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Donations to the Knights Hospitaller in Britain and Ireland, 1291-1400 (Paperback): Rory MacLellan Donations to the Knights Hospitaller in Britain and Ireland, 1291-1400 (Paperback)
Rory MacLellan
R1,207 Discovery Miles 12 070 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Donations to the Knights Hospitaller in Britain and Ireland, 1291-1400 is the first study of donations to the Knights Hospitaller throughout England and Ireland during the late-thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The book demonstrates that patrons donated to both military and non-military orders for much the same reasons, particularly family connections or the desire for spiritual benefit, rather than an interest in crusading. Such a conclusion has important implications for the treatment of the military orders by scholars of medieval religion, who traditionally have either overlooked these orders entirely or relegated them to a subfield of crusade studies rather than treating them as a full part of mainstream religious life. By reincorporating the military orders into mainstream religious history, discussion will be furthered in a range of fields and debates, such as ecclesiastical landholding, lay-church relations, the role of women in religion, and the processes of the Reformation. By focusing on the period 1291 to 1400, the book considers the impact of the loss of the Holy Land in 1291; the subsequent diffusion in crusade activity to the Baltic and Spain; the intensification of the order's career as English royal servants in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland; and the Hospitallers' crusade to Rhodes in 1309-10. This book will appeal to scholars and students of the Hospitallers, as well as those interested in medieval Britain and Ireland.

The Medieval and Early Modern Garden in Britain - Enclosure and Transformation, c. 1200-1750 (Paperback): Patricia Skinner,... The Medieval and Early Modern Garden in Britain - Enclosure and Transformation, c. 1200-1750 (Paperback)
Patricia Skinner, Theresa Tyers
R1,230 Discovery Miles 12 300 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

What was a "garden" in medieval and early modern British culture and how was it imagined? How did it change as Europe opened up to the wider world from the 16th century onwards? In a series of fresh approaches to these questions, the contributors offer chapters that identify and discuss newly-discovered pre-modern garden spaces in archaeology and archival sources, recognize a gendered language of the garden in fictional descriptions ("fictional" here being taken to mean any written text, regardless of its purpose), and offer new analysis of the uses to which gardens - real and imagined - might be put. Chapters investigate the definitions, forms and functions of physical gardens; explore how the material space of the garden was gendered as a secluded space for women, and as a place of recreation; examine the centrality of garden imagery in medieval Christian culture; and trace the development of garden motifs in the literary and artistic imagination to convey the sense of enclosure, transformation and release. The book uniquely underlines the current environmental "turn" in the humanities, and increasingly recognizes the value of exploring human interaction with the landscapes of the past as a route to health and well-being in the present.

Jews and Converts in Late Medieval Castile - Breaking with the Past (Hardcover): Cecil Reid Jews and Converts in Late Medieval Castile - Breaking with the Past (Hardcover)
Cecil Reid
R3,837 Discovery Miles 38 370 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Jews and Converts in Late Medieval Castile examines the ways in which Jewish-Christian relations evolved in Castile, taking account of social, cultural, and religious factors that affected the two communities throughout the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. The territorial expansion of the Christian kingdoms in Iberia that followed the reconquests of the mid-thirteenth century presented new military and economic challenges. At the same time the fragile balance between Muslims, Jews, and Christians in the Peninsula was also profoundly affected. Economic and financial pressures were of over-riding importance. Most significant were the large tax revenues that the Iberian Jewish community provided to royal coffers, new evidence for which is provided here. Some in the Jewish community also achieved prominence at court, achieving dizzying success that often ended in dismal failure or death. A particular feature of this study is its reliance upon both Castilian and Hebrew sources of the period to show how mutual perceptions evolved through the long fourteenth century. The study encompasses the remarkable and widespread phenomenon of Jewish conversion, elaborates on its causes, and describes the profound social changes that would culminate in the anti-converso riots of the mid-fifteenth century. This book is valuable reading for academics and students of medieval and of Jewish history. As a study of a unique crucible of social change it also has a wider relevance to multi-cultural societies of any age, including our own.

Medieval Merchant Venturers - Collected Studies (Hardcover): E.M.Carus- Wilson Medieval Merchant Venturers - Collected Studies (Hardcover)
E.M.Carus- Wilson
R5,403 Discovery Miles 54 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1967, this superb collection of essays on trade in the Middle Ages has been a major contribution to modern medieval studies. Professor Carus-Wilson examines:


* fifteenth-century Bristol
* trade with Iceland
* the Merchant Adventurers of London
* the thirteenth-century cloth industry (with its highly developed capitalist system)
* the export of English woollen cloth
* the wine trade.


Each paper is firmly rooted in original research and contemporary sources such as customs returns and company minutes, and, in addition, her expose of the dubious accuracy of Aulnage accounts is widely recognised as a classic.

Wool Trade in Tudor and Stuart England (Hardcover): Peter J. Bowden Wool Trade in Tudor and Stuart England (Hardcover)
Peter J. Bowden
R5,389 Discovery Miles 53 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book was first published in 1962. Until the era of the Industrial Revolution wool was, without question, the most important raw material in the English economic system. The staple article of the country's export trade in the Middle Ages, it remained until the nineteenth century the indispensable basis of her greatest industry. This book looks at the decline of cloth industry in East Anglia sine the mid-sixteenth century.

Rooted in the Earth, Rooted in the Sky - Hildegard of Bingen and Premodern Medicine (Hardcover, Annotated Ed): Victoria Sweet Rooted in the Earth, Rooted in the Sky - Hildegard of Bingen and Premodern Medicine (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
Victoria Sweet
R4,667 Discovery Miles 46 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Rooted in the Earth, Rooted in the Sky" is a detailed study of the medicine of Hildegard of Bingen, a medieval mystic, theologian and composer, who also wrote a practical medical text. Although there has been an explosion of interest in Hildegard's music, theology, illuminations and medicine in the last two decades, this is the first book to use her remarkable text to revise not only our conception of Hildegard but also of premodern medicine itself. It does so by contextualizing her work with primary and secondary historical sources, unedited manuscripts, anthropological and archeological evidence and linguistic analyses. Its surprising conclusion is that the premodern body was more like a plant than a machine or a computer program, and the physician more like a gardener than a mechanic or a computer programmer.

The Vikings in History (Paperback, 3rd edition): F.Donald Logan The Vikings in History (Paperback, 3rd edition)
F.Donald Logan
R1,226 Discovery Miles 12 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Completely updated to include important primary research, archaeological findings and debates from the last decade, this third edition of F. Donald Logan's successful book examines the Vikings and their critical role in history.


The author uses archaeological, literary and historical evidence to analyze the Vikings' overseas expeditions and their transformation from raiders to settlers. Focusing on the period from 800-1050, it studies the Vikings across the world, from Denmark and Sweden right across to the British Isles, the North Atlantic and the New World.

This edition includes:


  • a new epilogue explaining the aims of the book

  • updated further reading sections

  • maps and photographs.

By taking this new archaeological and primary research into account, the author provides a vital text for history students and researchers of this fascinating people.

Imperial Tombs in Tang China, 618-907 - The Politics of Paradise (Hardcover): Tonia Eckfeld Imperial Tombs in Tang China, 618-907 - The Politics of Paradise (Hardcover)
Tonia Eckfeld
R3,913 Discovery Miles 39 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Intellectually and visually stimulating, this important landmark book looks at the religious, political, social and artistic significance of the Imperial tombs of the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD). It traces the evolutionary development of the most elaborately beautiful imperial tombs to examine fundamental issues on death and the afterlife in one of the world's most sophisticated civilizations. Selected tombs are presented in terms of their structure, artistic programs and their purposes. The author sets the tombs in the context of Chinese attitudes towards the afterlife, the politics of mausoleum architecture, and the artistic vocabulary which was becoming the mainstream of Chinese civilization.

The Templars - The Rise, Fall, and Legacy of a Military Religious Order (Paperback): Jochen Burgtorf, Shlomo Lotan, Enric... The Templars - The Rise, Fall, and Legacy of a Military Religious Order (Paperback)
Jochen Burgtorf, Shlomo Lotan, Enric Mallorqui-Ruscalleda
R1,176 Discovery Miles 11 760 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

As the oldest of the military religious orders and the one with an unexpected and dramatic downfall, the knighthood of the Templars continues to fascinate academics and students as well as the public at large. A collection of fifteen chapters accompanied by a historical introduction, The Templars: The Rise, Fall, and Legacy of a Military Religious Order recounts and analyzes this community's rise and establishment in both the crusader states of the eastern Mediterranean and the countries of western Europe during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, reflects on the proceedings launched against it and its subsequent fall (1307-1314), and explores its medieval and post-medieval legacy, including an assessment of current research pertaining to the Templars and suggestions for future explorations. Showcasing a wide range of methodological approaches and primary source materials, this volume unites historical, art-historical, theological, archaeological, and historiographical perspectives, and it features the work and voices of scholars from various academic generations who reside in eight different countries (Israel, France, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, and the United States of America).

Documents Concerning Central Europe from the Hospital's Rhodian Archives, 1314-1428 (Paperback): Karl Borchardt Documents Concerning Central Europe from the Hospital's Rhodian Archives, 1314-1428 (Paperback)
Karl Borchardt
R1,235 Discovery Miles 12 350 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Documents Concerning Central Europe from the Hospital's Rhodian Archives, 1314-1428 brings together over 450 texts concerning the Hospitallers during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. These texts are crucial sources for understanding the history of the Hospitallers between 1314 and 1428. Whilst some Hospitaller charters and letters have been published elsewhere, few scholarly editions contain enough sources to permit close analysis of the language and contents of these documents. Moreover, most previous editions focus on certain geographical areas, such as Cyprus, Rhodes and the Aegean Islands. In contrast, this book is the first of its kind to focus on central Europe. It brings together 460 texts dated between 1314 to 1428, and two from 1461. This book will appeal to scholars and students of medieval history and the history of Central Europe, as well as those interested in the legal structures and personal networks within the Order of St. John.

Psychoanalytic Reflections on a Gender-free Case - Into the Void (Hardcover): Ellen L. K. Toronto, Gemma Ainslie, Molly... Psychoanalytic Reflections on a Gender-free Case - Into the Void (Hardcover)
Ellen L. K. Toronto, Gemma Ainslie, Molly Donovan, Maurine Kelly, Christine C. Kieffer, …
R1,968 Discovery Miles 19 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The last two decades of psychoanalytic discourse have witnessed a marked transformation in the way we think about women and gender. The assignment of gender carries with it a host of assumptions, yet without it we can feel lost in a void, unmoored from the world of rationality, stability and meaning. The feminist analytic thinkers whose work is collected here confront the meaning established by the assignment of gender and the uncertainty created by its absence.
The articles brought together in "Psychoanalytic Reflections on a Gender-free" "Case: Into the Void" address a cross-section of significant issues that have both chronicled and facilitated the changes of the last two decades of feminist psychoanalysis. Difficult issues which have previously been ignored (such as the pregnancy of the therapist or sexual abuse regarded as more than a fantasy) are considered first. The book goes on to address family perspectives as they interact and shape the child's experience of growing up male or female. Other topics covered are the authority of personal agency as influenced by the language and theory of patriarchy, male-centered concepts that consistently define women as inferior, and the concept of gender as being co-constructed within a relationship. Thus the authors explore the notion of gender identity as an ongoing negotiation among multiple gendered selves.
The gender-free case presented here will fascinate all psychoanalysts interested in exploring ways of grappling with the elusive nature of gender, as well as those studying gender studies.

Embassy to Tamerlane - 1403-1406 (Hardcover): Clavijo Embassy to Tamerlane - 1403-1406 (Hardcover)
Clavijo; Translated by Guy Le Strange
R7,168 Discovery Miles 71 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'Clavijo was so keen and intelligent an observer and so lively a retailer of travel gossip that this is a very welcome addition to the series.' New Statesman
Covering thousands of miles, Clavijo's epic journey began and ended in Cadiz taking in Rhodes, Constantinople, the Black Sea, and Central Asia.
Guy Le Strange's extensive introduction gives excellent historical and political background for the account and the material is supplemented with seven maps and plans.

Gaelic Influence in the Northumbrian Kingdom - The Golden Age and the Viking Age (Paperback): Fiona Edmonds Gaelic Influence in the Northumbrian Kingdom - The Golden Age and the Viking Age (Paperback)
Fiona Edmonds
R835 Discovery Miles 8 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

WINNER OF THE FRANK WATSON BOOK PRIZE 2021. SHORTLISTED IN SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2021 The first full-scale, interdisciplinary treatment of the wide-ranging connections between the Gaelic world and the Northumbrian kingdom. Northumbria was the most northerly Anglo-Saxon kingdom; its impressive landscape featured two sweeping coastlines, which opened the area to a variety of cultural connections. This book explores influences that emanated from the Gaelic-speaking world, including Ireland, the Isle of Man, Argyll and the kingdom of Alba (the nascent Scottish kingdom). It encompasses Northumbria's "Golden Age", the kingdom's political and scholarly high-point of the seventh and early eighth centuries, and culminates with the kingdom's decline and fragmentation in the Viking Age, which opened up new links with Gaelic-Scandinavian communities. Political and ecclesiastical connections are discussed in detail; the study also covers linguistic contact, material culture and the practicalities of travel, bringing out the realities of contemporary life. This interdisciplinary approach sheds new light on the west and north of the Northumbrian kingdom, the areas linked most closely with the Gaelic world. Overall, the book reveals the extent to which Gaelic influence was multi-faceted, complex and enduring. Dr FIONA EDMONDS is Reader in History and Director of the Regional Heritage Centre at Lancaster University.

Medieval Rhetoric - A Casebook (Hardcover): Scott D Troyan Medieval Rhetoric - A Casebook (Hardcover)
Scott D Troyan
R3,924 Discovery Miles 39 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This new volume in the Routledge Medieval Casebooks series explores medieval rhetorical practices. Ten original essays examine the ways in which contemporary readers and scholars might employ rhetorical theory to illuminate underlying meanings in medieval texts. The contributors also explore how rhetoric was used as a means of textual innovation in the work of medieval authors such as Chaucer and his contemporaries.

Archaeology, Economy, and Society - England from the Fifth to the Fifteenth Century (Paperback, 2nd edition): David A. Hinton Archaeology, Economy, and Society - England from the Fifth to the Fifteenth Century (Paperback, 2nd edition)
David A. Hinton
R1,148 Discovery Miles 11 480 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This new edition is completely rewritten and extended, but uses the same chronological approach to investigate how society and economy evolved. It draws on a wide range of new data, derived from excavation, investigation of buildings, metal-detecting, and scientific techniques. It examines the social customs, economic pressures, and environmental constraints within which people functioned, the technology available to them, and how they expressed themselves, for example in their houses, their burial customs, their costume, and their material possessions such as pottery. Their adaptation to new circumstances, whether caused by human factors such as the re-emergence of towns or changing taxation requirements, or by external ones such as volcanic activity or the Black Death, is explored throughout each chapter. The new edition of Archaeology, Economy and Society remains essential reading for students and researchers of the archaeology of Medieval England.

The Routledge Companion to Medieval Warfare (Hardcover, New edition): Jim Bradbury The Routledge Companion to Medieval Warfare (Hardcover, New edition)
Jim Bradbury
R3,648 Discovery Miles 36 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This comprehensive volume provides easily-accessible factual material on all major areas of warfare in the medieval west. The whole geographical area of medieval Europe, including eastern Europe, is covered, including essential elements from outside Europe such as Byzantine warfare, nomadic horde invasions and the Crusades. Progressing chronologically, the work is presented in themed, illustrated sections, with a narrative outline offering a brief introduction to the area. Within each chronological section, Jim Bradbury presents clear and informative pieces on battles, sieges, and generals. The author examines practical topics including: castle architecture, with examinations of specific castles ship building techniques improvements in armour specific weapons developments in areas such as arms and armour, fortifications, tactics and supply. Readable and engaging, this detailed provides students with an excellent collection of archaeological information and clear discussions of controversial issues.

Indians of the Andes - Aymaras and Quechuas (Hardcover): Harold Osborne Indians of the Andes - Aymaras and Quechuas (Hardcover)
Harold Osborne
R8,619 Discovery Miles 86 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book traces the history and ecology of the Aymaras and the Quechuas: the highland peoples of the Central Andes, who formed the nucleus of the great Inca Empire which extended for two thousand miles along the Pacific coast to the fringes of the tropical interior. In twenty millennia the Indians of the Andes had had no cultural contacts with the Old World yet they had already passed independently through stages of development usually associated with the Neolithic Age and had achieved a degree of technical and artistic excellence. In four centuries of contact there has of course been appreciable acculturation and osmosis. Originally published in 1952.

Byzantium at War AD 600-1453 (Hardcover): John Haldon Byzantium at War AD 600-1453 (Hardcover)
John Haldon
R3,899 Discovery Miles 38 990 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


This book traces the 800-year history of Byzantium. From the early uncertain years of the Empire, to the triumphal period when its wealth attracted Viking and Asian warriors to join its armies, and finally to the death of Byzantium's last emperor in 1453, the Empire's military history is laid bare.

The Two Cities - Medieval Europe 1050-1320 (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Malcolm Barber The Two Cities - Medieval Europe 1050-1320 (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Malcolm Barber
R4,112 Discovery Miles 41 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published to wide critical acclaim in 1992, "The Two Cities" has become an essential text for students of medieval history. For the second edition, the author has thoroughly revised each chapter, bringing the material up to date and taking the historiography of the past decade into account.
"The Two Cities" covers a colorful period from the schism between the eastern and western churches to the death of Dante. It encompasses the Crusades, the expansionist force of the Normans, major developments in the way kings, emperors and Popes exercised their powers, a great flourishing of art and architecture and the foundation of the very first universities. Running through it is the defining characteristic of the high Middle Ages--the delicate relationship between the spiritual and secular worlds. In medieval times, these two essential elements of life were seen as the two 'cities' of the title, they could not be divided but there was constant tension between them.
This survey provides all the facts and background information that students need, and is defined into straightforward thematic chapters. It makes extensive use of primary sources, and makes new trends in research accessible to students. Its fresh approach gives students the most rounded, lively and integrated view of the high Middle Ages available.

Food Consumption in Medieval Iberia - A Socio-economic Analysis, 13th-15th Centuries (Hardcover): Juan Vicente Garcia Marsilla Food Consumption in Medieval Iberia - A Socio-economic Analysis, 13th-15th Centuries (Hardcover)
Juan Vicente Garcia Marsilla
R4,285 Discovery Miles 42 850 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A wide variety of sources including cooking treatises, literature, material objects, visual sources / The first major work on food in the Middle Ages on the Iberian Peninsula / Detailed information will allow global and comparative analysis.

From Christians to Europeans - Pope Pius II and the Concept of the Modern Western Identity (Paperback): Nancy Bisaha From Christians to Europeans - Pope Pius II and the Concept of the Modern Western Identity (Paperback)
Nancy Bisaha
R1,160 Discovery Miles 11 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Providing an intellectual biography of Pope Pius II, this book offers an understanding of the formation of the concept of ‘European’ ensuring students studying the formation of modern Europe, intellectual history and the history of early modern political thought, and cultural studies have a better understanding of how this concept was formed and disseminated. This volume will be in demand for students of a wide range of topics because it will demonstrate to them how important it is to understand how and when this concept of ‘Europe’ and being ‘European was formed to better understand the later revolutions, slave trade, Empire building and wars. This book is authored by Nancy Bisaha who has expertise on Renaissance humanism and identity and has authored another book Pope Pius II. It contains close readings of his letters, orations, histories, autobiography, and other works.

Rethinking Medieval and Renaissance Political Thought - Historiographical Problems, Fresh Interpretations, New Debates... Rethinking Medieval and Renaissance Political Thought - Historiographical Problems, Fresh Interpretations, New Debates (Hardcover)
Chris Jones, Takashi Shogimen
R4,054 Discovery Miles 40 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This collection of essays, written by leading experts, showcases historiographical problems, fresh interpretations, and new debates in medieval and Renaissance history and political thought. Recent scholarship on medieval and Renaissance political thought is witness to tectonic movements. These involve quiet, yet considerable, re-evaluations of key thinkers such as Thomas Aquinas and Machiavelli, as well as the string of lesser known "political thinkers" who wrote in western Europe between Late Antiquity and the Reformation. Taking stock of thirty years of developments, this volume demonstrates the contemporary vibrancy of the history of medieval and Renaissance political thought. By both celebrating and challenging the perspectives of a generation of scholars, notably Cary J. Nederman, it offers refreshing new assessments. The book re-introduces the history of western political thought in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the wider disciplines of History and Political Science. Recent historiographical debates have revolutionized discussion of whether or not there was an "Aristotelian revolution" in the thirteenth century. Thinkers such as Machiavelli and Marsilius of Padua are read in new ways; less well-known texts, such as the Irish On the Twelve Abuses of the Age, offer new perspectives. Further, the collection argues that medieval political ideas contain important lessons for the study of concepts of contemporary interest such as toleration. The volume is an ideal resource for both students and scholars interested in medieval and Renaissance history as well as the history of political thought.

Early Mongol Rule in Thirteenth-Century Iran - A Persian Renaissance (Hardcover): George E. Lane Early Mongol Rule in Thirteenth-Century Iran - A Persian Renaissance (Hardcover)
George E. Lane
R4,215 Discovery Miles 42 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


An account of the re-emergence of Persia as a world player and the reassertion of its cultural, political and spiritual links with Turkic Lands, this book opposes the way in which, for too long, the whole period of Mongol domination of Iran has been viewed from a negative standpoint. Though arguably the initial irruption of the Mongols brought little comfort to those in its path, this is not the case with the second 'invasion' of the Chinggisids. This study demonstrates that Hülegü Khan was welcomed as a king and a saviour after the depredations of his predecessors, rather than as a conqueror, and that the initial decades of his dynasty's rule were characterised by a renaissance in the cultural life of the Iranian plateau.

eBook available with sample pages: 0203417879

The Godwins - The Rise and Fall of a Noble Dynasty (Paperback): Frank Barlow The Godwins - The Rise and Fall of a Noble Dynasty (Paperback)
Frank Barlow
R1,256 Discovery Miles 12 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is a fascinating story of the meteoric rise and fall of one of the grandest noble families in medieval England set against the backdrop of Viking raids and the Norman Conquest of 1066. Among the most famous families in English history was that of the Earl Godwin of Wessex ,whose most famous son was King Harold. KEY TOPICS: This is the history of the powerful Godwin dynasty, from the mystery of their ancestral origins and background, to their rise to power under King Cnut, and their opportunism and accumulation of wealth under his successors. Frank Barlow charts the family through to Harold - the last Anglo-Saxon king - and finally the crowning of William the Conqueror during the Norman Conquest. It was a period of violent upheaval in English history with Viking attacks and the conquest of England by Danish kings. The author unravels the gripping history of a feuding family that nevertheless determined the course and fortunes of all the English. MARKET: For those interested in Medieval, British or Scandinavian history.

Nomads and their Neighbours in the Russian Steppe - Turks, Khazars and Qipchaqs (Hardcover, New Ed): Peter B. Golden Nomads and their Neighbours in the Russian Steppe - Turks, Khazars and Qipchaqs (Hardcover, New Ed)
Peter B. Golden
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The western steppelands of Central Eurasia, stretching from the Danube, through the modern Ukraine and southern Russia, to the Caspian, have historically been the meeting ground of Inner Asian pastoral nomads and the agrarian societies of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. This volume deals, firstly, with the interaction of the nomads with their sedentary neighbours - the Kievan Rus' state and the medieval polities of Transcaucasia, Georgia in particular - in the period from the 6th century to the advent of the Mongols. Second, it looks at questions of nomadic ethnogenesis (Oghuz, Hungarian, Qipchaq), at the evolution of nomadic political traditions and the heritage of the Turk empire, and at aspects of indigenous nomadic religious traditions together with the impact of foreign religions on the nomads - notably the conversion of the Khazars to Judaism. A number of articles focus on the Qipchaqs, a powerful confederation of complex Inner Asian origins that played a crucial role in the history of Christian Eastern Europe and Transcaucasia and the Muslim world between the 11th and 13th centuries.

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