Download or read book Castles of the Morea written by Kevin Andrews and published by ASCSA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1953, this book presents a description of 16 of the larger medieval fortresses in the Peloponnese, occupied by the Venetians between 1685 and 1715. It is also a beautifully written celebration of some of Greece's most striking, but also least studied, architectural monuments, inspired by a unique collection of 17th-century fortification plans (the Grimani codex) preserved in the Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. The author first saw the plans in 1948 and devoted the next four years of his life to a historical and archaeological investigation of the castles they depicted. At a time when most of the students at the American School were studying the classics, his interest in later Greek history was pioneering. He not only searched out hundreds of obscure documentary sources but also made a point of visiting, and personally describing and photographing, every castle. This was not an easy thing to do at the tail end of the Greek Civil War. The final publication was an instant classic, marked out by its evocative prose and Andrews's obvious fascination with the subject. The book has been long out of print. This new edition presents Andrews's original text with a new introduction which sets the work in context and discusses some of the developments in Greek castle studies since the 1950s. The Grimani maps, originally printed only in black and white, are now presented in their original colors.
Download or read book Castles of Northwest Greece written by Allan Brooks and published by Aetos Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Northwest Greece has always been relatively isolated from the rest of the Greek mainland and, with the exception of small pockets of intense development on the coast, is still little visited by foreign tourists. Modern guidebooks of necessity concentrate on the few important classical and Hellenistic sites with only passing reference to medieval and later fortifications. Yet these monuments bear witness to the complex later history of the region when Norman, Italian, Angevin, Serbian, Venetian, Turkish and Albanian invaders competed for control. This book is intended to redress this imbalance by providing a detailed guide to a selection of the castles and forts of the area dating from the early Byzantine period to the eve of the First World War.
Download or read book A Description of the East and Some Other Countries written by Richard Pococke and published by . This book was released on 1745 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Quarterly Review written by William Gifford and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Neo Hellenika written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Compleat History of Europe Or A View of the Affairs Thereof Civil and Military from the Beginning of the Treaty of Nimeguen 1676 to the End of the Year 1700 written by David Jones and published by . This book was released on 1701 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Castles of the Crusaders written by Wolfgang Müller-Wiener and published by London : Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1966 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Land of Sikyon written by Yannis A. Lolos and published by American School of Classical Studies at Athens. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Sikyon, in the northeastern Peloponnese, was a major player on the Mediterranean stage, especially in the Archaic and Hellenistic periods. This comprehensive study combines a discussion of the geological and historical background with the results of original research based on many years of archaeological fieldwork. Author Yannis Lolos, drawing upon the limited excavations in Sikyonia, literary sources, and mostly his own extensive survey data, traces the history of the human presence in the territory of Sikyon from prehistory to the early modern period. A series of detailed maps plots the position of many previously unknown roads, fortifications, and settlement sites.
Download or read book The Flight of Ikaros written by Kevin Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book written by John Schmitt and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Crusader Greece written by Eric Forbes-Boyd and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unknown Crusader Castles written by Kristian Molin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The capture of Jerusalem by the First Crusade in 1099 signalled the beginning of an armed struggle in Palestine and throughout the Eastern Mediterranean which lasted until the 15th century. It was a war dominated by the building, securing and besieging of castles rather than by pitched battles. Kristian Molin covers the military history of the crusades on a wider geographical scale than previous historians, taking in Armenia, Cyprus and Greece as well as the Holy Land. He also shows the role of castles as administrative, judicial and social centres in times of peace as well as in war. "Unknown Crusader Castles" provides a fresh perspective on the history of the crusades.
Download or read book Hesperia written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook to the Mediterranean written by John Murray (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Butrint 4 written by Inge Lyse Hansen and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated volume discusses the histories of the port city of Butrint, and its intimate connection to the wider conditions of the Adriatic. In so doing it is a reading, and re-reading, of the site that adds significantly to the study of Mediterranean urban history over the longue durée . Firstly, the book proposes a new paradigm for the development-history of Butrint - based on discussions of the latest archaeological, historical and landscape studies from approximately 20 new excavations and surveys, together covering a temporal arch from prehistory to the early modern period. Secondly, it examines how the perception of the city influenced the archaeological methodology of 20th-century studies of the site, where iteration and reversal were often being applied in equal measure. In this it asks important questions on the management of heritage sites and the contemporary role of archaeological practise. Inge Lyse Hansen is Adjunct Professor of Art History at John Cabot University and specialises in the visual and material culture of the Roman world. She has published on portraiture, funerary art and the use of role models and patronage and has edited several archaeological volumes. Richard Hodges is Scientific Director of the Butrint Foundation, a leading medieval archaeologist and the author of more than 20 books. Sarah Leppard has led or participated in more than 15 excavations in eight countries and has managed major excavations at Butrint.
Download or read book Narrative of a Journey Through Greece in 1830 written by Thomas Abercromby Trant and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medieval Greece written by Michael Heslop and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Greece brings together twelve articles by historian Michael Heslop, showcasing his long-standing interest in the medieval castles of Greece. Ten of the articles in this volume focus on the Dodecanese islands, mainly Rhodes, at the time of their rule by the Hospitallers during the period 1306–1522. Scholarly and popular interest in the military orders has grown substantially over the last twenty years, but comparatively little has been written about the Hospitaller Dodecanese. What distinguishes this work is the author’s use of hitherto unpublished documents from the Hospitaller archives in Malta and his assiduous field work on the island sites discussed. Heslop’s work on the Hospitallers on the island of Rhodes has also enabled him to put together an important gazetteer of place-names in the countryside of Rhodes, published here for the first time. The remaining two chapters of the collection summarize ground-breaking detective work to locate Villehardouin’s ‘lost’ castle of Grand Magne in the Mani, and present a wider study of Byzantine fortifications in medieval Greece. This book will appeal to scholars and students of medieval history, and to all those interested in the history of the Hospitallers.
