Munitsipal'noie Library

Download e-book for iPad: The Sephardic Frontier: the reconquista and the Jewish by Jonathan Ray

No topic looms better over the old panorama of medieval Spain than that of the reconquista, the speedy growth of the ability of the Christian kingdoms into the Muslim-populated lands of southern Iberia, which created a huge frontier area that for 2 centuries remained a zone of conflict and peril.

Download e-book for iPad: French and Indians in the Heart of North America, 1630-1815 by Robert Englebert,Guillaume Teasdale

Long ago thirty years, the research of French-Indian relatives within the heart of North the United States has emerged as an immense box for interpreting the complicated relationships that outlined an enormous geographical quarter, together with the nice Lakes sector, the Illinois state, the Missouri River Valley, and higher and decrease Louisiana.

Download e-book for kindle: John of Brienne by Guy Perry

John of Brienne's development, from mid-ranking knightly prestige to king of Jerusalem and, later, Latin emperor of Constantinople, lines essentially the most amazing careers within the whole medieval interval. yet how and why did he in attaining such heights? This biographical examine of aristocratic social and geographical mobility within the 'Age of the Crusades' reassesses John's interesting lifestyles, and explores how households and dynasticism, politics, intrigue, faith and battle all contributed to John's unparalleled occupation.

New PDF release: Chronica de El-Rei D. Affonso V - Volume II (Portuguese

Chronica de El-Rei D. Affonso V - quantity IIRui de Pina, cronista e diplomata português (1440-1552)Este livro apresenta «Chronica de El-Rei D. Affonso V - quantity II», de Rui de Pina. Índice interativo:- Apresentação- quantity Ii. Chronica De El-rei D. Affonso V