Название: Golden Mummies of Egypt: Interpreting identities from the Graeco-Roman period
Автор: Campbell Price
Издательство: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526172712
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 248
Размер: 349,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Golden Mummies of Egypt presents new insights and a rich perspective on beliefs about the afterlife during an era when Egypt was part of the Greek and Roman worlds (c. 300 BCE–200 CE). This beautifully illustrated book, featuring photography by Julia Thorne, accompanies Manchester Museum’s first-ever international touring exhibition.

Название: Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome
Автор: Anthony Everitt, Roddy Ashworth
Издательство: Random House
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 14 Мб
Язык: английский / English

A striking, nuanced biography of Nero—the controversial populist ruler and last of the Caesars—and a vivid portrait of ancient Rome. The Roman emperor Nero’s name has long been a byword for cruelty, decadence, and despotism. As the stories go, he set fire to Rome and thrummed his lyre as it burned. He then cleared the charred ruins and built a vast palace. He committed incest with his mother, who had schemed and killed to place him on the throne, and later murdered her. But these stories, left behind by contemporary historians who hated him, are hardly the full picture, and in this nuanced biography, celebrated historian Anthony Everitt and investigative journalist Roddy Ashworth reveal the contradictions inherent in Nero and offer a reappraisal of his life.

Название: The Incorporation and Integration of the King's Tributary Lands into the Norwegian Realm, c. 1195-1397
Автор: Ri Bjorshol Wærdahl
Издательство: BRILL
ISBN: 9004206132
Год: 2011
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 354
Размер: 1,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

The emergence of a Norwegian medieval state had consequences beyond Norway. Inspired by transnational research on state formation, this book presents a comprehensive study of the political incorporation and subsequent judicial and administrative integration of Iceland, the Faroes, Shetland, and Orkney, into the Norwegian realm c. 1195-1397.

Название: All About History: Royal Scandals, 2nd Edition, 2023
Автор: Коллектив
Издательство: Future
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 148
Размер: 180,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

All About History: Royal Scandals, 2nd Edition, 2023

Название: Threads of Peace: How Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. Changed the World
Автор: Uma Krishnaswami
Издательство: Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 123 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Mohandas Gandhi and Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. both shook and changed the world in their quest for peace among all people, but what threads connected these great activists together in their shared goal of social revolution? A lawyer and activist, tiny of stature with giant ideas, in British-ruled India at the beginning of the 20th century. A minister from Georgia with a thunderous voice and hopes for peace at the height of the civil rights movement in America.

Название: Aleister Crowley in Paris: Sex, Art, and Magick in the City of Light
Автор: Tobias Churton
Издательство: Inner Traditions
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 16 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Exploring occultist, magician, poet, painter, and writer Aleister Crowley’s longstanding and intimate association with Paris, Tobias Churton provides the first detailed account of Crowley’s activities in the City of Light. Using previously unpublished letters and diaries, Churton explores how Crowley was initiated into the Golden Dawn’s Inner Order in Paris in 1900 and how, in 1902, he relocated to Montparnasse. Soon engaged to Anglo-Irish artist Eileen Gray, Crowley pontificates and parties with English, American, and French artists gathered around sculptor Auguste Rodin: all keen to exhibit at Paris’s famed Salon d’Automne. In 1904—still dressed as “Prince Chioa Khan” and recently returned from his Book of the Law experience in Cairo—Crowleydines with novelist Arnold Bennett at Paillard’s. In 1908 Crowley is back in Paris to prove it’s possible to attain Samadhi (or “knowl­edge and conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel”) while living a modern life in a busy metropolis. In 1913 he organizes a demonstra­tion for artistic and sexual freedom at Oscar Wilde’s tomb. Until war spoils all in 1914, Paris is Crowley’s playground.

Название: Сталин: битва за хлеб
Автор: Прудникова Е.А.
Издательство: ОЛМА Медиа Групп
Год: 2010
Cтраниц: 575
Формат: pdf
Размер: 51 мб
Язык: русский

Елена Прудникова представляет вторую часть книги «Технология невозможного» - «Сталин. Битва за хлеб». По оценке автора, это самая сложная из когда-либо написанных ею книг. Россия входила в XX век отсталой аграрной страной, сельское хозяйство которой застыло на уровне феодализма. Три четверти населения Российской империи проживало в деревнях, из них большая часть даже впроголодь не могла прокормить себя.

Название: Степи Европы в эпоху средневековья. Том 1-6
Автор: Евглевский А.В. (гл. ред.)
Издательство: Донецкий Национальный университет
ISBN: 966-7277-95-X
Год выпуска: 2000-2008
Страниц: 2732
Формат: pdf, djvu
Размер: 158,34 Мб
Язык: Русский

Статьи сборников посвящены хазарскому и золотоордынскому времени в истории восточноевропейских степей. Изучены ряд археологических культур Поволжья и Европейской части России, представлены палеоантропологические, этнографические, востоковедческие исследования.

Название: The World of Ancient Egypt: A Daily Life Encyclopedia (2 volumes)
Автор: Peter Lacovara
Издательство: Greenwood
ISBN: 1610692292
Год: 2016
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 640
Размер: 57,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

The mysteries surrounding ancient Egypt continue to pique interest and prompt study thousands of years later. Intriguing questions―such as "Why were certain Egyptians mummified after death, while others were not?", "How were the pyramids constructed?", and "Were sexuality and courtship accurately portrayed in movies about the period?"―incite curiosity and inspire the imagination in the modern world. This comprehensive encyclopedia addresses these questions and more, revealing fascinating facts about all aspects of daily life in ancient Egypt.

Название: Fountains and Water Culture in Byzantium
Автор: Brooke Shilling, Paul Stephenson
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107105994
Год: 2016
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 406
Размер: 73,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book restores the fountains of Roman Byzantium, Byzantine Constantinople and Ottoman Istanbul, reviving the sounds, shapes, smells and sights of past water cultures. Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires, is surrounded on three sides by sea, and has no major river to deliver clean, potable water.