Download or read book Studies in Medieval Spanish Frontier History written by Charles Julian Bishko and published by Variorum Publishing. This book was released on 1980 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rethinking Ukrainian History written by University of Alberta. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies and published by Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Medieval Frontiers Concepts and Practices written by David Abulafia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the 'medieval frontier' has been the subject of extensive research. But the term has been understood in many different ways: political boundaries; fuzzy lines across which trade, religions and ideas cross; attitudes to other peoples and their customs. This book draws attention to the differences between the medieval and modern understanding of frontiers, questioning the traditional use of the concepts of 'frontier' and 'frontier society'. It contributes to the understanding of physical boundaries as well as metaphorical and ideological frontiers, thus providing a background to present-day issues of political and cultural delimitation. In a major introduction, David Abulafia analyses these various ambiguous meanings of the term 'frontier', in political, cultural and religious settings. The articles that follow span Europe from the Baltic to Iberia, from the Canary Islands to central Europe, Byzantium and the Crusader states. The authors ask what was perceived as a frontier during the Middle Ages? What was not seen as a frontier, despite the usage in modern scholarship? The articles focus on a number of themes to elucidate these two main questions. One is medieval ideology. This includes the analysis of medieval formulations of what frontiers should be and how rulers had a duty to defend and/or extend the frontiers; how frontiers were defined (often in a different way in rhetorical-ideological formulations than in practice); and how in certain areas frontier ideologies were created. The other main topic is the emergence of frontiers, how medieval people created frontiers to delimit areas, how they understood and described frontiers. The third theme is that of encounters, and a questioning of medieval attitudes to such encounters. To what extent did medieval observers see a frontier between themselves and other groups, and how does real interaction compare with ideological or narrative formulations of such interaction?

Download or read book The Austrian Military Border in Croatia 1522 1747 written by Gunther Erich Rothenberg and published by Urbana, U. of Illinois P. This book was released on 1960 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Habsburgere; Ottomanere; Tyrkiske krige

Download or read book Frontiers in Question written by Daniel Power and published by Red Globe Press. This book was released on 1999-04-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are used to the idea that each state has clearly defined borders, which cleanly separate different nationalities from one another. What, though, were frontiers like before the evolution of the modern nation state? The nine essays in this book seek to answer this question across a thousand years of Eurasian history.

Download or read book A History of Ukraine written by Mykhaĭlo Hrushevsʹkyĭ and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Medieval Frontier Societies written by Robert Bartlett and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1992 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to study the effects of cross-cultural contact and confrontation on frontier societies, particularly those between England and Scotland, Wales and Ireland, Castille and Granada, and on the Elbe.

Download or read book A Description of Ukraine written by Guillaume Le Vasseur Beauplan (sieur de) and published by [Cambridge, Mass.] : Dist. by the Harvard University Press for the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. This book was released on 1993 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This seventeenth-century work by the Frenchman Guillaume Le Vasseur, Sieur de Beauplan is one of the earliest and most colorful of the West European descriptions of Ukraine and the Cossacks. The present volume includes an English translation of the original French text, reproductions of the original illustrations, and an extensive introduction by the translators, in which they discuss the circumstances of Beauplan's stay in Ukraine, his work as a cartographer and author, and the history of his maps and the Description d'Uhranie. A separate box contains a representative selection of Beauplan's maps of Ukraine. Indispensable for scholars of Ukrainian history and the history of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, this edition will also be of great interest to the general reader. The English translation constitutes the third part of a joint U.S.-Ukraine publishing collaboration, the first of its kind. A facsimile reproduction and Ukrainian-language translation have been produced in Ukraine by the Institute of Ukrainian Archeography of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences through the publishing house Naukova dumka, and are available directly from the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.