The Texts and Versions of John de Plano Carpini and William de Rubruquis
Author : Richard Hakluyt
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 37,74 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Asia, Central
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Author : Richard Hakluyt
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Page : 376 pages
File Size : 37,74 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Asia, Central
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Author : Richard Hakluyt
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,15 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Asia
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Author : Johannes (de Plano Carpini.)
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Page : 345 pages
File Size : 12,73 MB
Release : 1903
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Author : Richard Hakluyt
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,64 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Voyages and travels
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Author : C Raymond Beazley, Sir
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,47 MB
Release : 2014-08-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781498171397
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1904 Edition.
Author : Aptin Khanbaghi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 29,93 MB
Release : 2006-02-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0857712667
Although today the region is mostly identified with Islam, it has been home to many other great cultures, and the civilization of the Islamic world is itself indebted to the various peoples that the Arabs subdued in the 7th and 8th centuries. Far from fading away after the Arab conquest, the inhabitants of the Iranian plateau and of Mesopotamia were central players in the lives of their regions. However, the magnitude of their contribution to the emergence of the early Islamic world has hitherto been neglected. In this fascinating and groundbreaking study, Khanbaghi offers a comprehensive discussion of those groups that resisted assimilation to the new Islamic order yet continued to participate actively in the socio-political life of their homeland. He concentrates on Iran, which due to its complex religious history offers unique opportunities for the study of non-Muslim communities, specifically of Zoroastrians, Jews and Christians.Aptin Khanbaghi has written an important and fascinating book which aims to present a thorough evaluation of the historical contributions made by religious minorities - Zoroastrians, Jews and Christians - to the societal and cultural physiognomy of the lands of Iran in pre-modern and early modern times. His general perspective and his broad treatment of the topic are quite new, while his use of sources and of the secondary literature is genuinely impressive. The Fire, the Star and the Cross makes a very significant and original contribution to our knowledge and understanding of Iranian history and civilization during an era when the foundations were laid for the emerging modern Iranian state.'BERT G FRAGNER, Director of the Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Author : Naval History Society. Barnes Memorial Library
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Page : 400 pages
File Size : 18,75 MB
Release : 1915
Category : America
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Author : Peter Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 16,72 MB
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1317023889
Prior to the 13th century the horizons of Western Christians extended no further than the principalities of what is now European Russia and the Islamic powers of the near East. Beyond lay a world of which they had only the haziest impressions. The belief that Christian communities were to be found here was nurtured in the 12th century by the growth of the legend of Prester John; but otherwise Asia was peopled in the Western imagination by monstrous races borrowed from the works of late Antiquity. The rise of the Mongol empire, however, and the Mongol devastation of Hungary and Poland in 1241-2, brought the West into much closer contact with Inner Asia. Embassies were being exchanged with the Mongols from 1245; Italian merchants began to profit from the commercial opportunities offered by the union of much of Asia under a single power; and the newly emerging orders of preaching friars, the Franciscans and the Dominicans, who had been active in Eastern Europe and in the Islamic world since the 1220s, found their field of operations greatly expanded. The Franciscan William of Rubruck, who travelled through the Mongol empire in 1253-55, composed the earliest report of such a missionary journey that has come down to us. Couched in the form of a long letter to the French king Louis IX, this remarkable document constitutes an extremely valuable source on the Mongols during the era of their greatness. Rubruck was also the first Westerner to make contact with Buddhism, to describe the shamanistic practices by which the Mongols and other steppe peoples set such store, and to make detailed observations on the Nestorian Christian church and its rites. His remarks on geography, ethnography and fauna (notably the ovis poli, which he encountered a generation before the more celebrated Venetian adventurer from whom it takes its scientific name) give him an additional claim to be one of the keenest of medieval European observers to have travelled in Asia. This new annotated translation is designed to supersede that of W.W. Rockhill, published by the Society in 1900, by relating Rubruck's testimony to the wealth of material on Mongol Asia that has become accessible in other sources over the past nine decades.
Author : Public Library of New South Wales
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Page : 1182 pages
File Size : 11,76 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Library catalogs
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Author : Lawrence N. Langer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 35,86 MB
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1538119420
The emergence of Russia or Rus’, as it was known, from a group of scattered Slavic tribes into one of the most powerful states of medieval and modern European history is an extraordinary story. It is a story filled with much struggle as there were historical periods when Russia almost ceased to exist as it underwent invasion and conquest. Historical Dictionary of Medieval Russia, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about medieval Russia.