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From Disunity to Disintegration
This is a book about Bulgarian life and politics in the Middle Ages. In it, Anna Ivanova Buxton looks at the history of the Second Bulgarian kingdom and searches for the reasons of its demise. She discusses weak central control and dominant boyars, resulting in partitioning the kingdom in the 14th century. She evaluates the effect of the factions, created around children of former foreign royal spouses, which would deepen the divisions. The reader will assess the effect of the increased separation of Church from State, which led to the loss of its unique leadership role with the population, at the time of the Ottoman invasion. With notable exceptions, the Church behaved as just an observer, ...
The European Sultanas of the Ottoman Empire - Colour Edition
For over seven centuries painters and writers have been fascinated by the non-Christian otherness of the Ottoman Empire and in particular it's most notorious institution, the harem. In her carefully researched book, Anna Buxton cuts through the stereotypes and reveals how in an Empire, easily characterized as patriarchal, former Christian women came to exert significant power in day to day government. At the beginning of the Ottoman Empire, dynastic marriages to Balkan princesses aimed to show that the Sultans were their fitting husbands, so Mara Brankovich, Tamara Maria Shishman, Olivera Despina Chlebyanovich came as dynastic brides, prior to the lands of their fathers being appropriated by...
Cumberland Parish, Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1816
Cumberland Parish was coextensive with Lunenburg County from its inception in 1745, and Mr. Bell's history of the parish and transcription of its oldest vestry book are of the first importance. The vestry book itself is replete with records of birth, baptism, marriage, and death, as well as an abundance of land transactions. To this, Mr. Bell has added extensive genealogical sketches of families who furnished vestrymen to Cumberland Parish.
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