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 fast enlargement of the facility of the Christian kingdoms into the Muslim-populated lands of southern Iberia, which created a vast frontier sector that for 2 centuries remained a sector of conflict and peril.

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

Long ago thirty years, the learn of French-Indian kinfolk within the heart of North the United States has emerged as a big box for analyzing the advanced relationships that outlined an unlimited geographical region, together with the nice Lakes sector, the Illinois kingdom, the Missouri River Valley, and higher and decrease Louisiana.

Download PDF by Guy Perry: John of Brienne

John of Brienne's development, from mid-ranking knightly prestige to king of Jerusalem and, later, Latin emperor of Constantinople, strains essentially the most impressive careers within the complete medieval interval. yet how and why did he in achieving such heights? This biographical examine of aristocratic social and geographical mobility within the 'Age of the Crusades' reassesses John's attention-grabbing existence, and explores how households and dynasticism, politics, intrigue, faith and battle all contributed to John's remarkable profession.

Download e-book for iPad: Chronica de El-Rei D. Affonso V - Volume II (Portuguese by Rui de Pina

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