Armenian Cilicia

Armenian Cilicia
Author: Richard G. Hovannisian
Publisher:
Total Pages: 668
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN:

"Armenian Cilicia experienced a brilliant cultural era known as the Silver Age, with major advances in science and medicine, theology and philosophy, astronomy and musicology, art and architecture. Despite its successes, however, the Armenian kingdom, caught in the geopolitical contests among the major powers of the time, finally fell to the invading Mamluk armies in 1375. In the sixteenth century, Cilicia and most of the historic homelands to the east were incorporated into the Ottoman Empire, where Armenian life continued for four centuries until the calamitous events of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century violently eliminated the Armenian presence there."--BOOK JACKET.

Short-term Empires in World History

Short-term Empires in World History
Author: Robert Rollinger
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2020-06-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 3658294353

The volume will focus on a comparative level on a specific group of states that are commonly labelled as “empires” and that we encounter through all historical periods. Although they are very successful at the very beginning, like most empires are, this success is very ephemeral and transient. The era of conquest is never followed by a period of consolidation. Collapse and/or reduction to much smaller dimension run as fast as the process of wide-ranging conquest and expansion. The volume singles out a series of such “short-term empires” and aims to provide a methodologically clearly structured as well as a uniform and consistent approach by developing a general set of questions that guarantee the possibility to compare and distinguish. This way it intends to examine not only already well established empires but also to illuminate forgotten ones.

Byzantium and Venice

Byzantium and Venice
Author: Donald M. Nicol
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 484
Release: 1992-05-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521428941

This book, the first of this scope to have been published, traces the diplomatic, cultural and commercial links between Constantinople and Venice from the foundation of the Venetian republic to the fall of the Byzantine Empire. It aims to show how, especially after the Fourth Crusade in 1204, the Venetians came to dominate first the Genoese and thereafter the whole Byzantine economy. At the same time the author points to those important cultural and, above all, political reasons why the relationship between the two states was always inherently unstable.

Historians and Historiography in the Italian Renaissance

Historians and Historiography in the Italian Renaissance
Author: Eric Cochrane
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 671
Release: 2019-03-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226111547

Second edition. A comprehensive survey of historical literature produced in Italy during the Renaissance; a major contribution which discusses hundreds of authors who wrote in Latin or Italian in all parts of Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Venice and the Defense of Republican Liberty

Venice and the Defense of Republican Liberty
Author: William J. Bouwsma
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 710
Release: 2023-11-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520329236

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.

Firstborn of Venice

Firstborn of Venice
Author: James S. Grubb
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2019-12-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781421431871

Firstborn of Venice explores issues that are political in the broadest sense: legal institutions and administrative practices, fiscal politics, the consolidation of elites, ecclesiastical management, and the contrasting governing ideologies of ruler and subjects.

Bilingual Europe

Bilingual Europe
Author: Jan Bloemendal
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2015-03-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004289631

Bilingual Europe makes clear that Latin played an important role in European culture for a much longer period than we thought and it explores how and why this was so.

Venice Reconsidered

Venice Reconsidered
Author: John Jeffries Martin
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 568
Release: 2003-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801873089

Venice Reconsidered offers a dynamic portrait of Venice from the establishment of the Republic at the end of the thirteenth century to its fall to Napoleon in 1797. In contrast to earlier efforts to categorize Venice's politics as strictly republican and its society as rigidly tripartite and hierarchical, the scholars in this volume present a more fluid and complex interpretation of Venetian culture. Drawing on a variety of disciplines—history, art history, and musicology—these essays present innovative variants of the myth of Venice—that nearly inexhaustible repertoire of stories Venetians told about themselves.