Автор: Richard K. Emmerson
Название: Key Figures in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2005
ISBN: 978-0415973854
Серия: Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages (Book 12)
Язык: English
Формат: pdf
Размер: 13,4 mb
Страниц: 778

This volume gathers together biographical entries from the titles in the Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages series with the aim of presenting in one place biographies of the most important people in medieval Europe between AD 500 and 1500.

Entries will fall under the following categories: artists; authors; cartographers, cosmographers and geographers; diplomats and envoys; dynasties; explorers; families; historians and chroniclers; kings; monks; musicians; nuns; persons; popes; queens; religious leaders; rulers and scientists. The lives of over 500 individuals are discussed, studying their impact on politics, religion and the arts across medieval Europe. The volume also includes personalities from the Jewish and Islamic worlds.