Название: Roman Emperors: A Guide to the Men Who Ruled the Empire
Автор: Mario Bartolini
Издательство: Pen and Sword History
Год: 2023
Страниц: 202
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 15.6 MB

Roman Emperors is a concise chronological guide to the emperors who ruled the Roman Empire. It covers the period from the establishment of the Empire by Augustus in 27 BCE to the abdication of Romulus Augustus in 476 CE, an event that marks the official end of the existence of the Roman Empire as a political entity in Western Europe. After a useful introduction to the late Republic and its transformation into the Empire, each of the eighty-five emperors customarily recognized as legitimate are presented in the order in which they reigned. This includes both Eastern and Western emperors for those periods where the empire was divided, and each one is illustrated. A useful glossary of technical terms is also provided.

Название: Опричнина. Генеалогия. Антропонимика
Автор: Кобрин В.Б.
Издательство: М.: Российский государственный гуманитарный университет
Год: 2008
Cтраниц: 375
Формат: pdf
Размер: 27 мб
Язык: русский

В настоящий сборник вошли работы выдающегося отечественного историка В.Б. Кобрина (1930-1990), как давно ставшие библиографической редкостью, так и еще ни разу не публиковавшиеся. Сборник, посвященный опричнине Ивана Грозного, дает обильный материал для прочтения русской истории в разных ракурсах. Это не только политическая история эпохи грозного царя, но и своеобразная мозаика русской средневековой культуры.

Название: The Great Train Robbery and the Metropolitan Police Flying Squad
Автор: Geoff Platt
Издательство: Pen & Sword
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 30 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The Squad that investigated The Great Train Robbery. "The Old Grey Fox" or "One Day Tommy" (Detective Chief Superintendent Tommy Butler) selected six of the best officers on the elite Metropolitan Police Flying Squad to investigate the Crime of the Century, but whilst many books have been written by and about every criminal arrested for this crime, NONE have been written about the detectives who traced and tracked them. Tommy Butler delayed his retirement to complete the job, but died a few months after he retired at 57 years of age, the only detective of his rank in the late 1950s and 1960s not to publish an autobiography. This book provides a detailed account of the men tasked with tracking down the most notorious thieves in British history. It examines the investigation in detail and asks how it would contrast with the methods used today should a similar incident take place. Geoff Platt examines what happened to these men after the investigation was closed and the effect it had on both their personal and professional lives.

Название: Великие христианские мыслители
Автор: Кюнг Г.
Издательство: Алетейя
Год: 2020
Cтраниц: 442
Формат: pdf (ocr)
Размер: 20 мб
Язык: русский

Ганс Кюнг - один из известнейших западных теологов XX века, руководитель Института экуменических исследований Тюбингенского университета. Поставив перед собой задачу создания общехристианской концепции, он последовательно разрабатывает ее на протяжении всей своей деятельности.

Название: The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
Автор: Leo Damrosch
Издательство: Yale University Press
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 56 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Prize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of"the Club," a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern. In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk's Head Tavern in London to dine, drink, and talk until midnight. Eventually the group came to include among its members Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, and James Boswell. It was known simply as "the Club." In this captivating book, Leo Damrosch brings alive a brilliant, competitive, and eccentric cast of characters. With the friendship of the "odd couple" Samuel Johnson and James Boswell at the heart of his narrative, Damrosch conjures up the precarious, exciting, and often brutal world of late eighteenth-century Britain. This is the story of an extraordinary group of people whose ideas helped to shape their age, and our own.

Название: Каменные крепости Новгородской земли
Автор: А.Н. Кирпичников
Издательство: Л.: Наука
Год: 1984
Страниц: 279
Формат: pdf
Размер: 58 мб

Работа представляет собой историко-археологическое произведение, в котором излагаются результаты новых исследований каменных оборонительных сооружений городов Новгородской земли—Ладоги, Орешка, Корелы, Тиверского городка, Копорья, Ямгорода и Порхова.

Название: The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East: Volume V: The Age of Persia
Автор: Karen Radner, Nadine Moeller, D.T. Potts
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 1089
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 96,12 MB

The fifth and final volume of the Oxford History of the Ancient Near East covers the period from the second half of the 7th century BC until the campaigns of Alexander III of Macedon (336-323 BC) brought an end to the Achaemenid Dynasty and the Persian Empire. Tying together areas and political developments covered by previous volumes in the series, this title covers also the Persian Empire's immediate predecessor states: Saite Egypt, the Neo-Babylonian Empire, and Lydia, among other kingdoms and tribal alliances. The chapters in this volume feature a wide range of archaeological and textual sources, with contributors displaying a masterful treatment of the challenges and advantages of the available materials. Two chapters focus on areas that have not enjoyed prominence in any of the previous volumes of this series: eastern Iran and Central Asia. This volume is the necessary and complementary final component of this comprehensive series.

Название: Crossing the Gate: Everyday Lives of Women in Song Fujian (960-1279)
Автор: Man Xu
Издательство: University of New York Press
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 14 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Challenges the accepted wisdom about women and gender roles in medieval China. In Crossing the Gate, Man Xu examines the lives of women in the Chinese province of Fujian during the Song dynasty. Tracking women’s life experience across class lines, outside as well as inside the domestic realm, Xu challenges the accepted wisdom about women and gender roles in medieval China. She contextualizes women in a much broader physical space and social network, investigating the gaps between ideals and reality and examining women’s own agency in gender construction. She argues that women’s autonomy and mobility, conventionally attributed to Ming-Qing women of late imperial China, can be traced to the Song era. This thorough study of Song women’s life experience connects women to the great political, economic, and social transitions of the time, and sheds light on the so-called “Song-Yuan-Ming transition” from the perspective of gender studies. By putting women at the center of analysis and by focusing on the local and the quotidian, Crossing the Gate offers a new and nuanced picture of the Song Confucian revival.

Название: The Making Of The British Landscape: How We Have Transformed the Land, from Prehistory to Today
Автор: Francis Pryor
Издательство: Penguin
Год: 2010
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 36 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This is the changing story of Britain as it has been preserved in our fields, roads, buildings, towns and villages, mountains, forests and islands. From our suburban streets that still trace out the boundaries of long vanished farms to the Norfolk Broads, formed when medieval peat pits flooded, from the ceremonial landscapes of Stonehenge to the spread of the railways - evidence of how man's effect on Britain is everywhere. In "The Making of the British Landscape", eminent historian, archaeologist and farmer, Francis Pryor explains how to read these clues to understand the fascinating history of our land and of how people have lived on it throughout time. Covering both the urban and rural and packed with pictures, maps and drawings showing everything from how we can still pick out Bronze Age fields on Bodmin Moor to how the Industrial Revolution really changed our landscape, this book makes us look afresh at our surroundings and really see them for the first time.

Название: The Griekwastad Murders: The Crime that Shook South Africa
Автор: Jacques Steenkamp
Издательство: Zebra Press
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 20 Мб
Язык: английский / English

New edition includes the sentencing and identifies Don Steenkamp as the murderer for the first time … Just after dusk on Good Friday, 6 April 2012, the peace and quiet permeating the small Northern Cape town of Griekwastad was disrupted when a young teenage boy sped into town in his father’s Isuzu bakkie and screeched to a halt in front of the town’s nearly deserted police station to announce that his parents and sister had been brutally shot and killed on the family farm, Naauwhoek. Based on interviews with all the role-players, including the investigating officers on the case, the forensic and ballistic experts, and family and friends of the deceased, this is the riveting account of what really happened on Naauwhoek farm on that fateful day, as told by the reporter who first broke the story ...