Patrick J. Geary Knihy

Tento výkladový slovník je rozsahem i pojetím ojedinělým pokusem představit epochu středověku v celé její šíři a plasticitě. Každé z více než osmi desítek hesel je samostatným esejem.

"The first omnibus volume from Geary's increasingly storied 'Treasuries of Murder'"--Back cover.

During the years 1918 and 1919, six people in New Orleans were killed and six more injured, in their homes, in the dead of night, by an axe-wielding intruder who got away without a trace. After more than a year, the killings stopped as suddenly as they started. No trace of the murderer was ever found. Geary presents the facts and the speculations about these attacks in the third in his series on twentieth-century murder.

Offers an analysis, which contrasts the myths with the actual history of Europe's transformation between the fourth and ninth centuries - the period of grand migrations that nationalists hold dear. schovat popis

"The addition of material on Christians, Jews, and Moors in medieval Spain makes the third edition of this excellent reader even better." - Julia M. H. Smith, University of St. Andrews

Die romantische politische Philosophie des 19. Jahrhunderts versuchte, nationale Souveränitätsansprüche möglichst tief in der Geschichte zu verankern. Tatsächlich sind die Völker Europas nicht sonderlich alt: Sie sind vielmehr das Ergebnis ausgedehnter Durchmischungsprozesse, die heute keine historischen Machtansprüche legitimieren können.

Frühmittelalter - Siedlung - Bevölkerungsgeschichte - Historischer Überblick