The Development of Education in Medieval Iceland, Ryder Patzuk-Russell

Название: Laws of Early Iceland: Gragas II
ISBN: 0887558321 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780887558320
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Описание: The laws of mediaeval Iceland provide detailed and fascinating insight into the society that produced the Icelandic sagas. Known collectively as Gragas (Greygoose), this great legal code offers a wealth of information about early European legal systems and the society of the Middles Ages. This first translation of Gragas is in two volumes.

Автор: Kantorowicz Ernst
Название: The King`s Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology
ISBN: 0691169233 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691169231
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Описание: Originally published in 1957, this classic work has guided generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. Throughout history, the notion of two bodies has permitted the post mortem continuity of monarch and monarchy, as epitomized by the statement, "The king is dead. Long live the king." In The King`s Two Bodie

Автор: Gomez Michael
Название: African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa
ISBN: 0691196826 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691196824
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Описание: In a radically new account of the importance of early Africa in global history, Gomez traces how Islam`s growth in West Africa, along with intensifying commerce that included slaves, resulted in a series of political experiments unique to the region, culminating in the rise of empire.

Автор: Collins Roger
Название: Early Medieval Europe, 300-1000
ISBN: 0230006736 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230006737
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Описание: In this classic textbook history of early medieval Europe, Roger Collins provides a succinct account of the centuries during which Europe changed from being an abstract geographical expression to a new culturally coherent, if politically divided, entity.

Автор: Esposito Gabriele
Название: Armies of the Medieval Italian Wars 1125-1325
ISBN: 1472833406 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472833402
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Описание: The great powers of medieval Europe fought continuously in the Italian peninsula between the 12th and 14th centuries as they sought to expand their territory. Invading armies from Germany - the Holy Roman Empire - saw the creation of the defensive Lombard League of northern Italian city-states. These struggles resulted in conflicts between rival confederacies, which in turn proved to be the catalysts for developments in organisation and tactics.

Italian urban militias became better organised and equipped, the Imperial armies went from being mostly German to multi-national forces, and both sides became reliant on mercenary forces to prosecute their wars. After the 1260s, France, relying mainly on armoured cavalry, and Spain, with their innovative light infantry, vied for control of southern Italy. On the seas, the great naval powers of Genoa, Pisa and Venice became fierce rivals, as they created great trading empires, bringing the treasures of the east into feudal Europe.

Using detailed colour plates, this beautifully illustrated book describes the myriad of armies and navies that fought for control of Italy in the Middle Ages.

Автор: Krause Stefan
Название: Freydal. Medieval Games. The Book of Tournaments of Emperor Maximilian I
ISBN: 3836576813 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783836576819
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Описание: Named after Maximilian I`s literary alter ego, Freydal is the largest extant tournament book of the Late Middle Ages, inscribed in the UNESCO Memory of the World program. This publication from Vienna`s Kunsthistorisches Museum commemorates the 500th anniversary of Maximilian`s death, combining for the first time all 255 gold- and silver-...

Автор: Sigurdsson Jon Vidar
Название: Viking Friendship: The Social Bond in Iceland and Norway, C. 900-1300
ISBN: 1501705776 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501705779
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"To a faithful friend, straight are the roads and short."—Odin, from the H?vam?l (c. 1000)

Friendship was the most important social bond in Iceland and Norway during the Viking Age and the early Middle Ages. Far more significantly than kinship ties, it defined relations between chieftains, and between chieftains and householders. In Viking Friendship, J?n Vi?ar Sigur?sson explores the various ways in which friendship tied Icelandic and Norwegian societies together, its role in power struggles and ending conflicts, and how it shaped religious beliefs and practices both before and after the introduction of Christianity.

Drawing on a wide range of Icelandic sagas and other sources, Sigur?sson details how loyalties between friends were established and maintained. The key elements of Viking friendship, he shows, were protection and generosity, which was most often expressed through gift giving and feasting. In a society without institutions that could guarantee support and security, these were crucial means of structuring mutual assistance. As a political force, friendship was essential in the decentralized Free State period in Iceland’s history (from its settlement about 800 until it came under Norwegian control in the years 1262–1264) as local chieftains vied for power and peace. In Norway, where authority was more centralized, kings attempted to use friendship to secure the loyalty of their subjects.

The strong reciprocal demands of Viking friendship also informed the relationship that individuals had both with the Old Norse gods and, after 1000, with Christianity’s God and saints. Addressing such other aspects as the possibility of friendship between women and the relationship between friendship and kinship, Sigur?sson concludes by tracing the decline of friendship as the fundamental social bond in Iceland as a consequence of Norwegian rule.

Название: Picatrix: A Medieval Treatise on Astral Magic
ISBN: 0271082127 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780271082127
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Описание: An English translation, with accompanying introduction, commentary, and notes, of the medieval treatise on astrological magic known as Picatrix, a guide for constructing magical talismans, mixing magical compounds, summoning planetary spirits, and determining astrological conditions.

Автор: Falk Oren
Название: Violence and Risk in Medieval Iceland: This Spattered Isle
ISBN: 0198866046 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198866046
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Описание: This book investigates the history of violence in medieval Iceland, testing theoretical tools by applying them to a series of case studies drawn from the Icelandic sagas.

Автор: Sir Winston S. Churchill
Название: A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume I: The Birth of Britain
ISBN: 1472585240 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472585240
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Описание: "This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues — its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of what Englishmen in the hey-day of their empire thought and felt about their country's past." The Daily Telegraph Spanning four volumes and many centuries of history, from Caesar’s invasion of Britain to the start of World War I, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples stands as one of Winston S. Churchill’s most magnificent literary works. Begun during Churchill’s ‘wilderness years’ when he was out of government, first published in 1956 after his leadership through the darkest days of World War II had cemented his place in history and completed when Churchill was in his 80s, it remains to this day a compelling and vivid history. The first volume - The Birth of Britain - tells the story of the formation of the British state, from the arrival of Julius Caesar and the Roman Empire through the invasions of the Vikings and the Normans, the signing of the Magna Carta and establishment of the mother of parliaments to the War of the Roses.

Автор: Rebecca Merkelbach
Название: Monsters in Society: Alterity, Transgression, and the Use of the Past in Medieval Iceland
ISBN: 1501518364 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501518362
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
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Описание: Dragons, giants, and the monsters of learned discourse are rarely encountered in the Sagas of Icelanders, and therefore, the general teratological focus on physical monstrosity yields only limited results when applied to them. This, however, does not equal an absence of monstrosity – it only means that monstrosity is conceived of differently. This book shifts the view of monstrosity from the physical to the social, accounting for the unique social circumstances presented in the Islendingasogur and demonstrating how closely interwoven the social and the monstrous are in this genre. Employing literary and cultural theory as well as anthropological and historical approaches, it reads the monsters of the Islendingasogur in their literary and socio-cultural context, demonstrating that they are not distractions from feud and conflict, but that they are in fact an intrinsic part of the genre’s re-imagining of the past for the needs of the present.

Автор: Nicolle, David
Название: Armies of Medieval Russia 750–1250
ISBN: 1855328488 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781855328488
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Описание: This volume covers medieval Russian armies from the foundation of Kiev by the pagan Rus`, through the many internecine and external wars, the rise of the Novgorod Empire, to the incursions of the Mongols and the many battles of Prince Alexander Nevski.