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Life in a Medieval Castle
From acclaimed historians Frances and Joseph Gies comes the reissue of this definitive classic on medieval castles, which was a source for George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones series. “Castles are crumbly and romantic. They still hint at an age more colorful and gallant than our own, but are often debunked by boring people who like to run on about drafts and grumble that the latrines did not work. Joseph and Frances Gies offer a book that helps set the record straight—and keeps the romance too.”—Time A widely respected academic work and a source for George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones, Joseph and Frances Gies’s bestselling Life in a Medieval Castle remains a timeless work of p...
Lodz Judaica in old postcards
"Książka zawiera kilkadziesiąt zdjęć prezentujących życie społeczności żydowskiej w Łodzi na początku XX wieku. Album ukazuje specyficzny koloryt miasta, które było jednym z największych skupisk ludności żydowskiej na ziemiach polskich. Na kartach książki odnajdujemy świat, którego już nie ma - nieistniejące ulice, domy, synagogi. Poznajemy sylwetki najwybitniejszych przedstawicieli społeczności żydowskiej. Stare fotografie oddają magię ziemi obiecanej, monumentalność jej fabryk, szpetotę przedmieść i niezwykły urok kamienic. = The book contains several dozen pictures, presenting the life of the Jewish community in Łódź at the beginning of the 20th century. The album renders the distinct color of the town, which used to be one of the largest Jewish centers on the Polish lands. Pages of this book reveal a world that exists no more -non-existing streets, houses, synagogues. We learn about most prominent members of the Jewish community. The old photographs render the magic of the "Promised Land", the monumentality of the manufactures, the ugliness of the suburbs and the extraordinary beauty of the tenement houses."--
The Last Plague in the Baltic Region 1709-1713
The Last Plague in the Baltic Region, 1709-1713 offers a thorough description and analysis of the terrible plague epidemic that ravaged the Baltic region in the years between 1709 and 1713 ? at the same time when the region was razed by the Great Northern War (1700-?21). Sweden under Carolus XII had lost its supremacy, and Russia under Peter the Great emerged as the new major power in the region. With the marching armies came the plague and its effects, which were particularly devastating, since it hit a population already weakened by famines and desolation caused by the war. Drawing on substantial documentation in city and state archives, the study addresses a range of important discussions...
Baltica & Balto-Slavica
This volume offers a discussion of the phonological, accentological and morphological development of the Baltic languages and their Indo-European origins. The first half of this book is about Baltic historical phonology and morphology and the second half is about Prussian. The emphasis is on the relative chronology of sound changes and on the development of the flexional and derivational categories of nouns, pronouns and verbs. It is argued that the Balto-Slavic acute tone was a glottal stop which developed from the Indo-European laryngeals and from Winter's law and that the original circumflex continues other vocalic sequences. Special points of attention are the gen.pl. endings, ē and ī/...
Baltic Connections
In the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, Northern Europe was a crucible of political, maritime and economic activity. Ships from ports all around the Baltic Sea as well as from the Low Countries plied the Baltic waters, triggering market integration, migration flows, nautical innovations and the dissemination of cultural values. This archival guide is an essential research tool for scholars studying these Baltic connections, providing descriptions of almost 1000 archival collections concerning trade, shipping, merchants, commodities, diplomacy, finances and migration in the years 1450-1800. These rich and varied sources kept at more than 100 repositories in Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia and Sweden are herewith collected for the first time.
