History and the Social Web was first published in 1955. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
In this volume of twelve essays a distinguished historian demonstrates that the roots and branches of history form a continuous social web, that the events and societies of pasts eras and modern times form a complex and interlocking pattern when seen as a whole, and that a knowledge of history has a profound application to the...
History and the Social Web was first published in 1955. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books o...
The cataclysmic collision of two great religions As the Seljuk Turks pressed ever closer to the Byzantine Empire, the stage became set for a conflict of faith and political interest which would bathe the known world with blood and create lasting animosities the ramifications of which would be felt through the centuries to the present day. The original ideological mission clearly offered opportunities of the most material kind which were readily apparent to the soldiers of fortune of Northern Europe. What began, for some, as essentially a relief mission quickly acquired a new objective,...
The cataclysmic collision of two great religions As the Seljuk Turks pressed ever closer to the Byzantine Empire, the stage became set for a confl...
The cataclysmic collision of two great religions As the Seljuk Turks pressed ever closer to the Byzantine Empire, the stage became set for a conflict of faith and political interest which would bathe the known world with blood and create lasting animosities the ramifications of which would be felt through the centuries to the present day. The original ideological mission clearly offered opportunities of the most material kind which were readily apparent to the soldiers of fortune of Northern Europe. What began, for some, as essentially a relief mission quickly acquired a new objective,...
The cataclysmic collision of two great religions As the Seljuk Turks pressed ever closer to the Byzantine Empire, the stage became set for a confl...
In the eleventh century, medieval Europe more closely resembled a post-apocalyptic hellscape than almost any other time in the history of western civilization. In the absence of centralized authority and the rule of law, self-sufficient local populations survived on their ability to exert violence on other local populations, typically at the behest of a warlord who called himself count, duke, or king. What if the Dead walked among this population? What if zombies, as we understand them in our post-Night of the Living Dead culture, had existed as long as anyone in the eleventh century could...
In the eleventh century, medieval Europe more closely resembled a post-apocalyptic hellscape than almost any other time in the history of western civi...
