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Author: Ramón Muntaner Publisher: Tamesis Books ISBN: 9781855661318 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 180
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Ramon Muntaner's account of the bloody adventures of the Almogaver army under Roger of Flor in the eastern Mediterranean in the early fourteenth century, one of the most spellbinding narratives of medieval European literature. Before its definitive fall into Turkish hands, the Byzantine Empire was the target of adventurers of many nations. Outstanding among these groups was the Almogaver army led by Roger of Flor, composed of mercenaries hardened in thewar between the Catalan and Angevin dynasties for domination of Sicily. The Catalan presence in Constantinople aroused suspicion among the Greek nobility who assassinated Roger of Flor and tried to exterminate his men. The devastating reaction of those who escaped the slaughter led to Catalan control of broad swathes of the Empire, including Athens. Ramon Muntaner, one of the ringleaders of the expedition, recounted the adventures of the Almogaver army inthe eastern Mediterranean in the fascinating section of his Chronicle translated here. The preface is by N. D. Hillgarth. Dr. Robert D. Hughes is a translator and researcher with particular expertise in the fields of fine art, the history of ideas and Catalan culture. Published in association with Editorial Barcino
Author: Ramón Muntaner Publisher: Tamesis Books ISBN: 9781855661318 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 180
Book Description
Ramon Muntaner's account of the bloody adventures of the Almogaver army under Roger of Flor in the eastern Mediterranean in the early fourteenth century, one of the most spellbinding narratives of medieval European literature. Before its definitive fall into Turkish hands, the Byzantine Empire was the target of adventurers of many nations. Outstanding among these groups was the Almogaver army led by Roger of Flor, composed of mercenaries hardened in thewar between the Catalan and Angevin dynasties for domination of Sicily. The Catalan presence in Constantinople aroused suspicion among the Greek nobility who assassinated Roger of Flor and tried to exterminate his men. The devastating reaction of those who escaped the slaughter led to Catalan control of broad swathes of the Empire, including Athens. Ramon Muntaner, one of the ringleaders of the expedition, recounted the adventures of the Almogaver army inthe eastern Mediterranean in the fascinating section of his Chronicle translated here. The preface is by N. D. Hillgarth. Dr. Robert D. Hughes is a translator and researcher with particular expertise in the fields of fine art, the history of ideas and Catalan culture. Published in association with Editorial Barcino
Author: Lady Goodenough Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317038436 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 755
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Translated from the Catalan. The text covers 1208-85. Continued to 1328 in Second Series 50 below, with which the main pagination is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1920.
Author: Lady Goodenough Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 9781409414179 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 424
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Follows on from Second Series 50, with which the main pagination is continuous. The text, translated from the Catalan, covers 1285 to 1328. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1921.
Author: Pedro IV (King of Aragon) Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 9780812213522 Category : Aragon (Spain) Languages : en Pages : 172
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Commissioned and supervised by King Pedro IV, and compiled some time around 1380, The Chronicle of San Juan de la Pena was long valued as the earliest complete history of the Crown of Aragon. With Lynn H. Nelson's translation, the Chronicle is at last available in English.
Author: Susan Rose Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 0415239761 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 178
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How were medieval navies organised, and how did powerful rulers use them? This fascinating account brings vividly to life the dangers and difficulties of medieval seafaring.
Author: Dimitri Korobeinikov Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191017949 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 432
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At the beginning of the thirteenth century Byzantium was still one of the most influential states in the eastern Mediterranean, possessing two-thirds of the Balkans and almost half of Asia Minor. After the capture of Constantinople in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade, the most prominent and successful of the Greek rump states was the Empire of Nicaea, which managed to re-capture the city in 1261 and restore Byzantium. The Nicaean Empire, like Byzantium of the Komnenoi and Angeloi of the twelfth century, went on to gain dominant influence over the Seljukid Sultanate of Rum in the 1250s. However, the decline of the Seljuk power, the continuing migration of Turks from the east, and what effectively amounted to a lack of Mongol interest in western Anatolia, allowed the creation of powerful Turkish nomadic confederations in the frontier regions facing Byzantium. By 1304, the nomadic Turks had broken Byzantium's eastern defences; the Empire lost its Asian territories forever, and Constantinople became the most eastern outpost of Byzantium. At the beginning of the fourteenth century the Empire was a tiny, second-ranking Balkan state, whose lands were often disputed between the Bulgarians, the Serbs, and the Franks. Using Greek, Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman sources, Byzantium and the Turks in the Thirteenth Century presents a new interpretation of the Nicaean Empire and highlights the evidence for its wealth and power. It explains the importance of the relations between the Byzantines and the Seljuks and the Mongols, revealing how the Byzantines adapted to the new and complex situation that emerged in the second half of the thirteenth century. Finally, it turns to the Empire's Anatolian frontiers and the emergence of the Turkish confederations, the biggest challenge that the Byzantines faced in the thirteenth century.
Author: Ramón Muntaner
Author: Ramón Muntaner
Author: Ramón Muntaner
Author: Ramón Muntaner
Author: Lady Goodenough
Author: Ramon Muntaner
Author: [Ramón] Muntaner
Author: Lady Goodenough
Author: Pedro IV (King of Aragon)
Author: Susan Rose
Author: Dimitri Korobeinikov