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The Archaeology of Medieval Novgorod in Context: A Study of Centre/Periphery Relations
edited by Mark A. Brisbane, Nikolaj A. Makarov and Evgenij N. Nosov
Novgorod is one of the most intensively and continuously studied urban sites in northern Europe. The excellent preservation of organic and inorganic material in its anaerobic soils, including the structural remains of streets, properties and buildings, has made it possible to study entire quarters of the town as well as the activities of its inhabitants. With deposits up to 8 m deep in places and with well-dated sequences from the early to ...
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Pottery from Medieval Novgorod and its Region
Novgorod was a major medieval city and an important centre for trade routes between northern, central and western Europe and the Near East, and has been the subject of intensive investigation since the 1930s. This volume in a series devoted to the archaeology of medieval Novgorod, presents eleven studies of ceramic evidence in terms of chronology and technology, methodology of investigation, and international trade and contacts. The essays also ...
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Anonymous and Master Roger
edited and translated by Martyn Rady, Laszlo Veszpremy and Janos Bak
This volume contains the Latin text with parallel English translation of two important sources for Hungary's medieval history. The first, the Gesta Hungarorum is by an anonymous notary of King Bela (probably Bela III, d. 1196) and provides a foundation myth for the Hungarian race, as well as an account of the 9th century Magyar conquests. The second, the Epistola in miserabile carmen super destructione Regni Hungarie per tartaros ...
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Historia Picta Castellorum: Fortifications and Castles in the Carpathian Basin, from Prehistory to the 19th Century
by Frigyes Koenig
In this impressive volume, Archaeolingua publishes the drawings of the well-known artist Frigyes König, rector of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, about castles and fortifications in the Carpathian Basin. The detailed drawings, accompanied by notes and precise measurements, are important sources for archaeology, architecture and art history. They present surviving castles and fortifications from prehistory to the Modern Period to a ...
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Saints and their Lives on the Periphery
edited by Haaki Antonsson and Ildar H. Garipzanov
This volume examines the cult of the saints and their associated literature in two peripheral regions of Christendom which were converted to Christianity around the turn of the first millennium, namely, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. The fifteen authors focus on how cultures of sanctity were transmitted across the two regions and on the role that neighbouring Christian countries like England, Germany, and Byzantium played in that process. The ...
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The Clash of Cultures on the Medieval Baltic Frontier
edited by Alan V. Murray
The conversion of the lands on the southern and eastern shores of the Baltic Sea by Germans, Danes and Swedes in the period from 1150 to 1400 represented the last great struggle between Christianity and paganism on the European continent, but for the indigenous peoples of Finland, Livonia, Prussia, Lithuania and Pomerania, it was also a period of wider cultural conflict and transformation. This collection of sixteen essays by both established and ...
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Cosmas of Prague: Chronicle of the Czechs
translated with an introduction and notes by Lisa Wolvercote
"The Chronicle of the Czechs" by Cosmas of Prague (d. 1125) is a masterwork of medieval historical writing, deeply erudite, consciously researched, and narrated in high rhetorical style. Regarded as the foundational narrative of Czech history, it is the source of the oldest stories about the land, people, and rulers of Bohemia and Moravia. Lisa Wolverton provides the first annotated English translation. 274p (Catholic University of America ...
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Geschichte vom Bauern Ostoj
by Zdenek Smetanka
An ambitious attempt to recreate the daily life and mentalite of just one medieval peasant farmer, Ostoj. Something of his life is captured in a deed setting his yearly rent to the church at Aunjetitz, near Prague, but the study draws in the main on archaeological evidence as well as manuscript illumination. German text. 330p b/w illus (VML 2009)
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The Romanians and the Turkic Nomads North of the Danube
by Victor Spinei
This study investigates the relationships between Romanians and nomadic Turkic groups (Pechenegs, Uzes, Cumans) in the southern half of Moldavia, north of the Danube Delta, between the tenth century and the great Mongol invasion of 1241-1242. Due to the basic features of its landscape, the above-mentioned area, which includes a vast plain, became the main political stage of the Romanian ethnic space, a stage on which local communities had to cope ...
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Segregation - Integration - Assimilation: Religious and Ethnic Gropus in the Medieval Towns of Central and Eastern Europe
edited by Derek Keene, Balazs Nagy and Katalin Szende
This series of essays looks at the place of ethnic minorities in the towns of eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, with an emphasis on medieval Hungary. They examine themes of social, political and religious inclusion and exclusion, and look at the effects of long-distance trade, and external political factors on the treatment of strangers. They also look at concepts of identity and difference, and the factors which governed integration and the ...
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