John of Worcester is celebrated for his work on the Worcester Chronica Chronicarum, which was put together in stages in the first half of the twelfth century, and which became one of the most important historical texts to have survived from Britain of that period.
Constantine the Great died on May 22nd in 337 AD, leaving behind three sons--Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans--to face the challenge of how to rule the Roman Empire.
The later Middle Ages and the early modern period were important and overlapping historical moments for both Venice and the Ottoman Empire, yet the two--both the periods themselves and the Republic and Empire more generally--have often been considered in isolation.
Constantine the Great died on May 22nd in 337 AD, leaving behind three sons--Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans--to face the challenge of how to rule the Roman Empire.
Translating Europe in lfric's 'Lives of Saints' is the first study of the representation of European peoples, places, and geographies in the Lives of Saints, one of early medieval England's most famed works.
The newest volume in the acclaimed Oxford History of the United States series, Contested Continent recounts the origins of "e;America"e; and how it came to birth the United States.
From the mid-seventeenth to early eighteenth century, a wide network of English-speaking men, women, and children took up residence in the Ottoman Maghrebi regencies of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli.
Historians of sexuality agree that the binary divide between gay and straight is a relatively recent social invention, only becoming dominant around the mid-twentieth-century.
A detailed account of the siege and fall of Constantinople in 1453, a watershed year that closed the book, once and for all, on the Roman Empire and confirmed for Europeans their worst fears about an expanding Ottoman Empire.
With their distinctive and other-worldly appearance, runes--an ancient alphabet used to write Germanic languages--provide our only first-hand record of the customs and beliefs of peoples living on the northern fringe of the Roman Empire during a period of mass migration and momentous social upheaval.
Translating Europe in lfric's 'Lives of Saints' is the first study of the representation of European peoples, places, and geographies in the Lives of Saints, one of early medieval England's most famed works.
In the period from the close of the Napoleonic Wars up through the immediate post-World-War II era the image of Martin Luther was transposed in Germany from a religious reformer and advocate of freedom to a symbol of volkisch nationalist identity, such that with the seizure of power by the Nazis, Luther was used to portray a symbiosis between the new regime and the tradition of Protestant religiosity.
Across the twentieth century, the families of people who died in war and disaster were left to make sense of their sudden loss and navigate newfound grief.
Erich Fromm, the prominent twentieth-century public intellectual and psychoanalyst, was recognized for his courageous stand against fascism, racism, and human destructiveness.
Erich Fromm, the prominent twentieth-century public intellectual and psychoanalyst, was recognized for his courageous stand against fascism, racism, and human destructiveness.
Across the twentieth century, the families of people who died in war and disaster were left to make sense of their sudden loss and navigate newfound grief.
An erudite and entertaining history of Moscow, a city whose rich past offers crucial insight into contemporary global politics'Monumental' SUNDAY TIMES'Brilliant' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'A marvellous book' HELEN RAPPAPORT, author of The Rebel Romanov Every page pulses with individual stories and historical insights' MARK GALEOTTI, author of A Short History of RussiaMoscow stands at the centre of a nation comprising eleven percent of the globe s landmass, eleven time zones and nearly one hundred and fifty million people, some thirteen million of whom live in the capital.
The tenth and eleventh centuries in medieval Europe are commonly seen as a time of uncertainty and loss: an age of lawless aristocrats, of weak political authority, of cultural decline and dissolute monks, and of rampant superstition.
Throughout the reign of Sultan Selim III (1789-1807), Ottoman officials complained about the destruction of a notorious criminal named Kara Feyzi and thousands of his followers: they pillaged, slaughtered, and burned down communities throughout the Balkans.
Enlightened Oxford aims to discern, establish, and clarify the multiplicity of connections between the University of Oxford, its members, and the world outside; to offer readers a fresh, contextualised sense of the University's role in the state, in society, and in relation to other institutions between the Williamite Revolution and the first decade of the nineteenth century, the era loosely describable (though not without much qualification) as England's ancien regime.
The 1960s in Europe saw the emergence of social protest, newly confident center-left parties, Cold War detente, and frustrations with the pace and direction of European integration.
From the end of World War II in 1945 until the drawdown in 2019, about two million British military personnel and their families were stationed in northwestern Germany.
In September 1645, the directors of the West India Company gathered to discuss the most important crisis in the company's history, one that would determine the fate of a burgeoning Dutch imperial project in the New World.
During the 1840s and 1850s, the British government financed a world-wide investigation into how the Earth's magnetic phenomena operated, consisting of a network of naval expeditions and colonial observatories.
John II Komnenos was born into an empire on the brink of destruction, with his father Alexios barely preserving the empire in the face of civil wars and invasions.
John II Komnenos was born into an empire on the brink of destruction, with his father Alexios barely preserving the empire in the face of civil wars and invasions.
From the end of World War II in 1945 until the drawdown in 2019, about two million British military personnel and their families were stationed in northwestern Germany.
This new volume edited by two significant scholars of Italian history and politics offers students and scholars a sweeping overview of the modern history of a country that has played a crucial role in the history of Europe over the past two centuries.
During the years of the Pacific War and occupied Japan, more than ten thousand second-generation Japanese Americans (Nisei) served in the US armed forces and their campaigns in combat theaters and subsequently occupied enemy land in the Asia-Pacific region.
This book is a long awaited update to the first major study of a Christian community which has developed an approach to faith and life which is different from all other churches.
In the written record of music in the West, there are many examples of long melodies sung to a single vowel with no other text; but in almost all cases that vowel is part of a syllable in a word, which in turn is part of a longer text; that text is interrupted--or prolonged--by the extension of its vowel to a greater or lesser extent by that string of notes.
