UID:
almahu_9949530705502882
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 562 pages)
ISBN:
9781003330691
,
100333069X
,
9781000866308
,
1000866300
,
9781000866339
,
1000866335
Content:
The Compendium of World Sovereigns series contains three volumes: Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern. These volumes provide students with easy-to-access ⁰́₈who⁰́₉s who⁰́₉ with details on the identities and dates, ages and wives, where known, of heads of government in any given state at any time within the framework of reference. The relevant original and secondary sources are also listed in a comprehensive bibliography. The text provides a clear reference guide for students to who was who and when they ruled in the dynasties and other ruler-lists for the Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern worlds ⁰́₃ primarily European and Middle Eastern but including available information on Africa and Asia and the pre-Columbian Americas. The trilogy accesses and interprets the original data plus any modern controversies and disputes over names and dating, reflecting on the shifts in and widening of focus in student and academic studies. Each volume contains league tables of rulers⁰́₉ ⁰́₈records⁰́₉, and an extensive bibliographical guide to the relevant personnel and dynasties, plus any controversies, so readers can consult these for extra details and know exactly where to go for which information. All relevant information is collected and provided as a one-stop-shop for students wishing to check the known information about a world Sovereign. The Medieval volume begins with the Byzantine Empire and moves through the Crusader States, the Islamic World, South and East Asia, Africa, the Mediterranean, and lastly Western and Eastern Europe. Compendium of World Sovereigns: Volume II Medieval provides students and scholars with the perfect reference guide to support their studies and to fact check dates, people, and places.
Note:
PREFACE SECTION ONE. THE BYZANTINE WORLDEastern Roman/ Byzantine Empire to 1204.Latin EmpireEmpire of Nicaea Despotate of EpirusEmpire of TrebizondLatin principalities of AchaeaDuchy of AthensCounty of CephalloniaDuchy of NaxosEastern Roman/ Byzantine Empire after 1261.Despotate of the Morea and other Late Byzantine sub-states.Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empresses.Crusader States: Kingdom of JerusalemAntiochTripoliEdessaCyprusCilician ArmeniaArmenia and Georgia.SECTION TWO: THE ISLAMIC WORLDCaliphs: C7th heirs of the Prophet, then Ummayads and Abbasids.Fatimid Caliphate of Tunisia and Egypt(Christian states of upper Egypt/ Nubia: Makuria and Dongola)Khorasan: Tahirids, Saffarids, Samanids Egypt; Tulunids and Ikshidids.Iran: Buyids.Syria: Hamdanids, Mirdasids, Uqaylids.Azerbaijan: Sa⁰́₉dids.Aghlabids of TunisiaUmmayad emirate and Caliphate of Al-Andalus, SpainSuccessor-states in C11th Al-Andalus.Seljuks: Iran; Konya/ Anatolia.Syria: ZengidsAyyubids of Egypt and SyriaCentral Asia/ Afghanistan: Khwarezm, Ghaznavids.YemenSicily; Majorca.MoroccoMaghreb: Almoravids, Almohads.Tunisia: Hafsids, Zirids, Wattasids.Mongols: Great Khans (with Yuan of China)Iran: IlkhansGolden Horde and other Central Asian Mongol statesJagatai Khans; Timurids; Qaraqanids.Late Medieval Anatolia: Dhu⁰́₉l Qadir; Karamanids; Germiyan; Aydin; Sarukhan; Menteshe; Kastamonu; Kara Koyunlu; Ak Koyunlu.Ottoman Sultanate SECTION THREE: ASIA AND AFRICAMedieval India: Hindu and Moslem statesBurmaThailandKhmer statesVietnamDynasties of China: T⁰́₉ang to MingKoreaJapanEthiopiaThe Sahel: Kanem/ Bornu; Ghana, Mali and Songhai Nigeria: Hausa statesCentral AfricaSECTION FOUR: THE BRITISH ISLESBritain : Anglo-Saxon EnglandEngland after 1066Wales: Gwynedd, Powys, Dyfed/ Deheubarth, Gwent, Brycheiniog (Brecon).Early Scotland: Picts, Dal Riada/Scots, Strathclyde.Medieval Scotland from 844Jarldom of OrkneyLords of the Isles/ HebridesKingdom of Man Ireland: High KingsUlster; Leinster; Munster; Connacht; Viking Dublin.SECTION FIVE: EUROPE, PART ONE, WEST.Francia; Merovingians, CarolingiansMedieval France: Kings; Brittany, Normandy, Anjou, Blois, Champagne, Artois, Boulogne, Flanders, Lorraine, Alencon, Burgundy/ Arles; Aquitaine; Toulouse; Bearn; Foix; Provence; Vienne; Franche-Comte.Spain: Barcelona; Suevi; Visigoths; Asturias/ Leon; Leon and Castile; Aragon; Navarre.PortugalSECTION SIX: EUROPE, CENTRE, SOUTH AND NORTH.HungaryLow Countries: Brabant, Holland, Hainault.Holy Roman Empire: Emperors.Bavaria; Saxony; Palatinate; Hesse and Thuringia; Baden; Wurtemmberg; Mecklenberg; Brandenburg; Brunswick and Luneburg; Julich and Cleves; Austria.Poland; Lithuania; Silesia.BohemiaSerbia; Bulgaria.Vandal Africa.BurgundiansItaly: Ostrogoths; Lombards; Venice; Savoy/ Piedmont; Montferrat; Milan; Modena; Mantua; Florence; Popes; Naples and Sicily. Denmark; Norway; Sweden.Russia: Grand Princes of Kiev/ Kiyev.Chernigov; Smolensk; Ryazan; Galicia; Vladimir-Suzdal; Novgorod; Rostov; Yaroslavl; Tver; Moscow.INDEX
Language:
English
Keywords:
Bibliographies.
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Biographies.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003330691
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003330691
