The Realm of St Stephen
Title | The Realm of St Stephen PDF eBook |
Author | Pal Engal |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 472 |
Release | 2001-02-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0857731734 |
Now recognised as the standard work on the subject, Realm of St Stephen is a comprehensive history of medieval Eastern and Central Europe. Pál Engel traces the establishment of the medieval kingdom of Hungary from its conquest by the Magyar tribes in 895 until defeat by the Ottomans at the Battle of Mohacs in 1526. He shows the development of the dominant Magyars who, upon inheriting an almost empty land, absorbed the remaining Slavic peoples into their culture after the original communities had largely disappeared. Engel's book is an accessible and highly readable history. 'This is now the standard English language treatment of medieval Hungary - its internal history as well as its regional and European significance.' --- P W Knoll, University of Southern Carolina (From 'Choice') 'A lively and highly readable narrative ' --- Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona (From 'Mediaevistik')
The Realm of St Stephen
Title | The Realm of St Stephen PDF eBook |
Author | Pal Engal |
Publisher | I.B.Tauris |
Total Pages | 472 |
Release | 2001-02-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781860640612 |
The Realm of St Stephen
Title | The Realm of St Stephen PDF eBook |
Author | Pal Engal |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 473 |
Release | 2001-02-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0857716212 |
Now recognised as the standard work on the subject, Realm of St Stephen is a comprehensive history of medieval Eastern and Central Europe. Pal Engel traces the establishment of the medieval kingdom of Hungary from its conquest by the Magyar tribes in 895 until defeat by the Ottomans at the Battle of Mohacs in 1526. He shows the development of the dominant Magyars who, upon inheriting an almost empty land, absorbed the remaining Slavic peoples into their culture after the original communities had largely disappeared.
Balkan Wars
Title | Balkan Wars PDF eBook |
Author | James D. Tracy |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 457 |
Release | 2016-07-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1442213604 |
Distinguished scholar James D. Tracy shows how the Ottoman advance across Europe stalled in the western Balkans, where three great powers confronted one another in three adjoining provinces: Habsburg Croatia, Ottoman Bosnia, and Venetian Dalmatia. Until about 1580, Bosnia was a platform for Ottoman expansion, and Croatia steadily lost territory, while Venice focused on protecting the Dalmatian harbors vital for its trade with the Ottoman east. But as Habsburg-Austrian elites coalesced behind military reforms, they stabilized Croatia’s frontier, while Bosnia shifted its attention to trade, and Habsburg raiders crossing Dalmatia heightened tensions with Venice. The period ended with a long inconclusive war between Habsburgs and Ottomans, and a brief inconclusive war between Austria and Venice. Based on rich primary research and a masterful synthesis of key studies, this book is the first English-language history of the early modern Western Balkans. More broadly, it brings out how the Ottomans and their European rivals conducted their wars in fundamentally different ways. A sultan’s commands were not negotiable, and Ottoman generals were held to a time-tested strategy for conquest. Habsburg sovereigns had to bargain with their elites, and it took elaborate processes of consultation to rally provincial estates behind common goals. In the end, government-by-consensus was able to withstand government-by-command.
Segregation – Integration – Assimilation
Title | Segregation – Integration – Assimilation PDF eBook |
Author | Derek Keene |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 427 |
Release | 2016-12-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1351901303 |
There is a widespread concern today with the role and experiences of ethnic and religious minorities, and their potential for conflict and harmony with 'host communities' and with each other, especially in towns. Interest in historical aspects of these phenomena is growing rapidly, not least in studies of the long and complex history of the towns of Central and Eastern Europe. Most such studies focus on particular places or on particular groups, but this volume offers a broader view covering the period from the tenth to the sixteenth century and regions from Germany to Dalmatia and from Epirus to Livonia, with an emphasis on the territory of medieval Hungary. The focus is on the changing nature of identity, perception and legal status of groups, on relations within and between them, and on the ways in which these elements were affected by the external political regimes and ideologies to which the towns were subjected. Many of the places examined were notable for the complexity of their ethnic and religious composition, and for their exposure to a wide range of external influences, including long-distance trade and tensions between settled and semi-nomadic ways of life. Overall the volume illustrates the variety of ways in which minorities found a place in towns - as citizens, outsiders, or in some other role - and how that could vary according to local circumstances and over time. Dealing with the formative period for modern European towns, this volume not only reveals much about medieval society and urban history, but poses questions still relevant today.
At the Gate of Christendom
Title | At the Gate of Christendom PDF eBook |
Author | Nora Berend |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 363 |
Release | 2001-05-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521651859 |
A study of the status of Jews, Muslims and pagan Turkic nomads in medieval Hungary.
A Concise History of Hungary
Title | A Concise History of Hungary PDF eBook |
Author | Miklós Molnár |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 396 |
Release | 2001-04-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521667364 |
A comprehensive history of the land, people, society, culture and economy of Hungary.