Tag: Neighbours

Free Download Bernhard Zeller, "Neighbours and strangers: Local societies in early medieval Europe "
English | ISBN: 1526139812 | 2020 | 304 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This book explores social cohesion in rural settlements in western Europe from 700-1050, asking to what extent settlements, or districts, constituted units of social organisation. It focuses on the interactions, interconnections and networks of people who lived side by side – neighbours. Drawing evidence from most of the current western European countries, the book Descriptions and interrogates the very different practices of this wide range of regions in a systematically comparative framework. It considers the variety of local responses to the supra-local agents of landlords and rulers and the impact, such as it was, of those agents on the small-scale residential group. It also assesses the impact on local societies of the values, instructions and demands of the wider literate world of Christianity, as delivered by local priests.

Free Download Peter B. Golden, "Nomads and their Neighbours in the Russian Steppe: Turks, Khazars and Qipchaqs "
English | ISBN: 0860788857 | 2003 | 384 pages | PDF | 29 MB
The western steppelands of Central Eurasia, stretching from the Danube, through the modern Ukraine and southern Russia, to the Caspian, have historically been the meeting ground of Inner Asian pastoral nomads and the agrarian societies of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. This volume deals, firstly, with the interaction of the nomads with their sedentary neighbours – the Kievan Rus’ state and the medieval polities of Transcaucasia, Georgia in particular – in the period from the 6th century to the advent of the Mongols. Second, it looks at questions of nomadic ethnogenesis (Oghuz, Hungarian, Qipchaq), at the evolution of nomadic political traditions and the heritage of the Turk empire, and at aspects of indigenous nomadic religious traditions together with the impact of foreign religions on the nomads – notably the conversion of the Khazars to Judaism. A number of articles focus on the Qipchaqs, a powerful confederation of complex Inner Asian origins that played a crucial role in the history of Christian Eastern Europe and Transcaucasia and the Muslim world between the 11th and 13th centuries.

Free Download Good Neighbours by Sarah Langan
English | 13 July 2021 | ISBN: 1789098211 | True EPUB | 304 pages | 3.2 MB
Praised by Sarah Jessica Parker and described as "wildly entertaining" by Gillian Flynn, a dark and sharp-as-a-knife suburban thriller for readers of Liane Moriarty, Celeste Ng, Sarah Pinborough and Christos Tsiolkas

Free Download Kind Neighbours: Scottish Saints and Society in the Later Middle Ages
by Tom Turpie
English | 2015 | ISBN: 9004298223 | 208 Pages | True PDF | 1.2 MB

Free Download Fred Woudhuizen, "The Luwians of Western Anatolia: Their Neighbours and Predecessors"
English | ISBN: 178491827X | 2018 | 168 pages | PDF | 3 MB

Free Download Bernhard Zeller, "Neighbours and strangers: Local societies in early medieval Europe "
English | ISBN: 1526139812 | 2020 | 304 pages | PDF | 9 MB
This book explores social cohesion in rural settlements in western Europe from 700-1050, asking to what extent settlements, or districts, constituted units of social organisation. It focuses on the interactions, interconnections and networks of people who lived side by side – neighbours. Drawing evidence from most of the current western European countries, the book Descriptions and interrogates the very different practices of this wide range of regions in a systematically comparative framework. It considers the variety of local responses to the supra-local agents of landlords and rulers and the impact, such as it was, of those agents on the small-scale residential group. It also assesses the impact on local societies of the values, instructions and demands of the wider literate world of Christianity, as delivered by local priests.