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Michael Zerjadtke’s dissertation deals with the officer of the duces (sg. dux) in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Duces are generally translated as „military leaders”.
The Book retells the history of the Turkish wars from the crusades in the 14th centuries until the great Turkish war in 1699.
This work by Yann Le Bohec expands the topic of the Roman army to the 4th and 5th centuries AD.
Almut Höfert’s comprehensive study, based on her dissertation, examines not only what these authors considered worth knowing, but also in what format the information was organized and presented. She assumes that the phenomenon of the Turkish fear, a specific enemy discourse of that time, led to Europeans describing their enemies more closely, engendering a more empirical look at the Ottomans, their government, culture, and religious practices.
In his dissertation, Andreas Gerstacker addresses the question of the relationship between pre-Constantinian Christianity and soldierhood.
The main goal of the volume is to provide an overview of the development and characteristics of the Roman triumph during the Principate and in Late Antiquity.
The focus of the book are primarily the archaeological finds of the Roman Army, equipment, armament and military buildings from the various centuries.
The book gives an overview of the initial situation of the states who were directly involved with the war and deals with the involvement of European states in this conflict.
In this short book, Nikolas Jaspert attempts to provide an overview of the history of the so-called Reconquista. Contrary to the image of a steady reconquest of Islamic territories, Jaspert aims to stress that this period was in fact characterized by various kinds of cultural exchange. Against this backdrop, he deconstructs the Reconquista as a powerful, but flawed narrative that does not sufficiently take into account the changing courses of the wars on the Iberian Peninsula and which obscures other aspects of the relations between Christians, Muslims and also Jews in this period.
Eduard Mühle investigates how Slavs were perceived in the medieval world and what concepts and beliefs European sources used to present the Slavs
Michael Menzel presents an overview that deals with the political, social and artistic developments of the time from Rudolf I to the death of Ludwig VI.
Mihailo Milinković’s monograph deals with early Byzantine settlements on the territory of present-day Serbia and its surroundings. These are the former late Roman provinces of Pannonia Secunda, Dalmatia, Moesia Prima, Dacia Ripensis, Dacia Mediterranea, Dardania and Praevalitana. The chronological focus lies in the 6th and early 7th century.
Early Medieval Hagiography attempts to outline the nature of hagiographical narratives, and to describe complexity and diversity of the Early Middle Ages
In this book, Armstrong deals with England’s far north in the 15th century as well as the concepts of ‘frontiers’ and ‘conflict’.
Enslaved Leadership in Early Christianity is the first monograph written by Katherine Shaner, Associate Professor of New Testament at the Wake Forest University School of Divinity.