium
    Pinning down Byzantium (or East Rome) is as difficult today as it was for contemporaries during its 1,000-year-long existence. Dimitri Obolensky sought to characterize its impact on Eastern Europe in his classic The Byzantine Commonwealth, focusing on the elements of religious doctrine, rites, and law which ruling elites there took from the emperor acting in tandem with the Constantinopolitan ... Read more

    $166.49 USD

  • Emergent Elites and Byzantium in the Balkans and East-Central Europe

    by Jonathan Shepard ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    According to Byzantium's leaders, their imperial order anchored in Constantinople was the centre of excellence - spiritual, moral, material and aesthetic. They rewarded individuals willing to join, and favoured outside groupings prepared to cooperate militarily or politically. Interactions with outsiders varied over place and time, complicated by the sometimes differing priorities of Byzantine ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Political Culture in the Latin West, Byzantium and the Islamic World, c.700–c.1500

    A Framework for Comparing Three Spheres

    Edited by Catherine Holmes, Jonathan Shepard, Jo van Steenbergen, Björn Weiler ...
    This comparative study explores three key cultural and political spheres – the Latin west, Byzantium and the Islamic world from Central Asia to the Atlantic – roughly from the emergence of Islam to the fall of Constantinople. These spheres drew on a shared pool of late antique Mediterranean culture, philosophy and science, and they had monotheism and historical antecedents in common. Yet where ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Viking-Age Trade

    Silver, Slaves and Gotland

    Edited by Jacek Gruszczyński, Marek Jankowiak, Jonathan Shepard ...
    Series series Routledge Archaeologies of the Viking World
    That there was an influx of silver dirhams from the Muslim world into eastern and northern Europe in the ninth and tenth centuries is well known, as is the fact that the largest concentration of hoards is on the Baltic island of Gotland. Recent discoveries have shown that dirhams were reaching the British Isles, too. What brought the dirhams to northern Europe in such large numbers? The fur trade ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Imperial Spheres and the Adriatic

    Byzantium, the Carolingians and the Treaty of Aachen (812)

    Edited by Mladen Ančić, Jonathan Shepard, Trpimir Vedriš ...
    Although often mentioned in textbooks about the Carolingian and Byzantine empires, the Treaty of Aachen has not received much close attention. This volume attempts not just to fill the gap, but to view the episode through both micro- and macro-lenses. Introductory chapters review the state of relations between Byzantium and the Frankish realm in the eighth and early ninth centuries, crises facing ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Emergence of Rus 750-1200

    by Simon Franklin, Jonathan Shepard ...
    Series series Longman History of Russia
    This eagerly awaited volume, the first of its kind by western scholars, describes the development amongst the diverse inhabitants of the immense landmass between the Carpathians and Urals of a political, economic and social nexus (underpinned by a common culture and, eventually, a common faith), out of which would emerge the future Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The authors explore every aspect of ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Expansion of Orthodox Europe

    Byzantium, the Balkans and Russia

    Edited by Jonathan Shepard ...
    Series series The Expansion of Latin Europe, 1000-1500
    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 fear in various combinations, involving religious beliefs and an idealised world-order. Its ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • Central Europe in the High Middle Ages

    by Nora Berend, Przemysław Urbańczyk, Przemysław Wiszewski ...
    Series series Cambridge Medieval Textbooks
    This groundbreaking comparative history of the early centuries of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland sets the development of each polity in the context of the central European region as a whole. Focusing on the origins of the realms and their development in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the book concludes with the thirteenth century when significant changes in social and economic structures ... Read more

    $41.89 USD

  • Reimagining Europe

    Kievan Rus’ in the Medieval World

    by Christian Raffensperger ...
    An overriding assumption has directed scholarship in both European and Slavic history: that Kievan Rus’ was part of a Byzantine commonwealth separate from Europe. Raffensperger refutes this, and offers a new frame for two hundred years of history, in which Rus’ is understood as part of medieval Europe, and East is not so neatly divided from West. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Charlemagne

    by Johannes Fried ...
    Translated by Peter Lewis ...
    When Charlemagne died in 814 CE, he left behind a dominion and a legacy unlike anything seen in Western Europe since the fall of Rome. Distinguished historian and author of The Middle Ages Johannes Fried presents a new biographical study of the legendary Frankish king and emperor, illuminating the life and reign of a ruler who shaped Europe’s destiny in ways few figures, before or since, have ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • A History of the Russian Church to 1488

    by John L. Fennell ...
    The Russian church is central to an understanding of early Russian and Slav history, but for many years there has been no accessible, up-to-date introduction to the subject in English - until now. The late John Fennell's last book, is a masterly survey of the development, nature and role of the early Church in Russia from Christianization of the country in 988, through Kievan and Tatar poeriods to ... Read more

    $70.99 USD