Jonathan Phillips is gespecialiseerd in de geschiedenis van de Kruistochten, waarbij hij de complexe relaties tussen Oost en West tijdens de middeleeuwen onderzoekt. Zijn academische werk duikt in de militaire, politieke en culturele facetten van deze cruciale historische gebeurtenissen. Phillips onderzoekt de motivaties van de belangrijkste spelers, de impact van de Kruistochten op de samenlevingen van die tijd en hun blijvende erfenissen. Zijn aanpak is gebaseerd op diepgaand onderzoek, met als doel een boeiend en geïnformeerd perspectief op dit fascinerende tijdperk te bieden.
This volume is the first comprehensive English translation, with a substantial introduction and notes, of the writings of Caffaro of Genoa, as well as related texts and documents on Genoa and the crusades. The majority of early crusading historiography is from a northern European and clerical perspective and Caffaro's voice offers an exciting depar
"From Spanish conquistadors through to pith-helmeted British colonialists, the prevailing vision of European empire-builders has been staunchly statist. But from the early 1600s through to the early twentieth century, from the East Indies to North America to Africa and the South Pacific, it was company states - not sovereign states - that played the most important role in driving European worldwide commercial and colonial expansion. In Asia, the Dutch and English East India Companies ingratiated themselves with mighty Asian rulers such as the Mughal and Qing Emperors to infiltrate Asian markets. In North America, the Hudson's Bay Company maintained a network of forts and factories across the continent closely integrated with American Indian trading routes and practices
In this new volume in the Apollos Old Testament Commentary series, Elaine Phillips offers a thorough and comprehensive study of the minor prophets Obadiah, Jonah and Micah.