Book Description
Explores ancient civilizations and cultures from the dawn of humankind up to and including the Middle Ages.
Author : Henk Dijkstra
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 37,25 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761403555
Explores ancient civilizations and cultures from the dawn of humankind up to and including the Middle Ages.
Author : Helen Cooper Howe
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 46,49 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780582367586
Author : Janet Coleman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 31,69 MB
Release : 1992-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0521411440
This book is an analysis of thinking, remembering and reminiscing according to ancient authors, and their medieval readers. The author argues that behind the various medieval methods in interpreting texts of the past lie two apparently incompatible theories of human knowledge and remembering, as well as two differing attitudes to matter and intellect. The book comprises a series of studies which take ancient texts as evidence of the past, and show how medieval readers and writers understood them. The studies confirm that medieval and renaissance interpretations and uses of the past differ greatly from modern interpretation and yet betray many startling continuities between modern and ancient and medieval theories.
Author : Rebecca Gerlings
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 39,70 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Civilization, Ancient
ISBN : 9781841938233
Accessible, informative, and suitable for the home or school, this book presents detailed information on ancient and medieval history in a fun, playful way, with colour photographs and illustrations throughout.
Author : John Arnold
Publisher : Polity
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 34,11 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0745639321
What is it that medieval historians do? And how and why do they do it? What is Medieval History? provides an accessible, far-ranging and passionate guide to the study of medieval history. The book discusses the creation of the academic field, the nature of the sources, the intellectual tools used by medievalists, and some key areas of thematic importance from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Reformation. Students, teachers, researchers and interested general readers will find the book an invaluable guide. The author explores his field through numerous fascinating case studies, including a magical plot against a medieval pope, a fourteenth-century insurrection, and the importance of a kiss exchanged between two tenth-century noblemen. Throughout the book, readers are shown not only what medieval history is, but the cultural and political contexts in which medieval history has been written. And, above all, What is Medieval History? demonstrates why the pursuit of medieval history continues to be important to the present and future world.
Author : Upinder Singh
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 48,98 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9788131716779
A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India is the most comprehensive textbook yet for undergraduate and postgraduate students. It introduces students to original sources such as ancient texts, artefacts, inscriptions and coins, illustrating how historians construct history on their basis. Its clear and balanced explanation of concepts and historical debates enables students to independently evaluate evidence, arguments and theories. This remarkable textbook allows the reader to visualize and understand the rich and varied remains of India s ancient past, transforming the process of discovering that past into an exciting experience.
Author : Suzanne Stern-Gillet
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 22,46 MB
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1438453655
Charts the stages of the history of friendship as a philosophical concept in the Western world. Focusing on Plato and Aristotle, the Stoics and Epicureans, and early Christian and Medieval sources, Ancient and Medieval Concepts of Friendship brings together assessments of different philosophical accounts of friendship. This volume sketches the evolution of the concept from ancient ideals of friendship applying strictly to relationships between men of high social position to Christian concepts that treat friendship as applicable to all but are concerned chiefly with the souls relation to Godand that ascribe a secondary status to human relationships. The book concludes with two essays examining how this complex heritage was received during the Enlightenment, looking in particular to Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Hölderlin.
Author : Kurt A. Raaflaub
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 11,21 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN :
This social history of war from the third millennium BCE to the 10th-century CE in the Mediterranean, the Near East and Europe (Egypt, Achamenid Persia, Greece, the Hellenistic World, the Roman Republic and Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the early Islamic World and early Medieval Europe) with parallel studies of Mesoamerica (the Maya and Aztecs) and East Asia (ancient China, medieval Japan). The volume offers a broadly based, comparative examination of war and military organization in their complex interactions with social, economic and political structures, as well as cultural practices.
Author : Justin Lake
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 31,3 MB
Release : 2019-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1442605057
The purpose of a prologue in the ancient and medieval world was to define the subject of the work, explain the author's motives and methodology, and obtain the reader's approval of his position. This volume brings together for the first time the most important historical prologues of the European tradition for a period of almost two millennia. The volume consists of more than 80 historical prologues and prefatory epistles from the fifth century BC to the fourteenth century. Each individual prologue is preceded by a brief introduction that provides basic information and context about the author and his work and directs the reader's attention to important ideas and themes. Taken together, they help to bridge the gap that separates the ancient and medieval world from our own.
Author : Marcel Dunan
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,71 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Civilization, Ancient
ISBN :