European category: 23182 books
by Dominik Jesse
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Cultural Studies - European Studies, grade: 1,7, Free University of Berlin (Englische Philologie), course: Cultural Studies, language: English, abstract: What starts like a jaunty comedy soon turns into a suspense-packed spy film resulting in a trigger-happy...
The Gothic Wanderer
From Transgression to Redemption; Gothic Literature from 1794 - present
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The Gothic Wanderer Rises Eternal in Popular Literature
From the horrors of sixteenth century Italian castles to twenty-first century plagues, from the French Revolution to the liberation of Libya, Tyler R. Tichelaar takes readers on far more than a journey through literary history. The Gothic Wanderer...
by
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The twelve “lays” of Marie de France, the earliest known French woman poet, are here presented in sprightly English verse by poet and translator David R. Slavitt. Traditional Breton folktales were the raw material for Marie de France’s series of lively but profound considerations of love, life,...
The Knights Templar
The History and Myths of the Legendary Military Order
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
This book is an essential exploration into the history of a legendary group of Crusaders, which are prominently featured in Dan Brown's recent best seller, The Da Vinci Code. The Knights Templar rose from humble beginnings to become the most powerful military religious order of the Middle Ages. Formed...
Medieval Warfare
A History
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 1999
This richly illustrated book explores over seven hundred years of European warfare, from the time of Charlemagne to the end of the middle ages (c.1500). The period covered has a distinctive character in military history. It was an age when organization for war was integral to social structure, when...
by J. Riley-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
As one of the greatest of the military orders that were generated in the Church, the Order of the Hospital of St John was a major landowner and a significant political presence in most European states. It was also a leading player in the settlements established in the Levant in the wake of the crusades....
by Stephen J. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
The period 1618-1648 was one of the most complex in European history. Religion interacted with rebellion and dynastic rivalry in a series of conflicts in central Europe known collectively as the Thirty Years War. This book guides the reader through the period by surveying the narrative of events and...
History of the Habsburg Empire
Rise and Decline of the Great Dynasty: The Founder - Rhodolph's Election as Emperor, Religious Strife in Europe, Charles V, The Turkish Wars, The Polish War, Maria Theresa, The French Revolution & European Coalition
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
History of the Austrian Empire embraces all that is wild and wonderful in history; early struggles for aggrandizement, the fierce strife with the Turks, as wave after wave of Moslem invasion rolled up the Danube, the long conflicts and bloody persecutions of the Reformation, the thirty years' religious...
by James Robinson, Charles Beard
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2017
The nation which has unmistakably assumed the leading role in European affairs during the past two hundred years is France. At the opening of the eighteenth century she already enjoyed a commanding position. In the wars to which the ambition of her king, Louis XIV, gave rise, almost all the countries...
The Origins of Nationalism
An Alternative History from Ancient Rome to Early Modern Germany
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
In this wide-ranging work, Caspar Hirschi offers new perspectives on the origins of nationalism and the formation of European nations. Based on extensive study of written and visual sources dating from the ancient to the early modern period, the author re-integrates the history of pre-modern Europe...
by Geoffrey Parker
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 1997
The first edition of The Thirty Years' War offered an unrivalled survey of a central period in European history. Drawing on a huge body of source material from different languages and countries throughout Europe, it provided a clear and comprehensive narrative and analytical account of the subject....
FEUDAL SOCIETY Vol. II
Social Classes and Political Organisation
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2016
Feudalism — which was essentially a political and military system — was above all a personal set of mutual obligations between lord and vassal. At its heart was the oath of loyalty. Before witnesses, a vassal placed his clasped hands between those of the lord and pledged to become "his man," a...
by Joachim Whaley
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Voltaire's description of the Holy Roman Empire as 'neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire' is often cited to underline its worthlessness. German historians traditionally despised it because it had allegedly impeded German unification. Since 1945 scholars have been more positive but the empire's history...
Birth of the Leviathan
Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 1997
For many years scholars have sought to explain why the European states which emerged in the period before the French Revolution developed along such different lines. Why did some become absolutist and others constitutionalist? What enabled some to develop bureaucratic administrative systems, while...