European history: medieval period, middle ages

Paulos Mar Greogorios: A Reader is a compilation of the selected writings of Paulos Mar Gregorios, a metropolitan of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church of India and a former President of the World Council of Churches.

During the first century, Saint Mark brought Christianity to Egypt and in so doing, formed the basis for the Coptic Orthodox Church.

How elite Roman families used genealogy, architecture, and the urban fabric to appropriate the city's saints for their ownDomesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome explores the creative efforts of some of Rome's most prominent noble families to weave themselves into Rome's Christian past.

Of the three major branches of Christianity, Orthodoxy is the least known and most misunderstood.

Early Christian spirituality is a topic of enduring fascination today among scholars and general readers alike.

Deified Person: A Study of Deification in Relation to Person and Christian Becoming focuses on a theological exploration of "e;person"e; through the notion of deification and is placed within a Christian Orthodox-Byzantine context.

For Christians living as a persecuted minority in the Middle East, the question of whether their allegiance should lie with their faith or with the national communities they live in is a difficult one.

For Christians living as a persecuted minority in the Middle East, the question of whether their allegiance should lie with their faith or with the national communities they live in is a difficult one.

An examination of how church leaders partnered with lay rulers to integrate lands conquered from the Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula from the ninth through the fourteenth centuriesIn Constructing Christendom, Thomas W.

Reveals the role of Arthuriana in the racial logics of medieval Europe through an analysis of the construction of chivalric whitenessThe Other Faces of Arthur reveals the role of Arthuriana in the racial logics of medieval Europe through an analysis of the construction of whiteness in the global North Atlantic: Scandinavia, Britain, Iberia, and North Africa.

Of the three major branches of Christianity, Orthodoxy is the least known and most misunderstood.

The Coptic Christians of Egypt have traditionally been portrayed as a 'beleaguered minority', persecuted in a Muslim majority state and by the threat of political Islam.

During the first century, Saint Mark brought Christianity to Egypt and in so doing, formed the basis for the Coptic Orthodox Church.

Deified Person: A Study of Deification in Relation to Person and Christian Becoming focuses on a theological exploration of "e;person"e; through the notion of deification and is placed within a Christian Orthodox-Byzantine context.

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Eight generations of the greatest and worst kings and queens that this country has ever seen - from the White Ship to the Lionheart, bad King John to the Black Prince and John of Gaunt - this is the dynasty that invented England as we still know it today - great history to appeal to readers of Ken Follet, Bernard Cornwell, Tom HollandEngland's greatest royal dynasty, the Plantagenets, ruled over England through eight generations of kings.

THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE Eleven years when Britain had no king.

An exhilarating, accessible chronicle of the ruling families of France and England, showing how two dynasties formed one extraordinary story   The twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a time of personal monarchy, when the close friendship or petty feuding between kings and queens could determine the course of history.

How elite Roman families used genealogy, architecture, and the urban fabric to appropriate the city's saints for their ownDomesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome explores the creative efforts of some of Rome's most prominent noble families to weave themselves into Rome's Christian past.

A brilliant new reading of the Bayeux Tapestry that radically alters our understanding of the events of 1066 and reveals the astonishing story of the survival of early medieval Europe's greatest treasure.

This extraordinary re-creation of the life of a medieval Italian merchant, Francesco di Marco Datini, is one of the greatest historical portraits written in the twentieth century.

A History of Medieval Astrology analyses the contributions of the Krakow Astronomy and Astrology School, part of the University of Krakow - one of the fastest growing universities in 15th-century Europe.

A History of Medieval Astrology analyses the contributions of the Krakow Astronomy and Astrology School, part of the University of Krakow - one of the fastest growing universities in 15th-century Europe.

For a brief but extraordinary century, a single empire stretched from the Pacific coast to the gates of Europe-and trade flowed as never before.

No disponíamos hasta ahora de un libro que explicase de manera completa la historia de la esclavitud de los moriscos granadinos, un vacío que llena el presente volumen, que relata la caída en esclavitud de gran parte de ellos, ricos y pobres, ancianos y niños, hombres y mujeres, arrastrados por el torbellino de una guerra declarada a sangre y fuego.

Die Tempelritter sind bis heute von Mythen umgeben – zugleich fromme Ordensbrüder und gefürchtete Kämpfer, Finanzverwalter und Symbol des mittelalterlichen Glaubens.

Was passiert, wenn Glaube zur ultimativen Rechtfertigung wird und ganze Armeen im Namen Gottes in den Krieg ziehen?

Das Fundament des europäischen Denkens lag in Trümmern.

Durch den Dualseelenprozess ist die Ich-Erzählerin so sehr von ihren Traumata befreit, dass sie nicht mehr bereit ist, ihre Intelligenz unter den Scheffel zu stellen.

Was geschah mit den Königshäusern, die einst über mächtige Reiche herrschten und deren Namen heute kaum noch bekannt sind?

Die Entdeckungsfahrten der Wikinger nach Nordamerika gehören zu den faszinierendsten Kapiteln mittelalterlicher Geschichte.

Marco Polo's Travels has shaped Western imagination of the East for over seven centuries-a world of golden cities, wise emperors, and impossible customs.

Dieses Buch erzählt die faszinierende Geschichte der Wikinger, die Jahrhunderte vor Kolumbus den nordamerikanischen Kontinent erreichten.

The Crusades have been claimed by nearly every ideological tradition that followed them - as holy war, as colonial prototype, as clash of civilizations, as righteous defense.

The Knights Templar are history's most mythologized military order - simultaneously celebrated as crusading warriors, condemned as heretics, and claimed as ancestors by everyone from Freemasons to modern conspiracy theorists.

Die Kreuzzüge waren weit mehr als heilige Kriege – sie waren Ausdruck politischer Ambition, wirtschaftlicher Interessen und religiöser Sehnsucht.

Medieval castles were more than military fortresses-they were bustling hubs of work, culture, conflict, and community.

Im Spätmittelalter und dem frühen 16.

Seit den fruhen Anfangen seiner Institutionalisierung entwickelte das Papsttum einen Kanon bestimmter Selbstzuschreibungen, die immer wieder aufgegriffen und situationsbedingt modifiziert wurden.

Seit den fruhen Anfangen seiner Institutionalisierung entwickelte das Papsttum einen Kanon bestimmter Selbstzuschreibungen, die immer wieder aufgegriffen und situationsbedingt modifiziert wurden.

Vikings are remembered as raiders terrorizing medieval Europe.

Das Mittelalter war keine wirtschaftliche Stagnation – es war die Geburtsstunde moderner Handelssysteme, Bankwesen und städtischer Wirtschaftsmacht.

Eric Bohme analyses two processes of conquest which are generally considered prime examples of the expansion of Latin-Christian powers into the Islamicate Mediterranean.

Wie gewannen europäische Königstöchter trotz erzwungener Heiraten im fremden Land politischen und kulturellen Einfluss und persönliche Mobilität?

Tauchen Sie ein in die glanzvolle und zugleich tragische Geschichte des Hauses Valois, einer der einflussreichsten Dynastien Europas.

Josef Riedmann prägte die Innsbrucker Mediävistik und Landesgeschichte der letzten Jahrzehnte in Forschung und Lehre.

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El segundo tomo de la Historia de Andorra, provincia de Teruel, abarca los siglos XIV y XV.

The Norse myths are among the most vivid survival narratives in human history - a cosmos perpetually threatened by chaos, sustained by gods who were themselves mortal, and destined to end in Ragnarok, a final catastrophic battle from which a new world would emerge.

In the year 987, Hugh Capet ascended to the throne of France, marking the dawn of the Capetian Dynasty and a pivotal turning point in medieval history.