Edinburgh History of the Greeks, c. 500 to 1050

Edinburgh History of the Greeks, c. 500 to 1050
Author: Florin Curta
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2014-03-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 0748695370

This volume traces the social, economic and political history of the Greeks between 500 and 1050.

Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1453 to 1768

Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1453 to 1768
Author: Molly Greene
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2015-07-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 0748694013

This volume considers the period of Ottoman rule in Greek history in light of changing scholarship about this era and makes it accessible for the first time to a wider audience.

Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1768 to 1913

Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1768 to 1913
Author: Thomas W Gallant
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2015-01-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 0748636072

This volume traces the rich social, cultural, economic and political history of the Greeks during National Period up till the military coup of 1909.

Guide to Byzantine Historical Writing

Guide to Byzantine Historical Writing
Author: Leonora Neville
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2018-05-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107039983

Makes the study of medieval Greek historical writing accessible by providing fundamental orientation and information.

Environment and Society in Byzantium, 650-1150

Environment and Society in Byzantium, 650-1150
Author: Alexander Olson
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2020-11-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 3030599361

This book illuminates Byzantines' relationship with woodland between the seventh and twelfth centuries. Using the oak and the olive as objects of study, this work explores shifting economic strategies, environmental change, and the transformation of material culture throughout the middle Byzantine period. Drawing from texts, environmental data, and archaeological surveys, this book demonstrates that woodland's makeup was altered after Byzantium's seventh-century metamorphosis, and that people interacted in new ways with this re-worked ecology. Oak obtained prominence after late antiquity, illustrating the shift from that earlier era's intensive agriculture to a more sylvan middle Byzantine economy. Meanwhile, the olive faded into the background, re-emerging in the eleventh and twelfth centuries thanks to the initiative of people adapting yet again to newly changed political and economic circumstances. This book therefore shows that Byzantines' relationship with their ecology was far from static, and that Byzantines' decisions had environmental impacts.

Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages (500-1300) (2 vols)

Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages (500-1300) (2 vols)
Author: Florin Curta
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 1426
Release: 2019-07-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004395199

Winner of the 2020 Verbruggen prize This book provides a comprehensive synthesis of scholarship on Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages. The goal is to offer an overview of the current state of research and a basic route map for navigating an abundant historiography available in more than 10 different languages. The literature published in English on the medieval history of Eastern Europe—books, chapters, and articles—represents a little more than 11 percent of the historiography. The companion is therefore meant to provide an orientation into the existing literature that may not be available because of linguistic barriers and, in addition, an introductory bibliography in English. Winner of the 2020 Verbruggen prize, awarded annually by the De Re Militari society for the best book on medieval military history. The awarding committee commented that the book ‘has an enormous range, and yet is exceptionally scholarly with a fine grasp of detail. Its title points to a general history of eastern Europe, but it is dominated by military episodes which make it of the highest value to anybody writing about war and warmaking in this very neglected area of Europe.’ See inside the book.

Medieval Greece

Medieval Greece
Author: Michael Heslop
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2020-11-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 100020927X

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. (CS1093).

The Greeks

The Greeks
Author: Roderick Beaton
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2021-11-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1541618289

A sweeping history of the Greeks, from the Bronze Age to today More than two thousand years ago, the Greek city-states, led by Athens and Sparta, laid the foundation for much of modern science, the arts, politics, and law. But the influence of the Greeks did not end with the rise and fall of this classical civilization. As historian Roderick Beaton illustrates, over three millennia Greek speakers produced a series of civilizations that were rooted in southeastern Europe but again and again ranged widely across the globe. In The Greeks, Beaton traces this history from the Bronze Age Mycenaeans who built powerful fortresses at home and strong trade routes abroad, to the dramatic Eurasian conquests of Alexander the Great, to the pious Byzantines who sought to export Christianity worldwide, to today’s Greek diaspora, which flourishes on five continents. The product of decades of research, this is the story of the Greeks and their global impact told as never before.