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  • The Avars

    A Steppe Empire in Central Europe, 567–822

    by Walter Pohl ...
    **"Though the book was first published in German in 1988, this English version includes many revisions and updates and will be the definitive English-language study of the Avar empire for years to come. It will be invaluable for those interested in medieval history or in the impact of nomadic steppe empires on sedentary civilizations."—**ChoiceThe Avars arrived in Europe from the Central Asian ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Empires and Communities in the Post-Roman and Islamic World, C. 400-1000 CE

    Edited by Rutger Kramer, Walter Pohl ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Early Empires
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This book deals with the ways empires affect smaller communities like ethnic groups, religious communities and local or peripheral populations. It raises the question how these ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • After Charlemagne

    Carolingian Italy and its Rulers

    Edited by Clemens Gantner, Walter Pohl ...
    After Charlemagne's death in 814, Italy was ruled by a succession of kings and emperors, all of whom could claim some relation to the Carolingians, some via the female line of succession. This study offers new perspectives on the fascinating but neglected period of Italy in the ninth century and the impact of Carolingian culture. Bringing together some of the foremost scholars on early medieval ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Visions of Community in the Post-Roman World

    The West, Byzantium and the Islamic World, 300–1100

    Edited by Walter Pohl, Clemens Gantner, Richard Payne ...
    This volume looks at 'visions of community' in a comparative perspective, from Late Antiquity to the dawning of the age of crusades. It addresses the question of why and how distinctive new political cultures developed after the disintegration of the Roman World, and to what degree their differences had already emerged in the first post-Roman centuries. The Latin West, Orthodox Byzantium and its ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity

    Edited by Scott Fitzgerald Johnson ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity offers an innovative overview of a period (c. 300-700 CE) that has become increasingly central to scholarly debates over the history of western and Middle Eastern civilizations. This volume covers such pivotal events as the fall of Rome, the rise of Christianity, the origins of Islam, and the early formation of Byzantium and the European Middle Ages. These ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • The Roman Empire in Context

    Historical and Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Johann P. Arnason, Kurt A. Raaflaub ...
    Series series Ancient World: Comparative Histories
    Through a series of original essays by leading international scholars, The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives offers a comparative historical analysis of the Roman empire’s role and achievement and, more broadly, establishes Rome’s significance within comparative studies.Fills a gap in comparative historical analysis of the Roman empire’s role and achievementFeatures ... Read more

    $158.00 USD

  • Nations Before Nationalism

    by John A. Armstrong ...
    In search of an explanation of how a sense of ethnic identity evolves to create the concept of nation, Armstrong analyzes Islamic and Christian cultures from antiquity to the nineteenth century. He explores the effects of institutions — the city, imperial polity, bureaucratic imperatives of centralization, and language divisions — on the development of ethnicity. Political science furnishes the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Cities, Texts and Social Networks, 400–1500

    Experiences and Perceptions of Medieval Urban Space

    Edited by Caroline Goodson, Anne E. Lester, Carol Symes ...
    Cities, Texts and Social Networks examines the experiences of urban life from late antiquity through the close of the fifteenth century, in regions ranging from late Imperial Rome to Muslim Syria, Iraq and al-Andalus, England, the territories of medieval Francia, Flanders, the Low Countries, Italy and Germany. Together, the volume's contributors move beyond attempts to define 'the city' in purely ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Episcopal Power and Ecclesiastical Reform in the German Empire

    Tithes, Lordship, and Community, 950–1150

    by John Eldevik ...
    Series Book 86 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
    Focusing on the way bishops in the eleventh century used the ecclesiastical tithe - church taxes - to develop or re-order ties of loyalty and dependence within their dioceses, this book offers a new perspective on episcopacy in medieval Germany and Italy. Using three broad case studies from the dioceses of Mainz, Salzburg and Lucca in Tuscany, John Eldevik places the social dynamics of collecting ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

  • Islam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia

    by A.C.S. Peacock, Bruno De Nicola ...
    Islam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia offers a comparative approach to understanding the spread of Islam and Muslim culture in medieval Anatolia. It aims to reassess work in the field since the 1971 classic by Speros Vryonis, The Decline of Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization which treats the process of transformation from a Byzantinist perspective. Since then, research ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Religious Franks

    Religion and power in the Frankish Kingdoms: Studies in honour of Mayke de Jong

    Edited by Rob Meens, Dorine van Espelo, Bram van den Hoven van Genderen, Janneke Raaijmakers, Irene van Renswoude, Carine van Rhijn ...
    This volume in honour of Mayke De Jong offers twenty-five essays focused upon the importance of religion to Frankish politics, a discourse to which De Jong herself has contributed greatly in her academic career. The prominent and internationally renowned contributors offer fresh perspectives on various themes such as the nature of royal authority, the definition of polity, unity and dissent, ideas ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Medieval Europe

    by Chris Wickham ...
    A spirited history of the changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages: "A dazzling race through a complex millennium."— Publishers WeeklyThe millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period—one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages. Yet distinguished historian Chris ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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