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Papal Bull. Print, Politics and Propaganda in Renaissance Rome
Meserve, Margaret

This book analyses the early use of the printing press in papal political communication, decades before the protestant reformation. In doing so, it explores a huge archive of incunabula and challenges many conventional narratives of the media history of late medieval warfare.

Review by: Kammerer, Lorenz, 2025-04-22 07:00
#Meserve, Margaret
#Europe
#Cultural History
#Papacy
#Political History
#Propaganda
#Late Middle Ages
#Renaissance

Solo sermone. Überlieferung und Deutung politischer Ansprachen der Päpste im Mittelalter
Strack, Georg
Review by: Büttner, Marco, 2024-11-07 02:10
#Strack, Georg
#Latin Europe
#Historiography
#Ideology
#Papacy
#Rhetorics
#Rituals
#Crusades
#High Middle Ages
#Late Middle Ages

A History of Byzantium
Gregory Timothy E.

Timothy E.Gregory gives an overview over Byzantium’s history from the 3rd century to the fall of Constantinople.

Review by: Guthier, Sophia Sonja, 2022-03-18 08:44
#Gregory Timothy E.
#Byzantine Empire
#Cultural History
#Historiography
#Byzantine-Persian relations
#Constantine
#Early Middle Ages
#Late Middle Ages
#Middle Ages

Kreuzzug als Selbstbeschreibung. Burgundische Statuspolitik in den spätmittelalterlichen Traktaten des Jean Germain
Burkart, Eric

Eric Burkharts dissertation aims to challenge the view on the crusade politics of the late medieval dukes of Burgundry (1363-1477).

Review by: Kammerer, Lorenz, 2022-03-18 04:26
#Burkart, Eric
#Burgundy
#Cultural History
#Theology
#Crusades
#Philip the Good
#Late Middle Ages

Byzantium and the Turks in the Thirteenth Century
Korobeinikov, Dimitri

Korobeinikov’s book describes empire of Nicaea and its relations with the Seljuk Turks of Rūm, the Mongols of the Ilkhanate, and the Turkish nomadic confederations

Review by: Zafeiropoulos, Christos, 2021-09-20 06:05
#Korobeinikov, Dimitri
#Ottoman Empire
#Diplomacy
#Byzantine army
#Frontier societies & border regions
#Michael VIII Palaiologos
#Late Middle Ages

Warfare in Late Byzantium, 1204–1453
Kyriakidis, Savvas

Savvas Kyriakidis book examines late Byzantine military culture, influence of foreign cultures on Byzantine military practice and thought

Review by: Zafeiropoulos, Christos, 2021-09-20 06:01
#Kyriakidis, Savvas
#Byzantine Empire
#Byzantine army
#Civil War
#Weaponry
#Michael VIII Palaiologos
#Late Middle Ages

Narratologie und Geschichte. Eine Analyse schottischer Historiografie am Beispiel des »Scotichronicon« und des »Bruce«
Hachgenei, Davina

Davina Hachgenei implements a narratological method for the analysis of the two Late Medieval Scottish sources “Scotichronicon” and the “Bruce”

Review by: Wiedmaier, Helen, 2021-05-19 01:21
#Hachgenei, Davina
#Scotland
#Historiography
#Narrative Theory
#Robert Bruce
#Late Middle Ages

Medieval Chivalry
Kaeuper, Richard

Kaeuper’s book describes which aspects of chivalric life were the authors’ creations and which aspects had a connection to the everyday life of actual people.

Review by: Wiedmaier, Helen, 2021-05-19 01:15
#Kaeuper, Richard
#England
#Ideology
#Chivalry
#Late Middle Ages

Romanians and Ottomans in the XIVth – XVIth centuries
Gemil, Tahsin

The book debuts with a presentation of the complex legal framework of the Romanian Principalities’ relations with the Ottoman Empire during the 14th-16th centuries

Review by: Chiriluş, Oana-Andreea, 2021-05-19 12:50
#Gemil, Tahsin
#Ottoman Empire
#Southern and Central Europe
#Crusades
#Late Middle Ages

The Ottoman Threat and Crusading on the Eastern Border of Christendom during the 15th Century
Cristea, Ovidiu and Pilat, Liviu

The Romanian scholars Liviu Pilat and Ovidiu Cristea conduct an exhaustive diplomatic and political narrative focused on lower Danube and Black Sea areas

Review by: Chiriluş, Oana-Andreea, 2021-05-19 12:41
#Cristea, Ovidiu
#Pilat, Liviu
#Ottoman Empire
#Southern and Central Europe
#Crusades
#Mehmed II
#Late Middle Ages

Η οργάνωση και η τακτική του βυζαντινού στρατού στην ύστερη περίοδο (1204-1461)
Kanellopoulos, Nikolaos Stergios

Kanellopoulos’ thesis presents and examines the military events of the period 1204-1461, as well as the Byzantine military tactics applied during this era.

Review by: Zafeiropoulos, Christos, 2021-05-19 12:22
#Kanellopoulos, Nikolaos Stergios
#Byzantine Empire
#Byzantine army
#Tactics and military organization
#Michael VIII Palaiologos
#Late Middle Ages

Η οργάνωση του στρατού κατά την ύστερη βυζαντινή περίοδο (1204-1453)
Panagiotidis, Kosmas

Kosmas Panagiotidis  thesis presents the organization of the Byzantine army in the Late Period.

Review by: Zafeiropoulos, Christos, 2021-04-29 10:39
#Panagiotidis, Kosmas
#Byzantine Empire
#Auxiliaries
#Byzantine army
#Tactics and military organization
#Michael VIII Palaiologos
#Late Middle Ages

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