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The Deep Roots of Modern Democracy
Explores the deep roots of modern democracy, focusing on geography and long-term patterns of global diffusion.
Banditry in the Medieval Balkans, 800-1500
This book explores the history of banditry in the medieval Balkans between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. While several scholars have recognized the problems which various outlaw groups caused in the region during the Middle Ages, few have given much attention to the bandits themselves, their origins, their reasons for taking up brigandage, and the steps taken by the central authorities to control their activity. Among other things, this book identifies three main sources of banditry: shepherds, soldiers and peasants. Far from being ʻlone wolvesʼ, these men operated within well-defined social networks. Poverty played a decisive role in driving them to a life of crime, but there is strong evidence to suggest that the growing economic prosperity in parts of the Balkans from the ninth century onwards may have also contributed to the rise of the phenomenon.
At Europe's Borders: Medieval Towns in the Romanian Principalities
This ambitious work focuses on the emergence and the development of medieval towns in the two Romanian principalities of South-Eastern Europe, Wallachia and Moldavia, from their earliest days, in the 13th century, up to the 16th. It is the only work of its kind in English, but at the same time the first in the field seeking to identify and substantiate common elements between towns in this area of Europe. It also covers Poland, Hungary and the lands south of the Danube. By relying both on various written sources, and on archeological finds, the author addresses several controversial issues, starting from the particulars of urbanization, through an analysis of local institutions, of urban society and economy, and concluding with thorough case studies. The result is a book which shows that medieval towns in the Romanian Principalities, despite being on the outskirts of Europe, were nevertheless part of it.
Witchcraft in Romania
This book provides a history of witchcraft in the territories that compose contemporary Romania, with a focus on the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. The first part presents aspects of earthly justice, religious and secular, analysing the codes of law, trials and verdicts, and underlining the differences between Transylvania on one hand, and Moldavia and Wallachia on the other. The second part is concerned with divine justice, describing apocalyptic texts that talk about the pains of witches in hell, but also the ensembles of religious painting where, in vast compositions of the Last Judgment, various punishments for the sin of witchcraft are imagined.
Orașele din Țările Române în Evul Mediu
history of medieval towns in the Romanian Principalities
Orașul și Biserica: patrimoniu, oameni, activități (secolele XV-XIX)
Biserica și orașul au avut de-a lungul timpului o relaţie ambivalentă. Ca o construcție definitorie, unică sau în cadrul unui ansamblu arhitectural, biserica este o parte a peisajului urban, dar este și separată uneori de acesta, prin ziduri proprii. Deservește oameni, atât în interior, cât și în exterior. Preoți, călugări, ierarhi, oamenii Bisericii au fost integrați în societatea orașului, dar formau și un grup social aparte. Biserica a profitat economic de pe urma prezenţei în orașe, dar a fost și un concurent pentru acestea. Prin urmare, aria tematică a volumului este generoasă şi include aspecte ce ţin de organizarea oraşelor, biserici și mănăstiri din spaţiul urban, societate, patrimoniu urban, iniţiative edilitare, toate în linia sinuoasei relații dintre oraș și Biserică.
Greek Maritime History
This volume presents Greek Maritime History to a wider audience and unravels the historical trajectory of a maritime nation par excellence in the Eastern Mediterranean: the rise of the Greek merchant fleet and its transformation from a peripheral to an international carrier.
Orașe vechi, orașe noi în spațiul românesc
A book regarding the evolution of towns in the Romanian area in the period between 16th-19th centuries.
