Название: The Viking Age for Kids: A Captivating Guide to the Vikings, Their Raids, and Everyday Life (History for Children)
Автор: Captivating History
Издательство: Captivating History
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 80
Размер: 17,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

How much do you know about the Vikings? You might be surprised by how much you already know and by how much of it isn’t even true! In this book, you’ll discover what life was really like for the Vikings during their golden age. Learn about the most significant Vikings and raids, and find out more about their daily lives and the things that were the most important to them.

Название: The Children of Athena: Greek Intellectuals in the Age of Rome: 250 BC-400 AD
Автор: Charles Freeman
Издательство: Pegasus Books
ISBN: 163936515X
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 400
Размер: 16,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

A brilliant, fascinating portrait of the intellectual tradition of Greek writers and thinkers during the Age of Rome. In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman Republic; sixty years later, when Athens and other Greek city-states rebelled against Rome, the Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla destroyed the city of Socrates and Plato, laying waste to the famous Academy where Aristotle had studied. However, the traditions of Greek cultural life continued to flourish during the centuries of Roman rule that followed—in the lives and work of a distinguished array of philosophers, doctors, scientists, geographers, and theologians.

Название: A Republic of Scoundrels: The Schemers, Intriguers, and Adventurers Who Created a New American Nation
Автор: David Head, Timothy C. Hemmis
Издательство: Pegasus Books
ISBN: 1639364072
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 368
Размер: 16,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Founding Fathers are often revered as American saints; here are the stories of those Founders who were schemers and scoundrels, vying for their own interests ahead of the nation's. We now have a clear-eyed understanding of Founding Fathers such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton; even so, they are often considered American saints, revered for their wisdom and self-sacrificing service to the nation.

Название: Landscape, Association, Empire: Imagining Van Diemen's Land
Автор: Philip Hutch, Elaine Stratford
Издательство: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9819954185
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 236
Размер: 48,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book tells a compelling story about invasion, settler colonialism, and an emergent sense of identity in place, as seen through topographical and landscape images by seven fascinating artists. Their ways of imagining the Vandemonian landscape are part of a much larger story about how aesthetic forces shaped empire and colony, place and migration, and people’s lives. They remain intriguing through-lines of global significance and local meaning.

Название: Living with Nature, Cherishing Language: Indigenous Knowledges in the Americas Through History
Автор: Justyna Olko
Издательство: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 3031387384
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 416
Размер: 45,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book explores the deep connections between environment, language, and cultural integrity, with a focus on Indigenous peoples from early modern times to the present. It illustrates the close integration of nature and culture through historical processes of environmental change in North, Central, and South America and the nurturing of local knowledge through ancestral languages and oral traditions.

Название: Elite Byzantine Kinship, ca. 950 - 1204: Blood, Reputation, and the Genos
Автор: Leidholm, Nathan
Издательство: Arc Humanities Press
Год: 2019
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 200
Размер: 11.2 Мб
Язык: English

By the end of the twelfth century, the Byzantine 'genos' was a politically effective social group based upon ties of consanguineous kinship, but, importantly, it was also a cultural construct, an idea that held very real power, yet defies easy categorization. This study explores the role and function of the Byzantine aristocratic family group, or 'genos', as a distinct social entity, particularly its political and cultural role, as it appears in a variety of sources in the tenth through twelfth centuries.

Название: Medieval Bosnia and South-East European Relations: Political, Religious, and Cultural Life at the Adriatic Crossroads
Автор: Dženan Dautović, Emir O. Filipović, Neven Isailović (eds.)
Издательство: Arc Humanities Press
Год: 2019
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 168
Размер: 10.6 Мб
Язык: English

The Dalmatian coast of the Adriatic and its vast Balkan hinterland were an integral part of medieval Europe, both in a geographical and historical sense. However, due to issues of language and a scarcity of sources, the whole region has largely remained out of sight and overlooked by western historiography. This volume features contributions from an exciting new generation of medievalists who are working to rectify this gap in the narrative.

Название: Europe, Byzantium, and the "Intellectual Silence" of Rus' Culture
Автор: Donald Ostrowski
Издательство: Arc Humanities Press
Год: 2018
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 121
Размер: 10.4 Мб
Язык: English

This book sets out to answer the question of why Eastern Church writers showed no interest in analytical reasoning - the so-called "intellectual silence" of Rus' culture - while Western Church writers, by the time of the Scholastics, routinely incorporated analytical reasoning into their defences of the faith.

Название: Пират ее величества. Как Фрэнсис Дрейк помог Елизавете I создать Британскую империю
Автор: Лоуренс Бергрин
Издательство: Колибри
Год: 2023
Формат: fb2, rtf
Размер: 13 Мб
Качество: Хорошее
Язык: Русский

Первое в своем роде полномасштабное исследование партнерства одного из самых великих пиратов и королевы Елизаветы – уникального сотрудничества мореплавателя и монарха, которое привело к образованию Британской империи. В своей работе прославленный историк-биограф, автор научно-популярных книг о Магеллане и Колумбе Лоуренс Бергрин опирается на множество источников, в основном современных описываемым событиям. Рассказ о ключевых путешествиях Фрэнсиса Дрейка в контексте решающего поворота в британской истории становится глубже и объемнее в сопровождении цветных и черно-белых иллюстраций и карт.

Название: Eastern Europe in Icelandic Sagas
Автор: Tatjana N. Jackson
Издательство: Arc Humanities Press
Год: 2019
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 226
Размер: 17.6 Мб
Язык: English

Based on the material of the Old Norse Icelandic sources written down in the twelfth to fourteenth centuries, this book demonstrates how medieval Scandinavians imagined Eastern Europe. It reconstructs the system of medieval Scandinavian perception of space in general, and the eastern part of the 'oecumene' in particular. It also examines the unique information of these sources, of which the Russian chronicles were unaware: namely, the saga and skaldic poetry data concerning the visits of the four Norwegian kings to Old Rus in the late-tenth and mid-eleventh centuries.