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Paweł Figurski

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Paweł Figurski

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Karolina Mroziewicz

Karolina Mroziewicz

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Aleksander Sroczyński

Aleksander Sroczyński

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Premodern Rulership and Contemporary Political Power : The King’s Body Never Dies

Amsterdam University Press, 2017

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...The main objective of the present volume is to investigate the cultural specificity and inner dynamics of premodern rulership and contemporary political power. The initial impulse behind such a broad inquiry came from the work of Ernst...

Introduction

Leonie V. Hicks

Leonie V. Hicks

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A Short History of the Normans

I.B. Tauris, 2016

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...The story of the Normans begins with a dream. Rollo, the chief of a small band of Viking adventurers,seemed to behold himself placed on a mountain far higher than the highest, in a Frankish dwelling. And on the summit of this mountain he...

Introduction

A. Asa Eger

A. Asa Eger

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The Islamic–Byzantine Frontier : Interaction and Exchange Among Muslim and Christian Communities

I.B.Tauris, 2015

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...Standing on a high point in the Cilician Gates north of ṣarsūs, surveying his former lands stretched out before him, the Byzantine Emperor Heraklios allegedly uttered his most famous lament, a farewell: ‘Peace unto thee, O Syria, and what...

Institutional Frameworks

Seeta Chaganti

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Seeta Chaganti

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Noah Guynn

Noah Guynn

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Erith Jaffe-Berg

Erith Jaffe-Berg

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A Cultural History of Theatre in the Middle Ages

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...In the medieval history of theatre, we might expect institutions to function as static and monolithic structures. But a more apt figure for the medieval institution would be a phrase of movement, complex and patterned: in essence...

Money and the Issues of the Age

Rory Naismith

Rory Naismith

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A Cultural History of Money in the Medieval Age

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...In Florence in the 1290s, the Dominican scholar and preacher Remigio dei Girolami (d. 1319) told one of his audiences how their fair city had been endowed by God with seven gifts. Two of these, the first and second, derived from the city...

Food and Politics

Jean-Pierre Devroey

Jean-Pierre Devroey

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A Cultural History of Food in the Medieval Age

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...In Antiquity and the Middle Ages, the majority of the population living in the countryside ate only the food that they themselves produced. In cities, however, food took on other economic and political dimensions because food came from...

Preliminaries

Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire : The Sasanian–Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran

I.B. Tauris, 2008

Book chapter

...The Arsacids Sometime before the middle of the third century BCE, an Iranian people known as the DahaeFor the Dahae, see de Blois, F. and Vogelsang, W., ‘Dahae’, in Ehsan Yarshater (ed.), Encyclopae- dia Iranica, pp. 581–582, New York...

Henry I at Fritzlar 919

Antoni Grabowski

Antoni Grabowski

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The Construction of Ottonian Kingship : Narratives and Myth in Tenth-Century Germany

Amsterdam University Press, 2018

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...King’s Designation The king on his deathbed, using the last moment of his life to point out his best successor is a scene fitting a film, or a painting, where viewers would be better able to comprehend the role of the moment.Cf. Schmidt...

Introduction

Matthew Gabriele

Matthew Gabriele

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A Cultural History of Western Empires in the Middle Ages

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...Allow me to begin with an anecdote that, I hope, will clarify some of the challenges in studying A Cultural History of Western Empires in the Middle Ages. My thanks to Brett Edward Whalen and Mauro J. Caraccioli, who assisted...

The Life and Times Of ‘Amīd Al-Mulk Al-kundurī

Carole Hillenbrand

Carole Hillenbrand

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Medieval Central Asia and the Persianate World : Iranian Tradition and Islamic Civilisation

I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd, 2015

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...There is no doubt that the most famous vizier of the first Seljuq sultan Tughril has acquired a somewhat curious reputation.This contribution should be read in conjunction with my forthcoming book chapter about Niẓām al-Mulk where...